NEW 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 ReadingBelén 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
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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 ReadingAnalysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Now that a New York jury has convicted former President Donald Trump of all 34 felony charges of falsifying business records, the next obvious question is: Can a convicted felon run for president? Definitely. A further question is more complicated: Could Trump, as a felon, vote for
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
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Wallace, CNN Washington (CNN) — Boeing executives presented sweeping changes to the company’s production process and safety systems in a three-hour meeting with the Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday. The plan is meant to reassure the public, airline customers and regulators that the troubled company’s planes are safe to fly. “This is a guide
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle, Jhasua Razo and Gillian Roberts, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump on May 30 was found guilty on all 34 felony counts in his first criminal trial. Trump was found guilty of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016. His
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Ahora que un jurado de Nueva York declaró culpable al expresidente Donald Trump de los 34 delitos graves de falsificación de registros comerciales, la siguiente pregunta obvia es si puede un delincuente convicto ser candidato a la presidencia. Sin duda alguna. Otra pregunta es más complicada: ¿Podría Trump, como delincuente, votar
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Donald Trump may be convicted of a felony and reside in Florida, a state notorious for restricting the voting rights of people with felony convictions. But he can still vote as long as he stays out of prison in New York state. That’s because Florida defers to
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. ambassador to the Vatican and former U.S. senator from Indiana Joe Donnelly is stepping down and returning to Indiana. President Joe Biden nominated Donnelly for the position in 2021 and he was confirmed as ambassador to the Holy See in 2022. In a post on the social platform X on Thursday,
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, are slumping before the opening bell after former President Donald Trump was convicted in his hush money trial. A New York jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally
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