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Ex-Florida State football player acquitted in fatal shooting
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida jury has agreed that a former Florida State football player acted in self-defense when he fatally shot…
Continue ReadingWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida jury has agreed that a former Florida State football player acted in self-defense when he fatally shot…
Continue ReadingBy MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A missing-persons activist says call center workers have been going missing in Mexico since…
Continue ReadingBy Sabrina Souza and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The man who allegedly fatally shot 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 only surrendered…
Continue ReadingBy Byron Manley, Curt Merrill and Renée Rigdon, CNN (CNN) — Millions of people across the Northeast, Midwest and mid-Atlantic are under air…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — About 100 million years ago in what is now Utah, a 10-foot-long (3-meter-long) cousin of duck-billed dinosaurs…
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BONN, Germany (AP) — Environmental campaigners are calling for fossil fuel producers to contribute to a new fund…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — A bronze statue of renowned American author Willa Cather has been unveiled in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol.…
Continue ReadingBy DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s president has promised an early parliamentary election in an apparent…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — A man convicted last month in the shooting death of a father who was camping with his daughters at a California park was…
Continue ReadingBy SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Transgender minors and some adults soon will be limited from accessing puberty…
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After years of isolation over his human rights abuses, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince is…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball has postponed games in New York and Philadelphia on Wednesday night…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at Watergate, the 1970s political scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at some US citizens who have been convicted of spying against the United States. Aldrich Ames…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Mohamed ElBaradei, former director general of the IAEA and Nobel Peace Prize…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at Charles Manson and the 1969 “Manson Family” murders. Personal Birth date: November 12,…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep. Personal Birth date: June 22, 1949 Birth…
Continue ReadingBy MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Pope Francis emerged from a three-hour abdominal surgery at a Rome hospital on Wednesday evening,…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Tommy Franks, retired four-star Army General. Personal Birth date: June 17, 1945…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Korean War. Although hostilities ceased in 1953, there has been no formal end to the war.…
Continue ReadingBy Byron Manley, Curt Merrill and Renée Rigdon, CNN (CNN) — Millions of people across the Northeast, Midwest and mid-Atlantic are under air…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of convicted spy Robert Hanssen. Personal Birth date: April 18, 1944 Death date:…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Edward Snowden, who admitted to leaking information about US surveillance programs…
Continue ReadingBy ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press The Iron Sheik, a former pro wrestler who relished playing a burly, bombastic villain in 1980s battles with some of…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Billy Joel. Personal Birth date: May…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Wimbledon tennis championships. July 3-16, 2023 – Wimbledon takes place in London.…
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji and Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — While administrators discussed the differences in opinion over the district’s LGBTQ+…
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji and Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — While administrators discussed the differences in opinion over the district’s LGBTQ+…
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh and Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — US officials lowered the warning level for Hawaii’s erupting Kīlauea volcano on…
Continue ReadingBy DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky facility built to dispose of deadly Cold War-era chemical weapons is nearing the…
Continue ReadingBy NICK EL HAJJ Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Voters in Kuwait have returned most of their lawmakers to parliament in the…
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The yearslong feud between congressional Republicans and the FBI is reaching a…
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis’ surgery to repair a hernia in his abdominal wall has raised a question about…
Continue ReadingMany Americans are celebrating Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free. For…
Continue ReadingKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan police spokesman says 25 people, including nine children, have died in a minibus accident in the…
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Rory McIlroy says the PGA Tour’s collaboration with Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund makes him feel like a…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Pope Francis has had three hospitalizations since he was elected pope in 2013, and underwent major surgery as a young man to…
Continue ReadingBy ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Lala Kent would like to thank her “Vanderpump Rules” co-stars Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss. Since their…
Continue ReadingNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Vanderbilt will be celebrating its latest national bowling championship at the White House on Monday. The Commodores…
Continue ReadingBy HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Two U.S. senators are asking TikTok to explain what they called “misleading or…
Continue ReadingBy Florencia Trucco, Jimena de la Quintana, Claudia Rebaza and Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — FBI special agents arrived in Peru on Wednesday for…
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Opening statements are underway in the trial of a former Florida sheriff’s…
Continue ReadingCAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — One of the most decorated coaches in women’s hockey history has stepped down after nearly 30 years leading Harvard’s…
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Archaeologists excavating a hilltop sanctuary on the Aegean Sea island of Kythnos have discovered “countless” pottery…
Continue ReadingBy Jeanne Sahadi, CNN New York (CNN) — If you’ve ever faced a situation where you realize you won’t have enough money to pay all your…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Discoveries within the Cradle of Humankind’s limestone caves in South Africa are changing the way…
Continue ReadingBy Parija Kavilanz, CNN New York (CNN) — The US Consumer Product Safety Commission on Tuesday urged parents and caregivers to stop using Boppy…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A solar mission that has been spiraling closer to the sun to unravel its secrets has flown near enough to our…
Continue ReadingBy Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano began erupting on Wednesday morning, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported.…
Continue ReadingBy Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano began erupting on Wednesday morning, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported.…
