By Crystal Bui Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WGCL) — An Atlanta woman is working to make it safer for other women to get around. Staggering statistics prompted her to launch a rideshare service just for women. Lyft says they had more than 4,000 sexual assaults reported from 2017 to 2019,
Continue ReadingBy Paul LeBlanc, CNN The US will announce a new round of security assistance to Ukraine “in very short order,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday evening, as Russia’s brutal invasion continues. Speaking to CNN+’s Chris Wallace, Psaki said Russia’s test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile would not change the White House’s
Continue ReadingCNN By Paul LeBlanc, CNN The US will announce a new round of security assistance to Ukraine “in very short order,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday evening, as Russia’s brutal invasion continues. Speaking to CNN+’s Chris Wallace, Psaki said Russia’s test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile would not change the White
Continue ReadingSTOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say the man who allegedly fatally stabbed a 15-year-old girl at a California high school drove into the school’s parking lot and tried to grab two girls before stabbing one of them. Anthony Gray was arraigned Wednesday on murder and other charges and denied bail. It was not known whether
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Kaiser and Brandon Miller, CNN Critically dry weather conditions continue to fuel fires across the Southwest, bringing yet another week of fire danger. It has been an extraordinarily busy start to the fire year in the South and Southwest, with more than 19,000 wildfires reported through Tuesday, according to the National Interagency Fire
Continue ReadingBy JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Dirt will be back on NASCAR’s schedule next year and likely on Easter Sunday again if Fox Sports has its way. NASCAR delivered the most-watched race at Bristol Motor Speedway since 2016 on Sunday night to watch the Cup Series race on dirt for
Continue ReadingBy JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Dirt will be back on NASCAR’s schedule next year and likely on Easter Sunday again if Fox Sports has its way. NASCAR delivered the most-watched race at Bristol Motor Speedway since 2016 on Sunday night to watch the Cup Series race on dirt for
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign is asking a federal court to keep details of its legal and research activity secret as they’re being pursued by special counsel John Durham. Durham is seeking more access to information about Perkins Coie, the campaign’s primary law firm, and its contact
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Spotify and the Obamas are headed for a split. The streaming service and former first family will not be inking a new deal, a person familiar with the matter told CNN. The person said that Spotify did not make an offer for the rights to distribute the content from Higher
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN Hundreds of homes near Flagstaff, Arizona, have been evacuated as a fast-moving wildfire threatened hundreds of structures Wednesday after destroying at least two dozen buildings, officials said. The Tunnel Fire in northern Arizona’s Coconino County had burned more than 19,700 acres as of Wednesday afternoon, according to InciWeb, a US clearinghouse
Continue ReadingMILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Bucks guard George Hill isn’t expected to return anytime soon from the abdominal strain that has prevented him from playing thus far in their first-round playoff series with the Chicago Bulls. Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said before Wednesday’s Game 2 that “we don’t expect him in the short term.” Budenholzer said
Continue ReadingBy TERRY WALLACE Associated Press A prominent Houston conservative activist has been charged with unlawful restraint and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon over an incident involving a contractor the activist hired. Attorneys for Dr. Steven Hotze say the Harris County District Attorney’s Office told them Wednesday that he’d been indicted over allegations against an
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand, CNN Tetiana Poudel’s father, a deputy commander in Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces, needed combat boots. Russia had just invaded Ukraine, and his unit was desperately lacking basic protective gear and medical supplies. So Poudel, a 31-year-old Ukrainian American citizen — who’s on leave from her California day job as an attorney for
Continue ReadingBy BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Attorneys representing two Republican congressmen and a GOP state House member running to be Arizona’s top election official urged a judge in Phoenix to dismiss lawsuits seeking to kick them off the November ballot. The lawsuits filed by voters allege that Reps. Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer With over 50 years of experience in Hollywood, Pam Grier is ready to look back at her life and career in a new podcast debuting this fall. Turner Classic Movies said Wednesday that Grier will be the spotlight of the next season of “The Plot Thickens,” with host Ben
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — In a city struggling with rising crime and a homeless crisis, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is proposing boosting spending for police and funneling a record amount into housing and other programs to help those those living on the streets. In a proposed budget, Garcetti says he wants to spend $1.2
Continue ReadingBy JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A prisoner scheduled to be executed in what would be Arizona’s first use of the death penalty in nearly eight years won’t be put to death in the gas chamber. Clarence Dixon declined to pick a method of execution when officials asked if he wanted to die
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Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced Wednesday $11.67 million in federal funding headed to five collaborative forestry projects around Oregon, including a new project in the Rogue River basin and funding to keep the Deschutes Forest Collaborative Project’s decade of projects going for three more years.
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press Michigan’s Democratic governor wants a nuclear power plant on Lake Michigan to stay open and she’s asking the federal government to pay for it. But the owner of the Palisades Power Plant says it’s too late and that the plant will shut down in May as scheduled. The Biden administration
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN The US State Department is expecting its strongest year for foreign service intake in a decade, a department spokesperson told CNN, reversing a trend that began under the Trump administration. According to the spokesperson, internal numbers show that 327 career foreign service employees have been onboarded this fiscal year, which began
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