ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a 14-year-old Florida boy told police that he accidentally shot and killed his 11-year-old brother after finding a gun in an alley near their home. St. Petersburg police say they responded to the family’s home Friday afternoon and found Amir Williams suffering from a gunshot wound. The boy
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Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Harvey Weinstein, el poderoso productor de Hollywood cuya caída fue un símbolo del movimiento #MeToo, ha sido trasladado del Centro Correccional Mohawk en Rome, Nueva York, al pabellón de prisión del Hospital Bellevue (BHPW), según registros en línea y su abogado. “Está en Bellevue por razones médicas”, dijo este sábado a
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — A three-ship flotilla planning to reach Gaza with humanitarian aid from Turkey has been prevented from sailing by Guinea-Bissau authorities, which took down their country’s flags from two ships. Organizers said that before the flotilla was set to sail from Turkey to Gaza on Friday with 5,000 tons of aid, a surprise
Continue ReadingBy ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities are investigating the killing of a well-known social media influencer who was shot by an armed motorcyclist in front of her home in central Baghdad. Ghufran Mahdi Sawadi who is also known as Um Fahad was popular on the social media sites
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California’s growing homelessness crisis has no easy solution but some people have broken free from living a life on the streets as the state’s unsheltered homeless numbers surge as much as 7.5% from 2022 to 2023. A Rancho Mirage homeowner has found a way into a new home and is now celebrating a new life he’s living he
Continue ReadingBy Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — Teenager Emmanuel Wanyonyi broke the road mile world record in Herzogenaurach, Germany, Saturday. The 19-year-old set the new record following an incredible run of three minutes 54.56 seconds on what was his competitive debut over the distance. Wanyonyi is predominantly an 800-meter runner. The Kenyan won the silver medal
Continue ReadingBy SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s prime minister says 20 soldiers have been killed and several others wounded in an ammunition explosion at a base in the southwest of the country. Hun Manet said in a Facebook post that he was “deeply shocked” when he received the news of the
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Saturday claimed shooting down another of the U.S. military’s MQ-9 Reaper drones, airing footage of parts that corresponded to known pieces of the unmanned aircraft. The Houthis said they shot down the Reaper with a surface-to-air missile, part of a renewed series of
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Police say six people were shot outside a nightclub in the nation’s capital. The shootings happened at about 11:30 p.m. on Friday in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington. Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Chief Ramey Kyle says officers were called after a dispute started inside the nightclub and “spilled into the street.”
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By Zeena Saifi, Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Shaima Refaat Alareer, the daughter of a prominent Palestinian poet, was killed alongside her family in an Israeli airstrike on a house west of Gaza City on Friday, according to multiple sources, four months after her father died in a similar
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — From a speck of bone, scientists can tease out astonishing information about the past. Analysis of ancient DNA recovered from human remains has illuminated the traits and ancestry of historic individuals — be it a mummified iceman, Chinese emperor or legendary composer. As techniques improve, researchers are harnessing this
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — An arrest warrant has been issued for a 22-year-old man in the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer who was heading home from work. Chicago police say Saturday in a community alert that the warrant was issued Friday and that the department is seeking information that will lead to the man’s
Continue ReadingBy NICK INGRAM, JEFF MARTIN and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Residents began sifting through the rubble Saturday after a tornado plowed through suburban Omaha, Nebraska, demolishing homes and businesses as it moved for miles through farmland and into subdivisions, then slamming an Iowa town. Dozens of reported tornadoes wreaked havoc Friday
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Warren Harris Jr. said he was sorry. He directed his remorse to the families of the three men he robbed and fatally stabbed when he was 16 and high on heroin in New Orleans. Sitting at a table at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Harris, 63, talked in a video
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — Anchor Poppy Harlow is leaving CNN, according to the network. Harlow, who joined CNN in 2008 and most recently co-hosted “CNN This Morning,” announced her parting from the cable news giant in an email to colleagues. She called her time at CNN “a gift.” “I have been inspired by you and learned
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY and DAVID RISING Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Hamas said Saturday it was reviewing a new Israeli proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza, as Egypt intensified efforts to broker a deal to end the months-long war and stave off a planned Israeli ground offensive into the southern city of Rafah. Senior Hamas
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY and JAMES POLLARD Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As students protesting the Israel-Hamas war at college campuses across U.S. dug in Saturday and dozens of demonstrators were arrested, some universities moved to shut down encampments after reports of antisemitic activity. With the death toll mounting in the war in Gaza, protesters
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY and JAMES POLLARD Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As students protesting the Israel-Hamas war at college campuses across U.S. dug in Saturday and dozens of demonstrators were arrested, some universities moved to shut down encampments after reports of antisemitic activity. With the death toll mounting in the war in Gaza, protesters
Continue ReadingBy NQOBILE NTSHANGASE and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — South Africa has marked 30 years since the end of apartheid with a ceremony in the capital. But any sense of celebration on the momentous anniversary was set against a growing discontent with the current government. President Cyril Ramaphosa presided over Saturday’s
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Chief Justice John Roberts may emerge as the pivotal vote in two politically charged cases on abortion and presidential immunity the Supreme Court heard this week, but it was Justice Amy Coney Barrett who owned the arguments. In a pair of high-profile hearings, the 52-year-old former law professor dug
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