By Ray Sanchez, Mark Morales and Gregory Krieg, CNN The former New York Police Department captain now running the city, who won the job on a law-and-order message, acknowledged on Tuesday that many New Yorkers do not feel safe in the subways. Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat who two weeks ago took over the city’s
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, Mark Morales and Gregory Krieg, CNN The former New York Police Department captain now running the city, who won the job on a law-and-order message, acknowledged on Tuesday that many New Yorkers do not feel safe in the subways. Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat who two weeks ago took over the city’s
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MADRID (AP) — Guinness World Records says a Spaniard who was the world’s oldest man has died at the age of 112 years and 341 days. It says Saturnino de la Fuente passed away Tuesday at home in León, a city in northwest Spain. Guinness World Records named De la Fuente as the world’s oldest
Continue Reading By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — An oil spill on the Peruvian coast caused by the waves from an eruption of an undersea volcano in the South Pacific nation of Tonga has prompted dozens of fishermen to protest outside the South American country’s main oil refinery. The men gathered outside the refinery
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By Megan Thomas, CNN The Grammy Awards have a new date and location. CBS and the Recording Academy announced Tuesday that the music event will take place in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 3, one week after the Academy Awards. The ceremony was originally going to occur later this month in Los Angeles, but it
Continue Reading By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban and other sports figures with ties to West Virginia are urging Sen. Joe Manchin to support sweeping legislation to protect the right to vote. The voting rights bill would make Election Day a national holiday and require access
Continue Reading By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced another round of tribal housing grants. The $83 million will benefit 74 tribes across the country, boosting the amount awarded through the American Rescue Plan Act to over $200 million. The Oglala Sioux Tribe in South
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By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced another round of tribal housing grants. The $83 million will benefit 74 tribes across the country, boosting the amount awarded through the American Rescue Plan Act to over $200 million. The Oglala Sioux Tribe in South
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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN On its face, “Sooyii” is a story of resilience in the face of unimaginable loss. The independent film, directed by Krisztian Kery, centers on a young Blackfoot man in the 1700s who sees his people decimated by smallpox after the arrival of European settlers in the Great Plains. But as much
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Sol Amaya (CNN Business) — Los ejecutivos de las aerolíneas más grandes de EE.UU. pidieron a la administración de Biden una “intervención inmediata” en el lanzamiento de la tecnología 5G cerca de los principales aeropuertos que está planificado para este miércoles, advirtiendo de las graves consecuencias para el transporte y la economía. Los representantes de
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By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators in Kansas are pursuing redistricting proposals that would remove Democratic voters from the Kansas-City area swing district currently held by the state’s only Democratic member of Congress. Democrats fear that new political boundaries will make it harder for Democratic U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids
Continue Reading ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 28-year-old St. Louis County man was sentenced to 14 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to stabbing a co-worker to death. Alipasha Ibragimov pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder and armed criminal action. Prosecutors said he killed 20-year-old Steven Tyrell Hill, of St. Louis, in September 2019 while the
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By Nicole Chavez, CNN New Jersey will soon require Asian American history to be taught in public schools. Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation on Tuesday that will make it mandatory for K-12 schools to include Asian American and Pacific Islander history in their curriculums starting on the 2022-2023 school year. The move makes New Jersey
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By MICHAEL BALSAMO, JAKE BLEIBERG and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A White House spokeswoman says an armed British man who took four people hostage during a 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue that ended in his death entered the United States without raising any red flags during multiple checks against law enforcement
Continue Reading By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has submitted a proposal to reshape the state’s congressional map and carve up districts held by Black Democrats, as the Republican takes the unusual step of inserting himself into the redistricting process. The proposed congressional map was submitted Sunday on the eve
Continue Reading WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police in Wichita say two teenagers were shot to death on the south side of the city. Police say in a news release that the shooting happened just before 9:30 Monday night, when officers were called to the scene. Arriving officers found 17-year-old Alexis Cervantes-Martinez and 16-year-old Mariah Zamora, both of
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By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. competition regulators have mounted an effort to tighten enforcement against illegal mergers, in line with President Joe Biden’s mandate for greater scrutiny to big business combinations. The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission announced they are seeking public comment on how current merger guidelines
Continue Reading By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. competition regulators have mounted an effort to tighten enforcement against illegal mergers, in line with President Joe Biden’s mandate for greater scrutiny to big business combinations. The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission announced they are seeking public comment on how current merger guidelines
Continue Reading CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A Harvard Law School clinic has sued federal immigration officials for failing to release records about the use of solitary confinement in detention facilities. The lawsuit filed by the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program in Boston federal court asserts that it submitted records requests to federal agencies but they haven’t
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — A spokesman for Louie Anderson says the actor and comedian is being treated for cancer in a Las Vegas hospital. Anderson’s longtime publicist Glenn Schwartz says he was diagnosed with a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and “is resting comfortably.” Anderson, who lives in Las Vegas, won a 2016 Emmy for best
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