By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — The mother of a Chicago woman who has been missing in the Bahamas for nearly two weeks is pleading with the US government to intervene in the case and help find her daughter. Forty-one-year-old Taylor Casey was last seen on June 19 around Paradise Island, a small resort enclave just off
Continue ReadingRICHMOND. Va. (AP) — The Virginia State Board of Elections has certified the apparent defeat of Republican congressman Bob Good, one of America’s most conservative congressmen, to a challenger endorsed by former President Donald Trump in the state’s June 18 primaries. Tuesday’s certification does not end the matter, though. Good has said he will seek
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is revising the restrictions it set last year on absentee ballot assistance to voters who have disabilities or cannot read or write. A short list of allowable helpers was blocked by a judge who said it violated the federal Voting Rights Act. An updated state law took effect
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — World UFO Day is being celebrated amid a surge in sightings and government studies on unidentified flying objects. Its July 2 date has its roots in the so-called Roswell Incident on July 2, 1947, when something crashed at what was then the J.B. Foster ranch in New Mexico. The
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Bronny James says the opportunity to play professionally alongside his famous father played no role in his decision to enter the NBA draft. Now that the 19-year-old son of LeBron James has been selected by the Los Angeles Lakers anyway, Bronny says he can still handle all
Continue ReadingBy Saskya Vandoorne, CNN (CNN) — As French citizens get set to vote in runoff parliamentary elections on Sunday hundreds of contenders have bowed out in an effort to block the far-right party from the gates of power. Over 200 candidates from President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist camp and the left-wing alliance have stepped down in
Continue ReadingBy Michael Williams and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN Washington (CNN) — The White House on Tuesday fended off tough questions about President Joe Biden’s mental fitness, acknowledging his poor performance in last week’s debate while maintaining the president is still able to hold and run for office. “First of all, I want to say, we understand
Continue ReadingBy Amy Cassidy, CNN, and Eugenia Yosef (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the idea of starting a ceasefire in Gaza while Hamas remains in power, after The New York Times published an article citing six current and former security officials who said a truce would give Israeli troops time to prepare for a
Continue ReadingMore than 100 people have been killed in a stampede in northern India following a Hindu religious gathering. Thousands had gathered Tuesday at a makeshift tent for an event in Hathras district in Uttar Pradesh state and were crushed to death as they rushed to leave afterward. The incident echoes other crowd disasters in India
Continue ReadingBENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty in a wild scheme to steal 123 handguns by kidnapping the manager of a Michigan sporting goods store. Darnell Bishop admits he threatened the manager at gunpoint to reveal how to turn off the alarm at Dunham’s Sports near Benton Harbor last November. Bishop pleaded
Continue ReadingCINCINNATI (AP) — The FBI and police are investigating the damaging of nearly 180 gravestones at two Jewish cemeteries in Cincinnati. The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati says the tombstones likely were knocked over between June 25 and Monday. It says some of the gravestones date back to the late 1800s. The damage was found in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ROME (AP) — A French bishop has put off any decision on whether to remove mosaics by an ex-Jesuit artist accused of abusing women, saying that they will stay for now on the Lourdes shrine but that eventually they should be removed. The Rev. Marko Rupnik has been accused by over 20 women
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump and the conservative interests that helped him reshape the Supreme Court got most of what they wanted this term, from substantial help for Trump’s political and legal prospects to sharp blows against the administrative state they revile. The decisions reflected a deep and sometimes bitter divide on a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FORDYCE, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas grocery store where four people were killed in a mass shooting has reopened, and community leaders call it an important step in the community’s healing process. The Mad Butcher grocery reopened Tuesday, 11 days after the mass shooting in the Arkansas town of Fordyce. The shooting had
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike killed a prominent Palestinian doctor and eight members of his extended family on Tuesday after they complied with military orders to evacuate their home and moved into an Israeli-designated safe zone. The Hamdan family — around a dozen people from three generations — fled
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider the case of a Black man on death row in Georgia who says his trial was unfair because the prosecutor improperly excluded Black jurors. A jury found Warren King guilty of murder and other crimes and sentenced him to die for the
Continue ReadingBy Dianne Gallagher, Shawn Nottingham and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — Leonard Peltier, the Indigenous activist convicted of the 1975 murders of two FBI agents, has been denied parole from federal prison, his attorney told CNN on Tuesday. Peltier, 79, has long maintained his innocence in the shooting deaths of agents Ronald A. Williams and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP (AP) — Authorities in Mauritania say clashes between security forces and protesters rallying against the reelection of President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani have left three people dead. They say several arrests were made and an unspecified number of people were injured. Following the clashes, mobile internet access was blocked on Tuesday
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Four people were left displaced after a vehicle fire extended into their mobile home Tuesday morning in an unincorporated community near Desert Hot Springs. The fire was first reported at around 10:40 a.m. on the 13000 block of Avenida De La Familias, just off of N Indian Canyon Drive. A spokesperson for CAL FIRE told
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The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is conducting an investigation into the death of a retired major general whose body was found at the Marine base in Twentynine Palms. The body of retired Maj. Gen. William Mullen, 59, was found in a building at the Marine base on Saturday, according to the San Bernardino County coroner’s
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