By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign increased its already blistering fundraising pace last month, bringing in $361 million in August – easily swamping the $130 million raised by her Republican rival last month and giving the Democrat a whopping $404 million in cash reserves for the final, two-month sprint
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — On the last Saturday of July, with the presidential race in flux from an unthinkable month of turmoil, Donald Trump looked out at an overflowing St. Cloud, Minnesota, crowd and predicted he could accomplish what no Republican presidential candidate had managed in nearly half a century.
Continue ReadingAP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris raised well more than double what former President Donald Trump took in from donors in August, her campaign announced Friday, saying it raised $361 million from nearly 3 million donors in her first full month as a candidate. Trump’s team had announced Wednesday he
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order for federal grants that will prioritize projects with labor agreements, wage standards, and benefits such as access to child care and apprenticeship programs. Biden said the ideas in his order “are common sense.” “Economists have long believed that these
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, CNN Ramstein Air Base, Germany (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged international allies on Friday to speed up deliveries of promised air defenses, warning of a “significant” shortfall in vital aid. Speaking at Ramstein Air Base in Germany at the opening of the 24th Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting, Zelensky said the
Continue ReadingBy Mick Krever, Abeer Salman and Kareem Khadder, CNN (CNN) — Residents of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, are taking stock after nine days of what they say has been the most intense and sustained Israeli military operation in their city since October 7. Witnesses describe widespread destruction of infrastructure, severed water and electricity
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The intense heat Thursday canceled or delayed some outdoor high school sports throughout the desert cities. Palm Springs and Indio High School tennis were delayed. While a golf match between Palm Springs and Redlands High Schools was cancelled. Junior Varsity High School football was impacted at both Palm Springs and Desert Hot Springs High Schools
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — Ukraine’s president has told U.S. and allied military leaders meeting in Germany that his country needs the ability to strike deep within Russia now. Ukraine is pressing the West to loosen weapons use restrictions and allow it to target Russian air bases and launch sites far from
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China is ending most foreign adoptions of its children, leaving hundreds of American and other foreign families with pending applications in limbo. Since the early 1990s, China has sent tens of thousands of adoptees overseas – with about half arriving in the United States – as its
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Miracle, Kevin Flower and Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — The defense team for Bryan Kohberger, the man charged in the 2022 killings of four University of Idaho students, is seeking to remove the death penalty from his case. Kohberger faces four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary in the November
Continue ReadingBy Larry Madowo, Manveena Suri and Isaac Yee, CNN (CNN) — At least 17 students have been killed and 14 injured following a fire in an elementary school dormitory in central Kenya, while a further 70 children remain unaccounted for, authorities said Friday. The inferno occurred late Thursday at the Hillside Endarasha Academy in Kieni,
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is promising to step up efforts to fight criminality on the messaging app. In a Telegram post, the app’s founder made his first public comments since French authorities handed him preliminary charges for allegedly allowing the platform’s use for criminal activity. Durov defended himself against the French judicial
Continue ReadingAssociated Press GENEVA (AP) — U.N.-backed human rights investigators are urging the creation of an “independent and impartial force” to protect civilians in Sudan’s war. The fact-finding mission is blaming both sides for war crimes including murder, mutilation and torture and warning that countries that arm and finance them could be complicit. It also accused
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — From jail, Shane Jenkins helped sell T-shirts, tote bags and other merchandise promoting the notion that he and other rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol are political prisoners unjustly held in pretrial detention. That disturbed the judge who sentenced the Texas man to seven years in prison for storming the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Finding a viable trial defense hasn’t been easy for rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol. Their arguments aren’t swaying jurors who are hearing testimony and viewing evidence. Of the nearly 100 riot defendants who have elected to a trial by jury, none has been fully acquitted. A retired New York
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces appeared to have withdrawn from three refugee camps in the occupied West Bank by Friday morning, after a more than weeklong military operation that left dozens dead and a trail of destruction. Overnight, Israeli armored personnel carriers were seen leaving the Jenin refugee camp
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said she hasn’t grown numb to the violent scenes of Jan. 6 that are routinely shown in her courtroom. “I’m horrified every single time,” she said before sentencing a U.S. Marine Corps veteran in February to more than three years prison. That man, Michael Foy,
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Inside Washington’s federal courthouse, there’s no denying the reality of Jan. 6, 2021. Day after day, judges and jurors silently absorb the chilling sights and sounds from television screens of rioters beating police, shattering windows and hunting for lawmakers as democracy lay under siege. But as he seeks to reclaim the White
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan defeated China’s men’s national team 7-0 in a World Cup qualifier in Saitama, Japan, a brutal loss that came against one of China’s biggest sporting and geopolitcal rivals in Asia. The loss on Thursday was China’s most lopsided against Japan, and a historic loss in World Cup qualifying.
Continue ReadingWXIA, CNN By Ashley R. Williams, Holly Yan, Mark Morales, Ryan Young, Isabel Rosales and Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — The 14-year-old Apalachee High School student charged in connection with a shooting that left two students and two teachers dead did not enter a plea during his first appearance in court Friday. Colt Gray was arraigned
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