By Jay Kenney, Olivia Schueller, Rob Polansky and Dylan Fearon Click here for updates on this story BRISTOL, Connecticut (WFSB) — A woman was charged for opening fire inside the Bristol Police Department on Thursday night, police said. Police identified her as 51-year-old Suzanne Laprise of Plainville. Laprise was charged with criminal attempt at murder,
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says that he could potentially meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of next month’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco. Biden told reporters at the White House on Friday that a meeting has not yet been set up “but it
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By Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — Two Russian diplomats have been expelled from Moscow’s embassy in Washington, the US State Department confirmed Friday. The expulsion is in response to Russia’s “specious expulsion of two US Embassy Moscow diplomats” last month, a spokesperson said, adding that “the State Department reciprocated by declaring persona non grata two
Continue ReadingBy Jenna Bree Click here for updates on this story LAYTON, Utah (KSTU) — Mariah Mills and her four kids took care of ‘Reo’ the Shih Tzu for days before he was safely returned to his owners. “He was cute,” she said. “He’s adorable. We loved playing with him. It’s not that big of a
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THIS AFTERNOON: A cold front will move through today, and while dry air will limit any rainfall, gusty northerly winds will bring much cooler conditions. Breezes will likely pick up to 12-15 mph, keeping temperatures consistently falling this afternoon. We’ll fall out of the 60s into the 50s as the front moves through. TONIGHT: Temperatures
Continue ReadingBy C.C. McCandless Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — In a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), MGM Resorts estimated a loss of $100 million due to a recent cyberattack. According to the Form 8-K filed with the SEC on Thursday, MGM explained that it identified a “cybersecurity
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico state judge has ruled against a Republican Party challenge of new congressional boundaries approved by Democrats that divvied up a politically conservative oil-producing region. In an order published on Friday. Judge Fred Van Soelen wrote that the redistricting plan enacted by Democratic
Continue Reading By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed Thursday that murder and violent crime in New York have hit record highs. Trump made the claim on his social media platform while attacking New York Attorney General Letitia James over her civil fraud lawsuit against him, which led to the trial
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s police say prisoners set their cells on fire in a jail in eastern Lebanon, leaving three inmates dead and 16 others injured. The police statement said the fire started in several cells Friday in the main prison in the eastern city of Zahle after an apparent escape attempt. It said 19
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Voting rights advocates are locked in a court fight with Louisiana’s top Republicans over whether the state must follow Alabama’s court-ordered path in drawing a new, Black-majority congressional district. Louisiana is among multiple states still wrangling over congressional districts after the U.S. Supreme Court decided in
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Amazon has officially joined the race to build massive constellations of satellites that can blanket the globe in internet connectivity — a move that puts the tech company in direct competition with SpaceX and its Starlink system. The first two prototype satellites for Amazon’s network, called Project Kuiper, launched aboard
Continue ReadingBy TOUSSAINT N’GOTTA Associated Press ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has removed the country’s prime minister and dissolved the government, according to a senior public official. The presidency’s secretary general Abdourahmane Cissé said in a statement Friday that Prime Minister Patrick Achi was removed alongside the members of the government
Continue Reading By Melanie Zanona and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — House speaker candidates have pulled out of a planned joint interview on Fox News next week just hours after it was announced amid fierce blowback from GOP lawmakers, the latest sign of how simmering tensions within the conference are boiling over as Republicans scramble to find
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge has denied a request to stop the execution of a Texas inmate who had alleged in a lawsuit the drugs he’s to be injected with next week were exposed to extreme heat and smoke during a recent fire, making them unsafe. Jedidiah Murphy’s
Continue ReadingBy Mitchell McCluskey, Andy Rose and Andi Babineau, CNN (CNN) — Investigators removed 189 sets of human remains from a Colorado funeral home offering “green burials” where law enforcement officials said bodies had been “improperly stored,” according to the local sheriff’s department. The remains were found in the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose,
Continue Reading By Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A New York appeals court judge on Friday rejected Donald Trump’s attempt to stop the ongoing $250 million civil fraud trial, but temporarily halted the process of breaking up the former president’s businesses. Associate Justice Peter Moulton issued the ruling after a brief hearing Friday
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By Eve Brennan, Chris Liakos and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN (CNN) — Morocco and Algeria have introduced measures to limit the risk of bedbug infestation, as France reportedly grapples with a surge in numbers of the blood-sucking insect. The Moroccan health ministry “has taken all appropriate measures to limit the risk of introduction and spread of
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — At $1.4 billion, the Powerball jackpot on the line Saturday night is the world’s fifth-largest lottery prize, due to higher interest rates, long odds, fewer ticket sales per drawing and, of course, luck. A combination of all those factors means that unless there is a
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SCHUMAN Click here for updates on this story ISANTI COUNTY, Minnesota (WCCO) — A cat in Isanti County is recovering after surviving a house explosion, and then keeping itself alive for more than a week in the wilderness. Miss Piggy, a 4-month-old kitten, was lost for eight days last month. When the homeowner’s
Continue ReadingWCCO, HANNAH WAGGONER, RUFF START RESCUE, CNN By DAVID SCHUMAN Click here for updates on this story ISANTI COUNTY, Minnesota (WCCO) — A cat in Isanti County is recovering after surviving a house explosion, and then keeping itself alive for more than a week in the wilderness. Miss Piggy, a 4-month-old kitten, was lost for
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