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Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The head of an oversight board that investigates allegations of misconduct by New York City police officers has…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The head of an oversight board that investigates allegations of misconduct by New York City police officers has…
Continue ReadingRIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — At least a half-dozen homes lay in ruins Monday after one of many dangerous wildfires in the West suddenly swept into a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fresh off victories in other legal cases, Donald Trump on Monday pressed a New York appeals court to overturn the…
Continue ReadingRUIDOSO, N.M. (AP) — A southern New Mexico village that was ravaged by wildfires in June and then battered off-and-on by flooding across burn scars…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from his reelection bid and his endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian legislators have begun an investigation into the alleged importation of contaminated fuel into the…
Continue ReadingCNN By Eric Levenson, Jillian Sykes and Brad Parks, CNN (CNN) — Body-camera footage showing the fatal police shooting of Sonya Massey, a…
Continue ReadingDAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Police say one person has been injured during a shooting inside an Iowa mall. Davenport Police in a Facebook post said the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic Party plans to push forward with a virtual roll call in which delegates to its convention can…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials are investigating an incident in which a Southwest Airlines jet flew as low as 150 feet over water while it was…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The top U.N. envoy for Syria told the Security Council the threat of terrorism is “resurging” with…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — An armed group has killed at least 26 villagers in central Mali near the border with Burkina Faso. A local…
Continue ReadingAP Technology Writer A week after Elon Musk endorsed Donald Trump for president, President Joe Biden’s team used Musk’s social media platform X…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Several Republican lawmakers seized on gender and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at the Secret Service as among the reasons…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new Pentagon strategy says the U.S. must invest more to upgrade sensors, communications and space-based…
Continue ReadingBy Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Being a pageant winner takes more than beauty and talent. The newly crowned Miss Kansas Alexis Smith showed that…
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer The Angelina Jolie-directed war film “Without Blood,” a documentary about Bruce Springsteen and Mike Leigh’s contemporary…
Continue ReadingBy Michael Mitsanas, CNN (CNN) — General Min Aung Hlaing, leader of Myanmar’s military junta, became the country’s interim president on…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, will step down from his role by the end of 2025. Walker has…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Ethics Committee has voted unanimously to review allegations that Sen. Bob Menendez violated Senate rules. The panel…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri judge on Monday overturned the conviction of Christopher Dunn, who has spent more than 30 years in…
Continue ReadingBENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for kidnapping the manager of a Michigan big-box store in a scheme to…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press If you’re trying to get up to speed on Vice President Kamala Harris’ swift emergence as Democrats’ possible…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The EU’s top diplomat says Hungary won’t be allowed to host a strategic EU meeting next month.…
Continue ReadingA Massachusetts woman has been sentenced to three years of probation for calling in a fake bomb threat at Boston Children’s Hospital as it faced a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says he spoke with Vice President Kamala Harris soon after she became the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Bernice Johnson Reagon, a musician and scholar who used her rich, powerful contralto voice in the service…
Continue ReadingAP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kamala Harris is smashing fundraising records as the Democratic Party’s donors — big and small —…
Continue ReadingBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia has received the first two of the 14 new F-16 military jets from the United States whose delivery was pushed…
Continue ReadingBy Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Uganda’s hardline President Yoweri Museveni has warned citizens planning anti-corruption protests Tuesday…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana businessman who sent more than 800 elderly residents from his seven nursing homes to ride out…
Continue ReadingAP Music Writer Eminem’s latest album, “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce),” has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, unseating…
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer Turner Sports intends to continue its longtime relationship with the NBA. Warner Bros. Discovery informed the league Monday that it…
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Danaher, CNN London (CNN) — The European Union’s next meetings of foreign and defense ministers scheduled in August will be moved…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Will Maya Rudolph’s “funt,” aka Vice President Kamala Harris, be back on “Saturday Night Live?” Speculation has been…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor says President Joe Biden’s “symptoms have almost…
Continue ReadingNEKIMI, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say a plane crashed in a Wisconsin farm field near the site of an air show, killing the two people on board. The…
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson, Jillian Sykes and Brad Parks, CNN (CNN) — Body-camera footage showing the fatal police shooting of Sonya Massey, a…
Continue ReadingAP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last surviving original member of the beloved Motown group the Four Tops that was…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — California officials say the largest trial court in the country is closed after a ransomware attack shut down its computer…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Cleveland-Cliffs says it will produce electrical transformers at a West Virginia facility that closed…
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Charlie Woods shot a 12-over 82 on Monday in the U.S. Junior Amateur at Oakland Hills. The…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. House leaders are calling on CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to testify to Congress about the cybersecurity company’s…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to end his campaign for reelection brings a new element of uncertainty…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Mohamed Ziane, a Moroccan former government minister, has been sentenced to five years in prison in a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Black voters are expressing a mix of hope and worry over Joe Biden’s exit from the presidential race and the…
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Commissioner Jim Phillips was eager to tout the financial gains of the Atlantic Coast Conference as it…
Continue ReadingNIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — CSX says one of its locomotives derailed and struck a residential garage in Niagara Falls. The railways says no one was…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Even before President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race, allies of former President…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a daunting to-do list. Vice President Kamala Harris suddenly needs to whip up a presidential campaign…
