QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s national police chief says authorities have arrested all the gunmen who broke into a TV studio during a live broadcast and threatened the staff. Police commander César Zapata told the TV channel Teleamazonas that officers seized the guns and explosives the masked intruders had with them. He didn’t say how
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By Haley Britzky, Natasha Bertrand, Michael Conte and Meg Tirrell, CNN Washington (CNN) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is being treated for prostate cancer and suffered complications that led to him being taken to hospital on New Year’s Day where he is still being treated, according to a statement Tuesday from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The statement
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By Sid Garcia Click here for updates on this story CLAREMONT, California (KABC) — A woman survived nearly five days in a wrecked pickup truck after she veered off a road near Mount Baldy and plummeted at least 100 feet down a cliff, according to authorities. The woman was airlifted to safety around 12:30 p.m.
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Firefighters were able to quickly contain a shed fire in a Coachella home, however, one person was taken to the hospital with injuries. The fire was reported at approximately 11:00 AM on the 85100 block Bagdad Avenue. Firefighters arrived and reported an exterior shed fully involved with fire. The fire was quickly contained to the
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The trial in a long-running legal challenge to the constitutionality of Georgia’s election is getting underway in federal court in Atlanta. The trial that began Tuesday stems from a lawsuit filed by individual voters and an election integrity organization. The lawsuit asks U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A father-daughter pair of Florida lawyers may face disciplinary action for speaking out against a judge’s ruling in a civil rights case. It all started when attorney Jerry Girley represented a Black doctor who said he was the victim of racial discrimination when he was fired
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By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada judge has approved a $100 million cash settlement to the parents of a British tourist who was among five killed — including his newlywed wife — when a helicopter crashed and burst into flames in the Grand Canyon in 2018. Under the settlement approved
Continue ReadingHAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Guam police say a man suspected of fatally shooting a South Korean tourist during a robbery in the U.S. territory last week has died and his alleged getaway driver is in custody. KUAM-TV reports that police say the first suspect was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a parked car
Continue ReadingCNN By Haley Britzky, Natasha Bertrand, Michael Conte and Meg Tirrell, CNN Washington (CNN) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is being treated for prostate cancer and suffered complications that led to him being taken to hospital on New Year’s Day where he is still being treated, according to a statement Tuesday from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The
Continue ReadingBy Danny Freeman, CNN (CNN) — When you think of Philadelphia’s iconic historic landmarks, you might think of Independence Hall or the Liberty Bell. But for the past week, federal, state and local officials have been focused on a lesser-known open air museum smaller than a city block. Over the course of four days, the
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press The shattering of global annual heat records last year is prompting people to ask: what can be done? There is a way forward. Nations have signed on to triple renewable energy by 2030. Proponents of nuclear power say ramping up that emissions-free source can replace fossil fuels now to eliminate
Continue ReadingBy HUSSEIN MALLA Associated Press GHANDOURIYEH, Lebanon (AP) — Hezbollah said it launched a drone strike at the Israeli army’s northern headquarters Tuesday in retaliation for recent strikes in Lebanon that killed top Hamas and Hezbollah officials. Israel’s military acknowledged that one of its army bases in northern Israel was targeted but said there were
Continue ReadingBy Ana María Cañizares, Abel Alvarado, Tara John, Michael Rios, Karol Suarez and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN Quito, Ecuador (CNN) — Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa has declared an “internal armed conflict” in the country, ordering security forces to “neutralize” several criminal groups accused of spreading extreme violence in the Latin American nation. The decree came shortly
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — One of three defendants has pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with a series of drive-by shootings at the homes of state and local lawmakers in Albuquerque after the 2022 election. Court documents published on Tuesday show that Jose Louise Trujillo pleaded guilty Monday
Continue ReadingCAMBRIDGE, Vt. (AP) — State police say no criminal charges will be filed in the death of a 3-year-old boy who fell into an underground cistern and was seriously injured in July while attending a daycare program at a Vermont resort. The boy who was injured at Smugglers’ Notch Resort died days later at the
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER and DENNIS WASZAK Jr. Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers denied he implied comic Jimmy Kimmel was a pedophile and condemned those who do, but he stopped short of apologizing for his role in escalating their burgeoning feud. Rodgers returned to ESPN’s “The Pat McAfee Show”
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER and DENNIS WASZAK Jr. Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers denied he implied comic Jimmy Kimmel was a pedophile and condemned those who do, but he stopped short of apologizing for his role in escalating their burgeoning feud. Rodgers returned to ESPN’s “The Pat McAfee Show”
Continue ReadingQUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Armed men have broken into the set of a public television channel in Ecuador as it broadcast live and threatened people. The men with faces covered entered the set of the TC Television network in the port city of Guayaquil and shouted that they had “bombs.” Noises similar to gunshots could
Continue ReadingBy JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s constitutional court has upheld the results of last month’s election that declared President Felix Tshisekedi the winner, rejecting a petition to annul the vote. The court called a petition by opposition candidate, Theodore Ngoy to redo the vote unfounded. Ngoy, who finished with less than
Continue ReadingBy JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A U.S. veteran who plotted to overthrow Venezuela’s president is proudly standing with a former Venezuelan army general who pleaded guilty in New York on terrorism charges. Former Green Beret Jordan Goudreau describes Cliver Alcalá as a patriot and dedicated family man worthy of a reduced prison
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