WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is embracing perhaps Hollywood’s most memorable drill sergeant to portray his vision of a hardened military and mock the Biden administration’s embrace of the LGBTQ+ community serving openly. Trump’s recent rallies have featured a video with clips of R. Lee Ermey as Marine Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick’s 1987
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — Human rights activists in the violent Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, across from Laredo, Texas, are blaming the army and National Guard troops in the deaths of a nurse and an 8-year-old girl. Relatives said over the weekend the victims were apparently caught in crossfire. The shooting
Continue ReadingBy Zachary B. Wolf, CNN Washington (CNN) — American voters are divided in many ways – by gender, by race, by region – and any of these can be used to explain the current state of politics. More women support Democrats, a gender gap that seems likely to widen as the fall of Roe v.
Continue ReadingBy Jeff Tavss Click here for updates on this story OGDEN, Utah (KSTU) — An Ogden mother with terminal cancer who spent her final weeks raising over $1 million for her children and her own funeral expenses has died. Erika Carr’s death was announced early Saturday by her cousin on social media. “She fought a
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Corea del Norte envía a sus ciudadanos para ayudar al ejército de Rusia a luchar contra Ucrania, dijo Volodymyr Zelensky, lo que incrementa las preocupaciones sobre la alianza entre Moscú y un Estado con un notorio secretismo. En su mensaje diario en video el domingo, el presidente de Ucrania
Continue ReadingCNN Essay by Alisyn Camerota, CNN (CNN) — It’s almost impossible to know what to say to someone in the throes of grief. We all want to say something comforting. Very few of us know what that is. I’ve learned this the hard way. My beloved husband of 23 years died at the end of July,
Continue ReadingBy Averie Klonowski Click here for updates on this story GRANTSVILLE, Utah (KSTU) — After a bit of a skeleton decoration scandal in Grantsville last year, the city has taken it upon itself to embrace Halloween decorations this year. The city asked businesses to put out their best skeleton decorations this year. And soon, residents
Continue ReadingKSTU By Averie Klonowski Click here for updates on this story GRANTSVILLE, Utah (KSTU) — After a bit of a skeleton decoration scandal in Grantsville last year, the city has taken it upon itself to embrace Halloween decorations this year. The city asked businesses to put out their best skeleton decorations this year. And soon,
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is highlighting former President Bill Clinton’s comment Sunday that Georgia nursing student Laken Riley’s death “probably wouldn’t have happened” if migrants, including her alleged killer, had “all been properly vetted.” Clinton’s remark came as he lambasted Trump for scuttling a bipartisan
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Zoo’s long dark panda drought has come to an end. Eleven months after the zoo sent its three wildly popular pandas — Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their cub Xiao Qi Ji — back to China, a new pair of bears arrived late Tuesday morning. The three-year old
Continue ReadingBy WTVD Staff Click here for updates on this story RALEIGH, North Carolina (WTVD) — Raleigh Police announced an arrest in a 1998 sexual assault case. RPD said 58-year-old David Lee Toney has been charged with first-degree rape, kidnapping, assault inflicting serious bodily injury and attempted first-degree sexual offense in the decades-old cold case. All
Continue ReadingCNN By Nectar Gan, CNN Dujiangyan, China (CNN) — Two giant pandas are on their way from China to Washington’s National Zoo, kicking off a much-awaited return of the beloved bears to the American capital. Bao Li and Qing Bao, both three years old, left the giant panda research base in Dujiangyan, a city near
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A mission to study one of the solar system’s most promising environments that may be suitable for life has lifted off. NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft — designed to explore its namesake, Jupiter’s moon Europa — launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket Monday at 12:06 p.m. ET from NASA’s
Continue ReadingCNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A mission to study one of the solar system’s most promising environments that may be suitable for life has lifted off. NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft — designed to explore its namesake, Jupiter’s moon Europa — launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket Monday at 12:06 p.m. ET from
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Ziady, Paula Newton and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — Canada announced the expulsion of six Indian diplomats Monday, including the high commissioner, after the police accused agents of the Indian government of being linked to homicides, harassment and other “acts of violence” against Sikh separatists in the country. Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Expect to see fewer promotions at Starbucks. The coffee chain is scaling back promotional offers through its mobile app to get customers to pay full price for its coffees and teas, the Wall Street Journal first reported Monday and confirmed by CNN. The move is part of
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wagmeister and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — At least half a dozen new lawsuits were filed Monday against musician and producer Sean Combs, accusing him of sexual assault against men, women and a 16-year-old boy. The suits were all filed anonymously by John Doe and Jane Doe plaintiffs in federal court in the Southern
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Hurricane Milton passed through Florida days ago, but the devastating storm is still causing chaos at gas stations. Hundreds of gas stations in Florida still don’t have gas, including roughly half of the stations in the hard-hit Tampa area. Floridians who are fortunate to access working gas
Continue ReadingCNN By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades. The Sahara does experience rain, but usually just a few inches a year and rarely
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Florida’s government has threatened TV stations over an ad promoting an abortion-rights ballot measure and is now alleging fraud in petitions to get it before voters. The group promoting the ballot measure says the state is attempting to “silence voters.” The state contends that the ad is false and dangerous and that the
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