By Aya Elamroussi, Jason Hanna and Joe Sutton, CNN Recovery and search efforts continued in the South on Friday, a day after severe storms and tornadoes raked the region, killing at least nine people, blowing roofs off homes and cutting power for thousands. At least seven people were killed in central Alabama’s Autauga County, with
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Un grupo de ataque de portaaviones de EE.UU. comenzó a operar en el mar de China Meridional este jueves, anunció la Marina, en medio de las crecientes tensiones con Beijing, que reclama gran parte de la masa de agua como su territorio soberano. Dos buques chinos ya siguen al grupo estadounidense,
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The final five defendants have been sentenced in the fatal gang stabbing of a 15-year-old whose attackers mistook him for an underworld rival. Friday’s sentencing marked an end to a slate of prosecutions in the June 2018 death of Lesandro Guzman-Feliz, who was known as “Junior.” The killing unleashed outrage in
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Gucci returns to the Milan menswear runway with the brand’s first collection since Alessandro Michele stepped down as creative director. The Gucci runway show heralding the new post-Michele era was an understated affair. It was very much like Michele’s low-key debut eight years ago heading an
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The family of a man who died from dehydration and malnutrition while being held at an Arkansas jail has filed a lawsuit against the facility. The family of Larry Eugene Price Jr. filed the lawsuit in federal court Friday. Price died at the Sebastian County
Continue ReadingBy JOSHUA GOODMAN and ASTRID SUAREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s president is seeking to suspend arrest orders against some of the country’s biggest criminal suspects as part of an ambitious plan to dismantle armed groups that have long dominated the countryside. The request to suspend the arrest orders against eight members of
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A cloud shot up vertically like a plume of smoke in a matter of seconds before a Hawaiian Airlines flight last month hit severe turbulence and 25 people on board were injured, according to a preliminary report Friday by the National Transportation Safety Board. The captain
Continue ReadingBy Tara Subramaniam and Vedika Sud, CNN For years, residents in the northern Indian city of Joshimath have complained to local officials that their homes are sinking. Now authorities are being forced to take action, evacuating nearly 100 families in the last week and expediting the arrival of experts to determine the cause. Cracks running
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN Español) — La Procuraduría General de la República de Brasil le pidió al Supremo Tribunal Federal que incluya al expresidente Jair Bolsonaro en la investigación sobre los instigadores y autores intelectuales del ataque a la sede de los tres poderes del Estado en Brasilia el 8 de enero, de acuerdo con un
Continue ReadingBy JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider what employers must do to accommodate religious employees, among eight new cases it added. The cases are expected to be argued in April. In one involving a former postal employee, the justices will consider what accommodations
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Northern Railway Museum staff is mourning the death of their resident cat who became an unlikely internet sensation. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports Dirt — short for Dirtbag —died Wednesday in the town of Ely surrounded by railroad staff. He was 15. The semi-feral feline was a staple at
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press BRIGANTINE, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s governor says he does not think undersea preparations for offshore wind farms should be halted in response to a recent spate of whale deaths in New Jersey and New York. Democrat Phil Murphy spoke after lawmakers at the local, state and federal levels called
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell and Nicki Brown, CNN Former President Donald Trump denied sexually assaulting former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll and said he never pressured a woman to have sex with him in a deposition transcript that was unsealed Friday. “But it’s a false accusation. Never happened. Never would,” Trump said of Carroll’s allegation that
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A Minnesota university’s dismissal of a professor for including depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in a global art course has put the small, private school at the center of a debate over how to include controversial material in college courses while respecting students’ personal relationship to the
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Local governments across New Mexico would be prohibited from placing restrictions on abortion access under initiatives outlined by Democratic state legislators Friday. A companion initiative aims to protect doctors who perform abortion and patients from harassment and investigations by out-of-state interests. The two legislative proposals
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN) — La tasa de desempleo de Estados Unidos volvió a su mínimo histórico del 3,5% en diciembre. Sin embargo, no todo el mundo celebra: las tasas de desempleo de las mujeres negras y los hombres latinos aún no se han recuperado totalmente de la pandemia. La tasa de desempleo de
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer California poultry producer Foster Farms said Friday its grain inventories have been restored after the federal government ordered Union Pacific Railroad to step up its shipments. Late last month, the U.S. Surface Transportation Board told Union Pacific to make all efforts to meet scheduled grain deliveries to the privately
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand, Jennifer Hansler and Alex Marquardt, CNN The Biden administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve the sale of 40 F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, after weighing a Turkish request for the planes for more than a year, congressional sources familiar with the deliberations told CNN. If approved, the sale would be
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Airline executives are pushing Congress and the White House to step up funding for the Federal Aviation Administration after a technology failure briefly grounded flights around the country this week. Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said Friday that the FAA is doing the best it
Continue ReadingKevin Dotson, CNN The head coach of Louisiana State University’s gymnastics team said there will be added security when it travels to an away meet after an incident last week where fans of Tigers gymnast and TikTok influencer Olivia Dunne disrupted a meet against the University of Utah earlier this week in Salt Lake City.
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