Opinion by Fareed Zakaria (CNN) — It’s difficult to know what to make of the turmoil on college campuses these days — the protests, polarization, intimidation and general bitterness. In a revealing article in the Wall Street Journal, higher education reporter Douglas Belkin sets these events against a broader backdrop: the disappearance of a sense of community. He points
Continue ReadingDECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A judge upheld the disqualification of a candidate who had had planned to run against the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s 2020 Georgia election interference case. Tiffani Johnson is one of two people who filed paperwork to challenge Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee. An administrative law judge
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A Texas woman whose conviction for illegal voting in 2016 was overturned on appeal may end up back in court. The Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office filed an appeal Thursday, asking for the state’s top court to reinstate Crystal Mason’s conviction after it was overturned in March. “Voting is
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — Help is finally on the way for the most critically eroded part of the Jersey Shore. North Wildwood and the state have been fighting in court for years over measures the town has taken on its own to try to hold off the encroaching seas
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Este viernes en Chile entró en vigor la ley que reduce gradualmente la jornada laboral de 45 a 40 horas semanales, iniciando este año con una hora menos. La llamada “ley de 40 horas” aplicará cambios paulatinos cada año, reduciendo durante 2024 la jornada de trabajo a 44 horas semanales.
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — George Mallory is renowned for being one of the first British mountaineers to attempt to scale the dizzying heights of Mount Everest during the 1920s — until the mountain claimed his life. Nearly a century later, newly digitized letters shed light on Mallory’s hopes and fears about ascending Everest,
Continue ReadingBy Christian Olaniran and Jessica Albert Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A former high school athletic director was arrested Thursday morning after allegedly using artificial intelligence to impersonate the school principal in a recording that included racist and antisemitic comments about individuals at the school. One-time Pikesville High School employee
Continue ReadingAitana Ocana (CNN Español) — El caso Asunta, la nueva miniserie de Netflix, está inspirada en la historia real de uno de los crímenes más mediáticos de España: el asesinato en 2013 de Asunta Basterra, una niña gallega de 12 años de origen chino, por el que fueron condenados sus padres adoptivos, Rosario Porto y
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By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden went on “The Howard Stern Show” on Friday and repeated his familiar story about the time he supposedly “got arrested” trying to defend the civil rights of Black Americans. As in the past, Biden told the story on Friday while recounting what his mother supposedly said while urging
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WBAL, CNN By Thomas Lake, CNN (CNN) — The recording went viral in January, provoking rage in suburban Baltimore. It seemed that Pikesville High School Principal Eric Eiswert had been caught making racist and antisemitic comments. Angry phone calls overwhelmed the front desk. Employees felt afraid. Security was tightened. Eiswert was placed on administrative leave pending an
Continue ReadingBy YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian hacker activist group claims to have infiltrated the network of the country’s main security agency and obtained access to personal files of over 8,600 staffers of the KGB, the security service that still goes under its Soviet name. The authorities have not commented on
Continue ReadingFORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Officials say Google plans to invest $2 billion to build a data center in northeastern Indiana to help power its artificial intelligence technology and cloud business. The Journal Gazette reports that the planned data center in Fort Wayne was announced in January, but Google and Gov. Eric Holcomb’s office disclosed
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that New York can move ahead with a law requiring internet service providers to offer heavily discounted rates to low-income residents. The decision from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Friday reverses a lower court ruling from 2021 that blocked the
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — La Federación de Exportadores de Carne de Estados Unidos, USMEF por sus siglas en inglés, sostiene que las restricciones impuestas por el gobierno colombiano a los productos vacunos de ocho estados por supuesta gripe aviar, “no tienen base científica”, afirmó a CNN este viernes John Herath, portavoz de la Federación.
Continue ReadingSEWARD, Neb. (AP) — A former Nebraska deputy has been jailed after a grand jury indicted him on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with the shooting death of a man in October. Lancaster County Attorney Pat Condon on Friday announced the indictment of former Seward County Deputy Anthony Gann. Gann is jailed on $100,000 bond
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wildlife activists and others are calling on a boycott of Wyoming tourism as Yellowstone National Park opens for its busy summer season. The reason is the state’s laws that give people wide leeway to people to kill wolves with little oversight in most of the state.
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A real estate company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to pay $250 million to settle lawsuits nationwide. The lawsuits claimed that longstanding practices by real estate brokerages forced U.S. homeowners to pay artificially inflated broker commissions when they sold their homes. HomeServices
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A real estate company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to pay $250 million to settle lawsuits nationwide. The lawsuits claimed that longstanding practices by real estate brokerages forced U.S. homeowners to pay artificially inflated broker commissions when they sold their homes. HomeServices
Continue ReadingBALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore publishing company has filed a class action claim arguing the owner and manager of the massive container ship that took down the Francis Scott Key Bridge last month should have to pay damages to businesses impacted by the collapse. The claim was filed Thursday on behalf of American Publishing LLC.
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A proposed ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care for minors also would bar state employees from promoting it or even children’s social transitioning. Teachers and social workers who support LGBTQ+ rights worry that they will be disciplined or fired for helping kids who are exploring their
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