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Arizona’s problem-ridden audit has inspired Republicans elsewhere to push for reviews in their own states as the party continues to hold up former President Donald Trump‘s lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Members of the party are making political pilgrimages to the state. This week, a small group of Pennsylvania GOP lawmakers
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story POMONA, California (KABC) — Authorities say a Pomona woman abused, tortured and then killed her 16-year-old stepson, while the boy’s father did nothing to prevent the abuse. The boy’s death was reported around noon Tuesday in the 600 block of Del Rosa Place, the Pomona Police Department confirmed
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WLS) — Emily Choi remains shaken after being told to ‘go back to Asia’ while walking with her 20-month-old son in a stroller near her University Village neighborhood Wednesday morning. “It was discouraging to hear that from someone in my neighborhood in front of my son,” she
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WLS) — A Chicago alderman is blaming “gang culture” for the shooting of a 14-year-old girl who was walking her dog Wednesday night in Back of the Yards. “If we want our children to be able to grow up, to live and to be able to thrive,
Continue Reading“The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It,” the seventh film in the horror franchise, hits theaters on Friday. It ends a crazy week for the movie theater business that included the return of a blockbuster box office opening and major theater chain AMC having a wild ride on the stock market. The Warner Bros.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SAN TAN VALLEY, Arizona (KPHO KTVK) — A man was arrested after allegedly getting into a fight with a Burger King store manager over a wrong order and loading his gun in the restaurant. According to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, 50-year-old Carter Mounet, a food delivery driver,
Continue ReadingVirginia Rose had just turned 14 when the Arabian horse she was riding took off under a guide fence wire. “I fell off and broke my back, and I’ve been in a wheelchair ever since,” Rose told CNN. The accident didn’t stop the enthusiastic teen from engaging in life. She had good friends and parents
Continue ReadingSome buildings in Minneapolis were vandalized and looted late Thursday and early Friday, police said, amid protests over authorities’ fatal shooting of a suspect during an arrest attempt. While trying to arrest a person wanted on a felony warrant in a parked car in Minneapolis on Thursday afternoon, US Marshals task force members shot the
Continue ReadingFBI Director Christopher Wray likened the challenge posed by the recent spate of damaging ransomware attacks on the US to the September 11 terrorist attacks in a new interview and called for a similar sense of urgency and response. “There are a lot of parallels, there’s a lot of importance, and a lot of focus
Continue ReadingA British architecture practice has revealed plans to build a luxury floating island resort made from recovered ocean plastic at a remote location in the Indian Ocean. Margot Krasojević, founder of Margot Krasojević Architecture, told CNN that the 75-room hotel concept has funding to be built, though she did not disclose the financial backer. The
Continue ReadingAmericans are gearing up for a celebratory summer by buying more lipstick, dressy clothing and condoms. And bars are ready to greet them. During the pandemic, bars faced strict restrictions. Along with restaurants, they were ordered to close their doors for months. When they started to reopen, curfews were set in place, and distancing rules
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden on Friday touted the progress the US has made in its recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and argued now is the time to “seize on the economic momentum” and pass his large-scale infrastructure proposal. “While our progress is undeniable, it is not assured,” Biden said after the government reported Friday morning that 559,000
Continue ReadingA top cleric in Germany’s Catholic Church has offered to resign as the Archbishop of Munich, saying he shared “responsibility for the catastrophe of sexual abuse” by church officials. “In essence, it is important to me to share the responsibility for the catastrophe of the sexual abuse by Church officials over the past decades,” Cardinal
Continue ReadingA statue of colonial slave trader Edward Colston has gone on public display in Bristol, England, almost a year after it was toppled during Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the city. On June 7 last year, demonstrators denouncing historic and systemic racism and oppression defaced the controversial monument with red and blue graffiti. They used
Continue ReadingCalifornia workers will no longer be required to wear face masks in the workplace, as long as all employees in a single room are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to new rules approved Thursday by California’s Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board. The change, expected to be effective June 15, comes after the board
Continue ReadingThe US is pushing to have 70% of adults get at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by July 4, but an expert said that number is important to reach at the state level too — and those states who are falling well below may be vulnerable to another outbreak. “There are 12 states
Continue ReadingAmerica’s job market recovery picked up some steam in May, with 559,000 positions added back to the economy. It was a second sizable miss of analyst expectations after a big disappointment in April. Economists had predicted 650,000 jobs added in May. The unemployment rate fell to 5.8%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. This
Continue ReadingRussian tennis player Yana Sizikova was arrested in Paris on Thursday evening for sports corruption and fraud in an organized group, two French law enforcement sources have told CNN. She was arrested and taken into custody on Thursday for “sports corruption and fraud in an organized group, concerning acts that may have been committed in
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story RALEIGH, North Carolina (WTVD) — Twenty-seven days. That’s how long tenants at a Raleigh apartment complex have to find a new place to live. The units in southeast Raleigh, just off MLK Blvd., were recently sold. The low-income tenants who live there were told last month they have
Continue ReadingAs a pediatric infectious disease specialist, Dr. Amy Edwards has fielded a lot of questions from worried parents during the pandemic. As case numbers drop — among children, Covid-19 cases have fallen to levels not seen since October — the question she’s getting is: Do younger children really need to be vaccinated against Covid-19 when
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