PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Suriname’s government is warning of more arrests and putting police on high alert a day after a protest against the policies of President Chandrikapersad Santokhi spun out of control and hundreds of demonstrators stormed parliament. Demonstrators marched Friday to the National Assembly building to protest against price hikes and the reduction
Continue ReadingMERCED, Calif. (AP) — A California courthouse has been named for a native son who went on to a distinguished career at Harvard Law School, where he taught future President Barack Obama and his wife. The Merced County courthouse was named Friday for Charles James Ogletree Jr. to honor his contributions to law, education and
Continue ReadingMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis police say an officer has died from wounds sustained more than two weeks ago when he was shot while responding to a confrontation at a library. Police said Saturday that Officer Geoffrey Redd died “despite the best efforts” by staff at the hospital where he was being treated. The 49-year-old
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand, CNN The US has recently begun seeing “disturbing” trendlines in China’s support for Russia’s military and there are signs that Beijing wants to “creep up to the line” of providing lethal military aid to Russia without getting caught, US officials familiar with the intelligence told CNN. The officials would not describe in
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — El expresidente estadounidense Jimmy Carter comenzará a recibir cuidados paliativos, según un comunicado del Centro Carter publicado este sábado. “Después de una serie de breves estadías en el hospital, el expresidente estadounidense Jimmy Carter decidió hoy pasar el tiempo que le quede en casa con su familia y recibir cuidados paliativos
Continue ReadingBy Paulina Aguilar Click here for updates on this story LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon (KPTV) — Mia Brahe-Pederson is no stranger to records; she already holds two state records, the 60-meter indoor and the 100-meter outdoor. On Feb. 10, she broke the National High School Record at the Don Kirby Elite Invitational in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Continue ReadingBy Aaron Pellish, Shawna Mizelle and Betsy Klein, CNN Former US President Jimmy Carter will begin receiving hospice care at his home in Georgia, according to a statement from The Carter Center on Saturday. “After a series of short hospital stays, former US President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home
Continue ReadingTEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona city council is scheduled to vote next month on replacing park and road names that have century-old ties to the Ku Klux Klan. Tempe councilmembers will consider the replacement names during a March 2 meeting. New names proposed by community members were vetted by council-appointed volunteers who met several
Continue ReadingBy BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter, who at 98 years old is the longest-lived American president, has entered home hospice care in Plains, Georgia, a statement from The Carter Center confirmed Saturday. After a series of short hospital stays, the statement said, Carter “decided to spend his remaining time
Continue ReadingRICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The White House has rebuked Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin for supporting state lawmakers’ rejection of a bill that that would have prohibited police from issuing search warrants for digitized data about women’s menstrual cycles. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement on Friday that the Republican governor’s push
Continue ReadingBy Shelby Myers Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — The word “home” hangs on the walls of the Scotts’ Chunchula residence, but it doesn’t feel that way tonight. “I came home, and my house was not the way I left it,” said Whitney Scott, whose home was damaged by fire.
Continue ReadingBy Kimberly King Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — City leaders paid a design company $292,000 to create a park plan for the empty lot that sits across from the Harrah’s Cherokee Center. In October 2020, Asheville City Council unanimously approved the park plan for the site nicknamed the
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso and Rebekah Riess, CNN A body has been found in a vehicle submerged in Kentucky flood waters, Marion County Rescue Chief Brian Smith said. Rescue crews located the car through a drone search Thursday after flooding in southeastern Kentucky. They discovered the body while retrieving the car Friday, affiliate WKYT reported. The
Continue ReadingCNN By Chris Isidore, CNN For the moment at least, Elon Musk is working at Tesla for free. Depending on how you look at it. Musk still has the potential to continue pulling in staggering sums of money, thanks to Tesla, but not in the way that his regular workers make their money. That’s because
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN Twitter Blue subscribers will be the platform’s only users able to use text messages as a two-factor authentication method, Twitter announced Friday. The change will take place on March 20. Twitter users will have two other ways to authenticate their Twitter log-ins at no cost: an authentication mobile app and a
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy, Nectar Gan, Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with China’s top diplomat Wang Yi on Saturday, in the first face-to-face between senior US and Chinese officials since the US military shot down a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon earlier this month. In a meeting on the
Continue ReadingBy LOUISE DIXON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Just hours before Russia began its invasion of Ukraine nearly a year ago, actor Sean Penn had his first on-camera meeting with the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “It was as if he was realizing himself, that he was born for this moment,” Penn recalled in an interview
Continue ReadingEAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — The president of Norfolk Southern made a visit to East Palestine, Ohio, on Saturday following criticism from residents and political leaders about the company’s response to the fiery derailment of a freight train carrying toxic materials earlier this month. Fox Business reports that company president and CEO Alan Shaw told
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG and JOHN HANNA Associated Press ARKABUTLA, Miss. (AP) — A gunman who authorities say killed six people in Mississippi busted into his ex-wife’s home and smashed her boyfriend in the head with the butt of a gun before shooting her in the head. That account was told by her boyfriend to The
Continue ReadingTEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Tens of thousands of Israelis are marching in several cities against judicial overhaul plans proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. The min demonstration took place in the central city of Tel Aviv Saturday, part of a weekly protest campaign that has kicked off since justice minister announced the proposed
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