By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona and Utah will keep iconic national parks in those states open if a shutdown of the federal government threatens access to Arizona’s orange-striped Grand Canyon and the sheer red cliffs of Utah’s Zion Valley. Most importantly for state budgets, visitors can keep spending their money near
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Republican Senate Caucus is suspending a GOP state senator after an uproar over his plan to impeach Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for indicting former President Donald Trump. The caucus announced Thursday that it was indefinitely suspending state Sen. Colton Moore of Trenton, who represents
Continue ReadingBy Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Education on Thursday released a new report, recommending that colleges and universities adopt several strategies to increase diversity on campuses in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that gutted affirmative action. “A college degree remains one of America’s surest pathways to a rewarding career, upward
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — While working in the West Wing under President George W.Bush, then-US Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona got a terrible telephone call from his daughter. After he had been missing, she found Carmona’s adult son in a catatonic state. He sat in the corner of his father’s home for two days
Continue ReadingCNN By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — While working in the West Wing under President George W.Bush, then-US Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona got a terrible telephone call from his daughter. After he had been missing, she found Carmona’s adult son in a catatonic state. He sat in the corner of his father’s home for two
Continue ReadingBy NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Orioles have reached a deal with the state of Maryland that keeps the team at Camden Yards for at least 30 years. That’s according to an announcement after the third inning of Thursday night’s game against Boston. A message appeared on the scoreboard telling
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A man who fled a New York City day care center where a child died earlier this month from suspected drug exposure has been taken into custody and faces federal drug charges. Authorities had been searching for Felix Herrera Garcia, 34, for almost two weeks. U.S. Attorney for the Southern District
Continue ReadingBy Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — The husband of the owner and operator of the Bronx day care where a 1-year-child died of suspected fentanyl exposure appeared in California federal court to face charges, two days after authorities captured him in Mexico, officials announced. Felix Herrera Garcia, who had been on the run since the
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s top elections official says the No Labels party can’t block candidates from using its ballot line to run for office. That could boost efforts by opponents to force the movement for a third-party presidential ticket to release more information about its anonymous donors. The determination
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez (CNN) — Los hackers chinos que vulneraron la seguridad de varias agencias del Gobierno de Estados Unidos en mayo robaron aproximadamente 60.000 correos electrónicos de altos funcionarios del Departamento de Estado, incluida información sobre itinerarios de viajes oficiales, dijo a CNN un miembro del personal del Senado. En una sesión informativa para senadores
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The second Republican presidential debate this week attracted fewer viewers than the first debate in August, with an estimated 9.5 million tuning into Wednesday night’s event. The debate was the second in a row that the front-runner, former President Donald Trump, skipped to have the spotlight follow him instead of his
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Los republicanos de la Cámara de Representantes comenzaron este jueves su primera audiencia de investigación de juicio político contra el presidente Joe Biden exponiendo las acusaciones que presentarán, aunque sus testigos expertos reconocieron que los republicanos aún no tienen pruebas para demostrar la acusación que están formulando. La audiencia de este
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, Natasha Chen and Jack Hannah, CNN New York (CNN) — California is raising the minimum wage for fast food workers, marking a hard-won victory for those workers and union organizers. Amid chants of “when we fight, we win” from fast food employees and Service Employees International Union members in Los Angeles, California,
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Weeks after criticism prompted Bend-La Pine Schools to remove a sponsorship sign for Bend ammunition-maker Nosler from the Mountain View High football scoreboard, the superintendent has decided to allow a new sign for the sponsor while district sponsorship policies are under review.
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — El Instituto Nacional Electoral de México decidió en una sesión extraordinaria de su Consejo General que habrá tres debates entre los aspirantes a la presidencia del país. Las elecciones presidenciales se llevarán a cabo el 2 de junio de 2024. En la reunión, la consejera electoral Paola Ravel
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — Javier Milei, el presidente electo de las elecciones presidenciales de Argentina, se presentó como un “outsider” con un discurso agresivo y directo contra los políticos tradicionales que recuerda a otros líderes del mundo, como los expresidentes de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump o el de Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro. Sin embargo, este
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s insurance commissioner says he will write new rules for insurers in the nation’s most populous state. Ricardo Lara’s announcement on Thursday comes after state lawmakers failed to agree on a new law for insurance companies. Lara said the new rules he’ll write would let insurance
Continue ReadingBy BROOKE SCHULTZ and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A senior adviser to Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro who abruptly resigned this week was accused earlier in the year of sexual harassment by a former coworker. The woman says Shapiro’s former legislative affairs secretary, Mike Vereb, subjected her to lewd and unwanted
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — El caimán al que le falta la mitad de su mandíbula, y que fue llevado al parque de vida silvestre Gatorland después de que lo vieran deambulando en Florida, ya tiene nombre, anunció el establecimiento en un video publicado en redes sociales este miércoles. Y la inspiración del nombre elegido proviene de
Continue ReadingCNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump will not attempt to move the criminal charges brought against him by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to federal court, his lawyers revealed in a court filing Thursday. The move comes as a surprise, as Trump was largely
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