NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials are appealing a judge’s ruling that they lacked the legal authority to fire members of the city’s largest police union for violating a COVID-19 vaccination mandate. State Supreme Court Judge Lyle Frank in Manhattan ruled Friday that the city health department’s vaccine mandate couldn’t be used to
Continue ReadingBy Gabriella Bachara Click here for updates on this story WAUKESHA, Wisconsin (WDJT) — It’s unclear who will represent the Waukesha Christmas parade attack suspect going forward. Darrell Brooks is accused of killing six and wounding dozens of others after driving his car through the parade route. A public defender representing Brooks filed a motion
Continue ReadingBARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona says defenders Jules Koundé and Ronald Araújo are sidelined for an undetermined period after sustaining leg injuries while playing for their national teams. Koundé suffered a left hamstring injury while playing for France. Araújo damaged a tendon in his right thigh while playing for Uruguay. Barcelona has not said how
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN In front of the largest-ever crowd for a Women’s Super League match, Arsenal defeated its archrival Tottenham Hotspur 4-0 on a historic day for women’s football in England. The attendance record was another significant development in a record-breaking year for women’s football, with attendance records also broken at the Women’s European
Continue ReadingBy Isa Kaufman Geballe and Zoe Sottile, CNN Louise Fletcher, the actress who won an Academy Award for playing the villainous Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” died Friday in France, according to her agent David Shaul. She was 88. Shaul said Fletcher died of “natural causes,” without providing further details. She
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Funcionarios ucranianos informaron que terminaron de exhumar los cuerpos de la fosa común hallada en la ciudad de Izium, y confirmaron que, de los 436 cuerpos encontrados, 30 mostraban signos de tortura. En un espantoso recordatorio del costo humano de la invasión de Rusia, la mayoría de los cuerpos mostraban señales
Continue ReadingBy MADELEINE WRIGHT AND KERRI CORRADO Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — Philadelphia police need your help tracking down the gunman who killed a man near Drexel University. Authorities released surveillance video of the shooting Friday. Police describe the murder as horrific. Police say the victim was hanging out with friends
Continue ReadingBy LORI HINNANT and KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — A group of Sri Lankans held captive by Russian forces in an agricultural factory in eastern Ukraine said Saturday that they were beaten and abused for months before escaping on foot as the Russians withdrew from the Kharkiv region this month. Recounting their
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency across his entire state as Tropical Storm Ian gains strength over the Caribbean and is forecast to become a major hurricane in coming days. An emergency order DeSantis initially issued for two dozen counties was expanded
Continue ReadingYPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — Faculty members at Eastern Michigan University have voted to ratify a new four-year labor agreement with the school. The Eastern Michigan University chapter of the American Association of University Professors says Friday that 96% of its members voted in favor of the deal which would include pay raises and more favorable
Continue ReadingBy KRISTA LARSON Associated Press Mali’s prime minister is lashing out at everyone from the U.N. secretary-general to former colonizer France. In a speech before the U.N. General Assembly, Prime Minister Abdoulaye Maiga took aim at what he called a “French junta.” He says that Mali was “stabbed in the back” last year when France
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN A new study says that the risk poaching poses to endangered sea turtles is on the decline — although data on the subject is scarce. The study, published on September 7 in Global Change Biology, used a meta-analysis of documents published in the last three decades to estimate the number of
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN The Artemis I rocket will not have its third launch attempt on Tuesday as planned due to concerns over Tropical Storm Ian making its way toward Cuba and Florida. After meeting on Saturday morning, NASA’s Artemis team decided to forgo the September 27 launch opportunity and is now preparing the mega
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is skipping next week’s launch attempt of its new moon rocket because of a tropical storm that’s expected to become a major hurricane. It’s the third delay in the past month for the lunar-orbiting test flight featuring mannequins but no astronauts, a follow-up
Continue ReadingOAK FOREST, Ill. (AP) — The names of three people found shot outside a suburban Chicago home and the man believed to have killed them before fatally shooting himself have been released. They were identified Friday by the Cook County medical examiner’s office as 44-year-old Carlos Gomez, 43-year-old Lupe Gomez, 22-year-old Briana Rodriguez and 20-year-old
Continue ReadingBy Jessi Mitchell Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — September is National Uterine Cancer Awareness Month. The disease mostly affects older women, but one young Harlem woman found hope helping others cope. Amanda FItzpatrick checks in regularly with her oncologist at Mount Sinai, as she approaches three years without her
Continue ReadingBy HENG SINITH Associated Press SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (AP) — Chinese survivors from a boat that sank near a Cambodian island have described embarking on what they believed would be a short-term fishing job and ended up without food and water aboard the vessel and their belongings taken away. The number of the rescued increased to
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — ¿Quién fue el “jugador del siglo”?. En el año 2000, en medio de una fuerte controversia, la FIFA decidió otorgarles este título simultáneamente a dos futbolistas: Pelé, quien murió a los 82 años, y Diego Maradona. La discusión sobre quién fue mejor jugador es imposible de saldar, pero hay cifras
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Más de 15 años después de que se descubrieran las ráfagas de radio rápidas, nuevas investigaciones han revelado y profundizado el misterio de las fuentes de estos fenómenos del espacio profundo. Las ráfagas de radio rápidas, o FRB, son emisiones brillantes y potentes de ondas de radio que oscilan entre una
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The way President Joe Biden sees it, the overturning of Roe vs. Wade was not just about whether a woman has a right to obtain an abortion. “It’s about freedom,” Biden said at a private fundraiser in New York this past week. Vice President Kamala Harris
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