By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — While Florida generally makes it challenging for people in the state with felony convictions to regain their voting rights, former President Donald Trump had no issue casting a ballot for himself Tuesday in Palm Beach. Trump was convicted in Manhattan earlier this year of 34 counts of falsifying business
Continue ReadingMALAGA, Spain (AP) — With the finals of the Billie Jean King Cup and Davis Cup set to be played in Malaga, Spain, this month, the International Tennis Federation is making a donation to the Spanish Red Cross to support relief and recovery efforts for the recent catastrophic flooding in the country. The ITF and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Authorities in Equatorial Guinea say they will install surveillance cameras in government offices after a government official allegedly recorded hundreds of sex videos. Baltasar Ebang Engonga, director of the National Financial Investigation Agency, has been suspended and is being investigated. Local media reported that investigators were searching his computer
Continue ReadingMALMO, Sweden (AP) — A Swedish court sentenced a far-right politician to four months in jail for two counts of “incitement against an ethnic group” after making hateful comments at political rallies two years ago. The Malmo District Court said on Tuesday the Danish-Swedish 42-year-old man, who was not named but has been identified by
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Brazilian police official Valdecy Urquiza will be the next chief of the global police organization Interpol. Urquiza was elected secretary-general by a vote of Interpol’s general assembly on Tuesday at its meeting in Glasgow, Scotland. He will take up the post when the gathering ends on Thursday. Urquiza is the first chief
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy and Joseph Ataman, CNN (CNN) — Homeowners in France have discovered a skeleton in the attic of an outbuilding while undertaking renovation work. The body is thought to belong to the former occupant of the property, which is located in Erstroff in eastern France, who disappeared in 2009, according to a statement
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Rudy Giuliani must appear in person in federal court on Thursday after two election workers who are to receive nearly all of his most valuable assets told a judge they believe the former Donald Trump attorney is hiding items from them. The complaint from the election workers Ruby Freeman
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Wednesday, an extraordinary comeback for a former president who refused to accept defeat four years ago, sparked a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was convicted of felony charges and survived two assassination attempts. With a win in
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Legislation intended to ban today’s British children from ever legally being able to smoke has begun its journey through Parliament. The Tobacco and Vapes Bill, introduced Tuesday, will raise the minimum age for buying tobacco by one year each year. That means no one born after January 1, 2009 will ever be
Continue ReadingANKARA, Turkey (AP) — An explosion at an oil refinery in northwestern Turkey has slightly injured 12 employees and a fire at the facility has been brought under control. The Turkish Petroleum Refineries company, TUPRAS, says a fire broke out Tuesday at its facilities in Izmit, in Kocaeli province during maintenance work on a compressor.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota voters have rejected ballot measures to legalize recreational marijuana, to outlaw most local property taxes, and to make it harder for citizens to change the state constitution. The measures were some of five before voters in the conservative state in Tuesday’s general election. Critics said the property
Continue ReadingCNN By Alayna Treene and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Popular podcast host Joe Rogan officially endorsed Donald Trump on the eve of the election, a move Trump’s team swiftly touted as a major win in the final hours of their campaign. Rogan on Monday released his latest podcast featuring a two-and-a-half-hour interview with billionaire
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Republican U.S. senator from North Dakota who ousted a Democrat in 2018 is now facing a Democrat challenger making her second Senate bid. Sen. Kevin Cramer is confronting Democrat Katrina Christiansen in his reelection effort Tuesday in conservative North Dakota, where no Democrat has won a statewide contest
Continue ReadingAssociated Press South Dakota voters are deciding whether to add protections for abortion rights to the state constitution and potentially overturn the state’s abortion ban. The abortion rights measure stands in a crowded field of initiatives on Tuesday’s general election ballot. Others included the proposed legalization of marijuana for recreational use, a measure to remove
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LILLE, France (AP) — A French court has found 18 defendants guilty in a migrant-smuggling trial linked to the perilous English Channel route from France to the U.K. One of the ringleaders, from Iraq, was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison and fined $218,000. The defendants in the trial in Lille, northern
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Abortion was a key issue in two suburban Minnesota congressional races as Democratic U.S. Rep. Angie Craig won a fourth term Tuesday, while an OB-GYN doctor won an open seat to keep it in Democratic hands as well. Craig beat Republican former federal prosecutor Joe Teirab, while Dr. Kelly Morrison,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DETROIT (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. John James has successfully defended his seat in eastern Michigan, fending off a challenge from a Democrat he has faced before. Voters in Michigan’s 10th congressional district faced a rematch between the incumbent and Democrat Carl Marlinga, who lost by just 1,600 votes in 2022. The thin
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DETROIT (AP) — Democrat Elissa Slotkin has won an open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan. The Associated Press called the race Wednesday. The third-term congresswoman defeated former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers. The GOP was hoping to claim a rare open seat that Democrats have controlled for decades. Rogers trailed Slotkin significantly in fundraising
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEDAVI, Spain (AP) — Francisco Murgui went out to try to salvage his motorbike when the water started to rise. He never came back. One week after catastrophic flooding devastated eastern Spain, María Murgui still holds out hope that her missing father is alive. “He was like many people in town who went
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