By Lauren del Valle and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A judge is scheduled to rule September 29 on whether Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley can be sentenced to life in prison without parole, the harshest punishment available in Michigan. Crumbley, now 17, has pleaded guilty to one count of terrorism causing death, four
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — La familia de Fernando Villavicencio, el candidato a la presidencia de Ecuador asesinado el 9 de agosto, denunció al Estado por el delito de “asesinato por omisión dolosa”, informó la familia en una conferencia de prensa celebrada en Quito. La Fiscalía de Ecuador confirmó a CNN este viernes que recibieron
Continue ReadingBy ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press U.S. border authorities stopped migrants entering the country illegally more than 33% more often in July than in June, suggesting lower numbers that followed the end of pandemic-related asylum restrictions may have bottomed out. Biden administration officials insist their carrot-and-stick approach of expanding legal routes while imposing more punitive measures
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Former federal appeals court judge and New York Senator James Buckley has died at age 100. Buckley spent a single term in the 1970s in the Senate, where the conservative was one of the first Republican lawmakers to call for then-President Richard Nixon to resign during the Watergate scandal. Buckley’s death at
Continue ReadingBy Katherine Dillinger, CNN (CNN) — A case of locally acquired malaria has been confirmed in Maryland, the state Department of Health said Friday. The person was briefly hospitalized and is recovering at home. The agency declined to give more details about the person except to say they live in the Washington, D.C., area. They
Continue ReadingTRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A federal appellate court has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a New Jersey law that allows the state attorney general to bring “public nuisance” claims against gun manufacturers and others who market firearms. A three-judge panel with the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced its unanimous ruling Thursday. Democratic Gov. Phil
Continue ReadingBy Evan Sobol Click here for updates on this story DANBURY, Connecticut (WFSB) — A man is facing charges after he allegedly trespassed on a Danbury school’s property with a machete. Police said it happened Thursday at Ellsworth Avenue School. A witness saw a man and a woman in the school’s alleyway. They were trying
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines is trying to crack down on a travel hack. This week, American sued a website that sells tickets that let people save money by exploiting a quirk in airline pricing. Consumers book a flight with at least one stop, then get off the plane
Continue ReadingBy Brendan Kirby Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — A federal judge on Friday cut a break to a Daphne man who admitted to using a dead woman’s debit card to rack up tens of thousands of dollars in purchases. Kenneth Ingram Tatum pleaded guilty in April to theft of
Continue ReadingBy WDJT Staff Click here for updates on this story WAUKESHA, Wisconsin (WDJT) — A monument stone now sits in Waukesha, in honor of 8-year-old Jackson Sparks — the youngest of six people killed in the attack on the 2021 Waukesha Christmas Parade. According to Jackson’s dad, Aaron Sparks, the stone was installed this week
Continue ReadingBy WDJT Staff Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — A 16-year-old Milwaukee boy has been charged in connection with a crash that killed a 17-year-old boy and injured nine others. According to investigators, the accused has never been issued a driver’s license. The crash happened on Aug. 13. Police say around
Continue ReadingBy Isabelle Chapman and Curt Devine, CNN (CNN) — A state agency delayed a water management company’s request to make more water available to fight the devastating wildfires on Maui earlier this month, according to letters obtained by CNN. Glenn Tremble of the West Maui Land Company, which manages water supply companies, complained in a
Continue ReadingBy Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — Famed Iranian director Saeed Roustaee has been sentenced to six months in prison, according to local reports, after presenting his most-recent film at the Cannes International Film Festival last year. Roustaee screened the film “Leila’s Brothers,” a movie about a family in Tehran trying to make ends meet, in
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi grand jury has issued a report sharply criticizing a police department whose errors prompted a mistrial in the case of two white men charged in an attack on a Black FedEx driver. A Lincoln County grand jury wrote that officers
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL POLITI and GISELA SALOMON Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s right-wing populist presidential candidate Javier Milei has met with International Monetary Fund officials to explain his economic proposals for the country, days after he became the surprise front-runner for the October election. Milei is an anti-establishment conservative who wants to get
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Percy Jackson is getting a jolt of new energy. The popular franchise “Percy Jackson & the Olympians,” following the half-man, half-god son of Poseidon and based on a fantasy YA series of books by Rick Riordan, is about to receive lavish new treatment in a Disney+ series that was
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Después de una última discusión que tomó casi tres meses en el plenario legislativo, el Congreso de Costa Rica aprobó en primer debate el proyecto de ley 21.182 de reforma del Código del Trabajo, que plantea modificar el horario de trabajo del sector privado. La iniciativa, que ha sufrido varias
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — El expresidente de EE.UU. Donald Trump planea saltarse el primer debate presidencial republicano el miércoles y, en cambio, se espera que asista a una entrevista con el expresentador de Fox News, Tucker Carlson, según le dijeron a CNN varias fuentes familiarizadas con sus planes. Durante las últimas 24 horas,
Continue ReadingBy TRISHA AHMED Associated Press The energy company responsible for leaking radioactive material from its nuclear plant in Monticello, Minnesota, in recent months has announced that it will build an underground metal barrier to keep affected groundwater away from the nearby Mississippi River. Xcel Energy said construction will last several weeks and should begin between
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.N. human rights officials are denouncing what they called the “extreme brutality” of gangs in Haiti as thousands flee several neighborhoods in the country’s capital this week amid a surge in violence. The killings have intensified in recent weeks as Kenyan media reported that
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