By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A cellphone video of the 2020 fatal arrest of Manny Ellis shows the Black man on the ground with his hands in the air in surrender as police officers held his neck and shot him with a Taser, according to the testimony Wednesday of a forensic
Continue ReadingBy MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A cellphone video of the 2020 fatal arrest of Manny Ellis shows the Black man on the ground with his hands in the air in surrender as police officers held his neck and shot him with a Taser, according to the testimony Wednesday of a forensic
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a likely roadblock from House Republicans on aid for Ukraine, President Joe Biden said Wednesday he’s planning to give a major speech on the issue and suggested there may be “another means” to provide support for Kyiv if Congress continues to balk. “I’m
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the Islamic New Year. For followers of Islam in the western hemisphere, the next New Year begins on the evening of July 7, 2024. The exact date can vary depending on the method used to determine the start of the new year: using local moon-sighting
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont says the top two leaders of state police will be retiring. The departures of public safety Commissioner James Rovella and Col. Stavros Mellekas come in the middle of multiple investigations into whether state troopers submitted bogus data on thousands of traffic stops
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Philadelphia police have made an arrest after a driver was attacked by a motorcyclist over the weekend while two kids were in her vehicle. Sources tell Action News the suspect is 26-year-old Cody Heron of the 4500 block of E. Stiles Street
Continue ReadingBy Marie Lodi, CNN (CNN) — “Los Angeles is everything a great American city should be: rich, hilarious, of questionable taste and throbbing with fake glamour,” John Waters once wrote, chronicling a six-hour tour of the city in his 1986 book of musings, “Crackpot.” The filmmaker and author has, over the years, spent a lot of
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Personal Birth date: March 15, 1933 Death date: September 18, 2020 Birth place: Brooklyn, New York Birth name: Joan Ruth Bader Father: Nathan Bader Mother: Celia (Amster) Bader Marriage: Martin David Ginsburg (June 23, 1954-June 27, 2010,
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) Redmond School Board member Keri Lopez recently announced her intention to “run and win” House District 53, seeking the Republican nomination in the May primary and to unseat Democratic state Rep. Emerson Levy next fall. “I’m running because we need balance in Oregon – one party rule controlled by Portland Democrats is
Continue ReadingBy KARL RITTER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — The most prestigious and secretive prize in science ran headfirst into the digital era Wednesday when Swedish media got an emailed press release revealing the winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry and the news prematurely went public. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said it was
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT and RENATA BRITO Associated Press GRANADA, Spain (AP) — European leaders will gather at a summit in Spain in an attempt to fix their increasingly turbulent continent where war and political instability are starting to unhinge nations and institutions. Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Aleksander Lukashenko of Belarus have not been invited. But
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in western Mexico say they found a workshop for making drone-carried bombs in a house built to look like a castle. Police in Jalisco state distributed photos of dozens of small cylindrical bombs with fins that were meant to be released from drones. Police also found bomb-making materials, including about
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, NY (WABC) — A New York City police officer was indicted Wednesday after authorities say he punched a man more than a dozen times while responding to a call about a child in crisis. District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced Wednesday that NYPD Sgt.
Continue ReadingSol Amaya Nota del editor: Jorge Dávila Miguel es licenciado en Periodismo desde 1973 y ha mantenido una carrera continua en su profesión hasta la fecha. Tiene posgrados en Ciencias de la Información Social y Medios de Comunicación Social, así como estudios posuniversitarios en Relaciones Internacionales, Economía Política e Historia Latinoamericana. Dávila Miguel es columnista
Continue ReadingBy GARY FIELDS The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press and theGrio have come together for a candid conversation about issues facing Black Americans ahead of the 2024 election and amid high levels of polarization. The panel discussion, titled “Race and Democracy: The Facts and The Fury,” addresses topics ranging from targeted racial
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York City is challenging a unique legal agreement that requires it to provide emergency housing to anyone who asks for it, as the city’s shelter system strains under a large influx of international migrants who have arrived since last year. The city filed a request
Continue ReadingBy Lucy Yang Click here for updates on this story DIX HILLS, Long Island (WABC) — The search is on for two large Koi fish statues worth thousands of dollars that was stolen from a nursery on Long Island. Shawn Rosen, the owner of Koi Market in Dix Hills told Eyewitness News reporter Lucy Yang
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Tropical Storm Philippe will interact with a potent cold front this weekend and funnel tropical moisture across the Northeast, raising the risk of flooding rainfall in an area that has been soaked repeatedly in recent weeks. The storm is still far from the US mainland and just north
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlyn Hart Click here for updates on this story IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (eastidahonews.com) — A local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints building was vandalized on Sunday afternoon with trash, broken televisions, feces and shattered glass left inside the building. Idaho Falls Police were called to the church at 1860 Kearney St. around
Continue ReadingBy Bridger Beal-Cvetko Click here for updates on this story SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (KSL) — Sean Reyes is one of several state attorneys general questioning Pornhub over reports that a “loophole” in the site’s moderation practices may allow content creators to upload child sexual abuse material to the platform. The Utah attorney general, a
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