By Danny Freeman and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — Philadelphia’s head of LGBT affairs and her husband were arrested by a state trooper Saturday, in what the mayor is calling a “very concerning,” interaction, according to a video circulating on social media, which was confirmed by police. Celena Morrison, executive director of the City’s Office
Continue ReadingCNN By Danny Freeman and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — Philadelphia’s head of LGBT affairs and her husband were arrested by a state trooper Saturday, in what the mayor is calling a “very concerning,” interaction, according to a video circulating on social media, which was confirmed by police. Celena Morrison, executive director of the City’s
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Let the games begin as we can see some of the world’s first-class tennis players hit the BNP Paribas Open courts at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. It is an international audience at the tennis garden in the Coachella Valley to see the top tennis athletes in the world. There are multiple practice courts where
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley won the Republican presidential primary in Washington, DC, after three days of voting in the party’s only capital polling location – a downtown hotel. Haley’s victory – her first of the primary – comes on the eve of what is expected to be a decisive
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Arkhouse Management and Brigade Capital Management are upping their offer to acquire Macy’s in a deal now valued at $6.6 billion. The investment firms announced Sunday that they had submitted an all-cash proposal of $24 for each of the remaining shares in Macy’s they don’t already own — up from a
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea and the United States began large annual military exercises Monday to bolster their readiness against North Korean nuclear threats after the North raised animosities with an extension of missile tests and belligerent rhetoric earlier this year. The South Korean and U.S. forces began
Continue ReadingVALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Planes dropped fire retardant over the Texas Panhandle on Sunday and a small community was ordered to evacuate as firefighters kept up efforts to stamp out the largest wildfire in state history while contending with new blazes. Strong winds spread the flames further, prompting an evacuation order
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Chris Mortensen, the award-winning journalist who covered the NFL for close to four decades, including 32 as a senior analyst at ESPN, died Sunday morning. He was 72. ESPN confirmed Mortensen’s death on Sunday. There was no immediate word on the cause or place of death. “Mort was widely
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — Thousands of delegates from across China are gathering in Beijing this week for the start of the country’s most prominent annual political event, where leaders will signal how they plan to steer the world’s second largest economy in the year ahead — and try to dispel deepening concern
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — The former chairman of the state-owned Bank of Beijing is under investigation for corruption, the latest in a series of graft investigations focused on the country’s financial sector. Yan Bingzhu, who led the bank since its establishment in 1996 and until he retired in 2017, is among several top officials being probed
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s government says it may renew the search for MH370 after a U.S. technology firm proposed a fresh search in the southern Indian Ocean where the Malaysia Airlines plane is believed to have crashed. The plane with 239 people aboard vanished a decade ago while en route from Kuala Lumpur
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Swiss police have arrested a teenager on suspicion of stabbing and critically wounding an Orthodox Jewish man on the streets of Zurich. The statement from Zurich police said antisemitism was the suspected motive. Police said Sunday they received a report of an argument involving several people at 9:35 p.m. Saturday. According
Continue ReadingCNN By Priscilla Alvarez, Betsy Klein and Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday forcefully called for more humanitarian aid into Gaza, saying that people in the region are “starving” in the face of “inhumane” conditions and urging Israel to do more in one of the strongest pushes by a US
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lizbeth Ovalle scored two goals and Mexico advanced to the semifinals of the CONCACAF Women’s Gold Cup with a 3-2 victory over Paraguay on Sunday. Karen Luna also scored and Esthefanny Barreras saved a penalty for Mexico, which followed up its landmark victory over the
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, Betsy Klein and Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday forcefully called for more humanitarian aid into Gaza, saying that people in the region are “starving” in the face of “inhumane” conditions and urging Israel to do more in one of the strongest pushes by a US official
Continue ReadingBy Nic F. Anderson, CNN (CNN) — Sean Martell was magnet fishing on what he thought was a normal Friday – until he pulled up a military projectile from the Charles River in Needham, Massachusetts. Martell, who was broadcasting live to his YouTube channel, said he recognized the danger of the object immediately after pulling it
Continue ReadingARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — Imagination won the $300,000 San Felipe Stake by a head at Santa Anita on Sunday, giving trainer Bob Baffert a 1-2 finish and his record ninth win in the Kentucky Derby prep after he scratched odds-on favorite Nysos. All of Baffert’s 3-year-old colts are ineligible to run in the Kentucky Derby
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, Ted Barrett, Lauren Fox and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Top lawmakers unveiled a finalized package of six government funding bills Sunday evening, kicking off a race against the clock to pass the measure ahead of a shutdown deadline at the end of the week. The release of the package – which is backed
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court granted a temporary stay of a lower court’s decision to block the enforcement of a controversial Texas immigration law, paving the way for it to go into effect this week if the Supreme Court doesn’t intervene. Last week, a federal judge in Austin, Texas, blocked
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Chris Mortensen, the award-winning journalist who covered the NFL for close to four decades, including 32 as a senior analyst at ESPN, died Sunday morning. He was 72. ESPN confirmed Mortensen’s death on Sunday. There was no immediate word on the cause or place of death. “Mort was widely
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