By Caroline Jaime, CNN (CNN) — Former OceanGate employee Matthew McCoy testified Friday that at a lunch meeting in September 2017, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush told him that if he ran into any issues with the US Coast Guard ahead of the Titan expedition, Rush “would buy a congressman” and make the problems “go away.”
Continue ReadingMADISON, Wis. (AP) — A group of utilities has completed a high-voltage transmission linking Iowa and Wisconsin. American Transmission Company, Dairyland Power Cooperative and ITC Midwest announced Friday that work on the Cardinal-Hickory Creek line is done and that the line was fully energized Thursday. The line runs over 100 miles between Iowa’s Dubuque County
Continue ReadingCNN By Jeremy Herb and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump said Friday that – if elected – he’s ready to work out a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, emphasizing his good relationship with Vladimir Putin even as the former president stood next to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump and Zelensky
Continue ReadingAppalachian State’s home football game against Liberty in Boone, North Carolina, scheduled for Saturday was canceled because of the impacts of severe weather on the area from Tropical Storm Helene. The school announced the game would not be rescheduled. Heavy rain in the North Carolina mountains brought flooding to Boone and the town was under
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey says that her administration has formally seized a hospital through eminent domain to help keep it open and transition to a new owner. St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Boston is one of a group operated by Texas-based Steward Health Care, which had announced its bankruptcy in May. Healey
Continue ReadingAndrea Gomez ANÁLISIS (CNN) — No hace mucho tiempo, los candidatos que compiten por la Casa Blanca intentaron ganarse a los votantes con sus planes de reducir el déficit presupuestario o, mejor aún, dejar al país sin déficit alguno. Pero ahora, a medida que aumentan los peligros de un déficit cada vez mayor y de
Continue ReadingBy Krystal Hur, CNN New York (CNN) — The stock market is racking up record highs again. Investors are wasting no time moving into riskier assets from bitcoin to tech stocks after last week’s long-awaited rate cut from the Federal Reserve. Last week, the S&P 500 and Dow surged to new highs after the Fed
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was among the prominent political figures that Iranian hackers sought to impersonate as part of their efforts to target people associated with former President Donald Trump, according to court
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Three Iranian operatives have been charged with hacking Donald Trump’s presidential campaign as part of what the Justice Department says was a sweeping effort to undermine the former president and erode confidence in the U.S. electoral system. The action, coupled with sanctions and rewards for information leading to the accused
Continue ReadingPRICE, Utah (AP) — Four people from Minnesota and a Utah man were killed in a four-vehicle chain reaction crash in central Utah. The Utah Highway Patrol says an SUV pulling onto U.S. Highway 6 near Price overshot the acceleration lane and pulled into the path of a semitractor pulling double trailers. The driver of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As floodwaters from Hurricane Helene quickly surrounded a small Tennessee hospital near a riverbank, workers first tried to get patients out by ambulance. Then, the road washed out. They tried to move people to the center of the low-slung building, but they were met by water. Once rescue boats
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Continue ReadingBy Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — Muriel Furrer, an 18-year-old cyclist, has died after suffering a serious head injury in a race, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announced Friday. Furrer was competing in the women’s junior road race at the world championships in Zurich, Switzerland, on Thursday when she was badly injured in a fall.
Continue ReadingBy Leticia Juarez Click here for updates on this story LAKE ELSINORE, California (KABC) — Yahushua Robinson was the youngest in his family, born after his parents had lost his older brother. “He brought us together, made us laugh, he was an avid dancer. He just loved to love people,” said his mother, Janee Robinson.
Continue ReadingAP Soccer Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Christine Sinclair, one of the founding players for the Portland Thorns in the National Women’s Soccer League, announced Friday that she retiring from the game. Sinclair will finish out the season with the Thorns, who plan to honor her before the final regular-season home game on Nov. 1.
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Kennedy Center and the union representing musicians in the National Symphony Orchestra have come to an agreement on a short-term contract after a brief strike that threatened to derail Saturday’s season-opening gala. The DC Federation of Musicians, local 161-710 of the American Federation of Musicians, struck Friday following the Sept. 2
Continue ReadingBy Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are tied among likely voters in North Carolina, while Harris holds a comfortable lead in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District, according to two new CNN polls conducted by SSRS. The North Carolina survey also shows scandal-plagued Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson trailing
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — A pair of paintings by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh at London’s National Gallery were vandalized Friday when a group of climate activists splattered what appeared to be tomato soup on them, shortly after two other activists were sentenced over a similar attack two years ago. The paintings from Van
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Las Fuerzas Armadas de Israel llevaron a cabo el viernes un ataque aéreo contra el “cuartel general central” de Hezbollah en Beirut, Líbano, informó su portavoz. El objetivo del ataque era el líder del grupo, Hassan Nasrallah, según dijo a CNN un funcionario israelí. “Hace unos momentos, las Fuerzas de
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists working in Peru, assisted by artificial intelligence, have discovered 303 previously unknown giant symbols carved in the Nazca Desert. The carvings include birds, plants, spiders, humanlike figures with headdresses, decapitated heads and an orca wielding a knife. Described in study published Monday in the journal PNAS, the discovery
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