WASHINGTON (AP) — A report by the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Democratic majority details Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election that he lost. His pursuit of fraud claims brought the Justice Department to the brink of chaos and prompted top officials there and at the White House to threaten to resign. The
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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Police in Lawrence say U.S. Marshals have arrested a second suspect in the fatal shooting last month of a Wichita man near the University of Kansas campus. Police say 19-year-old Andrel Darnell Spates Jr., of Lawrence, was arrested Wednesday in Tennessee. Police say Spates is expected to be extradited to Kansas
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By Oren Liebermann, CNN The coronavirus pandemic and inadequate training contributed to the amphibious assault vehicle accident off the southern California coast last July that killed eight Marines and one Sailor, the military found following the conclusion of investigations by the Navy and the Marine Corps. The deaths occurred when an assault amphibious vehicle, or
Continue Reading By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer A major Hollywood strike could be on the horizon for some 60,000 behind-the-scenes workers in the entertainment industry. Over the weekend, members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IASTE) overwhelmingly voted in favor of authorizing a nationwide strike for the first time in its history. The IATSE
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By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer A major Hollywood strike could be on the horizon for some 60,000 behind-the-scenes workers in the entertainment industry. Over the weekend, members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IASTE) overwhelmingly voted in favor of authorizing a nationwide strike for the first time in its history. The IATSE
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Son Heung-min’s late goal has given South Korea a 2-1 win over Syria and kept his team unbeaten in its Asian qualifying group for the 2022 World Cup. Son shot home from close range with one minute remaining. That put South Korea on top of Group A after three games.
Continue ReadingBy James Felton Click here for updates on this story MIDLAND COUNTY, Michigan (WNEM) — John Limon tells us everyday is amazing. It’s a far cry from where he used to be. “You know I was ignorant, arrogant. I didn’t want to progress in life. I thought my life was ruined because I had been
Continue ReadingMariana Toro Washington (CNN) — Estados Unidos y China acordaron tentativamente que el presidente Joe Biden y el presidente Xi Jinping celebrarán una reunión virtual antes de fin de año, como parte de un esfuerzo por garantizar la estabilidad en una de las relaciones más importantes y tensas del mundo, dijo un alto funcionario de
Continue Reading BY KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany has vaccinated millions more people against the coronavirus than previously thought. That means almost 80% of adults in Germany are fully vaccinated and about 84% have received at least one shot, according to the country’s disease control center. The figures are about 3.5 million higher than
Continue Reading By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The head of Oklahoma public schools will switch parties and run as a Democrat to challenge Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt for governor next year. Oklahoma State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister made the announcement Thursday, accusing Stitt of “running our state into the ground.” Hofmeister is a former
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By Jake Kwon and Jack Guy, CNN Netflix has said it will edit scenes featuring a phone number in the smash hit show “Squid Game” after a woman in South Korea said she was inundated with thousands of calls and texts. Kim Gil-young runs a dessert shop in Seongju county and has been using the
Continue Reading TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida is proposing to lift its three-decade ban on catching and killing goliath groupers after wildlife officials argued their numbers have rebounded. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission approved a draft proposal on Wednesday to allow the recreational harvest of 200 goliaths per year. Agency spokeswoman Amanda Nalley says the
Continue Reading PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Temple has named Arthur Johnson the Owls’ new athletic director. Retired Temple basketball coach Fran Dunphy held the job on an interim basis since Pat Kraft left in 2020 to become AD at Boston College. Johnson had been the senior associate athletic director for administration and operations at Texas since 2014.
Continue ReadingBy Joyce Lupiani Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — A 30-year-old Douglasville woman named Terresha Lucas has been charged with making terroristic threats in the Brookmont subdivision of Douglasville. According to the Douglasville Police Department, residents on Manning Drive began receiving notes last December from a person who claimed to be
Continue Reading By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says Russia has the potential to boost natural gas supplies to Europe as surging gas prices put pressure on consumers. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says existing gas transit routes allow for bolstering supplies before the new Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Germany begins operating. Europe’s
Continue Reading By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says Russia has the potential to boost natural gas supplies to Europe as surging gas prices put pressure on consumers. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says existing gas transit routes allow for bolstering supplies before the new Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Germany begins operating. Europe’s
Continue ReadingBy Allen Devlin Click here for updates on this story MARIETTA, Georgia (WGCL) — A father son duo in Marietta were woken up early Wednesday morning by their pet dog, Alaska, barking hysterically on their back porch. “I hear my dog barking, and I went outside and there was something black on her bed that
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By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Allies of former President Donald Trump testified under oath that they did little to check out some of the uncorroborated claims they made about 2020 election fraud before amplifying them on the national stage, according to newly available court records reviewed by CNN. While the bogus fraud claims
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Andrew Lloyd Webber says he now has a therapy dog, thanks, in part, to the trauma of the “Cats” movie. In an interview with Variety, the creator of the legendary musical lamented about the film version of his musical, which he said was “was off-the-scale all wrong.” “There wasn’t really
Continue Reading By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Microsoft says Russia once again accounted for most state-sponsored hacking, with a 58% share of intrusion attempts it detected in the past year. The targets were mostly government agencies and think tanks — in the United States, followed by Ukraine, Britain and European NATO members. The
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