By Ashley R. Williams and Victor Blackwell, CNN (CNN) — A record-breaking 398 people fell victim to homicides in Memphis last year – a noticeable jump from the 190 reported five years ago. And with more than 600 major violent crimes so far in 2024, including at least 40 homicides, Tennessee’s second-most populous city is
Continue ReadingCNN By Ashley R. Williams and Victor Blackwell, CNN (CNN) — A record-breaking 398 people fell victim to homicides in Memphis last year – a noticeable jump from the 190 reported five years ago. And with more than 600 major violent crimes so far in 2024, including at least 40 homicides, Tennessee’s second-most populous city
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — It took 10 years and three rounds of in vitro fertilization for Rania Abu Anza to become pregnant, and only seconds for her to lose her five-month-old twins, a boy and a girl. An Israeli strike hit the home of her extended
Continue ReadingBy GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As an independent, Christian Miller can’t vote in Pennsylvania’s closed presidential primary in April. He said it wouldn’t matter even if he could. “You’re not really voting for anything,” said Miller, who left the Democratic Party in 2022. “Every election I’ve ever seen, the candidates have been
Continue ReadingBy Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Four years after he became the Democratic face of Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial, California Rep. Adam Schiff has become the front-runner for a new role: US senator. Ahead of the state’s open primary Tuesday, Schiff has maintained a small but steady lead in the polls, raised the most
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Republican Steve Womack faces a challenge from the right in the Arkansas primary from a state lawmaker trying to portray the congressman as not conservative enough. Womack is running against state Sen. Clint Penzo in Tuesday’s Republican primary for the 3rd Congressional district in northwest
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French authorities are searching for an assailant who attacked a man near a synagogue in Paris, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said late Saturday. Darmanin said the attack on a man on Friday evening was “a new antisemitic attack.” In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the interior minister said authorities are working
Continue ReadingBy RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Heavy rains across Pakistan have left at least 36 people dead and 50 others injured. So far, 30 rain-related deaths have been reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan since Thursday night. Official say five people died in southwestern Baluchistan province after floods swamped the coastal
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A top Israeli Cabinet minister headed to Washington on Sunday for talks with U.S. officials, sparking a rebuke from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to an Israeli official, in a sign of widening cracks in Israel’s wartime government nearly five
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The biggest winner of the Republican primary season so far, besides Donald Trump, might be Tim Scott. The South Carolina senator failed in his own bid for president. But his enthusiastic campaigning for the former president has been generating buzz about Scott’s prospects as Trump’s potential
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY MEYER Associated Press The Miami Archdiocese’s superintendent of schools says Catholic education is increasingly in demand in South Florida, now that all K-12 students regardless of income are allowed to use taxpayer-funded programs to pay for private school tuition. Against the backdrop of favorable decisions by the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court, Florida was
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY MEYER Associated Press The Miami Archdiocese’s superintendent of schools says Catholic education is increasingly in demand in South Florida, now that all K-12 students regardless of income are allowed to use taxpayer-funded programs to pay for private school tuition. Against the backdrop of favorable decisions by the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court, Florida was
Continue ReadingBy Manveena Suri, Lucas Lillieholm and Yoonjung Seo, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of doctors in South Korea took to the streets of Seoul on Sunday to protest the government’s plans to increase medical school admissions and what they see as a broader lack of support for the country’s medical system. The doctors say the government needs
Continue ReadingBy JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A court in Bangladesh has granted bail to Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus in a $2.3 million embezzlement case. Yunus, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for pioneering the use of microcredit to help impoverished people, was sentenced to six months in prison in
Continue ReadingBy VINCENT THIAN Associated Press LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — An airplane carrying Norway’s King Harald V has departed Malaysia, a day after he was implanted with a pacemaker. Europe’s oldest reigning monarch was hospitalized for an infection during a private vacation on the northern resort island of Langkawi, the royal house said Tuesday. He underwent
Continue ReadingBy GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Super Tuesday is almost here, with 16 states holding contests this coming week. It’s the biggest day on the election calendar. But for many Americans who live in places that hold primaries much later, it means they’ll often have little say in choosing the presidential contenders by
Continue ReadingCOLUMBUS, Texas (AP) — Police in Texas have arrested a man suspected in the disappearance of a girl who was missing for eight days before she was safely located. The Columbus Police Department says the 27-year-old Houston man was charged with evading authorities after he attempted to flee on Friday. Police say they learned early
Continue ReadingBy LINLEY SANDERS, JESSE BEDAYN and AMELIA THOMSON-DeVEAUX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A small but substantial chunk of Republican primary and caucus voters say they would be so dissatisfied if Donald Trump became the party’s presidential nominee that they would not vote for him in November’s general election, according to AP VoteCast. An analysis
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s government says it may renew the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 after a U.S. technology firm proposed a fresh search in the southern Indian Ocean where the plane is believed to have crashed. The plane with 239 people aboard vanished a decade ago while en route from
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson swiftly derailed the Senate’s bipartisan aid package for Ukraine, but he’s left the door open to a new proposal emerging in the House. Behind the scenes, Johnson has met privately with House Republicans who have been trying to build support for a new bipartisan foreign aid package that includes
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