By Nicole Gaouette and Kylie Atwood, CNN The Biden administration hosted the most senior Saudi official to arrive in Washington since the White House distanced itself earlier this year from the kingdom and its defacto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a visit that may signal yet another recalibration in the fraught relationship. Deputy
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By Gregory Lemos and Jason Hanna, CNN A boat from Cuba capsized in the storm-hit Straits of Florida this week, spurring a search in which nine people were still missing Wednesday after 13 were rescued, the US Coast Guard said. Crews of two Coast Guard cutters still were searching for the missing on Wednesday, the
Continue ReadingBy KPTV Staff Click here for updates on this story BENTON COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — Two men were arrested after they threw a firework from a vehicle and started a fire along Highway 34 near Alsea on the Fourth of July, according to the Benton County Sheriff’s Office. On Sunday, at about 4:15 p.m., deputies
Continue ReadingBy Abby Dodge Click here for updates on this story OLATHE, Kansas (KCTV, KSMO) — Olathe is the latest city to consider changing liquor sale times on Sundays. During the last session, Kansas legislators changed sale times statewide. Customers are happy about the potential changes, but the owners of a family-owned liquor store are not
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Brown Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV, KSMO) — The Kansas City, Missouri Police Department is investigating after a shooting happened on Wednesday afternoon and the victim was dropped off at the health department. According to KCPD dispatch, the shooting happened at another location and the victim sustained
Continue ReadingBy WALA Staff Click here for updates on this story BALDWIN COUNTY, Alabama (WALA) — UPDATE: Daphne Police Department has released video of the suspected school vandals. Authorities in Baldwin County are investigating Wednesday after several school campuses experienced vandalism. At least five schools suffered vandalism. They are the high schools in Foley, Fairhope, Daphne
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By Emmet Lyons and Rosanne Roobeek, CNN; with reporting by Reuters Celebrity Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries, known for his investigative work exposing the criminal underworld, is “fighting for his life” after being shot in the Netherlands’ capital. “He was seriously wounded and is fighting for his life,” Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema said
Continue ReadingBy Winnie Dortch Click here for updates on this story KENOSHA, Wisconsin (WDJT) — There’s a new effort to crack down on violence in the city of Kenosha. The Kenosha Coalition Organizing Resolution is made up of violence interrupters. Its’ mission is to diffuse potentially violent situations before police get involved. “Since the Jacob Blake
Continue ReadingBy WABC Staff Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WABC) — The cleanup continues Wednesday after fast-moving thunderstorms and heavy winds carved a path of destruction across the Tri-State Area Tuesday night. While storms moved quickly through the area, gusty winds brought down many trees in New York City and New Jersey.
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British billionaire Richard Branson plans to beat fellow billionaire and rival Jeff Bezos to space. Branson’s company, Virgin Galactic, made a surprise announcement that he will attempt to fly in Virgin’s rocket-powered plane on July 11 — nine days before Bezos’s planned July 20th launch.
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Richard Branson will take a rocket-powered space plane on a 2,400 mile-per-hour ride to the edge of space this weekend. That’s if everything goes according to plan. And there’s plenty that could go wrong. The rocket motor could fail to light up. The cabin could lose pressure and threaten the
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By Megan Marples and Ashley Strickland, CNN The first large flare of the current solar cycle has erupted from the sun. The solar flare happened at sunspot AR2838 at 10:29 a.m. ET on July 3, according to the US Space Weather Prediction Center. Researchers at the center measure the intensities of solar flares on a
Continue ReadingBy WABC Staff Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WABC) — A 6-year-old girl named Negalem from a small village in Ethiopia revealed her face for the first time after undergoing lifesaving surgery to remove a giant, lethal facial tumor. The 12-hour procedure was performed at Lenox Hill Hospital on June 23.
Continue ReadingBy Corin Hoggard Click here for updates on this story FRESNO, California (KFSN) — Fresno has had a frustrating week for the flying public as a fuel shortage has changed plans for hundreds of travelers and left a lot of them stranded. Julie Lucido watched a line of United airplanes going nowhere on Sunday during
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By Al Goodman, CNN Spanish police have arrested three people over the killing of a male nursing assistant in a suspected homophobic attack that prompted protests across the country. The investigation into the death of Samuel Luiz, 24, is ongoing and no motive has been ruled out — including the possibility that it was a
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Este es un resumen de lo reportado esta semana sobre el coronavirus. NOVEDADES DE LA SEMANA La variante delta del coronavirus, una cepa más transmisible y posiblemente más peligrosa, constituye ahora más de la mitad de las nuevas infecciones en Estados Unidos. Es una variante de preocupación a nivel mundial, lo
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By Jason Hanna and Gregory Lemos, CNN Investigators believe golf pro Gene Siller — one of three men found fatally shot on an Atlanta-area golf course Saturday — was killed “because he witnessed an active crime taking place,” police said Tuesday. Police didn’t specify what that crime was, but have said that the two other
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By Emma Tucker, Omar Jimenez and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN At least 233 people were killed and 618 people were injured by gun violence in more than 500 shootings across the country during the Fourth of July weekend, a 26% drop from last year’s holiday weekend, according to the latest data compiled by the Gun Violence
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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Lamborghini on Wednesday unveiled what will be its last V12-powered supercar driven purely on gasoline. While there will be more V12 Lamborghini models in the future, they will be plug-in hybrids, the Italian supercar manufacturer said. Lamborghini, which has built supercars with big 12-cylinder engines for almost 60 years, is
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