LONDON (AP) — The driver of a 4×4 who plowed into a school in southwest London in July, killing two children, suffered a seizure that could not have been predicted and will face no criminal charges, police said Wednesday. The vehicle crashed into a crowd of children celebrating an outdoor end-of-year party at The Study
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By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Women in states with the most restrictive abortion laws have also become less likely to access prescription birth control, a new study suggests. In a dozen states that have enacted near-total abortion bans, monthly prescription rates for birth control pills and emergency contraceptives were significantly lower in the second
Continue ReadingMauricio Torres (CNN Español) — El Partido Comunista de Venezuela (PCV) apoyará la candidatura presidencial de Enrique Márquez en las elecciones del 28 de julio, informó el instituto político en un comunicado. El secretario general del Comité Central del PCV, Oscar Figuera, dijo que el partido rechaza la candidatura del presidente Nicolás Maduro, quien busca
Continue ReadingZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s President Zoran Milanović says he plans to seek a second five-year term at a presidential election expected later this year, months after his failed bid to become the prime minister. Milanovic told reporters on Wednesday that he expects support from the center-left opposition Social Democratic Party for his candidacy. He
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German goverment has launched new legislation to ease the deportation of foreigners who publicly approve of terrorist acts. Under the law, a single comment on social media could provide grounds for kicking people out. The Interior Ministry said Wednesday that the law on residence will be changed so that
Continue ReadingST. ALBANS, Vt. (AP) — Vermont has agreed to pay $175,000 to settle a lawsuit on behalf of a man who was charged with a crime for giving a state trooper the middle finger in 2018. The lawsuit was filed in 2021 by the Vermont chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — The man accused of opening fire at an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago in 2022 has rejected a deal requiring him to plead guilty to seven charges of murder in the attack. Twenty-three-year-old Robert E. Crimo III on Wednesday rejected the deal that prosecutors said would have come
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — An extinct ribbonlike sea creature about the size of a human thumb was one of the earliest animals to evolve a precursor of a backbone. Scientists recently identified the animal’s nerve cord by using a topsy-turvy twist. They turned its fossils upside down. Paleontologist Charles Doolittle Wolcott first encountered fossils of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president said Wednesday he won’t sign into law a finance bill proposing new taxes that prompted thousands of protesters to storm the parliament the previous day, leaving several people killed as police opened fire. It was the biggest assault on Kenya’s government in decades. The government wanted to
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By WPVI Staff Click here for updates on this story LAKEWOOD TWP., New Jersey (WPVI) — A mother in New Jersey has been charged with murder in the deaths of her two young children, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office announced Wednesday. Naomi Elkins, 27, of Lakewood Township, is accused of stabbing her 1-year-old child and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A house that was teetering on the edge of an eroding riverbank near a Minnesota dam collapsed into the river in the latest jarring example of extreme weather gripping the upper Midwest. Video shows the white frame house falling into the flood-swollen Blue Earth River near Mankato on
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A house that was teetering on the edge of an eroding riverbank near a Minnesota dam collapsed into the river in the latest jarring example of extreme weather gripping the upper Midwest. Video shows the white frame house falling into the flood-swollen Blue Earth River near Mankato on
Continue ReadingAP Health Writer A new national report says racial and ethnic inequities in health care are found in every state despite some progress over the past two decades. The report was released Wednesday by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. It details how structural racism and social determinants of health have contributed to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark will tax livestock farmers for the greenhouse gases emitted by their cows, sheep and pigs from 2030, the first country to do so as it targets a major source of methane emissions, one of the most potent gases contributing to global warming. The aim is to reach a
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By WPVI Staff Click here for updates on this story CHALFONT, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — A prominent pizza shop owner has been sentenced to 18 to 40 years in prison for murdering her partner in Chalfont, Bucks County. Anna Maria Tolomello, 51, was charged in March 2022 with shooting and killing 65-year-old Giovanni Gallina at their
Continue ReadingBy WPVI Staff Click here for updates on this story NEW CASTLE, Delaware (WPVI) — A black bear, believed to have been the one spotted around roaming in Delaware neighborhoods recently, has died, according to state police. The wild animal, affectionately named “Delabear,” was struck and killed by a car on Route 1 near School
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CNN By John Fritze and Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the White House and federal agencies such as the FBI may continue to urge social media platforms to take down content the government views as misinformation, handing the Biden administration a technical if important election-year victory. Of immediate significance,
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By Christian Edwards and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Evan Gershkovich, the first American journalist to be arrested on espionage charges in Russia since the Cold War, went on trial Wednesday, appearing in a Russian courtroom’s glass cage with his head recently shaved. Later Wednesday, Gershkovich’s family said the past 15 months had been “extraordinarily
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) — Thousands of tons of food, medicines and other aid piled up on a beach in war-torn Gaza is not reaching those in need because of a dire security situation and lawlessness on the ground, a U.S. aid official said Wednesday. Truck drivers are getting caught in the crossfire or
Continue ReadingCalMatters Almost 400 water systems serving nearly a million Californians don’t meet state requirements for safe and reliable drinking water supplies — and fixing them would cost billions of dollars. More than two-thirds of these failing water systems serve communities of color, and more than half are in places struggling with poverty and pollution, according
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