By Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — Olympic gymnastics legend Mary Lou Retton is out of the hospital following a weekslong serious health scare, according to her daughter. The 55-year-old legend, who captured American hearts in 1984 when she was the first US gymnast to win the Olympic gymanastics all-around competition, is recovering at home, her
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Federal authorities have announced the arrest of the fifth and final suspect wanted in an ambush shooting that killed a 14-year-old and wounded several other teenagers outside a Philadelphia high school after a football scrimmage last year. U.S. marshals said 17-year-old Dayron Burney-Thorn was arrested Monday in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood after more
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A search warrant released Monday says investigators found methamphetamine while searching the home of a Minnesota man who’s now charged with attempted murder in the shootings of five drug task force officers. Documents released earlier shows that investigators suspected 64-year-old Karl Thomas Holmberg and his wife of
Continue ReadingBy Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Monday became the latest notable figure to pull back from Harvard after student groups there signed a statement blaming Israel for the deadly attacks by Hamas earlier this month. In a post on X, the Republican shared a letter he sent to Harvard
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — A mother is suing a shuttered Christian boarding school in Missouri, blaming her son’s death on a gang rape and other abuse he endured there. Agape Boarding School has been subjected to a wave of litigation as a series of abuse allegations emerged, but the case
Continue ReadingBy ARON HELLER Associated Press KFAR SABA, Israel (AP) — Ohad Munder-Zichri’s 9th birthday is on Monday. But instead of celebrating at home with his family and friends, he is believed to be somewhere in Gaza, one of more than 200 hostages held by Hamas since the militants’ devastating Oct. 7 incursion. The fourth-grader from
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for making repeated racist phone calls to a Billings church. Joshua Leon Hiestand was sentenced Friday for making harassing telephone calls. Prosecutors say Hiestand went to a Presbyterian church in November 2020 seeking help and that a 72-year-old Black
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Central Oregon Community College is commemorating Native American Heritage Month with a diverse lineup of free community events in Bend and Madras during November, including a poetry reading with past Oregon Poet Laureate Elizabeth Woody (Nov. 4), a rap performance with Blue Flamez and a flute concert with Grammy-winning James Greeley
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Netflix released a trailer for “Squid Game: The Challenge” on Monday, giving the first full look at the hotly-anticipated reality competition show based on the streamer’s 2021 South Korean hit series “Squid Game.” While “The Challenge” is not a matter of life or death, as is graphically depicted in
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — La oposición de Venezuela eligió a la candidata presidencial que enfrentará al gobernante Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV) en las elecciones de 2024, tras unas elecciones primarias de diez candidatos en las que al final una sola aspitrante arrasó: María Corina Machado. Estas primarias, que llevaron gestándose meses
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– Dwayne Johnson escuchó las quejas sobre su figura de cera y aseguró que está haciendo algo al respecto. El Musée Grévin de París, Francia, que se especializa en realizar figuras de cera de famosos, recibió críticas recientemente por una escultura de Johnson que muchos consideraron tiene la piel demasiado clara para representar
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– El senador Bob Menendez se declaró inocente este lunes de un cargo de conspiración para actuar como agente extranjero de Egipto. El demócrata se presentó en una corte federal en Nueva York y comunicó personalmente su declaración ante el juez de distrito Sidney H. Stein. Menendez, su esposa Nadine Arslanian Menendez y
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Kevin Pilla cut his teeth in the retail industry working on the East Coast for giants like Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s and Tommy Bahama.
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has sent military advisers, including a Marine Corps general versed in urban warfare, to Israel to aid in its war planning and is speeding multiple sophisticated air defense systems to the Middle East days ahead of an anticipated ground assault into Gaza.
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to ban the cancer-causing chemical trichloroethylene. The chemical is known as TCE. It’s used in a range of consumer products, including automobile brake cleaners, furniture care products and arts and crafts spray coating. The EPA wants to ban manufacturing,
Continue ReadingMACON, Ga. (AP) — Investigators say they found a Georgia murder suspect who had been missing more than seven months while looking for four men who escaped from jail. Deputies say a woman told them on Monday that Christian Demond Williams had shot and wounded himself after someone shot through the door of a Macon
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A former National Security Agency employee from Colorado has pleaded guilty to trying to sell classified information to Russia. Under a plea agreement approved by a federal judge on Monday, prosecutors agreed to not ask for more than about 22 years in prison for 31-year-old Jareh Sebastian
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis, Zachary Cohen and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US has intelligence that Iranian-backed militia groups are planning to ramp up attacks against US forces in the Middle East, as Iran seeks to capitalize on the backlash in the region to US support for Israel, according to multiple US
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Monday he has introduced legislation that would help state, local and Tribal governments accelerate the permitting and inspection process for residents to install home energy systems, like rooftop solar panels. “Each year, more Americans are installing solar panels and other clean energy products into their homes
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s Republican-led Legislature has convened a special session to begin fixing a budget mess. Lawmakers quickly got to work on 14 bills that would resurrect provisions of a major budget bill struck down last month by the state Supreme Court. Republican Gov. Doug Burgum has
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