By ERIC TUCKER, KATE BRUMBACK and JILL COLVIN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A scowling Donald Trump posed for a mug shot Thursday as he surrendered inside a jail in Atlanta on charges that he illegally schemed to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, creating a historic and humbling visual underscoring the former president’s escalating
Continue ReadingOpinion by CNN contributors (CNN) — CNN Opinion asked our political contributors to weigh on the first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 season. The views expressed in these commentaries are their own. SE Cupp: Nikki Haley promised generational change and delivered Back on February 14, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announced her run for
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Plans for the start of the Basketball World Cup in Okinawa, Japan, were unaffected Thursday after a North Korean rocket launch prompted an alert ordering some residents to evacuate. Press conferences and practices for the eight teams that are beginning World Cup play in Okinawa
Continue ReadingBy MARK PRATT Associated Press When members of the marine mammal team from the International Fund for Animal Welfare rush to a Cape Cod beach to help a stranded dolphin or porpoise, they have no choice but to treat the endangered animal on site and then immediately release it. That is about to change. The
Continue ReadingBy LISA RATHKE Associated Press WESTON, Vt. (AP) — Members of a beloved Vermont acting company were sleeping in theater housing when torrential rains and flooding forced them to flee, with water inundating the playhouse’s vast basement of dressing rooms, costumes and props and reaching into the first floor. The July storms left the large,
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A key portion of President Joe Biden’s immigration policy that grants parole to thousands of people from Central America and the Caribbean is being debated in a Texas federal courtroom. At the trial Thursday, Eric Sype testified about helping a friend from Nicaragua come to the
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La exguionista de televisión Patty Lin dice que, aunque trabajar en “Friends” sigue siendo su mérito más reconocible, eso no significa que le encantara su tiempo en la exitosa serie. Lin escribe en sus memorias, próximas a publicarse, “End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood”, que después de trabajar como
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and JAE C. HONG Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — During the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, a developer of land around a threatened Maui community urgently asked state officials for permission to divert stream water to help fight the growing inferno. In letters reviewed by the AP,
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SEDALIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Sedalia man was charged on Wednesday for his alleged involvement in a shooting a man in the head in the 100 block of Main Street in Sedalia on Friday. Nathaniel A. Shipman, 29, is charged with first-degree assault, armed criminal action, shooting at a motor vehicle or person, and unlawful use
Continue ReadingBy Denise Royal and Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — Florida education officials on Wednesday unanimously approved harsher penalties against state college employees who violate a new law barring them and students from using restrooms or changing facilities for a gender other than the one assigned at birth. The move by the state board of education
Continue ReadingBy ANNIE MA Associated Press When Wes Brown sought out children’s books for his two young sons, he made sure to seek titles that reflected the family he and his husband were building. He found that in one called “The Family Book,” a 2003 picture book by Todd Parr. It depicts families of all kinds:
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer The seasonal drink that made pumpkin spice a star is turning 20. And unlike the autumn days it celebrates, there seems to be no chill in customer demand. Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte goes on sale Thursday in the U.S. and Canada, as it does each year when the nights
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Jessie Yeung and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — Wagner warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led a failed uprising against the Kremlin exactly two months ago, was on board a plane that crashed on Wednesday, according to Russian officials – raising questions as to exactly how the disaster occurred. The crash took place northwest of
Continue ReadingBy EUGENE GARCIA, AMY TAXIN and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press TRABUCO CANYON, Calif. (AP) — The retired police sergeant who opened fire during a lively Wednesday evening at a popular Southern California biker bar had traveled from Ohio to confront his estranged wife, shooting her in the face before turning his gun on the crowd,
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch, Taylor Romine, Josh Campbell and Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — A husband in the midst of divorce proceedings went to a Southern California bar where his wife was dining on Wednesday and shot her before opening fire at random, killing three people and injuring six others before he was killed by law
Continue ReadingMOSCOW, Idaho. (AP) — The trial for a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death late last year will not happen as scheduled on Oct. 2. KTVB-TV reports Bryan Kohberger waived his right to a speedy trial during an appearance in Latah County Court Wednesday afternoon. His attorney, Anne Taylor, spoke
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — NBA star Jimmy Butler has dressed just like a member of the ball crew at the U.S. Open and picked up a racket to play alongside Frances Tiafoe during a charity event that raised $320,000 for humanitarian relief in Ukraine. Butler led the Miami Heat to the NBA Finals last season
Continue ReadingCNN By Zachary Cohen, Paula Reid, Marshall Cohen and Dan Berman, CNN (CNN) — Three of Donald Trump’s key election lawyers, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis, surrendered Wednesday on charges in the Georgia election subversion case. The scene of Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and a notable former federal prosecutor, walking
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CNN By Zachary Cohen, Paula Reid, Marshall Cohen and Dan Berman, CNN (CNN) — Three of Donald Trump’s key election lawyers, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis, surrendered Wednesday on charges in the Georgia election subversion case. The scene of Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and a notable former federal prosecutor, walking
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By Emiko Jozuka, Jessie Yeung and Tara Subramaniam and CNN’s Beijing bureau (CNN) — China announced Thursday it was banning all seafood from Japan in response to Tokyo’s decision to begin releasing treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant, dramatically escalating an already tense feud between the two neighbors. The release is part of
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