By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Federal wildlife officials said Monday they are delaying a long-awaited decision to declare the ivory-billed woodpecker extinct, months after grainy photos and videos emerged that purported to show the bird flying through a Louisiana forest. In 2021, the agency seemed ready to declare the so-called Lord God Bird extinct:
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN and RAF CASERT BRUSSELS (AP) — A soccer match between host Belgium and Sweden has been suspended at halftime after two Swedes were killed in a shooting in central Brussels before kickoff. Fans remained inside the King Baudouin stadium after the European Championship qualifier was stopped and chanted “All together, All together!”
Continue ReadingBy Macie Goldfarb, CNN (CNN) — Four inmates, including a man charged with murder, are on the run from authorities after escaping a central Georgia jail through a damaged second-floor window and getting through the perimeter fences, according to authorities. The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said the inmates escaped from the Bibb County Detention Center
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On what would have been her 77th birthday, flowers were placed today on the Hollywood Walk of Fame star of actress Suzanne Somers, who died over the weekend. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Suzanne Somers (@suzannesomers) The floral wreath was placed late Monday morning on her star adjacent to the Hollywood
Continue ReadingBy HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature have admitted that a vote to fire the state’s top elections official last month has no legal effect. In a change of course from recent calls to impeach nonpartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe for not leaving
Continue ReadingNATCHITOCHES, La. (AP) — Northwestern State’s home game against Southeastern Louisiana has been moved to this Thursday night so that the contest won’t conflict with a wake and funeral services for recently slain Demons defensive back Ronnie Caldwell. Officials from both schools agreed to change the game time from Saturday after learning services for Caldwell
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Washington (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Biden administration to continue regulating so-called ghost guns – untraceable homemade weapons – as firearms under federal law. The court’s brief order grants the Justice Department’s request to wipe away a lower court order and allow the
Continue ReadingFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Former Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez announced Monday that he’s running for Congress. Nez, a 48-year-old Democrat, will vie for the seat occupied by incumbent Eli Crane, a Republican who has represented Arizona’s redrawn 2nd Congressional District since last year. The district covers a large portion of northern and eastern Arizona
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ordered two internet sellers of gun parts to comply with a Biden administration regulation aimed at ghost guns, firearms that are difficult to trace because they lack serial numbers. The court had intervened once before, by a 5-4 vote in August, to keep the regulation in effect after
Continue ReadingBy Yahya Abou-Ghazala (CNN) — When Palestinians in north Gaza heeded the warnings issued in the Israeli military’s phone calls, text messages, and fliers advising them to head south, they thought they were fleeing to potential safety. The Israeli Defense Forces issued the guidance Friday, telling all civilians in north Gaza to evacuate to areas
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The Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) unveiled its 2024 poster ahead of the upcoming event, which will take place January 4-15, 2024. The poster is a collaboration with renowned American artist and Palm Springs resident, Shag. PSIFF organizers said this year’s bold and colorful design is inspired by midcentury modern aesthetics, celebrating the Festival’s
Continue ReadingBy SYLVAIN PLAZY and RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities have raised the terror alert to its highest level in the capital late after the fatal shooting of two Swedes in Brussels that Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has linked to terrorism. The shooter remains at large. The killings happened some 3
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rallied Monday as some of last week’s moves in financial markets driven by worries about war in the Middle East unwound. The S&P 500 rose 1.1% for its best day since the Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel by Hamas. The Dow Jones
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The federal judge overseeing the election subversion case against Donald Trump in Washington, DC, placed a limited gag order on the former president after his continued attacks against potential witnesses, prosecutors and the court itself, following a testy hearing Monday. Though limited in scope, the gag
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Coast Guard has launched a formal investigation into the collapse of a mast aboard a historic schooner that killed one person and injured three others off Maine’s seacoast. The chief mast on the schooner Grace Bailey broke and fell onto the deck Oct. 9, killing
Continue ReadingDANBURY, Conn. (AP) — A former Connecticut postmaster has admitted to defrauding the U.S. Postal Service of nearly $875,000. The scheme involved cash bribes, misuse of USPS credit cards and demands for free personal vehicle repairs. The longtime postmaster of the office in Danbury, a western Connecticut city of more than 86,700, Ephrem D. Nguyen
Continue ReadingBy JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A miniature X-wing Starfighter used in a “Star Wars” film sold for over $3 million during an auction over the weekend of items both collected and created by longtime Hollywood model-maker Greg Jein. The collection amassed by Jein, who died last year at the age of 76,
Continue ReadingBy JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A miniature X-wing Starfighter used in a “Star Wars” film sold for over $3 million during an auction over the weekend of items both collected and created by longtime Hollywood model-maker Greg Jein. The collection amassed by Jein, who died last year at the age of 76,
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police say one man has been arrested and at least two other suspects are being sought in an airport parking garage shooting that killed one officer and wounded another last week. Police said 18-year-old Yobranny Martinez Fernandez was arrested before dawn Monday in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and was being held
Continue ReadingBy ALEX TURNBULL and ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s main Jewish students union has plastered walls around Paris with posters bearing the faces of French citizens believed to be held hostage by Hamas in their war with Israel. The word “Kidnapped” is inscribed on a red banner at the top of each
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