LARGO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman holding her 11-month-old son in a baby carrier was fatally shot by her 14-year-old brother while trying to defuse an argument over Christmas gifts he was having with a 15-year-old brother who also was armed, authorities said. The 15-year-old brother then shot his 14-year-old brother, though not fatally,
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Engel, CNN (CNN) — Human remains found in 1976 by hikers in a shallow desert grave near Lake Mohave, just a few miles from the Arizona-Nevada border, have finally been identified. Luis Alonso Paredes, who was originally from El Salvador, was positively identified thanks to national fingerprint records, “which was not an available resource at the
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and Nikki Carvajal, CNN St. Croix, US Virgin Islands (CNN) — When President Joe Biden arrives in St. Croix on Wednesday with his wife, it will be one of the couple’s final opportunities for sunny relaxation before the heat of next year’s presidential campaign begins in earnest. It’s a familiar venue: the
Continue ReadingBy Andrea Kane, CNN (CNN) — As the year wraps up, people have their sights on 2024 and what changes it will bring. The more enterprising may even be thinking of initiating changes in the form of resolutions or intentions. But for the less decisive, those can be hard to come up with; with so
Continue ReadingBy Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — For most people, passive income is a bit of extra pocket change that requires minimal effort to earn to supplement a main source of income. For Steve Ballmer, it’s $1 billion. Ballmer, the sixth richest person in the world, is due to collect that much in dividends
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Washington (CNN) — Apple will immediately return to selling its most advanced Apple Watch models in stores, after a federal appeals court temporarily blocked a sweeping import ban on its latest smartwatches while a patent dispute winds its way through the legal system. Apple will also once again offer the affected watches for
Continue ReadingGIBBSTOWN, N.J. (AP) — Two neighboring New Jersey towns may feel even closer next year when they’re governed by two brothers. John Giovannitti, 61, will be sworn in Jan. 2 as mayor of Paulsboro, one day before newly-reelected younger brother Vince Giovannitti, 57, is sworn in to a second term as mayor of Gibbstown. Paulsboro,
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Comedian Tom Smothers, who with his brother performed as the singing comedy duo the Smothers Brothers, has died, according to a family statement shared by the National Comedy Center. He was 86. Dick Smothers, Tom’s younger brother and professional partner, said his brother was at home at the
Continue ReadingPORTAGE, Ind. (AP) — A 27-year-old man survived for six days on only rainwater while pinned tightly inside his crashed pickup truck beneath a highway bridge in northwest Indiana, police said. His ordeal ended when two men scouting for fishing spots Tuesday afternoon noticed the badly damaged vehicle, its white airbag deployed, and reached inside.
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Jason Sudeikis rose to fame on “Saturday Night Live” with his comedic talent, and his children seemed to have inherited it. Sudeikis, who shares kids Otis, 9, and Daisy, 7, with ex Olivia Wilde, appeared on ESPN’s “The Bird and Taurasi Show” on Monday, where he was dressed in
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Aigul Akhmetshina says she’s a fighter — and she’s had to be to make it to the Metropolitan Opera, where she leads a new production of Bizet’s “Carmen” opening on New Year’s Eve. The Russian mezzo has overcome multiple setbacks, including failures in vocal competitions, an
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer When it was introduced 75 years ago, the purpose of the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll was to foster discussion and debate. That has not changed. Whether the controversy is over which team a national panel of 63 voters installs at No. 1 each Monday, or whether
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — If you want your low-carb diet to help you lose weight and keep it off, consider the quality of the food you eat, according to new research that compared five types of low-carb diets. People who ate an unhealthy, meat-based low-carb diet gained weight over time compared with those
Continue ReadingCNNEE (CNN Español) — La Fiscalía General de Venezuela afirmó este martes que el cantante de rap y hip-hop Tirone González, mejor conocido como Canserbero, y su amigo Carlos Molnar, bajista del grupo Zion TLP, fueron víctimas de un doble homicidio en enero de 2015 y no de un homicidio-suicidio como se anunció originalmente. Al
Continue ReadingBy Aaron Pellish and David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign is pivoting its advertising strategy in the final weeks before the Iowa caucuses as data shows the campaign has no future television ad space currently reserved. Ramaswamy’s campaign has no future ad bookings heading into the next month’s Iowa caucuses,
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Fulham goalkeeper Bernd Leno is unlikely to be sanctioned after he pushed a ballboy during his team’s 3-0 defeat against AFC Bournemouth in the Premier League on Tuesday, the Football Association (FA) told CNN. With Fulham trailing 2-0 in the 74th minute, the ball went out of play. The
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith is asking a judge to bar Donald Trump’s lawyers from injecting politics into the former president’s trial on charges that he schemed to overturn the 2020 election. Smith’s office says in a court filing Wednesday that Trump’s lawyers should be prevented from “raising
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Justice Department prosecutors say they want to prevent former President Donald Trump from sowing disinformation and claiming he’s a victim of political persecution as part of his defense in his 2020 election subversion trial in federal court. In a new court filing Wednesday, prosecutors laid out
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has centered his unlikely rise from reality television star to onetime — and potentially future — president on the idea that he’s wiser than Washington’s bumbling political class, once going so far as to label himself a “very stable genius.” But when it comes
Continue ReadingBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The Golden Globe Awards are back on Sunday, with plenty of behind-the-scenes changes aimed at cementing a yearslong comeback effort. The show is known for its boozy celebration of film and television and as an early stop for awards season contenders. Scandals have led to a membership revamp and a
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