By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN After a driver rammed an SUV through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, Brock Held knew he had to do something to help those in his community who were still hospitalized. “I knew I had an idea that could help these people,” Held told CNN. Held decided to start building
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By TOM FOREMAN Jr. and JONATHAN DREW Associated Press DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A police chief says three people were shot and wounded Friday during an apparent fight between two groups at a North Carolina mall crowded with shoppers on the day after Thanksgiving. Authorities said in the late afternoon that one person was detained
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El fiscal del condado de Milwaukee, cuya oficina buscó una fianza baja que condujo a la liberación del hombre acusado de atropellar a los asistentes de un desfile navideño en un suburbio cercano, ha sido durante mucho tiempo un defensor de los esfuerzos para reducir el encarcelamiento masivo mediante el uso
Continue Reading By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Sondheim, the songwriter who reshaped the American musical theater in the second half of the 20th century, has died. He was 91. Sondheim influenced several generations of theater songwriters, particularly with such landmark musicals as “Company,” “Follies” and “Sweeney Todd.” His most famous ballad,
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By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The World Trade Organization is postponing its conference set to open Tuesday after Switzerland initiated new travel restrictions following the emergence of a worrying new coronavirus variant, officials said. The MC12 conference at WTO headquarters in Geneva was set to take up key issues like a long-awaited
Continue Reading By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The World Trade Organization is postponing its conference set to open Tuesday after Switzerland initiated new travel restrictions following the emergence of a worrying new coronavirus variant, officials said. The MC12 conference at WTO headquarters in Geneva was set to take up key issues like a long-awaited
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes (CNN Español) — Al menos 19 personas murieron y otras 31 resultaron heridas este viernes, luego de que un autobús se impactó contra una casa sobre la carretera Joquicingo-Malinalco, a la altura del paraje El Guarda, en el Estado de México, informaron a CNN la Cruz Roja y la Fiscalía estatal. El vehículo
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette, Raja Razek and Steve Almasy, CNN Three people were shot and three more injured during a shooting Friday at a packed shopping mall, police in Durham, North Carolina, said. Off-duty Durham police officers were working Friday afternoon inside The Streets at Southpoint mall heard shots coming from within the mall, and called
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Ulysses Lee “Rip” Gooch, who was a leader in the Black aviation industry and Kansas’ oldest serving state senator when he retired at the age of 80, has died. A post on Jackson Mortuary’s website says Gooch died on Wednesday. He was 98. No cause of death was listed. The Wichita
Continue Reading By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN A Maryland medical student who took a wrong turn after getting lost answered a young gunshot victim’s prayer. Now, 25 years later, Baltimore resident Damon Walker reunited earlier this month with the medical student who drove toward the chaos instead of running from it. “I constantly think about that moment of
Continue Reading DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A city councilman says a person was shot during an apparent fight Friday at a North Carolina mall crowded with shoppers on the day after Thanksgiving. Police said in the late afternoon that there was no further threat to the public. Durham City Councilman Mark-Anthony Middleton told multiple news outlets a
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By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Nick Bosa was pretty dominant as a rookie in 2019 when his pass rush skills helped the San Francisco 49ers make it to the Super Bowl. But Bosa feels he’s even better this year after missing almost all of last season with reconstructive
Continue Reading By Andrew Kaczynski Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado apologized to “anyone in the Muslim community I offended” on Twitter Friday after video surfaced of her making anti-Muslim comments last weekend about Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. In the video, posted last Saturday on Facebook from an event that day, Boebert implied Omar had
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By Andrew Kaczynski Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado apologized to “anyone in the Muslim community I offended” on Twitter Friday after video surfaced of her making anti-Muslim comments last weekend about Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. In the video, posted last Saturday on Facebook from an event that day, Boebert implied Omar had
Continue Reading By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Police and media reports say an unknown gunman has opened fire on a bus carrying teenagers in western Kosovo, killing three people and injuring one. The bus came under attack in Gllogjan, 90 kilometers (55 miles) west of the capital Pristina by masked
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette, Raja Razek and Steve Almasy, CNN Three people were shot and three more injured during a shooting Friday at a packed shopping mall, police in Durham, North Carolina, said. Off-duty Durham police officers were working Friday afternoon inside The Streets at Southpoint mall heard shots coming from within the mall, and called
Continue Reading By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Spencer Petras plunged 2 yards for a touchdown with 2:58 left to give 17th-ranked Iowa its first lead, and the Hawkeyes came back from a 15-point deficit in the third quarter to beat Nebraska 28-21. Iowa won the border battle for the seventh straight
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — Tres personas recibieron disparos y tres más resultaron heridas durante un tiroteo en un centro comercial en Durham, Carolina del Norte, este viernes, dijo la policía. Alrededor de las 3:23 p.m., los agentes de policía de Durham que trabajaban dentro de The Streets en el centro comercial Southpoint escucharon disparos provenientes
Continue Reading By RAF CASERT and CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The world is racing to contain a new coronavirus variant that is potentially more dangerous than the one that has fueled waves of infection on nearly every continent. A World Health Organization panel on Friday named the variant “omicron” and classified it as a
Continue Reading CNNEE (CNN) — En mayo, la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) asignó “etiquetas” a las variantes clave del coronavirus para que el público pueda referirse a ellas con letras del alfabeto griego en lugar de donde se detectó por primera vez la variante, por ejemplo, la nueva variante descubierta en Sudáfrica (B.1.1.529) fue nombrada
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