CNN By Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — The race for the White House rests on a razor’s edge in the final nationwide CNN poll before votes are counted. The poll, conducted by SSRS, finds 47% of likely voters support Vice President Kamala Harris and an equal 47% support former President Donald Trump.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is seeking to protect his personal social media accounts from being sold in the upcoming auction of his Infowars media platform to pay more than $1 billion he owes relatives of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, claiming selling those accounts would violate his privacy and deny him a
Continue ReadingEVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana woman who pleaded guilty to neglect for a rat attack that left her 6-month-old son with disfiguring injuries has been sentenced to probation. A judge sentenced 29-year-old Angel Schonabaum to four years in prison Thursday but gave her credit for a year of time served and suspended the remaining
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — “Black Insurrectionist,” the anonymous social media persona behind some of the most widely circulated conspiracy theories about Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz, can be traced to a white man from upstate New York. He has a history of drug abuse and a long list of
Continue ReadingQUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador has announced an increase in daily power cuts as the severe drought impacting the nation keeps lowering the levels of water for the key hydroelectric plants, the source of more than 70% of the country’s electricity. Acting Energy minister Inés Manzano said that the authorities are ordering an electricity service
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Khatia Buniatishvili has been one of the most well-known classical musicians for more than a decade. The French-Georgian pianist released her sixth album, “Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 23” with The Academy of St. Martin In The Fields chamber orchestra on Friday. Buniatishvili is among the artists helping
Continue Reading“The Substance” and albums by Willie Nelson and Tyler, the Creator are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases. The political series “The Diplomat” starring Keri Russell and Rupert Sewell, drops its second season on Thursday and, just in time for Halloween, the long-awaited “Wizards of Waverly Place” sequel debuts its first two episodes
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — The race for the White House rests on a razor’s edge in the final nationwide CNN poll before votes are counted. The poll, conducted by SSRS, finds 47% of likely voters support Vice President Kamala Harris and an equal 47% support former President Donald Trump. CNN
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The San Jose State women’s volleyball team finds itself at the center of a storm as the Spartans make a run toward their first NCAA Tournament appearance in more than two decades. Overshadowing the program’s strong season are national talk-show hosts and politicians weighing in on one of its players. At issue is
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The San Jose State women’s volleyball team finds itself at the center of a storm as the Spartans make a run toward their first NCAA Tournament appearance in more than two decades. Overshadowing the program’s strong season are national talk-show hosts and politicians weighing in on one of its players. At issue is
Continue ReadingAP Health Writer A deadly outbreak of E. coli poisoning tied to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders has expanded, with at least 75 people sick in 13 states, federal health officials said Friday. A total of 22 people have now been hospitalized, and two have developed a dangerous kidney disease complication, the Centers for Disease Control and
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Friday halted a Virginia program that purged the state’s voter rolls based on indications that a person might be a noncitizen and ordered officials to restore the registrations of roughly 1,600 people who had been removed under the process. The ruling, from US District Judge Patricia
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge has upheld her decision to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie. In a ruling Thursday, state District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer stood by her July decision to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge has upheld her decision to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie. In a ruling Thursday, state District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer stood by her July decision to
Continue ReadingTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has been sentenced to life in prison for setting a house fire that killed his girlfriend and their two daughters. Thirty-three-year-old Kyle Tyler won’t be eligible for parole until he serves at least 25 years of his life sentence for the first-degree murder conviction. On top of that,
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Musa and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Homeless camps around New Orleans’ Superdome have been moved at the order of Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry before three sold-out Taylor Swift concerts this weekend and the Super Bowl next year. “Let me be clear we want our streets cleared,” Landry told CNN in a statement
Continue ReadingRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper approved more than $600 million worth of funding on Friday to go toward disaster recovery from Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina. The bill Cooper signed to approve the spending was passed by the General Assembly on Thursday. It comes as the second iteration of disaster
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A judge in South Carolina has ruled it is too late for South Carolina to reopen voter registration for nearly 1,900 teens after the state Department of Motor Vehicles failed to notify election officials that they checked the box to register as they got their driver’s licenses. The teens
Continue ReadingAssociated Press In the beginning, the World Series matchup of the Dodgers against the Yankees was a kind of charming intra-city showdown of two New York City boroughs, blue collar Brooklyn, equipped with a neighborhood called Gravesend, against the pretentious Bronx, with the fancy Grand Concourse. It was an intriguing matchup that carried bragging rights
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday ordered Virginia to restore more than 1,600 voter registrations that she said were illegally purged in the last two months in an effort to stop noncitizens from voting. U.S. District Judge Patricia Giles granted an injunction request brought against Virginia election officials by the
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