By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance “for the first time in human history,” fueling a growing water disaster that will wreak havoc on economies, food production and lives, according to a landmark new report. Decades of destructive land use and water mismanagement have collided with the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday that Canada’s national police force went public with its allegations against Indian diplomats this week because it had to disrupt violent acts in Canada including drive-by-shootings, extortions and even murder. The Royal Canadian Police said Monday it had identified India’s top diplomat in the
Continue ReadingCNN By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Vice presidential candidate JD Vance said “no” former president Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election “by the words” the Ohio Republican would use, when asked Wednesday what message it sends to independent voters that he has not directly answered that question. “On the election of 2020,
Continue ReadingBy Neal Riley Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WBZ) — One day after unveiling its official franchise name, Boston’s new National Women’s Soccer League team is apologizing for its “Too Many Balls” promotional campaign that accompanied the rollout. The BOS Nation Football Club shared the minute-long video on social media Tuesday that
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge has declared that seven new election rules recently passed by the State Election Board are “illegal, unconstitutional and void.” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox issued the order Wednesday after holding a hearing on challenges to the rules. The rules that Cox invalidated include three that
Continue ReadingBy David Wade Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WBZ) — It’s election season and people are getting barraged with political text messages. WBZ-TV addressed this issue in May, but a successful business owner from Massachusetts came up with a solution he thinks could solve the problem permanently. During WBZ-TV’s original story, a
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Rep. Cindy Axne, the last Democrat standing in Iowa, went to her party’s leadership about a month before the 2022 midterms to ask for a few hundred thousand more dollars in her race, or risk losing her seat. The money didn’t come, according to two people with knowledge of
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Continue ReadingBy Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Vice presidential candidate JD Vance said “no” former president Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election “by the words” the Ohio Republican would use, when asked Wednesday what message it sends to independent voters that he has not directly answered that question. “On the election of 2020, I’ve
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The National Women’s Soccer League expansion team in Boston apologized on Wednesday for a “Too Many Balls” marketing campaign that draw a harsh reaction from the transgender community and others. A day after unveiling the slogan as part of the rollout of the team name BOS Nation FC, the
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, Manuela Castro, Mauricio Torres, Alli Rosenbloom and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Liam Payne, a former member of the boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to local police. Payne, who was 31, leaves behind his seven-year-old son, Bear. Police
Continue ReadingBy Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday eulogized Ethel Kennedy, the human rights activist and widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, as “a hero in her own right,” remembering her decades of public service and personal friendship to him and his family. “She got me through a time I didn’t want
Continue ReadingBy Spencer Wilson Click here for updates on this story BRECKENRIDGE, Colorado (KCNC) — A Colorado teacher was recently recognized for his dedication to his students, regardless of what their primary language is. Oakley Van Oss works at Summit High School in Breckenridge and specializes in welding and construction. He teaches practical job skills with
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Elon Musk’s SpaceX has accused a California regulator of political discrimination after it voted to block the rocket company from conducting more launches on the state’s central coast. SpaceX claimed in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that members of the California Coastal Commission violated Musk’s right to free
Continue ReadingBy Todd Feurer, Marissa Perlman, Elyssa Kaufman Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO, Illinois (WBBM) — An elderly woman with dementia has been missing for over a week, and her family in south suburban Country Club Hills is asking for people to be on the lookout. Yolanda Howell, 78, was last seen at
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An outspoken pro-Israel professor at Columbia University has been temporarily barred from campus for harassing and intimidating other employees. University spokesperson Ben Chang says Shai Davidai, a business professor at the Manhattan university, will have to undergo training in order to have his campus access restored. Davidai didn’t immediately
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a drab office suite just blocks from the White House, seasoned political operatives are drawing up detailed plans for a government in waiting. Another identical suite in the same government building is dark and idle. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are running markedly different transition
Continue ReadingBy Graham Hurley, CNN (CNN) — The National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, on Wednesday showed off an excavated century-old time capsule, revealing a cornucopia of early 20th-century relics, artifacts and documents. In 1924, historians and museum curators banded together to bury a time capsule inside the Liberty Memorial, to be opened
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The head of the military junta that seized power in Mali in 2020 has promoted himself to the rank of army general with special title: Colonel Assimi Goita of the land army, the highest military distinction held only by two former heads of state in the country’s history. The
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