By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Six Raleigh, North Carolina, police officers are on administrative leave and an investigation is underway after a man died in their custody last month, according to statements and newly released videos from the Raleigh Police Department. Darryl Tyree Williams, 32, died in a Raleigh hospital in the early hours of January
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese nuclear regulators have approved contentious safety evaluation changes and draft legislation to allow aging reactors to operate longer. The Nuclear Regulation Authority, responding to a new government policy to scrap the current 60-year operating limit for reactors, adopted a new system in which additional operating extensions
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By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s main opposition party is celebrating its victory in a Berlin state election re-run made necessary by serious voting glitches in 2021. The party said Monday the result shows it can appeal to voters in urban areas with center-right policies that include tough talk on immigration. The
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Un juez del condado de Fulton, en Georgia, hará públicas algunas partes del informe de un gran jurado especial que investigó las acciones de Donald Trump tras las elecciones de 2020 en el estado, pero no las recomendaciones específicas de cargos. En su orden de este lunes, el juez Robert
Continue Reading By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer The CEO of a nonprofit that helps people with medical debt wants to expand the amount of debt her organization buys, especially from hospitals. RIP Medical Debt CEO Allison Sesso also wants to draw more attention to the system that generates the bills. The organization uses donations to buy
Continue Reading By STEPHEN McGRATH and CRISTIAN JARDAN Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldova’s president outlined Monday what she described as a plot by Moscow to overthrow her country’s government using external saboteurs, put the nation “at the disposal of Russia” and derail its aspirations to one day join the European Union. President Maia Sandu’s briefing
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The Daytona 500 is a sellout for the eighth consecutive year. This one will recognize the 75th anniversary of NASCAR. Daytona International Speedway announced that all remaining tickets had been sold for the 65th running of “The Great American Race,” including grandstand seats, infield camping spots, fan-zone admission and all
Continue Reading DORTMUND, Germany (AP) — Borussia Dortmund will be without Youssoufa Moukoko for about six weeks and the Germany forward is to miss the Champions League match against Chelsea on Wednesday. Dortmund says the 18-year-old Moukoko sustained an ankle ligament injury on Saturday in its Bundesliga game with Werder Bremen. Sporting director Sebastian Kehl says “it’s
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By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Turkish authorities have arrested or detained a number of property developers as the death toll from last week’s catastrophic earthquake soared past 36,000. The 7.8-magnitude quake that struck southeastern Turkey near the border with Syria last Monday has now caused 31,643 deaths in Turkey, according to the Turkish Emergency Coordination Center
Continue Reading By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Turkish authorities have arrested or detained a number of property developers as the death toll from last week’s catastrophic earthquake soared past 36,000. The 7.8-magnitude quake that struck southeastern Turkey near the border with Syria last Monday has now caused 31,643 deaths in Turkey, according to the Turkish Emergency Coordination Center
Continue Reading By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press Two jurors in the double murder trial of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh have COVID, leaving the future of the proceedings in some doubt as they enter their fourth week on Monday. Judge Clifton Newman decided keep the trial going in the packed Colleton County courtroom after the remaining
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By Katelyn Polantz, Sara Murray and Jason Morris, CNN A judge in Fulton County, Georgia, will make public some parts of a report from a special grand jury that investigated Donald Trump‘s actions after the 2020 election in the state, but not specific charging recommendations. In his order on Monday, Judge Robert C.I. McBurney said
Continue Reading By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge has ordered the partial release later this week of a special grand jury report into efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn his 2020 election loss. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney announced the decision on Monday. It comes
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By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN The Internal Revenue Service has good news for millions of taxpayers in 17 states who received a one-time special state payment last year to offset inflation and other negative economic impacts: Those payments won’t be subject to federal income tax. “The IRS determined it will not challenge the taxability of payments
Continue Reading By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN The Internal Revenue Service has good news for millions of taxpayers in 17 states who received a one-time special state payment last year to offset inflation and other negative economic impacts: Those payments won’t be subject to federal income tax. “The IRS determined it will not challenge the taxability of payments
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN Español) — La semana pasada, una bebé comenzó su vida rodeada de caos y devastación. Llamada, según reportes, Aya —que significa “milagro” en árabe— nació bajo los escombros del mortífero terremoto del lunes, todavía unida al cuerpo sin vida de su madre por el cordón umbilical cuando los equipos de rescate la
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By Gregory Wallace, David Williams and Gabe Cohen, CNN A United Airlines 777 leaving Hawaii in December plunged toward the Pacific Ocean for 21 seconds shortly after takeoff and came within about 800 feet of sea level, flight tracking data show. Neither United nor the Federal Aviation Administration indicated anyone was injured on Flight 1722
Continue Reading By MEHMET GUZEL, SUZAN FRASER and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press ADIYAMAN, Turkey (AP) — Thousands left homeless by a massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria a week ago packed into crowded tents or lined up in the streets for hot meals. Meanwhile, the desperate search for anyone still alive entered what are likely
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By Wayne Sterling and Homero De la Fuente, CNN Six weeks after he experienced a cardiac arrest on the football field, Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin said he’s “doing great” physically but is “still working through things” emotionally. Hamlin collapsed after making a tackle in the first quarter of a game between the Bills and
Continue Reading By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Many Mainers know Democratic Gov. Janet Mills as a level-headed leader, a pragmatic politician or even a former tough-minded prosecutor. But there’s another side to the governor — she’s a poet. “If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world
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