By Morgan Rimmer, CNN Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell continued advocating for including aid for Ukraine in the national security supplemental, while introducing Ukrainian Ambassador to the US Oksana Markarova at an event Monday in Louisville, Kentucky. Across the Capitol, newly-elected Speaker Mike Johnson is expected to advance a bill this week that only provides
Continue ReadingLIMA, Peru (AP) — A Dutch citizen who recently admitted to killing U.S. student Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005 is being sent back from the United States to Peru where he will serve out a sentence for the killing of a Peruvian woman. Interpol agent Hilda Manosalva says that Joran van der Sloot is
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A former longtime North Dakota lawmaker has been indicted on a federal charge alleging he traveled to Prague with the intent to rape a minor. The four-page indictment against former state Sen. Ray Holmberg also charges him with one count of receiving images depicting child sexual
Continue ReadingSAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Tropical Storm Pilar threatens to bring heavy rain and flash flooding to El Salvador and other parts of Central America as it sat just off the Pacific coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Monday that Pilar was located about 205 miles southwest of San Salvador with winds of
Continue ReadingBy REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s high court has suspended of the opposition’s entire primary election process, including its result. It is the latest challenge by the government of Nicolás Maduro to its adversaries ahead of the 2024 presidential election. The court on Monday ruled the opposition’s Oct. 22 contest
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER and BRIAN P. D. HANNON Associated Press ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — Cornell University administrators have dispatched campus police to a Jewish center after threatening statements against Jewish students appeared on a discussion board. Cornell President Martha E. Pollack says there were a series of “horrendous, antisemitic messages” on Sunday threatening violence against
Continue ReadingHOUSTON (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will stand trial on securities fraud charges in April. The trial date set by a judge Monday comes more than eight years after the Republican was indicted over accusations that he duped investors in a tech startup. The scheduling of the trial comes at a moment when
Continue ReadingBy CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Shootings across the U.S. over the weekend before Halloween have left at least 11 people dead and more than 70 injured, authorities said. The deaths between Friday and Sunday included two in Tampa, Florida, three in Texarkana, Texas, and two each in Dodge City, Kansas;
Continue ReadingBy Zara Khan, CNN (CNN) — Turks on Sunday marked 100 years since the birth of the modern republic, with vibrant fireworks and a drone show over the Bosphorus strait lighting up the Istanbul skyline. During the day, naval ships sailed the famous waterway in a show of military might but also a signal of
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell is dropping his bid to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley in 2024, and will instead make a run at a fellow Democrat — U.S. Rep. Cori Bush. Bell will oppose Bush in next year’s Democratic primary for a
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A 5.4 magnitude earthquake has hit Jamaica and prompted people to flee buildings amid heavy shaking. The earthquake on Monday was located about 2 miles west-northwest of Hope Bay. The U.S. Geological Survey said it occurred at a shallow depth of six miles. The earthquake prompted panic on the
Continue ReadingBy JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley has formally filed paperwork to enter the Republican primary in her home state of South Carolina. She visited the Statehouse on Monday, where her career took off, for a signing ceremony. Haley starts this week with new momentum after a poll in
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Officials in Mexico say three foreign residents were among at least 45 people who perished when Hurricane Otis hit the resort of Acapulco last week. Local prosecutors say the dead included one American, one Canadian and one person from England. The Navy said the search effort will now focus on finding
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new study says that in a little more than five years the world will likely be unable to stay below the internationally agreed temperature limit for global warming if it continues to burn fossil fuels at its current rate. Monday’s study moves three years closer the date when
Continue ReadingBy KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — The European Commission’s top official says a decade-long investment package for Western Balkan countries that are seeking to join the bloc could vastly improve the region’s economy. But she also stressed that the assistance is conditioned on required reforms by these countries. EU Commission President
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Facing the loss of another $200 million this week to a lengthy strike, General Motors CEO Mary Barra wrapped up her weekend by going to the United Auto Workers’ Detroit headquarters intent on getting a new contract. Joined by manufacturing chief Gerald Johnson at the meeting that
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A former British cyberespionage agency employee who viciously stabbed an American intelligence worker has been sentenced to life in prison for attempted murder. Joshua Bowles will have to serve at least 13 years in prison. He admitted attacking the woman March 9 in the western England town
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — A man accused of murder, attempted murder and a hate crime in an attack on a Palestinian American woman and her young son pleaded not guilty Monday following his indictmen t by an Illinois grand jury. Joseph Czuba, 71, is charged in the fatal stabbing of
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is announcing it will spend $1.3 billion of new federal funding to help create three new, massive electrical transmission lines in the Southwest and New England, in an effort to improve the nation’s power grid and get more renewable energy into America’s homes and businesses. The
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson, Whitney Wild and Bill Kirkos, CNN (CNN) — The landlord accused of fatally stabbing a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy near Chicago over two weeks ago pleaded not guilty to murder and hate crime charges in an Illinois court Monday. On October 14, Wadea Al-Fayoume was stabbed 26 times at his home in Plainfield
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