By Steve Almasy, Jason Hanna, John Murgatroyd and Devon M. Sayers, CNN Investigators believe a 15-year-old boy killed his older brother before continuing a shooting rampage that killed four others and injured two last week in North Carolina’s capital, according to a preliminary report from police released Thursday. Authorities have not yet learned the suspect’s
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue and Katie Lobosco, CNN Federal courts on Thursday delivered two wins for President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected a challenge to the program brought by a Wisconsin taxpayers group. And on the same day, a federal district court judge rejected a separate lawsuit
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — En una victoria para Kevin Spacey, un jurado de Nueva York declaró este jueves que no es responsable de agresión por las acusaciones de que cargó al actor Anthony Rapp y se acostó brevemente sobre él en una cama después de una fiesta en 1986. Los miembros del jurado deliberaron durante
Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN Last week, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued guidance recommending the updated Covid-19 booster for children ages 5 to 11. Previously, the bivalent booster was recommended for children 12 and older, as well as for all adults. Now, the Pfizer/BioNTech booster is available for children 5 and older,
Continue ReadingBy TRUDY RING Click here for updates on this story WASHINGTON D.C. (Advocate Channel) — The Department of Veterans Affairs has closed a gap in survivor benefits for those who were not able to marry a same-sex, now-deceased veteran spouse before the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality ruling and therefore weren’t married
Continue ReadingBy TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Browns starting ends Myles Garrett and Jadeveon Clowney returned to practice, a major development for a struggling Browns defense that will be stressed by elusive Baltimore quarterback Lamar Jackson on Sunday. Garrett has been bothered by a sprained left shoulder he injured when he crashed
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles jury could be the first in the U.S. to decide whether the NCAA failed to protect college football players from repeated blows to the head that cause serious brain injuries. A jury was seated Thursday in a Los Angeles courtroom in the case
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The surprising Atlanta Falcons travel to Cincinnati to face the Bengals, who seem to be steadily recapturing the stride that propelled them to the Super Bowl last season. Receiver Ja’Marr Chase had been off to a slow start for the Bengals, but he had seven catches for 132 yards and two
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER WIGGINS Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (Advocate Channel) — A new law will make it easier for older LGBTQ+ people in New York to access free meal deliveries, caregiver assistance, mental and physical care, and other services. As a result of the new law signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — Chicago Bears coach Matt Eberflus is leaning on his experience as he tries to get his struggling team pointed in a different direction. Chicago has lost three in a row heading into a Monday night matchup at New England. Eberflus remembers going from Toledo
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — Cristiano Ronaldo, del Manchester United, publicó un comunicado en Instagram horas después de que el club anunciara que el delantero portugués no jugaría contra el Chelsea el fin de semana. “Empecé muy joven, los ejemplos de los jugadores mayores y más experimentados siempre fueron muy importantes para mí. Por eso, más
Continue ReadingBy TERRY TANG Associated Press More than 60 years after Anna May Wong became the first Asian American woman to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the pioneering actor has coined another first, quite literally. With quarters bearing her face and manicured hand set to start shipping Monday, per the U.S. Mint,
Continue ReadingBy TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Barcelona needed only seven minutes to get back on track in the Spanish league. Barcelona rebounded from a loss to rival Real Madrid on Sunday by scoring three goals in a seven-minute span in the first half of a 3-0 win over Villarreal. Robert Lewandowski scored
Continue ReadingCNN By Lauren del Valle, CNN In a victory for Kevin Spacey, a New York jury on Thursday afternoon found him not liable for battery on allegations he picked up actor Anthony Rapp and briefly laid on top of him in a bed after a party in 1986. Jurors deliberated for about an hour, and
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — CSX has delivered 15% more profit in the third quarter. The railroad handled 2% more freight and worked to eliminate the delays shippers have been complaining about for months. The Florida-based railroad said Thursday that it earned $1.11 billion in the three month period that
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham must testify before a special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia, a federal appeals court said Thursday. The ruling by a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, MATTHEW DALY and AARON MORRISON Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The federal government is investigating whether Mississippi state agencies discriminated against the state’s majority-Black capital city by refusing to fund improvements for its failing water system, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday. The announcement came days after leaders of
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Federal authorities in New York have charged seven people with harassing a Chinese national living in the U.S. to try to force him to return to China. Five people in the People’s Republic of China and two in New York face charges, including counts of acting as agents of a foreign
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — Si Estados Unidos quiere proteger su desarrollo tecnológico, debe poner un ojo en sus políticas inmigratorias y esforzarse más por atraer y retener a los talentos extranjeros, dicen los expertos de las Academias de Ciencia, Ingeniería y Medicina, en un reporte que alerta sobre la competencia de China en
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A jury sided with Kevin Spacey on Thursday in one of the lawsuits that derailed the film star’s career, finding he did not sexually abuse Anthony Rapp, then 14, while both were relatively unknown actors in Broadway plays in 1986. The verdict in
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