ATLANTA (AP) — Officials say four students have been shot and wounded outside an Atlanta high school. Shortly after dismissal Wednesday afternoon, Atlanta Public Schools says shots were fired from an unknown vehicle, striking four students in the parking lot of Benjamin E. Mays High School. Officials say police and fire rescue responded immediately. The
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Wednesday’s snowfall and slick roads led to a few school closures and delays Thursday around the High Desert, and forecasters said a blue-sky break between storms would end later in the day.
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Both a Minnesota man testing a snowmobile for his employer and the company have been cited for reckless driving after the machine slammed into a sled dog team and killed three dogs in December. The State of Alaska charged Erik Johnson and Minnesota-based Polaris Inc. on
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer and Morgan Rimmer, CNN House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green is not planning to seek reelection for his congressional seat, he announced Wednesday, in the wake of the House voting to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “At the start of the 118th Congress, I promised my constituents to pass legislation to
Continue ReadingBy Angela Fritz, CNN (CNN) — The National Archives in Washington, DC, closed early on Wednesday after two people dumped red powder on the display that protects the US Constitution, Archives officials said in a news release. “The Constitution was unaffected in its encasement. No damage was done to the document itself,” the Archives said
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju, CNN Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell strongly defended his handling of a foreign aid package and bipartisan border security deal under heavy criticism from his right flank, saying bluntly that “every argument” against Ukraine aid is “wrong” and the opposition amounts to a “political reaction” driven by former President Donald Trump. McConnell,
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Internet networking pioneer Cisco Systems is jettisoning more than 4,000 employees. It’s the latest to join the parade of technology companies in a job-cutting trend that has helped boost their profits and stock prices. But the trend has also served as a sobering reminder of
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has announced that Palestinians living in the U.S. will be shielded from deportation as the Israel-Hamas war continues, citing “significantly deteriorated” conditions on the ground in Gaza. Palestinians will be covered under what’s known as “deferred enforced departure,” an authority used at a president’s
Continue ReadingBy RICHA KARMARKAR Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS) — At a Sunday morning service on Sunday (Feb. 4), a priest gave a sermon, a choir sang devotional hymns and a congregation bowed heads in a joint prayer. It was a typical Sunday for these faithful New Yorkers. Yet rather than a church, this service
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Technology company Cisco announced Wednesday that it plans to lay off 5% of its global workforce, amounting to thousands of employees, as part of a company-wide restructuring. Cisco joins a long list of tech companies that have announced workforce cuts in recent months. The networking hardware and software maker
Continue ReadingBy Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — The FBI’s “repeated and continued failures, delays and inaction” allowed Jeffrey Epstein to continue his sex trafficking operation for more than 20 years, 12 alleged victims claimed in a lawsuit filed Wednesday. The suit, filed against the United States in the Southern District of New York, claims the FBI’s
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Washington (CNN) — US companies may find themselves under federal scrutiny if they “quietly” try to funnel customers’ personal information into training artificial intelligence models, the government warned this week. The warning by the Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s top privacy and consumer protection agency, highlights the enormous value of Americans’
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG, ZEKE MILLER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden avoided criminal charges around his handling of classified documents in part because of his answers during a lengthy interview with the special counsel investigating him. But the sit-down also opened Biden up to fresh scrutiny over his age and
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Travis Kelce, jugador de los Chiefs de Kansas City, dijo este miércoles que su empujón al entrenador en jefe del equipo, Andy Reid, durante el Super Bowl LVIII fue “definitivamente inaceptable”. En declaraciones en su podcast ‘New Heights’ junto a su hermano Jason, Kelce explicó la situación, admitiendo que fue demasiado lejos.
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — “Showman-economista”, así calificó al presidente Javier Milei la expresidenta de Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, quien publicó un texto contra el oficialismo 66 días después de haber dejado la vicepresidencia del país. “Siga en su mundo paralelo”, le respondió el ministro de Economía, Luis Caputo. A su vez,
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal judges targeted by threats have more than doubled over the last three years amid a surge in violent and harassing messages directed at public officials around the country. U.S. Marshals Director Ron Davis said during a congressional hearing Wednesday that threats to prosecutors and other court
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Stuck in a dating app loop with no date in sight? A lawsuit filed Wednesday against Match Group claims that is by design. Tinder, Hinge and other Match dating apps are filled with addictive features that encourage “compulsive” use, the proposed class-action lawsuit claims. The lawsuit filed in federal
Continue ReadingBy Haley Talbot, CNN Rep. Jim Clyburn, a long-serving member of Democratic House leadership, said Wednesday he will run for reelection for his US House seat but will step down from his leadership position. “While I will run for re-election for South Carolina’s Sixth Congressional District, I have informed Leader Hakeem Jeffries of my intention
Continue ReadingALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a New York City man who admitted to smuggling three Burmese pythons in his pants through a U.S.-Canadian border crossing was sentenced to a year of probation and fined $5,000. The office of U.S. Attorney Carla B. Freedman says Calvin Bautista crossed into northern New York with the
Continue ReadingBy Mira Cheng, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the first treatment for severe frostbite to reduce the risk of finger or toe amputation in adults. Iloprost injection, marketed under the brand name Aurlumyn, is a vasodilator, a drug that opens blood vessels and prevents blood clotting. “Having this
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