By Rob Picheta, CNN Russian troops will have “open road” to capture key cities in eastern Ukraine if they seize control of Bakhmut, President Volodymyr Zelensky warned in an interview with CNN, as he defended his decision to keep Ukrainian forces in the besieged city. “This is tactical for us,” Zelensky said, insisting that Kyiv’s
Continue ReadingBy ZINNIA MALDONADO Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — On Tuesday, Congressman Ritchie Torres announced a new bill mandating federal safety standards for lithium-ion batteries. Torres said the proposal is aimed at preventing fires like the five-alarm inferno that tore through a Bronx supermarket over the weekend when an e-bike
Continue ReadingBy JOE HOLDEN Click here for updates on this story CHICHESTER, Pennsylvania (KYW) — Chaos outside classrooms — with numerous Chichester students fighting in school hallways and bathrooms. And parents have reached out to CBS News Philadelphia for help. Parents say the videos were widely circulated on social media last week. They were so alarmed
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By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The Biden administration is suing to block JetBlue Airways from buying Spirit Airlines, saying the deal would reduce competition and drive up air fares for consumers. The Justice Department said Tuesday that the tie-up would especially hurt cost-conscious travelers who depend on Spirit, a budget carrier, to find cheaper
Continue Reading By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Jennifer McClellan is set to be sworn in to the U.S. House, becoming the first Black woman to represent Virginia in Congress. McClellan says Tuesday’s swearing-in holds great significance for her family as her parents and grandparents faced Jim Crow-era obstacles just to vote. McClellan makes
Continue Reading TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The authoritarian leader of Belarus says an alleged Ukrainian saboteur and more than 20 accomplices have been detained over an attack on a Russian war plane stationed in his country. President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday said a Beriev A-50 parked at the Machulishchy Air Base near Minsk was attacked on Feb.
Continue ReadingBy KDKA Staff Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania is eliminating the use of plastic shopping bags across its 34 area stores, it was announced Tuesday via a press release. Shoppers are encouraged to use a free box from the store, bring a reusable bag, or purchase
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-crunching hikes to interest rates if pressure on inflation stays hot. The S&P 500 was 0.9% lower in midday trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang warned Tuesday that Beijing and Washington are headed for “conflict and confrontation” if the U.S. doesn’t change course, striking a combative tone at a moment when relations between the rivals are at a historic low. In his first news conference since taking office late last year, Qin’s
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LARGE Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO (KOVR) — Surveillance cameras caught one car doing donuts and another slamming into a front yard fence on Mendocino Boulevard in south Sacramento. Now, a father is calling on the county to take action. Jordan Kemp lives on the street with his young family.
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco, CNN SoFi, a private lender, sued the Biden administration last week in an effort to end the pause on federal student loan payments that has been in place since March 2020. The pause on payments was originally put in place during the Trump administration to help people struggling due to the Covid-19
Continue Reading By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — St. John Paul II knew about sexual abuse of children by priests under his authority and sought to conceal it when he was an archbishop in his native Poland, a television news report has alleged. In a story that aired late Monday, Polish channel TVN24 named
Continue ReadingBy Whitney Wild and Devan Cole, CNN US Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger on Tuesday ripped into Fox News host Tucker Carlson over his commentary about footage from the January 6, 2021, insurrection that he aired Monday night, saying the host “cherry-picked” from the footage to present “offensive” and “misleading” conclusions about the attack. “Last
Continue ReadingBy ASH-HAR QURAISHI, AMY CORRAL, RYAN BEARD Click here for updates on this story SAN DIEGO (KPIX) — At the onset of the pandemic in the spring of 2020, downtowns across the country emptied out. Soft lockdowns, office closures and a massive shift to remote work meant businesses in the urban core that were traditionally
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Investors are betting that Washington’s mounting scrutiny on TikTok could be good news for rival Snapchat. Shares of Snapchat’s parent company surged nearly 10% on Monday and another 5% in early trading Tuesday following news that US senators are planning to introduce legislation that could make it easier to ban rival
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Arnold Schwarzenegger would like to terminate antisemitism and hate. In a 12-minute video posted by ATTN on Facebook, the star and former Governor of California talked about the emotional toll of having visited the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland and the horrors and atrocities that had occurred there. Rather than
Continue ReadingBy Abeer Salman, Richard Allen Greene and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN Israeli forces staged a daylight raid into Jenin in the occupied West Bank targeting the suspect in the killing of two Jewish settlers, leaving the suspect and at least five other Palestinian men dead, officials on both sides said Tuesday. The violence marks the latest
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By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer Big 12 scoring and rebounding leader Jalen Wilson of Kansas is the unanimous pick as The Associated Press Big 12 player of the year. Kansas State senior forward Keyontae Johnson joined Wilson as the only unanimous first-team picks in the selections revealed Tuesday. Johnson, a transfer from Florida who
Continue Reading By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer Big 12 scoring and rebounding leader Jalen Wilson of Kansas is the unanimous pick as The Associated Press Big 12 player of the year. Kansas State senior forward Keyontae Johnson joined Wilson as the only unanimous first-team picks in the selections revealed Tuesday. Johnson, a transfer from Florida who
Continue ReadingBy Kristina Sgueglia and Ray Sanchez, CNN A Norfolk Southern conductor was killed Tuesday after being struck by a dump truck at a facility in Ohio, prompting a National Transportation Safety Board investigation of the railway’s safety culture due to the “number and significance” of recent accidents. The conductor, identified as 46-year-old Louis Shuster, was
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