By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (WTVD) — The lawyer for the mother of Shanquella Robinson has filed a lawsuit in the Charlotte woman’s death. “Shanquella Robinson’s family, through this lawsuit, seeks compensatory and punitive damages to address the profound emotional and financial toll this incident has caused,”
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KAKTOVIK, Alaska (AP) — The right to vote is considered sacrosanct in the U.S., but it isn’t always so in the tiny, remote Native villages across Alaska. In these far-flung locations, challenges to voting abound. Mail and phone service can be unreliable, with severe storms or worker illness causing delays. Sometimes the polls
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN) –– CNN confirmó que un comentarista de derecha no volverá a ser invitado al aire después de que hiciera un comentario racista en el programa “CNN NewsNight con Abby Phillip”. En el programa de máxima audiencia del lunes, después de que el periodista musulmán Mehdi Hasan declarara que apoya a los palestinos,
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The North Carolina Court of Appeals on Tuesday unanimously rejected a Republican bid to have election officials segregate overseas ballots cast by people who have never resided in the state for additional checks of the voters’ eligibility. The court’s decision is the latest blow to Republican efforts to attack
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Tuesday tossed out a Republican lawsuit that sought to segregate overseas ballots in Pennsylvania for additional vetting. US District Judge Christopher Conner said that the challengers to Pennsylvania’s policies for overseas ballots filed by GOP members of the Pennsylvania congressional delegation and an outside group
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The owner and manager of the container ship Dali are seeking to minimize their responsibility for the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse. Attorneys for the companies argued Tuesday that Maryland state officials should have better protected the bridge against ship strikes. They’ve also raised questions about whether the shipbuilder installed faulty
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Judge Aileen Cannon is refusing to recuse herself from the criminal case against the man accused of trying to assassinate Donald Trump, saying she has no relationship with the former president who nominated her to the federal bench and that she doesn’t control what he says about her. In
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities say a 10-story hotel under renovation in Argentina has collapsed, leaving one person dead and at least seven trapped in the debris. Firefighters searching for survivors Tuesday rescued a woman who was alive from the rubble of the Dubrovnik Hotel in Villa Gesell, a coastal city 217 miles south of
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Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal agency was wrong to order that Tesla CEO Elon Musk delete a 2018 social media post that union leaders saw as a threat to employee stock options, a sharply divided federal appeals court has ruled. The case involved a post made on what was then known as
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal agency was wrong to order that Tesla CEO Elon Musk delete a 2018 social media post that union leaders saw as a threat to employee stock options, a sharply divided federal appeals court has ruled. The case involved a post made on what was then known as
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdraw his name from ballots in Michigan and Wisconsin, battleground states where votes for his now suspended campaign could cut into support for former President Donald Trump. Kennedy, who left the presidential race in August and endorsed Trump,
Continue ReadingBy D.G. Mawn, MA, JD and Stephanie E. Myers, Ph.D. Click here for updates on this story October 29, 2024 (Houston Style Magazine) — In 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson said, “A challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to
Continue ReadingAP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is still thriving while the company navigates through a pivotal shift to artificial intelligence and battles regulators trying to topple its internet empire. The latest evidence of Google’s prosperity emerged Tuesday with the release of its corporate parent Alphabet Inc.’s results for the July-September period. Both Alphabet’s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the presidential ballot in two battleground states. The justices did not elaborate in two brief orders rejecting the push Tuesday. There were no noted dissents. Kennedy wanted to get off the ballot in Wisconsin and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jaywalking — that time-honored practice of crossing the street outside of the crosswalk or against the traffic light — is now legal in New York City. Legislation passed by the City Council last month officially became law over the weekend after Mayor Eric Adams declined to take action —
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, Evan Perez and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — US officials believe Chinese government-linked hackers targeted Eric Trump’s and Jared Kushner’s call and text data as the scale of a sweeping cyber-espionage campaign targeting senior figures in both the Republican and Democratic parties comes into focus just days before the US election, with dozens of people believed to be impacted, three people familiar with
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JIUQUAN, China (AP) — A Chinese space ship carrying a three-person crew docked with its orbiting space station Tuesday as the country seeks to expand its exploration of outer space in competition with the United States, even as it looks for cooperation from other nations. The team of two men and one woman
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By John Towfighi, CNN Oasis is canceling around 50,000 tickets for its British tour dates that were resold on secondary websites like StubHub and Viagogo. The band’s tour promoters are canceling tickets resold through unofficial secondary sites to stop price gouging, a spokesperson for Live Nation and SJM, the Oasis tour promoters, told CNN. Oasis
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man who died after he was placed in a spit hood and restrained in a Missouri prison was motionless for nearly 10 minutes before a nurse checked on him, prison video released Tuesday shows. Video of the final the moments before Othel Moore’s December 2023 death shows
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