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Month: March 2024

Woman recalls terrifying carjacking in Trenton by man suspected of carrying out fatal shootings in Pennsylvania

KYW By Madeleine Wright, Ryan Hughes Click here for updates on this story     TRENTON, New Jersey (KYW) — A 26-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting three family members in Bucks County, Pennsylvania was tracked to Trenton, New Jersey Saturday afternoon before being taken into custody nearly nine hours after the killings. Officials believe Andre Gordon

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Woman recalls terrifying carjacking in Trenton by man suspected of carrying out fatal shootings in Pennsylvania

By Madeleine Wright, Ryan Hughes Click here for updates on this story     TRENTON, New Jersey (KYW) — A 26-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting three family members in Bucks County, Pennsylvania was tracked to Trenton, New Jersey Saturday afternoon before being taken into custody nearly nine hours after the killings. Officials believe Andre Gordon Jr.

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Truck fire damages several nearby boats

WBZ By Riley Rourke Click here for updates on this story     NEWBURYPORT, Massachusetts (WBZ) — A pickup truck that caught fire in Newburyport damaged several nearby boats in a yacht yard on Saturday. Firefighters were called to Windward Yacht Yard around 10:30 a.m. after a generator in the back of a pickup truck caught fire.

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‘Dangerously high levels’ of E. coli found in Chattahoochee River, environmental group says

By Atlanta News First staff Click here for updates on this story     ATLANTA, Georgia (WANF) — An environmental group that monitors the Chattahoochee River says it detected “dangerously high levels” of E. coli downstream from an Atlanta wastewater treatment plant. According to Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, the City of Atlanta’s R.M. Clayton Water Reclamation Center is the

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Fact check: Trump, telling a completely fictional story, falsely claims he released ‘the tape’ of his Zelensky call

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump told an entirely fictional story on Saturday about how he had supposedly outwitted his Democratic opponents by releasing “the tape” of the 2019 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that was a key factor in Trump’s first impeachment. Speaking at a Saturday campaign rally

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Officials in breakaway Transnistria blame Ukrainian drone strike after military site explosion

A drone strike at a military installation in Moldova’s breakaway republic of Transnistria has destroyed a helicopter and ignited a fire. The area’s pro-Russian authorities blamed the Sunday strike on Ukraine. Russia bases about 1,500 troops in Transnistria, nominally as peacekeepers, guarding huge Soviet-era weapons and ammunition stockpiles at the military depot on Cobasna. The

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Supreme Court to debate whether White House crosses First Amendment line on social media disinformation

By John Fritze and Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — For doctors like Eileen Barrett, a pending Supreme Court case challenging the government’s ability to communicate with social media companies isn’t principally a fight about the fraught politics of online speech. Instead, they say, it’s a matter of life and death. “I have seen countless statements

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Man faces charges in two states after alleged killings of family members in Pennsylvania

LEVITTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a man faces murder charges in Pennsylvania and carjacking and weapons charges in New Jersey after allegedly killing three family members and evading law enforcement for hours as police mobilized in two states. Court documents indicate that 26-year-old Andre Gordon Jr. has been charged in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with

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Netanyahu tells CNN Schumer’s call for Israel election was ‘totally inappropriate’

By Radina Gigova and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that comments from US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer calling for new elections in Israel were “totally inappropriate.” In a Senate speech that upended longstanding US policy, Schumer — who is the highest-ranking Jewish American in the US government

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Netanyahu rails against US criticism and says Israel won’t stop until ‘total victory’ is achieved

By TIA GOLDENBERG and RAVI NESSMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is railing against international criticism of his government amid the devasting war with Hamas. Netanyahu spoke days after U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called on Israel to hold new a election and said Netanyahu had “lost

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Start your week smart: Fani Willis, Russian election, Realtor commissions, Pence endorsement, arrest in poisoning

CNN By Faith Karimi and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — The public absence of Catherine, Princess of Wales, has morphed into an international punchline with amateur detectives combining real concern with outlandish conspiracy. Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart. The weekend that was • Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis

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Start your week smart: Fani Willis, Russian election, Realtor commissions, Pence endorsement, arrest in poisoning

