MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge has ruled that three gun control questions can go on the November ballot in Memphis. The Daily Memphian reports that Shelby County Chancellor Melanie Taylor Jefferson sided with the Memphis officials on Wednesday. The City Council sued the Shelby County Election Commission last month for refusing to put
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Ileana has formed off the Pacific coast of Mexico and is headed on a forecast path toward the resort-studded area of Los Cabos. The National Hurricane Center says Ileana is centered about 240 miles south-southeast of Cabo San Lucas. A tropical storm warning is in effect for portions of the
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court on Thursday denied former President Donald Trump’s effort to delay his sentencing in the criminal hush money case because the state judge overseeing the matter already postponed the date. “In light of the state court’s adjournment of sentencing until November 26, 2024, it is hereby ordered
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others on Thursday tossed out three counts in the indictment — including two counts brought against the former president — saying that they lie beyond the state’s jurisdiction. The case against Trump and others who are appealing an
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Several leading artificial intelligence companies pledged Thursday to remove nude images from the data sources they use to train their AI products, and committed to other safeguards to curb the spread of harmful sexual deepfake imagery. In a deal brokered by the Biden administration, tech companies Adobe, Anthropic, Cohere, Microsoft and OpenAI
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A police lieutenant has testified that three former officers charged in the beating death of Tyre Nichols did not comply with Memphis Police Department training policies when they punched, kicked and hit the 29-year-old motorist with a baton after a traffic stop. Lt. Larnce Wright offered the testimony Thursday
Continue ReadingTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — State-run media are reporting that gunmen have killed three border guards and wounded one other person in restive southeastern Iran. IRNA news agency reported that a car opened fire on a border regiment vehicle in Mirjaveh county in southeast Sistan and Baluchistan province, near the Pakistani border, killing two soldiers and
Continue ReadingSol Amaya San Salvador, El Salvador (CNN)–Durante décadas, las opciones de vida para muchos en El Salvador fueron sombrías: irse o morir. Apodada la “capital mundial del asesinato”, hubo un promedio de un homicidio por hora a principios de 2016, en este país de solo 6 millones de habitantes, dos millones menos de los que
Continue ReadingBy Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — A former CIA officer arrested for espionage has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for conspiring to provide classified information to Chinese intelligence officials, according to the US Department of Justice. Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 71, of Honolulu, had arranged for himself and a relative, who also previously worked
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Una declaración conjunta que formularon 41 países miembros de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) este jueves solicita al Consejo Nacional Electoral de Venezuela (CNE) publicar inmediatamente los resultados de todas las mesas electorales y permitir la verificación de los datos desagregados para promover la credibilidad del proceso electoral del 28 de
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN) –– El expresidente Donald Trump anunció este jueves que no habrá un tercer debate presidencial. “KAMALA DEBERÍA CENTRARSE EN LO QUE DEBIÓ HABER HECHO DURANTE LOS ÚLTIMOS CASI CUATRO AÑOS. ¡NO HABRÁ UN TERCER DEBATE!”, publicó Trump en Truth Social. Trump debatió con el presidente Joe Biden en junio y con la
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Stephen Hu and Omar Jimenez, CNN Springfield, Ohio (CNN) — Rose Goute Creole restaurant does a bustling business in Springfield, Ohio, with clientele drawn from across the city to its heaping displays of patties and donuts, and pots of perfumed rice, fried pork and fish, and golden plantains. Rosena Jean Louis runs the
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Nearly half of all renter households in the US were cost-burdened in 2023, meaning they paid more than 30% of their income towards housing costs, according to new government data. The data, released Thursday as part of the US Census Bureau’s 2023 American Community Survey, underscores the gravity of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press U.S. Border Patrol agents who rushed to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in 2022 failed to establish command and had inadequate training to confront what became one of the nation’s deadliest classroom attacks, according to a federal report released Thursday. But investigators concluded the agents did not violate rules and no disciplinary
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s president has dissolved the opposition-dominated parliament, paving the way for a snap legislative election after he took office on an anti-establishment platform. President Bassirou Diomaye Faye said in a televised address Thursday evening the election would take place Nov. 17. Analysts say Faye’s political party has a high
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen, Sara Murray, Nick Valencia and Jason Morris, CNN (CNN) — A judge on Thursday threw out three charges in the sweeping Georgia election subversion case, including two charges that former President Donald Trump faces. The decision hasn’t yet been formally applied to Trump because his case has been paused pending appeals. In
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — It’s hard to overstate how tough it has become for millions of Americans to purchase a home — a cornerstone of the so-called American Dream. Home prices are sky-high, mortgage rates remain higher than anything seen from 2008 to 2022 and housing supply is not keeping up with
Continue ReadingOTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canadian police say a renowned portrait of Winston Churchill that was reported stolen from an Ottawa hotel has been tracked down in Italy. Investigators will travel to Rome later this month to retrieve the 1941 portrait of the British leader taken by Ottawa photographer Yousuf Karsh, police said in a news
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WARM SPRINGS, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Museum at Warm Springs has received a FY 2025 Cultural Development grant for $25,899 from Oregon Cultural Trust. This September, Oregon Cultural Trust awarded a record $3.85 million to 148 Oregon cultural organizations. The Museum at Warm Springs is among six Central Oregon entities that has received funding. The
Continue ReadingPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Two dozen soldiers and police officers from Jamaica has arrived in Haiti to join a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya to fight powerful gangs. Jamaica is the second country to join the mission that the U.N. Security Council approved in October 2023. It began when the first contingent of Kenyan police
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