By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A proposal to let prisoners in Massachusetts donate organs and bone marrow to shave time off their sentence is raising profound ethical and legal questions about putting undue pressure on people behind bars who are desperate for freedom. The bill may run afoul of federal law, which
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — Leonardo DiCaprio nunca pasa mucho tiempo lejos de los reflectores públicos: ya sea por una nueva película, un encendido mensaje ambiental o un rumor sobre su vida romántica. Su figura nos acompaña hace al menos 25 años, cuando “Titanic” lo catapultó a un estrellato mundial, algo que ha usado
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By De’Anthony Taylor Click here for updates on this story CHULA VISTA, California (KGTV) — Multiple agencies showed up in San Diego’s Chula Vista area and saved a retired police K-9 after it fell in a 40-foot well Wednesday afternoon. According to the Chula Vista Fire Department, authorities received a call around 2:38 p.m. about
Continue ReadingBy Ciara Encinas Click here for updates on this story SAN DIEGO, California (KGTV) — San Diego now has a temporary migrant processing facility. Over the past several years we’ve mainly seen them in Arizona and Texas, but it is the first time the San Diego sector has seen something like this. It looks like
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Hacer las maletas y emprender un largo viaje por carretera era algo que Nina y Kai Schakat, ambos alemanes, habían imaginado hacer juntos durante su jubilación. Pero tras la muerte del padre de Nina y el impacto de la pandemia mundial de covid-19, la pareja, que tiene dos hijos, Ben, de
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By Rachel Henderson Click here for updates on this story COLUMBIA, Missouri (KOMU) — In light of Black History Month, Second Baptist Church is using a documentary screening to launch an educational initiative for the community to explore the role African Christianity has played in world history. “We really want to just give people in
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for March delivery rose $1.33 to $78.47 a barrel Wednesday. Brent crude for April delivery rose $1.40 to $85.09 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline for March delivery was unchanged at $2.46 a gallon. March heating oil fell 1 cent to $2.89 a gallon. March natural gas fell 18 cents
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press Alex Murdaugh’s paralegal is testifying at his double murder trial about the betrayal she felt when she discovered he lied and manipulated to steal millions of dollars from clients. But Annette Griswold also told jurors on Wednesday that Murdaugh was a dedicated family man. She says he was so distraught
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — For years, the people of Aleppo bore the brunt of bombardment and fighting when their city, once Syria’s largest and most cosmopolitan, was among the civil war’s fiercest battle zones. Even that didn’t prepare them for the devastation and terror wreaked by this week’s
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California voters could decide whether to reinstate voting rights to people in prison on felony convictions under a newly proposed constitutional amendment. It would be a major expansion of suffrage for incarcerated people if passed. California would join Maine and Vermont, as well as the District
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Destination resorts have been a controversial topic for decades in Central Oregon, and now that Bend has officially topped 100,000 residents, a land-use watchdog group is proposing a new step that could challenge, perhaps thwart future plans for new resorts in a broad area around the city.
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A Maine man charged with attacking police officers with a machete near New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault charges in a new state indictment. Nineteen-year-old Trevor Bickford of Wells, Maine, entered the plea Wednesday in state court in Manhattan. Three
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The United States Treasury Department has sanctioned two members of the powerful Central American gang Mara Salvatrucha. The action Wednesday was part of an ongoing effort by the U.S. to crack down on the gang, commonly known as MS-13. The sanctions were imposed on two men in Honduras and Nicaragua. Each
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Isil Sariyuce, Zeena Saifi and Reyhan Baysan, CNN Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has admitted to his government’s “shortcomings” amid growing anger over the state’s response to the massive earthquake earlier this week, which is now known to have killed more than 21,000 people. Days after the quake hit Turkey’s Gaziantep province
Continue ReadingCNN By Raja Razek, Rhea Mogul, Teele Rebane and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Survivors of Monday’s earthquake in Turkey and Syria could face “a secondary disaster” as cold and snow lead to “worsening and horrific conditions,” the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Thursday. Speaking at a press conference in Geneva, WHO incident response manager Robert Holden
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN One of President Joe Biden’s top cybersecurity advisers will retire next week as the Biden administration continues to face a myriad of foreign hacking threats and US officials urge — and sometimes compel — US companies to tighten their defenses. The departure of Chris Inglis, who has over four decades of
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein and Arlette Saenz, CNN President Joe Biden brought his State of the Union populist economic messaging to Wisconsin on Wednesday, firing back at Republicans and highlighting US manufacturing in a preview of an expected 2024 argument in the battleground state. Biden made clear that he was willing to continue the fight as
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Many Central Oregon farmers and rangers are still feeling the impacts of the ongoing drought, despite a fair amount of winter snow and rain on the High Desert.
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT Associated Press NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — A former “Dances With Wolves” actor accused of sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls for decades was charged with federal crimes Wednesday, adding to the growing list of criminal cases against Nathan Chasing Horse since his arrest last week in Nevada. Chasing Horse, 46,
Continue ReadingBy CBS New York Team Click here for updates on this story MINEOLA, New York (WCBS) — Nearly two years after an acid attack on a Long Island college student, Nassau County says it’s raising the reward to $50,000 for information leading to the attacker. Nafiah Ikram and her parents joined county officials for the
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