October 2024

Senators ask Justice Department to take tougher action against Boeing executives over safety issues

October 3, 2024 8:04 PM Associated Press

Associated Press Two U.S. senators have asked the Department of Justice to take tougher action against Boeing executives for safety issues that have impacted its airplanes. In a letter, Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut urged the department to “hold criminally accountable” executives who disregarded passenger safety in violation of federal

UN peacekeepers stay on Lebanon’s border despite Israeli ground incursion

October 3, 2024 7:59 PM Associated Press

Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations peacekeeping chief says U.N. peacekeepers are staying in their positions on Lebanon’s southern border despite Israel’s request to vacate some areas before it launched its ground operation. Jean-Pierre LaCroix told reporters Thursday that the commander and liaison officers from the U.N. force also are in constant

Republican Senate candidate for Montana Tim Sheehy walks up to the stage during a rally for Republican presidential nominee

How the Senate GOP’s potential majority maker is staying ‘shielded’ in push to oust Tester in Montana

October 3, 2024 7:56 PM CNN

CNN By Manu Raju and Haley Talbot, CNN Bozeman, Montana (CNN) — Tim Sheehy stumped behind closed doors earlier this week here with a crowd of supporters eager to make him the GOP’s Senate majority maker. But the 38-year-old political novice was also eager not to be seen outside those doors. Sheehy and his campaign

US arranges flights to bring Americans out of Lebanon as others seek escape

October 3, 2024 7:29 PM Associated Press

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S.-arranged flights have brought about 350 Americans and their immediate relatives out of Lebanon this week during escalated fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. That’s as thousands of Americans still there face airstrikes and diminishing commercial flights. In Washington, White House officials met with two top Arab American officials to discuss

Domestic extremists with ‘election-related grievances’ could turn to violence in final weeks of election, FBI and DHS warn

October 3, 2024 7:29 PM CNN Newsource

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The FBI and Department of Homeland Security are concerned that “election-related grievances,” such as a belief in voter fraud, could motivate domestic extremists to engage in violence in the weeks before and after the November election, as it did during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol,

Familiares de jóvenes detenidos en Venezuela exigen su liberación

October 3, 2024 7:22 PM CNN Newsource

Ivonne Valdés (CNN Español) –– Familiares de jóvenes detenidos en el marco de las protestas poselectorales en Venezuela se manifestaron este jueves afuera del Tribunal Supremo de Justicia (TSJ) para exigir su liberación y que pare el maltrato al que ―afirman― son sometidos. Moraima Urbáez dijo que no ha podido ver a su hijo de

Millones de estadounidenses experimentan una ola de calor histórica en octubre

October 3, 2024 7:13 PM CNN Newsource

Andrea Saint Martin (CNN) — Millones de personas en el oeste de Estados Unidos experimentan una peligrosa e histórica ola de calor en octubre, con temperaturas tan extremas que serían consideradas altas incluso en el pico del verano. El calor ha sido tan intenso que Estados Unidos alcanzó y empató la temperatura más alta jamás

Las campañas de Harris y Trump se disputan a los cruciales votantes latinos en la reñida Pensilvania

October 3, 2024 7:07 PM CNN Newsource

Alexandra Ferguson Reading, Pensilvania (CNN) — Tim Walz, recién salido de su debate vicepresidencial, llegó el miércoles por la noche a un restaurante de propiedad puertorriqueña aquí, en el sureste de Pensilvania, para hablar con los votantes latinos. “Esto va a depender de nuestros estados del ‘muro azul’, de Pensilvania”, dijo el gobernador de Minnesota

Missouri’s 50th House District race brings health care, university funding into focus

October 3, 2024 7:02 PM Mitchell Kaminski

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) John Lane has never run for public office. However, just hours before the Sept. 10 deadline to register as a candidate, Lane tossed his hat in the ring for Missouri’s 50th House District race. The move came after former Republican candidate Joshua Blakeman abruptly dropped out of the race in August, putting

Fluoride in water prevents some cavities but concern about health risks raises questions about the tradeoffs

October 3, 2024 7:00 PM CNN Newsource

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The public health practice of adding fluoride to water supplies faces new scrutiny as a few recent reports raise concerns about potential health risks and suggest the benefits may not be as significant as they once were. A new report from the Cochrane Collaboration, an independent group that systematically

