By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is poised to become the latest state to enact laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community. The Republican-controlled Legislature on Tuesday sent a package to the Democratic governor that includes a ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The Legislature also overwhelming passed Louisiana’s version of a
Continue ReadingBy MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — As shelling from Russia’s war on Ukraine echoed overhead, dozens of evacuees on an island in the Dnieper River scurried onto the tops of military trucks or into rafts to flee rising floodwaters caused by a dam breach upstream. The unnerving bark of dogs left behind
Continue ReadingHONOLULU (AP) — U.S. authorities are offering a $5,000 reward for information on who killed a Hawaiian monk seal after one of the critically endangered animals was found dead on Oahu this year. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the female seal known as Malama was found on March 12 at Ohikilolo. That’s between
Continue ReadingBy SARAH RANKIN and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Seven people were shot, two fatally, when gunfire rang out Tuesday outside a downtown theater in Richmond, Virginia, where a high school graduation ceremony had just ended, causing hundreds of attendees to flee in panic, weep and clutch their children, authorities and witnesses
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press Intense smoke blanketed the northeastern United States for a second day Wednesday, turning the air a yellowish gray and prompting warnings for people to stay inside and keep windows closed. The smoke was flowing from dozens of wildfires in several Canadian provinces. Much of the air was
Continue ReadingBy MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia says nonviolent offenders should not be subject to lifetime gun bans. Tuesday’s decision follows a far-reaching Supreme Court ruling last year that instructs judges to look to history and tradition to weigh the constitutionality of gun control laws. The 3rd U.S.
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart and Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — A gunman opened fire as hundreds of people stood outside after a high school graduation ceremony Tuesday evening in Richmond, Virginia, killing two people and wounding five others, the city’s interim police chief said. As merriment turned to terror around Richmond’s Monroe Park, other people were
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With nearly two-dozen wildfires tackled already this year — about half of them escaped debris burns — fire season on all lands protected by the Oregon Department of Forestry’s Central Oregon District will begin Friday at at 12:01 a.m., the agency announced Tuesday.
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — El expresidente de Perú, Alejandro Toledo, sufrió una crisis hipertensiva mientras cumplía con una cita médica programada en un hospital público de Lima, informó el Instituto de Seguridad Social de Perú. “Toledo fue dado de alta luego de recibir atención de emergencia en el Hospital II de Vitarte”, señaló el
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Washington state is set to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit over alleged severe neglect at an adult family home — in addition to more than $300,000 in penalties levied by a judge for wrongful withholding of evidence, officials said. The settlement announced by Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s office Monday will
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Washington state is set to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit over alleged severe neglect at an adult family home — in addition to more than $300,000 in penalties levied by a judge for wrongful withholding of evidence, officials said. The settlement announced by Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s office Monday will
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– Al menos dos personas murieron tras recibir disparos en un tiroteo afuera del Teatro Altria en Richmond, Virginia, luego de la ceremonia de graduación de una escuela secundaria este martes, informaron las autoridades. Hay por lo menos otras cinco personas heridas. Las dos víctimas mortales son hombres: un estudiante de 18 años y
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — During a closed-door lunch on Tuesday, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told moderate House Democrats that Congress should abolish the debt ceiling, a person familiar with the matter tells CNN. “Get rid of it,” Dimon told lawmakers of the debt ceiling, according to the source. The meeting with the
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — It has been 25 years since “Sex and the City” first premiered and the impact of the titillating series still thrives today. Based on Candace Bushnell’s newspaper column of the same name, the series sashayed onto television screens in June of 1998 clad in, of course, a chic pair
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The gun violence epidemic in the United States was deadlier than ever in 2021, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions. Both gun-related homicides and suicides reached record levels in 2021, leading to nearly 49,000 total firearm deaths. Firearm-related deaths soared during
Continue ReadingCNN, WRGB, WKMG, WFTV, GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE, BEN CRUMP LAW, @SAMSCHWARTZ03, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The gun violence epidemic in the United States was deadlier than ever in 2021, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions. Both gun-related homicides and suicides reached record
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Holmes, Katelyn Polantz and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, has testified to a federal grand jury as part of special counsel Jack Smith’s ongoing investigation into the former president, according to one source familiar with the matter. Meadows was asked about the former president’s handling
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Democratic lawmakers stood on the steps of the state Capitol Tuesday and implored Republicans, who have been boycotting the Senate, to return and vote on a number of bipartisan bills that are at risk of dying because of a political standoff that has now lasted
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By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Democratic lawmakers stood on the steps of the state Capitol Tuesday and implored Republicans, who have been boycotting the Senate, to return and vote on a number of bipartisan bills that are at risk of dying because of a political standoff that has now lasted
Continue ReadingBy Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, William Bonnett and Daria Markina Tarasova, CNN Kherson, Ukraine (CNN) — Nadejda Chernishova breathes a sigh of relief as she steps off a rubber dinghy, moments after being rescued from her flooded home in Kherson. “I’m not afraid now, but it was scary in my home,” the 65-year-old retiree said.
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