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the head of Myanmar’s military-government, has also taken the position of acting president to replace…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K.’s new home secretary says a scrapped plan by former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to send some…
Continue ReadingA defamation suit against Fox News by a government official who served on a short-lived U.S. government media disinformation board was dismissed…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida man who boasted that he was the “Wolf of Airbnb” was sentenced Monday to over four years in prison…
Continue ReadingAs support coalesces around Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s nominee for president, the conversation has turned to a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia’s president has formally appointed a new government after lawmakers in the Baltic country gave the green…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Sonya Massey ducked and apologized to an Illinois sheriff’s deputy seconds before he shot the Black…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A national nonprofit that aids low-income people behind bars is reopening its Atlanta branch. The decision comes…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Maduro should…
Continue ReadingAP Health Writer A new study suggests that giving cash to poor people could result in fewer emergency department visits. The study, which published…
Continue ReadingINDIANOLA, Miss. (AP) — Authorities say three 19-year-olds were killed and more than a dozen people were injured in a weekend shooting outside a…
Continue ReadingAP Technology Writer “Scaling up” is a catchphrase in the artificial intelligence industry as tech companies rush to improve their AI systems…
Continue ReadingA truck driver in Ohio has been charged in a chain-reaction crash involving a charter bus that killed six people and injured 18 last November. Jacob…
Continue ReadingAP Medical Writer Swallowing a handful of pills is a daily ritual for many people, from young adults coping with anxiety to older adults managing…
Continue ReadingBUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Henry Nowak of New York has died. The Democrat who represented the Buffalo area in Congress for 18 years…
Continue ReadingSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities in Utah lifted evacuation orders for a wildfire in Salt Lake City that threatened neighborhoods near the state…
Continue ReadingPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has announced $60 million in additional humanitarian assistance to Haiti…
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s Interior Ministry says police have raided the imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s some background information about Willis Tower, formerly the Sears Tower, located in Chicago. Facts The…
Continue ReadingTALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The head of a banned Belarusian opposition party who had been behind bars for two years as been released. The development…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Hunter Biden has dropped a lawsuit accusing Fox News of illegally publishing explicit images of him as part of a streaming series.…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A first-term Tennessee congressman backed by former President Donald Trump will face a Republican…
Continue ReadingMILWAUKEE (AP) — Police say a 17-year-old girl was killed and eight other teenagers were wounded in a shooting at a Milwaukee park where dozens of…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said Monday that her agency failed in its mission to protect former…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered an immediate ban on the mostly Chinese-run online…
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Diamond, CNN Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu landed in Washington on Monday to far less fanfare…
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — U.S. auto safety regulators are investigating complaints that some Ram pickup trucks and Jeep Wagoneer SUVs can lose power, shift…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s largest music festival struck a different chord this year. Gone were the international…
Continue ReadingBy Abeer Salman and Lauren Izso, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Masked Israeli settlers attacked a group of Palestinian farmers and foreign activists…
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer “Nickel Boys,” an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, will open the 62nd New York Film Festival in…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A Russian court says it has convicted Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free…
Continue ReadingAP National Writer The Olympics’ ever-expanding quest to draw in young fans is meeting them where they are — on Roblox. The U.S. Olympic team and…
Continue ReadingNICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus has put on display artifacts — some of them thousands of years old — that were returned after a Turkish art…
Continue ReadingAP Airlines Writer Delta Air Lines is struggling for a fourth straight day to recover from the tech outage, even as other airlines are returning to…
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer From training and competing to preparing bottles for feedings and changing diapers, some of the Olympians at the Paris Games will be…
Continue ReadingBy Radina Gigova and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — At least six people died after a gunman entered a home for the elderly in Croatia on…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Belarus’ foreign minister is to visit North Korea for a rare trip expected to focus on forging…
Continue ReadingAP Basketball Writer LeBron James wasn’t totally sure what the opening ceremony was all about when he was picked for his first Olympics in 2004.…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A British-Canadian couple who were attempting to sail across the Atlantic have been found dead on an island off the…
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Welcome to a special edition of 5 Things, where we catch you up on the latest developments in President…
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Welcome to a special edition of 5 Things, where we catch you up on the latest developments in President Joe…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A court in the United Arab Emirates has sentenced dozens of Bangladeshi nationals to prison,…
Continue ReadingBy Kaila Nichols, CNN (CNN) — On July 7, emergency dispatchers in North Carolina received a call from a passerby that a child was walking by…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN London (CNN) — Prince George has turned 11, and as per tradition his proud parents have released an official portrait to…
Continue ReadingAP National Writers PARIS (AP) — Paris is a popular destination for tourists, of course. The food and drink. The art and history. The landmarks.…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DARUVAR, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police say an armed assailant entered a care home for older people on Monday and opened fire,…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh is still without internet for a fifth day and the government declared a public holiday Monday,…
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European planemaker Airbus plans to show off its newest passenger jet with daily flight demonstrations during one…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Police say a man has died after being hit by lightning near the summit of Germany’s highest peak. The 18-year-old resident of…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $4.3 billion in grants to fund projects in 30 states to reduce…
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