By Arit John, CNN Hooksett, New Hampshire (CNN) — Kathy Rice had yet to attend any 2024 campaign stops before this week, but when former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announced a town hall in her hometown, the 54-year-old decided to see what the buzz around her was about. She went into the event here
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say a pair of multicolored briefs peeking out above a robbery suspect’s low-slung trousers helped police arrest him. The robbery happened at a tobacco shop in Queens on Sept. 14, 2022. Three masked men robbed the store at gunpoint, according to a federal complaint. Surveillance video showed one of the
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the state’s chamber of commerce have engaged in a heated back-and-forth correspondence over the confirmation of Black judicial and board nominees in the state, according to a series of letters shared with CNN and published online. Cooper said in a letter sent Friday to the
Continue ReadingDERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials say suspected militants have targeted security forces and a pro-government elder in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, killing five people, including two soldiers. Wednesday’s first attack occurred in North Waziristan district in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing two soldiers. In the second attack, a bomb
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US Senator Alex Padilla and Representative Raul Ruiz applauded President Biden for declaring a Major Disaster Declaration for the State of California due to damage caused by August’s Tropical Storm Hilary Tuesday. “I’m grateful that President Biden has approved our request to declare a major disaster in California to help communities in Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Riverside,
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — An activist who documented murders in one of Mexico’s deadliest cities has himself been killed. Adolfo Enríquez was killed in the city of Leon, which has the third-highest number of homicides in Mexico. Enríquez posted a simple, moving tally of each murder in Leon, writing just hours before his death that
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Mayor-elect Cherelle Parker has selected longtime police official Kevin J. Bethel to become the next police commissioner of the nation’s sixth most populous city. Parker announced the decision Wednesday. Bethel is a former deputy police commissioner in Philadelphia who since 2019 has served as the chief of safety in the city’s
Continue ReadingBy MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Pennsylvania school board that’s banned books, Pride flags and transgender athletes has awarded their superintendent a $700,000 severance package before power changes hands next month. But Democrats taking over the Central Bucks School District from the conservative Moms For Liberty slate hope to block the unusual
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer LIV Golf released a 2024 schedule on Wednesday that includes going to Las Vegas the same weekend as the Super Bowl and has three U.S. events that will he held the same week as the PGA Tour’s signature $20 million stops. The Saudi-funded league announced 12 sites on its
Continue ReadingBy JOSEF FEDERMAN, TIA GOLDENBERG and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and Hamas on Wednesday agreed to a four-day cease-fire in the war in Gaza — a diplomatic breakthrough that will free dozens of hostages held by militants as well as Palestinians imprisoned in Israel, and bring a large influx of aid
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A government official says the U.S. has thwarted a plot to kill Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on American soil. First reported by the Financial Times, the official says U.S. authorities are concerned that the Indian government may have had prior knowledge of the plot against
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate fell for the fourth time in as many weeks, more positive news for prospective homebuyers who have been held back by sharply higher borrowing costs and heightened competition for relatively few homes for sale. The latest decline brought the
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Less than two years after nearly being killed by a Russian bomb while reporting, Fox News’ Benjamin Hall returned to Ukraine this week. Hall interviewed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and received an award from him. Hall said he also returned to pay tribute to his two Fox colleagues who were killed
Continue ReadingBy KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian foreign ministry official says that India has restored electronic visa services for Canadian nationals two months after Canada alleged the South Asian nation was involved in the assassination of a Sikh separatist in Canada. A diplomatic spat erupted between the two countries after Canadian
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has met separately with relatives of Israeli hostages in Gaza and Palestinians living through the war and set off a firestorm by using words that Vatican diplomats usually avoid: “Terrorism” and according to the Palestinians “genocide.” He held the meetings before his weekly general
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Danaher and Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — A highly venomous snake is on the loose after escaping a home in Tilburg, the Netherlands on Monday afternoon, a municipality spokesperson told CNN on Wednesday. Local authorities are warning people to keep their distance and avoid approaching the poisonous green mamba, which is between 1.8
Continue ReadingPRAGUE (AP) — The presidents of four Central European countries found some common ground Wednesday on Ukraine despite their governments’ diverging views on military support for its fight against Russia’s invasion. The Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, all four post-communist European Union and NATO members, form an informal collective known as the Visegrad Group.
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The Palm Springs Chamber of Commerce announced today that the late Timothy Ray Brown, who was the first person successfully cured of HIV/AIDS, will be honored with a star on the Palm Springs Walk of the Stars next month. “Timothy Ray Brown’s indelible mark on the world of HIV cure research and his unwavering
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — EU lawmakers have rejected a proposal from the bloc’s executive arm to set legally binding targets to reduce the use of chemical pesticides by 50% by 2030 and a ban on all pesticide use in areas such public parks, playgrounds and schools. After a series of amendments
Continue ReadingBy Abeer Salman, Nima Elbagir, Barbara Arvanitidis, Alex Platt and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Nearly seven weeks into the war, Israel and Hamas have agreed on a deal that would see the return of 150 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails in exchange for the release of at least 50 women and children held in Gaza, during
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