By IBRAHIM SAMRA Click here for updates on this story OXFORD, Michigan (WWJ) — A 12-year-old girl is being hailed as a hero after helping a flagger injured in a hit-and-run hit on Friday. Police say the incident happened just after noon on Drahner Road, west of M-24 in Oxford Township, where a flagger was
Continue ReadingBy MARLEE GINTER Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO (KOVR) — Sunsets, outdoor spaces, and emotions cut through in a very personal display in Sacramento: It’s the world seen through the eyes of Tyre Nichols. Several of his photographs are now on display for his community to take in. His older sister Keyana
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Japanese teenager Tokito Oda won the French Open wheelchair final to become the youngest man to win a Grand Slam tournament in any discipline and Diede De Groot won the women’s final for her 18th major singles title. The 17-year-old Oda was seeded second and beat top-seeded Alfie Hewett of Britain 6-1,
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — El hallazgo con vida de los cuatro niños desaparecidos en la selva colombiana durante 40 días trajo tranquilidad a sus familiares y a toda la población. Pero no todo es alegría: aún no hay novedades de Wilson, el perro que ayudó en la búsqueda de los menores. Wilson, un pastor
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — New Mexico reached a $500 million settlement agreement with Walgreens over the pharmaceutical giant’s role in the opioid epidemic, lawyers for the state said Friday. The plaintiffs argued Walgreens “dispensed millions of potentially harmful opioids into communities across New Mexico” by failing to red-flag prescriptions that weren’t
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s central bank chief has been arrested hours after he was suspended by the country’s new president. Godwin Emefiele has served as governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria for the past nine years. Nigeria’s Department of State Services said in a statement on Saturday that
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s indictment on charges of mishandling classified documents is set to play out in a federal court in Florida. But about a thousand miles away, part of Trump’s defense is well underway in a different venue — the halls of
Continue ReadingBy JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer LE MANS, France (AP) — NASCAR’s entry for the 24 Hours of Le Mans at last got racing Saturday after NBA superstar LeBron James waved the French flag to start the most iconic sports car race in the world. NASCAR has a special entry in the centenary running
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Novak Djokovic reached the French Open final after defeating Carlos Alcaraz 6-3 5-7 6-1 6-1 on Friday. The victory puts Djokovic, a two-time champion at Roland-Garros, within touching distance of winning a men’s record 23rd grand slam title. The match was evenly poised at 1-1 in the third set
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Discoveries within the Cradle of Humankind’s limestone caves in South Africa are changing the way scientists understand human evolution. The cavern system, about a half hour’s drive northwest of Johannesburg, is where the first fossils of previously unknown human relatives were uncovered. The UNESCO World Heritage Site contains many
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Spanish forward Brahim Díaz is returning to Real Madrid from AC Milan. The 23-year-old Díaz spent three seasons on loan at Milan. He helped the Italian team win a Serie A title in 2022 and reach the Champions League semifinals this season. Díaz joined Madrid from Manchester City in 2019 but barely
Continue ReadingBy HOGIR AL ABDO and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — The Kurdish-led authority in northeast Syria says hundreds of fighters with the Islamic State group held in prisons around the region will be put on trial after their home countries refused to repatriate them. Saturday’s statement from the Autonomous Administration of North
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Here are 10 players who can contend at the U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club. This will be the first time the North course at LACC hosts a major. It had a Walker Cup in 2017. Collin Morikawa and Scottie Scheffler were still amateurs
Continue ReadingBy JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer ISTANBUL (AP) — Manchester City won the Champions League title for the first time by beating Inter Milan 1-0 in Istanbul’s Ataturk Olimpiyat Stadium on Saturday. Rodri struck in the 68th minute to see the Premier League champions and FA Cup winners complete a treble of trophies this season.
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar and Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — Sorely missed blue skies are returning and cities across the northeastern US are experiencing better air quality indexes after the monstrous cloud of smoke spewed by the wildfires in Canada dissipates. Major metropolitan cities across Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut had air quality indexes
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN (CNN) — Three years after Silicon Valley companies led the charge for embracing remote work in the early days of the pandemic, the tech industry is now escalating the fight to bring employees back into the office -— and igniting tensions with staff in the process. Google, which has long been
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The toughest test in golf takes on several meanings for this U.S. Open. Tough starts with the golf course. Los Angeles Country Club should be all of that. Tough also means traffic. Imagine a U.S. Open on the edges of Beverly Hills between Sunset and
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — A looks at some of the facts and figures for the 123rd U.S. Open. It will be played at Los Angeles Country Club, a highly regarded course that has never hosted a major. It’s the first U.S. Open in Los Angeles in 75 years. And this course is right on the
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN Español) — Argentina es el cuarto país más grande de América, por detrás de Canadá, Estados Unidos y Brasil, y el segundo en tamaño de América Latina. Su capital, Buenos Aires, fue el centro del Virreinato del Río de la Plata durante la última etapa del dominio español en América, y a
Continue ReadingSol Amaya Este seguimiento terminó. Puedes ver las últimas noticias del encuentro de los niños desaparecidos en la selva de Colombia, haciendo click aquí. Uno de los cuatro niños indígenas que fueron encontrados con vida después de estar perdidos durante 40 días en la selva amazónica colombiana luego de un accidente aéreo, es trasladado en
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