By Jennifer Hansler, Haley Britzky and Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday declared that any expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank would be inconsistent with international law – reversing a Trump era position that broke with longstanding US policy. “It’s been longstanding US policy, under Republican and Democratic
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Ethics Commission is recommending that state prosecutors file felony charges against a fundraising committee for former President Donald Trump and a Republican state lawmaker related to an effort to unseat Assembly Speaker Robin Vos. The ethics commission provided documents on Friday showing that it
Continue ReadingCNN By Ed Lavandera, Dakin Andone and Ashley Killough, CNN West Livingston, Texas (CNN) — Ivan Cantu says he has insisted for more than 20 years that he’s innocent of the two murders that landed him on Texas’ death row. But with a week until his execution, he’s running out of time to make his
Continue ReadingWAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Police say a group of teenagers believed from the Chicago area broke into a luxury car dealership in Wisconsin and drove off with nine vehicles worth more than a half-million dollars. Sunday’s heist at a Jaguar-Land Rover dealership in Waukesha was captured on surveillance camera footage in the city about 19
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Newly-discovered fossils have allowed scientists to reveal a 240-million-year-old “dragon” in its entirety for the first ever time, National Museums Scotland (NMS) said in a statement on Friday. The five-meter-long reptile from the Triassic period in China was first identified in 2003 but, after studying five newer specimens for
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A student has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, felony menacing and committing a crime of violence in the shooting deaths of two people in a Colorado college dorm. A judge announced the charges against Nicholas Jordan during a hearing Friday. Jordan is accused in the
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A watch melted during the Aug. 6, 1945, bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, has sold for more than $31,000 at auction. The watch is frozen in time at the moment of the detonation of an atomic bomb over the Japanese city — 8:15 a.m. — during the closing
Continue ReadingPONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A 17-year-old male has been charged in the fatal shooting of a Detroit-area man who had been trying to expose sexual predators by posing as a teenaged girl on social media. The office of Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald says the killing of Robert Wayne Lee II does not appear to
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY, SHARON JOHNSON and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — A nursing student was found dead on the University of Georgia campus after not returning from a run, said authorities, who were checking security cameras and advising students to travel in groups and avoid the wooded area where her body was
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — London police have confirmed that a body pulled from the River Thames earlier this week is that of Abdul Ezedi, a man wanted over a chemical attack that injured his former partner and her two young daughters. The Metropolitan Police said Friday that a post-mortem has confirmed his cause of death as
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Prosecutors say they are seeking extradition orders and the arrest of more suspects over the 2020 theft of around $580,000 in U.S. cash that was hidden in a couch at South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s ranch. The theft only became public in 2022 and
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Police in Colorado have arrested a former funeral home owner accused of hiding a woman’s corpse in a hearse for two years and hoarding the cremated remains of at least 30 people. The arrest of 33-year-old Miles Harford is the latest allegation of misconduct by
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by North Dakota’s largest city that challenged a new state law that limits the ability of local governments to regulate guns and ammunition. The law took effect last year. The lawsuit was dismissed Tuesday. It continued a clash over
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Fox, Melanie Zanona and Haley Talbot, CNN A number of congressional Republicans running in 2024 are swiftly distancing themselves from a controversial Alabama Supreme Court ruling seen as infringing on IVF, the latest obstacle for GOP candidates in the post-Roe era. From House to Senate races, new candidates and incumbents alike are aggressively
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan is writing a letter to the International Monetary Fund urging it to link any talks with Islamabad to an audit of the country’s recent election, which his party alleges was rigged. Senator Ali Zafar, a top leader from Khan’s party made
Continue ReadingBy ALICIA LEÓN and CIARÁN GILES Associated Press VALENCIA, Spain (AP) — Spanish officials have raised the death toll to at least 10 in the apartment block fire in the eastern city of Valencia. Authorities said 10 bodies were found in the first police inspection of the gutted residential buildings. Meanwhile, questions abounded as to
Continue ReadingBy Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips is distancing itself from a consultant who allegedly commissioned a robocall that used artificial intelligence to impersonate President Joe Biden during the New Hampshire primary election. “I’m disgusted that a consultant hired to assist my campaign with ballot access is alleged
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses and now a U.S. company is the first private outfit to achieve a touchdown. Only five countries have done it. Intuitive Machines says its spacecraft landed on the moon
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden called on House Republicans to take up the bipartisan border deal, calling it the “strongest border deal the country has ever seen,” and urged governors to push Congress to move the bill. Speaking to a gathering of governors at the White House on Friday, Biden underscored
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A 45-year-old man has been killed in a New York City subway car. The New York Police Department said the man was killed around 5 a.m. Friday as he was riding a southbound D Train that was pulling into the 182-183 Streets station in the Bronx. Michael Kemper, the police department’s
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