By JIM VERTUNO and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the U.S. following a lawsuit by women who had serious pregnancy complications. Friday’s ruling from the court is the latest decision to uphold Texas’ abortion ban,
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Family and friends of Jennifer Dulos are offering emotional testimony as her late husband’s former girlfriend is sentenced in Connecticut for helping to plan and cover up her killing. Michelle Troconis faces up to 50 years in prison when she is sentenced Friday. She was convicted of murder conspiracy and
Continue ReadingNEW 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 will likely look to cast the conviction and his campaign in a new light. The former president is expected to hold a news conference at Trump Tower
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — A criminal conviction isn’t typically a market-moving event. But the historic conviction of former President Donald Trump is causing extreme turbulence for Truth Social owner Trump Media & Technology Group. Trump Media – a notoriously volatile stock since debuting in late March – has swung between steep
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN New York (CNN) — For years, restaurant executives had a confident message for investors: We’re raising prices, and customers don’t care. Well, now diners do — and fast food chains, especially, are rapidly changing course. Frustrated diners are complaining online about how expensive fast food has become. Low-income consumers in particular are
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — The French interior minister says security authorities have foiled a plan to attack soccer events during the Paris Olympics. Gerald Darmanin said in a statement on Friday that an 18-year-old man from Chechnya was arrested on May 22 on suspicion of being behind a plan to attack soccer events that will be
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Sol Amaya (CNN Español) — El desempeño de la economía en México durante los cinco años que lleva el gobierno del presidente de México Andrés Manuel López Obrador ha sido de claroscuros: el Producto Interno Bruto (PIB) cayó 8,5% en 2020, en medio de la pandemia de covid-19, pero de allí ha comenzado a recuperarse,
Continue ReadingBy KEN MILLER Associated Press While more than 243,000 people in Texas remain without power following severe storms this week, another round of severe weather is forecast. National Weather Service meteorologist Josh Weiss said Friday that strong thunderstorms with hail and high winds are expected in areas already hard hit by Tuesday’s storms and that
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The United States has expressed its deep concerns about the convictions of 14 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong under a Beijing-imposed national security law. U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Friday that it was taking steps to impose new visa restrictions on mainland Chinese and
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa is heading closer to the reality of a national coalition government for the first time as partial election results put the ruling African Nation Congress well short of a majority. With more than 65% of votes counted across the country’s nine provinces
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — For homebuyers struggling to afford a home amid stubbornly high mortgage rates and surging prices, there’s a little-known workaround that can help turn back the clock to the days of ultra-low monthly mortgage payments. But it comes with a few caveats. Assumable mortgages are loans that allow a homebuyer
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting Friday after the latest reading on inflation came in roughly as expected, leaving open the question of when Wall Street will get the lower interest rates that it craves. The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged in morning trading. The Dow Jones
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K.’s first Black female member of Parliament will be allowed to stand for the Labour Party in the upcoming general election, leader Keir Starmer says, following a fractious few days over her political future. Starmer told reporters Friday that Diane Abbott, who has been a Labour
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin and Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — There’s nothing like getting lost in a good book, but one reader in Finland seems to have taken that to an extreme. Staff at a public library in Helsinki were rather surprised when a copy of Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Refugees” was returned to them more
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Inflation in April remained at the same stubbornly high level as in March. That means costs continued to rise too fast for consumers, and the Federal Reserve has more work to do in its fight against rising prices. The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index — a closely watched inflation gauge that the
Continue ReadingBy BRANDON BEYER, RUBÉN ROSARIO Click here for updates on this story PLANTATION, Florida (WSVN) — A trip to the Broward Mall in Plantation changed a woman’s life. Now she’s talking about the moment she was followed and attacked, as she prepares to take legal action against the shopping center. The woman, who was not
Continue Reading Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Una de las aerolíneas más grandes de la India acaba de lanzar una nueva opción que permite a las viajeras ver dónde están sentadas otras mujeres al seleccionar los asientos para sus vuelos. Según un comunicado enviado a CNN, la aerolínea de bajo costo IndiGo Airlines está ofreciendo a las pasajeras
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, Sharon Braithwaite, Inke Kappeler and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — European allies of former US President Donald Trump have rallied around him in support following his historic conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The conviction – which has been heralded as a somber moment for America with wide-reaching
Continue Reading By Sydney Bishop and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — Bruhat Soma, 12, of Florida won the 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night after defeating all seven other finalists and beating his final competitor in the Bee’s second-ever spell-off. Bruhat spelled 29 words correctly during that spell-off, while 12-year-old Faizan Zaki of Texas, spelled 20
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press Police in riot gear surrounded arm-in-arm protesters Friday at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where pro-Palestinian demonstrations have blocked the main entrance to the campus this week. Campus, local and state police swarmed the protesters, and video showed officers telling people to leave, then taking away signs and part
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