Railroad company BNSF is asking a federal court to throw out lawsuits over a deadly Chariton County Amtrak crash in a move some passengers’ attorneys are calling “unconstitutional.”
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By PIA SARKAR Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — As if there wasn’t enough tension. After days of speeches by world leaders taking subtle and not-so-subtle shots at Russia for its invasion of Ukraine during the annual U.N. General Assembly, in walked Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to address the Security Council on Thursday. He
Continue Reading By MICHAEL R. SISAK and BERNARD CONDON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general isn’t arresting former President Donald Trump even though she says her three-year investigation uncovered potential crimes in the way he ran his real estate empire. Instead, Democrat Letitia James announced a civil lawsuit seeking $250 million and a
Continue Reading By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — A federal appeals court has rejected Alabama’s attempt to proceed with the execution of an inmate who claims the state lost his paperwork selecting an alternative to lethal injection. In a 2-1 decision, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction preventing the state
Continue Reading By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MILWAUKEE (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has met with college students and Latino leaders in Milwaukee during a visit meant to energize voters weeks before an election in which Wisconsin’s Democratic governor, Tony Evers, and Republican U.S. senator, Ron Johnson, are on the ballot. Harris also spoke
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CNN’s Amy Cassidy and Jorge Engels Icelandic police say they have arrested four men for alleged “preparations for terrorist acts” — an unprecedented situation for the tiny country. The four Icelandic men, all in their 30s, were detained “in connection with an investigation into planned preparations for terrorist acts,” said Gunnar Hörður Garðarsson, Iceland’s National
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By Paul LeBlanc, CNN French President Emmanuel Macron is warning about a “crisis of democracies,” including in the United States, following years of “pressure” and “destabilization” efforts in an exclusive US interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. Asked by Tapper if he’s worried about American democracy, Macron replied, “I worry about all of us.” “I hate
Continue Reading By Sana Noor Haq, CNN Vladimir Putin’s announcement of increased military conscription to bolster Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine shows that the Russian President “has been outsmarted” by Kyiv, UK Prime Minister Liz Truss told CNN in an exclusive and wide-ranging interview. The new British leader, who takes power at a time of historic upheaval, told
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco, CNN Some $45.6 billion in pandemic unemployment benefits may have been fraudulently paid to criminals between March 2020 and April 2022, the US Department of Labor’s Office of the Inspector General said in a memorandum on Thursday. It’s the latest report to identify widespread schemes to steal money from
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By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Kawhi Leonard has been cleared for 5-on-5 basketball again, more than a year since his last NBA game. Los Angeles Clippers President Lawrence Frank said Thursday that the team will proceed with some caution with Leonard. The two-time NBA Finals MVP and five-time All-Star tore the ACL in his
Continue Reading By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say a Republican-led proposal to ban abortion nationwide after 15 weeks would endanger the health of women and have severe consequences for physicians. The measure introduced last week by Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina
Continue Reading By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Stark repudiation by federal judges he appointed. Far-reaching fraud allegations by New York’s attorney general. It’s been a week of widening legal troubles for Donald Trump, laying bare the challenges piling up as the former president operates without the protections afforded by the White House. The bravado
Continue Reading By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A referendum on the Montana ballot in November raises the prospect of criminal charges for health care providers unless they take all medically appropriate and reasonable actions to preserve the life of an infant born alive, including after an attempted abortion. Supporters say the proposed
Continue Reading By Gregory Wallace, CNN A person may take knowing the local time for granted, but an official review revealed that there is no single, accurate map showing the nation’s time zones and local observance of Daylight Saving Time. Federal transportation officials are now at work creating an accurate map of the nation’s time zones, according
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By David Goldman, CNN Business Boeing and its former CEO Dennis Muilenburg agreed to pay hefty fines to settle charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission that they misled the public about the safety of the 737 Max following two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019. The SEC alleges that, following an October 2018 crash
Continue Reading By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the weeks since the FBI searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and seized about 100 documents with classification markings, the former president has insisted he had declassified the information. He made that point again in a Fox News interview Wednesday when he said a president can declassify
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed Former President Donald Trump’s vague claims that he may have declassified documents taken to Mar-a-Lago are running into a brick wall in the way the litigation over the search is playing out in court. The US 11th Circuit Court of Appeals — in an unanimous opinion from an appellate panel that included
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Los canadienses se preparan para lo que podrÃa ser la tormenta más fuerte en tocar la costa de su paÃs. El huracán Fiona ha azotado el Caribe, se pronostica que rozará las Bermudas como una peligrosa tormenta de categorÃa 3 y no muestra signos de que vaya a desacelerar antes de
Continue ReadingBy Gerardo Lemos and Caitlin Hu, CNN The government of Nicaragua abruptly took CNN en Español off the air this week, shortly after 10 p.m. local time on Wednesday. It has not explained why it removed CNN’s Spanish-language service, and did not respond to CNN’s request for comment. The cable operators carrying CNN en Español
Continue ReadingRocÃo Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — Al menos 11 policÃas resultaron heridos este jueves durante una protesta que se llevó a cabo frente a la FiscalÃa General de la República en la Ciudad de México, informó en un comunicado la SecretarÃa de Seguridad Ciudadana capitalina. Según la entidad, los agentes resultaron con lesiones de “esquirlas de
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