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Month: August 2024

Montana is the latest state to add abortion to November ballots. What would the measures do?

Associated Press Arkansas’ highest court upheld a decision to keep an abortion rights ballot initiative off the state’s November ballot, agreeing with election officials that the group behind the measure did not properly submit documentation regarding the signature gatherers it hired. The move is the latest development in the ongoing fight to put abortion on

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Trump’s campaign called it an economic address. He made big promises but mostly veered off topic

Associated Press ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Donald Trump made little effort to stay on message Wednesday at a rally in North Carolina that his campaign billed as a big economic address, mixing pledges to slash energy prices and “unleash economic abundance” with familiar off-script tangents on Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’ laugh, the mechanics of wind

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Ernesto getting stronger as it plows through Caribbean islands. Here’s where it could go next and how fast it could intensify.

By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Tropical Storm Ernesto is steadily growing stronger as it slams the northern Caribbean with heavy rain, gusty winds and rough seas Tuesday, lashing the Virgin Islands and heading toward Puerto Rico. Hurricane watches were in effect for the US and British Virgin Islands, Vieques and Culebra, as forecasters

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Why AP called Minnesota’s 5th District primary for Rep. Ilhan Omar over Don Samuels

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Ilhan Omar won the Democratic primary in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District on Tuesday, defeating former Minneapolis City Council member Don Samuels in a rematch of their close 2022 primary contest. According to an Associated Press analysis of initial vote results, Omar improved on her 2022 margins in the district’s

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Maine regulators reject utility proposal to report suspected marijuana grow operations to police

Maine utility regulators have unanimously rejected an electric utility’s proposal to proactively report high consumption that signals an illicit marijuana growing operation to law enforcement officials. The state’s second-largest electric utility floated the idea to aid police cracking down on operations hidden inside rural homes that are being investigated for ties to transnational crime. But

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Netanyahu accuses defense minister of ‘anti-Israel narrative,’ exposing rift over war in Gaza

By Christian Edwards, Lauren Izso and Dana Karni, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lambasted his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Monday and accused him of adopting an “anti-Israel narrative,” revealing a deep rupture at the top of the Israeli government as the Middle East risks spiraling into a full-scale regional conflict. Israeli

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