CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at LGBTQ milestones in the United States. LGBTQ is an acronym meaning lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning. The term sometimes is extended to LGBTQIA, to include intersex and asexual groups. Queer is an umbrella term for non-straight people; intersex refers to those whose
Continue ReadingBy EMMA BURROWS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Posts on Russian social media channels indicate that Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has published his first recruitment video for the Wagner Group since organizing a short-lived mutiny against defense officials in Russia. A video posted Monday on Telegram messaging app channels which are believed to be
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — House Republicans issued four subpoenas to Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service personnel involved in the ongoing criminal investigation into Hunter Biden on Monday, as they continue to probe alleged mishandling and political interference of the case into President Joe Biden’s son. The subpoenas from House Judiciary Chair
Continue ReadingBy RUSS BYNUM Associated Press A Georgia sheriff pleaded guilty Monday to groping TV Judge Glenda Hatchett, who recalled being so stunned that she froze when the lawman grabbed and squeezed her breast at a hotel bar last year during a law enforcement conference. Bleckley County Sheriff Kristopher Coody pleaded guilty in Cobb County State
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Transportation is proposing new rules designed to encourage seat belt usage by car and truck passengers, including those sitting in the back seats. The new rules proposed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration would require manufacturers to equip vehicles with additional seat belt warning systems for the right
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Meredith Click here for updates on this story ORLANDO (WESH) — By all accounts, it’s a miracle an Orlando woman is still alive. This past Tuesday, while out with her dog, 28-year-old Rebecca Soto got hit by lightning. Lauro and Rebecca Soto, along with their trusty companion, Drake, live a sweet life in
Continue ReadingBy Wayne Sterling, CNN (CNN) — US sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson won a scintillating women’s 100 meters in a championship record 10.65 seconds at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, on Monday. Jamaican sprinters finished second and third as Richardson, in the less-than-desirable lane 9, made up a deficit to edge ahead in the
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — California authorities have asked General Motors to “immediately” take some of its Cruse robotaxis off the road after autonomous vehicles were involved in two collisions – including one with an active fire truck – last week in San Francisco. California’s Department of Motor Vehicles confirmed to CNN that it
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — When employers deliver a job offer, it had better come with some teeth: Americans’ wage expectations have hit record highs, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey released Monday. Job seekers’ average reservation wage — the lowest pay they’d be willing to take for a
Continue ReadingDAMASCUS, SYRIA (AP) — Syria’s state media say Israel’s military has carried out airstrikes near the capital of Damascus. State TV and news agency have no immediate word on any casualties from the attack Monday night. Strikes conducted Aug. 7 on suburbs of Damascus reportedly killed four soldiers. Israel has vowed to stop Iranian entrenchment
Continue ReadingBy Josh Copitch Click here for updates on this story DEL MONTE FOREST, California (KSBW) — Automobile enthusiasts and collectors crowded the famed 18th fairway of Pebble Beach Golf Links on Sunday for Monterey Car Week’s premier event, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. A 1937 Mercedes Benz 540k special roadster was named best of show
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By Adam Bartow Click here for updates on this story OLD TOWN, Maine (WMTW) — Police officers face many different types of situation, some more hazardous than others. The Old Town Police Department shared body cam video this weekend of one of their officers helping a skunk in distress. The encounter happened early in the
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — While Republican Daniel Cameron has downplayed his support for charter schools and vouchers in his education plans, school choice advocates have pumped millions into ads attacking his opponent, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear. School choice remains a simmering issue in Kentucky’s legislature. Democrats say the ads by
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By Sean MacKinnon Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (KETV) — Molina Insurance through Iowa Medicaid repeatedly denies covering what doctors call a “life-saving” brain procedure for a 6-week-old baby boy. KETV investigates his mother’s weekslong fight to get him a million-dollar treatment covered before it’s too late. Iowa mother and Air
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge has set a February 2024 start date for the trial of a movie armorer in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin on the set of a Western film. The judge on Monday scheduled the trial to run from Feb. 21 through March
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Three weeks before wildfires ravaged Maui, killing more than 100 people and displacing thousands, Hawaii’s governor, Josh Green, had warned of a different emergency: an acute housing crisis. Now Maui starts down the long process of rebuilding the more than 2,000 homes and businesses lost. Much of
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Two men remain in the hospital for serious wounds suffered at a weekend bull-running event in central Mexico that officials say had about 20 people injured. The government of the central state of Tlaxcala said in a statement late Sunday that the serious injuries involved a 31-year-old being gored in the
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have subpoenaed several FBI and IRS agents involved in the federal investigation into Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. Leaders of the House Judiciary and Ways and Means committees demanded testimony Monday from four agents who worked on the yearslong case as they investigate what they
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By Arielle Mitropoulos Click here for updates on this story ALBANY, New Hampshire (WMUR) — A Massachusetts man is dead after a possible drowning in Albany, according to officials. New Hampshire State Police said a family from Massachusetts was on the Passaconaway roadside of the Swift River, east of the Albany Covered Bridge, when a
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN (CNN) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blasted Facebook for “putting corporate profits ahead of people’s safety” as the social media platform continues to block news content while wildfires rage in Canada’s Northwest Territories and British Columbia. “It is so inconceivable that a company like Facebook is choosing to put corporate
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