Continue ReadingBy SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Black prosecutor who stepped into leadership during protests over the fatal…
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has rejected a suggestion that a lack of evidence meant his phone wasn’t hacked by…
Continue ReadingBy HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer PARIS (AP) — Coco Gauff has lost in the French Open quarterfinals to two-time champion Iga Swiatek in a rematch…
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A group of climate activists has claimed responsibility for deflating the tires of sport utility vehicles in Denmark’s…
Continue ReadingBy SARAH RANKIN and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A gunman who opened fire minutes after a high school graduation in…
Continue ReadingLAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The governing body of rowing says it will allow a “limited number” of Russians to return to competition for the…
Continue ReadingBy JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine court has rejected a request for bail by a former opposition senator and…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The war in Ukraine has brought an enormous human toll: Thousands of civilians have been killed, millions have…
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Two men who stepped into 6-inch heels for “Kinky Boots” on Broadway will play the title…
Continue ReadingBy LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nick Farrow wanted what a lot of people do: a child, and a parenting partner. At 45, after a…
Continue ReadingBy GARY FIELDS Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Andrew Young, one of the last surviving members of Martin Luther King Jr.’s inner circle,…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Licht is out after a year as chief executive at CNN, following a series of missteps and…
Continue ReadingBy GARY FIELDS Associated Press People at the epicenter of the fight for voting rights six decades ago are reflecting on the times and their…
Continue ReadingBy GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Joel Finkelstein was an accidental witness to one of the seminal events during the Civil Rights…
Continue ReadingBy GARY FIELDS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Schwerner doesn’t remember how he learned that his younger brother Michael was missing in…
Continue ReadingBy GARY FIELDS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Norman Hill was an activist in the early 1960s fighting against segregation when he made a switch…
Continue ReadingBy Zahid Mahmood, CNN London (CNN) — A UN war crimes court has ruled that 88-year-old Rwandan genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga is no longer…
Continue ReadingBy Gul Tuysuz, CNN Istanbul (CNN) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan swore in a new cabinet over the weekend, ushering in what he has…
Continue ReadingPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has presided over a groundbreaking ceremony for construction of the country’s second…
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The war in Ukraine is top of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s agenda as…
Continue ReadingBy WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — There are very few things that make Scott Bonnett panic. Spending the last 15 years making sure…
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer New York City has filed a lawsuit against Hyundai and Kia, joining a host of other cities beset by a social…
Continue ReadingBELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A U.S. envoy for the Balkans has urged Kosovo and Serbia to deescalate simmering ethnic tensions in the former Serbian…
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German government says it is concerned by the recent detention of a prominent environmental…
Continue ReadingBy PETER SMITH Associated Press Southern Baptists form a core part of the white evangelical Christian bloc that has reliably and overwhelmingly voted…
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer MIAMI (AP) — Lionel Messi has pulled off his latest stunning feat: He is headed to Major League Soccer and joining…
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Three U.S. biologists who are pioneers in microbial and bacteria studies have won Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award for Scientific…
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — Many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck with little to no savings to cushion the blow of a job loss,…
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A former executive at ByteDance, the Chinese company which owns the popular short-video app TikTok,…
Continue ReadingBy NICK KURCZEWSKI Edmunds As car shoppers continue to flock from economy cars to small SUVs, sales are booming for this budget-conscious…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Residents of a Swiss village under threat from a massive rockslide have been allowed back for the first time since they were…
Continue ReadingMEULABOH, Indonesia (AP) — An Australian surfer who was jailed for attacking several people while drunk and naked in Indonesia’s deeply…
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister has chided U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris for speaking out against Prime Minister Benjamin…
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors in the trial of the former school resource officer who stayed outside a Parkland, Florida, high school…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — When an increasingly fractious committee of Federal Reserve policymakers meets next…
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Spain registered its hottest spring on record this year, and its second driest ever, the state meteorological agency says. A…
Continue ReadingBy Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — A federal district court judge on Tuesday granted a motion barring two New York counties from executing…
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN (CNN) — The collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine is one of the biggest…
Continue ReadingBy John Allen, Valentina Di Donato and Antonia Mortensen, CNN Rome (CNN) — Pope Francis underwent a successful, three-hour operation on his…
Continue ReadingANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish lira has tumbled to fresh record lows, extending its slide against the U.S. dollar. The lira weakened by around…
Continue ReadingBy CURT ANDERSON and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A woman accused of shooting and killing a mother in front of her kids last…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany is preparing to host the biggest air deployment exercise in NATO’s history. The show of force is intended to impress allies…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — United Nations judges have declared an elderly Rwandan genocide suspect unfit to…
Continue ReadingBy EVELYNE MUSAMBI and DESMOND TIRO Associated Press MBIRIKANI, Kenya (AP) — Parkeru Ntereka lost almost half of his goat herd to hungry lions that…
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD and MARIA CHENG Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis underwent successful surgery Wednesday to repair a hernia in his…
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — An 18-year-old graduate, Shawn Jackson, and his 36-year-old stepfather, Renzo Smith,…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The global economy is bouncing back from an an energy price spike fed by…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese writer Haruki Murakami says walls are increasingly built and dividing people and countries…
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — One of the children of Ajike “AJ” Owens, the Black woman who authorities say was fatally shot…
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A real estate deal in Jerusalem’s Old City, at the epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian…
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