CNN’s Dalal Mawad and Eve Brennan Paris (CNN) — Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in central Paris on Thursday, in defiance of a controversial new ban on pro-Palestinian rallies in the country. French police and members of the gendarmerie worked to disperse the crowds with tear gas and water cannons, visuals showed. The ban had been
Continue ReadingBy RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The chief executive over Georgia’s seaports says larger cargo ships will need deeper water and a taller bridge to reach the Port of Savannah in the near future. Georgia Ports Authority President and CEO Griff Lynch said Thursday that the $1.9 billion his agency is investing
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A top Ford executive says the company has reached the limit of how much money it will spend to get a contract agreement with the striking United Auto Workers union. Kumar Galhotra, president of Ford Blue, the company’s internal combustion engine business, told reporters Thursday that
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty to charges in connection with the fatal 2021 shooting of Chicago police officer Ella French and was sentenced to seven years in prison. Twenty-five-year-old Eric Morgan entered the plea Thursday to charges of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, battery and obstruction of justice. French, who was 29,
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service charged with leaking tax information to news outlets about former President Donald Trump and thousands of the country’s wealthiest people pleaded guilty Thursday in an agreement with prosecutors. The Justice Department charged 38-year-old Charles Edward Littlejohn of Washington D.C.
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military is pulverizing the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip with airstrikes and has halted deliveries of food, water, fuel and electricity as Palestinians try to stock up for a possible ground invasion. Israel says nothing will be allowed into Gaza until around 150 hostages taken captive by
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A person was arrested on suspicion of a DUI after ignoring road closure barricades on Gene Autry and crashing his car. The crash was reported at around 3:30 a.m. at Gene Autry and the wash, which was closed at the time due to low visibility from blowing sand. Police told News Channel 3 that the
Continue ReadingFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Seventeen Florida sheriff’s deputies have appeared in court on charges that they stole about half a million dollars in pandemic relief funds. Court records show that the Broward County deputies are charged separately with a range of crimes. Most are charged with wire fraud, which carries a sentence of up
Continue ReadingBy Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — Police in Massachusetts are seeking criminal charges against three Rhode Island men in connection with an altercation at a New England Patriots game that led to the death of a New Hampshire fan, according to a news release from the Foxborough Police Department. Dale Mooney, 53, from Newmarket, died
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — As Israel pounds Gaza with airstrikes, prepares for a possible ground invasion and escalates a war sparked by Hamas’ unprecedented assault, its leaders will confront many of the same dilemmas it has grappled with over decades of conflict with the Palestinians. Israeli leaders have pledged to annihilate
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haiti has declined to join neighboring Dominican Republic in reopening a key border crossing for trade. That leaves some commercial activity at a standstill and prolongs a diplomatic crisis over the construction of a canal on Haitian soil. Dominican President Luis
Continue ReadingBy ANGELA CHARLTON and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s interior minister ordered local authorities to ban all pro-Palestinian demonstrations amid a rise in antisemitic acts since Hamas attacked Israel over the weekend. President Emmanuel Macron urged French people not to allow the war in the Mideast erupt into tensions at home. Macron
Continue ReadingANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Madagascar’s highest court has ruled that next month’s presidential election be postponed for a week to allow authorities to prepare after two candidates were injured during protests when security forces fired tear gas grenades. The High Constitutional Court says the election must be moved from Nov. 9 to Nov. 16. The
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A construction worker who got stuck in a hole on Interstate 10 near Chiriaco Summit today was airlifted to a trauma center with moderate injuries. Fire crews responded at 10:42 a.m. Thursday for a confined space rescue on eastbound Interstate 10 near Chiriaco Summit, according to the Riverside County Fire Department. Fire officials said crews
Continue ReadingBy CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer A leading doctors group on Thursday formally withdrew its approval of a 2009 paper on “excited delirium,” a document that critics say has been used to justify excessive force by police. The American College of Emergency Physicians in a statement called the paper outdated and said the term
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand (CNN) — The former IRS contractor accused of leaking former President Donald Trump’s tax returns and stealing tax information on thousands of the wealthiest people in the US pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday. Prosecutors say Charles Littlejohn of Washington, DC, sent Trump’s tax returns and other data to two media
Continue ReadingBy Fabiana Chaparro, CNN (CNN) — Authorities in northeast Georgia are warning residents to beware of an “aggressive” bobcat that is still on the loose after attacking a toddler, a teenager and two dogs in separate incidents late last week. Oglethorpe County Fire Rescue responded to calls Friday of a bobcat in Winterville, a small
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — The public’s impressions of the Republican Party and its leaders in Congress have worsened amid a leadership crisis in the House of Representatives, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, with Republican-aligned Americans divided over how the GOP should govern. Even then – and
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nominated to be House speaker, Rep. Steve Scalise on Thursday ran straight into a familiar, intensifying Republican problem: Skeptical GOP colleagues are refusing to give their support, denying him the majority vote needed to win the gavel. Frustrations mounted as the crisis
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE, MARY CLARE JALONICK and SEUNG MIN KIM ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and Qatar have reached an agreement that the Qataris will not act on any request from Tehran for the time being to access $6 billion in Iranian funds that were unblocked as part of a prisoner swap last
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