By Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, CNN Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) — Early results from South Africa’s election suggest the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party could lose its majority for the first time in 30 years. With results in from 22% of polling stations at 4 p.m. local time, support for the ANC stood at
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Boeing’s private force of firefighters have approved a tentative new contract, and their union says they’re going back to work. The International Association of Fire Fighters union said workers voted 86-24 to ratify the contract. Boeing locked out the workers more than three weeks ago, after their last contract expired. The union says
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Before the historic and unprecedented guilty verdict was delivered against Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon, the former president appeared to be the most relaxed he’d been since his hush money trial began in April. Trump was smiling and laughing with his attorney, Todd
Continue ReadingCNN Opinion by CNN Contributors (CNN) — CNN Opinion asked our contributors to weigh in on Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records. The views expressed in these commentaries are their own. View more opinion on CNN. Patrick Brown: Trump verdict is a pyrrhic victory for Democrats The ranks of the anti-Trump #Resistance haven’t celebrated
Continue ReadingBy Annette Choi and Amy O’Kruk, CNN (CNN) — Jurors have reached a guilty verdict on all of former President Donald Trump’s charges in his hush money criminal trial — 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up a payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. The verdict was read out in the first-ever
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — Jeep, widely known for making rugged off-road vehicles, has unveiled its first fully electric SUV for the North American market. Jeep already offers the small Avenger EV in Europe but the Wagnoneer S, unveiled Thursday night, will be available in the US and Canada later this year before being
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urielblanco (CNN Español) — Stephanie Clifford, estrella del cine para adultos conocida como Stormy Daniels, fue una de las figuras centrales en el juicio contra el expresidente Donald Trump. Trump fue declarado culpable 34 cargos de falsificación de documentos comerciales relacionados con el reembolso a su exabogado Michael Cohen por los pagos realizados poco antes
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has been found guilty on all 34 counts in his criminal hush money trial. It is the first time a former president was ever tried or convicted in a criminal case, and is the first of Trump’s four indictments to reach trial. At the heart of the
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis teenager has been sentenced to more than 30 years for a fatal shooting that shut down the Mall of America during the holiday shopping rush in 2022. Nineteen-year-old Taeshawn Adams-Wright pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in March in the killing of 19-year-old Johntae Hudson, of Minneapolis. The shooting happened the
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bears are set to be featured on “Hard Knocks” for the first time. HBO and the NFL announced Thursday the founding NFL franchise was chosen for the 19th edition of the Emmy-winning series that first aired in 2001. Chairman George McCaskey had long resisted
Continue ReadingBy BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Bruhat Soma is undefeated in his last three spelling bees. The 12-year-old won the Words of Wisdom bee hosted by Scott Remer, a former speller, coach and study guide author. He won the SpellPundit bee organized by that study guide company. And he won the
Continue ReadingBy BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Bruhat Soma is undefeated in his last three spelling bees. The 12-year-old won the Words of Wisdom bee hosted by Scott Remer, a former speller, coach and study guide author. He won the SpellPundit bee organized by that study guide company. And he won the
Continue ReadingBy CNN Staff (CNN) — A Manhattan jury found Donald Trump guilty of all 34 charges of falsifying business records Thursday, an unprecedented and historic verdict that makes Trump the first former president in American history to be convicted of a felony. Read the jury’s verdict sheet here: The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2024 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery
Continue Reading Belén Liotti (CNN Español) — El canciller de Colombia, Gilberto Murillo, dijo este jueves que su país no enviará observadores a las elecciones presidenciales en Venezuela, previstas para el 28 de julio, al explicar que no tuvieron tiempo para estructurar un equipo con las características técnicas que exige el envío de una misión de este
Continue ReadingCNN By Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Before the historic and unprecedented guilty verdict was delivered against Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon, the former president appeared to be the most relaxed he’d been since his hush money trial began in April. Trump was smiling and laughing with his attorney,
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A man pleaded guilty in Washington, DC, to making more than 12,000 harassing phone calls to members of Congress as well as threatening to kill a congressional staff member, the Justice Department and US Capitol Police announced Thursday. New Yorker Ade Salim Lilly, 35, was arrested in Puerto Rico
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy, Taylor Romine, Ray Sanchez and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Chad Daybell was found guilty Thursday of first-degree murder and conspiracy charges in the deaths of his first wife and two children of his second wife in a case Idaho prosecutors claim was fueled by power, sex, money and apocalyptic spiritual beliefs. Daybell
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK, JILL COLVIN, MICHELLE L. PRICE and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts marks the end of the former president’s historic hush money trial, but the fight over the case is far from over. Now comes the sentencing and the potential for
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Temperatures this afternoon have warmed more than 5° above average, and tomorrow will be very similar as we wrap up the month of May. It’s not record-breaking, but we’re certainly feeling the springtime heat! One year ago, 4.63% of California was in ‘moderate’ drought. Today, only 1.23% of the state is ‘abnormally dry.’ This is
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell, Annette Choi and Gillian Roberts, CNN (CNN) — Jurors found former President Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in his New York hush money trial, the first criminal trial of a US ex-president. Judge Juan Merchan set a sentencing hearing for July 11. This is the
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