By Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump has named Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik as his pick for UN ambassador. “I am honored to nominate Chairwoman Elise Stefanik to serve in my Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, and smart America First fighter,” Trump said in
Continue ReadingRepublican Rep. David Schweikert won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Arizona on Sunday. The Maricopa County district was a top target for Democrats, who narrowly missed flipping it in the 2022 midterms, falling less than 1 percentage point short. Schweikert is one of 16 Republicans who represent a congressional district that President Joe
Continue ReadingStory by AP China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, a move that’s likely to increase tensions over overlapping territorial claims. The Foreign Ministry on Sunday posted online geographic coordinates for the baselines around Scarborough Shoal. A nation’s territorial waters and exclusive economic
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Mar-a-Lago is the epicenter of Donald Trump’s presidential transition, and foreign leaders, contractors and those seeking a job in the administration have descended on Palm Beach, Florida, filling hotels and seeking rental properties for the next three months to get as much face time as possible with the president-elect
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court has declined an emergency request to extend the deadline for voters to fix problems with mail-in ballots. The decision came Sunday after voter rights groups complained of delays in vote counting and in notifying voters about signature problems. The state high court said county election officials who responded
Continue ReadingTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency says a militant attack near the Pakistani border with Iran has left five Iranian forces dead. The report said the dead were ethnic Baluch members of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard’s volunteer Basij force and were killed in Saravan city in Sistan and Baluchistan province. Saravan is
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California voters have rejected a measure amending the state Constitution to ban forced labor in any form. The constitution currently bans it except as punishment for crime. That exemption became a target of criminal justice advocates who are concerned about prison labor conditions. People who are incarcerated are often paid less
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Music giant Quincy Jones was laid to rest in a private ceremony in Los Angeles, a week after his death at age 91. A larger, more public memorial is also being planned. The family of the 28-time Grammy winning producer, arranger and composer said in a statement to The Associated Press
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A new typhoon has made landfall in the northeastern Philippines, which has been battered by earlier storms. Typhoon Toraji entered the mountainous Luzon region Monday with sustained winds of 81 mph and is expected to weaken before blowing out to sea. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. had been in the
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — Rafael has weakened into a remnant low pressure system in the Gulf of Mexico after barreling across Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane last week. Rafael had dissipated into a tropical storm Saturday. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Sunday that the post-tropical cyclone was located about 345 miles north-northwest of
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Election night was five days ago, when Donald Trump won and was declared the 47th president. On Sunday, Central Oregonians celebrated his win with a caravan. It was a Trump Train Victory Lap and MAGA Party in the Park, where more than a dozen people hopped in their cars with flags attached
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins and Colin McCullough, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump announced Sunday night that Tom Homan, who served as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in his last administration, will be in charge of the nation’s borders. “I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club has been brimming in the last 48 hours with two kinds of people: those angling for a job in the president-elect’s incoming administration, and those trying to influence him into hiring their picks for the top spots. But the one person who has loomed over
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — El Consejo Presidencial de Transición de Haití votó para reemplazar al primer ministro Garry Conille después de menos de un año en el cargo. Según un comunicado del gobierno, el consejo firmó una declaración el 8 de noviembre que destituyó a Conille de su cargo y nombró al empresario
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Last month, two major storms, Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, caused a total of between $51.5 billion and $81.5 billion of property damage, mostly to Southeastern US states, according to estimates from CoreLogic. That’s a lot of damage – but it’s only a small fraction of what climate change
Continue ReadingBy Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — Joey Logano took home his third career NASCAR Cup Series championship at Phoenix Raceway in Avondale, Arizona on Sunday. Logano held off teammate and last year’s champion Ryan Blaney for the final 20 laps to take the checkered flag. Blaney was looking to become the first back-to-back champion since
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — More than half of the monkeys bred for medical research that escaped from a compound in South Carolina last week have now been recovered unharmed, officials said Sunday. Twenty-four monkeys were captured on Sunday, a day after another of the 43 escaped monkeys was recovered. A “sizeable group” remains active along
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN) –– Más de 80 personas murieron en ataques israelíes en el Líbano, el norte de Gaza y Siria desde el sábado por la noche, según informes. La Agencia Nacional de Noticias (NNA, por sus siglas en inglés) informó este domingo de ataques aéreos en la ciudad de Almat, en el centro del
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Days before Senate Republicans pick their new leader, President-elect Donald Trump is pressuring the candidates to change the rules and empower him to appoint some nominees without a Senate vote. Republican Sens. John Thune of South Dakota, John Cornyn of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida are running in a
Continue ReadingAP Auto Racing Writer AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Eliminated from the playoffs at the end of the second round, Joey Logano received a second chance when another competitor was disqualified. He pounced on the opportunity. Logano was added to the round of eight following Alex Bowman’s disqualification and immediately went to Las Vegas Motor Speedway
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