By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The special counsel’s office is pushing back against Donald Trump using his Washington, DC, federal criminal trial as a spectacle, after Trump’s lawyers told the court this weekend he’d support cameras in the courtroom. Trump’s bid to open his DC federal criminal trial to cameras is “a transparent effort
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Head lice have been constant, if unwanted, human companions for as long as our species has been around. Evidence of this ancient connection includes a 10,000-year-old louse found on human remains at an archaeological site in Brazil and an inscription on a 3,700-year-old ivory lice comb that might be
Continue ReadingBy TOM DOUGHERTY Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — The arrest of a couple involved in a string of armed robberies in Philadelphia was announced Monday. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and members of his office’s gun violence task force held a news conference at 11 a.m. According to the DA’s
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN FISHER Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pittsburgh police are investigating an armed carjacking that happened in the East Liberty neighborhood. According to police, the incident took place around 9:30 p.m. Sunday night outside of the Whole Foods parking garage in the 5700 block of Penn Ave. The victim
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — The Gulf Coast’s most significant rainfall in months will bring much-needed relief this week to portions of the Gulf Coast, helping to alleviate Louisiana’s worst drought on record – one that’s fueled unprecedented wildfires and helped trigger an alarming saltwater intrusion into the Mississippi River. Exceptional drought –
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Paul Pelosi recounted publicly for the first time Monday what happened the night he was attacked by a man in the San Francisco home he shares with former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, recalling how shocking it was to see a man standing at his
Continue ReadingBy CECILIO PADILLA Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO (KOVR) — A soldier from Sacramento was among five killed during military aircraft training over the Mediterranean Sea on Friday. The Department of Defense says the soldiers were in an MH-60 Blackhawk conducting aerial refueling training when the helicopter “experienced an in-flight emergency” that
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Exxon Mobil is drilling for lithium in Arkansas and expects to begin production of the critical material for electric vehicles by 2027. Exxon on Monday announced the project and said by 2030 it expects to produce enough lithium to supply the manufacturing needs of more
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Crook County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue members, assisted by two dog teams, were called out Sunday evening and quickly found a missing 82-year-old hunter in the Maury Mountains, “worn and tired” but otherwise OK, a deputy said.
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Islandia declaró el estado de emergencia y ha instado a más de 3.000 residentes a evacuar la pequeña ciudad costera de Grindavík, ya que las autoridades del país prevén la inminente erupción de un volcán en su península suroccidental. Los científicos que vigilan la situación, incluidos los de la Oficina Meteorológica
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — The backlash against self-checkout is growing, and stores are starting to dial back on the technology after it exploded over the past few years. Booths, a British supermarket chain, said it’s removing self-checkout stations in all but two of its 28 stores. In the United States, Walmart,
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer Hyundai has joined Honda and Toyota in raising factory worker wages after the United Auto Workers union reached new contract agreements with Detroit automakers. Hyundai said Monday that it will raise factory worker pay 25% by 2028. That matches the general wage increase won by the UAW during that
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER and BRADY McCOMBS Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — One of the highest ranking leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has died. M. Russell Ballard was 95. Ballard was acting president of a top governing body called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the church’s second-highest leadership
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Mayes Click here for updates on this story SHEPHERDSVILLE, Kentucky (WLKY) — Through tears and heartbreak, neighbors and loved ones are leaning on one another as they mourn the loss of 9-year-old Jayden and 6-year-old Maurice. On Wednesday, a neighbor went into their Shepherdsville home and found the children in a bedroom covered
Continue ReadingBy Anum Siddiqui Click here for updates on this story NEW ORLEANS (WDSU) — Students at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. High School are taking matters into their own hands in hopes of stopping the fire burning near Bayou Sauvage. After reports of illness, the school is adjusting school hours on mornings where students and
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — US forces came under attack at least four more times by Iran-backed groups in Syria after the US military carried out air strikes on targets associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard corps on Sunday, a US official told CNN. All four of the attacks came after
Continue ReadingBy Jake Tapper, CNN (CNN) — A US official with knowledge of American intelligence says Hamas has a command node under the Al-Shifa hospital, uses fuel intended for it and its fighters regularly cluster in and around Gaza’s largest hospital. The information comes after comments made Sunday by a top White House official that Hamas is using hospitals and civilian facilities. “You can see
Continue ReadingBy Phil Tenser Click here for updates on this story SEEKONK, Massachusetts (WCVB) — Two Massachusetts women were arrested this weekend in connection with an investigation into what caused a child to suffer life-threatening burns over a significant portion of her body, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn announced. The 4-year-old girl suffered extensive second-
Continue ReadingBy Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, CNN (CNN) — When my father died of bone cancer last year, I received an outpouring of messages from friends and family sharing their condolences. While I appreciated everyone who reached out, I was especially grateful for two of my former college roommates who surprised my family with a delivery of bagels
Continue ReadingBy Tommie Clark Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WBAL) — Baltimore families are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. An event brought together parents and their children to have their voices heard amidst the conflict. The group wanted to create a kid-friendly space for families to process what’s going on while connecting
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