CLEVELAND (AP) — Drivers on an Ohio interstate came upon an unusual traffic hazard over the weekend — a pair of horses trotting against traffic. The animals were police horses on the lam and weaved through traffic, slowing and then stopping it on Interstate 90 in the downtown Cleveland area on Saturday afternoon. Cleveland Police
Continue ReadingBy SUSIE BLANN and JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Western allies to boost Ukraine’s air defenses after a Russian drone strike destroyed an apartment block in the southern port city of Odesa and killed at least 11 people. Officials on Sunday said the bodies of a boy —
Continue ReadingAUSTELL, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a 15-year-old boy was critically injured in a shooting near the Six Flags Over Georgia amusement park after police exchanged gunfire with a group of people. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says that on Saturday, Cobb County Police Department officers were assisting with crowd control near the park’s entrance
Continue ReadingBy JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer Christian Horner said midway through his Red Bull internal investigation that it was ” business as normal ” for the Formula 1 team and star of “Drive to Survive,” and he wasn’t kidding. Horner in one race weekend alone gave Netflix an entire season of material in what
Continue ReadingBy Aileen Graef and Michelle Shen, CNN (CNN) — Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, said Sunday that the killing of innocent people in Gaza “has to stop” and that the United States needs to focus on securing a ceasefire and, eventually, an end to the conflict. “This killing
Continue ReadingCNN By Aileen Graef and Michelle Shen, CNN (CNN) — Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, said Sunday that the killing of innocent people in Gaza “has to stop” and that the United States needs to focus on securing a ceasefire and, eventually, an end to the conflict. “This
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Supreme Court decision could come as soon as Monday in the case about whether former President Donald Trump can be kicked off the ballot over his efforts to undo his defeat in the 2020 election. Trump is challenging a groundbreaking decision by the Colorado Supreme Court
Continue ReadingSANDY, Utah (AP) — Andrés Gómez had two goals in the first half and added an assist to give Real Salt Lake a 3-0 home-opening win over LAFC in a game played in a near blizzard on Saturday. The start of the game was pushed back two hours because of the weather and just a
Continue ReadingBy Amir Tal and Richard Allen Greene, CNN (CNN) — Israel is not sending a delegation to Cairo for talks on a deal for a ceasefire and release of hostages from Gaza, an Israeli official told CNN Sunday. The official said the reason was that Hamas had not responded to two Israeli demands: a list of hostages specifying
Continue ReadingCNN By 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
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Speechwriting, in one sense, is essentially being someone else’s mirror. “You can try to find the right words,” said Dan Cluchey, a former speechwriter for President Joe Biden. “But ultimately, your job is to ensure that when the speech is done, that it has a reflection
Continue ReadingBy Darya Tarasova and Amy Cassidy, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of people have been flocking to the grave of late Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny. Images from OVD-Info, an independent Russian human rights group that monitors Russian repression, show a long line of people queuing at Navalny’s grave and laying flowers at the Borisovsky Cemetery in Moscow.
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press ARECIBO, Puerto Rico (AP) — Top surfers Gabriel Medina of Brazil and Sally Fitzgibbons of Australia won the final qualifier for the upcoming Olympics on Sunday following nine days in which scores of competitors faced volatile weather and painful sea urchin spines. The World Surfing Games competition organized by the
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer The New York Rangers agreed to terms on Sunday on a one-year contract extension with veteran goaltender Jonathan Quick that’s worth $1.275 million for the 2024-25 NHL season. Quick, 38, joined his boyhood team last summer on an $825,000 deal after backing up for the Vegas Golden Knights on
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON and PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of inmates fled Haiti’s main prison after armed gangs stormed the facility in an overnight explosion of violence that engulfed much of the capital. At least five people were dead Sunday. The jailbreak marked a new low in Haiti’s downward spiral of
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — The gilded salons of an 18th-century Parisian townhouse were the venue for Valentino’s latest fashion display on Sunday – an ode to black. This monochromatic collection gleamed and glistened under crystal chandeliers amid myriad textures and materials, inspired by great artists such as French master of
Continue ReadingBy Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — Last month, a jury convicted Jennifer Crumbley of four counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection to the 2021 Oxford High School shooting – one count for each student her son killed. The historic trial, and stunning verdict, tested the limits of who’s responsible for a mass shooting. The conviction
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Six alleged Islamic State group members have been killed in a “counterterrorism” operation in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region, the country’s National Anti-Terrorism Commitee (NAC) reported Sunday. According to a statement by NAC, late on Saturday the six men barricaded themselves into an apartment in Karabulak, a town in Russia’s semi-autonomous
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A Florida woman who says she was struck and dragged by a New York City bus and left partially paralyzed has been awarded $72.5 million in her lawsuit against the city’s transit agency. A city jury found in favor of 68-year-old Aurora Beauchamp, who was hit by a Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says she no longer feels bound by a pledge that required all GOP contenders to support the party’s eventual nominee in order to participate in the primary debates. The Republican National Committee made the pledge a prerequisite for all candidates, and nearly every major one signed, except
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