By GERALD HERBERT and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press SLIDELL, La. (AP) — Severe storms blamed for a death in Mississippi spawned a tornado that demolished buildings in one Louisiana city Wednesday while inundating streets in low-lying New Orleans with hours of steady rain that snarled traffic and strained the city’s antiquated drainage system. Severe weather
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell and Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, who admitted to testifying falsely in Donald Trump’s civil fraud case, was sentenced on Wednesday to five months in jail on perjury charges. Weisselberg was charged with five counts of perjury, but under a deal with prosecutors, he agreed to
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Agentes de la Policía Nacional detuvieron este martes sobre las 4:30 p.m., hora local, a un ciudadano belga en la estación de autobuses de Méndez Álvaro de Madrid por portar numeroso armamento consigo, informaron a CNN desde la Jefatura Superior de Policía Nacional de Madrid. El detenido, de 25 años y
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Vick Hope says she waits for her husband Calvin Harris to leave before she cranks Taylor Swift’s music. “As soon as my husband goes away, I listen to Taylor Swift,” Hope recently said during an episode of BBC Radio 1 show “Going Home with Vick, Katie and Jamie.”
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — US stocks fell sharply Wednesday after inflation data for March came in higher than expected. The blue-chip Dow closed 422 points, or 1.1% lower. The S&P 500 lost 1% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell by 0.8%. US consumer prices picked up again last month, vaulting to a 3.5%
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian authorities have put more Kremlin critics on a wanted list as its crackdown against dissent reaches unprecedented levels since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine more than two years ago. Independent Russian news outlet Mediazona reports that it found women’s rights activist Darya Serenko and prominent
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — For Laila El-Haddad, Eid-al-Fitr calls for sumagiyya. In Gaza, where El-Haddad spent summers growing up, the tangy lamb stew with sumac, chard and chickpeas is synonymous with joyous occasions, especially the three-day Muslim holiday that breaks the month-long fasting period of Ramadan. The dish was her aunt’s specialty, and El-Haddad —
Continue ReadingOnly Willamette Pass and Timberline reported a couple inches of new snow. There will be plenty of sunshine on the mountains today. Travel conditions are also looking good heading through the mountain passes. Showers are possible on Friday, but with these warmer conditions it looks like it will be rain. We may see some more
Continue ReadingBy Marissa Sulek Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Tuesday, dozens of people were told to leave the Senate gallery after multiple outbursts over a bill to arm staff members with guns inside schools. The bill would require any school employee who wants to carry a concealed gun to get
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Finley Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — The photos came one after another, from a man Kayla Lee didn’t know from Tennessee. “Every single day, I was getting the pictures, I was getting the pictures,” the Alabama woman recalls. The pictures came through Snapchat, featuring the man who
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland says it will host a high-level international conference in June to help chart a path toward peace in Ukraine after more than two years of war, in hopes that Russia might join in the peace process one day. The lakeside Bürgenstock resort is expected to host
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — The US government says that next month it can only pay about half of what low-income Americans are eligible for under a popular federal benefits program that is running out of money — a crisis that threatens to plunge millions of households into economic distress within weeks. The announcement by
Continue ReadingBy Nathan Vickers Click here for updates on this story FERGUSON, Missouri (KMOV) — A family is searching for a new place to live and trying to get back on their feet after a school bus rammed into the front of their rental house. Laura Williams had been out playing with her daughter in the
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Conan O’Brien visited “The Tonight Show” on Tuesday night, and said it’s been a long time since his days hosting NBC’s “Late Night” in the same building. “It’s weird to come back,” O’Brien told host Jimmy Fallon. “I haven’t been in this building for such a long time, and
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss government has announced steps to bolster its “too big to fail” rules aimed to avoid potentially disastrous fallout from banking sector turmoil. The announcement comes in the wake of woes at troubled bank Credit Suisse before it was taken over by rival UBS. Finance Minister
Continue ReadingBy Arielle Argel Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — Chantell Moniz is the president of Hina’s Legacy Rescue Foundation, a non-profit that works to fight against animal cruelty. She said lately she’s been getting an increase in calls and messages. “It’s a lot of work. It’s a lot of pounding the
Continue ReadingBy HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep tells The Associated Press she was nervous while flying to her first tennis tournament in 1 1/2 years. She had just successfully reduced a doping ban on appeal last month and was not sure what the reception would be like or how well
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press OXFORD, England (AP) — The United Nations climate chief says humanity has only two years left “to save the world” by making dramatic changes in the way it spews heat-trapping emissions. And he says it has even less time to act to get the finances behind such
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — “Fallout” surfaces in such arresting fashion – at a kid’s birthday party, of all places – that the Amazon series appears destined to join “The Last of Us” in mastering the journey from game to screen. As the first season progresses, though, this post-apocalyptic concept feels closer to
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — France’s government has presented a bill to allow adults with terminal cancer or other end-of-life illness to take lethal medication. Polls show growing public demand in France for legal options for aid in dying. Many French people have traveled to neighboring countries to seek such medication. Under the new proposal, doctors would
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