By Clare Foran and Haley Talbot, CNN The House passed a stopgap bill on Tuesday to keep the government open, putting Congress on a path to avert a shutdown and setting the stage for a broader funding fight in the new year. The Senate will next need to approve the measure. President Joe Biden is
Continue ReadingBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia has begun the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s. Two male hippos and one female underwent surgical sterilization as part of a larger government’s effort to control the population of more than 100 of the mammals
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Washington is weighing whether to hold in contempt a veteran journalist who has refused to identify her sources for stories about a Chinese scientist who was investigated by the FBI but never charged. The lawsuit from Yanping Chen seeks
Continue ReadingRUSTON, La. (AP) — Three women are still hospitalized — one in critical condition — a day after what officials say was a random knife attack on a college campus in north Louisiana. The suspect in the case was taken into custody soon after the Monday morning attack outside a recreation center at Louisiana Tech
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man accused of attacking former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer apologized Tuesday, echoing right-wing conspiracy theories to explain to jurors that he went to the Pelosis’ home as part of a bigger plot to end what he viewed as government
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man accused of attacking former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer apologized Tuesday, echoing right-wing conspiracy theories to explain to jurors that he went to the Pelosis’ home as part of a bigger plot to end what he viewed as government
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK ORSAGOS and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press ETNA, Ohio (AP) — A charter bus filled with high school students was rear-ended by a semitruck on an Ohio highway, leaving three people dead and 15 others injured. Licking County Emergency Management Agency Director Sean Grady says the charter bus was carrying students from the Tuscarawas
Continue ReadingBy Donie O’Sullivan, Curt Devine and Allison Gordon, CNN (CNN) — Hate groups and far-right internet trolls have seized on the tensions surrounding the Israel-Hamas war, while leveraging advances in artificial intelligence to further stoke antisemitism in the United States. The confluence of the conflict and the rapid development – and sheer accessibility – of
Continue ReadingBy Jake Tapper and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN Washington (CNN) — A document recovered from a computer found inside a Hamas pickup truck outside Gaza, obtained by CNN from Israeli officials, shows a Hamas military commander requesting a scholarship for Hamas operatives to study engineering, physics and technology at universities in Iran. While it is widely
Continue ReadingBy Wayne Sterling and David Close, CNN (CNN) — Chelsea FC women’s manager Emma Hayes has been named head coach of the US Women’s National Team, the US Soccer Federation announced on Tuesday. Hayes has been a huge success while leading the Blues for the past 11 seasons. She was named 2021’s Best FIFA Women’s
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN, JACK JEFFERY and LEE KEATH Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military seized broader control of northern Gaza on Tuesday, including capturing the territory’s legislature building and its police headquarters, in gains that carried high symbolic value in the country’s quest to crush the ruling Hamas militant group.
Continue ReadingBy JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer The Pac-12 is winding down to the finish of what may be its final football season before most of its members leave for other conferences next season. With two weeks left, the race for spots in the conference title game in Las Vegas on Dec. 1 is down to
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to prevent a government shutdown after new Republican Speaker Mike Johnson was forced to reach across the aisle to Democrats when hard-right conservatives revolted against his plan. Johnson’s proposal to temporarily fund the government into the new year passed
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal judge has tentatively approved a portion of the newest plan to restructure $10 billion of debt owed by Puerto Rico’s power company amid heated negotiations between creditors and the U.S. territory’s government. The overall debt restructuring plan has been amended four times this year by a federal
Continue ReadingHOUSTON (AP) — U.S. Army officials say they will overturn the convictions of 110 Black soldiers for a mutiny at a Houston military camp a century ago in a trial that had racial undertones. This comes after attorneys and advocates filed clemency petitions on behalf of the soldiers. Records of the soldiers will be corrected
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Comedian John Oliver has succeeded in his campaign to have what he describes as a weird, puking bird with a colorful mullet win New Zealand’s Bird of the Century contest. He managed to elbow out the iconic national bird, the kiwi, which came in second.
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Matt LeBlanc and Courteney Cox paid heartfelt tribute to their late “Friends” co-star Matthew Perry today, making their first public comments since Perry was found dead at his Pacific Palisades home. “Matthew, it is with a heavy heart that I say goodbye,” LeBlanc wrote on his Instagram page, in a post accompanied by a series
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Offices belonging to top elections officials in Kansas were evacuated after suspicious mail was delivered to the building. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation did not provide further details Tuesday, but the incident occurred less than a week after election offices in at least five states received
Continue ReadingBy PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Deion Sanders had a to-the-point stance on Texas A&M coaching rumors or any other speculation that may involve him leaving Colorado. “I’m here,” Sanders said Tuesday at his weekly news conference. Although the first-year Colorado coach sidestepped a direct answer about the Aggies job that
Continue ReadingRUSTON, La. (AP) — Three women remain in critical condition a day after what officials say was a random knife attack on a college campus in north Louisiana. The suspect in the case was taken into custody soon after the Monday morning attack outside a recreation center at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston. Officials said
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