By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has announced a more than $1 billion arms sale to Taiwan as U.S.-China tensions escalate over the status of the island. The sale includes $355 million for Harpoon air-to-sea missiles and $85 million for Sidewinder air-to-air missiles. The largest portion of the sale,
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A Capital City High School student was disciplined Thursday after reportedly making threats on social media.
Continue ReadingBy Nicki Brown, Sharif Paget and Kelly Murray, CNN A student at Mergenthaler Vocational Technical High School in Baltimore, Maryland, has died after being shot Friday in the schoolyard, according to Baltimore Police. School had just started for the year on Monday. A suspect approached the victim, 17, during dismissal. The encounter became heated, and
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Tonight: Clouds linger with a few stray showers east of our area. Lows in the upper 60s. Tomorrow: Clouds hang around as a cold front pushes moisture in from the north. This could lead to scattered showers by late afternoon, though nearly all of the area will stay dry. Highs remain comfortable in the mid-70s.
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By Jamie Gangel, Kristen Holmes, Jeremy Herb and Evan Perez, CNN Within a week of the FBI search of former President Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago resort, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows handed over texts and emails to the National Archives that he had not previously turned over from his time in the administration,
Continue Reading DETROIT (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty to murdering four women whose bodies were found in vacant Detroit houses in 2018 and 2019. Wayne County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Maria Miller said 37-year-old Deangelo Martin also pleaded guilty on Friday to sexually assaulting two other women. Martin pleaded guilty just days before he was scheduled
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SYLVANIA, Ohio (AP) — California teenager Lucy Li has the 36-hole lead on the LPGA Tour. The 19-year-old Li had another bogey-free round in the Dana Open. She shot a 64 for a two-shot lead over 19-year-old Ruoning Yin of China and Carlota Ciganda. Li is playing with a lot more freedom than some of
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed and Marshall Cohen, CNN A hearing Thursday in West Palm Beach, Florida, was the first chance former President Donald Trump’s lawyers had to convince US District Judge Aileen Cannon in person that the FBI search warrant on Mar-a-Lago for government records, including those identified as classified, was unwarranted and merited an outside
Continue ReadingBy Cheri Mossburg and Alaa Elassar, CNN A federal judge in Los Angeles dismissed an indictment on Thursday that charged a dive boat captain with manslaughter for the deaths of 34 people after a fire broke out on his vessel on Labor Day 2019. The Conception, a 75-foot dive boat, caught fire and sunk in
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Scores from Week 2 of Mid-Missouri high school football.
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will provide abortion access to veterans and their beneficiaries in cases when the pregnant woman’s life or health is at risk, or in cases of rape or incest — even in states that have made abortions illegal. The VA said the services will be offered
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN Español) — Un ex infante de Marina de Estados Unidos, que es el principal sospechoso de la muerte de su novia en 2016 y que fue arrestado en El Salvador el lunes, se declaró inocente del cargo de homicidio este viernes durante una audiencia en una corte de San Diego, California. Raymond
Continue Reading SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. prosecutors say a tip along with the perseverance of the mother of a woman killed in San Diego in 2016 led to the arrest of her boyfriend who fled to El Salvador and was captured there last month. Raymond McLeod pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in San Diego
Continue Reading VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The Vancouver Canucks signed forward J.T. Miller to a seven-year, $56 million contract Friday. The 29-year-old Miller was Vancouver’s leading scorer last season with 99 points on 32 goals and 67 assists in 80 games. He was set to become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the 2022-23
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — CNN White House correspondent John Harwood says he’s exiting the news channel. In a tweet Friday, he says he was proud of the work he’d done. His departure comes amid other significant changes at CNN. Last month, CNN canceled its weekly “Reliable Sources” media analysis show after three decades on the
Continue Reading By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — After the 2020 election, a Georgia poll worker who was falsely accused of voting fraud by former President Donald Trump was pressured and threatened with imprisonment during a meeting arranged with the help of an ally of the Trump campaign, a prosecutor said in a court filing
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By Ashley Strickland and Katie Hunt, CNN It’s called rocket science for a reason. When NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy was preparing for one of her space shuttle launches as an astronaut in the early 2000s, she told her relatives to plan a week’s trip to Florida for vacation and they might see a launch.
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Lauren del Valle, Liam Reilly and Alaa Elassar, CNN Dozens of ancient artifacts investigators believe were looted have been seized from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. The office seized 27 artifacts from the Met using three search warrants. They will be repatriated to their countries of
Continue Reading WEED, Calif. (AP) — A fast-moving fire in Northern California threatened hundreds of homes Friday and authorities ordered at least 5,000 residents across three communities to leave immediately. Residents of the towns of Weed, Lake Shastina and Edgewood to evacuate after the blaze spread quickly in hot and windy conditions, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office
Continue Reading By Brian Fung, CNN The Internal Revenue Service acknowledged Friday that it had inadvertently exposed a batch of taxpayer information linked to some non-profits and other tax-exempt organizations, following a Wall Street Journal report that said as many as 120,000 individuals may have been affected by the error. The accidentally leaked data did not include
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