By Ray Sanchez, Zenebou Sylla and Kiely Westhoff, CNN Nearly 200 misdemeanor convictions tied to eight former New York Police Department officers who were themselves previously convicted of crimes have been vacated at the request of the Manhattan district attorney’s office. “While most law enforcement officials and police officers are dedicated public servants, these eight
Continue ReadingRAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Qatar’s news agency reports that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has arrived in Doha to attend the World Cup opening ceremony. The official Palestinian news agency, which covers the daily activities of Abbas, did not report his trip to Qatar on Saturday. This apparently followed an outcry over leaked documents purportedly
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — A collection of touching and sometimes prescient personal letters written by a young Bob Dylan to a high school girlfriend has been sold at auction to a renowned Portuguese bookshop for nearly $670,000. The Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal, which bills itself as “the World’s Most Beautiful Bookshop,” plans to keep the
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PITTSBURGH, Pa (AP) — Filmmaker Trish Adlesic was in Pittsburgh celebrating her father’s 91st birthday on October 25, 2018. Two days later, a gunman walked into the nearby Tree of Life synagogue and killed 11 people in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. “It shook me to my
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER and MEG KINNARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The appointment of a special counsel to oversee the remainder of two significant investigations related to former President Donald Trump focuses fresh attention on the role such prosecutors have played in modern American history. In this case, Attorney General Merrick Garland has turned to
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The year was 2010 and the Justice Department’s prestigious public integrity section was still recovering from a costly debacle over the withholding of exculpatory evidence in a case against Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens. The crisis had caused then-Attorney General Eric Holder, in a remarkable move, to ask
Continue ReadingBy Mallika Kallingal, CNN Green Day Produce is recalling its enoki mushroom packages sold between September and October because they could be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes — the bacteria that causes Listeria infections, according to a statement on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration website. The enoki mushrooms, a product of Korea, were packed in
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Qatar has become synonymous with soccer since winning the right to host the World Cup that opens on Sunday. But another sport is flying high in the historic center of Doha as over a million foreign fans flock to the tiny emirate: Falconry. Those in the
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN The third time’s the charm and now, NASA’s mega rocket has made history. The Artemis I mission launched on its journey to the moon Wednesday. Putting on a light show in the early morning skies over Cape Canaveral, Florida, the Space Launch System lifted the uncrewed Orion spacecraft up through the
Continue ReadingBy Artemis Moshtaghian, Jomana Karadsheh and Hande Atay Alam, CNN The United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, said it remains deeply concerned by reports of children being killed, injured, and detained in Iran, it said in a statement on Friday, adding that the reported deaths of children at anti-government protests “must stop.” An “estimated 50 children
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — Cuando en la noche del estadio Maracaná del 10 de julio de 2021 Lionel Messi levantó la Copa América luego del triunfo ante Brasil en la final, no solo quedaba atrás la racha negra de Argentina sin conseguir títulos oficiales (el último había sido en el torneo sudamericano en
Continue ReadingBy SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A hand count of random batches of votes in Georgia’s election for secretary of state has confirmed Republican Brad Raffensperger’s victory. The Secretary of State’s office announced Friday that the required audit turned up only a small difference in votes from the machine count, well within the
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Ticketmaster se disculpó con Taylor Swift y sus seguidores este viernes por la noche después de una crisis en la venta de boletos que dificultó la compra de entradas para la nueva gira de la estrella del pop. “Queremos disculparnos con Taylor y todos sus seguidores, especialmente aquellos que tuvieron una
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, Ella Nilsen and Rachel Ramirez, CNN The world has failed to reach an agreement to phase out fossil fuels after marathon UN climate talks were “stonewalled” by a number of oil-producing nations. Negotiators from nearly 200 countries at the COP27 UN climate summit in Egypt took the historic step of agreeing to
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN A huge sinkhole has opened up right next to a West Virginia police department, disrupting traffic and requiring several schools to move their classes online. The sinkhole, located on West Virginia Route 20 right next to the police department, is a long-standing problem in Hinton, West Virginia. When the sinkhole first
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Mientras la Universidad de Idaho lamenta la pérdida de cuatro estudiantes asesinados durante un ataque en una casa fuera del campus el fin de semana pasado, la comunidad sigue en crisis por los pocos detalles sobre la muerte de los estudiantes y la ausencia de un sospechoso identificado. Los cuatro estudiantes
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES As Twitter became knotted with parody accounts and turmoil, Rachel Terlep, who runs an account for the Washington State Department of Natural Resources that intersperses cheeky banter with wildfire and weather warnings, watched with equal parts trepidation and fascination. “It kind of feels like a supernova moment right now — a big,
Continue ReadingBy CALVIN WOODWARD, ZEKE MILLER and NATHAN ELLGREN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — People in their 80s lead countries, create majestic art and perform feats of endurance, one even scaling Mount Everest. It’s soon time for Joe Biden, 80 on Sunday, to decide whether he has one more mountain to climb — the one to
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN A bird thought to be extinct for 140 years has been rediscovered in the forests of Papua New Guinea. The black-naped pheasant-pigeon was documented by scientists for the first and last time in 1882, according to a news release from nonprofit Re:wild, which helped fund the search effort. Rediscovering the bird
Continue ReadingBy CALVIN WOODWARD, ZEKE MILLER and NATHAN ELLGREN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The oldest president in U.S. history is hitting a milestone birthday. Biden turns 80 on Sunday, and questions are swirling about whether he has the acuity and stamina to run for president again, if he chooses to do so. He says he
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