CNN By Daniel Wine, CNN Editor’s Note: CNN’s 5 Things newsletter is your one-stop shop for the latest headlines and fascinating stories to start and end your busy day. Sign up here. 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! A cocktail called The Honey Deuce has been a big winner at the US Open. The $23 beverage
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Wine, CNN Editor’s Note: CNN’s 5 Things newsletter is your one-stop shop for the latest headlines and fascinating stories to start and end your busy day. Sign up here. 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! A cocktail called The Honey Deuce has been a big winner at the US Open. The $23 beverage comes
Continue ReadingTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A former state employee who said he leaked information about the plans to build golf courses and hotels in Florida’s state parks has apparently been fired. But James Gaddis told the Palm Beach Post that he doesn’t regret making the public aware of the proposals. Tasked with illustrating the plans to
Continue ReadingALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An Afghan refugee convicted of first-degree murder in one of three fatal shootings in 2022 that shocked Albuquerque’s Muslim community has pleaded no contest to charges stemming from the other two killings. Prosecutors say 53-year-old Muhammad Syed entered the pleas Tuesday to two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Police say a man arrested last week at a Pennsylvania rally for presidential candidate Donald Trump does not believe in Trump’s policies and hoped to hang a banner in protest. Johnstown’s police chief said Tuesday investigators don’t know what the banner made from a bed sheet said because arena
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Police have released a man who was arrested on suspicion of murder after shooting and killing a neighbor who opened fire at a Hawaii gathering. Three people were killed and two others injured in a shooting at a home stemming from a dispute between neighbors Saturday night in Waianae, a
Continue ReadingBy Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — Uganda’s main opposition leader Bobi Wine has been “seriously injured” in a confrontation with police, his party the National Unity Platform (NUP) said Tuesday. The NUP said in a post on social media that Wine was shot in the leg in an attempt on his life, just outside the
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris is adding tax relief for small businesses to her economic policy platform aimed at helping middle-class and working Americans. Harris unveiled Wednesday a proposal to massively increase the existing small business tax deduction for startup costs and cut the red tape that
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is pleading not guilty to the charges laid out in special counsel Jack Smith’s retooled election subversion indictment against him in federal court. The pleading came in a Tuesday court filing, which also indicated he wants to be excused from appearing in
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge Tuesday denied Donald Trump’s request to move the New York hush money case to federal court, finding there is nothing in the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling that alters his view of the fact that the payments were “private, unofficial acts.” Last week, the former president’s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Elon Musk’s satellite-based internet service provider Starlink has backtracked and announced it will comply with a Brazilian Supreme Court justice’s order to block the billionaire’s social media platform, X. Starlink said in a statement posted on X that it will heed Justice Alexandre de Moraes’ order despite him having
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for the South Carolina inmate scheduled to be put to death later this month say state prison officials didn’t provide enough information about the drug to decide whether he wants to die by lethal injection. Freddie Owens’ attorneys want prison administrators to provide the actual report from state
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department announced criminal charges Tuesday against Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and other senior militants in connection with the Oct. 7, 2023, rampage in Israel, marking the first effort by American law enforcement to formally call out the masterminds of the attack. The seven-count criminal complaint filed in federal
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand and Evan Perez, CNN Washington (CNN) — The US Department of Justice has charged several senior Hamas leaders over the October 7 terrorist attack, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday. The indictment is the first criminal step by the Justice Department to hold people accountable for the attack in
Continue ReadingCNN By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — When former President Donald Trump held a campaign event at Arlington National Cemetery last week, 1st Lt. Jimmy McCain says he viewed it as a “violation.” The youngest son of the late Sen. John McCain had already been moving away from the Republican Party — just weeks ago, he changed his voter
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — A former Maryland resident has been sentenced to more than one year behind bars for making thousands of threatening and harassing telephone calls to dozens of congressional offices across the country. Prosecutors say Ade Salim Lilly’s telephone harassment campaign included approximately 12,000 telephone calls over the span of 19 months to more
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected Oklahoma’s emergency appeal seeking to restore a $4.5 million grant for family planning services in an ongoing dispute over the state’s refusal to refer pregnant women to a nationwide hotline that provides information about abortion and other options. The brief order issued Tuesday did not
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris plans to propose on Wednesday a tenfold increase in federal tax incentives for small business startup expenses, from $5,000 to $50,000, hoping to help spur a record 25 million new small business applications over her four-year term should she win the presidency in November. She’s set
Continue ReadingBy Kayla Tausche and Tami Luhby, CNN Washington (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris is set to propose a handful of new benefits to entrepreneurs and small business owners to spur the creation of millions of new businesses, as part of a second wave of economic proposals set to be unveiled Wednesday. In an economic
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Lt. Gov. Adam Gregg is resigning after serving more than seven years in office to take the helm of the state’s bankers association. He said Tuesday “my time in public service must come to a close.” Also Tuesday, the Iowa Bankers Association announced Gregg as their incoming
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