By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A former rebel leader has made a surprise appearance in Haiti’s capital amid large protests across the country for the second consecutive day, demanding the ouster of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Guy Philippe, was seen Tuesday in the upscale community of Pétionville in Port-au-Prince, where he
Continue ReadingWAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Teva Loft, a high school football player in the Hawaii town that was destroyed by the deadliest U.S. wildfire in over a century, has never been to Las Vegas nor has he watched an NFL game in person. But he and three of his fellow Lahainaluna High School captains will be
Continue ReadingBy Artemis Moshtaghian and Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Federal prosecutors in New York have accused 70 current and former employees of the nation’s largest public housing authority of bribery and extortion for allegedly pocketing more than $2 million in cash payments for no-bid repair contracts. In what Damian Williams, the US Attorney for the
Continue ReadingWLNY By Artemis Moshtaghian and Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Federal prosecutors in New York have accused 70 current and former employees of the nation’s largest public housing authority of bribery and extortion for allegedly pocketing more than $2 million in cash payments for no-bid repair contracts. In what Damian Williams, the US Attorney for
Continue ReadingBy Jade Gordon, CNN (CNN) — A Mississippi judge has dismissed the case against a child who was arrested in August for public urination, according to an attorney for the child’s family. Tate County Youth Court Judge Rusty Harlow dismissed the case against Quantavious Eason, now 11, who was arrested for urinating in a Senatobia parking
Continue ReadingBy SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Senate has passed a bill that would revive a new commission that some Democrats say is aimed at disrupting Fulton County District Fani Willis’ prosecution of former President Donald Trump. But one of the bill’s authors, GOP state Sen. Randy Robertson, insisted before Tuesday’s vote that
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Weeks of negotiations to form a new ruling coalition in the Netherlands led by anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders appeared to have ended fruitlessly. One of the four party leaders involved in the talks walked out Tuesday without an agreement. Wilders tweeted that the decision by
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Bolts that helped secure a panel to the frame of a Boeing 737 Max 9 were missing before the panel blew off the Alaska Airlines plane last month, according to accident investigators. The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday a preliminary report on the Jan. 5 incident that the
Continue ReadingVIÑA DEL MAR, Chile (AP) — Sebastián Piñera, the two-time former president of Chile, who in his second term faced a social upheaval followed by a pandemic, has died in a helicopter accident. He was 74. Leading the South American nation two times, from 2010 to 2014 and from 2018 to 2022, the commercial engineer
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press McLEAN, Va. (AP) — A Virginia Senate committee has rejected legislation that would have allowed a referendum on a casino in the wealthy suburbs of the nation’s capital. The Senate Finance and Appropriations committee voted 13-2 Tuesday against a bill allowing Fairfax County to hold a referendum on a casino
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A South African court has upheld a ban on leaders of a boisterous opposition party from attending a speech this week by President Cyril Ramaphosa opening the new parliamentary session. The party was sanctioned for disrupting the event a year ago as its leaders
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators have confirmed a veteran of U.S.-Asian engagement and security as the State Department’s second-ranking diplomat. Tuesday’s vote by the full Senate was 92-5. Biden’s nomination of Kurt Campbell as deputy secretary of state underscores longstanding efforts by recent U.S. administrations to focus on China as the
Continue ReadingBy JOHN ANTCZAK and JULIE WATSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of the wettest storms in Southern California history unleashed more than 300 mudslides in the Los Angeles area after dumping more than half of the city’s seasonal rainfall in just two days, and officials warned Tuesday that the threat hadn’t passed yet.
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at commercial passenger airplane crashes. For crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism, see Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast Facts. On August 12, 1985, the largest number of deaths in a single commercial airplane crash occurred when a Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 crashed into
Continue ReadingBy AnneClaire Stapleton, Tara John and Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Former Chilean President Sebastian Pinera died from drowning after a helicopter crash in the south of the country, according to autopsy results. The cause of death was “asphyxiation due to submersion,” Tatiana Esquivel, the prosecutor of the Los Ríos region, where the crash happened, said Wednesday.
Continue ReadingBy Angus Watson, CNN (CNN) — Militant rebels in Indonesia’s restive West Papua are urging their most feared comrade to release a New Zealand pilot held hostage for a year. A group of armed fighters led by tribal warlord Eganius Koyega kidnapped Phillip Mehrtens on February 7, 2023, after his light plane landed on a delivery run in
Continue ReadingCNN By Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — The failure of a bipartisan border deal reached by senators this weekend appears set to hand President Joe Biden an issue that he can wield against former President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers on the campaign trail. Biden on Tuesday promised to blame Republicans in Congress directly
Continue ReadingBy Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Supreme Court justices will hear arguments this week related to the 2024 presidential election. We’re here to answer your questions about what’s going on. It’s one of several cases that the court, a third of which was nominated to the bench by former President Donald Trump, may ultimately
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — National Weather Service issues rare tornado warning for inland parts of San Diego County.
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Novels by James McBride and Alice McDermott and a short story collection by Jamel Brinkley are among the 10 books on the longlist for one of the literary world’s top prizes, the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction. The settings for nominated books range from a 1930s Pennsylvania community in McBride’s “The Heaven
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