By Katelyn Polantz, Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Failing to win Senate approval as US Attorney for Washington, DC, has made Ed Martin a more formidable force inside the Trump Justice Department. After three chaotic months as interim US attorney earlier this year, Justice Department officials placed Martin in the department’s headquarters in
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CNN, POOL By Devan Cole, Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in Boston indicated Thursday that she will intervene in a high-stakes fight over the Trump administration’s decision to not tap into billions of dollars in emergency funds to help cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November. “Right
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By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The neurologic disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE has most often been found in people who experienced repeated blows to the head while playing contact sports and there’s now evidence of genetic damage inside the brain, too. The researchers examined the brains of football players and others with
Continue Reading By Devan Cole, Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in Boston indicated Thursday that she will intervene in a high-stakes fight over the Trump administration’s decision to not tap into billions of dollars in emergency funds to help cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November. “Right now, Congress
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A legendary fossil housed at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh features skeletons apparently locked in prehistoric combat — an epic meeting of two of the world’s favorite dinosaurs: Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex. Or so paleontologists thought. Researchers who spent the past five years studying the
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By Katelyn Polantz, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department’s decision to sideline two US attorneys and remove mentions of Donald Trump and the US Capitol attack from court papers before the sentencing of a pardoned January 6 rioter is being viewed by former and current career prosecutors as an alarming whitewashing of history.
Continue ReadingBy Associated Press Washington (AP) — The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be White South Africans, a dramatic drop after the United States previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution from around the world. The
Continue ReadingPor Ben Morse, CNN Han pasado más de 10 años desde que Floyd Mayweather Jr. y Manny Pacquiao se enfrentaron en lo que se denominó la “Pelea del Siglo”. Y a pesar de que ambos superan hoy los 40 años, podríamos estar a punto de presenciar una revancha memorable entre dos de los mejores boxeadores
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By Krista Bo Polanco, CNN (CNN) — Jeff Robertson didn’t take Halloween decorations seriously until 2020, when he wanted to make his kids smile during the pandemic. Every year since, his yard in Holly Springs, North Carolina — and hundreds more across the country –— has been full of plastic skeletons of all sizes for
Continue ReadingPor Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español El Departamento del Tesoro de Estados Unidos sancionó este jueves a un grupo delictivo con sede en Cancún, uno de los principales centros turísticos de México, desde donde presuntamente se dedica a traficar migrantes indocumentados desde varias partes del mundo hacia territorio estadounidense. Mediante un comunicado, el Departamento identificó
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(Update: adding video) PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A Warm Springs man made his first appearance in federal court Wednesday after being charged in connection with a fatal shooting on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Carlos Ralph Miller-Smith, 31, is charged with involuntary manslaughter and assault resulting in serious bodily injury, according to the U.S. Attorney’s
Continue ReadingPor Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Mientras caminan hacia el grupo de los siete lagos glaciares de Rila, en la montaña del mismo nombre en Bulgaria, Maureen Thomson y Jeremy Myers inhalan el aire fresco de la montaña y exhalan lentamente. La pareja estadounidense, que se mudó el año pasado a Bulgaria, en los Balcanes orientales, dice
Continue ReadingPor Samantha Delouya, CNN Las tasas hipotecarias cayeron por cuarta semana consecutiva después de que la Reserva Federal de EE.UU. recortara su tasa de interés de referencia el miércoles. Sin embargo, los expertos advierten que las tasas de los préstamos para vivienda podrían no bajar mucho más en el corto plazo. La tasa hipotecaria fija
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By Ivana Kottasová, Vasco Cotovio, Nada Bashir, Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN (CNN) — An elderly man sits on the floor, dozens of bodies lying around him, before a Sudanese rebel fighter approaches and shoots him. The apparent killing – captured on video shared online by the rebels themselves – took place at a university medical school
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By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — The Senate on Thursday passed a resolution aimed at ending President Donald Trump’s global tariffs introduced last spring, with four Senate Republicans joining Democrats to object to the president’s trade policy. For a third time in as many days, Sens. Rand Paul, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Mitch McConnell,
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By Angélica Franganillo Díaz (CNN) — A federal judge in Maryland on Thursday temporarily paused the government’s rollout of a new annual asylum application fee, citing confusion and inconsistent policies between federal agencies. Judge Stephanie Gallagher said two agencies, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Executive Office for Immigration Review, acted “arbitrarily and
Continue ReadingCNN en Español La presidenta de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, dijo que su Gobierno busca mantener la coordinación con Estados Unidos en materia marítima, tras el ataque a una embarcación presuntamente cargada con droga en aguas internacionales ocurrido este lunes. Sheinbaum dijo que aún no hay novedades sobre el presunto sobreviviente al ataque y que la
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The home furnishing and decor store, City Home, is slated to expand into the old mill district in addition to a seasonal pop up in November. The full press release is below: Bend just can’t get enough of City Home. The Portland-based retailer known for its eclectic vintage-inspired home furnishings, decor,
Continue ReadingBy Jori Finkel (CNN) — In a very rare and likely precedent-setting agreement, the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston has agreed to return two works from 1857 by the Black potter David Drake, who made his ambitious jars while enslaved, to his present-day descendants. By the terms of the contract, one of those vessels
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Bend Chamber of commerce announced Sara Odendahl as its new CEO beginning November 3rd. The full press release is below: The Bend Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce Sara Odendahl as its new CEO effective November 3. Sara has served as the interim CEO since June 30, in addition to
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