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By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Centrist district attorney candidate Nathan Vasquez has ousted the incumbent progressive prosecutor in Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland, after running a campaign in which he vowed to be tough on crime. One of District Attorney Mike Schmidt’s deputies, Vasquez was endorsed by several police groups.
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida Sen. Rick Scott says he will run for Senate Republican leader when Mitch McConnell steps down from the post, becoming the third Republican in the race. South Dakota Sen. John Thune, the current No. 2 Republican in the Senate, and Texas Sen. John Cornyn have
Continue ReadingBy Krystal Hur, CNN New York (CNN) — BuzzFeed’s stock is soaring after former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramasamy revealed that he’s taken an activist stake in the beleaguered media company in a bid to adjust the firm’s strategy. Shares of BuzzFeed gained about 20% on Wednesday after a securities filing revealed that Ramaswamy has
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Officials say power is expected to be restored to nearly all Houston area homes and businesses left in the dark by last week’s deadly storm. But possibly up to 20,000 customers might have to wait until the weekend before their lights come back on. Brad Tutunjian,
Continue ReadingBy EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer A bipartisan group of U.S. senators have sent a letter to the leader of the World Anti-Doping Agency asking for answers about the case in which 23 Chinese swimmers were cleared to compete at the Tokyo Olympics despite positive tests for a banned drug. That letter came a day
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Longtime Apple executive Phil Schiller on Wednesday acknowledged a court-ordered makeover of the U.S. payment system in its iPhone app store hasn’t done much to increase competition — a shortcoming that could result in a federal judge demanding more changes. Schiller, who has been overseeing
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Eduardo Vicente Pelayo Rodriguez, a 31-year-old resident of Riverside, has been arrested on an 18-count indictment alleging he placed “swatting calls” threatening to commit mass shootings at several schools in the Inland Empire and Sandy Hook, Connecticut, as well as threatening to bomb Nashville International Airport on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday met with local officials in riot-hit New Caledonia, having crossed the globe by plane in a high-profile show of support for the French Pacific archipelago gripped by deadly unrest and where Indigenous people have long sought independence from France. Macron, who briefly
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal jury has ruled against a Black couple who sued a Little Rock steakhouse over a fight the couple had with white customers who weren’t wearing masks and stood too close during the COVID-19 pandemic. The jury on Monday found no negligence or racial
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ and CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams is facing questions about his commitment to a suite of reforms required by a federal settlement aimed at changing how the NYPD polices protests. The backlash centered on the mayor’s comments this week praising the NYPD’s response
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Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — El presidente de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, ordenó abrir una embajada en la ciudad de Ramallah, Ribera Occidental ―sede del Gobierno Autónomo Palestino―, informó este miércoles el canciller colombiano, Luis Gilberto Murillo. El funcionario dijo que esta medida es parte de la política exterior que impulsa Petro junto con otros
Continue ReadingCNN By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A flag that was on display during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol was flown outside Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s vacation home in New Jersey, according to a report in the New York Times on Wednesday. Citing photographs and interviews with neighbors, the Times reports that
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, Tierney Sneed and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — During a marathon day of proceedings in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, a morning hearing in front of Judge Aileen Cannon devolved into a shouting match amongst the attorneys, and the afternoon series of arguments prompted the judge to wonder if the legal nuances
Continue ReadingOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The city of Oakland is selling its share of the Coliseum — home to the departing Oakland Athletics — to a local Black development group for at least $105 million, Mayor Sheng Thao announced Wednesday. The sale is not surprising after the A’s announced last month that the Major League Baseball
Continue ReadingLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — In a story published May 21, 2024, about a federal jury’s verdict against a couple who sued a Little Rock steakhouse over a 2020 fight, The Associated Press erroneously reported that a motion made by the couple’s attorneys seeking sanctions against the steakhouse’s attorneys was still pending in court. That
Continue ReadingBy CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says in a new rule that buy now, pay later lenders are basically credit card providers and must provide the same protections and rights that apply to those lenders. That includes the right to dispute charges and to demand a refund
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson Nota del editor: En Snap, nos fijamos en el poder de una sola fotografía, relatando historias sobre cómo se tomaron imágenes tanto modernas como históricas. (CNN) — En un puesto de avanzada del valle oriental afgano de Korengal, en medio de una campaña militar estadounidense intensificada contra los talibanes, dos soldados parecen estar
Continue ReadingOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The city of Oakland is selling its share of the Coliseum — home to the departing Oakland Athletics — to a local Black development group for at least $105 million, Mayor Sheng Thao announced Wednesday. The sale is not surprising after the A’s announced last month that the Major League Baseball
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It’s been a warm Wednesday with high temperatures in the upper 90s around the Coachella Valley. A trough of low pressure will expand over the West Coast for the latter half of the week, bringing a cooling trend into the holiday weekend. Unfortunately, it will also strengthen onshore flow, leading to gusty evenings each day
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a Kansas City-area man charged with murder in the killings of a court employee who tried to serve an eviction notice on him and a police officer who responded. Larry Acree, of Independence, is accused of shooting court employee Drexel Mack on
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