By MEGAN JANETSKY and FÉLIX MÁRQUEZ Associated Press VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) — “Here, again.” Yeneska García’s face crumbled as she said it, and she pressed her head into her hands. Since fleeing crisis in Venezuela in January, the 23-year-old had trekked through the Darien Gap jungle dividing Colombia and Panama, narrowly survived being kidnapped by
Continue ReadingBy Associated Press, CNN Concord, New Hampshire (AP) — Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage student to have her husband killed in 1990, accepted full responsibility for his death for the first time in a videotaped statement released Tuesday as part of her latest sentence reduction request. Smart,
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jay-Z is putting his weight behind an effort to fund private school vouchers in Philadelphia. The entertainment mogul’s Roc Nation announced it is funding a campaign this month to drum up support for the Pennsylvania Award for Student Success, a statewide legislative proposal to spend taxpayer money on private school scholarships for
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — The NAACP in Virginia and five students filed a federal lawsuit against the Shenandoah County school board in response to their vote last month to restore the names of two schools that previously honored Confederate leaders – nearly four years after a decision was made to change them. ”By
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s transitional council has appointed a new Cabinet. It’s the final step in rebuilding the government in a country under siege by gangs. Carlos Hercules, the attorney for new Prime Minister Garry Conille, is the minister of justice and public security. Conille will
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG, AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden kept his distance from the courtroom where his son Hunter Biden stood trial on felony gun charges to avoid any appearance of meddling but his quick statement reacting to the jury’s guilty verdict Tuesday spoke to where his
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Like graduating seniors everywhere, members of Newtown High School’s class of 2024 expect bittersweet feelings at their commencement ceremony — excitement about heading off to college or careers and sadness about leaving their friends and community. But about 60 of the 330 kids graduating Wednesday will
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys for LGBTQ+ youth, teachers and major publishers have asked a federal appeals court to affirm a lower court order that blocked key parts of an Iowa law banning books depicting sex acts from school libraries and classrooms. The law being considered Tuesday also forbids teachers from
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Inspired by her beloved dog, Jennifer Aniston will soon become a children’s author. The “Friends” star has a four-book deal with HarperCollins Publishers and animation studio Invisible Studio for a series of works featuring the animated dog Clydeo, based on the actor’s own rescue pet, Clyde. The first book, “Clydeo Takes
Continue ReadingBy MEGAN JANETSKY and FÉLIX MÁRQUEZ Associated Press VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) — “Here, again.” Yeneska García’s face crumbled as she said it, and she pressed her head into her hands. Since fleeing crisis in Venezuela in January, the 23-year-old had trekked through the Darien Gap jungle dividing Colombia and Panama, narrowly survived being kidnapped by
Continue ReadingBy MEGAN JANETSKY and FÉLIX MÁRQUEZ Associated Press VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) — “Here, again.” Yeneska García’s face crumbled as she said it, and she pressed her head into her hands. Since fleeing crisis in Venezuela in January, the 23-year-old had trekked through the Darien Gap jungle dividing Colombia and Panama, narrowly survived being kidnapped by
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta’s mayor says four people have been shot at a food court in downtown Atlanta, including the suspect. Mayor Andre Dickens said the shooting happened Tuesday afternoon at the Peachtree Center food court. Atlanta police said in a post that all four who were shot were alert
Continue ReadingBy LISA RATHKE Associated Press Fifty-three years after a private plane carrying five men disappeared on a snowy Vermont night, experts believe they have found the wreckage of the long lost jet in Lake Champlain. The corporate jet disappeared shortly after departing the Burlington airport for Providence, Rhode Island, on Jan. 27, 1971. Those aboard
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Hamas said Tuesday it has given Qatari and Egyptian mediators its reply to the U.S.-backed proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza, with some “remarks” on the deal. Hamas and the smaller Islamic Jihad militant group said they were ready to “deal positively to arrive
Continue ReadingCENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — The Poconos will soon have to welcome a new summering New Yorker: George Santos. Santos, the former congressman and current criminal defendant, has won a bid to make regular visits to the Poconos after a judge on Tuesday granted his request to make excursions to the low-key vacation spot. An
Continue ReadingBy CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press A former Louisiana prison inmate faces charges of selling ghost guns to an undercover New York City police officer while behind bars. Authorities say 24-year-old Hayden Espinosa conducted business through a social media operation that was uncovered in the wake of a white supremacist’s massacre of 10 Black people at
Continue ReadingBy DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are wavering on Wall Street Tuesday ahead of several key inflation reports this week and the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate policy decision. The S&P 500 rose 0.1% in afternoon trading after having dropped as much as 0.6% earlier in the day. Roughly
Continue ReadingDAVENPORT, Calif. (AP) — A kite surfer was rescued after using rocks to spell out the word “HELP” when he became stranded on a Northern California beach last weekend, authorities said. The kite surfer got stuck Sunday on a narrow beach at the base of towering bluffs with the tide coming in, according to the
Continue ReadingBy Christina Maxouris, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — A 34-year-old man with an extensive criminal record shot and wounded three people in a popular downtown Atlanta food court Tuesday, before he was shot by a police officer and taken into custody, officials said. The victims, all three of whom are alive and being treated at area
Continue ReadingBy Macayla Cook, CNN Wilmington, Delaware (CNN) — CNN relied on a system of runners to get notes from reporters watching the Hunter Biden trial to the world in real time. Here’s one runner’s description: As a journalism student at the University of Delaware preparing for my final year of college before the real world,
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