By PETER SMITH Associated Press Religiously speaking, the incoming 118th Congress looks like America — that is, the America of decades past, rather than today. Congress is far more Christian, and religious overall, than today’s general population. Even though nearly three in 10 Americans claim no religious affiliation — a rate that has steadily risen
Continue ReadingBy Mark Morales, CNN Trevor Bickford, the 19-year-old accused of attacking New York Police Department officers with a machete on New Year’s Eve, traveled to the city “in order to kill people and carry out jihad,” prosecutors say. Bickford allegedly went to the Times Square checkpoint just after 10 p.m., authorities have said. At the
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates has met with Syrian President Bashar Assad during his second visit to Damascus as relations continue to thaw between the two countries. According to a statement from Assad’s office, he and Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan discussed on Wednesday boosting economic ties. Sheikh
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A quest to select the first official flag and hymn for the French Caribbean island of Martinique was interrupted Wednesday by a cyberattack. The attack on government servers upended on Wednesday a nearly two-week online voting window that began on Jan. 2. Officials said the attack was not successful
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By Web staff Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS, Nevada (KVVU) — The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department provided an update Tuesday after an incident last week in which officers shot and killed a suspect in a road rage incident. According to LVMPD, a stolen gun situation evolved into a road rage
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma has entered into four new settlements with opioid makers and distributors totaling more than $226 million. Outgoing Attorney General John O’Connor announced the agreements Wednesday with Walgreens, CVS, Walmart and opioid manufacturer Allergan. The three pharmacy chains announced in November that they had reached opioid
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma has entered into four new settlements with opioid makers and distributors totaling more than $226 million. Outgoing Attorney General John O’Connor announced the agreements Wednesday with Walgreens, CVS, Walmart and opioid manufacturer Allergan. The three pharmacy chains announced in November that they had reached opioid
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, Devan Cole and Holmes Lybrand, CNN The FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department are now offering $500,000 for information leading to an arrest of the person who placed pipe bombs near the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington,
Continue ReadingBy JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Some of the last survivors in France from a colonial-era infantry corps that recruited tens of thousands of African soldiers to fight in French wars around the world will be able to live out their final days with family members back in Africa after a French government
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By Caitlin Lilly Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS, Nevada (KVVU) — A man is dead after his roommate shot and killed him following an argument between the two, according to police. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department says that officers responded to a residence near the 3500 block of San Francisco
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nota del editor: Jeff Pearlman es autor de 10 libros, entre ellos el último, “The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson”. Las opiniones expresadas aquí le pertenecen únicamente a su autor. (CNN) — Lo más probable es que nunca hayas visto la fotografía. Existe, en los archivos del Detroit
Continue ReadingBy Toyin Owoseje, CNN American actor Edward Norton has discovered that the real-life Pocahontas, the romanticized and mythologized 17th century daughter of a Native American chief, is his 12th great-grandmother. The Oscar-nominated star learned of his family connection to the woman who married Virginia settler John Rolfe on Tuesday’s episode of the PBS genealogical history
Continue ReadingBy SABINA NIKSIC and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia (AP) — The new year’s festivities are over in Bosnia, and visitors to the country’s winter resorts are packing to go home. Spring-like temperatures have left little or no snow on the mountains, and it’s unclear when the next visitors will arrive. The small Balkan
Continue ReadingBy SABINA NIKSIC and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia (AP) — The new year’s festivities are over in Bosnia, and visitors to the country’s winter resorts are packing to go home. Spring-like temperatures have left little or no snow on the mountains, and it’s unclear when the next visitors will arrive. The small Balkan
Continue ReadingCNN By AJ Willingham, CNN The death of a pope is a unique circumstance in the Catholic Church. The death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the first pope in modern history to resign his position before his passing, is even more so. As Catholics around the world prepare for his funeral and burial, Catholics in
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN The death of a pope is a unique circumstance in the Catholic Church. The death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the first pope in modern history to resign his position before his passing, is even more so. As Catholics around the world prepare for his funeral and burial, Catholics in the
Continue ReadingCNN By Chris Isidore, CNN The NFL’s decision not to resume or replay Monday’s Bills-Bengals game, which was halted after Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest, won’t be particularly costly the world’s richest sports league. After the league announced late Thursday that the game will not be completed, the home-team Cincinnati Bengals notified fans
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN ESPN is sticking by its reporting that the NFL had initially planned to resume Monday’s football game after Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field — a claim the NFL vehemently denies. The NFL postponed Monday’s game between the Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals following
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El caos vuelve a gobernar en Estados Unidos. Dos años después de que el maestro del caos político, el expresidente Donald Trump, saliera de Washington en desgracia, los republicanos finalmente recuperaron parte del poder. Pero todavía no saben cómo usarlo correctamente. Después de semanas de comprometerse a hacer que el
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — El proceso electoral 2023 en Ecuador comienza este domingo 5 de febrero cuando se llevarán a cabo las elecciones seccionales en la nación. En específico, el país sudamericano realizará elecciones seccionales, del Consejo de Participación Ciudadana y Control Social (CPCCS), un referendo (conocido como Referéndum 2023) y una consulta popular. Guillermo
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