CNN By Angus Watson and Jessie Yeung, CNN New Zealand police have shot and killed an ISIS supporter who injured at least six people in a supermarket “terrorist attack” in the Auckland suburb of New Lynn on Friday, authorities say. “This afternoon at approximately 2:40 p.m., a violent extremist undertook a terrorist attack,” said Prime
Continue ReadingBy CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The battle over mask requirements in Florida schools is headed for a new legal phase following an appeal by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of a judge’s ruling that a blanket ban on mask mandates exceeds the state’s authority. The case heads next to
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Kraft Heinz Co. is agreeing to pay $62 million to settle charges of improper accounting of what it once claimed were cost savings. Two former senior executives have agreed to pay civil penalties. The Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday that from late 2015 through 2018, Kraft boasted about cost savings that
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An Emmett Till historical marker in Mississippi will be repaired after being knocked off the pole that supports it. That’s according to Allan Hammons, president of an advertising agency that made the sign. A previous version of this metal sign was vandalized and another Till
Continue ReadingBy DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills stormed to the top of the AFC East and kept going last season. Nearly all the way to the Super Bowl. Now comes the encore, and the expectations remain just as lofty. The first step in that
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden said Friday the Texas state law that bans abortion after as early as six weeks into pregnancy is “almost un-American,” pointing specifically to a provision allowing individuals to take civil action against people who help a woman get an abortion. Biden told reporters at the White House he has asked the
Continue ReadingPOOL By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden said Friday the Texas state law that bans abortion after as early as six weeks into pregnancy is “almost un-American,” pointing specifically to a provision allowing individuals to take civil action against people who help a woman get an abortion. Biden told reporters at the White House he has asked
Continue ReadingBy Leyla Santiago and Dakin Andone, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has appealed a judge’s ruling that stated the governor overreached and did not have the authority to ban school districts from implementing mask mandates without a parent opt-out. The notice to appeal filed Thursday says that “the filing in this Notice triggers an automatic
Continue ReadingTOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A capsule look at the 12 players on the European team for the Solheim Cup. The matches start Saturday at Inverness Club. Europe is going for its second straight victory. The team features four rookies. It also has the last two Women’s British Open champions.
Continue ReadingELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s attorney general said a former Army major accused of killing three neighbors to eliminate a witness in a court-martial has been sentenced to life in prison. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron said Thursday in a statement that Christian Richard Martin will not be eligible for parole. Jurors convicted Martin after
Continue ReadingBy Monica Garrett, CNN meteorologist As millions pick up the pieces after Hurricane Ida ravaged the eastern United States from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast, meteorologists are keeping an eye on Hurricane Larry in the Atlantic. While Ida was generating its 1,500 mile long path of destruction, Tropical Storm Julian and Tropical Storm Kate
Continue ReadingBy TERESA M. WALKER AP Pro Football Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Derrick Henry is a man of few words, preferring to work hard with a tunnel-vision focus and let his play do all the talking. Henry has been almost shouting the way he keeps running into the NFL record books. Now the NFL’s back-to-back
Continue ReadingBy CNN In a letter provided to CNN, more than three dozen House Democrats — ranging from some of the most liberal to some of the most moderate — are seeking information from Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the more than 116,000 people who were evacuated from Afghanistan. Read the letter, obtained by CNN,
Continue ReadingWDSU, FAMILY PHOTOS, CNN By Keith Allen and Dave Alsup, CNN Authorities are investigating the deaths of four nursing home patients in Louisiana after they were evacuated to a temporary facility on August 27 ahead of Hurricane Ida, in a situation officials described as deteriorating and overwhelmed. “I would not have wanted my mother or
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — La Corte Constitucional de Colombia en sala plena declaró este jueves inconstitucional la posibilidad de aplicar la pena perpetua para violadores y asesinos de niños y adolescentes en Colombia, con 6 votos contra 3. La ley, conocida como Gilma Jiménez, fue sancionada el 6 de julio por el presidente Iván
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — A 72-year-old British man has been found safe three days after disappearing in a thick jungle in northeastern Thailand while going to visit friends on a motorbike. A member of a local volunteer team that helped rescue him said a hunter came across Barry Leonard Weller in a remote forest in Khon
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include Mary Elizabeth Winstead starring in the brutal assassin thriller “Kate” on Netflix and a filmed version of the Tony-nominated Broadway musical “Come From Away.” Justin Bieber will hit the MTV Video Music Awards stage for the first time in six years on Sunday and the
Continue ReadingBy CLAUDIA TORRENS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An extraordinary number of Ecuadorians has been coming to the United States — often to New York. They surpassed El Salvadorans as the fourth-largest nationality encountered by U.S. authorities on the Mexican border, behind Mexicans, Guatemalans and Hondurans. That also has led to increasing numbers of
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle, CNN Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked by The Vatican in 2019 over sex abuse allegations, pleaded not guilty to three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or older at an arraignment in Dedham District Court in Massachusetts Friday. A judge set a $5000 cash bail,
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — La policía de Nueva Zelandia le disparó y mató a un partidario de ISIS que hirió al menos a seis personas en un “ataque terrorista” en un centro comercial en el suburbio de New Lynn en Auckland, dijeron las autoridades. “Esta tarde aproximadamente a las 2:40 pm, un extremista violento llevó a
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