By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — With freezing temperatures of down to minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit) and vegetation hundreds and sometimes thousands of meters below the mountain tops, the summits of the Andes mountains maintain an extremely harsh environment. So how did a species of leaf-eared mouse make this barren land their home?
Continue ReadingBy KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man who beat a 66-year-old Sikh man to death after a fender bender in New York City has been charged with manslaughter as a hate crime. Prosecutors announced Tuesday that 30-year-old Gilbert Augustin also faces charges including assault as a hate crime and unlicensed driving
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Although Black and Hispanic Americans have accumulated more wealth in recent years, their median net worth still lags far behind that of White Americans. The net worth of the typical Black and Hispanic household in 2022 was $44,900 and about $61,600, respectively, according to the Federal Reserve’s latest Survey on Consumer Finances, a triennial report released this
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The 2026 Pan Pacific Championships will be moved from Canada to Los Angeles, giving the city a chance to host a major international swimming meet ahead of the 2028 Summer Olympics. The agreement between the charter nations of Australia, Canada, Japan and the U.S. was announced Tuesday. The Pan Pacs are
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS and PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The former top aide to ex-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has painted a picture of widespread chaos and dysfunction in government during the coronavirus pandemic. In keenly awaited testimony to the country’s public inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic on Tuesday, Dominic Cummings was withering
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Watson and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — A Cornell University junior was arrested and charged in connection with a series of antisemitic online threats made against Cornell University’s Jewish community, federal officials said Tuesday, two days after the messages surfaced. Patrick Dai, 21, was arrested Tuesday on “a federal criminal complaint charging him with posting threats
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A fire broke out inside an empty commercial building along the 1700 block of E Palm Canyon Drive. It was first reported just after 5:00 A.M. within a two-story structure behind the Ralphs supermarket. Crews with the Palm Springs Fire Department made quick work of the fire, keeping the flames contained to the main unit
Continue ReadingBy Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman, Tara John, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli strikes targeting Hamas commanders and the militant group’s infrastructure in the densely populated Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza have left catastrophic damage and killed a large number of people, according to eyewitnesses and medics in the enclave. The devastation wrought by the
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN New York (CNN) — The cost of job-based health care coverage for 2024 is expected to rise at its fastest pace in years as inflation pervades insurance policies. Companies plan to shoulder most of the increase, but many workers could also feel the pinch in the form of higher premiums and
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Christian McCaffrey has been scoring at a record-setting pace so far this season. That performance has helped the San Francisco 49ers star score the honor of being voted the top running back in the league by The Associated Press. A panel of nine AP Pro Football Writers ranked
Continue ReadingCNN By Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) – Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell bluntly warned Republican senators in a private meeting not to sign on to a bill from Sen. Josh Hawley aimed at limiting corporate money bankrolling high-powered outside groups, telling them that many of them won their seats thanks to the powerful super PAC
Continue ReadingRUMFORD, Maine (AP) — Law enforcement officers in Maine have killed a man who confronted officers outside a police station with a rifle. Twenty-three-year-old Sean Dyment of Canton, Maine was shot by two officers from Oxford County Sheriff’s Office Monday night. Dyment was transported to Rumford Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Authorities said they
Continue ReadingOXFORD, Mich. (AP) — An independent investigation has concluded that a threat assessment should have been conducted by school officials into Ethan Crumbley’s behavior prior to a shooting that left four students dead and others wounded at Michigan’s Oxford High School. A more than 500-page report released Monday says Crumbley’s conduct included viewing bullets, watching
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Fred Warner is in the same spot as he was to start the season — the clear-cut choice as the top off-ball linebacker in the NFL. The fiery leader of the San Francisco 49ers defense was voted the unanimous choice as the top linebacker in the league by
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top military and diplomatic leaders urged an increasingly divided Congress on Tuesday to send major immediate aid to Israel and Ukraine, arguing at a Senate hearing that broad support for the assistance would signal U.S. strength to adversaries worldwide. The testimony from Defense Secretary
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Police in Japan say they have ended an eight-hour standoff with a gunman at a post office by capturing the suspect. They stormed the building after two hostages were freed safely. The man had entered the post office with a gun in Warabi, north of Tokyo, about
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico police have arrested at least 380 people in the department’s biggest crackdown on crime in recent years. Police Commissioner Antonio López said Tuesday that 12 gangs dedicated to the sale of drugs and weapons were targeted after receiving tips from residents who had complained about violence in
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is drifting Tuesday following some mixed earnings reports from big companies. The S&P 500 was 0.1% higher in afternoon trading, a day after clawing back a big chunk of its loss for October. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 9 points, or
Continue ReadingBy MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Five weeks into the trial against three Tacoma, Washington, police officers charged in the 2020 death of Manny Ellis and prosecutors are building their case by questioning one of the man’s lifelong friends and a breathing expert. On Monday, the man who ran the sober-living home
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) – FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday that antisemitism is reaching “historic levels” in the United States. “This is a threat that is reaching, in some way, sort of historic levels,” Wray said during a Senate hearing Tuesday. The FBI director said that was in part because “the Jewish community
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