By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A reworked version of a bill that originally caught flak for removing a pandemic-era health exemption for wearing a mask in public has been approved by North Carolina lawmakers. The amended bill approved Tuesday still increases punishments for people wearing masks while committing a crime. It
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By Izzy Fonfara Drewel Click here for updates on this story OMAHA (KETV) — It was supposed to be a Zen garden, but it became a “ruff” situation. Tony Vlach and his wife were landscaping in the backyard on Saturday when they heard yelping. He turned around to find his 11-year-old St. Bernard, Minnie, in
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KETV, TONY VLACH, CNN By Izzy Fonfara Drewel Click here for updates on this story OMAHA (KETV) — It was supposed to be a Zen garden, but it became a “ruff” situation. Tony Vlach and his wife were landscaping in the backyard on Saturday when they heard yelping. He turned around to find his 11-year-old
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo Roma (CNN) — Casi al mismo tiempo que la primera ministra de Italia, Giorgia Meloni, anunciaba que la reunión de líderes del G7 se realizaría en la región de Apulia, sur de Italia, en el marco de la presidencia de la organización económica, investigadores locales del combate a la mafia se centraban en
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. officials say the United States will send Ukraine another Patriot missile system. It answers Kyiv’s desperate calls for more air defenses as it battles against an intense Russian assault on the northeastern Kharkiv region. The officials said Tuesday that President Joe Biden has approved
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce said Tuesday that he wants to keep playing football “until the wheels come off” after the first day of the team’s mandatory three-day minicamp. The 34-year-old Kelce signed a new two-year, $34.25 million deal in April that ties him to the club
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Listen up, couch potatoes. As you probably already know, planting yourself in front of the TV for hours on end isn’t good for your health. The upside is there’s an easy way to make your “couch time” more productive and have a little fun along the way.
Continue ReadingNEW ORLEANS (AP) — A pastry competition kicked off what Chef Emeril Lagasse calls a kind of “culinary Olympics” taking place in New Orleans this week. The Pastry World Cup event started Tuesday. It coincides with the Bocuse d’Or Americas competitions. While pastry was the focus Tuesday, events involving savory creations open Wednesday. Participants are
Continue ReadingCLAYTON, Ohio (AP) — State troopers in Ohio say a truck hauling more than 150 pigs overturned on an Ohio interstate highway ramp. Troopers say the driver on Tuesday suffered serious injuries and roughly half of the pigs were killed in the crash or had to be euthanized. Authorities did manage to corral the pigs
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri State Highway Patrol has completed its annual bus inspections for school districts in the state and the Jefferson City School District saw an improvement from last year. School buses can be rated as “approved,” “defective” or “out of service.” A Tuesday press release from MSHP states buses with defective ratings
Continue ReadingBy KAITLYN HUAMANI Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Billy Ray Cyrus has filed for divorce from singer Firerose after seven months of marriage. The 62-year-old country musician filed for divorce from the 36-year-old whose legal name is Johanna Rose Hodges in a Tennessee court on May 22, citing irreconcilable differences and “inappropriate marital conduct.”
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Billy Ray Cyrus and singer Firerose are going their separate ways. Cyrus filed to annul his marriage to the Australian musician, whose real name is Johanna Rosie Hodges, in May, according to a copy of the petition obtained by CNN. They’ve been married since October 2023. Cyrus cited “irreconcilable
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Same-sex spouses were typically younger and were more likely to be employed than those in opposite-sex marriages, although many of those differences disappeared after the legalization of gay marriage in 2015. That’s according to a new report released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. Almost 1.5 million people lived with
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new U.N. report says violence against children caught in multiplying and escalating conflicts reached “extreme levels” in 2023, with an unprecedented number of killings and injuries in crises, from Israel and the Palestinian territories to Sudan, Myanmar and Ukraine. The annual report on Children
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN HAIGH and DAVE COLLINS Four campaign workers have been charged with mishandling absentee ballots during the 2019 Democratic mayoral primary in Connecticut’s largest city. They include a woman at the center of a similar controversy that occurred during the recent mayoral primary. Wanda Geter-Pataky, the vice chairperson of the Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee,
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Los demócratas están ante la amenaza de una brecha de género que podría poner en peligro la ventaja tradicional entre los votantes más jóvenes que el partido ha disfrutado durante décadas y que el presidente Joe Biden probablemente necesita para derrotar al expresidente Donald Trump. Mientras que los demócratas cuentan con que
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By Andrew Carey, Hamdi Alkhshali and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Talks to bring about a ceasefire and hostage deal that could stop the war in Gaza were thrown into doubt when Israel characterized a Hamas response to the latest proposal as a rejection, precipitating a blame game between the two sides. Hamas had submitted its
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CNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The jury in the Hunter Biden gun case was deadlocked in an initial vote Monday night over whether to convict the president’s son, one of the jurors told CNN in an interview, adding that “no politics came into play” during deliberations before they arrived at a guilty verdict.
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CNN, POOL, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, SKETCHES BY BILL HENNESSY, GETTY IMAGES By Marshall Cohen and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A federal jury has convicted Hunter Biden on all three federal felony gun charges he faced, concluding that he violated laws meant to prevent drug addicts from owning firearms. The conviction marks the first time
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Republican Maine state lawmaker Austin Theriault has won the chance to try to unseat one of the most conservative Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Theriault defeated Mike Soboleski in Tuesday’s Republican primary in a district rocked by a mass shooting last year. Theriault was
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