Justices’ past affirmative action views, in their own words
By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Supreme Court that is the most diverse in history will hear two cases Monday challenging the…
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By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Supreme Court that is the most diverse in history will hear two cases Monday challenging the…
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By GARY FIELDS Associated Press Those of us of a certain age remember the threat. The 1960s were a time of domestic turmoil, yes. But they came, too,…
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By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Asssociated Press DETROIT (AP) — In one of the country’s premier battleground states, a last-ditch effort from Michigan…
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By Niamh Kennedy and Abdul Nasir, CNN Violent clashes broke out between security forces and student protesters at university campuses across Iran on…
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By DANIEL COLE Associated Press SAINTES-MARIE DE LA MER, France (AP) — In a makeshift arena in the French coastal village Aigues-Mortes, young men…
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By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials say more than 100 people have died in one of the most destructive…
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By FOSTER KLUG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In one moment, thousands of Halloween revelers crammed into the narrow,…
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By JEFF AMY and BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and Democratic challenger Stacey Abram s…
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By Gloria Pazmino, Nicole Grether and Emma Tucker, CNN New York has agreed to pay $26 million to settle lawsuits filed on behalf of two men whose…
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The University of Kentucky says one its students was among more than 150 people killed when a huge Halloween party crowd…
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MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — At least five tornadoes have been confirmed after a severe weather outbreak Saturday along the Mississippi and Alabama Gulf…
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By Amir Vera and Chuck Johnston, CNN Two St. Louis schools will remain closed going into this week, just days after a 19-year-old gunman forced his…
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By Michelle Watson, Sara Weisfeldt, Hannah Sarisohn and Eric Levenson, CNN The multiple antisemitic messages that appeared in public spaces in…
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NEW YORK (AP) — The city of New York is settling lawsuits filed on behalf of two men who were exonerated last year for the 1965 assassination of…
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By Kiely Westhoff and Samantha Beech, CNN Four people, including a 10-month-old baby girl, were killed in a fire at a home in the Bronx early Sunday…
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By Kiely Westhoff and Samantha Beech, CNN Four people, including a 10-month-old baby girl, were killed in a fire at a home in the Bronx early Sunday…
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk on Sunday tweeted a link to an unfounded rumor about the attack on House…
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PRAGUE (AP) — Populist billionaire Andrej Babis has announced his intention to run for the largely ceremonial post of the Czech Republic’s…
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By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Witnesses say a Haitian journalist has died after being shot in the head when police…
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By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Soon after casting his vote in Brazil’s presidential election in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday,…
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By Swati Gupta and Hira Humayun, CNN The death toll has risen to 134 after a suspension bridge collapsed in India‘s western state of Gujarat on…
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By Alaa Elassar, Rebekah Riess and Joe Sutton, CNN A former northern California police officer imprisoned in connection with one fatal shooting will…
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WESTMINSTER, Calif. (AP) — Police have arrested two suspects who allegedly kidnapped four people, including a teenage girl and a 6-month-old baby,…
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By Claudia Dominguez, CNN Four people, including one woman and three men, were fatally shot in an Aurora, Colorado home early Sunday morning in a…
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PARIS (AP) — France’s foreign ministry has announced the release of a French citizen working in wildlife conservation who had been abducted two…
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PRAGUE (AP) — Tens of thousands of Czechs have gathered in the capital to demonstrate their solidarity with Ukraine and support for democratic…
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian students clashed with security forces at universities across Iran on Sunday, Iranian media reported, as…
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By Swati Gupta and Hira Humayun, CNN The death toll has risen to 134 after a suspension bridge collapsed in India‘s western state of Gujarat on…
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy has been fatally shot in Northern California. The teenager was found lying on the front lawn of a home…
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ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man accused of killing a sheriff’s deputy in June has died in hospice care. News outlets quote the…
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By BABAR DOGAR and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan has laid to rest a journalist crushed to death while covering a…
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By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Tennessee moved into a tie with Ohio State for No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll…
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By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Sports Writer New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and other members of the sports world are condemning recent incidents…
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By JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda’s government is accusing neighboring Congo of escalating tensions between the two…
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MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The family of former Tennessee governor and U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander says his wife of 53 years has died at age 77. Known…
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BERLIN (AP) — Two environmental activists glued themselves to a dinosaur display at Berlin’s Natural History Museum on Sunday in protest at what…
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By Niamh Kennedy and Abdul Nasir, CNN Violent clashes broke out between security forces and student protesters at university campuses across Iran on…
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CLIFTON, Va. (AP) — Robert F. Horan Jr., who secured a murder conviction of D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo during his four-decade tenure as the top…
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MILAN (AP) — The soccer player who was injured in a knife attack at an Italian shopping center has been released from hospital. Pablo Marí was one…
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By Hannah Sarisohn and Alaa Elassar, CNN At least one person is dead and eight more were injured in an overnight shooting in Tallahassee, Florida on…
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By SUDHIN THANAWALA and GARY FIELDS ATLANTA (AP) — Black church leaders in Georgia have organized rallies in a push to get their congregants to…
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By Michelle Watson, Sara Weisfeldt, Hannah Sarisohn and Eric Levenson, CNN The multiple antisemitic messages that appeared in public spaces in…
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By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life in prison this week…
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AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Authorities are searching for a suspect in an overnight shooting that left four people dead at a home in suburban Denver.…
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By Rob Picheta and Gawon Bae, CNN South Korean authorities are investigating the crowd surge that killed at least 154 partygoers in Seoul, as the…
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WYANDOTTE, Mich. (AP) — Trick-or-treating is off limits in a suburban Detroit neighborhood. Why? Well, there’s nothing sweet about bringing home…
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s human rights envoy says she is postponing an official visit to Qatar, after the Gulf nation reacted angrily to German…
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By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The man accused of attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband carried…
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By Wayne Sterling and Holly Yan, CNN Four Michigan State University football players have been suspended while school police investigate a scuffle in…
