By BROOKE HESS and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — A major highway was closed and ski resorts were shut down Sunday as the effects of a powerful blizzard continued to cause problems across the Sierra Nevada, and forecasters warned that more heavy snow was on the way for Northern California. Sections of
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Watson and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — New York Attorney General Letitia James demanded that Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman rescind a ban on transgender athletes from competing in women’s and girls’ sports, saying the ban was a “discriminatory and transphobic executive order,” according to a press release Friday. “The law is perfectly clear: you cannot discriminate against a person
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By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — In the Republican corner: a right-wing firebrand with a loyal following to match the loathing of partisan rivals. For the Democrats: a moderate with a diverse coalition of support, promising to safeguard democracy and what remains of state abortion protections. The race to become the next governor of North
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By Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — A seven-year-old girl has drowned after a boat capsized on the Aa canal in Watten, northern France, local authorities said. The small boat was carrying 16 migrants including the seven-year-old girl’s parents, whose nationality is unknown. The couple had three other children on board and the mother is pregnant, according to a
Continue ReadingBy Ashley R. Williams and Victor Blackwell, CNN (CNN) — A record-breaking 398 people fell victim to homicides in Memphis last year – a noticeable jump from the 190 reported five years ago. And with more than 600 major violent crimes so far in 2024, including at least 40 homicides, Tennessee’s second-most populous city is
Continue ReadingCNN By Ashley R. Williams and Victor Blackwell, CNN (CNN) — A record-breaking 398 people fell victim to homicides in Memphis last year – a noticeable jump from the 190 reported five years ago. And with more than 600 major violent crimes so far in 2024, including at least 40 homicides, Tennessee’s second-most populous city
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Cuando Kailani Greenwood tenía 20 años, se sometió a un tratamiento contra el linfoma de Hodgkin, un cáncer del sistema inmunitario. La terapia funcionó al principio, y la ayudó a permanecer en remisión durante los cinco años siguientes. Pero el cáncer reapareció. Y esta vez requirió de un régimen más duro
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By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Real Madrid star Jude Bellingham was sent off after he was denied an injury-time winner against Valencia on Saturday. The 20-year-old Bellingham looked to have scored the winning goal with a header deep into stoppage at the Mestalla Stadium, but referee Gil Manzano had blown the whistle for full-time
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — It took 10 years and three rounds of in vitro fertilization for Rania Abu Anza to become pregnant, and only seconds for her to lose her five-month-old twins, a boy and a girl. An Israeli strike hit the home of her extended
Continue Reading By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Four years after he became the Democratic face of Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial, California Rep. Adam Schiff has become the front-runner for a new role: US senator. Ahead of the state’s open primary Tuesday, Schiff has maintained a small but steady lead in the polls, raised the most
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Republican Steve Womack faces a challenge from the right in the Arkansas primary from a state lawmaker trying to portray the congressman as not conservative enough. Womack is running against state Sen. Clint Penzo in Tuesday’s Republican primary for the 3rd Congressional district in northwest
Continue ReadingOpinion by Richard Galant, CNN (CNN) — “I planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway,” goes the song written for, and made famous by Frank Sinatra. “I did it my way.” As mourners looked on, the coffin of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was lowered into the ground Friday in Moscow to
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French authorities are searching for an assailant who attacked a man near a synagogue in Paris. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said late Saturday the attack on a man on Friday evening was “a new antisemitic attack.” In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the interior minister said authorities are working tirelessly to
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Torgan, CNN (CNN) — Do you feel like a million bucks? If not, maybe you should take a look at your 401(k) statement. Fidelity Investments, one of the largest providers of workplace retirement plans, says the number of 401(k) accounts with balances of at least $1 million rose by more than 40% last
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump easily won South Carolina’s GOP primary. but the biggest winner on that night last month might have been Tim Scott. The South Carolina senator’s enthusiastic campaigning for the former president has been generating buzz about Scott’s prospects as Trump’s potential pick for a running
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JOHNSON COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Stover woman is seriously hurt after a crash in Johnson County late Saturday night. The crash happened on Marr Dr. near N. Maguire St. at 11:41 p.m. Melissa Alston, 48, was driving his 2005 Mitsubishi Lancer north with passenger Haley Hopper, 23, when it ran off the road and hit
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY MEYER Associated Press The Miami Archdiocese’s superintendent of schools says Catholic education is increasingly in demand in South Florida, now that all K-12 students regardless of income are allowed to use taxpayer-funded programs to pay for private school tuition. Against the backdrop of favorable decisions by the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court, Florida was
Continue Reading By Manveena Suri, Lucas Lillieholm and Yoonjung Seo, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of doctors in South Korea took to the streets of Seoul on Sunday to protest the government’s plans to increase medical school admissions and what they see as a broader lack of support for the country’s medical system. The doctors say the government needs
Continue ReadingBy JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A court in Bangladesh has granted bail to Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus in a $2.3 million embezzlement case. Yunus, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for pioneering the use of microcredit to help impoverished people, was sentenced to six months in prison in
Continue ReadingBy GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As an independent, Christian Miller can’t vote in Pennsylvania’s closed presidential primary in April. He said it wouldn’t matter even if he could. “You’re not really voting for anything,” said Miller, who left the Democratic Party in 2022. “Every election I’ve ever seen, the candidates have been
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