By Hannah Rabinowitz and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Federal prosecutors announced charges Friday against a contractor with the Internal Revenue Service who allegedly stole the tax returns of a high-ranking government official. A source familiar with the matter told CNN that official is former President Donald Trump. The man, 38-year-old Charles Edward Littlejohn, worked
Continue Reading By Melanie Zanona, Annie Grayer, Lauren Fox and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — With the clock ticking down toward a government shutdown, Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz approached a Democratic lawmaker on the House floor this week with a surprising pitch. Gaetz, who has been threatening Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s speakership almost daily, explained that his rebellion
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CNN By Marshall Cohen (CNN) — Trump-era Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark cannot move his Georgia election subversion case from state to federal court, a judge ruled Friday. The ruling from US District Judge Steve Jones is the latest blow to the Georgia defendants who are trying to move their state prosecutions into the federal
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Un nuevo análisis identificó los zapatos más antiguos jamás descubiertos en Europa, según un estudio publicado esta semana en la revista Science Advances. Las 22 sandalias tejidas datan de hace 6.000 años, según un análisis de radiocarbono encontrado en el estudio dirigido por investigadores de la Universidad Autónoma de
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Two Mexican migrants were shot to death in a dawn attack near Tecate, across the border from California. Mexico’s National Migration Institute said another three Mexicans suffered gunshot wounds. The wounded were assisted by one of the institute’s rescue teams on Friday morning, along with nine people who were not injured.
Continue ReadingBy Brynn Gingras and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — A Tennessee judge signed an order Friday ending Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy’s conservatorship over Michael Oher, a month after the former NFL player accused the couple of representing themselves publicly as his adoptive parents and using him for financial benefit. Oher, whose life story was
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– La PolicÃa de Louisiana concluyó una búsqueda que se extendió por 32 años, luego de que encontrara en México a un acusado que huyó de su juicio en 1991 por intento de asesinato. En un comunicado emitido de la sucursal del FBI en Nueva Orleans, los investigadores indicaron que recibieron un aviso
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Senate on Friday confirmed a U.S. attorney in Mississippi who will oversee the largest public corruption case in the state’s history. President Joe Biden nominated Todd Gee for the post overseeing the Southern District of Mississippi in September 2022. His nomination stalled
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A grand jury has indicted two Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers for shooting a Black man who was sleeping in a car parked outside his grandmother’s house. Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears said Friday that Officers Carl Chandler and Alexander Gregory were indicted on battery and criminal recklessness charges in connection with
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Jessica Campbell grew up wanting to play in the NHL. Now she’s finding a place for herself in hockey’s top men’s league — and it’s behind the bench. On Monday, she stood behind an NHL bench for the Seattle Kraken in a preseason game against the Calgary Flames. Campbell joined a
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Tonight will be the last super moon of 2023 known as the Harvest Moon. Each year there are four Super Moons which occur as the moon passes closest to the earth in its orbit during a full moon phase. This makes the moon appear a decent amount brighter and larger in the night sky. It
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Most people don’t want to work into their 80s and 90s, but the powerful in Washington refuse to let go. As Americans approach the second straight presidential election in which they are on course to be offered two candidates who both would be the oldest president ever
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — La FiscalÃa General de Justicia de la Ciudad de México (FGJ-CDMX) ha obtenido hasta este martes cinco órdenes de aprehensión —de las que se han cumplido tres— contra cinco personas por su probable participación en el feminicidio de Montserrat Juárez Gómez, una joven de 25 años que fue encontrada sin vida en una
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) MU Health Care will hold its first-of-three drive-thru vaccine clinics on Saturday. The clinic will take place 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at South Providence Medical Park. Those 12 years old and older will be able to receive the updated COVID-19 vaccine. An MU Health Care spokesman said those 6 years older and
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press As the number of migrants coming to the U.S.’s southern border is climbing, the Biden administration aims to admit more refugees from Latin America and the Caribbean over the next year. The White House Friday released the targets for how many refugees it aims to admit over the next fiscal
Continue ReadingOpinion by Brian Riedl (CNN) — On Monday, Moody’s announced that a government shutdown would threaten Washington’s AAA credit rating. Both Fitch and Standard and Poor’s have already downgraded Washington’s credit rating based on past fiscal recklessness. Downgrading a bond signals to investors that the bond issuer is more likely to eventually default, which typically leads investors to demand a higher interest rate
Continue ReadingBy SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press South Dakota cowboys and cowgirls are rounding up a herd of more than 1,500 bison as part of an annual effort to maintain the health of the species, which has rebounded from near-extinction. Visitors came from across the world watched the thundering wooly creatures run over hills and grasslands Friday.
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — El presidente de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, se recupera satisfactoriamente después de la operación de cadera a la que se sometió este viernes, informó el equipo médico a cargo. En la intervención, que se llevó a cabo sin contratiempos y de la que el presidente Lula
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Ethan Crumbley, el adolescente que mató a cuatro estudiantes durante un tiroteo en una escuela secundaria de Oxford, Michigan, podrÃa ser condenado a cadena perpetua sin libertad condicional, la pena más alta en Michigan, según dictaminó este viernes un juez. Crumbley, ahora de 17 años, tenÃa 15 cuando el 30 de
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By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN New York (CNN) — Starbucks violated federal labor law when it increased wages and offered new perks and benefits only to non-union employees, a National Labor Relations Board judge found Thursday. The decision is the latest in a series of NLRB rulings finding that Starbucks has violated labor law in its
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