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By AJIT SOLANKI, KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press MORBI, India (AP) — Military teams were searching Monday for people missing after…
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By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer “ Black Adam,” the Dwayne Johnson-fronted DC superhero film, kept its hold on the No. 1 spot at the North American…
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By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Three former Illinois prison guards face life in prison for a beating that led…
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Police are investigating a shooting in Florida’s capital city that left one dead and eight wounded after “dozens and…
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As he watched a dozen or more unconscious partygoers carried out from a narrow backstreet packed with youngsters dressed…
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BERLIN (AP) — Mevlude Genc, who worked for reconcilition after five members of her family were killed in a racist attack that shook Germany in the…
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LONDON (AP) — An attacker threw firebombs an immigration center in the English port town of Dover before killing himself. Police say two people…
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By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press PREDAPPIO, Italy (AP) — Several thousand black-clad fascist sympathizers chanted and sang in praise of Benito…
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By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Workers in a manufacturing facility in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou appear to have left to…
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By GARY D. ROBERTSON and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Abortion access in several states could hinge on the outcome of…
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HELSINKI (AP) — A venomous 2.2-meter (7 foot) king cobra that escaped from its home in a Swedish zoo has returned back home by itself, bringing a…
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By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — During the Day of the Dead celebrations that take place in late October and early…
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By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Karoline Leavitt recalls being in her New Hampshire college dining hall in 2018,…
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By BASSEM MROUE and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — President Michel Aoun left Lebanon’s presidential palace Sunday, marking the…
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By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The stakes in elections for a pair of North Carolina Supreme Court seats this fall are…
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian motorist who slammed his car into bus stop in the occupied West Bank. It was the…
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By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is taking stock of a newly empowered Xi Jinping as…
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — As the United States and Japan further strengthen their military alliance, they’ve turned to…
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By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will take up the issue of affirmative action again Monday — the second…
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — The results of the regional and local elections in Slovakia have shown the voters didn’t use the ballot to punish the…
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By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia resumed its blockade of Ukrainian ports on Sunday, cutting off urgently needed grain…
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By KIM TONG-HYUNG and ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Itaewon, the neighborhood where at least 151 people were killed in a…
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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN When Pardeep Kaleka first contacted Arno Michaelis, he was looking for answers. It was 2012, just a few weeks after a White…
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By Faith Karimi, CNN As people stock up on Halloween candy, some cities and states are imposing extra measures to make sure sex offenders don’t…
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By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — One of Israel’s most extremist politicians, known for his inflammatory anti-Arab speeches…
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LONDON (AP) — The British government insisted Sunday it has robust cybersecurity for government officials, after a newspaper reported that former…
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By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — World leaders have expressed sadness and condolences after at least 151 people were killed in a crowd…
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By Christina Maxouris, CNN Over the span of a week, four different communities across the United States have grappled with the aftermath of a school…
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By Amir Vera and Chuck Johnston, CNN Two St. Louis schools will remain closed going into this week, just days after a 19-year-old gunman forced his…
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By Sophie Jeong, Gawon Bae, Paula Hancocks, Hilary Whiteman and Jessie Yeung, CNN Most weekends, the narrow alleys of Itaewon, the neon-lit nightlife…
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By DENG MACHOL Associated Press MINGKAMAN, South Sudan (AP) — In a country where the maternal mortality rate is one of the highest in the world, a…
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By Sophie Jeong, Gawon Bae, Paula Hancocks, Hilary Whiteman and Jessie Yeung, CNN Most weekends, the narrow alleys of Itaewon, the neon-lit nightlife…
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By Caroll Alvarado, CNN Less than three months after welcoming twin boys, Amanda and Ed Bystran lost one of them to RSV — now they are hoping…
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By Idris Mukhtar, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Heather Yamour, CNN At least 100 people were killed after two car bombs exploded near Somalia’s…
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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The FIFA World Cup may be bringing as many as 1.2 million fans to Qatar, but…
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN Archivists have uncovered a long-lost historical relic hidden underneath a Christian manuscript: the earliest known map of the…
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By Andy Rose, CNN One lucky lotto player could be in for a very big treat on Halloween night as the Powerball jackpot grows to an estimated $1…
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By Hadas Gold and Richard Allen Greene, CNN Stop us if you’re heard this one before: On Tuesday, Israelis are going to the polls to elect a new…
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Using annual report info from the Energy Information Administration, OhmConnect looked into how the U.S. generates its power, and how the rise of…
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By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Victims of a huge mudslide set off by a storm in a coastal Philippine village that had…
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By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s president says at least 100 people were killed in two car bombings at a busy…
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By KIM TONG-HYUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Koreans mourned and searched for relatives lost in the…
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By MAURICIO SAVERESE and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has done it again: Twenty years after first…
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Powerball jackpot keeps getting larger because players keep losing. It happened again Saturday night as no one matched…
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By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s Republican attorney general has issued an opinion saying county officials can…
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N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Authorities say a French national working in wildlife conservation has been abducted in northeastern Chad by unknown…
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By SEUNG MIN KIM The Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden — accompanied by one of his granddaughters, a first-time voter…
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By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuban state media say at least five people died when a boat off northern Cuba traveling north…
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Gerald Stern, one of the country’s most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited…
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By The Associated Press It happened at a music festival in Houston, a soccer stadium in England, during a hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, in a…
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By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — A gas tanker has exploded near a soccer field in northeastern Baghdad. Security officials…
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