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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Jurors are scheduled to begin deliberations Wednesday in the corruption trial of a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent in Buffalo. Joseph Bongiovanni is charged with accepting cash bribes to shield suspects with connections to organized crime. Federal prosecutors say Bongiovanni accepted more than $250,000 in bribes to derail drug investigations
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — A former Colorado police officer is on trial over the violent arrest of a Black man in 2021. The man, Kyle Vinson, was the first person to take the witness stand as testimony began Tuesday against former Aurora police officer John Haubert. Vinson testified that he
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Houston’s police chief on Tuesday declined to say whether recent revelations that more than 264,000 cases filed with Houston police in the past eight years were dropped speak to broader problems within his agency that need to be fixed. During a nearly two-hour meeting at police
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer DALLAS (AP) — Andy Enfield went from Florida Gulf Coast’s “Dunk City” and the Sweet 16 to Los Angeles, and now Dallas to take over the SMU program that is headed to the Atlantic Coast Conference with a 36-year drought since winning an NCAA Tournament game. Enfield wouldn’t be
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The Storm Prediction Center is a branch of the National Weather Service that focuses on forecasting severe weather (severe thunderstorms, hail, tornadoes, strong winds, etc.). For the second day in a row, they have issued a moderate risk of severe weather for parts of the country. This represents a level 4 out of 5. The
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it tested another new hypersonic intermediate-range missile powered with solid propellants as it continues to expand its nuclear and missile program while tensions deepen with its neighbors and the United States. South Korea and Japan had detected a missile launch from the
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government says a loose railway fitting that caused a train car to derail on the president’s pet project, a tourist rail route known as the Maya Train. The derailment on March 25 proved embarrassing for the government. Critics have said the project, which runs in a loop around the
Continue ReadingCNN By Elizabeth Wolfe, Christina Maxouris, Raja Razek, Mary Gilbert and Robert Shackelford, CNN (CNN) — More than a dozen homes were damaged in one West Virginia community and more than 100,000 customers in the state were without power late Tuesday night as a powerful system of thunderstorms with damaging winds, dangerous hail and the
Continue ReadingBy BABACAR DIONE and JESSICA DONATI Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s popular opposition figure Ousmane Sonko has been named as the prime minister in the new government, hours after his key ally was sworn in as president. Sonko, 49, has inspired Senegalese youth frustrated with widespread unemployment and corruption among the ruling elite.
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Belén Liotti (CNN) — El Gobierno Autónomo Palestino volvió a solicitar su membresía en las Naciones Unidas, según publicó este martes la misión de observación permanente palestina ante la ONU en su cuenta de X, antes Twitter. “Hoy, el Estado de Palestina, siguiendo instrucciones de los líderes palestinos, envió una carta al secretario General solicitando
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Ocho pasajeros de un crucero que se quedaron rezagados en la isla africana de Santo Tomé y Príncipe llevan días luchando por alcanzar al barco de Norwegian Cruise Line en su travesía por la costa occidental de África. Los pasajeros demoraron su regreso al barco el 27 de marzo, según un
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — One of the three Tacoma police officers cleared of criminal charges in the 2020 death of a Black man has been hired by a neighboring sheriff’s office. Manuel Ellis was shocked, beaten and restrained facedown on a sidewalk as he pleaded for breath. The Thurston County Sheriff’s
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — One summer evening in 1889, Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde sat down for dinner at the Langham Hotel in London with J.M Stoddart, the American businessman and editor of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. By the time they left, Wilde had committed to writing “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and
Continue ReadingBy ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The deaths of seven World Central Kitchen workers in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza was a tragic turn for an American homegrown charity that, in less than 15 years, has mushroomed from the grassroots brainchild of a celebrity chef into one of the world’s most recognized food
Continue ReadingBy Jeff Zeleny and Gregory Krieg, CNN Madison, Wisconsin (CNN) — As former President Donald Trump returns to Wisconsin on Tuesday night for the first time in nearly two years, Democrats have a close eye on him – but not only him – as they build a general election campaign in this critical battleground state.
Continue ReadingBy JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Senate’s minority leader has proposed legislation to overhaul the Prisoner Review Board after it released a convicted domestic abuser who then attacked a pregnant Chicago woman with a knife and fatally stabbed her 11-year-old son. Republican Leader John Curran criticized Gov. J.B. Pritzker
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Lizzo would like to issue a clarification. Last week, the singer caused a stir among her loyal social media followers after she posted a statement to her Instagram page in which she said she was “tired” of the criticism often directed her way “by everyone in my life and
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A company that provides services for immigrants in federal detention has been ordered to pay more than $811 million in restitution and penalties in a lawsuit alleging it used deceptive and abusive tactics. A judgement filed Tuesday in federal court says Nexus Services must pay restitution
Continue ReadingBy JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice was leasing a Lamborghini sport utility vehicle that authorities say was one of two speeding sports cars that caused a chain-reaction crash on a Dallas highway, an attorney for the company that owns the vehicle said Tuesday. Dallas police have
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