Associated Press Residents of Massachusetts are now free to arm themselves with switchblades after a 67-year-old restriction was struck down in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 landmark decision on gun rights and the Second Amendment. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s decision Tuesday applied new guidance from what has come to be known
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A lawyer for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked a state appeals court Wednesday to restore him to New York’s presidential election ballot, even though he has suspended his campaign. A state judge knocked Kennedy off the state’s ballot earlier this month, ruling that he had falsely claimed to live
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 has struck off the southern resort island of Crete. There are no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The Athens Geodynamic Institute says the undersea quake occurred at 7:29 p.m. local time between Crete and the islet of Gavdos. It
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Foreign Ministry has announced 92 additions to its list of Americans banned from entering the country. That includes some journalists who formerly worked in Russia and American law enforcement and business figures. A ministry statement said the bans were imposed because of the so-called Russophobic course of the Biden Administration. It
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW/KTVZ)— Thousands of Portland-area Fred Meyer employees went on strike Wednesday morning at stores around the metro area, KGW reports. The strike started Wednesday at 6 a.m. as employees holding up signs gathered outside of stores. The strike will last until Tuesday, Sept. 3 at 8 a.m. unless a deal is reached, according
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — The body of a worker who died Tuesday in a tire explosion at a Delta Air Lines maintenance facility near the Atlanta airport was unrecognizable, and the family relied on tattoos and a lanyard to identify him, his son told a news outlet. Mirko Marweg, 58, was among two workers who died
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Actor Gary Coleman was 42 when he died following a brain hemorrhage in 2010, but most people remember him as a child star who found fame on the hit comedy “Diff’rent Strokes.” His costar, Todd Bridges, told CNN Coleman was one of a kind, something he hopes viewers
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) –El Gobierno de Joe Biden reanudará un programa clave de inmigración que se había detenido este verano por preocupaciones de fraude, dijo este jueves un portavoz del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS, en inglés). “El DHS está reanudando la emisión de nuevas Autorizaciones Anticipadas de Viaje y monitoreará de cerca cómo funciona
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Las últimas semanas en la guerra de Ucrania han parecido, parafraseando un adagio que se suele atribuir a Lenin, que han durado décadas. Es quizás el momento de cambio más rápido en el conflicto desde que comenzó, y anuncia que Kyiv está poniendo todo lo que tiene sobre la mesa para
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court revived Sarah Palin’s libel case against The New York Times on Wednesday, citing errors by a lower court judge, particularly his decision to dismiss the lawsuit while a jury was deliberating. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan wrote that Judge Jed S.
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in Jamaica say they believe a shark attacked and killed a 16-year-old high school student whose body was found in waters just north of the island. Police identified the victim as Jahmari Reid from the northern parish of Trelawny. It is located just east of the popular tourist
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Imagine four skyscrapers the height of Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, stacked on top of one another. That’s almost the height of an underwater mountain newly discovered and mapped by oceanographers led by the Schmidt Ocean Institute in California. Located in the Pacific Ocean 900 miles (1,448 kilometers)
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A militia group member who communicated with other far-right extremists while they stormed the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to five years in prison. Kentucky electrician Dan Edwin Wilson told U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich that he regrets entering the Capitol that day but said he had “good intentions” on
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez and Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration may soon restart a key immigration program that had been paused this summer over concerns of fraud, according to a source familiar with the matter. The program allows migrants of certain nationalities to apply to legally migrate to the United States and has
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — El defensa uruguayo Juan Izquierdo se desplomó en el campo del estadio Morumbí el 22 de agosto. Corría el minuto 84 del encuentro que su equipo, Nacional de Uruguay, disputaba en calidad de visitante ante el Sao Paulo de Brasil por la Copa Libertadores. Ahora puedes seguirnos en WhatsApp
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Over more than a decade, the founder and CEO of the messaging app Telegram has amassed various different citizenships, something that’s only added to the mystery surrounding his detention in France. Those passports provided Pavel Durov protection after he created and ran Telegram as a self-proclaimed free-speech
Continue ReadingBy Krystal Hur and Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Nvidia once again beat Wall Street’s expectations when it reported earnings on Wednesday. But for a company that’s been on a stunning growth streak over the past two years, merely great numbers may no longer be enough to impress investors. The AI chipmaker —
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — On Tuesday, AT&T wireless service went down for some customers, affecting their ability to contact 911 in the event of an emergency. It was fixed in a few hours, with the company blaming a software issue, but it’s just one of many problems the telecommunications company has
Continue ReadingAP Health Writer Two U.S. House members who first pushed the Food and Drug Administration in 2023 to investigate the health risks of hair straighteners used primarily by Black women are now asking the agency why it has twice delayed its target date to propose a ban on products containing formaldehyde, which studies link to
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La campaña del expresidente Donald Trump suscitó una nueva polémica esta semana durante una visita al Cementerio Nacional de Arlington que pretendía llamar la atención sobre la caótica retirada estadounidense de Afganistán en 2021. Un individuo impidió físicamente que el equipo de Trump lo acompañara durante la visita del lunes, según
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