CNN By Melanie Zanona, Haley Talbot and Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — Several Republicans who opposed Rep. Jim Jordan’s House speakership bid said they are experiencing angry calls, menacing messages and even death threats since casting their votes, increasing the already tense and chaotic atmosphere in the GOP as they struggle to elect a speaker.
Continue ReadingCNN By Melanie Zanona, Haley Talbot and Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — Several Republicans who opposed Rep. Jim Jordan’s House speakership bid said they are experiencing angry calls, menacing messages and even death threats since casting their votes, increasing the already tense and chaotic atmosphere in the GOP as they struggle to elect a speaker.
Continue ReadingBy ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — The house on Villegas Street, in the heart of Old Havana, looks nothing like the stately two-story home it used to be a century ago, with its high ceilings, wrought iron railings, semicircular arches and stairs covered in white marble. Its former elegance is such that local
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press A 79-year-old South Carolina man likely faces life in prison when he is sentenced for killing two police officers and wounding five more in a 2018 ambush he set up after detectives told him they were coming to serve a search warrant on his son. Investigators say Frederick Hopkins was
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Thousands of ordinary citizens got into legal trouble for their parts in Catalonia’s illegal independence bid that brought Spain to the brink of rupture six years ago. Now they are hoping to be saved. Spain’s acting prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, is negotiating with Catalan separatist parties
Continue ReadingBy ED KOMENDA and AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — After the deadly wildfire that destroyed the historic town of Lahaina this summer, people across the world focused their attention on the green leaves sprouting from a scorched, 150-year-old banyan tree as a symbol of hope. Teams rushed to save it. But arborists
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Refusing to drop out, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan has brought the House speaker’s race to a stalemate — the hard-fighting ally of Donald Trump has been unable to win the gavel but he and his far-right allies won’t step aside for a
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is crushing his Republican presidential rivals in the contest to raise campaign cash, putting the other White House hopefuls in an unenviable position before the first votes are cast in January. Those who have amassed a nest egg will have the resources to last for
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Two Vatican trials are coming to a head this week and posing uncomfortable questions for the Holy See, given they both underscore Pope Francis’ power as an absolute monarch and the legal, financial and reputational problems that can arise when he wields it. On Wednesday, the
Continue ReadingBy ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Most people in the U.S. see Mexico as an essential partner to stop drug trafficking and illegal border crossings, even as they express mixed views of Mexico’s government, according to a new poll. The poll from the Pearson Institute for the Study and
Continue ReadingBy ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Most people in the U.S. see Mexico as an essential partner to stop drug trafficking and illegal border crossings, even as they express mixed views of Mexico’s government, according to a new poll. The poll from the Pearson Institute for the Study and
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The reservoirs that provide Mexico City with much of its water are distressingly low after persistent drought through the summer. And the situation is even more worrisome because Mexico’s rainy season is almost over — and when it’s gone, so will be any realistic chance for
Continue ReadingBy Zeena Saifi, Becky Anderson and Kareem Khadder, CNN (CNN) — Ibrahim Wadi, 62, and his son Ahmad, 24, were on their way to a funeral for four Palestinians shot dead by Israeli settlers in their occupied West Bank community, when their car came under attack. The father and son were driving through the small
Continue ReadingBy MAURA TURCOTTE of The Post and Courier Hope Reed was seeing stark disparities a decade ago at her high school in the suburbs of Columbia, South Carolina. Nearly half the school’s students were white, but the freshman remedial math classes were made up of almost all students of color. Reed, then chair of the
Continue ReadingRIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A sheriff’s deputy in Southern California was shot and taken to the hospital for surgery Wednesday night while a suspect also was hospitalized, authorities said. The deputy was shot in Palm Desert, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said shortly before 8 p.m. The department statements on X — formerly Twitter —
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Burt Young, the Oscar-nominated actor who played Paulie, the rough-hewn, mumbling-and-grumbling best friend, corner-man and brother-in-law to Sylvester Stallone in the “Rocky” franchise, has died. Young died Oct. 8 in Los Angeles, his daughter, Anne Morea Steingieser, told the New York Times on Wednesday. No
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The foreign ministers of Russia and North Korea are meeting in Pyongyang for talks expected to focus on how to boost their military ties. Their meeting on Thursday came days after the United States accused the North of sending fresh shipments of munitions to Russia to support its war efforts in
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — An artificial intelligence innovation recently deciphered one word from the famously indiscernible 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scrolls. The documents, which were burned in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, would crumble if anyone attempted to unroll them and were considered to be nearly illegible — until now. Here’s
Continue ReadingBy MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — The Las Vegas Raiders are coming off back-to-back victories, but star wide receiver Davante Adams wasn’t integral to either one — and he’s not happy about it. He was targeted a total of nine times in Las Vegas’ victories over the Green Bay Packers and
Continue ReadingTop draft pick Victor Wembanyama scored 15 points in 21 minutes to lead the San Antonio Spurs to a 117-103 victory over the visiting Houston Rockets in preseason action on Wednesday night. The 7-foot-4 Wembanyama missed all five of his shots from the field in the first half, but made 7 of 8 from the
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