By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Mourners bearing bouquets and cards paid their respects Wednesday to the late U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein in San Francisco City Hall, where she launched her groundbreaking political career and spent a decade as the city’s first female mayor. Musicians played the violin and other string instruments
Continue ReadingBy Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — Nadine Arslanian Menendez, wife of Sen. Bob Menendez, hit and killed a pedestrian in a 2018 car crash, according to a police report. That car crash, which took place prior to her marriage to the New Jersey Democrat, is alleged to be the inception of a bribe in the
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press A Texas politician who accidentally shot his grandson during a wedding he was officiating in Nebraska could be charged with a felony. Officials say Ecto County Commissioner Michael Gardner intended to shoot a homemade blank round into the air to signal the start of the wedding on Saturday. But
Continue ReadingBy Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — An unnamed female CIA trainee who claims she was sexually assaulted in a stairwell at CIA headquarters in 2022 is suing the agency, claiming that the CIA “repeatedly and improperly” discouraged her from lodging a criminal complaint against her assailant and attempted to intimidate her from testifying at
Continue ReadingBy DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer It’s the end of an era for a once-critical pandemic document: The ubiquitous white COVID-19 vaccination cards are being phased out. Now that COVID-19 vaccines are not being distributed by the federal government, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stopped printing new cards. The federal government
Continue ReadingBy MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A forensic video analyst has walked a jury through a cellphone video of the fatal arrest of Manny Ellis. The video shows him on the ground with his hands in the air in surrender as police officers held his neck and shot him with a Taser.
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a likely roadblock from House Republicans on aid for Ukraine, President Joe Biden said Wednesday he’s planning to give a major speech on the issue and suggested there may be “another means” to provide support for Kyiv if Congress continues to balk. “I’m
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the Islamic New Year. For followers of Islam in the western hemisphere, the next New Year begins on the evening of July 7, 2024. The exact date can vary depending on the method used to determine the start of the new year: using local moon-sighting
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has outlined a new round of federal student loan forgiveness. He says it’s intended to address what he calls the “unsustainable debt” that students accumulate to complete their college education. The announcement at the White House on Wednesday comes as borrowers brace for payments
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Después de recibir una denuncia de agresión sexual la policía arrestó a un sujeto de 20 años quien es acusado de solicitar los servicios de un conductor de viaje compartido el pasado 18 agosto, cuando al final del viaje Luis Enrique Lora de Desert Hot Springs atacó al conductor antes de huir, la víctima reportó
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont says the top two leaders of state police will be retiring. The departures of public safety Commissioner James Rovella and Col. Stavros Mellekas come in the middle of multiple investigations into whether state troopers submitted bogus data on thousands of traffic stops
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY and GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press VENICE, Italy (AP) — Residents of the Italian city of Venice stopped in dismay Wednesday to pay respects to the 21 foreign tourists who were killed when an all-electric shuttle bus crashed through an overpass guardrail and fence, plunging more than 10 meters (30 feet) to the
Continue ReadingBy KARL RITTER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — The most prestigious and secretive prize in science ran headfirst into the digital era Wednesday. Swedish media got an emailed press release revealing the winners of the Nobel Prize for chemistry, and the news prematurely went public. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said it was investigating.
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT and RENATA BRITO Associated Press GRANADA, Spain (AP) — European leaders will gather at a summit in Spain in an attempt to fix their increasingly turbulent continent where war and political instability are starting to unhinge nations and institutions. Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Aleksander Lukashenko of Belarus have not been invited. But
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in western Mexico say they found a workshop for making drone-carried bombs in a house built to look like a castle. Police in Jalisco state distributed photos of dozens of small cylindrical bombs with fins that were meant to be released from drones. Police also found bomb-making materials, including about
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California ended its “miracle” water year on Saturday with enough rain and snow to fill the state’s reservoirs to 128% of their historical average, making it among the wettest years in recorded state history. That’s a welcome boon to a state that has spent much of
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — The mother of a 19-year-old Chicago woman who was found dead in 2017 in a freezer at a suburban hotel where she had attended a party has reached a settlement in her lawsuit over her daughter’s death. The Chicago Tribune reports court records show a settlement was reached in August but has
Continue ReadingBy TERRY TANG Associated Press As the head of her own marketing agency in Los Angeles, Shaina Renee Manlangit has made it a mission to elevate Filipino American talent and culture. But, it occurred to her last year, she still had never actually been to the Philippines. Knowing there were other young Filipino Americans who
Continue ReadingBy TERRY TANG Associated Press As the head of her own marketing agency in Los Angeles, Shaina Renee Manlangit has made it a mission to elevate Filipino American talent and culture. But, it occurred to her last year, she still had never actually been to the Philippines. Knowing there were other young Filipino Americans who
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre will answer questions under oath about the misspending of federal welfare money in Mississippi. Public money intended to help some of the nation’s poorest people was used to fund pet projects Favre and other well-connected people supported. A notice
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