By Kristina Sgueglia, Gregory Krieg and Rachel Janfaza, CNN Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday that he is dropping out of the race for New York’s 10th Congressional District. “Time for me to leave electoral politics and focus on other ways to serve,” de Blasio said in a Tweet. “It’s clear
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia prosecutor who’s investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally interfered in the 2020 general election in the state has informed 16 Republicans who served as fake electors that they could face criminal charges. They all signed a certificate declaring falsely that then-President Trump
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says the Oakland Athletics need to quickly reach a binding agreement for a new ballpark and that relocation could be considered if a deal isn’t struck for a facility in the Bay Area. He says the condition of the Coliseum is
Continue ReadingBy Emily Chang and Laura Ly, CNN A Bronx man was indicted on 23 charges on Monday after allegedly sexually assaulting three people in one week, including a woman who allegedly used the Grubhub food delivery service to escape, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s office. Kemoy Royal, 32, allegedly attacked three women over the
Continue ReadingBy KYW Staff Click here for updates on this story DOVER, Delaware (KYW) — The Dover Police Department has charged a 26-year-old in connection with the July 10th arson at a Target department store. Detectives obtained an arrest warrant for Desmond Smith and executed a search warrant at his residence in Dover on Monday at
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — For most of the major carbon-polluting nations, promising to fight climate change is a lot easier than actually doing it. In the United States, President Joe Biden has learned that the hard way. Among the 10 biggest carbon emitters, only the European Union has enacted polices
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The publisher of Simon & Schuster’s flagship imprint, Dana Canedy, is stepping down to concentrate on a sequel to a book Denzel Washington adapted last year for the film “A Journal for Jordan.” Canedy, a former New York Times editor and writer and the first
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The publisher of Simon & Schuster’s flagship imprint, Dana Canedy, is stepping down to concentrate on a sequel to a book Denzel Washington adapted last year for the film “A Journal for Jordan.” Canedy, a former New York Times editor and writer and the first
Continue ReadingBy Kylie Atwood, CNN The Biden administration is putting $100 million into a new program to provide Ukrainian farmers with vital supplies in order to maintain future harvests and alleviate the global food security crisis that has been exasperated by Russia’s war on the country. Some Ukrainian farms have turned into battlefields, and farmers who
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: NCR, Hasbro rise; IBM, Signature Bank fall
Continue ReadingNORTH KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri police officer has died after being shot while trying to conduct a traffic stop. Authorities said Officer Daniel Vasquez died Tuesday at a hospital after he was shot earlier in the day in North Kansas City. North Kansas City Police Chief Kevin Freeman said a suspect turned
Continue ReadingCNN By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Netflix lost roughly a million customers last quarter — the most in the company’s 25-year history. But it stopped the bleeding in a nightmarish year, and the company believes that its new long-term initiatives will boost sales and subscribers. Those efforts — which include cracking down on password sharing
Continue ReadingBy Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Netflix reported Tuesday that it lost 970,000 subscribers in the second quarter of 2022 — a number far lower than its own forecasts, which had projected that the streaming giant would lose two million subscribers. The company also said it would add another one million subscribers in the third quarter,
Continue ReadingBy GARRETT BEHANNA Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A Pittsburgh area astronaut will be highlighted in a new collection set forth by the Heinz History Center. Jerome “Jay” Apt is a Pittsburgh native and a 1967 graduate of Shady Side Academy, where he would later join NASA in 1980, working
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN For 46 years, the answer to who killed Lindy Sue Biechler remained a mystery. But with the help of DNA lifted from a coffee cup earlier this year, investigators were able to charge a Pennsylvania man with the stabbing of the 19-year-old woman in 1975. Biechler’s aunt and uncle found her
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A New York man working at a filming location for the TV series “Law & Order: Organized Crime” has been shot and killed. Police say Johnny Pizarro was found at about 5:15 a.m. Tuesday in front of a residence in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Business Home builders are hitting the brakes as building costs rise and prospective buyers get priced out of the market. June housing starts, a measure of new home construction during the month, fell 2% month-over-month and 6.3% from a year ago, according to the US Census Bureau. Meanwhile, a separate survey
Continue ReadingBy Shimon Prokupecz and Eric Levenson, CNN Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District officials have informed district police chief Pete Arredondo that the school board intends to meet Saturday to decide on his fate, according to a source close to the discussions. The source told CNN Tuesday the board is expected to vote to terminate Arredondo,
Continue ReadingCNN By Shimon Prokupecz and Eric Levenson, CNN Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District officials have informed district police chief Pete Arredondo that the school board intends to meet Saturday to decide on his fate, according to a source close to the discussions. The source told CNN Tuesday the board is expected to vote to terminate
Continue ReadingMADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging the University of Wisconsin System reinstated former Badgers receiver Quintez Cephus without seeking input from a woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2018. A UW-Madison investigation found that Cephus likely assaulted her and the university expelled him. A jury acquitted him
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