By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A group of Republican attorneys general are pushing the major payment networks — Visa, Mastercard and American Express — to drop their plans to start tracking sales at gun stores, arguing the plans could infringe on consumer privacy and push legal gun sales out of
Continue ReadingBy WPVI Staff and Corey Davis Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — A collision involving a school bus left several people injured including students in West Philadelphia and it was captured on surveillance camera. The bus and an SUV collided just after 6 a.m. Tuesday at South 52nd and Spruce streets.
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, Steve Contorno, Manu Raju, Kevin Liptak and Paul P. Murphy, CNN Delaware officials and volunteers began to make preparations Tuesday after reports and flight plans suggested a plane chartered to take migrants to Martha’s Vineyard last week was about to bring a group of migrants from Texas to the president’s home state.
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Teachers in Seattle have approved a new, three-year contract following a strike that delayed the start of the school year in Washington state’s largest district. The vote results were announced Tuesday by the union, the Seattle Education Association. The Seattle Times reports that 71% voted in favor for the contract covering classroom
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Teachers in Seattle have approved a new, three-year contract following a strike that delayed the start of the school year in Washington state’s largest district. The vote results were announced Tuesday by the union, the Seattle Education Association. The Seattle Times reports that 71% voted in favor for the contract covering classroom
Continue ReadingBy Andi Babineau and Devan Cole, CNN Montana will comply with a court order requiring it to enforce a process that makes it easier for residents to change the sex designations on their birth certificates, the state’s health department said Monday, abandoning a recent effort to impose stricter rules in the record-changing process. “The Department
Continue ReadingBy MARK LONG AP Sports Writer GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — No. 20 Florida has failed to throw a touchdown through three games. That makes the Gators just one of three Football Bowl Subdivision teams without a touchdown. It’s the kind of early season passing ineptitude not witnessed from the Southeastern Conference program in more than
Continue ReadingBy WPVI Staff and Katie Katro Click here for updates on this story UPPER DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (WPVI) — A pilot and a passenger are dead after a small plane crashed in Cumberland County, New Jersey on Monday. The crash was reported at about 2:15 p.m. on Parvin Mill Road in Upper Deerfield Twp.
Continue ReadingBy AYA BATRAWY Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Turkey’s president used his speech at the U.N. General Assembly to shine a spotlight on Turkish maneuvering in conflicts that span from Syria to Ukraine. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s speech on Tuesday comes as Turkey is beset by staggeringly high inflation and a cost of living
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN Business More than 26 million people tuned in to watch the Queen’s funeral in the United Kingdom on Monday, the first to be televised for a British monarch. An average of 26.2 million people watched the hour of the Queen’s funeral service in Westminster Abbey on TV screens, according to the
Continue ReadingBy AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — United States authorities charged 48 people in Minnesota with conspiracy and other counts in what they said Tuesday was the largest pandemic-related fraud scheme yet, stealing $250 million from a federal program that provides meals to low-income children. Federal prosecutors say the defendants created companies that claimed
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Six-time All-Pro offensive lineman Joe Thomas, shutdown cornerback Darrelle Revis and speedy pass rusher Dwight Freeney headline the list of nine first-year eligible players picked among the 129 nominees for the 2023 class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The other first-year eligibles are running back Chris
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WHYNO and PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writers DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Avalanche are making Nathan MacKinnon the highest-paid player in the NHL’s salary cap era. The 27-year-old signed an eight-year contract that is worth $100.8 million, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The person spoke to The Associated Press
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Omar Jimenez, CNN The Justice Department on Tuesday announced charges against 47 people accused of stealing $250 million from a federal program designed to provide meals for needy children during the pandemic. According to the department, the scheme is the largest Covid-19-related fraud uncovered by investigators to date. The defendants are
Continue ReadingBy Sandra Gonzalez, CNN The Golden Globes are coming back to television. After holding an untelevised event earlier this year due to a diversity and ethics controversy, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, dick clark productions and NBC said on Tuesday that the show will be coming back to television on Tuesday, January 10, 2023. “We
Continue ReadingBy BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Maury Wills, who intimidated pitchers with his base-stealing prowess as a shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers on three World Series championship teams, has died. He was 89. Wills died Monday night at home in Sedona, Arizona, the team said Tuesday after being informed by
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran is facing international criticism over the death of a woman held by its morality police, which ignited three days of protests across the country. An Iranian official said Tuesday that three people had been killed by unnamed armed groups in the Kurdish region of
Continue ReadingTBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Police in the country of Georgia said Tuesday that 12 people who were held hostage for hours in a bank by a gunman have been freed and hostage-taker has been arrested. Georgian media reported that the gunman at the bank in the city of Kutaisi had demanded $2 million, a helicopter
Continue ReadingBy MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press A federal judge has thrown out three of four charges against a researcher who was convicted of concealing work he did for China while employed by the University of Kansas. In a ruling released Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson said federal prosecutors did not provide sufficient evidence to convict
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) — Adam Levine rompió el silencio tras las acusaciones de que engañó a su esposa Behati Prinsloo y de que quería ponerle a su hijo el mismo nombre de su supuesta amante. “Se hablan muchas cosas de mí en este momento y quiero aclararlas”, escribió el líder de Maroon 5 en un comunicado que
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