By Mallika Kallingal and Amy Simonson, CNN Police in Florida arrested a student attending Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University for allegedly “plotting to shoot up the campus” on Thursday, which was the final day before winter break, officials said. John Hagins, 19, threatened an attack similar to the 1999 mass shooting at the Columbine High School in
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By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A police sergeant at the scene when Daunte Wright was shot says he was holding Wright’s right arm with both hands in the moments before he was shot. Mychal Johnson, who was a patrol sergeant in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center at the
Continue Reading ROME (AP) — A Roman Catholic diocese in Sicily has apologized to outraged parents after its bishop told a group of children that Santa Claus doesn’t exist. In a Facebook post and subsequent comments Friday, the diocese of Noto insisted that Bishop Antonio Stagliano didn’t mean to dash the dreams of the youngsters two weeks
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By Miguel Marquez, Holly Yan and Michelle Krupa, CNN At one hospital in Lansing, Michigan, the latest Covid-19 surge is as bad as health care workers there have seen. And it may well be the leading edge of what’s coming soon to the rest of the United States. Already 23 states have had a more
Continue Reading By MANUEL DE LA CRUZ and EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AP) — A truck jammed with as many as 200 migrants has crashed into the base of a steel pedestrian bridge in southern Mexico, killing 55 and injuring dozens. The migrants inside the tractor-trailer were tossed and crushed in a pile
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By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — This winter, more motorists may find themselves stuck on snowy highways or have their travel delayed due to a shortage of snowplow drivers. States from Washington to Pennsylvania and some in the Rocky Mountains are having trouble finding enough people willing to take the comparatively
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By Lauren Fox and Manu Raju, CNN The Congressional Budget Office has released a new analysis of the Democrats’ social safety net plan to see how much the bill would cost if a series of provisions were extended long term, fulfilling a GOP request intended to portray the bill as far more expensive than it
Continue Reading By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Attorneys in the upcoming federal hate crimes trial of the white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery want the jury pool to come from an expansive area of Georgia. A joint legal filing by prosecutors and defense attorneys asks a federal judge to seek the
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business This was a big year for new exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, the popular investments that make it easy to buy a basket of stocks, cryptocurrencies or other assets. Numerous bitcoin ETFs launched in 2021, with more likely in 2022. Several experts even predict that there could be new
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By The Associated Press Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay has donated $3 million to fund a new research institute at Indiana University. The Irsay Family Research Institute will be located on the university’s main campus in Bloomington and will focus on mental health and the complications it can create with other illnesses. It’s the the
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jim Fregosi Jr., a special assistant in the Kansas City Royals’ front office and a son of the longtime major league manager, has died. He was 57. The Royals say Fregosi died Thursday in Los Angeles. Fregosi spent 17 seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies as an area scout, scouting cross-checker
Continue Reading By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has announced financial sanctions and other restrictions on 15 people and 10 entities in China, Myanmar, North Korea and Bangladesh to coincide with International Human Rights Day. The actions announced Friday by the Treasury Department also include investment restrictions on a Chinese company connected
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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A jury in Texas has awarded the largest-ever personal injury compensation in the country to a family who lost two people killed by a drunk driver. The sum is symbolic, lawyers for the family say, but the eye-popping size of the judgment is meant to send a message about the consequences
Continue Reading By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Another key accuser at the sex-abuse trial of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has testified Maxwell and Epstein forced themselves on her during a 1996 visit to the financier’s New Mexico ranch when she was just 16. Annie Farmer testified Maxwell fondled her breasts
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A health department in southern Missouri says it will cease all work relating to COVID-19.
Continue Reading MONTEZUMA, Iowa (AP) — Wildlife officials say deer hunters found a dead mountain lion with a broken snare around its neck in east-central Iowa. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says the nearly 120-pound cat was found Tuesday in Poweshiek County by a group of hunters. Department wildlife biologist Vince Evelsizer told the Des Moines
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By Rosa Flores, CNN In the aftermath of the Astroworld Festival tragedy, Travis Scott offered to pay for the funeral expenses of the 10 victims who died. At least seven of the victims’ families declined Scott’s offer, according to their attorneys. Valerie Cortinas Fisher, the attorney representing the family of Rodolfo Peña, told CNN that
Continue Reading By Rosa Flores, CNN In the aftermath of the Astroworld Festival tragedy, Travis Scott offered to pay for the funeral expenses of the 10 victims who died. At least seven of the victims’ families declined Scott’s offer, according to their attorneys. Valerie Cortinas Fisher, the attorney representing the family of Rodolfo Peña, told CNN that
Continue Reading By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press GOLEM, Albania (AP) — Women who were evacuated to Albania after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan are urging the international community to pay attention to the plight of the Afghan women and girls who were left behind. Some 550 evacuated Afghans are in the Albanian coastal town of
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN) — Tenisha Tate-Austin y su marido, una pareja negra que vive en el norte de California, empezaron a sospechar cuando la casa que habían reformado durante años fue valorada por un tasador muy por debajo de lo que esperaban. Así que cuando pidieron una segunda opinión el año pasado, un amigo blanco
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