By Andy Rose, Eric Levenson and Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — A man accused of killing two people and wounding several others over the weekend in a shooting near a music festival in Washington state is being held on suspicion of murder and other crimes, police said Tuesday night. James M. Kelly, who was taken
Continue ReadingBy Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — An Illinois man thought his home was being burglarized, grabbed his handgun and opened fire. But the Lake County Sheriff’s Office says it all was a dream and the 62-year-old woke up to find while his home was fine, he’d shot himself in the leg. Now, Mark Dicara
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By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On his first day as attorney general, Merrick Garland pledged a return to what he called the “norms” of the Justice Department and said he would work to eliminate the perception of political interference. But in the two years since he took office, the former federal judge
Continue Reading By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — At least 96 people died in two of India’s most populous states over the last several days, officials said Sunday, with swaths of the country reeling from a sweltering heat wave. The deaths happened in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh and eastern Bihar where authorities
Continue Reading WILLOWBROOK, Ill. (AP) — At least 20 people were shot, one fatally, early Sunday during a gathering in a parking lot in suburban Chicago, authorities said. TV news video showed the strip mall lot filled with debris and police tape in Willowbrook, about 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) southwest of Chicago. “There were at least 20
Continue Reading GEORGE, Wash. (AP) — Two people were killed and three were injured in a shooting near a Washington state campground area hosting people attending a nearby music festival Saturday night, police said. The Grant County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday it received a report of a shooting shortly before 8:30 p.m. at the camping area near
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Happy Father’s Day to all you dads out there. We hope you enjoy the day — and that new “World’s Greatest Dad” mug. If you are not a father but would like to support dads and their families year-round, here’s how you can help. And here’s
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — When the first generations of social media natives are old and gray, they will bounce their grandchildren on their knee and tell them about the old days when Facebook was just for college kids and Twitter wasn’t a place for world-altering political discourse. As their rheumy gazes search the
Continue Reading By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — After appointees of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took over Walt Disney World’s governing district earlier this year, its firefighters were among the few employees who publicly welcomed them with open arms. But that warm relationship is in jeopardy as a new district administrator has reopened negotiations
Continue Reading By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he opposes any interim agreement reportedly being negotiated between the U.S. and Iran over its nuclear program. Netanyahu spoke after reports in Israeli media said understandings are being reached between Washington and Tehran that would seek to hold back
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch, Adrienne Broaddus and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — At least one person was killed and 22 others were injured by gunfire overnight in Illinois, in a peaceful Juneteenth celebration turned deadly, police say. An unknown number of suspects fired multiple rounds from multiple weapons into the large crowd of people gathered to
Continue Reading By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday his government intends to move ahead on contentious plans to change the country’s judicial system after talks aimed at finding a compromise solution appeared to be crumbling. The government’s plans to overhaul the judiciary plunged Israel into one
Continue Reading By JOHN ROGERS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — You could call her the mother of Father’s Day. The late Sonora Smart Dodd launched the celebration of dads in 1910 in her hometown of Spokane, Washington. As a result, she is the one responsible for those annual gifts that run the gamut from embarrassingly silly-looking
Continue Reading By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — At least 96 people died in two of India’s most populous states over the last several days, officials said Sunday, with swaths of the country reeling from a sweltering heatwave. The deaths happened in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh and eastern Bihar where authorities warned
Continue Reading By SARA BURNETT Associated Press In a 2024 Republican presidential field full of long-shot candidates, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez may be — on paper anyway — the longest long shot of all. No sitting mayor has ever been elected U.S. president, a job that historically has been won by governors, vice presidents, senators or Cabinet
Continue Reading By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Two days after being discharged from the hospital, Pope Francis resumed his cherished Sunday custom of greeting the public in St. Peter’s Square, expressing thanks for the comfort he received after surgery and thanking the crowd shouting “Long live the pope!” Before launching into prepared remarks,
Continue Reading ST. LOUIS (AP) — A news report says an overnight shooting in a downtown St. Louis building killed one juvenile and wounded nine others. KMOV-TV reports the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department says the shooting happened around 1:45 a.m. Sunday. Witnesses told the KMOV that the shooting took place inside a building. The names of
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — A news report says an overnight shooting in a downtown St. Louis building killed one juvenile and wounded nine others. KMOV-TV reports the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department says the shooting happened around 1:45 a.m. Sunday. Witnesses told the KMOV that the shooting took place inside a building. The names of
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — A majority of Swiss citizens on Sunday voted in favor of a bill aimed at introducing new climate measures to sharply curb the rich Alpine nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, projections indicated. Projections by the GFS Bern Institute based on near-complete counting and released by public broadcaster SRF showed that 58.3% of voters
Continue Reading By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A Ugandan border town is preparing to bury victims of a brutal attack by suspected extremist rebels on a school that left 42 dead, most of them students. Security forces have stepped up patrols along the frontier with volatile eastern Congo, where the rebels are active.
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