Associated Press NAIROBI (AP) — Western envoys in Kenya have raised concerns over reports of arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances and urged for swift investigations as the country takes up its seat in the United Nations Human Rights Council. In a joint statement on Thursday, the nine ambassadors and high commissioners said they “will support
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Agiesta, Ariel Edwards-Levy and Edward Wu, CNN (CNN) — Neither Vice President Kamala Harris nor former President Donald Trump has established a clear advantage in the race for the White House in two key Southern battleground states, according to new CNN polls conducted by SSRS. Likely voters in Georgia divide 48% for Trump
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — With just days before the presidential election, Latino voters are facing a barrage of targeted ads in Spanish and a new source of political messaging in the artificial intelligence age: chatbots generating unfounded claims in Spanish about voting rights. AI models are producing a stream of election-related falsehoods in
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a civil rights lawsuit against a white Minnesota state trooper who shot and killed a Black man during a 2023 traffic stop. The judge has ruled that the trooper’s actions did not violate the law. U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel granted Trooper Ryan Londregan’s motion to dismiss
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer No one knew what Quentin Tarantino had in the duffle bag. He and many other A-listers were gathered recently at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles for its glitzy annual fundraising gala. Tarantino was among the honorees. And as he approached the podium to make his speech, the bag did not go
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer No one knew what Quentin Tarantino had in the duffle bag. He and many other A-listers were gathered recently at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles for its glitzy annual fundraising gala. Tarantino was among the honorees. And as he approached the podium to make his speech, the bag did not go
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese judge has charged the country’s detained former central bank governor with illicit enrichment and issued an arrest warrant. The warrant issued for Riad Salameh on Thursday is the second in less than two months. Salameh was charged by the judge over an apartment that was rented in France
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The late Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio’s first and only female House speaker, has been eulogized at the Ohio Statehouse for blazing trails for women with grit, grace and a guiding spirit. Davidson died Friday at 97. Her memorial service Thursday attracted one current and three former governors, sitting congressional
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — School resource officers Chase Boyd and Brandon King ran toward the sound of gunfire, rounding a corner inside a Winder, Georgia, high school to find a hallway shrouded in dust and smoke – and through the haze, the silhouette of a shooter. “The reason he is still alive is
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — A Paris commercial court has lifted a ban that had prevented Israeli defense companies from exhibiting weapons used by its military in the Mideast conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon at the upcoming Euronaval trade show. The decision, made on Wednesday night, came just days before the international naval defense exhibition opens in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DENVER (AP) — A national campaign is backing ballot measures in six states to end partisan primaries, seeking to turn down the temperature in a polarized country by removing a process that gives the most active members of both major parties an outsize role in picking the country’s leaders. The $70 million effort
Continue ReadingBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — An appeals court in Slovakia has upheld a lower court ruling that found former President Andrej Kiska guilty of tax fraud and given him a suspended sentence. But the regional court in the eastern city of Presov has lowered the original suspended sentence from two years to one, dismissed a fine
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Please disregard ENT–TV-SNL, published on Nov. 10, 2024, and datelined in NEW YORK. It duplicates a previously published story that is now out of date.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A Moroccan economist known for his work defending human rights has been detained after criticizing the government in remarks posted on social media during a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to the North African kingdom. Morocco’s state news agency says prosecutors apprehended Fouad Abdelmoumni in Casablanca on Wednesday
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — Donald Trump is planning to cast his vote on Election Day despite having previously said he was going to vote early. In a radio interview with Fox News host Brian Kilmeade that aired last week, Trump had said that he intended to vote early — something Kilmeade
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Four Iowa voters and a Hispanic civil rights group are suing Iowa’s top election official after he directed election workers to challenge the ballots of people who may be naturalized citizens. The complaint alleges the state infringed upon their rights in its attempt to keep ineligible noncitizens from
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Thursday imposed sanctions on senior members of the armed wing of a Mexican drug cartel that operates on border territories in and around Chihuahua, Mexico. Five Mexican citizens and two companies linked to La Linea, a violent Mexico-based drug trafficking organization that smuggles fentanyl and other synthetic
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — With just days until Election Day, investigators in Oregon have shared new details about a man they say is responsible for three recent fires at ballot drop boxes which damaged hundreds of ballots – and are warning he may continue his attacks. Investigators have not identified the suspect,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Treasury chief Rachel Reeves has conceded that wages may rise by less than previously thought as a direct result of her budget decision to increase a tax that businesses pay for their employees. On Wednesday, Reeves raised taxes by around 40 billion pounds ($52 billion) to plug a hole
Continue ReadingStanford (2-6, 1-4 ACC) at N.C. State (4-4, 1-3), Saturday, 12 p.m. ET (ACC Network) BetMGM College Football Odds: N.C. State by 10. Series record: First meeting. What’s at stake? N.C. State emerges from an open date with a chance to put together a strong finish for the second straight year. The Wolfpack’s offense has
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