By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — More than 1,000 people have died from dengue in Bangladesh’s worst outbreak on record, official data shows, with rising temperatures due to the climate crisis driving the ongoing spread as more cases are reported away from dense urban centers for the first time. Since January, 1,017 people have died
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Restrictions on carrying guns in public that are tied to an emergency public health order are going under the legal microscope in U.S. District Court in New Mexico. At a hearing Tuesday, a federal judge delayed a decision on a request to block a scaled-back public
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The leader of the Columbia Journalism Review says he’s leaving that job to work at an organization that encourages news outlets to devote more attention to covering climate change. Since 2016, Kyle Pope has been editor and publisher of the leading academic magazine and website for professional journalists. He said journalism
Continue ReadingBy Jaide Timm-Garcia and Isabel Rosales, CNN (CNN) — A U.S. federal appeals court has granted a conservative group’s request to temporarily block a Black-owned venture capitalist firm from awarding grants exclusively to Black women entrepreneurs. In a 2-1 decision, judges from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals granted the American Alliance for Equal Rights’
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Shares of debt-laden property developer China Evergrande Group soared Tuesday after they resumed trading in Hong Kong following a suspension last week. By midday, Evergrande’s shares were up nearly 16% after jumping more than 60% early in the session. Evergrande is the world’s most heavily
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried once promoted his FTX digital coin exchange as a safe way for regular people to get into cryptocurrency. Now he faces the start of a criminal trial over allegations that he cheated thousands of customers. Jury selection begins Tuesday in a case in which
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — The United States military kicked off two weeks of multilateral exercises with its Philippine allies and multiple international partners on Monday amid rising tensions between Manila and Beijing over territorial disputes in the South China Sea. Maritime Training Activity Sama Sama 2023 is the seventh and largest iteration of
Continue ReadingBy SARA BURNETT Associated Press When Ron DeSantis said during last week’s Republican presidential debate that he would support a federal ban on abortion at 15 weeks of pregnancy, some anti-abortion activists called it the news they had been waiting months to hear. But DeSantis’ campaign downplayed the comment and millions of voters probably missed
Continue ReadingBy BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man is scheduled to die by lethal injection after killing two women in 1996 during a nine-day rampage in north Florida. Michael Zack III is set to be executed at 6 p.m. Tuesday. He was sentenced to death for murdering Ravonne Smith, a bar employee
Continue ReadingBy MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Opening statements are set to begin in the trial of three Tacoma, Washington, police officers charged in the death of Manny Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man, in 2020. Before he died, Ellis was punched, shocked with a Taser, put in a chokehold and held face down
Continue ReadingBy TALIA RICHMAN of The Dallas Morning News DALLAS (AP) — When Tha Cung looked over his sixth-grade class schedule, he took notice of the math block. He had been placed in an advanced class. “I didn’t know ‘honors’ even existed,” he said. Tha was little when his family immigrated from Myanmar and, for much
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST and CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden is due back Tuesday in a Delaware courtroom, where he’s expected to plead not guilty to federal firearms charges that emerged after his earlier deal collapsed. The president’s son is facing charges that he lied about his drug use in October
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST and CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden is due back Tuesday in a Delaware courtroom, where he’s expected to plead not guilty to federal firearms charges that emerged after his earlier deal collapsed. The president’s son is facing charges that he lied about his drug use in October
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — A day before the federal government executed a Texas man for the killing of an Iowa couple when he was 18, celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz pleaded with then-President Donald Trump — a former client — to call the execution off. During a Dec. 9, 2020,
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL HILL and LISA BAUMANN Associated Press MOREAU, N.Y. (AP) — A 9-year-old girl who vanished during a family camping trip in upstate New York was “safe and in good health” Monday after a massive two-day search ended with her rescue and the arrest of a person suspected in her abduction, police said. Charlotte
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, was carjacked Monday night by three armed attackers, his office said. Cuellar’s chief of staff Jacob Hochberg released a statement saying: “As Congressman Cuellar was parking his car this evening, 3 armed assailants approached the Congressman and stole his vehicle. Luckily, he was not harmed and is
Continue ReadingBy Isabel Rosales, Jaide Timm-Garcia and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Officers will not face disciplinary action for the violent arrest last week of a drug suspect in Florida, their sheriff said, as officials allege a moment from bystander video that sparked outrage over the encounter had been “intentionally altered.” “Based on the current available
Continue ReadingWJXT, JACKSONVILLE SHERIFF’S OFFICE, WITNESS VIDEO, CNN By Isabel Rosales, Jaide Timm-Garcia and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Officers will not face disciplinary action for the violent arrest last week of a drug suspect in Florida, their sheriff said, as officials allege a moment from bystander video that sparked outrage over the encounter had been
Continue ReadingCNN, SPECTRUM NEWS (ALBANY) By Elizabeth Wolfe, Andy Rose, John Miller and Sabrina Shulman, CNN (CNN) — The 46-year-old man accused of kidnapping 9-year-old Charlotte Sena in upstate New York wrote a ransom note with intent to get money, according to an arraignment memorandum released Tuesday. Craig Nelson Ross Jr., abducted the girl “and wrote
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju, Melanie Zanona and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar was carjacked in Washington, DC, Monday evening, his office told CNN. According to Cuellar’s office, the congressman’s sushi dinner, phone, iPad and car were all stolen in the incident, which DC police said occurred around 9:32 p.m. Monday night.
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