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By Jennifer Agiesta and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump and Joe Biden remain locked in a close race for the presidency, according to a new poll from the New York Times and Siena College, which finds registered voters nationwide splitting 46% for Trump to 45% for Biden with no clear leader in the contest.
Continue ReadingBy Abeer Salman, Zeena Saifi and Eugenia Yosef, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of Israeli settlers surrounded Palestinian villages and attacked residents across the occupied West Bank, eyewitnesses told CNN, after an Israeli boy who had gone missing from a settlement was found dead. The body of Binyamin Achimair, 14, was found in the area of
Continue ReadingBy Adam Pourahmadi and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seized an Israeli-linked container ship in a helicopter operation near the Strait of Hormuz, state news agency IRNA reported, with tensions already high after Iran warned it would retaliate for a suspected Israeli strike on its consulate in Syria. IRNA reported that Iran’s
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — The executor of O.J. Simpson’s estate says he will work to prevent a payout of a $33.5 million judgment awarded by a California civil jury nearly three decades ago in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the families of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. Simpson’s will
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — The executor of O.J. Simpson’s estate says he will work to prevent a payout of a $33.5 million judgment awarded by a California civil jury nearly three decades ago in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the families of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. Simpson’s will
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Qiblawi, Ben Wedeman, Muhammad Darwish and Charbel Mallo, CNN Kafr Kila, Lebanon (CNN) — Shredded Lebanese and Hezbollah flags tower over a destroyed boardwalk where a panoramic view of Israel’s Upper Galilee stretches out for miles. “Buses (of people) used to come here just to see the Holy Land,” says Lt. Col. Juan
Continue ReadingHELSINKI (AP) — The head of Latvia’s government has tapped an experienced diplomat to become the Baltic nation’s new foreign minister after the current post holder stepped down earlier this week amid a criminal probe over alleged misuse of government funds. The Latvian news agency LETA says the ruling center-right New Unity party decided to
Continue ReadingBy MALLIKA SEN AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The story of O.J. Simpson’s life was inherently cinematic — what started as fodder for a triumphant sports biopic abruptly became something much darker and complex as Simpson slid from fame to infamy following the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. It’s little
Continue ReadingBy MALLIKA SEN AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The story of O.J. Simpson’s life was inherently cinematic — what started as fodder for a triumphant sports biopic abruptly became something much darker and complex as Simpson slid from fame to infamy following the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. It’s little
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Standing alongside my colleagues as we watched the total solar eclipse, I was struck by the way that wonder unites us all. We were a few of the more than 16,000 people gathered at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland to observe the celestial spectacle. People struck up friendships
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI and CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — For decades, only three people knew Gloria Johnson had had an abortion. But a year of watching women and doctors agonize under Tennessee’s strict abortion ban kicked up a fire in the longtime Democrat. She watched in dismay as her Republican colleagues in
Continue ReadingMICHIGAMME TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a Michigan man and his dog have been rescued from the icy waters of an inland lake in the state’s Upper Peninsula. The Marquette County Sheriff’s Office says 56-year-old Thad Cooper, of Michigamme Township, was searching for his dog Friday afternoon when he saw its head poking above
Continue ReadingBy JULIE CARR SMYTH and KIM CHANDLER Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Democratic President Joe Biden’s campaign is wrangling with Republican-dominated state governments in Ohio and Alabama to assure he is listed on their fall ballots. Both states’ certification deadlines precede the Democrats’ August national convention. Biden campaign lawyers have asked their election chiefs
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Holy See has formally protested to France after a court there ruled that a former high-ranking Vatican official was liable for what the court determined to be the wrongful dismissal of a nun from a religious order. In a statement Saturday, the Vatican said it had
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — The last of 174 people stranded in cable cars high above a mountain in southern Turkey were brought to safety Saturday, nearly 23 hours after one pod hit a pole and burst open, killing one person and injuring seven when they plummeted to the rocks below. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced the
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau and Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni says surrogacy is “inhuman” and is backing steeper penalties against the practice, including fines of up to $1 million and multiple-year prison sentences. The act of surrogacy — with or without payment — is already illegal in Italy but Meloni’s Brothers of Italy
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — No woman has appeared more often before the Supreme Court than Lisa Blatt, who will make her 50th argument this month. No lawyer, male or female, has done it with quite the same mix of humor, passion and style. And her win-loss record isn’t bad, either: 40-6,
Continue ReadingBy RICK RYCROFT Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — A man stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said, with hundreds fleeing the chaotic scene, many weeping as they carried their children. Eight people, including a 9-month-old, were injured. New South Wales police said they
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Perhaps more than any other moment in NASA’s history, the Columbia shuttle disaster reshaped the US space agency’s approach to innovation, forever altering how it balanced risk with the call to explore beyond Earth. The tragedy killed seven astronauts as the Columbia shuttle disintegrated upon its return to Earth
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A North Atlantic right whale has been spotted entangled in rope off New England, worsening an already devastating year for the vanishing animals, federal authorities said. The right whales number less than 360 and are vulnerable to entanglement in fishing gear and collisions with ships. The
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