CNN By Edward-Isaac Dovere and Camila DeChalus, CNN Milwaukee (CNN) — On a recent chilly Sunday, a retired Milwaukee police sergeant leaned into the window of a gray Mazda in a strip mall parking lot where some of the post-church crowd was coming for lunch, chatting up the driver for almost 10 minutes. The 2024 election could
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — In September, Hyundai and Kia issued a recall of 3.4 million of its vehicles in the United States with an ominous warning: The vehicles should be parked outdoors and away from buildings because they risked catching fire, whether the engines were on or off. Six months
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s imperial family made an Instagram debut with a barrage of posts on Monday, hoping to shake off their reclusive image and reach out to younger people on social media. The Imperial Household Agency, a government agency in charge of the family’s affairs, posted 60 photos and
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — An old land mine found by children in eastern Afghanistan has exploded while they were playing with it, killing nine children. A Taliban spokesman says the land mine, which the children found near their village in Ghazni province, was from decades ago. He says the explosion Sunday killed five boys and four
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By Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — The Los Angeles Times have edited a previously published commentary piece written about the LSU women’s basketball team following criticisms of the article by the team’s head coach, who decried its tone as sexist and “awful.” Speaking to the media after the Tigers’ 78-69 Sweet 16 win against UCLA
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Eran poco más de la 1:00 a.m. del 26 de marzo y Larry DeSantis se dirigía a su segundo trabajo en Herman’s Bakery, en la zona de Baltimore: la mitad de otra larga, pero normal, jornada laboral. Cuando un barco colisionó con el puente Francis Scott Key, provocando su catastrófico
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — The French foreign minister has pressed China on trade issues and the war in Ukraine ahead of a planned visit to France by Chinese leader Xi Jinping later this spring. Stéphane Séjourné said Monday that European trade deficits with China and some other countries are not sustainable. He was speaking at a
Continue ReadingBy SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The world’s largest democratic election could also be one of its most consequential. With a population of over 1.4 billion people and close to 970 million voters, India’s general election pits Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an avowed Hindu nationalist, against a broad alliance of opposition parties
Continue Reading By Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — The men’s Final Four is now set following victories by No. 1 Purdue and No. 11 North Carolina State on Sunday. The Wolfpack’s unlikely run continued following a 76-64 upset win over No. 4 Duke in the Elite Eight. The Blue Devils took a lead into halftime, but NC
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Immigration law has long been seen as the sole domain of the federal government.
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — A court in Indian has placed a top opposition leader in two weeks of judicial detention after his 10 days in the custody of a federal agency expired. Opposition leaders says the case is part of a crackdown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on rivals ahead of a national election later this
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By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The hottest ticket in Washington this week involves spoons, eggs, referees and a throng of cheering parents: It’s time for the 144th annual White House Easter Egg Roll. Since the 1870s, children have participated in the time-honored, Americana custom of pushing brightly colored, hard-boiled eggs across the White House South
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Charleston, South Carolina (CNN) — Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh received another prison sentence Monday, this time in federal court, where a judge sentenced him to 40 years after he pleaded guilty to a raft of financial crimes, including nearly two dozen charges of conspiracy, fraud and money laundering.
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TODAY: Monday is an ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Alert day. Today is expected to be quite warm, in the mid-70s, as we are south of a warm front that exists somewhere near the Missouri/Iowa border. This will also put us squarely in the window for severe storms this afternoon and evening. Wind, hail, and tornadoes
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By Abeer Salman, Lucas Lilieholm, Jessie Yeung and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s military has withdrawn from Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, after a 14-day siege that witnesses and Palestinian officials say has left buildings largely destroyed and bodies strewn across the complex. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed its withdrawal Monday, saying its troops
Continue ReadingBy RIAZ KHAN Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani counterterrorism police have arrested at least 12 suspects in connection with last week’s suicide bombing that killed five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver in the volatile northwest. Officials say those arrested are not directly involved in the attack but helped orchestrate Tuesday’s bombing. Some of them allegedly
Continue ReadingBy Omar Jimenez, CNN (CNN) — It was just past 1 a.m. on March 26 and Larry DeSantis was headed to his second job at Herman’s Bakery in the Baltimore area -– the halfway point of another long, but normal workday. When a ship collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing its catastrophic collapse,
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Comprar una vivienda asequible en Estados Unidos se ha vuelto mucho más difícil para muchas personas desde 2020. Un nuevo análisis de Bankrate.com encuentra que en 22 estados y en la capital, Washington, los compradores necesitan un ingreso familiar de seis cifras para pagar cómodamente una casa típica de precio
Continue ReadingBy Robert Shackelford, Christina Maxouris, Tina Burnside and Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Parts of Texas all the way to Illinois were drenched Monday evening as severe thunderstorms marched through the central and eastern US, dumping hail larger than softballs in some areas and unleashing fierce winds of more than 70 mph. The storms are
Continue Reading By Marlon Sorto and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Argentina and Colombia say they have taken “concrete steps” to improve frayed relations between the two countries after far-right Argentine leader Javier Milei called his left-wing Colombian counterpart a “terrorist murderer” in a CNN interview. In a joint statement Sunday, the two nations’ foreign ministries said they had
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