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By Jeremy Lee Click here for updates on this story OCEAN VIEW, Hawaii (KITV) — In just a matter of one week, two very unusual situations unfolded in Ocean View. It was on a dead-end street in Ocean View that a 32-year-old local man attempted to gain entry into a remote four-story house Sunday. Inside,
Continue ReadingBy TERESA CRAWFORD Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Police have dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment at DePaul University in Chicago. The move on Thursday comes less than a week after the school’s president said public safety was at risk. The chief of patrol for the Chicago Police Department says all the protesters “voluntarily left” the encampment
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — McDonald’s newest McFlurry flavor is inspired by someone old: your grandmother. Beginning May 21, the chain is releasing for a limited time a “Grandma McFlurry,” a sweet new treat that mixes syrup, vanilla ice cream and crunchy candy pieces, which McDonald’s jokes is “like grandma’s favorite treat
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN Washington (CNN) — A pair of recent ransomware attacks crippled computer systems at two major American health care firms, disrupting patient care and exposing fundamental weaknesses in the US health care system’s defenses against hackers. In both cases, federal officials and private cyber experts scrambled to try to limit the damage
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Police in Nigeria say at least eight worshippers were killed and 16 others injured in northern Nigeria’s Kano state after a man with a locally made explosive attacked the mosque where they were praying early Wednesday morning. A police spokesman said the suspect, a 38-year-old local
Continue ReadingBy Michele Fiore Click here for updates on this story KENOSHA, Wisconsin (WDJT) — A former Kenosha teacher accused of sending inappropriate messages and pictures to an 8th grade student is a free man tonight. Christian Enwright posted a $5,000 cash bond after his initial court hearing on Wednesday, May 15. Parents in the Kenosha
Continue ReadingBy Alysia Burgio Click here for updates on this story WEST BLOOMFIELD, Michigan (WWJ) — A doctor from West Bloomfield is now stranded in Gaza after heading there with a relief group earlier in May. At the beginning of May, Dr. Ammar Ghanem headed to Gaza for a two-week medical mission that was part of
Continue ReadingBy LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — The 1959 Castro-led revolution installed an atheist, Communist government that sought to replace the Catholic Church as the guiding force in the lives of Cubans. But 65 years later, religion seems omnipresent in Cuba, in dazzling diversity. The bells toll on Catholic churches and the call
Continue ReadingCNN By Shania Shelton, CNN Washington (CNN) — The decisions by President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Wednesday to agree to two presidential debates will ensure the continuation of a tradition that dates back to 1960. But it might look a little different this year: the candidates will first debate on June
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By Taylor Romine and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Police detained at least a dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators at the University of California, Irvine, as they cleared an encampment in front of a lecture hall on Wednesday. “A group of several hundred protestors entered the UC Irvine campus and began surrounding” the school’s Physical Sciences Lecture
Continue ReadingBy EUGENE HOSHIKO and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) — A U.S. Navy strike group’s flagship aircraft carrier has left its Japanese home port, wrapping up nearly nine years of deployment in the Indo-Pacific, where it served a key role in the U.S. effort to bolster defense ties with Japan and other partners
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street drifted slightly higher early Thursday a day after markets rallied on hints that inflation is subsiding. Futures for the Dow Jones industrials and the S&P 500 each rose less than 0.1% before the bell. The meme stock rollercoaster stretched into another day with AMC
Continue ReadingBy GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — White men are most likely to lead the largest, best-funded nonprofits, while women of color tend to lead the organizations with the fewest financial resources, according to a study from the nonprofit data research organization Candid released Thursday. “The State of Diversity in the U.S.
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — The tragic arc of Amy Winehouse’s brief life and nova-like career creates built-in problems for a biography of the singer, which doesn’t dampen the knockout performance by Marisa Abela in “Back to Black,” capturing the talent, rage and self-destructiveness that defined her. Thin as biopics go, the power
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to deepen their strategic partnership in Beijing on Thursday, in a stark show of their growing alignment as Moscow’s troops advance in Ukraine. Putin — whose delegation includes top defense and security officials — was welcomed by Xi
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A leading international human rights organization has urged the Thai government to stop forcing political dissidents who fled to Thailand for safety to return to authoritarian home countries, where they may face torture, persecution or death. In a new report, Human Rights Watch said Thai authorities repeatedly
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — A controversial media bill passed this week by Georgia’s parliament is “unacceptable” and will be vetoed, President Salome Zourabichvili said Thursday, reaffirming her opposition to a measure that critics describe as a threat to free speech. In an interview with The Associated Press, Zourabichvili harshly criticized
Continue ReadingBy BELA SZANDELSZKY, PETR DAVID JOSEK and PHILIPP JENNE Associated Press BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (AP) — The Slovak interior minister said Thursday that a “lone wolf” has been charged in the shooting that seriously wounded Prime Minister Robert Fico and prompted soul-searching among leaders in the deeply divided society. Fico was in serious but stable
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — The Mirage Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, and its instantly recognizable volcano, is soon shutting down after more than three decades in business. The 3,000-room resort will cease operations on July 17 as it undergoes a three-year renovation that wipes away any markings of
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s still-undeclared election campaign has stepped up a gear. Opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer on Thursday announced the key pledges that he hopes will make him the U.K.’s next prime minister. The center-left party is focusing on economic stability, security, health and education as it tries
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