By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeals of two brothers who were sentenced to death for four fatal shootings in a soccer field in December 2000 known as “the Wichita massacre.” Former Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said Monday that the high court’s
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A 29-year-old Prineville man was detained late Sunday afternoon as homicide detectives investigated the shooting death of a 27-year-old Prineville man during a fight in the older man’s apartment, authorities said Monday.
Continue ReadingDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s largest school district has cancelled classes for Tuesday after determining there had been a cyber attack on its technology network. Des Moines Public Schools announced Monday that Tuesday classes would be cancelled for its 33,000 students after being “alerted to a cyber security incident on its technology network.” The
Continue ReadingBy CARLA BRIDI Associated Press SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — Thousands of Brazilians who support former president Jair Bolsonaro invaded the Supreme Court, presidential palace and Congress on Jan. 8 in an episode that closely resembled the U.S. Capitol insurrection in 2021. The groups were able to break through police barricades along the capital Brasilia’s main
Continue ReadingCNN, WTKR By Dakin Andone, CNN The mother of a 6-year-old boy who authorities say shot his teacher at a Virginia elementary school could face charges, Newport News police Chief Steve Drew said Tuesday. “I think that is certainly a possibility,” Drew told “CNN This Morning,” a day after police confirmed the boy took the
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it has reached an agreement with a pipeline operator to clean up a spill that dumped 14,000 bathtubs’ worth of crude oil into a rural Kansas creek. The agency said in a news release that the Dec. 7 rupture
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it has reached an agreement with a pipeline operator to clean up a spill that dumped 14,000 bathtubs’ worth of crude oil into a rural Kansas creek. The agency said in a news release that the Dec. 7 rupture
Continue ReadingFALL CITY, Wash. (AP) — A woman was killed on Monday by a falling tree amid strong winds in western Washington, officials said. Authorities were called to a street east of Seattle in Fall City around 8:30 a.m. Monday and found the woman who had been hit, The Seattle Times reported. Fire and rescue crews
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN After months of uncertainty and feeling left in the dark, many former Twitter employees impacted by a mass layoff in early November began receiving their severance offers over the weekend. But some are frustrated by the offer and the conditions attached to it. The severance offer promises one month’s pay in
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — George Floyd’s family is ready to take applications from businesses for grants funded by money from their wrongful death legal settlement with the city of Minneapolis. Floyd, who was Black, died in May 2020 after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes. His family
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh, Coy Wire and Steve Almasy, CNN Bills safety Damar Hamlin is now at a Buffalo hospital, having been released from the medical facility where he stayed seven days after his heart stopped and he had to be resuscitated on the field during an NFL game, Dr. William A. Knight said Monday during
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Más de 7.000 enfermeros de dos grandes hospitales en la ciudad de Nueva York suspendieron su trabajo este lunes y salieron a protestar, señalando que la inmensa escasez de personal ha causado un agotamiento generalizado y obstaculiza su capacidad para atender adecuadamente a sus pacientes. Los enfermeros dicen que trabajan durante
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gangel, Marshall Cohen, Evan Perez and Phil Mattingly, CNN Several classified documents from President Joe Biden’s time as vice president were discovered last fall in a private office, Biden’s attorneys acknowledged Monday. Attorney General Merrick Garland has asked the US attorney in Chicago to investigate the matter, a source familiar with the matter
Continue ReadingOLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Lawmakers in Washington state returned to Olympia on Monday to begin a 105-day legislative session, the first one fully in person since the COVID-19 pandemic forced lawmakers and the public to often meet and vote virtually. “Today we meet in person for the first time in three years,” Lt. Gov. and
Continue ReadingBy JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A multibillionaire Democrat whose actions in the past year have suggested a possible interest in running for president has been sworn in as Illinois governor for the second time. J.B. Pritzker took the oath on Monday, the first Illinois governor to start a second four-year
Continue ReadingRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina has confirmed that he has moved to Florida. The Republican officially left Congress last week, months after he lost his GOP primary to now-U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards of the 11th District. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that Cawthorn mentioned his Florida
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota’s chief elections officer is calling on state lawmakers to make it easier for residents to vote while protecting elections officials from threats and intimidation. Key elements of Secretary of State Steve Simon’s agenda are included in an elections package that fellow Democrats in the
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Electing the House speaker may have been the easy part. Now House Republicans will try to govern. Speaker Kevin McCarthy passed his first tests late Monday as the Republicans approved their rules package for governing House operations, typically a routine step on Day One that stretched
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN A federal agency is considering a ban on gas stoves, a source of indoor pollution linked to childhood asthma. Richard Trumka Jr., a US Consumer Product Safety commissioner, set off a firestorm this week by saying in an interview with Bloomberg that gas stoves posed a “hidden hazard” and suggested the
Continue ReadingTRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A federal judge has put a temporary hold New Jersey’s new legislation drafted after the U.S. Supreme Court expanded gun rights last year. The judge suggested Monday that the law infringes on the public’s Second Amendment rights. Three members of Second Amendment rights groups who also have carry permits filed the
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