By Jacquelyne Germain, CNN Emmett Till grew up in a two-story, red brick house on the South Side of Chicago before leaving the city in 1955 to visit family in Mississippi, where the 14-year-old Black teen was lynched after being accused of whistling at a White woman. An African American cultural preservation organization on Tuesday
Continue ReadingBy Ryan Young, Devon M. Sayers and Ray Sanchez, CNN Police departments from Atlanta to Kansas City to Portland are coping with critical staffing shortages and struggling to fill their ranks from patrol officers to 911 operators, as the warm weather historically portends bursts of violence in many parts of the United States. “The people
Continue ReadingCNN By Caroll Alvarado, Michelle Watson and Jacquelyne Germain, CNN The mother who posted a video showing a costumed character appearing to ignore two Black children during a parade at Sesame Place in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, says the theme park’s explanation of the incident as a “misunderstanding” is not enough. Jodi Brown and her attorney
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson, CNN Downtown Chicago will host the first-ever NASCAR Cup Series street-circuit race next July, NASCAR officials, drivers and Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Tuesday. “Really excited about announcing that for the first time with our national series that we’ll be bringing it to a street course, and what better place to do it
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN)– Mantenerse fresco cuando hace calor es un reto para los humanos. ¿Y para nuestras mascotas? En el Reino Unido, donde las temperaturas alcanzaron un récord el martes, la Real Sociedad para la Prevención de la Crueldad contra los Animales y la Asociación Veterinaria Británica (BVA, por sus siglas en inglés) recomiendan tomar
Continue ReadingEUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A new obstacle appeared out of nowhere on the steeplechase course at world championships. A cameraman. Trying to get a great shot of the triple jump competition going on in the infield Monday night, a World Athletics cameraman stepped onto the track, unaware that there was a live race going on
Continue ReadingMARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — In a story published July 19, 2022, about the halting of a proposed new school logo at a Georgia elementary school, The Associated Press erroneously reported the spelling of the last name of a woman quoted in the story by WSB-TV. She is Stacy Efrat not Stacy Efart.
Continue ReadingCNN By Jennifer Henderson, CNN A fire broke out at the Hoover Dam on Tuesday at about 10 a.m. local time when a transformer caught fire, sending plumes of black smoke into the air, according to the Bureau of Reclamation. The fire was extinguished about 30 minutes later by the Reclamation/Hoover fire brigade, the bureau’s
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A worker at the San Francisco International Airport was stabbed Tuesday, and a suspect was in custody, police said. It was the third security incident in a month at the airport south of San Francisco. The San Francisco Police Department said the victim, who it did not identify, was attacked in
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of South Carolina jurist Michelle Childs to sit on the federal court typically seen as a proving ground for the nation’s highest bench. Senators approved Childs’ nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The Senate Judiciary
Continue ReadingGREENWOOD, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say a 20-year-old man who shot five people in a suburban Indianapolis shopping mall, killing three of them, fired 24 times within 15 seconds before he was shot and killed by an armed bystander. Also, the Johnson County Coroner’s Office said Tuesday that preliminary autopsy results show gunman Jonathan Sapirman
Continue ReadingBy JAKE BLEIBERG and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Teachers and students at Robb Elementary School knew the safety protocols when an 18-year-old with an AR-15 style rifle entered the building in May. Dozens of times in the previous four months alone, the campus had gone into lockdown or issued security alerts.
Continue ReadingEUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A new obstacle appeared out of nowhere on the steeplechase course at world championships. A cameraman. Trying to get a great shot of the triple jump competition going on in the infield Monday night, a World Athletics cameraman stepped onto the track, unaware that there was a live race going on
Continue ReadingCNN By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN The contempt of Congress trial against Steve Bannon got underway in earnest on Tuesday with opening statements and the first witness testimony after a failed last-minute effort from the Trump ally’s team to delay the trial. The simple case that prosecutors wish to put on was evident
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN The contempt of Congress trial against Steve Bannon got underway in earnest on Tuesday with opening statements and the first witness testimony after a failed last-minute effort from the Trump ally‘s team to delay the trial. The simple case that prosecutors wish to put on was evident in
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Elections officials from across the country meeting under heightened security were urged Tuesday to prepare for supply chain issues that could lead to shortages in paper used for everything from ballots to “I voted” stickers for years to come. The summer meeting of the National Association
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Elections officials from across the country meeting under heightened security were urged Tuesday to prepare for supply chain issues that could lead to shortages in paper used for everything from ballots to “I voted” stickers for years to come. The summer meeting of the National Association
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El 20 de julio se celebra el Día de la Independencia en Colombia y tras dos años de ausencia por cuenta de la pandemia de coronavirus, el tradicional desfile militar volverá a las calles y cielos de Colombia. En 2022 se cumplen 212 años de la Independencia de Colombia
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN A 2,000-year-old fortress built on a mountainside in what’s now Iraqi Kurdistan could be part of a lost royal city called Natounia. With the help of drone photography, archaeologists excavated and cataloged the site during a series of digs between 2009 and 2022. Situated in the Zagros Mountains, the stone fortress
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) – Kindergarten Jump Start kicks off the first week of August for families in Crook County School District. The annual mini-school event is an excellent opportunity for incoming kindergarteners to familiarize themselves with their new school, teachers, and classmates. Students attend school for half a day during the first two weeks of
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