By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California has entered spring with an above-average mountain snowpack, and major reservoirs are in good shape for a second consecutive year. The California Department of Water Resources measured the water content of the Sierra Nevada snowpack Tuesday at 110% of the April 1 average. The benchmark
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KJRH, KTUL, CNN By Omar Jimenez and Yon Pomrenze, CNN (CNN) — There are only two people alive who remember firsthand what the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre was like. One of them is 109-year-old Viola Ford Fletcher, otherwise known as “Mother Fletcher.” She specifically remembers “people getting killed, houses, property, schools, churches, and stores getting
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CNN By Omar Jimenez and Yon Pomrenze, CNN (CNN) — There are only two people alive who remember firsthand what the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre was like. One of them is 109-year-old Viola Ford Fletcher, otherwise known as “Mother Fletcher.” She specifically remembers “people getting killed, houses, property, schools, churches, and stores getting destroyed with
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El presidente de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, se pronunció este lunes sobre el proceso electoral de Venezuela en un momento de tensión política en el país vecino en que una parte de la oposición, liderada por María Corina Machado, ha denunciado falta de garantías para sumarse al proceso electoral del
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is poised to increase its penalties for killing police dogs and horses. Legislators gave their final approval Tuesday to a measure inspired by a suspect’s strangling of a dog last year in the state’s largest city of Wichita. The Republican-controlled state House approved a
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ind. (AP) — The mother of a 5-year-old Atlanta boy whose body was found in a suitcase in Indiana in 2022 was ordered held without bond Tuesday during a strange initial court appearance in which she claimed she was under federal surveillance for several months before her capture. Dejaune Anderson, 38, is charged with
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Lizzo would like to issue a clarification. Last week, the singer caused a stir among her loyal social media followers after she posted a statement to her Instagram page in which she said she was “tired” of the criticism often directed her way “by everyone in my life and
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA wants to come up with an out-of-this-world way to keep track of time, putting the moon on its own souped-up clock. It’s not quite a time zone like those on Earth, but an entire frame of time reference for the moon. Because there’s less gravity
Continue ReadingCNN By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Millions of Americans are struggling to save for retirement. They just don’t have much money left after paying their daily expenses and monthly bills, forcing them to put retirement savings on the back burner. “My financial focus has to be on the present, as
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — New vehicle sales in the U.S. rose 5.1% from January through March, as buyers stayed in the market despite high interest rates. But electric vehicle sales growth slowed during the first three months of the year, with mainstream buyers wary of limited range and a lack
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, ganadora de las elecciones de México según los resultados oficiales preliminares, llegó a la campaña electoral con su historial como jefa de Gobierno de Ciudad de México (2018-2023). En junio del año pasado dejó el cargo para participar en la contienda por la presidencia del país. En
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Monday saw widespread storms leading to damaging encompassing much of the state. From wind gusts up to 80 mph, hail over 2″, to weaker tornadoes it was a busy day for meteorologist across the region. Hundreds of hail and wind reports rang out across the state mainly centered along and just north of the I-44
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Most Americans have moved on from the presidential primaries now that they are effectively over. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have amassed enough delegates to win the Democratic and Republican nomination, respectively. But there was still an important message for Biden in particular from
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By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — A coalition of civil rights and medical organizations said Tuesday that they are suing the US Food and Drug Administration because it has missed its own deadline to take action to ban menthol cigarettes. “This is profits over people, and we are just really asking on behalf of the
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Una candidata a la alcaldía fue asesinada y otros tres resultaron heridos en un tiroteo en la ciudad mexicana de Celaya, en el más reciente episodio de violencia que empaña el periodo previo a las elecciones generales del país. Bertha Gisela Gaytán, candidata a la alcaldía de Celaya, murió
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Katie Britt confided Tuesday that she counts some Democratic colleagues among her best friends in the Senate and said such cross-party relationships are essential to governing, especially as social media fuels widening political divisions. During a visit to Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell’s hometown,
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Millions of Americans are struggling to save for retirement. They just don’t have much money left after paying their daily expenses and monthly bills, forcing them to put retirement savings on the back burner. “My financial focus has to be on the present, as every
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La región de Calabria, justo en la punta de la bota de Italia, es donde la cocina italiana adquiere su mayor intensidad. Además de la amplia gama de recetas clásicas, los calabreses saborean platos picantes, como las salchichas de sangre de cerdo, conocidas como sanguinaccio, y la pasta con salami de
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that New Mexico election officials violated public disclosure provisions of the National Voter Registration Act by refusing to provide voter rolls to a conservative group and its public online database. The opinion and order Friday from U.S. District Court Judge
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government says a loose railway fitting that caused a train car to derail on the president’s pet project, a tourist rail route known as the Maya Train. The derailment on March 25 proved embarrassing for the government. Critics have said the project, which runs in a loop around the
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