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By Amanda Davies and Kevin Dotson, CNN (CNN) — Team USA star Oksana Masters was told by Paralympic officials that she needed to “cover up my Ukrainian heart stickers” before competing, the 19-time Paralympic medalist disclosed to CNN in an interview Friday. The Ukrainian-born para athlete told CNN Sport’s Amanda Davies that the alleged demand
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s governor says there has been a huge jump in law enforcement requests for Maine courts to allow guns to be seized from people deemed a danger to themselves or others since the deadliest mass shooting in state history. Maine’s extreme risk protection order law was strengthened after an
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge agreed Friday to postpone Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case until after the November election, granting him a hard-won reprieve as he navigates the aftermath of his criminal conviction and the homestretch of his presidential campaign. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan, who is also weighing
Continue ReadingBy John Paul Click here for updates on this story HAVERTOWN, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — The Philadelphia Phillies surprised a little girl who has brain cancer with a room makeover in Havertown on Thursday. Rosie McKenna, 6, has been battling a rare form of brain cancer since she was 11 months old. She’s gone through 64
Continue ReadingSANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader have met behind closed doors to discuss human rights, economic prosperity and regional security. Blinken met with Abinader on Friday after landing in neighboring Haiti the previous day to support a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya to
Continue ReadingBy Trish Hartman Click here for updates on this story MANTUA TWP., New Jersey (WPVI) — Shocking video shows a vehicle going the wrong way on Route 55 in Mantua Township, Gloucester County on Thursday just before a head-on crash that left two people dead. The crash happened in the northbound lanes of the highway
Continue ReadingWPVI By Trish Hartman Click here for updates on this story MANTUA TWP., New Jersey (WPVI) — Shocking video shows a vehicle going the wrong way on Route 55 in Mantua Township, Gloucester County on Thursday just before a head-on crash that left two people dead. The crash happened in the northbound lanes of the
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Sérgio Mendes, a singer and composer who helped popularize the bossa nova music of his native Brazil, died Thursday in Los Angeles, his family shared in a statement with CNN. Mendes was 83. “His wife and musical partner for the past 54 years, Gracinha Leporace Mendes, was by his
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump plans to ban mortgages for undocumented immigrants, he said in a speech at the Economic Club of New York on Thursday. Trump claimed the measure would help address housing affordability because a “flood” of people entering the country illegally are pushing up housing costs, but
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, CNN Ramstein Air Base, Germany (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged international allies on Friday to speed up deliveries of promised air defenses, warning of a “significant” shortfall in vital aid. Speaking at Ramstein Air Base in Germany at the opening of the 24th Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting, Zelensky said the
Continue ReadingBy Liam Reilly and Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of business leaders are throwing their weight behind Vice President Kamala Harris, saying she is the stronger candidate for the American economy and the future of democracy. In a three-page letter, a group of 88 business leaders — including high-profile current and former executives from major public
Continue ReadingBy Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — A spokesman for the Manhattan US Attorney’s office apologized following the release of a secretly recorded video that captured him slamming Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush money case against Donald Trump as “nonsense” and a “perversion of justice.” Nicholas Biase, chief public information officer for the US Attorney’s Office for
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An appeals court has returned control of Ohio House Republicans’ campaign purse strings to Speaker Jason Stephens. But the Thursday ruling appeared to do virtually nothing to resolve the yearlong intraparty dispute that’s hindered lawmaking in the state. A three-judge panel of the 10th District Court of Appeals ruled
Continue ReadingBy Carrie Hodgin Click here for updates on this story WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (WXII) — A young boy who was scalded with hot water in a bathtub has died, according to the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office. The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office said they responded to a home on Cain Forest Drive around 11:45 p.m. on
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department officials are turning to the 3D-printing industry to help stop the proliferation of tiny pieces of plastic transforming semi-automatic weapons into illegal homemade machine guns on streets across America. U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Friday that the rising threat of what are known as machine gun
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Moore Click here for updates on this story ALEXANDER COUNTY, North Carolina (WYFF) — A North Carolina father is accused of killing a man who made inappropriate comments to his daughter, according to the Alexander County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators said Kenneth Young, 55, was accused of making inappropriate comments to 33-year-old Casey Charles
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Historical document appraiser and collector Seth Kaller spreads a broad sheet of paper across a desk. It’s in good enough condition that he can handle it, carefully, with clean, bare hands. There are just a few creases and tiny discolorations, even though it’s just a few weeks shy of
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — It’s early September – what should be the busiest stretch of hurricane season. Forecasters predicted this one was going to be bad: storm after storm, the most bullish forecasts on record. Instead, the Atlantic Ocean is enveloped in a rare and strange calm that has flummoxed forecasters and
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Julia Hernández Nota del editor: esta historia contiene imágenes perturbadoras y descripciones de violencia explícita. (CNN) — Los soldados emergen y se tambalean en medio del camino polvoriento, luego se arrodillan y se ponen las manos en la cabeza. Segundos después, según muestra la grabación del dron ucraniano, yacen boca abajo, inmóviles, con polvo a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Although it has been nearly four years since hurricanes Laura and Delta decimated southwest Louisiana and caused an estimated $22 billion in damage nationwide, some residents say they are still far from recovery. Delays in Congress and a lengthy process to approve federal funding forced people in a
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