By JOHN MACLAUCHLAN Click here for updates on this story FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (WFOR) — An employee of the Broward State Attorney’s Office was found dead Wednesday night inside the Broward County Court House. According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, they received a call about a deceased person at the courthouse on SE 6th Street.
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By Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — Manhattan prosecutors urged a judge to reject Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss criminal charges related to a hush money payment, saying the former president is trying to use his political power to evade accountability. Prosecutors also said while investigating the hush money case this year that they gleaned new information
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Maluske Click here for updates on this story WINDSOR, ONTARIO (CTV Network) — Nathaniel Veltman has been found guilty on four counts of first-degree murder and guilty of one count of attempted murder. Veltman, 22, was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder for a June 2021
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Major League Baseball will play its 2025 All-Star Game in Atlanta, four years after moving the event from Truist Park to Denver’s Coors Field over objections to changes in Georgia’s voting rights laws. Atlanta was awarded the 2021 All-Star Game in May 2019, but MLB
Continue ReadingBy SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan prosecutors say they will seek to strip President-elect Bernardo Arévalo and several members of his party of their immunity for allegedly making social media posts that encouraged students to take over a public university more than a year ago. Cultural Heritage prosecutor Ángel Saúl
Continue ReadingBy ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A judge says lawyers for Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant are allowed to argue that he was acting in self-defense as part of a lawsuit accusing him of assaulting a teenager during a pickup basketball game at the NBA star’s house. Circuit Court Judge Carol Chumney
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By Nathan Hodge, Victoria Butenko and Marshall Cohen, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — A sitting Ukrainian lawmaker who helped Rudy Giuliani smear Joe Biden during the 2020 US presidential campaign has been jailed on suspicion of treason, Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation announced Tuesday, in a statement accusing him of carrying out a Russian disinformation operation. The
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By Fredreka Schouten, Annie Grayer, Kristin Wilson and Marshall Cohen, CNN The House Ethics Committee released a scathing report Thursday about embattled New York Rep. George Santos, finding evidence he broke federal laws, stole from his campaign and delivered a “constant series of lies” to voters and donors on his way to winning a US
Continue ReadingBy Alex Arsenych Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — An Air Canada plane was caught bouncing from side to side on camera during a rough landing at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on Monday. The video, taken by Wake Turbulence Aviation and posted on social media, shows the aircraft slamming down
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stefano Pozzebon (CNN) — When voters go to the polls this Sunday to elect Argentina’s next president, they will have to choose not only between two candidates, but between two opposite ideas of what type of country they want to live in. That is an old adage in the era of identity politics. Still,
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Black man who died after he was hit by a police SUV in Mississippi was buried in a pauper’s cemetery without his family’s knowledge, even though his state ID was in his pocket, indicating a serious effort to cover up the manner of
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Una serie de videos obtenidos en exclusiva por NBC News muestran al actor Alec Baldwin manejando al menos una pistola de utilería durante el rodaje de la película “Rust”, días antes de un tiroteo mortal en el set. En los videos, que parecen ser imágenes sin editar del western, se ve
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A judge found a Versailles, Missouri, man guilty Thursday of a felony and four misdemeanors related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
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By Donie O’Sullivan, Catherine Thorbecke and Allison Gordon, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of young Americans have posted videos on TikTok this week expressing sympathy with Osama bin Laden, the notorious terrorist who orchestrated the September 11 attacks, for a two-decade-old letter he wrote critiquing the United States, including its government and support of Israel. The letter,
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — Fire officials say a Chicago commuter train has collided with rail equipment, injuring nearly 40 people, some of them critically. The Chicago Fire Department says a Chicago Transit Authority train crashed into snow-removal equipment Thursday morning. Fire officials say the train collided with the slower-moving rail equipment near a station on the
Continue Reading By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Rep. Dan Kildee of Michigan said Thursday that he will not seek re-election next year, citing his recent battle with cancer. “There are times in all our lives that make you reassess your own future and path. For me, being diagnosed with cancer earlier
Continue ReadingBy Dianne Gallagher, and Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — An officer caught on video repeatedly striking a woman on the ground this week has been temporarily reassigned pending an internal investigation, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Johnny Jennings said Wednesday. “I’ll just say to everyone and to our community, I get it,” Jennings said of the video.
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to assaulting Democratic Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota in the elevator of her Washington apartment has been sentenced to more than two years behind bars. Kendrid Khalil Hamlin, 27, apologized to Craig and said he wants to get mental health and substance
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s government has signed a multimillion-dollar contract with a Texas-based company to build a marina for mega yachts in the island’s capital. Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said Thursday that two docks in San Juan are currently available to yachts and mega yachts, but there is limited space and basic
Continue ReadingSOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Thousands of Bulgarian football supporters have taken to the streets of the capital, Sofia, in protest over the management of the national football union, a demonstration that eventually turned violent. The European soccer qualifier between Bulgaria and Hungary fell victim to a bitter dispute between the management of the Bulgarian Football
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