By Jeanna Trotman Click here for updates on this story DETROIT (WXYZ) — Due to budget issues, tennis has been removed as a sport in many schools in Detroit. There is only one single indoor tennis facility in the entire city. The disconnect between the sport and Detroit’s kids is only growing and becoming more
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer and Melanie Zanona, CNN After House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced his Democratic appointments to a select committee on the threat posed by China, the top Republican chairing the panel, GOP Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, gave Jeffries some surprising feedback: his stamp of approval. Gallagher felt like the roster was made
Continue ReadingBy WXYZ Staff Click here for updates on this story DETROIT (WXYZ) — A Detroit high school student who was fighting for his life after collapsing during a basketball game last week has died, family told 7 Action News Monday night. Cartier Woods, 18, went into cardiac arrest during a basketball game on Jan. 31.
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Twitter temporarily suspended Montana Republican Sen. Steve Daines’s account for violations of the company’s sensitive media policy. For several hours on Tuesday, Daines’ Twitter profile displayed messages indicating the account was “temporarily unavailable because it violates the Twitter Media Policy.” According to an aide to the senator, Daines’ account was suspended
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju, Chief Congressional Correspondent New York Republican Rep. George Santos is expected to face an investigation from the House Ethics Committee, a probe that could derail his already imperiled political career depending on the secretive panel’s findings. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy initially told CNN “yes” on Tuesday when asked if the embattled freshman
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France and Dan Heching, CNN Speculation that Kevin Costner may be leaving the hit drama “Yellowstone” has reached such a fevered pitch that Paramount has responded. “We have no news to report,” a spokesperson for Paramount said in a statement to CNN. “Kevin Costner is a big part of Yellowstone and we
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A jury has sat solemnly in a gilded hall in central London, presided over by a bewigged representative of the crown in flowing black robes, but there were no criminals in the dock. Britain’s coinage was on trial. In a ceremony that dates back to the 12th
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez and Matt Stiles, CNN Labor Secretary Marty Walsh is the “designated survivor” during President Joe Biden’s second State of the Union address on Tuesday night. The selection comes the same day CNN reported that Walsh is expected to depart the Biden administration soon — marking the first Cabinet secretary departure of Biden’s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Extremist rebels in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province have killed a worker for the international charity Doctors Without Borders, shortly after a former vice president of the organization was asked to produce a report into the humanitarian situation in the conflict-hit region. Mozambique’s Islamic extremist insurgency, which started in
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter and Mia Alberti, CNN The devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria on Monday have damaged important historic sites, including the ancient city of Aleppo in northwest Syria which was already “in danger” from civil war. The city, which was added to the the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN Chris Harrison and Kaitlyn Bristowe are taking “Bachelor” fans through their own friendship drama. The Season 11 “Bachelorette” turned co-host had appeared on the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast to speak about the two falling out following Bristowe’s hosting gig. Bristowe got the job after Harrison was let go for
Continue ReadingSTOCKHOLM (AP) — Tickets for the first concert of Beyoncé’s upcoming “Renaissance” world tour sold out Tuesday, and concert management group Live Nation said a second concert in Stockholm was added because of the high demand. The tour starts in Sweden in May and is scheduled to include stops in London, Paris, Barcelona, Toronto and
Continue ReadingBy NOEL SICHALWE Associated Press LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Zambian authorities confirm that officials have rearrested eight Croatians, preventing them from leaving the southern African country after a court dropped child trafficking charges against them a day earlier. Immigration spokesman Namati Nshinka told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the eight have been rearrested on
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The man who entered an Omaha Target with an AR-15-style rifle and began firing before he was killed by police had been repeatedly sent to psychiatric hospitals because of his schizophrenia. And Joseph Jones’ family had tried to take guns away from him
Continue ReadingBy RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s highest court has upheld an election in which residents of a coastal community voted to block their county government from building a launchpad for blasting commercial rockets into space. The Georgia Supreme Court’s ruling Tuesday unanimously rejected arguments by Camden County commissioners that the referendum
Continue ReadingLA VERGNE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee police chief has been fired following an investigation into a sex scandal that also led to five officers being terminated. News outlets cite a statement from the city of La Vergne in reporting that Chief Burrel “Chip” Davis was fired Monday. The statement says an investigation concluded that
Continue ReadingBy GHAITH ALSAYED and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press JINDERIS, Syria (AP) — Residents digging through a collapsed building in a northwest Syrian town discovered a crying infant whose mother appears to have given birth to her while buried underneath the rubble from this week’s devastating earthquake, relatives and a doctor said Tuesday. The newborn girl’s
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN US tennis star Jessica Pegula says her sister, Kelly, saved their mom’s life after she went into cardiac arrest at her home last year. In an article published in The Players’ Tribune on Tuesday, Pegula opened up about her family’s “tough” year which culminated in “some bizarre, messed-up, full circle moment”
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN Chris Brown is apologizing for an online outburst after he lost the Grammy for best R&B album to pianist Robert Glasper. The singer direct messaged Glasper then posted it to Instagram, writing, “Congratulations my brother… I would like to apologize if you took offense to my reaction at the Grammys. You
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Top US lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee want answers from Meta on a newly disclosed internal investigation it conducted in 2018 that found tens of thousands of software developers in China, Russia and other “high-risk” countries may have had access to detailed Facebook user data before the company clamped down
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