CNN By Nouran Salahieh and Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Tropical Storm Harold made landfall on the South Texas coast late Tuesday morning, becoming the first storm in the US to do so in the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season. Harold came ashore just before 10 a.m. CT (11 a.m. ET) on Padre Island, Texas, with
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA and JIM SALTER Associated Press MARION, Kan. (AP) — Newly released video shows the 98-year-old mother of a Kansas newspaper publisher confronting police officers as they searched her home in a raid that has drawn national scrutiny, at one point demanding: “Get out of my house!” Video released by the newspaper Monday
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK. (AP) — Wander Franco has been placed on administrative leave indefinitely by Major League Baseball while authorities in the Dominican Republic investigate the Tampa Bay Rays’ All-Star shortstop for an alleged relationship with a minor. The 22-year-old will be paid and receive service time while on administrative
Continue ReadingBy TORI APODACA Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO (KOVR) — Multiple food truck owners across the Greater Sacramento area are now fearing for their own safety after being victims of robberies just this past week. Claudia Ruiz, the owner of the taco truck La Baja Birrieria Tijuana on Hammer Lane in Stockton,
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Las ocho personas ––seis niños y dos adultos–– que quedaron atrapadas en un teleférico a cientos de metros sobre un valle en el noroeste de Pakistán fueron rescatadas, dijo en un comunicado el primer ministro interino del país, Anwar Kakar. “Es un alivio saber que todos los niños han sido rescatados
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, Josh Campbell and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — The man accused of fatally shooting a Southern California clothing store owner after an argument about a rainbow Pride flag hanging outside her business, had social media accounts containing anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-law-enforcement material, sheriff’s office officials said in a Monday news conference. Laura Ann
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says it rescued a 64-year-old man whose sailboat became disabled and who spent three days stranded on an island in the Bahamas. The Coast Guard says crew members from an Air Station Miami aircraft dropped food, water and a radio to communicate with the man, whom the agency
Continue ReadingBy Niamh Kennedy and Pierre Bairin, CNN (CNN) — The African Union has suspended Niger following the takeover of the West African country by a military junta on July 26. In a much-anticipated statement, the African Union (AU) – a union of 55 member states – announced its decision to “immediately suspend the participation of
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — El cantautor español Miguel Bosé dijo en su cuenta de Instagram que un comando armado lo asaltó junto a su familia dentro de su casa en la Ciudad de México el pasado viernes. Agregó que el grupo estaba compuesto por 10 personas y que estas los ataron a él, a
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have been puzzling over a mystery on Neptune, and now they think they have unlocked its secret. The ice giant’s ghostly, cirrus-like clouds largely disappeared four years ago. Today, just a patch hovers over the planet’s south pole. Thanks to an analysis of nearly three decades’ worth of
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says former Obama administration attorney Ed Siskel is the new White House counsel. Siskel helped craft the Obama administration’s response to the congressional investigations into the 2012 Benghazi attack that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador. Siskel takes over in September during a
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — While sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell again last month, the national median home sales price rose to $406,700, marking its first annual increase since January, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday. Elevated mortgage rates and a stubbornly low home inventory have been
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — Bernardo Arévalo ganó la segunda vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales de Guatemala con una bandera central de lucha contra la corrupción. Durante su primera entrevista uno a uno con un medio internacional, Arévalo le dijo a Fernando del Rincón en CNN en Español que “el pueblo de Guatemala ha hablado muy
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN Lahaina, Hawaii (CNN) — Gliding over the ashen remains of Lahaina in Marine One on Monday, President Joe Biden had a question for the lawmakers who’d joined him aboard. “What’s the average age of the homes?” he asked, peering out the right side windows at the charred remains of the community
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The next book from “Fire and Fury” author Michael Wolff is both a recounting of the recent past and a prediction for the near future. Wolff’s “The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty” will come out Sept. 26, publisher Henry Holt announced Tuesday. A spokesperson told The
Continue ReadingBy BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell will seek the nomination to challenge Republican Sen. Rick Scott in 2024. Mucarsel-Powell announced her candidacy Tuesday in what will be a test to see if Florida Democrats can fare better during a presidential election in a state that has
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A conservative attorney who pushed a plan to keep Donald Trump in power has turned himself in to authorities on charges in the Georgia case alleging an illegal plot to overturn the then-president’s 2020 election loss. John Eastman was booked at the Fulton County jail Tuesday. Eastman
Continue ReadingBy Nina Milhaud, CNN (CNN) — Since the birth of modernism more than a century ago, the ethos of “less is more” — a motto famously adopted by German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe — has become synonymous with sophistication. And nowhere was this more evident than in our homes, where the popularity of
Continue ReadingBy LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s prime minister has responded to not being invited by Greece to a dinner for top officials from nine Balkan nations and the European Union by saying that in “such turbulent times” Europe’s unity is “larger than what divides us.” A day earlier, Greece’s prime minister
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney Washington, DC (CNN) — US home buyers have a new challenge in addition to mortgage rates above 7%: Prices are rising again, reversing five months of year-over-year declines, according to a National Association of Realtors report released Tuesday. The median existing home price was $406,700 last month, up 1.9% from a year
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