By Lucy Bayly, CNN New York (CNN) — First-time applications for unemployment benefits rose last week to 231,000, the highest level since August, in another sign that the white-hot labor market is starting to cool off. Thursday’s data also showed that the number of continuing claims, or applications from people who have filed for unemployment
Continue ReadingBy ALMA SOLÍS Associated Press Ramón Fonseca, a partner in the Mossack Fonseca law firm at the center of the “Panama Papers” scandal, has died. Lawyer Guillermina McDonald confirmed to The Associated Press in a phone message that Fonseca died late Wednesday. She said he had been hospitalized since two days before last month’s start
Continue ReadingBy STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Charlotte Hornets have named Charles Lee as their next head coach. The 39-year-old Lee joins the Hornets after serving as the Boston Celtics top assistant coach. Lee will complete the Celtics’ playoff run before joining the Hornets on a full-time basis. Lee spent five
Continue ReadingBy Diana Gutierrez Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (WISN) — The Milwaukee LGBT Community Center is working to keep its doors and services open for hundreds of Milwaukeeans with a funding campaign. The goal is to raise $25,000. Amid a potential shutdown, the center announced their $25,000 will be matched by
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By Faith Karimi and Al Goodman, CNN (CNN) — About 9:30 p.m. on February 2, a man in a helmet entered Ana Maria Knezevich Henao’s apartment building in an exclusive neighborhood in Madrid. Henao, who was on vacation in Spain from south Florida, was in the building at the time and planning a trip to
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Scruggs Click here for updates on this story STUART, Florida (WPBF) — The Martin County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a vehicle stolen out of Boynton Beach crashed into a body of water overnight. It happened Monday night near Southwest Cove Road and Kanner Highway. Martin County Sheriff William D. Snyder held a
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story LEE’S SUMMIT, Missouri (KMBC) — A viral Facebook post falsely claiming a risk of fentanyl exposure at a local business has left the Lee’s Summit Police Department dealing with the fallout. Officers in Lee’s Summit are still dealing with the aftermath of a Facebook post
Continue ReadingBy JoBeth Davis Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Kansas (KMBC) — A man is in custody in Kansas City, Kansas, after he walked into an area hospital emergency room overnight and confessed to killing someone. KCKPD said officers were dispatched to a home in the 1900 block of Hallock around 11:44
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story OSKALOOSA, Iowa (KCCI) — A new cafe opening in southeast Iowa aims to empower students and adults with special needs. The Oskaloosa Community School District is getting ready to open its new Spirit Cafe on First Avenue East. The district says the cafe provides opportunities
Continue ReadingBy LYNN BERRY, DIDI TANG, JILL COLVIN and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Making future military aid to Ukraine contingent on the country participating in peace talks with Russia. Banning Chinese nationals from buying property within a 50-mile radius of U.S. government buildings. Filling the national security sector with acolytes of Donald Trump.
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Musa and Kelly McCleary, CNN (CNN) — A video showing a confrontation between a man and a woman wearing a hijab during a pro-Israel rally at Arizona State University is further highlighting the roiling tensions on college campuses across the US over the Israel-Hamas war and a steep increase in reported antisemitic and
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits jumped to its highest level in more than eight months last week in another sign that the labor market may be softening. The Labor Department reported Thursday that unemployment claims for the week ending May 4 rose by 22,000 to 231,000.
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — One major land crossing into Gaza was shut down after a Hamas rocket attack, another by an Israeli incursion. And only a trickle of aid is entering through a third crossing that just opened in recent weeks. The latest developments threaten to worsen the humanitarian catastrophe in
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By Beau Bowman Click here for updates on this story OSCEOLA, Iowa (KCCI) — The Lavery family lives just south of Osceola. A few minutes after midnight Monday, they grabbed their 6-year-old daughter and hid in the basement. A few minutes later, they came out and their roof was in their yard. An EF-1 tornado
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN SMITH and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff released body camera video Thursday showing a deputy outside an apartment door and firing immediately when it was opened by a Black man carrying a handgun pointed downward, a killing the family denounced as “unjustifiable.” Okaloosa County Sheriff
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By Matt Villano, CNN (CNN) — John Frizzell always had a feeling he was different. The Hollywood film score composer could rattle off facts about chess puzzles, Immanuel Kant’s synthetic a priori knowledge and other esoteric subjects. He could go down philosophical rabbit holes and regale friends and family members with anecdotes about David Hume.
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Robinson Click here for updates on this story ODENTON, Maryland (WBAL) — Anne Arundel County Public Schools’ motto is “Belong, Grow, Succeed.” One student embodies just that. Three days a week, Edward Martinez-Fernandez, 20, takes a bus from Arundel High School to Piney Orchard Elementary School to work in the cafeteria as an
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WBAL) — A sixth victim has been recovered from the site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. Officials said Unified Command salvage teams located the victim Tuesday and notified Maryland State Police. Investigators identified the victim as the sixth construction worker presumed
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press The award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison and lashings ahead of his planned trip to the Cannes film festival, his lawyer tells The Associated Press. Rasoulof is known for his film “There Is No Evil.” He has become the latest artist targeted in
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A new interactive art installation in New York City is allowing viewers to communicate with people 3,000 miles away in Dublin, Ireland. The brainchild of Lithuanian artist Benediktas Gylys, “the Portal” was unveiled on Wednesday and allows people on either side of the Atlantic to interact with each other
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