By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — The U.N. is spending over 20 times more money than usual on fuel for generators to keep millions of vaccines in Niger from spoiling due to incessant power cuts. The outages are the result of severe economic and travel sanctions imposed by regional countries after mutinous
Continue ReadingOpinion by John Philp (CNN) — Editor’s note: John Philp is a Brooklyn, New York-based journalist and filmmaker. With Matthew Carnahan, he co-wrote and directed the 2003 documentary “Rudyland” and is working on a sequel. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN. Rudy Giuliani’s precipitous slide into political ruin no
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A Columbia man charged in March 2022 with shooting and killing his father pleaded guilty to reduced charges Monday and could spend more than two decades in prison.
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By Nouran Salahieh, Gene Norman, Christina Maxouris and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — After making landfall in Mexico earlier Sunday, Tropical Storm Hilary has crossed into California, where it is unleashing heavy rain and turning roads into gushing streams as officials warn of potentially deadly floods. “We are not used to this level of precipitation,
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By Matt Egan New York (CNN) — Goldman Sachs is warning clients that Washington is on a collision course with its first government shutdown in five years. “The ingredients for a shutdown — a thin House majority, a dispute on spending levels and potential complications from various political issues — are present,” Goldman Sachs economists
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By KABC Staff Click here for updates on this story LAKE ARROWHEAD, California (KABC) — Gov. Gavin Newsom is speaking out about a deadly shooting in Lake Arrowhead that was allegedly sparked by a dispute over a Pride flag. The shooting happened around 5 p.m. Friday at the Mag Pi clothing store on Hook Creek
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — John Warnock, who helped invent the PDF and co-founded Adobe Systems, has died. He was 82. The company said in a statement that the Silicon Valley entrepreneur and computer scientist died Saturday surrounded by family. It didn’t give the cause of death or say where
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Female soldiers face rampant sexism, harassment and other gender-related challenges in male dominated Army special operations units, according to a report Monday, eight years after the Pentagon opened all combat jobs to women. U.S. Army Special Operations Command, in a lengthy study, reported a wide range
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By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Medical debt is a big burden for the middle class. Almost a quarter of middle-class Americans, or 17 million people, had unpaid health care bills in 2020, a larger share than those higher and lower on the income scale, according to a new report from Third Way, a center-left
Continue ReadingBy ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is accusing Facebook of putting profits over people’s safety during Canada’s wildfire emergencies. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced earlier this summer it would keep its promise to block news content in Canada on its platforms in response
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Mushroom Kingdom will soon bid farewell to one of its longest-tenured residents. Charles Martinet, the longtime voice of Nintendo’s beloved plumber Mario, is stepping away from the role after nearly 30 years, the video game company announced. Martinet will become a Mario ambassador instead, “sharing the joy of Mario”
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA Associated Press MARION, Kan. (AP) — The initial online search of a state website that led a central Kansas police chief to raid a local weekly newspaper was legal, a spokesperson for the agency that maintains the site said Monday, as newly released video showed the publisher’s 98-year-old mother protesting a search
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Gray, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Areas along the South Texas coast are under tropical storm alerts for a system – currently a tropical depression – that could start lashing the area with wind, rain and coastal flooding as soon as Tuesday morning. Tropical Depression 9 formed in the Gulf of Mexico late Monday
Continue ReadingBy KABC Staff Click here for updates on this story VENTURA, California (KABC) — A nanny cam caught the moment two parents rushed to grab their twin babies as an earthquake jolted their home in Ventura. The magnitude 5.2 earthquake hit around 2:41 p.m. Sunday about four miles southeast of Ojai, just as Southern California
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By Kevin Liptak, Nikki Carvajal and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden arrived in fire-ravaged Maui on Monday to witness the devastation left by an inferno more than a week ago and assess for himself a government response that some residents initially found lacking. The trip brought Biden to the scene of the
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This week is not only the first week of school for many area school districts, it’s also a week of high temperatures.
Continue ReadingREDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Charles Martinet, the original voice of Mario in Nintendo games since the 1990s, is stepping down. Nintendo of America confirmed Monday that Martinet will now serve in the role of “Mario Ambassador,” traveling around the world to promote the beloved plumber, signing autographs and performing Nintendo character voices. “It’s been a
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW RODRIGUEZ Click here for updates on this story WRIGHTWOOD, California (KCAL) — On Sunday afternoon, the sheer amount of rainfall from Tropical Storm Hilary created a river of mud and debris that was filmed rushing down a hillside near State Route 2 in Wrightwood. Facebook user Benny JD sent KCAL News a video
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By WCCO STAFF, PAULEEN LE Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Five teenage boys and three adults were injured Sunday in a shooting in south Minneapolis, the neighborhood’s second mass shooting in just nine days. Now, Minneapolis police are asking for the public’s help in apprehending the shooters. Minneapolis Police Chief
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By Zachary Cohen, Jason Morris, Katelyn Polantz, Holmes Lybrand, Jeremy Herb, Devan Cole and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump plans to turn himself in and be processed at the Fulton County jail on Thursday, following his agreement earlier Monday to a $200,000 bond and other release conditions. “I’ll be going to
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