By 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
Continue ReadingBy Macie Goldfarb and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — An Oklahoma judge may be forced to step down for allegedly exchanging over 500 text messages with a bailiff in which she mocked trial participants and talked offensively about the state’s attorneys while she presided over a murder trial in June, according to a petition filed
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump will be back in court next week for his New York civil fraud trial. That’s according to a person familiar with the former president’s plans who spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday on condition of anonymity before an official
Continue ReadingSAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — Serial killer Douglas Daniel Clark, who was sentenced to death for six grisly murders in California during the early 1980s, has died of natural causes, officials said Thursday. He was 75. Clark, who’d been housed at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, died Wednesday at an outside medical facility, according to a
Continue ReadingSAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — Serial killer Douglas Daniel Clark, who was sentenced to death for six grisly murders in California during the early 1980s, has died of natural causes, officials said Thursday. He was 75. Clark, who’d been housed at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, died Wednesday at an outside medical facility, according to a
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN MCGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Authorities in Romania found a crater on their territory near the border with Ukraine that they say was likely caused by a crashed drone that exploded on impact. Thursday’s predawn discovery has revived concerns about possible spillover of Russia’s war in Ukraine onto a NATO member
Continue ReadingBy ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press NECOCLI, Colombia (AP) — In Necocli, Colombia, the local economy has shifted, revolving around the migrants who have been arriving for several years. Those hanging around no longer number in the thousands, as in 2021 after Haiti’s earthquake. Now there are just dozens who wait in Necocli each day, most
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks slipped Thursday after the clamps tightened on Wall Street from rising yields in the bond market. The S&P 500 fell 27.34, or 0.6%, to 4,349.61. It was the first drop for the index in five days, breaking its longest winning streak since August.
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH KRAUSS and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Gaza’s interior ministry on Thursday said that an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the densely populated Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza has killed at least 45 people and wounded dozens more. Eyad Bozum, the spokesperson of the interior ministry, told The
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French prosecutors are investigating a suspected poisoning of a Russian journalist who fled Russia after denouncing the war in Ukraine on live TV. The Paris prosecutor’s office said Marina Ovsyannikova called emergency services and was hospitalized after suddenly falling ill at her Paris apartment on Thursday. The office says she suspected she’d
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The Firebirds start their second season this week. This comes after an incredible inaugural season which ended in a Game 7 overtime loss to the Hershey Bears in the Calder Cup Finals. There’s unfinished business for the Firebirds this season. 🔥🦅🏒🏆🗣️”We have a hunger to win and obviously our goal is to win a championship,
Continue ReadingBy TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two major pieces of legislation Thursday to transform the state’s mental health system and address the state’s worsening homelessness crisis, putting them both before voters in 2024. The Democratic governor needs voters’ approval because he wants to borrow billions of dollars
Continue ReadingBy TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two major pieces of legislation Thursday to transform the state’s mental health system and address the state’s worsening homelessness crisis, putting them both before voters in 2024. The Democratic governor needs voters’ approval because he wants to borrow billions of dollars
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s graphic description of horrors in Israel was intended to “underscore the utter depravity” of the Hamas attack on civilians, the White House says, even if he hadn’t personally viewed or confirmed the imagery he described. Speaking from the Indian Treaty Room, Biden on Wednesday told a
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press McLEAN, Va. (AP) — A special grand jury in Virginia has indicted a former police officer for involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed shoplifting suspect outside a shopping mall earlier this year. Wesley Shifflett was a Fairfax County police officer at the time of the shooting in
Continue ReadingBy FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader has urged the Parliament speaker to reinstate 15 of his party’s lawmakers and says they were removed from their positions because of a fradulent letter. Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa called the removal of the lawmakers part of an attempt by the ruling
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Commission on Thursday made a formal, legally binding request for information from Elon Musk’s social media platform X over its handling of hate speech, misinformation and violent terrorist content related to the Israel-Hamas war. It is the first step in what could become the
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