By La’Nita Brooks and Hannah Mose Click here for updates on this story SAGINAW, Michigan (WNEM) — A new art program for students in Saginaw County allows them to experience art at no cost, and it is already making an impact. A quick signature and stamp are all it takes to get a museum membership
Continue ReadingCNN By Donie O’Sullivan, Marshall Cohen and Nick Valencia, CNN (CNN) — Names, photographs, social media profiles and even the home addresses purportedly belonging to members of the Fulton County grand jury that this week voted to indict former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants are circulating on social media – with experts saying that
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Hilary strengthened into a major storm Thursday evening off Mexico’s Pacific coast, and it could bring heavy rain to the southwestern U.S. by the weekend. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Hilary’s maximum sustained winds had risen to 120 mph (195 kph), making it a Category 3 hurricane. The storm
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top White House lawyer will leave next month after a nearly three-year run helping President Joe Biden weigh legal considerations as he implemented his pandemic response, battled Republican investigations and crafted major legislation. Stuart Delery joined Biden’s transition legal team after the Democrat defeated then-President Donald
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — The city where Anne Frank wrote her World War II diary while hiding with her family from the brutal Nazi occupation is hosting an exhibition about the Ukraine war with grim echoes of her plight more than three quarters of a century later. An exhibition opened at
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — For hundreds of thousands of final-year high school students in England, Thursday was a day of high emotion as they learned how they did in exams that will largely determine what they will be doing over the coming years. Early morning nerves were followed by either joy
Continue ReadingBy Yuras Karmanau TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu on Thursday visited Belarus and said his country would increase military cooperation with Russia’s neighbor, where Moscow is deploying tactical nuclear weapons. Li met with strongman President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk and said “the purpose of my visit to Belarus is precisely the
Continue ReadingTRENTON, N.J. (AP) — State labor officials have temporarily shut down more than two dozen Boston Market restaurants in New Jersey after finding multiple violations of workers’ rights, including more than $600,000 in back wages owed to 314 employees. A stop-work order was issued Tuesday by the Department of Labor against 27 restaurants across New
Continue ReadingBy RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public, and that the only way to wear the hijab, or the Islamic headscarf, is if the face is hidden. Afghanistan’s Taliban government that took over the country in 2021 has
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN (CNN) — The threat of predatory outsiders swooping in to buy up property under the ashes of Maui is sparking outrage and opening old wounds for locals. “Fear of predatory land grabbers coming in is legitimate because it’s already happening, it’s been happening for generations now,” said Kaniela Ing, a Native
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Universal’s “Strays” is basically the exact opposite of the studio’s big summer hit “Oppenheimer” – namely, short, stupid and (fitfully) kind of fun. Seeking to bring some much-needed laughs to the dog days of summer, it’s a very raunchy riff on what’s amusing about our canine pals, and
Continue ReadingBy Tony Garcia Click here for updates on this story FAIRBANKS, Alaska (WSMV) — Law enforcement and search and rescue teams are canvasing Alaska’s Interior for two missing people from the Nashville area. According to the Fairbanks Police Department, 50-year-old Jonas Bare and 37-year-old Cynthia Hovsepian did not make their return flight home and have
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Si necesitas relajarte, Ashton Kutcher y Mila Kunis tienen la solución. La pareja de famosos ofrece su casa de playa del condado de Santa Bárbara (California), con vistas al océano y a las montañas de Santa Ynez, en Airbnb solo por una noche, para que hasta cuatro huéspedes disfruten gratis de una
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Spreading its wings two months after “The Flash” ran into a brick wall at the box office, “Blue Beetle” is the latest movie to test the theory that life’s tough for DC heroes not named Superman, Batman or Wonder Woman. The main challenge facing this young Latinx superhero
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — More than 1.5 million dehumidifiers are under recall following reports of nearly two dozen fires, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The recall impacts 42 models of dehumidifiers sold under five brand names: Kenmore, GE, SoleusAir, Norpole and Seabreeze. These products, all manufactured by the Zhuhai, China-based Gree Electric
Continue ReadingBy Sophia Saifi and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Authorities in Pakistan’s Punjab province have arrested more than 100 people after crowds descended on churches and set them on fire on Wednesday, raising concerns over the discrimination faced by religious minorities in the country. At least 17 churches have been vandalized since Wednesday, according
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s lawmakers on Thursday approved a government plan to hold a controversial referendum on migration alongside key parliamentary elections in October. One of the questions on the referendum paper will ask voters whether they “support the admission of thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa under the forced
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By Courtney Allen Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — People already struggling to make ends meet are being hit with a double whammy: Their former apartment manager is accused of stealing their rent payments. Now, their former property manager, Casey Oiler, is under investigation. Oiler is accused of taking those
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have charged one of the leaders of a prominent independent election monitoring group with being involved with an “undesirable” organization, his lawyer says. The case against Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of Russia’s leading election watchdog Golos, is the latest in the monthslong crackdown on Kremlin critics and rights activists that the
Continue ReadingBy ABBY SEWELL BEIRUT (AP) — Two weeks after clashes between armed factions in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp ended, militants are still occupying a United Nations-run school complex, U.N. officials have said. Dorothee Klaus, Director of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, or UNRWA, in Lebanon, said in a statement that the agency has
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