May 2024

Biden campaign HQ staffers finalize union agreement, making it the first presidential reelection campaign to organize

May 31, 2024 9:30 AM CNN Newsource

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Staffers at President Joe Biden’s campaign headquarters in Delaware finalized a union contract last week after collective bargaining negotiations, making Biden the first incumbent to run for reelection with a unionized workforce and underscoring his pro-labor outlook. Officials said the new contract covers wages, time off and severance, among

Mama Bird Treats owner shares her preeclampsia story.

Baking in love, awareness: Mom shares her preeclampsia story

May 31, 2024 9:28 AM CNN

KSHB, SARAH FINDLEY, CNN By Olivia Acree Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KSHB) — Imagine this: it’s late into your pregnancy and you take a bath to relieve some aches and pains. For Sarah Findley, this standard act of self-care threw her into a dangerous preterm delivery because of preeclampsia.

Baking in love, awareness: Mom shares her preeclampsia story

May 31, 2024 9:28 AM CNN Newsource

By Olivia Acree Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KSHB) — Imagine this: it’s late into your pregnancy and you take a bath to relieve some aches and pains. For Sarah Findley, this standard act of self-care threw her into a dangerous preterm delivery because of preeclampsia. “I took a bubble

6 injured in a knife attack in the German city of Mannheim. Police shot and wounded the assailant

May 31, 2024 9:25 AM Associated Press

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Germany say a man stabbed several members of a group that describes itself as opposing “political Islam.” Six people including a police officer who intervened were wounded in Friday’s attack in the central square in the city of Mannheim. Police quickly put an end to the attack by shooting the

Russia and Ukraine exchange POWs for the first time in months. Bodies of fallen are also swapped

May 31, 2024 9:25 AM Associated Press

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press SUMY REGION, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine and Russia exchanged prisoners of war on Friday, each sending back 75 POWs in the first such swap in the past three months, officials said. A few hours earlier and at the same location, the two sides also handed over bodies of their fallen

Not guilty plea for suspect in killing of nursing student found on University of Georgia campus

May 31, 2024 9:24 AM Associated Press

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — A man accused of killing a nursing student whose body was found on the University of Georgia campus pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges in her death. A grand jury in early May returned an indictment charging Jose Ibarra with murder, aggravated assault, kidnapping

Residents worried ‘we could be next’ as they say homes being swallowed by Brazos River

May 31, 2024 9:24 AM CNN Newsource

By Pooja Lodhia Click here for updates on this story FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — “We started out with 15, and we probably have five now,” Jeff Florence said, gesturing toward his land. Florence and his family live on the Brazos River, just outside Simonton’s city limits, but they are losing land to the

Trump responds to his guilty verdict by falsely blasting a ‘rigged trial’ and attacking star witness

May 31, 2024 9:22 AM Associated Press

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump attacked the judge and the star witness in his criminal hush money trial and again tried to undermine New York’s criminal justice system on Friday while seeking to turn his conviction on 34 felony charges into fuel — and not

Coachella Valley High School given all clear after hoax bomb threat

May 31, 2024 9:20 AM Rich Tarpening

Coachella Valley High School was evacuated Friday morning evacuated after a suspicious device was found on campus. The device was later found to be a hoax. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to News Channel 3 that at around 8:11 a.m., deputies were dispatched to location of Coachella Valley High School regarding a bomb threat.

10-year-old girl survives apparent murder-suicide shooting that killed mother, HCSO says

May 31, 2024 9:19 AM CNN Newsource

By Courtney Fischer Click here for updates on this story SPRING, Texas (KTRK) — A critically injured 10-year-old girl is the only survivor in a shooting that left two adults dead at a Spring-area apartment complex. Officials are calling the incident a murder-suicide. Harris County sheriff’s deputies were called to The Pierpont apartments in the

Ledecky says faith in Olympic anti-doping system at ‘all-time low’ after Chinese swimming case

May 31, 2024 9:18 AM Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Olympic champion Katie Ledecky says faith in the anti-doping system is at an “all-time low” in the wake of the way global regulators handled a case involving Chinese swimmers. The seven-time Olympic gold medalist is looking to add to her haul this summer in Paris. In an interview with “CBS News

Running for U.S. president from prison? Eugene V. Debs did it, a century ago

May 31, 2024 9:17 AM Associated Press

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Following his unprecedented felony conviction, former president and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has to wait to find out what his sentence will be. But even if it involves time behind bars, that doesn’t mean his campaign to return to the White House comes to an

Federal officials are investigating another close call between planes at Reagan National Airport

May 31, 2024 9:17 AM Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials are investigating an incident in which an American Airlines plane rolling down the runway canceled its takeoff from Reagan National Airport to avoid colliding with another plane landing on an intersecting runway. It was the second close call at the busy airport near Washington, D.C., in the past six weeks.

A network of local news outlets has been trading in human hands for AI to report stories.

A national network of local news sites is publishing AI-written articles under fake bylines. Experts are raising alarm

May 31, 2024 9:16 AM CNN Newsource

By Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — The articles on a local news site popping up around the country appear to cover what any community outlet would focus on: crime, local politics, weather and happenings. “In-depth reporting about your home area,” the outlet’s slogan proudly declares. But a closer look at the bylines populating the local site and a national network of others — Sarah Kim, Jake Rodriguez,

Jessica Lange comes full circle as a Broadway lioness in ‘The Great Lillian Hall’

May 31, 2024 9:15 AM CNN Newsource

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Jessica Lange met the movie public perched in King Kong’s giant palm, but her real breakthrough came in 1982 when she played a pair of actresses, earning Oscar nominations for both roles: as a fictional soap-opera star in “Tootsie” and the real-life Frances Farmer in the tragic biography

Lo que la campaña de Biden cree que significa el veredicto de Trump

May 31, 2024 9:14 AM CNN Newsource

Alexandra Ferguson Washington (CNN) — Mucho antes de que el jurado de Manhattan terminara de deliberar el jueves, la mayoría de los asesores del presidente Joe Biden concluyeron que un veredicto de culpabilidad no alteraría drásticamente su estrategia electoral para 2024. Pero ha avivado algunas esperanzas entre los partidarios del presidente de que si 12

Zambia’s former first lady and daughter arrested over properties worth more than $2 million

May 31, 2024 9:12 AM Associated Press

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Zambia’s former first lady and one of her daughters have been arrested over their ownership of several properties worth more than $2 million that a law enforcement agency says are suspected to be proceeds of crime. Esther Lungu, the wife of former Zambian President Edgar Lungu, daughter Chiyeso Katete and a

Mississippi man files lawsuit alleging he was beaten by a member of the ‘Goon Squad’ and others

May 31, 2024 9:06 AM CNN Newsource

By Devon M. Sayers and Jade Gordon, CNN (CNN) — A Mississippi man has come forward saying he was beaten by a known member of the “Goon Squad” and other law enforcement officers, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday. The lawsuit alleges Brett McAlpin – a former Rankin County deputy and a member of

The Latest | Trump wraps rambling response to conviction in hush money trial

May 31, 2024 8:52 AM Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — A day after a New York jury delivered a historic guilty verdict in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee held a press conference Friday where he spoke publicly about the conviction and his White House bid. Following his conviction on Thursday, Trump had angrily denounced the

Woman is back on dialysis after doctors remove transplanted pig kidney

May 31, 2024 8:51 AM Associated Press

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Doctors say a woman who received a pig kidney transplant is back on dialysis after surgeons removed the gradually failing organ. Lisa Pisano was the second person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig, in a dramatic pair of surgeries in April that also implanted

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