By Fredreka Schouten, David Wright, Alex Rogers and Melissa Holzberg DePalo, CNN Some of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbents in the Senate have raised enormous sums and head into the midterms with massive war chests, new campaign finance reports show. But they will face a well-funded opposition: In a sign of momentum for the political
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By MARY CLARE JALONICK and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is reaching out to Republican as well as Democratic Senate Judiciary Committee leaders as he works to gain GOP support for his Supreme Court nominee. Biden met Tuesday at the White House with the  top members of the panel that
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By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — An Iran-flagged supertanker carrying more than 2 million barrels of condensate has docked at a Venezuelan port. An independent oil tanker tracking firm says the Starla docked Monday in a seaport in northeastern Venezuela. It’s the first condensate shipment of the year from Iran to
Continue Reading By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban lobbied for a higher volume of Russian natural gas shipments to Hungary during a meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The meeting Tuesday came as tensions continue to soar over Russia’s buildup of troops along its borders with Ukraine.
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN Wordle has taken over the internet. A no-frills daily word game in which players have six tries to guess a new five-letter word each day, the game has become a phenomenon. Every day, social media is alight with users posting the green and yellow boxes indicating their scores. The game is
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL) — In an effort to keep homeless encampments from sprouting up, someone in a Koreatown neighborhood placed boulders on the sidewalk. The walkway and access driveway to Shatto Park was blocked by 26 boulders that neighbors in the area said showed up
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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business In a few years, cars going down a road in a historic section of Detroit will theoretically be able to charge their batteries as they drive. That’s the goal of an Israeli company that is finalizing an agreement with the state of Michigan’s Department of Transportation to build the roughly
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SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — A rare football card featuring Tom Brady in the year he won his first Super Bowl has sold for $118,000 at auction. The 2002 Topps Finest X-Fractor card was one of only 20 featuring the NFL quarterback who won his first Super Bowl on Feb. 3, 2002. He won a total
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By Clare Foran, Manu Raju and Ted Barrett, CNN Key swing vote Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia offered a grim pronouncement on the status of President Joe Biden’s remaining domestic agenda, saying on Tuesday that the Build Back Better act is “dead,” underscoring how the sweeping proposal to expand the social safety net has
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (WFOR) — Damara Holness, the daughter of former Broward mayor Dale Holness, was sentenced to nearly two years in prison on Monday for fraud. Last November, Holness pleaded guilty to lying on a coronavirus relief loan application to fraudulently receive hundreds of
Continue ReadingBy Paul Burton Click here for updates on this story LYNN, Massachussets (WBZ) — A Lynn man says a snowbank blocked his street so he was unable to get home on Saturday night. Lloyd Leslie Brown, who lives on Beacon Hill Avenue, came home late after working a double shift and was forced to spend
Continue Reading By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former lottery computer technician serving a 25-year prison sentence for ongoing criminal conduct by rigging computers to win lottery jackpots for himself, friends and family will be released from an Iowa prison on parole after serving nearly five years. Eddie Tipton was granted release
Continue Reading By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former lottery computer technician serving a 25-year prison sentence for ongoing criminal conduct by rigging computers to win lottery jackpots for himself, friends and family will be released from an Iowa prison on parole after serving nearly five years. Eddie Tipton was granted release
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El secretario de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos, Alejandro Mayorkas, fue recibido con preocupación y frustración durante las reuniones con agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza de EE.UU. en varios lugares a lo largo de la frontera sur la semana pasada, según fuentes familiarizadas con las discusiones y los audios y videos
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By Caroll Alvarado and Jenn Selva, CNN Two campus officers were shot and killed Tuesday during an active shooter situation at Bridgewater College in Virginia, according to college spokesperson Logan Bogert. “I can confirm that a campus police officer and a campus safety officer died from gunshot wounds today,” Bogert told CNN’s Josh Campbell. College
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Circuit investigated delivery driver wages in Missouri using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Spotify wants to be the everything-for-everyone audio company. But it’s 2022, and that’s proving impossible. Neil Young and Joni Mitchell asked Spotify last week to pull their music from the platform because of Joe Rogan, who has made frequent false and inaccurate claims about Covid-19 and vaccines on his very
Continue Reading By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The PGA Tour is set for beautiful weather at Pebble Beach, with one eye on Saudi Arabia. The Saudi-funded Asian Tour has the Saudi International this week that has attracted defending champion Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau. They are among 20 of
Continue Reading ZURICH (AP) — Former England youth international Felix Nmecha has switched to play internationally for Germany after FIFA approved a change of nationality. The 21-year-old midfielder was born in Germany before moving to England and progressing through Manchester City’s academy into the first team before leaving last year for Bundesliga club Wolfsburg. Nmecha started out
Continue Reading The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Autonomous vehicle taxis are up and running in San Francisco and the public has been invited to try one out. Employees of General Motors and its autonomous vehicle subsidiary Cruise have been testing out the service for weeks, but on Tuesday Cruise posted a signup page for anyone
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