By Faith Karimi and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — The public absence of Catherine, Princess of Wales, has morphed into an international punchline with amateur detectives combining real concern with outlandish conspiracy. Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart. The weekend that was • Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can

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‘Knock it off’: Speaker Mike Johnson tries to stop Republicans from campaigning against each other in bitter primary battles

By Manu Raju and Melanie Zanona, CNN House Republicans, who have seen their time in the majority devolve into a seemingly endless series of internal party feuds, now have a new problem: GOP lawmakers targeting other sitting members in their primaries. In at least four primaries – in South Carolina, Illinois, Texas and Virginia –

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‘Been there before’: Haitian community leaders urge caution as Florida deploys troops to halt potential migrant surge

By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Eliantes Jean Jacques, a Haitian immigrant who has lived in Florida for more than three decades, is long familiar with the political instability, economic turmoil, and natural disasters that have left his homeland teetering on the precipice of collapse. But Haiti’s recent descent into gang-fueled lawlessness and chaos, Jean

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Biden team raised $53 million in February, entering general election with major cash advantage

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s campaign effort brought in $53 million in February, a sign of accelerating donor interest over a month that saw the election rematch crystalize between Biden and former President Donald Trump. The figure, which includes funds from Biden’s campaign, the Democratic National Committee and related joint fundraising

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Embarcación ‘descargó accidentalmente’ 1900 litros de combustible diesel frente a la costa del norte de California, dice la Guardia Costera

Sofía Barruti (CNN) — Un buque de la Guardia Costera de Estados Unidos “descargó accidentalmente” unos 1900 litros de combustible diésel frente a la costa del norte de California, dijo el Distrito 11 de la rama militar en un comunicado de prensa. El guardacostas Alder, una boya auxiliar de 68 metros, se dirigía a la

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A Pennsylvania man killed 3 people, including his 13-year-old sister, police say. Here’s what we know

By Dalia Faheid and Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — A 26-year-old man is facing murder and other criminal charges after allegedly killing three people, including his 13-year-old sister, at two different homes in Pennsylvania before carjacking a driver and fleeing to New Jersey. In Pennsylvania, Andre Gordon is facing murder, burglary, and assault charges, along

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How a surprising detail in bank records helped a historian bust a longstanding myth about Irish immigrants

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — Tyler Anbinder didn’t know what he’d find when he started digging into a vast trove of records that had been locked inside a bank — and inaccessible to the public — for nearly 150 years. One detail immediately caught the historian’s attention: The accounts described in the bank’s ledgers had much

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Formed in the Cold War, former members of Germany’s Red Army Faction are still on the run

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — German authorities have been tracking down the former members of the Red Army Faction (RAF), a now-defunct Cold War-era militant group, who have been on the run for nearly 30 years. Dubbed the “RAF pensioners” by German media and among Europe’s most wanted people, the female member of a fugitive trio was arrested last

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Vuelve el invierno en EE.UU.: un cambio importante en el patrón se producirá a principios de la próxima semana

Sofía Barruti (CNN) — Después de semanas de calor primaveral, partes de Estados Unidos volverán brevemente al invierno la próxima semana, con temperaturas por debajo de cero posibles para gran parte de la mitad oriental del país. Este martes marca el inicio oficial de la primavera astronómica en el Hemisferio Norte después del invierno más

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Ukraine appeals to citizens under Russian occupation to ignore Putin’s ‘pseudo elections’

By Andrew Carey, Olga Voitovych, Maria Kostenko, Josh Pennington and Darya Tarasova, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s government has told citizens living in Russian-occupied territories to turn their backs on what they call Moscow’s pseudo-elections, which culminate on Sunday and are widely assumed to see Vladimir Putin returned as president for six more years. For Kyiv

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Niger ends military agreement with US, calls it ‘profoundly unfair’

By Mitchell McCluskey and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Niger’s military government announced that it has ended an accord with the US that allowed military personnel and civilian staff from the Department of Defense to operate in Niger – days after holding high-level talks with US diplomatic and military officials this week. “The government of Niger, taking into account the aspirations and interests of its people, decides with full

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