CNNEE (CNN) — Nikolas Cruz tiene la intención de declararse culpable de los cargos derivados de los asesinatos de 2018 en la escuela secundaria Marjory Stoneman Douglas, reveló su abogado en un tribunal de Florida el viernes. Cruz está actualmente acusado de 17 cargos de asesinato premeditado y 17 cargos de intento de asesinato en
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By SAMYA KULLAB and TAMEEM AKHGAR Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Suicide bombers attacked a Shiite mosque packed with worshippers attending Friday prayers in southern Afghanistan, killing at least 32 people and wounding 68, according to a Taliban official. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the carnage at the Fatimiya mosque in
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MOUNT VERNON, Mo. (AP) — A 42-year-old man has pleaded guilty to stabbing a woman to death. James Pride was sentenced Wednesday after he admitted killing 53-year-old Patricia Urange in May 2020. Pride was charged with first-degree murder but pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a deal that called for a 25-year sentence. Prosecutors said
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By Amanda Watts and Jason Hanna, CNN Nikolas Cruz intends to plead guilty next week to charges stemming from the February 2018 massacre at South Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — the deadliest high school shooting in US history — his attorney said Friday in court. The plea would come more than three and
Continue Reading WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) — Colby College in the U.S. state of Maine is banning discrimination based on caste, a system of inherited social class. The private liberal arts college announced that it has revised its nondiscrimination policy to add caste to its list of protections for the campus community. The professor who led the push
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Twitter se ha llenado de banderas rojas en las últimas semanas y hace parte de una tendencia que comenzó en esta red pero se ha trasladado a otras como LinkedIN y Facebook. Las banderas rojas (o redflags) se tratan de mensajes que indican peligro, algo dañino, tóxico o que
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts has rejected a Supreme Court appeal by the St. Louis-based natural gas company Spire Inc. to allow it to keep operating a pipeline through Illinois and Missouri. Roberts did not comment Friday in refusing to temporarily pause a lower court order affecting the operation of the Spire STL
Continue ReadingBy CAMILA ORTI Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — A northeast Portland senior community is the named defendant in a wrongful death lawsuit after two residents were found dead in their apartments during the June heat wave. The summer heat wave killed more than 100 people in Oregon- 54 of
Continue ReadingBy DREW MARINE Click here for updates on this story VANCOUVER, Washington (KPTV) — A Vancouver woman experienced a parent’s worst nightmare, after police said 24-year-old Khael Aguilar-McNamee attempted to kidnap her 5-year-old son Quentin. “He grabbed my hand and I smacked him,” Quentin said. His mom, Jennifer Crothers, said they were playing at Marshall
Continue Reading By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The lawyer for an American journalist detained almost five months in military-ruled Myanmar says he is being prosecuted for an offense allegedly carried out by a news service for which he had stopped working more than half-a-year previously. Danny Fenster, managing editor of Frontier Myanmar, an online
Continue ReadingBy ANGIE RICONO, GREG MILOTA, CYNDI FAHRLANDER Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — The missing persons case of Cassidy Rainwater has grabbed national attention. It’s heartbreaking for those who know her well. “I don’t think the end result is going to be one that anybody wants to hear,” said
Continue Reading WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police in Wichita say they’ve made an arrest in a drive-by shooting earlier this week that injured an 11-year-old girl. Police say 25-year-old Byron Monroe Purcell was arrested Thursday and booked on counts of aggravated assault, aggravated battery and weapons, drug and parole violation charges. He’s accused of being the gunman
Continue ReadingCNNEE (CNN Español) — La Secretaría de Seguridad Ciudadana de la ciudad de México (SSC) informó este viernes que, según los primeros reportes, los disparos en el aeropuerto internacional se produjeron cuando una persona en motocicleta se acercó y disparó de manera directa a los pasajeros de una camioneta que circulaba en la vía de
Continue Reading By ZEKE MILLER and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to highlight his plan to lower the cost of child care for most American families as he makes the case for his stalled social spending bill during a visit to Connecticut. Biden is visiting a child development center in
Continue Reading By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press EPECUEN, Argentina (AP) — The Argentine spa town of Villa Epecuen was a mecca of tourism for much of the 20th century, until the adjoining lake poured through a broken embankment in 1985 and destroyed hotels, restaurants and other buildings. Today, it is drawing a new stream of tourists, who
Continue Reading ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Six female former lawmakers and judges from Afghanistan have been received by Greece’s prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, after fleeing their homeland in the wake of the Taliban takeover. The three former lawmakers and three former judges arrived in September, assisted by Greek and international charities, and are expected to be resettled
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The leaders of Japan and South Korea say they will look to deepen ties in the face of regional security threats despite strained bilateral relations. Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida spoke Friday by telephone with Korean President Moon Jae-in. Kishida had already spoken to other world
Continue Reading By RUSS BYNUM and AARON MORRISON Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — As three white men prepare to stand trial in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, many in the slain Black man’s Georgia hometown see the case as a reckoning for the local justice system. Arbery was chased and fatally shot in February 2020 after
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By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus says it has started procedures to revoke citizenship granted to 39 foreign nationals and six of their family members under the east Mediterranean island nation’s canceled investment-for-passports program. A government spokesperson said Friday that the Council of Ministers decided to overturn an earlier decision to
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By Martin Savidge, Pamela Kirkland and Scottie Andrew, CNN Debbie Blount is, for the most part, your average college undergrad, trying to make it through the semester amid piles of homework and a packed after-school schedule. She enjoys her history classes but struggles with statistics, a subject she calls the “bane of [her] existence.” She
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