By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The husband of prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh will be forced to serve the rest of a five-year prison sentence, Sotoudeh told CNN on Tuesday. Reza Khandan was summoned to report to the judiciary within 30 days to begin serving out the sentence, which was initially handed down in
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Embattled Rep. George Santos is contemplating a nightmare scenario for House Republicans: Trying to stick it out in Congress, even if he is indicted on criminal charges. After previously signaling to Republicans he wouldn’t seek reelection, Santos has recently been telling people he is considering running
Continue ReadingBy Paula Reid and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The Justice Department has informed lawyers for Rep. Matt Gaetz and multiple witnesses that it will not bring charges against the Florida Republican after a yearslong federal sex-trafficking investigation. Senior officials reached out to lawyers for multiple witnesses on Wednesday, a source familiar with the matter told CNN,
Continue ReadingVIENNA (AP) — American actor Jane Fonda said Wednesday she accepted an Austrian building tycoon’s invitation to attend the Vienna Opera Ball because he offered to “pay me quite a bit of money.” The 85-year-old Academy Award and Golden Globe winner said at a news conference with her date, 90-year-old Richard Lugner, that she needed
Continue ReadingLianne Kolirin, CNN A Hebrew Bible more than 1,000 years old and described as “one of the most important and singular texts in human history” will go on show later this month, before going under the hammer. The Codex Sassoon, dating to the late 9th to early 10th, is believed to be the earliest and
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Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) joined Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) to introduce the No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act, a bicameral bill they said would level the playing field for American workers and small businesses and help ensure that corporations don’t receive any tax benefits from outsourcing jobs.
Continue Reading Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., thanked U.S. Customs and Border Protection for following through on a long-overdue technology upgrade that detects forged passports. Wyden requested the upgrade nearly five years ago, during the Trump administration, in order to strengthen border security.
Continue ReadingBy REG CHAPMAN Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Black History Month is a time to recognize the achievements and accomplishments of Black Americans. For some its also a time to rediscover their ties to Africa. The year 2019 marked 400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in America. That
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An Oregon State University faculty member has been selected as the deputy director of a $25 million, 16-university consortium tasked with educating the next generation of nuclear forensic scientists while researching new technology for nuclear security and nonproliferation.
Continue ReadingBy KARA FINNSTROM Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL, KCBS) — A woman accidentally ran over a man suspected of trying to steal her truck’s catalytic converter in Palmdale Tuesday evening. The suspect later died. Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies arrived at a retail parking lot on the 39000 block 10th
Continue ReadingBy RICK SALLINGER Click here for updates on this story DENVER (KCNC) — The University of Denver sent a letter to all students and staff this week informing them about three antisemitic incidents within the past week stating”these facts are not acceptable.” They happened in two student residence halls. The University of Denver Police Department
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Wallace, CNN The nation’s top aviation official talked about the safety risks of “complacency” in a Senate hearing Wednesday, and said the Federal Aviation Administration is juggling three competing systems of controlling US airspace. Billy Nolen, the acting FAA administrator, appeared before the Senate Commerce Committee to address the software outage that halted
Continue ReadingBy PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer U.S. Ski & Snowboard announced that Minnesota will host a World Cup cross country ski event next February, giving the Americans a rare home-course advantage. This will mark the first World Cup event the U.S. has hosted in the sport since 2001. The races will be held inside a
Continue ReadingBy ANDREA LUCIA Click here for updates on this story FLOWER MOUND, Texas (KTVT) — A man caught on camera stealing from a mosque in Flower Mound looks awfully familiar to some local Islamic leaders. The thief is accused of taking off with donations intended for earthquake victims. We found striking similarities between this case
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave 11.5 million shares of his stake in the electric automaker to an undisclosed charity last year, shares worth about $1.9 billion at the time they were donated. The donation would make him the second largest charitable donor in 2022, according to a ranking of the Chronicle
Continue ReadingBy WJZ Staff Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A funeral is set to be held Wednesday for a young mother who died fleeing gunfire last month in West Baltimore as she was waiting for takeout with her children. Maya Morton, 23, and her sons were waiting in her car for
Continue ReadingBy Casey Barber, CNN If you’re making the switch to more vegetarian and plant-based meals, chances are you’ve been adding more beans to your roster of regular dishes. That means you’ve likely been loading up your grocery cart with cans galore. But while canned beans are convenient, I’m here to make the argument for using
Continue ReadingBy WBZ Staff Click here for updates on this story NORTH CONWAY, New Hampshire (WBZ) — The summit of Mount Washington is known for having some of the worst weather in the world – like record-setting wind chills of 108 degrees below zero earlier this month. But early Wednesday morning, New England’s highest peak was
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck sealed the deal with some new tattoos. Lopez showed off the new ink, which the the duo got to celebrate their first Valentine’s Day as husband and wife. Lopez took a selfie of her ribcage, which had an infinity sign stamped with “Jennifer” and “Ben,” while
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Scientists got their first up-close look at what’s eating away part of Antarctica’s Thwaites ice shelf, nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier because of its massive melt and sea rise potential, and it’s both good and bad news. Using a 13-foot pencil-shaped robot that swam under the grounding line where ice
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