By THOMAS BEAUMONT and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Nominating Donald Trump would make the 2024 election about his legal troubles rather than the nation’s ills under President Joe Biden, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday, hours after Trump appeared in court to argue he’s immune from prosecution. DeSantis appealed
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States defended its veto of a call for the immediate suspension of hostilities in Gaza at a U.N. meeting Tuesday and again faced demands by the Palestinians and many other countries for a cease-fire now in the Israel-Hamas war – as well as
Continue ReadingST. LOUIS (AP) — A 61-year-old man with schizophrenia has been found, after going missing for more three weeks when the St. Louis nursing home where he lived suddenly closed on Dec. 15. As workers scrambled to prepare Northview Village Nursing Home residents for transfer to other facilities, Frederick Caruthers walked away from the building.
Continue ReadingST. LOUIS (AP) — A 61-year-old man with schizophrenia has been found, after going missing for more three weeks when the St. Louis nursing home where he lived suddenly closed on Dec. 15. As workers scrambled to prepare Northview Village Nursing Home residents for transfer to other facilities, Frederick Caruthers walked away from the building.
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have fired their largest-ever barrage of drones and missiles targeting shipping in the Red Sea, forcing the United States and British navies to shoot down the projectiles in a major naval engagement. The attack by the Iranian-backed Houthis came despite a
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By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The US Navy shot down 21 Houthi missiles and drones launched from Yemen, according to a statement from US Central Command, in one of the largest Houthi attacks to take place in the Red Sea in recent months. The military called it a “complex attack” carried out by the Iranian-backed militants. It comes amid
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PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Humane Society of Missouri picked up nearly 100 dogs from an unlicensed breeder. According to a Facebook post from the Humane Society of Missouri, it rescued 97 dogs at a Phelps County property. The post states that it had also removed a combined 83 dogs from the same breeder in
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — One of three defendants has pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with a series of drive-by shootings at the homes of state and local lawmakers in Albuquerque after the 2022 election. Court documents published Tuesday show that Jose Louise Trujillo pleaded guilty Monday to
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El expresidente Donald Trump ha afirmado por mucho tiempo que sus simpatizantes están tan comprometidos con él que podría pararse en medio de la Quinta Avenida de Nueva York, dispararle a alguien y seguir contando con ellos. Uno de sus abogados argumentó en una corte federal este martes que igual podría
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called South Korea “our principal enemy” and threatened to annihilate it if provoked. Kim has escalated his inflammatory rhetoric ahead of South Korean and U.S. elections this year and experts anticipate he will conduct more weapons tests to
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu in her annual State of the City address Tuesday pledged to make it easier for Boston homeowners to create smaller, independent living units inside their homes or yards. She said the proposal — a modest effort to address the city’s affordable housing shortage
Continue ReadingOpinion by Jill Filipovic (CNN) — Attention women of the world: Pope Francis — a man who has taken a vow of lifelong celibacy and presides over a religious patriarchy within which women cannot occupy top leadership positions and male leaders are not permitted to marry, have sex or reproduce — believes surrogacy is despicable.
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Donald Trump is warning that other ex-presidents could be prosecuted if criminal charges against him aren’t dropped. Trump has for months promised to prosecute President Joe Biden if Trump wins the November election and regains his old job. On Tuesday, he upped the stakes and suggested that anyone who left
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — El presidente de Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, decretó este martes la existencia de un “conflicto armado interno” en el país tras la escalada de violencia que ha azotado al territorio durante las últimas horas. Pero ¿qué es y qué implica exactamente esa medida? Última hora de la violencia en Ecuador y
Continue ReadingBy David Axelrod, CNN (CNN) — Editor’s note: David Axelrod, a CNN senior political commentator and host of “The Axe Files,” was a senior adviser to former President Barack Obama and chief strategist for the 2008 and 2012 Obama presidential campaigns. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN. After nearly a
Continue ReadingST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say a fourth child has died of injuries suffered in a fire at a home in St. Paul, Minnesta. The Star Tribune reports that police Sgt. Mike Ernster said 1-year-old Mauj CagTxuj Vaj died at Regions Hospital over the weekend. Ker Lor and her six children were found on
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — El secretario de Defensa, Lloyd Austin, está siendo tratado por cáncer de próstata y sufrió complicaciones que lo llevaron al hospital el día de Año Nuevo, donde todavía está siendo tratado, según un comunicado del martes del Centro Médico Militar Nacional Walter Reed. El comunicado reveló que el cáncer
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge says the notorious 2005 “Access Hollywood” video in which Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic speaking disparagingly about women over a decade before he became president can be shown to jurors deciding what he owes a columnist he defamed. Judge Lewis
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By Samantha Delouya and Lauren del Valle, CNN New York (CNN) — Over the past several days, hundreds of documents from a Jeffrey Epstein-connected lawsuit were unsealed and released for the first time. The last of those documents was unsealed Tuesday. The full scope of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged criminal activity has remained shrouded in mystery
Continue Reading By Kristen Holmes, Kate Sullivan and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — With just days until the Iowa caucuses, former President Donald Trump and his team have shifted to targeting GOP presidential rival Nikki Haley as they seek to slow her recent momentum before the first votes are cast this primary season. The turn to Trump’s
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