By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is curtailing federal agents’ use of “no-knock” warrants — which allow law enforcement agents to enter a home without announcing their presence — and would also prohibit its agents from using chokeholds in most circumstances. The new policy was announced on Tuesday and follows
Continue Reading ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — A woman who struggled with a robber inside an Illinois Subway shop says the owner suspended her from work after surveillance video of the fight became public. Araceli Sotelo told The Rockford Register Star that she was working alone in the Rockford sandwich shop Sept. 5 when a man came in
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ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — A woman who struggled with a robber inside an Illinois Subway shop says the owner suspended her from work after surveillance video of the fight became public. Araceli Sotelo told The Rockford Register Star that she was working alone in the Rockford sandwich shop Sept. 5 when a man came in
Continue Reading By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice has announced a statewide civil rights investigation into Georgia prisons. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, who oversees the department’s civil rights division, says the civil investigation will be comprehensive but will focus on “harm to prisoners resulting from prisoner-on-prisoner violence.” It will
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By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals are promoting general manager Dayton Moore to club president. The team is also elevating longtime assistant GM J.J. Picollo to GM. The 54-year-old Moore presided over one of the most remarkable turnarounds in baseball history, leading them to consecutive World
Continue Reading Apple has released a critical software patch to fix a security vulnerability that could allow hackers to directly infect iPhones and other Apple devices without any involvement of the owner. Here’s how to update various Apple devices, according to the company’s website.
Continue Reading Apple has released a critical software patch to fix a security vulnerability that could allow hackers to directly infect iPhones and other Apple devices without any involvement of the owner. Here’s how to update various Apple devices, according to the company’s website.
Continue Reading MOUNT AYR, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa woman whose husband died from a breakthrough COVID-19 infection is blaming Americans who refuse to mask or get vaccinated. The Des Moines Register reports that Ardith Keplinger said “that kind of attitude” killed Gary Keplinger. The Mount Ayr man was 77 when he died Aug. 11. The family
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By Ray Sanchez and Paul Vercammen, CNN More than six years after a crime documentary triggered a murder charge against real estate scion Robert Durst, a jury in Los Angeles on Tuesday began deliberating the fate of the eccentric Manhattan millionaire. Durst is charged with the first-degree murder of his close friend and confidante, Susan
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By Omar Jimenez and Brad Parks, CNN Four former Minneapolis police officers pleaded not guilty in federal court Tuesday to charges they violated George Floyd’s civil rights during his arrest when he was killed in May 2020. The former officers — Derek Chauvin, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane — were arraigned before
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By Christina Carrega, CNN The US Justice Department on Tuesday announced a statewide investigation into prisons in Georgia, focusing on prisoner-on-prisoner violence and sexual abuse of gay, lesbian and transgender prisoners by prisoners and staff. Kristen Clarke, who leads the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, said the investigation will look into possible civil rights violations. Clarke
Continue Reading TORONTO (AP) — The wife of “Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary has been found not guilty of charges stemming from in a boat crash that killed two people in central Ontario two years ago. Linda O’Leary was charged with careless operation of a vessel following the Aug. 24, 2019, collision on Lake Joseph, north of
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By Gregory Lemos, CNN The Clermont Police Department in Florida announced Monday that a mother has been reunited with her daughter, who was just 6 years old when she was abducted from her home in 2007. According to a news release, the Clermont Police Detective Division said it received a call on September 2 from
Continue Reading By Gregory Lemos, CNN The Clermont Police Department in Florida announced Monday that a mother has been reunited with her daughter, who was just 6 years old when she was abducted from her home in 2007. According to a news release, the Clermont Police Detective Division said it received a call on September 2 from
Continue Reading By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty-one tons of sand are transforming the Brooklyn Academy of Music into a day at a beach for the staging of the global warming opera Sun and Sea.” The hourlong opera that features singers sitting or lying on beach blankets under a hot sun. With light
Continue Reading By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kristin Chenoweth, Julie Taymor and Lin-Manuel Miranda welcomed back boisterous audiences to “Wicked,” “The Lion King” and “Hamilton” for the first time since the start of the pandemic, marking Tuesday as the unofficial return of Broadway. Chenoweth surprised the crowd at “Wicked” by appearing onstage
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — A German court has ruled that a small far-right party can continue to put up election posters with the slogan “Hang the Greens” that authorities in an eastern city ordered removed. However, the court said Tuesday that the posters put up by the tiny III. Weg (Third Way) party must be kept
Continue Reading OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — The father of an football coach at a suburban Kansas City high school said he hopes his unvaccinated son’s death from COVID-19 will convince people that the disease “is real.” Kim and Carolyn Burnett, told KMBC-TV reports that their son, Chris Burnett, died Saturday after two weeks in the hospital. The
Continue Reading NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A flight safety organization is warning that a Turkish drone base in ethnically divided Cyprus could increase safety risks for thousands of commercial flights that cross the airspace around the eastern Mediterranean island. FSF-Med, which is affiliated with the International Flight Safety Foundation, said Tuesday the planned upgrade for the Turkish
Continue Reading By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken has endured a second day of harsh bipartisan criticism of the Biden administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal. As he testified on Tuesday, a new intelligence estimate warned that al-Qaida could begin to threaten the U.S. from Afghanistan within one or two years. Democrats
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