Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out major felony charges against two former Louisville officers accused of falsifying a warrant in the Breonna Taylor case. The charge against former Louisville Detective Joshua Jaynes and former Sgt. Kyle Meany carried maximum sentences of life in prison. Federal judge Charles Simpson threw
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A TV news helicopter crew spotted a boy who had been reported missing but who was actually up on the roof of his New York City building playing hooky. CBS News New York says the 9-year-old boy left his Brooklyn apartment at around 7 a.m. Thursday but did not show up
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Before he died this week, French film icon Alain Delon once suggested he wanted his beloved sheepdog Loubo buried with him. To the relief of animal lovers around France, Loubo will be allowed to survive. Delon, an internationally acclaimed and prolific actor and producer, died Sunday, aged 88, and will be buried
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — The husband of Mamta Kafle Bhatt, a 28-year-old Virginia mother who has been missing for over three weeks, is accused of killing her inside their home and dragging her body outside, court documents obtained by CNN affiliate WJLA show. Naresh Bhatt faces a felony charge of prohibition against concealment
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Jack Ma, co-founder of China’s most successful tech empire and billionaire entrepreneur. Personal Birth date: September 10, 1964 Birth place: Hangzhou, China Birth name: Ma Yun Father: Ma Laifa Mother: Cui Wencai Marriage: Zhang Ying (Cathy Zhang) Children: Two (some sources say three)
Continue ReadingBy Kayla Tausche and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, will visit China next week, sources say, to meet with the country’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, as the United States works to keep the competition between the two countries from spilling into conflict. Sullivan is expected to depart
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris, on the night she became the first woman of Black and South Asian heritage to be a major party’s presidential nominee, didn’t explicitly mention the history she would make if elected to the White House. Instead, she opted for direct mentions of her multiracial background and
Continue ReadingTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The new Dutch prime minister has banned cell phones and other mobile devices from the weekly meetings of his Cabinet in a move aimed at dialing back the risk of digital eavesdropping by spies. Dick Schoof said Friday that the “threat of espionage is timeless.”” and that electronic devices are
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BUELLTON, Calif. (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to dispatch his national security adviser Jake Sullivan to China as the White House aims to sharpen its focus on foreign policy in the Democrat’s final months in office. Sullivan’s visit to meet with his counterpart, Wang Yi, is expected to take place next week,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TORONTO (AP) — A workers union on Friday threatened a strike at one of Canada’s two major freight railroads, only hours after the company’s trains restarted following a potentially devastating stoppage. A government-ordered arbitration hearing wrapped up without a decision, and Canadian National trains were expected to keep moving at least through Monday
Continue ReadingBy Radina Gigova and Sergey Gudkov, CNN (CNN) — Four officers at a maximum security prison in Russia were killed after inmates who identified themselves as affiliated to ISIS took several staff hostage, Russian state media reported. Russian special forces said the alleged hostage takers were all “eliminated” in an operation that saw some hostages
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Three Republican Oklahoma state lawmakers will go before voters for the second time in about two months in runoff elections. On Tuesday, they are among the candidates in 10 state legislative districts to compete once again for the Republican nomination after failing to win an outright majority in the June
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, Zachary Cohen and Majlie de Puy Kamp, CNN (CNN) — The day before the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, a tactical team of local police officers set aside radios for their Secret Service partners so the two agencies could communicate during the former president’s July 13 campaign rally. But those radios were
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters says Western nations, including the United States and New Zealand, failed to understand swiftly enough the geopolitical importance of island nations in the South Pacific, leaving a power vacuum that allowed other countries to increase their diplomatic influence. Peters made the comment
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Italian rescuers on Friday brought ashore the last of seven bodies from a superyacht that sunk off the coast of Sicily, the Coast Guard said. It is believed to be that of the daughter of British tech magnate Mike Lynch, who also perished when the boat sank earlier this week. Hannah Lynch,
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Porticello, Italy (CNN) — The body believed to be that of Hannah Lynch, the 18-year-old daughter of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, has been recovered from the wreck of the Bayesian superyacht that sank off Sicily this week, an Italian coast guard official said Friday. A CNN team on the
Continue ReadingAP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The kinetic energy powering Kamala Harris’ whirlwind presidential campaign carries the hopeful aspirations of history for many female voters. Harris could become the first woman elected to the White House. But in some ways, the idea of electing a woman as president seems almost quaint at this point in
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, Alayna Treene and Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — For the better part of the past year, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. built and maintained a small but significant base of support for his quixotic White House bid, the two major parties wrestled with an increasingly pressing question: Whose presidential aspirations might be most
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge dismissed felony charges Thursday against two former Louisville Metro Police Department detectives who worked on the search warrant in the deadly raid on Breonna Taylor’s home. Motions to dismiss other charges were denied. Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency room technician, was shot and killed
Continue ReadingCNN By Casey Tolan, Isabelle Chapman and Nelli Black, CNN (CNN) — Late last year, former President Donald Trump announced his endorsement of car dealership owner Bernie Moreno for Ohio’s Senate seat – elevating an untested candidate who’d never held public office over several other more prominent Republicans. Two days later, Moreno’s campaign spent about
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