By BEN FINLEY Associated Press One of the mothers who successfully sued a North Carolina charter school over its requirement that girls wear skirts says she always knew she’d prevail. Bonnie Peltier told The Associated Press the skirts requirement was obviously “a ridiculous thing to ask a girl to do.” On Monday, the U.S. Supreme
Continue ReadingTIFFIN, Ohio (AP) — Authorities in Ohio say a man abducted a 7-month-old child and crashed his car into a house while fleeing from police, killing the infant and critically injuring himself. The crash happened Tuesday in the Tiffin. The man’s name was not released. Authorities say the man took the child while armed with
Continue ReadingBy ERIK VERDUZCO and REBECCA REYNOLDS Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Passengers aboard a Delta flight disembarked using the jet slide Wednesday after the plane’s front landing gear failed to deploy as it landed at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. The flight landed safely and no injuries were reported, according to officials. Photos from the
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL and KEN MILLER Associated Press Scorching heat blamed for at least 13 deaths in Texas and another in Louisiana blanketed more of the Southeast on Wednesday, stretching government warnings of dangerous, triple-digit temperatures eastward into Mississippi and Tennessee. California, meanwhile, was facing its first major heat wave of the year. The National
Continue ReadingBy JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan is set to ban so-called conversion therapy for minors after the state Senate sent the legislation to Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer late Tuesday. The bills would prohibit mental health professionals from engaging youths in the scientifically discredited practice of trying to “convert” people who are
Continue ReadingCNN, CNNI By Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — Tom Cruise – he’s just like us. Speaking in London ahead of the release of “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One,” Cruise shared that, yes, he feels fear. “It’s not that I don’t get scared,” the actor said. “It’s that I don’t mind being scared.” And there
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK, EMILY SWANSON and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — President Joe Biden made his pitch Wednesday to a skeptical public that the U.S. economy is thriving under what he now touts as “Bidenomics” — even as a new poll showed that could be a hard sell as the foundation for his
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Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Idris Elba says he felt “super complimented for a long time” when it came to suggestions he should play James Bond. Until things took a turn. During a recently released conversation on Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett’s podcast “Smartless,” Elba addressed the many times he’s been
Continue ReadingBy TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee State announced it will become the first historically Black college and university to introduce ice hockey. The school plans to have a men’s team playing at the club level in 2024, with a goal of having Division I men’s and women’s teams eventually.
Continue ReadingBy WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer Simone Biles is back. The gymnastics superstar plans to return to competition at the U.S. Classic outside Chicago in early August. The meet will be Biles’ first since the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Biles made headlines at the 2020 Games when she removed herself from several events to focus on
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN and TERRY CHEA Associated Press Writers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — On a recent afternoon in San Francisco, a DoorDash driver was circling the neighborhood — first in his car, then on foot — trying to find the restaurant where he needed to pick up two orders. Finally, he Googled the location and
Continue ReadingCNN By Jessica Xing, CNN (CNN) — A university janitor who turned off a freezer after hearing multiple “annoying alarms,” ruined more than 20 years of research, according to a lawsuit filed against his employer by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York. The janitor, who is not being sued in the lawsuit, was a
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A Delta Air Lines flight landed with its “nose landing gear up” at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina on Wednesday morning, the Federal Aviation Administration says. No injuries were reported from the incident, but the runway was closed while crews with the airport worked on removing the
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Tres colombianos resultaron heridos en medio de un ataque de un misil en la ciudad de Kramatorsk, Ucrania, por lo que el Gobierno de Colombia expresó su “más enérgica” condena. Se trata de el ex alto comisionado para la Paz Sergio Jaramillo Caro, el escritor antioqueño Héctor Abad Faciolince
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A Jupiter-like planet located 520 light-years from Earth may be an unlikely survivor after its host star had a temper tantrum. The gas planet is known as 8 UMi b and was named Halla after its initial discovery by Korean astronomers in 2015. Halla, regarded as a sacred place,
Continue ReadingBy JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Lionel Messi and Karim Benzema kicked off the transfer window in spectacular fashion and more of soccer’s biggest stars could also be on the mover. Kylian Mbappe has told Paris Saint-Germain he will not sign a 12-month extension on his current contract. That is expected
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — An official investigation has been launched by US Central Command into the May 3 drone strike in Syria that reportedly killed a civilian instead of the intended senior al-Qaeda target. A statement from CENTCOM on Wednesday said that the civilian casualty credibility assessment recently completed has become an official
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The 2024 Major League Soccer All-Star Game will be played at the Columbus Crew’s Lower.com Field on July 17. Columbus hosted the game in 2000 and 2005 at its previous stadium. This year’s All-Star Game, in which MLS All-Stars play Arsenal, is at Audi Feld in Washington, D.C., on July 19.
Continue ReadingBy Shawn Nottingham and Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — The Rankin County Sheriff’s Office in Mississippi has fired multiple deputies after two Black men filed a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging six White deputies entered their private residence illegally and tortured them for nearly two hours. “Due to recent developments, including findings during our internal
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