By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court said Friday that it will decide whether emergency room doctors can perform medically necessary abortions in states that prohibit them, bypassing the court of appeals to resolve on an expedited basis a lawsuit brought by the United States against Idaho. It’s the second major abortion case the
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Suspended Callaway County sheriff Clay Chism continues to collect pay from the county weeks after admitting to driving while intoxicated.
Continue Reading By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on New Year’s Day for complications from an elective medical procedure, the Pentagon said Friday. The Pentagon announced the hospitalization four days after Austin was initially admitted. Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, made
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced support for a plan to build a floating swimming pool in New York City’s waterways. Hochul says she would contribute $12 million in public funding to the long-stalled project, which was first proposed more than a decade ago and
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether former President Donald Trump can be kept off the ballot because of his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, inserting the court squarely in the 2024 presidential campaign. The justices acknowledged the need to
Continue ReadingOpinion by Peter Bergen (CNN) — The Biden administration has gone to great lengths to prevent a larger regional war in the Middle East. Yet, already, there is a de facto regional conflict raging with all the possibilities for screw-ups and escalatory responses that are inherent in such a conflict. Like a frog in a slowly
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its strict abortion ban, even in medical emergencies, while a legal fight continues. The justices on Friday said they would hear arguments in the case in April and put on hold a lower court ruling that had blocked the
Continue Reading By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The US Supreme Court said Friday it will review the Colorado Supreme Court’s unprecedented decision removing former President Donald Trump from that state’s ballot. The court scheduled oral arguments for February 8. Trump remains on the primary ballot as the lower-court ruling disqualifying him has been put on hold
Continue ReadingBy MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press Families of the 12 people killed in a Philadelphia row house fire that began in a Christmas tree two years ago are suing a pair of city agencies. The case filed on Friday says unsafe conditions on the property violated the victims’ civil rights. The federal lawsuit is against the
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TONIGHT: Light snow showers, mixing with rain at times. Accumulation will be limited to grassy surfaces overnight. Lows in the lower 30s. TOMORROW: Mostly cloudy with spotty rain or snow showers and highs in the upper 30s to around 40. EXTENDED: Light precipitation moves out with a cold front tomorrow afternoon into the evening, leaving
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press CUMMING, Iowa (AP) — Friday looked like a typical January morning in Iowa — gray skies, a brisk breeze and a restaurant crammed with voters munching on breakfast pizzas while listening to a presidential candidate speak. Introduced by Republican Rep. Thomas Massie as “the most pro-Second Amendment candidate in this
Continue Reading By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department has spent nearly $24 million investigating and prosecuting former President Donald Trump and his allies, according to expense reports. In the most recent expense report released Friday, which covers April 2023 to September 2023, special counsel Jack Smith’s office reported spending $7.4 million on things such
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CNN By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Wayne LaPierre, the leader of the National Rifle Association of America who served for decades as a fierce protector of the Second Amendment, advocating for firearms owners and manufacturers, announced his resignation on Friday – days before his civil trial is set to begin. LaPierre is stepping down
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and MORGAN LEE Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s top prosecutor says the state’s five Republican electors cannot be prosecuted under the current law for filing election certificates that falsely declared Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 presidential race. However, Democratic Attorney General Raúl Torrez is making recommendations
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — Omar Marchant, empresario de televisión y radio, murió en la madrugada de este viernes en la ciudad de Miami y a la edad de 88 años, según confirmó la familia en redes sociales y también una fuente de CNN en Español, cercana a la familia. Sus inicios profesionales fueron en
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — China vivió en 2023 su año más caluroso registrado, informaron los medios estatales esta semana, mientras el país que más contamina en el mundo enfrentó una serie de implacables olas de calor y otros fenómenos climáticos extremos impulsados por la crisis climática causada por el hombre. Los récords de temperatura diarios
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Editor’s note: The age of the victim was updated after the press release from law enforcement was updated. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County man was charged on Friday with murder and other felonies after he allegedly assaulted a woman on Christmas. Jeffrey Edward Skaggs, 38, of Columbia, was charged with second-degree murder, first-degree domestic
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By Kristin Fisher, CNN (CNN) — The White House has convened a last-minute meeting to discuss a private mission to the moon — set to launch in days — after the largest group of Native Americans in the United States asked the administration to delay the flight because it will be carrying cremated human remains
Continue ReadingHAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Authorities in the U.S. territory of Guam are vowing to bring to justice those who fatally shot a Korean visitor in a tourist district. KUAM-TV reports the shooting occurred when the traveler and his wife were walking toward a hotel on Guam’s popular Tumon Bay from a nearby beach on Thursday
Continue ReadingINVERNESS, Calif. (AP) — Time is apparently running out for California’s “Inverness Shipwreck,” an old wooden boat that became an Instagram star as it rotted on a shoreline north of San Francisco. Recent storms have made a shambles of the forlorn vessel Point Reyes, a landmark that was already deteriorated from the over-attention of visitors
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