North Korea’s Kim threatens to destroy South Korea with nuclear strikes if provoked

October 3, 2024 6:54 PM Associated Press

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has threatened to use nuclear weapons and destroy South Korea permanently if provoked. South Korea’s leader had warned earlier this week that Kim’s regime would collapse if he attempted to use nuclear arms. The exchange of such rhetoric between the rival

How the Senate GOP’s potential majority maker is staying ‘shielded’ in push to oust Tester in Montana

October 3, 2024 6:50 PM CNN Newsource

By Manu Raju and Haley Talbot, CNN Bozeman, Montana (CNN) — Tim Sheehy stumped behind closed doors earlier this week here with a crowd of supporters eager to make him the GOP’s Senate majority maker. But the 38-year-old political novice was also eager not to be seen outside those doors. Sheehy and his campaign have

Las Vegas Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce was a former associate head football coach at Arizona State University.

Raiders’ Antonio Pierce offered recruits and parents perks like trips to strip club and gun range while at ASU, per the NCAA

October 3, 2024 6:44 PM CNN Newsource

By David Close, CNN (CNN) — Trips to a strip club, gun shooting range, and free airfare were some of the perks offered as part of an elaborate scheme by current Las Vegas Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce to woo potential Arizona State University (ASU) football players and their parents while the former NFL player

Nibi the ‘diva’ beaver to stay at rescue center, Massachusetts governor decides

October 3, 2024 6:39 PM Associated Press

Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The question of whether a 2-year-old beaver named Nibi can stay with the rescuers she has known since she was a baby or must be released into the wild was resolved Thursday when the Massachusetts governor stepped in to protect Nibi. The state issued a permit to Newhouse Wildlife Rescue

¿Cuánto tiempo toma tramitar el pasaporte estadounidense?

October 3, 2024 6:38 PM CNN Newsource

Belén Liotti (CNN) –– Los estadounidenses que tardan para planear viajar al extranjero ahora tienen un poco más de margen de maniobra que antes. El Departamento de Estado anunció este jueves que el tiempo habitual de tramitación de los pasaportes estadounidenses se redujo a entre cuatro y seis semanas. Previamente, la demora era de entre

South Korea adoptees endure emotional, sometimes devastating searches for their birth families

October 3, 2024 6:35 PM Associated Press

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — They began a pilgrimage that thousands before them have done. They boarded long flights to their motherland, South Korea, to undertake an emotional, often frustrating, sometimes devastating search for their birth families. These adoptees are among the 200,000 sent from South Korea to Western nations as children. Many

Did this happen to me also? Korean adoptees question their past and ask how to find their families

October 3, 2024 6:33 PM Associated Press

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Dozens of South Korean adoptees, many in tears, have responded to an investigation led by The Associated Press and documented by Frontline (PBS) last week on Korean adoptions. The investigation reported dubious child-gathering practices and fraudulent paperwork involving South Korea’s foreign adoption program, which peaked in the 1970s

Six migrants killed in Mexico after military fires at vehicle

October 3, 2024 6:18 PM CNN Newsource

By Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Mexican soldiers opened fire at a pickup truck carrying migrants, killing six people from Egypt, El Salvador, and Peru, in an incident that the country’s President Claudia Sheinbaum described as a “regrettable.” The tragic event occured on Tuesday evening when soldiers spotted a vehicle carrying 33 migrants “going at

Harris campaign targets red, rural counties as it tries to narrow Trump’s margins

October 3, 2024 6:16 PM CNN Newsource

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is targeting red and rural counties in the final sprint to Election Day, according to campaign aides, with her appearance in Ripon, Wisconsin, on Thursday just part of a strategy to compete everywhere and narrow Donald Trump’s margins in those counties. “We got to

US nuclear weapon production sites violated environmental rules, federal judge decides

October 3, 2024 6:14 PM Associated Press

Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A U.S. Judge has ruled that the National Nuclear Security Administration failed to properly evaluate its expansion of plutonium pit production at two sites in New Mexico and South Carolina in violation of environmental regulations. Environmental groups on Thursday have applauded the ruling. South Carolina-based Judge Mary Geiger

Month: October 2024