By Thomas Lake, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — Three years ago at the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office, a prosecutor stood over a table, cataloguing items in evidence bags. “This right here is the shoe,” Assistant District Attorney Michael Sprinkel said in an internal video of the inventory session obtained by CNN through an open-records request.
Continue ReadingBy GARY B. GRAVES AP Sports Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Frank Sumpter has spent the past few weeks reflecting on Wild On Ice’s remarkable journey to somehow work through his grief over the horse’s catastrophic injury just nine days before he was supposed to race in the Kentucky Derby. Coming so close has provided
Continue ReadingBy Kimberly King Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Local mother Teresa Mosely, 56, feels the sting of loss this Memorial Day and every Memorial Day going forward. “My son was sitting in his car,” said Mosely on Monday, as she began to hang balloons at the Malvern Hills
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China is calling on protesters to turn themselves in after a crowd clashed with police over plans to demolish a mosque in the country’s southwest as President Xi Jinping’s government tightens control over religion and society. Videos on social media showed protesters throwing water bottles at officers with helmets and shields outside
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli army says Palestinian gunmen shot and killed an Israeli civilian Tuesday near the entrance to a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank. Tuesday’s incident was the latest in more than a year-long surge of violence in the West Bank. During that time, Israel has expanded near-nightly military raids throughout
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — U.S. highway safety regulators have closed an investigation into Tesla allowing video games to be played on center touch screens while vehicles are moving. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents posted Tuesday that Tesla disabled the feature called “passenger play” with an online software update in December of 2021,
Continue ReadingHAMBURG, Germany (AP) — A lower-level German soccer team called its punishment for stopping a game in protest after racist abuse was apparently directed at team captain Marcus Coffie “a slap in the face.” Hamburg-based Teutonia Ottensen was leading 2-1 at Bremer SV in the fourth-division game on Saturday when Coffie said he was racially
Continue ReadingHAMBURG, Germany (AP) — A lower-level German soccer team called its punishment for stopping a game in protest after racist abuse was apparently directed at team captain Marcus Coffie “a slap in the face.” Hamburg-based Teutonia Ottensen was leading 2-1 at Bremer SV in the fourth-division game on Saturday when Coffie said he was racially
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Prospects for a renewed military dialogue between China and the U.S. remain dim, with Beijing saying their defense chiefs will not hold a bilateral meeting while both are attending a weekend security conference in Singapore. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning on Tuesday blamed the U.S., saying Washington should respect China’s sovereignty and
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Congress has passed the debt ceiling package, just days before the Treasury Department would have run out of sufficient funds to pay all of the nation’s obligations on time and in full. After months of stalemate and weeks of tense negotiations, the deal came together over the Memorial Day
Continue ReadingLAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The doping case of CSKA Sofia winger Georgi Yomov will be heard at the Court of Arbitration for Sport next month. CAS says it set June 28 to hear the Bulgarian’s appeal against UEFA. The 25-year-old player is challenging a four-year ban for a positive doping test during the Europa Conference
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign minister has met Tesla CEO Elon Musk and said U.S.-Chinese relations require “mutual respect” while touting the promise of the country’s electric vehicle industry. U.S.-Chinese relations are especially tense after Washington shot down a Chinese balloon that was believed to be gathering intelligence and
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Las autoridades de Malasia detuvieron un carguero de bandera china en medio de informaciones sobre el salvamento de restos de naufragios de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en la zona económica exclusiva de Malasia, según un informe de la agencia estatal de noticias Bernama. El barco fue detenido y abordado después
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Miles de musulmanes de minorías étnicas rodearon una mezquita en el suroeste de China durante el fin de semana en un último esfuerzo por impedir lo que consideraban un intento de las autoridades de retirar su cúpula y minaretes, en un momento en que se amplía la represión de la
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau and Caolán Magee, CNN (CNN) — A mysterious patch of fluorescent green water that appeared in Venice’s famed Grand Canal Sunday was caused by a chemical commonly used in underwater construction to help identify leaks, environmental authorities say. The chemical – fluorescein – is non-toxic. It remains unclear how the substance
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN (CNN) — Elizabeth Holmes reported to prison on Tuesday, capping off a stunning downfall for the disgraced founder of failed blood testing startup Theranos. Holmes was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison last November, after she was convicted months earlier on multiple charges of defrauding investors while running the now-defunct startup.
Continue ReadingBy JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Local authorities say at least 17 people have been killed by extremist rebels in eastern Congo’s North Kivu province. The civilians were killed by fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces — believed to be linked to the Islamic State group — in the Bambuba-kisiki area in
Continue ReadingBy Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — Nick Nurse, who as head coach led the Toronto Raptors to their lone NBA title in 2019, has been appointed the new head coach of the Philadelphia 76ers, a league source has told CNN Sport. Head coach of the Raptors from 2018 to 2023, the 55-year-old Nurse is regarded
Continue ReadingCNN, WFOR, WPLG By Nouran Salahieh, Amy Simonson and Denise Royal, CNN (CNN) — Audio of 911 calls detail panic that unfolded during a Memorial Day shooting that injured nine people near South Florida’s bustling Hollywood Beach Broadwalk – an incident in which six of the gunshot victims still were hospitalized Tuesday. Monday evening’s shooting,
Continue ReadingNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A humanitarian charity says that hundreds of refugees in Kenya’s Dadaab camps have been affected by a cholera outbreak as the population in the facilities grows rapidly. Doctors Without Borders or MSF said Tuesday that 2,786 refugees have been affected so far “and there is an imminent risk of outbreaks of
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