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ALEXANDER CITY, Ala. (AP) — The longtime pastor of the Auburn University football team has died after falling into the water on Lake Martin in central Alabama. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency says the accident occurred Sunday evening. Officials say the Rev. Chette L. Williams fell into the water from his pontoon boat. The accident
Continue ReadingATHENS, N.Y. (AP) — Efforts to save an imperiled 150-year-old lighthouse in New York are getting a boost with federal officials announcing new funding to study ways to protect the structure. New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer says that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is funding a study on how to restore the Hudson-Athens
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is making an all-out push in the waning days of the Biden administration that she believes could bolster reproductive rights, calling on the president to certify the Equal Rights Amendment and enshrine its protections into the Constitution. The move, the New York Democrat wrote
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The U.S. Census Bureau is changing how it counts international migration in its annual population estimates. Officials said Monday that the bureau will add a large share of humanitarian immigrants to its calculations to better reflect the influx of refugees to the United States this decade. The change will be incorporated into 2024
Continue ReadingHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut has become the latest state to begin notifying its eligible citizens that some or all of their medical debt will soon be paid off, officials announced Monday. Nearly 23,000 residents with debt totaling $30 million will automatically be informed by mail beginning Dec. 23, state officials said. Connecticut has been
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Palm Desert city officials issued two traffic alerts today notifying residents of upcoming road closures. San Pablo Avenue will be shut down for a six-hour stretch starting at 7 a.m. Tuesday between the College of the Desert roundabout and City Hall entrance to allow workers to remove a tree, according to city spokesperson Thomas Soules.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Interpol says a crackdown on suspected illegal deforestation in South America has netted 26 arrests. The agency says the operation in mid-October relied on Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina sharing key information in what’s called the Tri-Border area. That included satellite imagery and intelligence on high-value targets, as well as
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s anti-monopoly regulators have imposed special conditions for a period of 10 years on Walmart’s Mexico subsidiary for allegedly pressuring suppliers. The development on Monday follows a related $4.6 million fine handed down by the regulators, known as the Federal Competition Commission, for alleged monopolistic practices. Walmart de Mexico said last
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Meanwhile the Department of Homeland Security and federal Bureau of Investigation continue to press there is no evidence of reported drone sightings posing a national security or public safety threat from a foreign nexus. Despite that, the FBI and DHS are deploying drone detection technology and infrared cameras to probe whether the drones flying over
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By Kaan Ozcan and Sabrina Clay, CNN (CNN) — Once a felon, always a felon. That is how some convicted felons say society looks at them, no matter the crime. Around 19 million Americans have a felony conviction, and at least 79 million have a criminal record, which can mean an arrest, charges or a
Continue ReadingHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut has become the latest state to begin notifying its eligible citizens that some or all of their medical debt will soon be paid off, officials announced Monday. Nearly 23,000 residents with debt totaling $30 million will automatically be informed by mail beginning Dec. 23, state officials said. Connecticut has been
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Por Mary Gilbert, CNN La Navidad se acerca casi tan rápido como el trineo de Papá Noel, pero casi cualquier persona en Estados Unidos que fantasee con una Navidad blanca digna de una película quizá tenga que seguir soñando. Los primeros pronósticos indican que las temperaturas podrían alcanzar un máximo de entre 10 y 15
Continue ReadingCNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump, in his first news conference since his victory, downplayed concerns that his administration would revoke the polio vaccine’s authorization, suggested he could pardon New York City Mayor Eric Adams and said he will press Ukraine and Russia to end their war. The president-elect on Monday
Continue Reading Por Omar Fajardo, CNN en Español El empresario vitivinícola Ricardo Vega Cámara, dueño del reconocido viñedo Cuna de Tierra, murió en un supuesto ataque armado el sábado en una zona industrial del estado mexicano de Guanajuato, reportaron medios, empresarios y políticos locales. CNN ha contactado a la Fiscalía del estado de Guanajuato para conocer más
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — TikTok on Monday asked the Supreme Court to step in on an emergency basis to block the federal law that would ban the popular platform in the United States unless its China-based parent company agreed to sell it. Lawyers for the company and China-based ByteDance urged the justices to step
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at college football’s Heisman Trophy. December 14, 2024 – University of Colorado’s Travis Hunter, a wide receiver and cornerback for the Buffaloes, is named the Heisman Trophy winner. December 9, 2023 – Louisiana State University quarterback Jayden Daniels is named the Heisman Trophy winner. Facts The Heisman
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former talk show host Carlos Watson was sentenced Monday to nearly 10 years in prison in a federal financial conspiracy case that cast his once-buzzy Ozy Media as an extreme of fake-it-’til-you-make-it startup culture. In one example, another Ozy executive impersonated a YouTube executive to hype Ozy to investment
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CalMatters The Newsom administration is refining a contentious set of proposed rules, years in the making, that would reshape how farms and cities draw water from the Central Valley’s Delta and its rivers. Backed by more than $1 billion in state funds, the rules, if adopted, would require water users to help restore rivers and
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) – Here’s a look at the life of Nancy Pelosi, a US representative from California. Personal Birth date: March 26, 1940 Birth place: Baltimore, Maryland Birth name: Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro Father: Thomas D’Alesandro, Baltimore mayor and US congressman Mother: Annunciata (Lombardi) D’Alesandro Marriage: Paul F. Pelosi (1963-present) Children: Nancy, Christine, Jacqueline,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A former prison guard trainee has been sentenced to death for the 2019 execution-style killings of five women inside a Florida bank. Zephen Xaver appeared to gulp, but otherwise showed no emotion as Judge Angela Cowden pronounced the sentence Monday. The 27-year-old had pleaded guilty last year to the murders, but his attorneys
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