By GENE JOHNSON, JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Nearly a month after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century killed at least 115 people, authorities on Maui are working their way through a list of the missing that has grown almost as quickly as names have been
Continue ReadingBy Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — Nearly five decades after he was wrongfully convicted of rape, a New York judge has overturned the conviction of Leonard Mack following new DNA testing that eliminated him as the perpetrator and identified a different man who has since confessed to the crime, prosecutors announced. Mack, 72, served more
Continue ReadingNEWS 12 WESTCHESTER, INC., INNOCENCE PROJECT, CNN By Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — Nearly five decades after he was wrongfully convicted of rape, a New York judge has overturned the conviction of Leonard Mack following new DNA testing that eliminated him as the perpetrator and identified a different man who has since confessed to the
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Authorities say at least two people have been killed and thousands evacuated due to floods in China’s southeastern coastal Fujian province brought by Tropical Storm Haikui. Chinese media reported schools were closed and flights suspended, while more than 30,000 people were evacuated. State media reported two firefighters have died and one police
Continue ReadingBy JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan appeals court heard arguments on whether a former police officer should go to trial for a murder charge in the killing of a Black motorist in 2022. The murder charge stems from a morning traffic stop that ended with then-Grand Rapids police officer Christopher
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — El exentrenador de la selección femenina de fútbol de España, Jorge Vilda, rompió su silencio este martes por la noche calificando su despido de “injusto”, al tiempo que abordó por qué aplaudió en la asamblea de Luis Rubiales, mientras continúan las consecuencias del beso no deseado en la Copa del Mundo.
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares fell in Asia on Thursday after a decline on Wall Street, where strong economic data revived worries that the Federal Reserve might keep interest rates high for longer than investors had been hoping. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng, which has bounced this week on news about Chinese policy changes
Continue ReadingBy JAKE BLEIBERG and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An extramarital affair Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had with a donor’s employee is at the center of his impeachment trial on accusations of corruption. One of Paxton’s former close aides testified Wednesday that he confronted the Republican about why he appeared
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By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Three men on board an inflatable catamaran were pulled from the sea in the early hours of Wednesday after “several shark attacks” left their vessel partially sunken off the Australian northeastern coast. Two Russians and one French national, ages 28 to 63, were on board the boat as it
Continue ReadingBy SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Major roads in New Delhi are teeming with giant posters and billboards announcing India’s presidency of this week’s summit of the Group of 20 nations. And one leader’s picture — smiling benignly from every traffic circle — stands out from the rest: Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER McDERMOTT, JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Lawyers for residents and business owners of the Hawaiian town devastated by last month’s fires on Maui told a court that cable TV and telephone companies share in responsibility for the disaster. The attorneys made the statements Tuesday, saying the companies
Continue ReadingBy KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s government will appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that officials with the South Asian country’s intelligence had complicity in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people, including 42 foreigners from 14 countries. The attacks,
Continue Reading By Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration has taken mixed positions on its policies involving Haiti – with one federal agency warning that the Caribbean country is too dangerous for US citizens, while another agency deports Haitians back to the violence-torn country. Violence in Haiti during the second quarter of
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Democrats got a potential boost for the 2024 congressional elections as courts in Alabama and Florida ruled recently that Republican-led legislatures had unfairly diluted the voting power of Black residents. But those cases are just two of about a dozen that could carry big consequences as Republicans campaign to
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press China’s Great Wall has been pierced by Genghis Khan, the Manchus, and now, allegedly, a couple of construction workers named Zheng and Wang who wanted a shortcut. Authorities in China arrested two people for smashing a path through a section of the ancient wall, a cultural icon and United Nations protected
Continue Reading By Vasco Cotovio and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN (CNN) — Moscow’s forces have started covering some of their attack aircraft with car tires, in what experts say could be a makeshift attempt to protect them from Ukrainian drone strikes that have had increased recent success in targeting Russian military airports. Satellite imagery from Maxar of Engels
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH DELLINGER and MATT BARNUM of Chalkbeat and COLLIN BINKLEY of The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Davion Williams wants to go to college. A counselor at his Detroit charter school last year helped him visualize that goal, but he knows he’ll need more help to navigate the application process. So he was discouraged
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is delaying plans to tighten air quality standards for ground-level ozone — better known as smog — despite a recommendation by a scientific advisory panel to lower air pollution limits to protect public health. The decision by EPA Administrator Michael Regan means that
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By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The federal budget deficit is expected to balloon to about $2 trillion for fiscal year 2023, roughly double what it was in the previous fiscal year, according to a government watchdog group. The surge stems largely from a sharp decline in tax revenues, coupled with an increase in mandatory
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith is not done with former President Donald Trump and his entourage, despite charging him with four criminal counts over his attempt to overthrow the 2020 election and more than three dozen other charges over his hoarding of classified documents in Florida. The clash between
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