Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers is urging a federal judge not to make any changes at Wisconsin’s youth prison after a counselor was killed during a fight there. Pressure has been mounting to give Lincoln Hills-Copper Lakes Schools staff more leeway in punishing incarcerated children since a 16-year-old boy was accused
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy for South Sudan says the troubled African country is not ready to hold its first post-independence elections in December and political players are discussing whether voting should be held this year. Nicholas Haysom told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that the political consultations mean the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An employee of the Democratic National Committee has filed a complaint seeking to remove the Green Party’s presidential candidate from the ballot in Wisconsin. The complaint filed Wednesday argues that the party is ineligible. It’s the latest move by the DNC to block third-party candidates from the ballot. Democrats
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — El panel de expertos electorales de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) que dio seguimiento a los comicios presidenciales en Venezuela decidió hacer público su informe preliminar sobre el proceso ante la situación en el país, que consideró grave, y el anuncio de posibles reformas legales que impedirían la
Continue ReadingANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Anchorage police say officers fatally shot a 16-year-old girl holding a knife in the fourth deadly shooting involving police in Alaska’s largest city since mid-May. Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case told reporters that the shooting happened when officers responded to a disturbance between two family members late Tuesday. Alaska Public Media
Continue ReadingSEATAC, Wash. (AP) — More than three dozen pro-Palestinian protesters accused of blocking a main road into the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in April are set to have misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and failing to disperse dropped. City of SeaTac prosecutors agreed this week to dismiss the charges after a maximum of six months on
Continue ReadingBy Isabel Rosales and Brammhi Balarajan, CNN (CNN) — An Alabama IVF clinic that kept providing in vitro fertilization treatments even while others suspended them during weeks of uncertainty following a state Supreme Court ruling says it will close January 1 – further narrowing IVF options in a state that already had few providers. “After
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University President Minouche Shafik resigned Wednesday after a brief, tumultuous tenure that saw the head of the prestigious New York university face heavy scrutiny for her handling of protests and campus divisions over the Israel-Hamas war. The Ivy League school in upper Manhattan was roiled this year by
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Wallace “Wally” Amos, the creator of the cookie empire that took his name and made it famous and who went on to become a children’s literacy advocate, has died. He was 88. Amos created the Famous Amos cookie empire and eventually lost ownership of the company — as well as
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Google dijo el miércoles que una supuesta operación de piratería iraní dirigida a las campañas presidenciales de EE.UU. está en curso y es más amplia de lo que se conocía anteriormente, ya que los piratas informáticos continúan apuntando a las cuentas de correo electrónico de funcionarios estadounidenses actuales y
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan and Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — Columbia University President Minouche Shafik is stepping down months after protests over the Israel-Hamas war gripped the campus, Shafik announced in a letter sent Wednesday to the Columbia community. Shafik — an Egyptian-born economist and former high-ranking official at the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and
Continue ReadingBy Ken Molestina, S.E. Jenkins Click here for updates on this story UVALDE (KTVT) — Uvalde city leaders admit they did not release all of the video recordings they have from the botched police response to the Robb Elementary School shooting in 2022. The release of documents and recordings came after a settlement between the
Continue ReadingBy CBS Chicago Team Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — The White House will move to designate the site of the Springfield Race Riot as a national monument. Illinois State Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (D-13th) made the announcement Wednesday afternoon as the monument will mark the moment in 1908 when a white
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer DALLAS (AP) — The Justice Department is defending a plea deal it struck with Boeing over planes that crashed and killed 346 people, saying in a court filing Wednesday that it lacks evidence to prosecute the company for more serious crimes. Prosecutors said if the plea deal is rejected and the case
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Alrededor del 46% de los 1.280 millones de adultos de todo el mundo con hipertensión no saben que la padecen, según la Organización Mundial de la Salud. Sin embargo, vivir con hipertensión no controlada puede elevar drásticamente el riesgo de padecer la enfermedad de Alzheimer en personas de 60 años o más,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — An election board in one of Georgia’s largest counties has voted to start charging people who challenge the eligibility of voters for the cost of notifying the challenged voters. The Cobb County Board of Elections and Registrations voted 4-1 Tuesday to adopt the rule. A Republican member of the board
Continue ReadingBy Laura Haefeli Click here for updates on this story CAMBRIDGE (WBZ) — A new program is combining social justice, art, and shade, giving Cambridge teens a place to hang out in the hot summer months. “It’s really nice to have a place we can just sit and talk in the shade. And normally, there’s,
Continue ReadingAP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms has shut down CrowdTangle. That was a tool widely used by researchers, watchdog organizations and journalists to monitor social media posts, notably to track how misinformation spreads on its platforms. The shutdown was protested by researchers and nonprofits. Dozens of groups including
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Un grupo de fiscales generales republicanos demandó al Gobierno de Biden por una iniciativa federal para ampliar el acceso al censo electoral. La demanda se refiere a un decreto emitido por el presidente Joe Biden en marzo de 2021 que ordenaba a los directores de todas las agencias federales que presentaran
Continue ReadingAP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge has indicated he will order major changes in Google’s Android app store. It’s to punish the company for engineering a system that a jury declared an illegal monopoly that has hurt millions of consumers and app developers. Over the course of a three-hour hearing in
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