RNC chief counsel resigns after two months
By Alayna Treene, Kristen Holmes and Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — The Republican National Committee’s chief counsel Charlie Spies has resigned…
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Young boy dies in Texas floodwaters as authorities make more than 200 rescues across state
By Sara Tonks, CNN Meteorologist, Joe Sutton, Paradise Afshar, and Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — The body of a 4-year-old boy was recovered from…
Continue ReadingStart your week smart: Security tactics at protests, Henry Cuellar, Al Jazeera, Canadian assassination, Kentucky Derby winner
By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Today is Cinco de Mayo, a holiday celebrated in some parts of Mexico that’s become a marketing…
Continue ReadingStart your week smart: Security tactics at protests, Henry Cuellar, Al Jazeera, Canadian assassination, Kentucky Derby winner
CNN By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Today is Cinco de Mayo, a holiday celebrated in some parts of Mexico that’s become a…
Continue ReadingA milestone reached in mainline Protestant churches’ decades-old disputes over LGBTQ inclusion
The Associated Press The fight to allow same-sex marriage and gay clergy has defined much of the last half-century for major mainline Protestant…
Continue ReadingMethodists end anti-gay bans, closing 50 years of battles over sexuality for mainline Protestants
By PETER SMITH Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — It took just a few days for United Methodist delegates to remove a half-century’s…
Continue ReadingHamas says latest cease-fire talks have ended. Israel vows military operation in ‘very near future’
By JOSEF FEDERMAN and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The latest round of Gaza cease-fire talks ended in Cairo after “in-depth…
Continue ReadingHush money, catch and kill and more: A guide to unique terms used at Trump’s New York criminal trial
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial is full of terms you don’t typically hear in a…
Continue ReadingGerman teen turns himself in over attack on European election candidate
BERLIN (AP) — A teenager has surrendered to police over an attack on a candidate from the party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz that has fueled concern…
Continue ReadingWhat a judge’s gag order on Trump means in his hush money case
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Virtually every day of his hush money criminal trial, former President…
Continue ReadingBatalla de Puebla: la verdadera historia del Cinco de Mayo
Sofía Narváez (CNN Español) — El Cinco de Mayo es una fecha muy importante en Estados Unidos, en especial en las zonas fronterizas con…
Continue ReadingHappy Cinco de Mayo: ¿qué se celebra este día y cuál es su origen?
CNNEE (CNN) — Guacamole y fajitas; banderas de México y mariachi; margaritas, cerveza y… más cerveza. En Estados Unidos la fiesta mexicana por…
Continue ReadingBiden has rebuilt the refugee system after Trump-era cuts. What comes next in an election year?
By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A church volunteer stood at an apartment door, beckoning inside a Congolese family for…
Continue ReadingAnti-war protesters leave USC after police arrive, while Northeastern ceremony proceeds calmly
By NICK PERRY and PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press Students protesting the war in Gaza abandoned their camp at the University of Southern California…
Continue ReadingPolice search for suspects after 7 wounded, 4 critically, in shooting in Long Beach, California
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Police are searching for suspects in a late-night shooting that wounded seven people, four critically, in Long Beach,…
Continue Reading‘A better church is possible:’ Methodists celebrate as the church embraces the LGBTQ
By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — On a Sunday morning in 2020, while Rev. Andi Woodworth welcomed her congregation to the Neighborhood Church in…
Continue ReadingReal Madrid wins record-extending 36th La Liga title
By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Real Madrid sealed a record-extending 36th La Liga title on Saturday after rival Barcelona suffered a second-half…
Continue ReadingIsrael orders shut down of Al Jazeera in the country, seizes equipment, in ‘dark day for democracy’
By Michael Schwartz, Tim Lister, Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — Israel shut down Al Jazeera’s…
Continue ReadingKenan Thompson is supportive of college protests as long as they don’t involve his daughter in ‘SNL’ cold open
CNN By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — “Saturday Night Live” took on one of the top news stories of the past week on its latest episode, when cast…
Continue ReadingIsrael orders Al Jazeera to close its local operation and seizes some of its equipment
By TIA GOLDENBERG and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has ordered the local offices of Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite…
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