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Next year’s Jan. 6 election certification will get extra security to prevent another riot

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In an effort to prevent another riot like the one on Jan. 6, 2021, the Homeland Security secretary has designated the congressional count and certification of the presidential election as a national special security event. That means the Secret Service will oversee all security-related planning. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

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‘It was the hardest race of my life’: Kansas City-area Paralympian describes competing in Paris

By CAROLINE HOGAN Click here for updates on this story     KANSAS CITY, MIssouri (KSHB) — The 2024 Paris Paralympics are over, and athletes are returning home, some with medals, but all of them with memories. That includes local athlete Rachel Watts, who competed in the triathlon. KSHB 41’s Caroline Hogan has followed Watts on her

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California governor signs a bill bringing back harsh penalties for smash-and-grab robberies

Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Thursday bringing back tough criminal penalties targeting large-scale stealing schemes and smash-and-grab robberies. The new law requires prosecutors to start imposing harsher sentences again for those who damage or destroy property valued at more than $50,000 while committing a felony. A similar

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Judge Hasette recuses herself from cases involving man accused of gunning down his child’s mother

By Veronica Flores-Herrera Click here for updates on this story     CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (KRIS) — Judge Nanette Hasette has recused herself from the case involving Devaughan Marquise Williams, who was charged with the death of Kiara Smith, his child’s mother. Police allege Williams shot the 25-year-old mother of three in her bedroom at her home

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Federal appeals court pauses ruling allowing prediction market Kalshi to offer US election betting

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, on Thursday evening temporarily blocked a prediction market from offering bets on the November elections, granting a government watchdog’s request to pause a ruling that made way for legal political gambling in the United States. Earlier Thursday, US District Judge Jia

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Marjorie Taylor Greene calls far-right activist Laura Loomer’s rhetoric ‘huge problem’ that ‘doesn’t represent MAGA’

By Clare Foran and Haley Talbot, CNN Washington (CNN) — GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized far-right activist Laura Loomer on Thursday, saying that her “rhetoric and hateful tone” is concerning and a problem and “doesn’t represent MAGA as a whole.” The comments from Greene, a Georgia Republican who has her own high-profile history of incendiary

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An explosive California wildfire looked like a bomb went off from space – here’s what’s happening

By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — California’s Line Fire is burning so intensely that it created its own weather. Dramatic pyrocumulus, or “fire clouds,” exploded over the fire Monday at the exact time a high-resolution weather satellite hundreds of miles above Earth’s surface was looking down at the planet. Pyrocumulus clouds form over intense

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An explosive California wildfire looked like a bomb went off from space – here’s what’s happening

CNN By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — California’s Line Fire is burning so intensely that it created its own weather. Dramatic pyrocumulus, or “fire clouds,” exploded over the fire Monday at the exact time a high-resolution weather satellite hundreds of miles above Earth’s surface was looking down at the planet. Pyrocumulus clouds form over

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