By JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A state audit has found lax oversight by California’s transportation agency contributed to a destructive blaze that consumed a vital section of a Los Angeles freeway used by hundreds of thousands of commuters. The report released last Thursday says Caltrans conducted its required annual inspections of
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By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Results from recent wastewater testing across the US suggests that H5N1 bird flu may not be as widespread as first feared. The data, released Monday by the nonprofit WastewaterSCAN network, showed detections of the H5 protein portion of the flu virus in sewage from 14 water treatment plants in
Continue ReadingBUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a New York judge who was censured after being seen on video shoving a police officer during a brawl with neighbors will be replaced on the bench. Judge Mark Grisanti’s term on the Court of Claims expired last year and he has been an acting state Supreme Court justice
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN Español) — Con 71 votos a favor, el parlamento peruano aprobó este miércoles la visita de la presidenta Dina Boluarte a China, del 23 al 30 de junio. La votación se dio tras la exposición y solicitud de permiso realizada en el pleno por el canciller Javier González-Olaechea. Según un documento enviado
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — It’s the recurring threat President Joe Biden’s reelection bid will never be able to fully outrun. The White House was forced into a fresh damage control effort Wednesday to defend the 81-year-old commander in chief’s acuity as he embarked on a grueling foreign trip and as the race
Continue ReadingMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Three people have been shot and killed at a small grocery store in Montgomery. City officials say they are investigating if Tuesday night’s shooting is connected to a string of robberies targeting Latino-owned businesses in Alabama’s capital city. The shooting at Tienda Los Hermanos, a grocery store on the south side
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nota del editor: Jill Filipovic es periodista con sede en Nueva York y autora del libro “OK Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind”. Síguela en Twitter. Las opiniones presentadas en esta nota le pertenecen exclusivamente a su autora. (CNN) — Los estadounidenses son un grupo sorprendentemente solitario. Nuestro declive en
Continue ReadingBy JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Professional athletes get the lecture at the start of every season, and see the warnings any time they walk into their locker room or clubhouse: If you gamble on your games, the consequences are severe. And, every once in a while, there is a more personal
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislators have advanced a proposed constitutional amendment to make it clear that only U.S. citizens can vote in the state. It would retool language on the books that already limits balloting to U.S.-born and naturalized citizens 18 and older. A House election-law
Continue ReadingBy Kaila Nichols, CNN (CNN) — Baseball legend Willie Mays never expected to get 10 more career hits five decades after his last game. But that’s exactly what happened last week when Major League Baseball integrated Negro League statistics into its record books. “So that’s a very good thing,” Mays told CNN in a statement Wednesday. “It must be
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Mientras Estados Unidos lidia con un brote de gripe H5N1 en ganado lechero y en personas que han tenido contacto con ellos, la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) anunció la primera infección humana conocida con una cepa diferente, H5N2, en una persona en México que murió de complicaciones
Continue ReadingTACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state man who pleaded guilty to making 20 false reports of bombs and shootings around the U.S. and in Canada has been sentenced to three years in prison. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Washington says Ashton Connor Garcia of Bremerton was sentenced Tuesday. Garcia pleaded
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI and MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A jury has ended a second day of deliberations without reaching a verdict in the trial of seven Minnesotans accused of exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to steal more than $40 million meant to feed children. Attention has focused on the case after someone tried
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior Biden administration officials say the U.S. has been tracking Russian warships and aircraft that are expected to arrive in the Caribbean for a military exercise in the coming weeks. The ships also are expected possibly to make port calls in Venezuela and Cuba. The officials say
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By Ivana Kottasová, Sahar Akbarzai and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — At least four people were killed and more than 20 others injured when a passenger train collided with a freight train in the Czech Republic on Wednesday night, authorities said. Rescue operations have ended and authorities will investigate what caused the crash in the city of Pardubice, police said Thursday.
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s campaign has begun requesting information from his potential vice presidential candidates, sending vetting paperwork to a list of top contenders in recent weeks. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance were among those who received
Continue ReadingBy Olivia Diventi, Julian Quintana Click here for updates on this story HALLANDALE BEACH, Florida (WSVN) — New surveillance video showed the moments a construction worker was caught in an explosion at a gas station in Hallandale Beach. The worker was hospitalized with second and third-degree burns to about half his body. The explosion happened
Continue Reading By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Antidepressants can do wonders for persistent mental health problems. But some people may be reluctant to take the medications, fearing what could happen if they want to stop taking them one day. That risk has now been quantified, thanks to a new review of 79 studies — known as
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A defense lawyer is declining to comment on the case against a New York man charged in a sports betting scandal that cost former NBA player Jontay Porter his career. Attorney Michael Soshnick also wouldn’t Wednesday say whether his client, Long Phi Pham, knows the former
Continue ReadingWILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — In a story published June 5, 2024, about the witnesses in Hunter Biden’s federal firearms charges trial, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of the Biden family member who had a private interview with lawmakers in February 2024. It was James Biden, not Joe Biden.
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