By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press A hostage situation in Nebraska has ended with the victim’s release and the armed suspect’s arrest. A woman was released from the western Nebraska home Wednesday afternoon after being held hostage for nearly 24 hours. Several hours later, police arrested a 37-year-old man who had crashed into the home’s garage
Continue ReadingBy Danny Freeman, Brynn Gingras and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — The family of Eddie Irizarry has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against two Philadelphia police officers, including the one who fired the gunshots that killed the 27-year-old during a traffic stop last month. The civil lawsuit seeks at least $150,000 in monetary damages, claiming
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Mena and Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Reserve on Thursday admonished Tanner Winterhof, a former executive at VisionBank of Iowa, for allegedly falsifying documents, causing the bank to endure major losses. Despite VisionBank terminating him last year, Winterhof still managed to get another job at a bank. According to the Fed,
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Locals are still suffering from a massive 2014 waste spill at a copper mine in the northern Mexican border state of Sonora, officials with the country’s environmental agency say. They are confirming that the spill was not solely caused by dramatic rainfall, as was initially reported,
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will not seek to get his Georgia election interference case transferred to federal court, his attorneys said in a filing Thursday, three weeks after a judge rejected a similar attempt by the former president’s White House chief of staff. The
Continue ReadingLAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Authorities in Maui are opening more of the burn zone from last month’s devastating wildfire for visits by residents and property owners who lost homes. Early this week, officials began permitting those who lived in a small section in the north end of Lahaina to return for the first time since
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Fox, Priscilla Alvarez and Melanie Zanona, CNN Washington (CNN) — House Republicans are barreling toward a government shutdown without a clear plan or strategy to get out. Leadership’s life raft? Make it a showdown over the US southern border. After months of internal divisions over spending levels, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his
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Oregon State University–Cascades will host its Discovery Day, a campus-wide festival including talks, demonstrations and hands-on activities that showcase OSU’s growing Central Oregon campus, on Saturday, Oct. 7.
Continue ReadingBy HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — TikTok has become a key marketing channel for vendors promoting steroids and other bodybuilding drugs to millions of the app’s users, according to a report released Thursday that the social media company disputes. In the study, the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate says popular videos
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — Two Chicago police officers accused of shooting an unarmed man and then lying about it have been acquitted. Cook County Judge Lawrence Flood ruled Thursday that Sgt. Christopher Liakopoulos and Officer Ruben Reynoso were within their rights to protect themselves when they opened fire, wounding 23-year-old Miguel Medina twice on July 22,
Continue ReadingBy Berry Wang and Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Artists across China are boycotting one of the country’s biggest social media platforms over complaints about its AI image generation tool. The controversy began in August when an illustrator who goes by the name Snow Fish accused the privately owned social media site Xiaohongshu
Continue ReadingBy LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Updated COVID-19 vaccines may be getting a little easier for adults to find but they’re still frustratingly scarce for young children. Health officials said Thursday the kid shots have started shipping — and reminded most everyone to get a fall flu shot too. About 2 million
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business (CNN) — Netflix will send out its last red envelope on Friday, marking an end to 25 years of mailing DVDs to members. The company announced earlier this year it is shutting down its DVD-by-mail service, 16 years after it gradually shifted its focus to streaming content online. Netflix
Continue ReadingBy 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 expected
Continue ReadingMauricio Torres (CNN) — La Fiscalía General de Justicia de Zacatecas confirmó este jueves que los seis cuerpos encontrados el miércoles en el municipio de Villanueva, en el centro-norte de México, corresponden a los jóvenes que habían sido secuestrados el domingo 24 de septiembre. Ese día en total fueron secuestrados siete jóvenes. Uno de ellos
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Senior Department of Homeland Security officials are working to determine whether a ransomware attack on government contractor Johnson Controls International has compromised sensitive physical security information such as DHS floor plans, according to internal DHS correspondence reviewed by CNN. Johnson Controls, a major manufacturer of alarm
Continue ReadingGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A man formerly known as a powerful Michigan lawmaker is going to federal prison for nearly five years. Rick Johnson admits he took at least $110,000 in bribes as head of a state marijuana licensing board. Johnson told a judge: “I am a corrupt politician.” Years ago, Johnson was a
Continue ReadingBy SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America BROOKLYN, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio high school football coach says he was forced to resign by his school district and intended no harm after he and his team repeatedly used “Nazi” as a game call. Former Brooklyn High School coach Tim McFarland said Thursday that it never
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo Ciudad Hidalgo, México (CNN) — Un par de decenas de personas se amontonan en una camioneta con cupo para 13 pasajeros. Acaban de cruzar un río en una balsa improvisada y esperan recorrer unos 30 kilómetros en México para llegar a su próxima parada. Pero unos minutos después, la camioneta se detiene y
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge’s plan to hold hearings next week to draw up congressional boundary lines that would give Louisiana a second majority-Black district has been blocked by an appeals court. Supporters of establishing a second such district had hoped a recent Supreme Court ruling upholding a
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