By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump said he is “OK” with serving potential jail time or being under house arrest following his historic conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. “I’m OK with it,” Trump told Fox News in an interview that aired Sunday when asked about the potential punishments. “I
Continue ReadingMADISON, Wis. (AP) — The warden at a troubled Wisconsin prison where multiple inmates have died over the last year will step down later this month. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that Waupun Correctional Institution Warden Randall Hepp announced his resignation on Tuesday. A state Department of Corrections spokesperson said Hepp is retiring. Four inmates
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a … wait, what is that? A flying Beluga whale? Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart. The weekend that was • Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of felony
Continue ReadingCNN By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a … wait, what is that? A flying Beluga whale? Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart. The weekend that was • Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court is turning toward the final, frenzied days of its term, readying potential blockbuster decisions on abortion, guns and former President Donald Trump’s claims of absolute immunity. The court will hand down opinions on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week as the justices aim to finish their
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Emma Hayes’ reign as the new head coach of the US Women’s National Team (USWNT) began in the best possible way as her team defeated South Korea 4-0 in her first game in charge. Mallory Swanson, playing in her home state of Colorado, and Tierna Davidson scored two goals
Continue ReadingBy Jaide Timm-Garcia and Isabel Rosales, CNN Minutes before plunging to their deaths, five airmen successfully dropped 14 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne near their landing mark over Normandy, France from their C-47. It was just after 2:44 a.m. on June 6, 1944. The airmen completed their mission but lost their lives. The remains of
Continue ReadingBy Aimee Lewis, CNN (CNN) — With a bird’s eye view from his chair, umpire Damien Dumusois spotted a poorly pigeon on Court Suzanne-Lenglen and flew into action. Remaining on the ground after landing on the red clay during a changeover in the fourth set in the match between Daniil Medvedev and Tomas Machac, the
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung and Kathryn Monahan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has joined TikTok, the fast-growing social media platform with ties to China that Trump has publicly embraced even though he railed against it as president. In his first post on the social network, which is filled with young potential voters, Trump posted
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — Two Lebanese shepherds were killed in an Israeli strike that hit their house in the town of Houla near the Lebanon-Israel border, Lebanon’s National News agency says. Lebanon’s Agriculture Minister Abbas Hajj Hassan said that a separate Israeli strike Sunday morning had damaged his ministry’s office in the town of Bint Jbeil
Continue ReadingPENN HILLS, Pa. (AP) — Police say an exchange of gunfire in a suburban Pittsburgh bar has left two people dead and seven others injured. Allegheny County police said the shooting occurred at the Ballers Hookah Lounge and Cigar Bar in Penn Hills, where first responders found the bodies of a man and a woman
Continue ReadingBy CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Scaling back treatment for three kinds of cancer can make life easier for patients without compromising outcomes, doctors reported at the world’s largest cancer conference. It’s part of a long-term trend toward studying whether doing less — less surgery, less chemotherapy or less radiation — can help patients
Continue ReadingBy TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Tamika Davis couldn’t nap on her couch during cancer treatment. She kept worrying one of her toddlers would wander over and pull out the needle delivering chemotherapy. Friends and family watched her kids when they could during her treatment last year for colon cancer. But Davis had gaps with
Continue ReadingBy JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press CARENTAN-LES-MARAIS, France (AP) — Parachutists jumped from World War II-era planes into now peaceful Normandy to kick off a week of ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Soldiers from across the United States, Britain, Canada and other Allied nations waded ashore through hails of fire on five beaches on
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico congressional representative Jenniffer González has defeated Gov. Pedro Pierluisi in a surprise upset during a primary election held by their pro-statehood party. The two ran on the same ticket four years ago under the New Progressive Party, but González, a Republican, announced
Continue ReadingBy Eugenia Yosef, Sophie Tanno and Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — Two far-right Israeli ministers have threatened to resign and bring down the governing coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he accepts a peace proposal laid out by US President Joe Biden. Biden unveiled on Friday what he said was a three-phase Israeli proposal
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Iceland’s national broadcasting service says Halla Tomasdottir, a businesswoman and investor, has won Iceland’s presidential election, topping a crowded field of candidates in which the top three finishers were women. RUV reported Sunday that Tomasdottir was elected to the largely ceremonial post with 34.3% of the vote,
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Maryhope Howland gave birth to a baby she thought was a boy. But at 6 years old, the child asked her questions such as “Mom, am I a boy? How do you know I’m a boy?” “Once I clued in, I said, ‘The doctors make a best guess
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald and Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — Simone Biles won a record-extending ninth all-around national title at the US Gymnastics Championships on Sunday, impressing ahead of next month’s Olympics in Paris. Biles finished with a combined score of 119.750 while Skye Blakely finished 5.900 points back in second and Kayla DiCello came in
Continue ReadingBy Niamh Kennedy and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s largest hydroelectric dam, the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP), is in “critical condition” after it was hit in a Russian strike on Ukraine’s key energy facilities, authorities say. The head of the Zaporizhzhia region military administration, Ivan Fedorov, told Ukrainian television that the power plant can
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