By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Paul Pelosi recounted publicly for the first time Monday what happened the night he was attacked by a man in the San Francisco home he shares with former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, recalling how shocking it was to see a man standing at his
Continue ReadingGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A 19-year-old Michigan man accused of wanting to inspire violence against Jewish people has pleaded guilty to making threats over social media. Seann Pietila has been in custody since June. The FBI says he used Instagram to spread neo-Nazi ideology, discuss plans to kill people and compliment mass shooters. In
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Head lice have been constant, if unwanted, human companions for as long as our species has been around. Evidence of this ancient connection includes a 10,000-year-old louse found on human remains at an archaeological site in Brazil and an inscription on a 3,700-year-old ivory lice comb that might be
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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The special counsel’s office is pushing back against Donald Trump using his Washington, DC, federal criminal trial as a spectacle, after Trump’s lawyers told the court this weekend he’d support cameras in the courtroom. Trump’s bid to open his DC federal criminal trial to cameras is “a transparent effort
Continue ReadingBy TOM DOUGHERTY Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — The arrest of a couple involved in a string of armed robberies in Philadelphia was announced Monday. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and members of his office’s gun violence task force held a news conference at 11 a.m. According to the DA’s
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN FISHER Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pittsburgh police are investigating an armed carjacking that happened in the East Liberty neighborhood. According to police, the incident took place around 9:30 p.m. Sunday night outside of the Whole Foods parking garage in the 5700 block of Penn Ave. The victim
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — The Gulf Coast’s most significant rainfall in months will bring much-needed relief this week to portions of the Gulf Coast, helping to alleviate Louisiana’s worst drought on record – one that’s fueled unprecedented wildfires and helped trigger an alarming saltwater intrusion into the Mississippi River. Exceptional drought –
Continue ReadingBy CECILIO PADILLA Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO (KOVR) — A soldier from Sacramento was among five killed during military aircraft training over the Mediterranean Sea on Friday. The Department of Defense says the soldiers were in an MH-60 Blackhawk conducting aerial refueling training when the helicopter “experienced an in-flight emergency” that
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Exxon Mobil is drilling for lithium in Arkansas and expects to begin production of the critical material for electric vehicles by 2027. Exxon on Monday announced the project and said by 2030 it expects to produce enough lithium to supply the manufacturing needs of more
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Islandia declaró el estado de emergencia y ha instado a más de 3.000 residentes a evacuar la pequeña ciudad costera de GrindavÃk, ya que las autoridades del paÃs prevén la inminente erupción de un volcán en su penÃnsula suroccidental. Los cientÃficos que vigilan la situación, incluidos los de la Oficina Meteorológica
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — The backlash against self-checkout is growing, and stores are starting to dial back on the technology after it exploded over the past few years. Booths, a British supermarket chain, said it’s removing self-checkout stations in all but two of its 28 stores. In the United States, Walmart,
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer Hyundai has joined Honda and Toyota in raising factory worker wages after the United Auto Workers union reached new contract agreements with Detroit automakers. Hyundai said Monday that it will raise factory worker pay 25% by 2028. That matches the general wage increase won by the UAW during that
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CNN By Kristen Holmes, Shimon Prokupecz and Avery Lotz CNN (CNN) — Maryanne Trump Barry, the eldest sister of former President Donald Trump, has died, two sources with knowledge of the matter told CNN. She was 86. Barry, a former federal judge and prosecutor, was selected by President Ronald Reagan to serve on the Federal
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The Jefferson City Room at the Inn is preparing for the winter months when it opens its doors on Dec. 1.
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Mayes Click here for updates on this story SHEPHERDSVILLE, Kentucky (WLKY) — Through tears and heartbreak, neighbors and loved ones are leaning on one another as they mourn the loss of 9-year-old Jayden and 6-year-old Maurice. On Wednesday, a neighbor went into their Shepherdsville home and found the children in a bedroom covered
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A former mayor says that a powerful and feared gang leader in Haiti who was once a math and physics teacher was killed in a neighborhood within a sprawling seaside slum that he controlled for years. Former mayor Esaïe Beauchard told Radio Galaxie FM Monday that
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say a Chicago firefighter has died from injuries he suffered when he fell through a light shaft at a burning building. Fire Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt says 39-year-old Andrew Price died Monday after being injured while battling a fire at a four-story building in the Lincoln Park neighborhood that began about 6
Continue ReadingBy Anum Siddiqui Click here for updates on this story NEW ORLEANS (WDSU) — Students at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. High School are taking matters into their own hands in hopes of stopping the fire burning near Bayou Sauvage. After reports of illness, the school is adjusting school hours on mornings where students and
Continue ReadingBy JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The reports from Russian state news agencies that Moscow’s troops were relocating from the Dnieper River in Ukraine appeared to be a major development Monday — for about 10 minutes until the usually authoritative media withdrew the news. The next hours saw a flurry of claims
Continue Reading By Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — US forces came under attack at least four more times by Iran-backed groups in Syria after the US military carried out air strikes on targets associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard corps on Sunday, a US official told CNN. All four of the attacks came after
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