Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A conservative federal court says Mississippi cannot count mail-in ballots that arrive shortly after Election Day. But, Friday’s decision was not expected to affect the upcoming Nov. 5 election. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sent the case back to a district judge. The panel stopped short of
Continue ReadingJACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — The driver who struck and killed a famous grizzly bear south of Grand Teton National Park earlier this week was not speeding and the bear’s death was an accident, law enforcement officers said Friday. The death of grizzly No. 399 on Tuesday night in the Snake River Canyon south of Jackson
Continue ReadingBy Jason Kravarik and Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — Erik and Lyle Menendez have always maintained that they killed their parents because they were being sexually abused by their father. New evidence that may support the Menendez brothers’ allegations – some brought to light in a Peacock docuseries last year – could soon lead to the men
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — A military law enforcement investigation is still ongoing into the incident at Arlington National Cemetery when an employee was reportedly pushed by a member of former President Donald Trump’s campaign. An Army spokesperson previously said in August that the service “considers this matter closed.” The Army on Friday released
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer A new league format on the U.S. beach volleyball tour is bringing a team concept to what has always been a two-person sport. Instead of competing for tournament titles, the AVP is combining a men’s and women’s pair into teams that will play for a spot in the season-ending championship. Teams also
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A panel of three Donald Trump-appointed judges said Friday that Mississippi was violating federal law by counting mail ballots that arrive after Election Day, but stopped short of blocking the policy before the election, in a ruling that could nevertheless impact voting-related lawsuits this fall. The ruling from the 5th US Circuit Court
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Minnesota voters will decide on Election Day how to award the state’s 10 presidential electoral votes, including whether to promote their two-term governor to the vice presidency. The state briefly loomed as a possible presidential battleground in 2024, but Democrat Kamala Harris nudged the state back onto safer Democratic ground
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Taiwan is making a longshot push to join the International Monetary Fund. The democratically ruled island is a major economy the size of Poland but absent from global organizations. Taiwan’s de facto embassy in the United States says membership at the IMF would help boost the island’s financial resilience. China,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PEACHTREE CORNERS, Ga. (AP) — Democrats are trying to dent the 102-78 Republican majority in Georgia’s state House. Leaders of the minority party admit they can’t win a majority in the lower chamber this year. But picking up seats would let Democrats argue they’re moving toward a majority, after Republicans held the line
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) — A jury in Rhode Island has awarded more than $5 million to the family of a teenager who died by suicide. The jury on Wednesday found a football coach and several school administrators negligent in the way they responded before 15-year-old Nathan Bruno took his own life in 2018. His
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Army has released an almost entirely redacted version of the police report describing when a staffer for Donald Trump’s campaign reportedly shoved an Arlington National Cemetery employee. The altercation in August came as the cemetery worker was trying to prevent them from filming and photographing a ceremony to
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — At least one U.S. airline has temporarily canceled flights to Haiti’s capital after gang members opened fire and hit a U.N. helicopter flying near the country’s main airport. Spirit Airlines said in a statement Friday to The Associated Press that its daily flight to Port-au-Prince has been suspended through
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung and Esha Mitra, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — Indian airlines have received more than 100 hoax bomb threats in a span of a few days, forcing planes to delay, reroute and make emergency landings – throwing the country’s aviation industry into costly disarray right before one of the biggest festivals of the
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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — An 11-year-old in Washington state fled home in the early morning hours to escape a shooting that left her bloodied and wounded, and killed her entire family. For days this week, authorities have been investigating the gruesome, fatal shootings of five people in Fall City, Washington. Now, the girl’s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Hallmark Media executive vice president of programming Lisa Hamilton Daly instructed a former employee not to cast “old people” for Hallmark roles, saying that “our leading ladies are aging out,” according to a lawsuit filed against the network this month and obtained by The Associated Press. Penny Perry, a 79-year old casting director
Continue ReadingBy Whitney Wild and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Senior-level personnel changes at the US Secret Service as well as the creation of new divisions are underway as the agency works to resolve security breakdowns that preceded the two attempts on former President Donald Trump’s life this summer. Acting Director Ron Rowe laid out his
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Governor Tina Kotek has declared a drought in Wallowa County through Executive Order 24-29, and directed state agencies to coordinate and prioritize assistance to the region. “Water scarcity has become the new normal for our state,” Governor Kotek said. “We’re seeing counties across Oregon experience longer drought periods at a greater frequency
Continue ReadingSAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia woman accused of killing her 20-month-old son and dumping his body in a trash bin two years ago has been found guilty of murder. Local news outlets report a jury on Friday found Leilani Simon guilty of all 19 charges against her in the death of her son, Quinton
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — An appeals court in the battleground state of Georgia has declined a request for expedited review of an appeal of a judge’s order that county election officials must vote to certify results by the legal deadline. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled this month that those officials cannot
Continue ReadingBy Curt Devine, Lauren Fox, and Emily R. Condon, CNN (CNN) — The chairman of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus suggested that legislators in the battleground state of North Carolina could potentially allocate their state’s electoral votes to Donald Trump before votes are counted because of the possible disenfranchisement of voters in Western North Carolina,
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