By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in the case charging Donald Trump with illegally hoarding top secret documents at his Florida estate has directed the former president to use a secure facility to review classified evidence and has sharply restricted his ability to discuss that information with others. U.S. District
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By TOM KRISHER and DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writers DETROIT (AP) — With just over 24 hours left before a strike deadline, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain said Wednesday that offers from the companies aren’t enough and the union is getting ready to strike. In an online address to union members, Fain said General
Continue ReadingBy Crystal Tisme Click here for updates on this story JACKSON, Mississippi (WAPT) — A Jackson restaurant staple that has been handed down for generations is closing at the end of the week. Beatty Street Grocery has been a family business for 83 years, first selling groceries and now serving as a restaurant. “They got
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KEYETSVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) Chariton County Sheriff Erick Billups is under a criminal investigation by the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug Crime Control. An MSHP spokesman said Monday that the Chariton County prosecuting attorney made the request for the investigation on Saturday. The prosecuting attorney declined to comment. MSHP did not say what, specifically,
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By Kevin Liptak, Betsy Klein and Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s team has begun to execute an impeachment playbook more than a year in the making: Discredit the investigators while sticking to the business of governing. Biden’s aides spent the August congressional recess honing their plans after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy suggested
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press The director of the federal Bureau of Prisons was scolded Wednesday by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who say her lack of transparency is hampering their ability to help fix the agency, which has long been plagued by staffing shortages, chronic violence and other problems. Senators complained that
Continue ReadingBy Jonathan Greco Click here for updates on this story OSAGE COUNTY, Oklahoma (KOCO) — A county sheriff and district attorney are at odds over the investigation into a decades-old cold case that recently was linked to the BTK killer. Osage County Sheriff Eddie Verdin said Dennis Rader is the prime suspect in 16-year-old Cynthia
Continue ReadingBy R.J. RICO Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge overseeing the case involving Atlanta activists’ referendum effort against a police and firefighter training facility has accused city officials of moving the goalposts on the signature-gathering campaign. U.S. District Judge Mark Cohen on Wednesday ruled that he does not have the authority to force
Continue ReadingBy GEROLD ROZENBLAD Associated Press PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Suriname for the first time in its history will see offshore oil drilling in its waters after French company TotalEnergies announces a $9 billion project expected to boost the impoverished country’s economy and ease austerity measures imposed by the International Monetary Fund.. CEO Patrick Pouyanné said
Continue ReadingBy Sooji Nam Click here for updates on this story BOCA RATON, Florida (WPBF) — A Boca Raton family, who filed a lawsuit against the Palm Beach County School Board alleging staff negligence, has now filed another motion claiming that the district got rid of critical evidence ahead of trial. Josiah Garmon, a former student
Continue Reading By Kate Sullivan and Katie Lobosco, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday he wants to close the Department of Education and have state governments “run the education of our children,” pushing for a long-held Republican goal that has been endorsed by several other 2024 GOP candidates. “We’re going to end education coming
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Wingo, Daniel Macht, Brittany Hope and Emily Eres Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KCRA) — An overnight standoff involving a man with a gun on the roof of a parking garage in downtown Sacramento came to an end early Tuesday after officers shot and killed the man, police said.
Continue Reading By Jeremy Herb and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview Wednesday that he never recommended a US military attack on Iran during the Trump administration, pushing back on claims made by former President Donald Trump and his White House
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Reports of “earthquake lights,” like the ones seen in videos captured before Friday’s 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Morocco, go back centuries to ancient Greece. These outbursts of bright, dancing light in different colors have long puzzled scientists, and there’s still no consensus on what causes them, but they are “definitely real,”
Continue ReadingBy Emily West , Kelsey Gibbs Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WTVF) — Nicole Blackmon gave birth in 2022 to a stillborn child. But this outcome wasn’t a surprise to Blackmon, who knew at 15 weeks her baby had the potential for deadly diagnosis and wouldn’t survive. At around 24 weeks,
Continue ReadingST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A 19-year-old man is accused of holding his girlfriend captive in her dorm room at a university in Minnesota while he raped, beat and waterboarded her for days until she escaped. Keanu Labatte was arrested Sunday at St. Catherine University, an all-female school in St. Paul. According to a criminal
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will give his first broadcast network interview since leaving office, sitting down this week with Kristen Welker as she debuts as host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday. The network said in a release that the interview will be pre-taped at Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club Thursday
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By Nick Beres Click here for updates on this story MURFREESBORO, Tennessee (WTVF) — Dramatic body cam video shows a Murfreesboro police officer saving an infant’s life after the child stopped breathing. The child’s parents were calling 911 in a panic as they drove their child to the hospital when they stopped for the officer
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HUNTSVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) A man accused of firing a gun and having a standoff with law enforcement in April has been sentenced. Zeno T. Finley, 34, was pleaded guilty on Wednesday to possession of a controlled substance and unlawful use of a weapon. He was sentenced to five years of supervised probation with a suspended sentence
Continue ReadingOpinion by Norman Eisen (CNN) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s announcement Tuesday of an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden’s purported involvement in his son Hunter’s business dealings is factually unfounded and legally baseless. That should be no surprise considering that a consistent proponent of this inquiry was former President Donald Trump. The twice-impeached ex-president
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