By Denise Royal and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Two Florida chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine remain active, despite Gov. Ron DeSantis asserting during Wednesday night’s GOP presidential primary debate that he had deactivated them. According to State University of Florida Chancellor Ray Rodrigues, both SJP chapters said they are not chartered by
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs are tied atop the AFC heading into their week off, yet they have hardly put everything together in a game this season. While their defense is second in the league in scoring and fourth in total defense, their offense has
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers pushed back in court Thursday against efforts to remove him from Michigan’s 2024 ballot based on the 14th Amendment’s insurrectionist ban, the third state to grapple with the matter this month. The hearing unfolded in Grand Rapids one day after the Minnesota Supreme Court
Continue Reading By Melanie Zanona, Lauren Fox, Manu Raju, Annie Grayer and Haley Talbot, CNN Newly minted Speaker Mike Johnson is running smack dab into the same spending problems that plagued his predecessor, raising the prospects of a government shutdown if Congress doesn’t act between now and next Friday and further exposing divisions within the conference. House
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By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is leaving the door open for additional interest rate hikes to defeat inflation, he said Thursday. “We know that ongoing progress toward our 2% goal is not assured: Inflation has given us a few head fakes,” Powell said at a conference hosted
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By Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — The percentage of kindergartners who received their state-required vaccines for measles remained below the federal target last school year, and the rate of vaccine exemptions for children reached the highest level ever reported in the United States, according to new data published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s highest court is preparing to weigh in on the removal of time limits on child sex abuse lawsuits. The Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments Thursday over the constitutionality of the change. An attorney for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland said the elimination of the
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — Luis Manuel Díaz, padre del futbolista colombiano Luis Díaz, fue liberado luego de 12 días de estar secuestrado por la guerrilla del Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), según confirmó la Conferencia Episcopal de Colombia en X, antes Twitter. Una fuente confirmó a CNN que la entrega del señor Díaz se
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TODAY: Thursday is the beginning of our cooler trend. Temperatures will settle into the 40s this morning, with north winds overnight. Continued north winds and clouds will keep highs in the 50s. Rain is not far to our south today, but we will stay dry with abundant dry air below any moisture aloft. TONIGHT: Temperatures
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee abruptly adjourned a meeting on Thursday without holding an expected vote on subpoenas for two conservatives who have helped arrange luxury travel and other benefits for Supreme Court justices. The panel’s Democratic chairman, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin,
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — A western Illinois judge could face removal from office after a judicial oversight body considered allegations this week that he circumvented the law when he decided to reverse a rape conviction in a move that sparked outrage in the victim’s hometown of Quincy, Illinois, and
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — El juicio federal de David DePape, el hombre acusado de atacar en su casa de San Francisco el año pasado al marido de la expresidenta de la Cámara de Representantes, Nancy Pelosi, acaba de comenzar. La selección del jurado para el juicio concluyó el lunes, dijo Liz Noteware, directora de operaciones
Continue Reading By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Ticket and hotel room prices are falling sharply in Las Vegas as the gambling mecca preps to host its first Formula 1 Grand Prix race in four decades next week. Excitement has “started to fizzle” in recent weeks with a “big factor” being that driver Max Verstappen
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it’s started 40,000 construction projects since the passage of major infrastructure legislation two years ago. And President Joe Biden’s team is seeking to make the case that continued progress could depend on keeping him in the White House after 2024.
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Hollywood jumped into planning mode Thursday at the news of a tentative agreement between striking actors and the major entertainment companies. After 118 days of most productions shut down and most stars being unable to promote projects, publicists, studios and awards strategists went into hyperdrive plotting out how to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York is requiring state health officials to develop an outreach program to educate the public on the harmful impacts of medically unnecessary treatments performed on young children born intersex. The measure was signed into law on Wednesday by Governor Kathy Hochul and aims to bring awareness to people
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A jury has rejected an insanity defense for a man convicted of shooting and wounding a bishop and assaulting the bride and groom at a church wedding ceremony in New Hampshire. Forty-one-year-old Dale Holloway, who acted as his own attorney, pleaded not guilty to the charges
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israeli troops have pushed into Gaza City along a key coastal road on the Mediterranean Sea as part of their war on Hamas, according to satellite images from earlier this week analyzed on Thursday by The Associated Press. Monday’s images from Planet Labs PBC
Continue ReadingBy Aaron Allen Click here for updates on this story Seattle, Wa (The Seattle Medium) — When it comes to setting high standards of achievement, the HEIR 12U football team is just as successful in the classroom as they are on the field. The nationally ranked 12U team boasts a 3.5-grade point average. According to
Continue ReadingBy DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Eagles have the best record in the NFL at 8-1. The Eagles are off this week ahead of a Super Bowl rematch against the Kansas City Chiefs. The defending NFC champions continue to shine even as quarterback Jalen Hurts has played through a bruised
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