By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Millions of people in India and around the world celebrating Holi this week. The Hindu festival of love, color and spring is one of the most joyous celebrations of the year. It’s a time when people don simple, inexpensive clothes and take to the streets to drench each other in clouds
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LEXINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A division of Siemens AG will build a passenger rail car manufacturing plant in central North Carolina and create 500 jobs by 2028. Gov. Roy Cooper and the company announced on Tuesday construction of a major advanced manufacturing and rail services center in Davidson County. Siemens Mobility plans to build passenger
Continue Reading By MAJDI MOHAMMED and ISABEL DeBRE Associated Press JENIN, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian health officials say at least six Palestinians were killed and two dozen others were wounded in an Israeli army raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. The military said one of those killed was the suspected assailant
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials are alerting consumers about two more recalls of eyedrops due to contamination risks that could lead to vision problems and serious injury. The announcements follow a recall last month of eyedrops made in India that were linked to an outbreak of drug-resistant infections. One person died and at least
Continue ReadingBy Donald Judd and Brian Fung, CNN President Joe Biden’s candidate for the Federal Communications Commission, Gigi Sohn, has withdrawn her nomination after West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin announced he’d vote against her confirmation. In a statement, Sohn says she’d asked Biden to withdraw her nomination Monday evening, blasting what she detailed as “unrelenting,
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By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri law banning local police from enforcing federal gun laws is unconstitutional and void, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Brian Wimes ruled the 2021 law is preempted by the federal government under the U.S. Constitution’s supremacy clause. “At best, this statute
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN Laying out his top priorities for a second term and a potential platform for a presidential run, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivered a State of the State speech Tuesday that conspicuously avoided much of the divisive rhetoric that has fueled his political ascent but nevertheless signaled another round of cultural wars
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN Starting Tuesday, the US Bureau of Reclamation will suspend extra water releases from Utah’s Flaming Gorge reservoir — emergency measures that had served to help stabilize the plummeting water levels downstream at Lake Powell, the nation’s second largest reservoir. Federal officials began releasing extra water from Flaming Gorge in 2021 to
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Watch out Deadpool, Wolverine is coming for you. Hugh Jackman posted on his verified Instagram account photos of the meals he is eating to get ready to reprise his role as Wolverine, this time in “Deadpool 3,” opposite Ryan Reynolds. “Bulking. A day in the life,” the caption on the
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Los votantes de Oklahoma se dirigen a las urnas este martes para concluir una elección especial sobre la legalización de la marihuana recreativa, convirtiéndose potencialmente en el 22º estado en autorizar su uso entre adultos. La votación en Oklahoma, donde los votantes legalizaron la marihuana medicinal en 2018, refleja cómo el
Continue ReadingBy Paula Newton, CNN Amid recent allegations that China attempted to meddle in Canada’s 2019 and 2021 elections, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he would appoint an independent investigator or rapporteur to help identify and combat foreign interference in Canada’s elections and its democracy. “We have long known, and an independent report confirmed it
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin Jerusalén (CNN) — Las fuerzas israelÃes llevaron a cabo una incursión a plena luz del dÃa en YenÃn, en la Ribera Occidental del Jordán, contra el sospechoso del asesinato de dos colonos judÃos, dejando al sospechoso y al menos a otros cinco hombres palestinos muertos, según informaron el martes funcionarios de ambas
Continue ReadingBy Pat Reavy Click here for updates on this story SANDY, Utah (KSL) — A woman accused of setting a fire that left several units of a Sandy apartment complex uninhabitable over the weekend has been arrested. Crystal Nicole Moss, 37, told police she was trying “to burn away the negative energy, sadness and pain
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW RAMOS, MUGO ODIGWE, MARISSA PERLMAN Click here for updates on this story BOLINGBROOK, Illinois (WBBM) — A teenager charged with killing his girlfriend and two other people during a home invasion in southwest suburban Bolingbrook pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to multiple felony charges. Byrion Montgomery, 17, has been charged as an adult
Continue ReadingSofÃa Benavides (CNN Español) — Nueve personas fueron asesinadas a balazos por desconocidos en la comunidad hondureña de El Portillo de La Mora, departamento de Comayagua, informó el portavoz de la SecretarÃa de Seguridad, Miguel MartÃnez Madrid. El funcionario agregó que ocho de las vÃctimas eran hombres, una mujer y un menor de edad. Ocho
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are falling on Wall Street Tuesday after the head of the Federal Reserve warned it could speed up its economy-rattling hikes to interest rates if pressure stays high on inflation. The S&P 500 was 1.6% lower in afternoon trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
Continue Reading By ALFREDO PEÑA Associated Press CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — A road trip to Mexico for cosmetic surgery ended with two Americans dead — and two others found alive in a rural area near the Gulf coast — after a violent shootout and abduction that was captured on video, officials said Tuesday. The surviving Americans
Continue Reading By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Howard Schultz has agreed to appear before a U.S. Senate committee that is examining Starbucks’ actions amid an ongoing unionization campaign. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Independent and chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said Tuesday that Schultz has agreed to testify before the committee
Continue Reading By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom will not give a State of the State address this year. He will instead travel the state on a four-day tour to highlight his major policy priorities. The California Constitution requires governors to deliver a report to the Legislature each year on
Continue ReadingBy ERIN JONES Click here for updates on this story COLLEYVILLE (KTVT) — It’s been about a month since a devastating earthquake hit Syria and Turkey. The death toll is now sitting at 50,000. For the past two weeks, a local psychiatrist was on the ground, helping survivors with their mental health. “Seeing things in
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