By Steve Contorno, CNN A Florida circuit court judge signaled Wednesday that a new congressional map championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is likely unconstitutional, siding with Democrats and voting rights groups who said the map would illegally suppress Black voters in northern Florida. Judge J. Layne Smith, a DeSantis appointee to the 2nd Circuit
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN Maria Alyokhina, a member of the punk group Pussy Riot, which has long protested Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime, said she escaped the country disguised as a food courier. Alyokhina told the New York Times that though she once refused to leave the country despite multiple arrests and periods of imprisonment,
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By Eric Levenson, CNN The corrections official Vicky White and the prisoner Casey White fled a detention facility in Lauderdale County, Alabama, on April 29. They were finally captured by authorities on Monday, May 9, in Evansville, Indiana. In between those 11 days, the guard and the prisoner traveled more than 200 miles through at
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By The Associated Press USA Today sports writer/columnist Jarrett Bell has won the Bill Nunn Jr. Award for journalistic contributions while covering pro football. Bell, who has covered the NFL since 1981 and has been with USA Today since 1993, was selected by the Professional Football Writers of America. He is the 54th award winner
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes (CNN Español) — Marcelo Pecci, asesinado en Colombia este martes, era una figura reconocida a nivel nacional e internacional por su trabajo en la lucha contra el narcotráfico. De “fiscal excepcional” a “servidor intachable”, se han multiplicado los elogios a este funcionario del Ministerio Público de Paraguay que “empezó de abajo”, según la
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By Atika Shubert and Abeer Salman, CNN Mourners flocked to Jerusalem’s streets on Friday to attend the burial of veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead on Wednesday while reporting on a military raid in the West Bank city of Jenin, and were met with violence by Israeli police as they
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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Mike Pence, the 48th vice president of the United States. Personal Birth date: June 7, 1959 Birth place: Columbus, Indiana Birth name: Michael Richard Pence Father: Edward Pence, gas station owner Mother: Nancy Pence-Fritsch Marriage: Karen Pence (1985-present) Children: Michael, Charlotte and Audrey Education: Hanover
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Kyrie Irving may have to show the Brooklyn Nets he’s more than a great basketball player if he wants a future with the team. General manager Sean Marks made clear Wednesday that Irving will have to prove a commitment to being available to his team that wasn’t there this season. After
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge said Wednesday he will lift Donald Trump’s contempt of court order if the former president meets conditions including paying $110,000 in fines he’s racked up for being slow to respond to a civil subpoena issued by the state’s attorney general. Judge
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By Nicole Chavez, CNN Native American children were renamed, told not to use Indigenous languages and had their hair cut at 408 boarding schools in the United States that forced assimilation in the 19th and 20th centuries, the Department of Interior says. The department released on Wednesday a long-awaited review of past efforts by the
Continue Reading BURLINGAME, Calif. (AP) — In a story published May 9, 2022, about Meta’s first physical store, The Associated Press erroneously referred to Meta’s virtual reality headset as Oculus. The headset is called Meta Quest 2. The AP also referred to the Ray-Ban Stories glasses as AR glasses. They are smart glasses.
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — El exjefe de la Policía Nacional de Honduras Juan Carlos Bonilla, quien fue entregado este martes a las autoridades de Estados Unidos, será presentado este miércoles ante una jueza federal del Distrito Sur de Nueva York. Según un comunicado del Departamento de Justicia, Bonilla fue procesado con cargos de supuestamente
Continue Reading By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The European Union will no longer recommend medical masks be worn at airports and on planes starting next week amid the easing of coronavirus restrictions across the bloc. Member states can still require them, however. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency and the European Centre for Disease
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Cleveland Guardians manager Terry Francona has tested positive for COVID-19 and will be sidelined indefinitely. The 63-year-old is not showing any symptoms. Francona missed much of the past two seasons with a variety of health issues. Guardians bench coach DeMarlo Hale will manage Wednesday’s series finale against the White Sox. Hale filled
Continue Reading By Annie Grayer, Ryan Nobles and Zachary Cohen, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol is taking the extraordinary step of sending subpoenas to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other Republican lawmakers who have rejected the panel’s requests to voluntarily cooperate. In addition to McCarthy, the
Continue Reading ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s top prosecutor disclosed plans Wednesday for the first war crimes trial of a captured Russian soldier, as fighting raged in the east and south and the Kremlin entertained the possibility of annexing a corner of the country it seized early in the invasion. Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said her office
Continue Reading By MARK LONG AP Pro Football Writer JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Placekicker Josh Lambo’s lawsuit against the Jacksonville Jaguars could uncover more details about former coach Urban Meyer’s tumultuous NFL tenure. Lambo’s attorney is seeking a host of records pertaining to Meyer’s time with the team, including “any documentation whatsoever of abusive or toxic workplace
Continue Reading SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Airbnb says it’s making the biggest changes in a decade to the way people search its site for short-term rental homes. Airbnb said Wednesday that it is adding more than 50 categories for searches. Currently, most people search Airbnb by entering dates and a location. Now they’ll be able to search
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By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Inflation may be slowing just a bit, but food prices are on fire. Food prices were 9.4% higher in April 2022 than in April 2021 — the largest annual increase in 41 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Wednesday. Grocery prices jumped 10.8% for the year. (The prices do
Continue Reading DUBLIN, Ga. (AP) — A French manufacturer says it will restart the fiberglass furnace at a Georgia plant it purchased in 2019. Saint-Gobain says it will invest $28 million and hire 400 new workers in Dublin, Georgia. Saint-Gobain’s ADFORS unit bought the plant from a bankrupt Latvian company for $17.5 million in 2019. The original
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