By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska state lawmaker and Democrat who ran for governor in 2022 is seeking higher office again. Sen. Carol Blood confirmed Tuesday that she will run for Congress to represent Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District, which includes Lincoln and all or part of 13 counties in
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — The governor of Massachusetts described a Navy SEAL lost in the Arabian Sea during a mission to confiscate Iranian-made weapons from an unflagged ship as a Westfield, Massachusetts native who heroically died trying to rescue a teammate. Navy Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Christopher J. Chambers jumped into the gap created between
Continue ReadingTINLEY PARK, Ill. (AP) — Murder charges have been filed against a suburban Chicago man accused of killing his wife and three adult daughters in what police describe as a domestic-related shooting. Police allege 63-year-old Maher Kassem shot his family members after an argument at their home Sunday morning in Tinley Park. The suburb is
Continue Readingmacamilarincon Esta cobertura en vivo finalizó. Bill Joyce, moderador de Stark, ingresa una boleta en la urna durante la primera elección primaria presidencial en el país en el Departamento de Bomberos Voluntarios de Stark en Stark, Nueva Hampshire, el martes. (Fe Ninivaggi/Reuters) The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2024 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company.
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By Giulia Radice and Jessie Gretener, CNN (CNN) — A mother in France was sentenced to 18 months in prison last week for abandoning her 9-year-old child, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV. BFMTV reported that the boy had been left to live alone in the family’s apartment in the town of Nersac in the Charente
Continue ReadingKCNC By Jennifer McRae Click here for updates on this story Colorado (KCNC) — The Aurora Police Department has released the names of the schools involved in a sextortion investigation. Those schools include several in both the Aurora Public Schools and Cherry Creek School District and two middle schools in the Adams-Arapahoe School District 28J.
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer McRae Click here for updates on this story Colorado (KCNC) — The Aurora Police Department has released the names of the schools involved in a sextortion investigation. Those schools include several in both the Aurora Public Schools and Cherry Creek School District and two middle schools in the Adams-Arapahoe School District 28J. The
Continue ReadingOpinion by Frida Ghitis (CNN) — Elon Musk, who spends much of his time on futuristic endeavors, took a step into history on Monday. With his son on his shoulders, Musk visited a somber monument to humanity’s darkest past, the remains of the Auschwitz death camp, where the Nazis killed 1.1 million people during World
Continue ReadingMUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) — A western Michigan woman convicted of murder and child abuse in the starvation death of a disabled 15-year-old son who weighed just 69 pounds has sentenced to life in prison without a chance of parole. Forty-four-year-old Shanda Vander Ark of Norton Shores was found guilty in the July 6, 2022, death
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Democratic lawmakers in Oregon on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping new bill that would undo a key part of the state’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law, a recognition that public opinion has soured on the measure amid rampant public drug use during the fentanyl crisis. The bill would
Continue ReadingBy Brynn Gingras, Nicki Brown, Nic F. Anderson and Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Kevin Monahan was found guilty of second-degree murder Tuesday for shooting and killing a woman who was a passenger in a car that mistakenly drove up his driveway in rural New York last year, according to Katherine Thompson, deputy chief clerk of Washington
Continue ReadingThe recent blast of cold weather has given alligators a chance to show off their way of coping with freezing temperatures. The Swamp Park Outdoor Adventure Center in North Carolina posted videos on social media over the weekend showing alligators suspended in frozen ponds. The reptiles were shown with just the tips of their snouts
Continue ReadingDENVER (AP) — Federal prosecutors say the founder of an orphanage in Haiti is facing criminal charges in the U.S. for allegedly traveling to the Caribbean country to sexually abuse minors. Michael Geilenfeld previously sued a Maine activist over accusations he abused boys in Haiti. Geilenfeld called the accusations “vicious, vile lies” before the investigation
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By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — The voters who turned out for New Hampshire’s GOP presidential primary on Tuesday were less staunchly conservative and less closely tied to the Republican Party than the electorate in last week’s Iowa caucuses, according to the early results of CNN’s exit poll. But even in a state less naturally
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– Estados Unidos ejecutó ataques aéreos en Iraq contra instalaciones utilizadas por grupos respaldados por Irán en el país el martes luego de repetidos ataques contra fuerzas estadounidenses, informó el secretario de Defensa, Lloyd Austin, en un comunicado. Los ataques tuvieron como objetivo tres instalaciones utilizadas por Kataib Hezbollah, respaldado por Irán, y otros
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump had rock-solid support from the party faithful in his New Hampshire primary victory, and even most backers of rival Nikki Haley acknowledge the GOP belongs to him. Yet as Trump’s hold on securing the party’s nomination tightened, AP VoteCast found
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By Oren Liebermann, Haley Britzky and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The US carried out airstrikes in Iraq targeting facilities used by Iranian-backed militias in the country on Tuesday following repeated attacks on US forces, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced in a statement. The strikes targeted three facilities used by Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah and other Tehran-affiliated groups in Iraq.
Continue ReadingBROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — The city council of the Minneapolis suburb where Daunte Wright was killed by police in a 2021 traffic stop has rejected a resolution that would have limited when officers can pull drivers over. The Star Tribune reports that the Brooklyn Center City Council rejected the measure Monday on a 3-2
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Dozens of Kansas lawmakers have launched an effort to direct the state’s attorney general to release information from an investigation of a police raid last year on a weekly newspaper. But it’s unclear whether their measure will get a hearing in the Republican-controlled Legislature. Thirty-five Democrats
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Dozens of Kansas lawmakers have launched an effort to direct the state’s attorney general to release information from an investigation of a police raid last year on a weekly newspaper. But it’s unclear whether their measure will get a hearing in the Republican-controlled Legislature. Thirty-five Democrats
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