By Christina Zdanowicz, Claudia Dominguez, Lauren M. Johnson and Sara Smart, CNN A woman smiled wide and was dressed warmly, ready to take part in her first Milwaukee Dancing Grannies parade on November 21, 2021. Tamara Durand wrote she was “so excited” for her parade debut with the group, she said in a Facebook post.
Continue Reading By Ayah Galal, Rob Polansky Click here for updates on this story NEW HAVEN, Connecticutt (WFSB) — A New Haven police officer was arrested and accused of patronizing a prostitute. It was the latest arrest in a series of separate incidents that allegedly involved some of the police force’s members. The name of the officer
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By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian customs police say they have cracked a Nigerian organized crime syndicate that forced dozens of young women into prostitution and street-begging in Italy. The police said 40 suspects were arrested in raids in several Italian cities on Monday, including on the island of Sardinia. The investigation
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By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian customs police say they have cracked a Nigerian organized crime syndicate that forced dozens of young women into prostitution and street-begging in Italy. The police said 40 suspects were arrested in raids in several Italian cities on Monday, including on the island of Sardinia. The investigation
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Stocks are moving solidly higher in early trading on Wall Street at the beginning of a holiday-shortened week. Markets were reassured after President Joe Biden said he would nominate Jerome Powell for a second four-year term at the helm of the Federal Reserve, a vote of confidence in Powell’s
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Stocks are moving solidly higher in early trading on Wall Street at the beginning of a holiday-shortened week. Markets were reassured after President Joe Biden said he would nominate Jerome Powell for a second four-year term at the helm of the Federal Reserve, a vote of confidence in Powell’s
Continue Reading By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A legislative investigation has found “overwhelming evidence” that former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo engaged in sexual harassment and ordered state workers to help produce his book during work hours. The report released Monday also found that Cuomo’s executive chamber “substantially revised” a state report to
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN Español) — El horror que se vivió este domingo en Waukesha, Wisconsin, donde una camioneta atropelló a personas que participaban en un desfile de Navidad, se suma a una trágica lista de atropellamientos o ataques con autos en los últimos años. A continuación, algunos de los casos de embestidas que han ocurrido
Continue Reading By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A jury has resumed deliberations in the civil trial of white nationalists accused of conspiring to commit racially motivated violence at the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017. The jury in U.S. District Court is being asked to decide whether white
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By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Cases are going up. Hospitalizations are too. Depending on where you live, mask mandates are either being dropped or enacted. Vaccines are more available than ever, but hesitancy remains a real problem. Experimental drugs are showing promise as well, yet regulatory approval takes time. It’s a confusing time in the coronavirus
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By Walé Azeez, CNN Business Amazon is facing strikes by warehouse workers and delivery drivers across Europe as its busiest weekend of the year begins. Labor unions in Germany, Italy and France are calling for the company to pay its workers fairly and respect their right to join unions. The strikes have been called to
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By Gregory Krieg and Lauren del Valle, CNN Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed at least a dozen women, “was not fully transparent” about the number of nursing home residents who died as a result of Covid-19 and, in new independent findings, used taxpayer resources to help write and promote his 2020 book
Continue Reading By Arlette Saenz and Kate Sullivan, CNN The White House on Monday announced that 95% of the federal workforce is in compliance with the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate. “Ahead of tonight’s deadline, the federal government has achieved 95% compliance, and 90% of the 3.5 million federal workers are already vaccinated,” White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator
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CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — A man and woman face charges for allegedly restraining a man while striking and burning him in Cedar Falls. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that 46-year-old Donovan James Danielson and 32-year-old Nicole Elise Sage could face life in prison if convicted. Both were arrested Sunday on first-degree kidnapping charges and
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By Eliott C. McLaughlin, Devon M. Sayers and Alta Spells, CNN Travis McMichael’s attorney painted Satilla Shores, where McMichael killed Ahmaud Arbery last year, as stricken with crime, its residents as living in fear and his client as a well-trained former Coast Guardsman who was only protecting himself and his neighborhood. In Monday’s closing arguments,
Continue Reading By Devon M. Sayers, Jason Hanna and Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Prosecutors and attorneys representing three men charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery as he jogged through their Glynn County, Georgia, neighborhood last year began delivering closing arguments Monday in the murder trial. The arguments follow 10 days of proceedings and testimony from more than 20
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El presidente de Estados Unidos Joe Biden volverá a nominar a Jerome Powell como presidente de la Reserva Federal y a Lael Brainard como vicepresidente, según una fuente familiar con la decisión. Se espera que Biden hable este lunes sobre su decisión de renominar a Jerome Powell como presidente de
Continue Reading By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s president on Monday nominated a new prime minister to form an unlikely coalition comprised of the ruling National Liberal Party and its former Social Democrat Party rivals, as lawmakers hope to end a protracted political crisis. After consultations with Romania’s parliamentary parties on Monday, President
Continue Reading By Alice Queen Click here for updates on this story SOCIAL CIRCLE, Georgia (Henry Daily Herald) — We asked and, thankfully, you delivered. Now we need your help again. Last winter, volunteers from across the Southeast and Gulf states provided more than 5,800 observations of monarch butterflies. This winter, the partnership of universities, agencies and
Continue Reading By SCOTT BAUER, MICHAEL BALSAMO and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A law enforcement official says investigators are examining whether the person who drove an SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee may have been fleeing from a crime when he crashed into the paradegoers. The investigators were questioning a person
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