By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press When New Hampshire voters cast their ballots in Tuesday’s first-in-the-nation primary, many will do so using scanners that are at least 15 years old — with some potentially dating back to Bill Clinton’s presidency. Election experts say the aging AccuVote ballot tabulators in use across roughly half the state’s
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A charter bus company hired by the state of Texas to transport migrants to Chicago is trying to flip the script on the border crisis in a federal lawsuit against the city alleging that its ordinance banning unannounced migrant drop-offs is unconstitutional and punishes transportation companies
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN Español) — Socorristas de varias instituciones de Costa Rica lograron rescatar a un hombre que quedó atrapado mientras construía un pozo en Tabarcia de Mora, una localidad rural en San José, la capital del país. Según la Cruz Roja de este país, las labores de rescate se iniciaron a las 11 a.m. (hora
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — El Inter de Miami viaja este jueves a El Salvador para un partido poco común contra la selección de El Salvador, en el comienzo de una gira de pretemporada en varios lugares del mundo. El Inter Miami llega a 2024 con el impulso de Lionel Messi —ahora flamante ganador de
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and scores of other GOP lawmakers threw their support behind Donald Trump on Thursday as they asked the US Supreme Court to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court ruling removing him from that state’s ballot. In a friend-of-the-court brief, the
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A panel of Nevada Supreme Court justices won’t reconsider former “Dances With Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse’s request to dismiss a sprawling indictment that accuses him of leading a cult, taking underage wives and sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls. “Rehearing denied,” two of three justices
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, CNN Washington (CNN) — The two Georgia election workers who won a nearly $150 million judgment against Rudy Giuliani accused the former Trump lawyer and New York mayor in a court filing Thursday of unfairly taking advantage of the bankruptcy system. Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss tried to collect on some of
Continue ReadingBy ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press A Justice Department report released Thursday details a myriad of failures by police who responded to the shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas, when children waited desperately for over an hour before officers stormed a classroom to take the gunman down. The federal review, which
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN (CNN) — Google announced on Thursday two new AI tools that it says will make searching for things online “radically more helpful.” Mobile users accessing Google on some Android phones will soon be able to circle or highlight items that appear on their smartphone screens to populate more information, and
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s parliament has approved legislation that is intended to ease deportations of unsuccessful asylum-seekers as Chancellor Olaf Scholz seeks to defuse migration as a political problem. The legislation approved Thursday foresees increasing the maximum length of pre-deportation custody from 10 days to 28 and specifically facilitating the deportation of people who are
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — A primera vista, los paralelismos cinematográficos entre la centenaria nobleza francesa y los rudos luchadores texanos pueden parecer escasos y poco frecuentes. Pero, además de lucir llamativos vestuarios de época y agudeza estratégica para la batalla, los hermanos Von Erich en la película ambientada en la década de 1980 “The Iron Claw”
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — An estimated 320 journalists around the world were imprisoned because of their work toward the end of 2023. That’s from the Committee to Protect Journalists, which on Thursday issued its annual census as of Dec. 1, 2023. The committee has been doing this since 1992, and last year had the second-highest
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York midwife who gave nearly 1,500 children homeopathic pellets instead of required vaccinations has been fined $300,000. The state health department said Wednesday that Jeanette Breen knowingly gave children the pellets and falsified their immunization records. Health officials say the children’s vaccine records have
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — The clunky old cable box doesn’t make sense anymore. Big, ugly, and heavy, they seem to have about as much place working with a modern TV as a DVD player. Cable companies are trying to catch up with the times, though, and now want you to replace
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress sent President Joe Biden a short-term spending bill on Thursday that would avert a looming partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies into March. The House approved the measure by a vote of 314-108, with opposition coming mostly from the more conservative
Continue ReadingBy MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wastewater testing does a good job at detecting mpox infections, U.S. health officials said in a report Thursday that bolsters a push to use sewage to track more diseases. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers found that over the course of a week,
Continue ReadingCNN By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — “‘Help! Help! Help!” “I don’t want to die. My teacher is dead.” “One of my teachers is still alive but shot.” “There is a lot of dead bodies.” A scathing US Justice Department review of one of America’s deadliest and most scrutinized school shootings highlights these pleas from
Continue ReadingLJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia has decided to set up temporary facilities for handling migrant arrivals at the border with Croatia, citing a surge in crossings. Authorities will put up a fence, two accommodation containers, tents and sanitary facilities at the former border crossing in Obrezje. The government said on Thursday that the facilities will
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann and Nikki Carvajal, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden conceded Thursday that strikes against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen are not deterring the groups’ attacks in the Red Sea, as the military carried out further strikes against the group in Yemen. The fifth US attack on Houthi assets in a week targeted a small
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — “‘Help! Help! Help!” “I don’t want to die. My teacher is dead.” “One of my teachers is still alive but shot.” “There is a lot of dead bodies.” A scathing US Justice Department review of one of America’s deadliest and most scrutinized school shootings highlights these pleas from terrified
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