By Sarah Engel and Asher Moskowitz, CNN (CNN) — A nearly 25-year-old rape and murder cold case has been solved due to DNA forensics and genetics, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday. Sheriff Gregory Tony identified the victim as Eileen Truppner and the killer as Lucious Boyd, 64, at a news conference. Boyd is on death row
Continue ReadingCNN By Lauren Fox, CNN Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama on Tuesday released the bulk of his holds for Senate votes to confirm military promotions, allowing for the quick confirmation of hundreds of nominees. The Senate confirmed hundreds of top military nominations by voice vote on Tuesday evening, hours after Tuberville announced his decision.
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE SAVAGE and MELISSA PEREZ WINDER Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration has canceled plans to build a temporary winter camp for migrants in Chicago, citing the risk of contaminants at the former industrial site. Despite recent assurances from Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office that the shelter site was safe
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Artist Jesse Darling is the latest recipient of the Turner Prize, the UK’s top award for artists that grants £25,000 ($31,500) annually. The announcement was made on Tuesday at an evening ceremony in Eastbourne, southeast England. Darling is a 41-year-old Oxford-born, Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, video, drawing
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Ryan Murphy is at it again with some more high society drama in Season 2 of “Feud,” the long-awaited followup to the first outing in 2017. On Tuesday, FX unveiled a first-look at the poster for the series, which features stars Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald, Naomi Watts, Chloe Sevigny,
Continue ReadingBy MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says he sees football becoming a global sport within the next decade and that his league is at the forefront of that effort. That includes adding another international market next year for the regular-season schedule. Brazil and Spain are the front-runners.
Continue ReadingBy ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press With so many shows on TV and streaming services, it’s impossible not to miss a gem or two. This year’s top television offerings as selected by The Associated Press include a mix of dramas and comedies that will draw you in. Some are new, some have already ended their runs
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Al menos una persona murió y más de 10 millones de personas están bajo alerta de inundaciones en todo el noroeste del Pacífico de Estados Unidos este martes, mientras un fuerte río atmosférico empapa con más lluvias torrenciales la región por la que ya cayeron ríos atmosféricos en ocasiones anteriores. Los
Continue ReadingBy Cheri Mossburg, Jason Kravarik and Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Joseph Emerson, the Alaska Airlines pilot who allegedly attempted to shut off the engines of a passenger plane mid-flight in October, was indicted on 84 counts in an Oregon court Tuesday. The grand jury indicted Emerson on one count of endangering aircraft in the
Continue ReadingLIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s constitutional court ordered an immediate humanitarian release Tuesday for imprisoned former President Alberto Fujimori, 85, who was serving a 25-year sentence in connection with the death squad slayings of 25 Peruvians in the 1990s. The court ruled in favor of a 2017 pardon that had granted the former leader a
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — Wilma Mankiller has many accomplishments to her name — the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a US quarter in her likeness, to name a few. Now, the late Cherokee leader and activist also boasts a Barbie doll in her honor. Toy
Continue ReadingBy Deblina Chakraborty, CNN (CNN) — Last week, the US Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule that would require water systems across the country to replace millions of lead service pipes within the next 10 years. The new proposed rule is in line with the Biden administration’s goal of removing all lead pipes, regardless of
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona, CNN In a private meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson last week, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene accused fellow Georgia Republican Rep. Richard McCormick of getting physically aggressive with her, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter – a charge that McCormick has denied, saying it was a “friendly gesture.” Greene claimed
Continue ReadingBy Kareem Khadder and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN (CNN) — The Israel Defense Forces has launched an investigation after a video emerged of an Israeli soldier shooting and wounding a mentally disabled Palestinian near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Tarek Abu Abed, known to friends and family as “Ghazzawi,” was on his way home Tuesday when
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will lie in repose at the Supreme Court on Monday, December 18, and will be remembered at a pair of private ceremonies that will take place over the course of two days in Washington, the court announced. O’Connor, who died Friday at the
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Election security experts and computer scientists say an effort to access voting system software in several states and provide it to allies of Donald Trump as they sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election poses “serious threats” ahead of next year’s presidential contest. The
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will lie in repose at the court on Dec. 18. A funeral service at the National Cathedral will follow the next day. The first woman on the Supreme Court, O’Connor died Friday at age 93 in Phoenix. She stepped down from the court
Continue Reading
The Atmospheric River is well to the north of our viewing area as we have been dry and mild. The pattern of dry and mild weather will be changing to a wet and chilly one as we move toward the end of the week. Wednesday will start out quiet with clouds moving in as the
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Denny Laine, co-founder of bands Wings and The Moody Blues and longtime collaborator of Paul McCartney, died on Tuesday morning, according to Laine’s wife Elizabeth Hines. He was 79. Hines wrote in a post on Laine’s official Instagram account that Laine had “been in ICU on a ventilator this
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand, MJ Lee, Alex Marquardt and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — US officials expect the current phase of Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza targeting the southern end of the strip to last several weeks before Israel transitions, possibly by January, to a lower-intensity, hyper-localized strategy that narrowly targets specific Hamas militants and leaders,
Continue Reading