Click here for updates on this story New York (WCBS) — The NYPD hopes newly released surveillance video will help identify three teens accused of throwing rocks at a school bus in Brooklyn. The incident happened shortly after 4 p.m. Tuesday on Lefferts Avenue in Crown Heights. Police said the bus was bringing students home
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President Donald Trump is approaching the end of another year without closing on either of the two big trade priorities he campaigned on in 2016 — a comprehensive deal with China and a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement. With the 2020 campaign around the corner, the President himself is casting doubt on whether he
Continue Reading Seventy-seven apparent non-citizens voted in Ohio’s general election in November 2018, the state’s top election official said Wednesday, and another 277 were able to successfully register in violation of state law. The announcement from Republican Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose — coming after years of GOP warnings of massive voter fraud — means that
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Nota del editor: Carlos Alberto Montaner es escritor y analista político de CNN. Sus columnas se publican en decenas de diarios de España, Estados Unidos y América Latina. Montaner es, además, vicepresidente de la Internacional Liberal. Las opiniones expresadas en esta columna son exclusivas del autor. (CNN Español) — El “Centro de Divulgación del Conocimiento Económico” (CEDICE), en Caracas, acaba
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EL PASO, Texas – An El Paso Nissan dealer outsold 1,400 other dealerships nationwide last month to become the top Nissan outlet in the country. Charlie Clark Nissan El Paso ranked number one nationally in sales volume for the month of November, selling a record 347 new Nissan vehicles. To call this milestone an honor
Continue Reading It is not fun trying to catch up on fact checking President Donald Trump. We took a Thanksgiving break from our comprehensive counting of the President’s false claims. We returned to find a hefty backlog of nonsense. Trump made 41 false claims last week, some of which he spent relaxing in Florida. He made 55
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Saudi Arabia has just pulled off the biggest initial public offering in history, raising $25.6 billion by selling shares in its giant state-owned oil monopoly. Saudi Aramco sold 3 billion shares at 32 riyals ($8.53) each in its IPO, the company said Thursday. That means the deal raised more than China’s Alibaba in its 2014
Continue Reading Joe Biden grew visibly frustrated with an audience member at a campaign event on Thursday, calling the man a liar and challenging him to a push-up contest when the man asked about his son and said the former vice president was too old. The audience member, who asked the question during a stop on Biden’s
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The family of a Caribbean resort employee is suing an American tourist accused of manslaughter in the worker’s death. The estate of 27-year-old Kenny Mitchel is suing Gavin Hapgood for damages, including money to help cover the cost of Mitchel’s funeral and wages he would have made had he survived, according to court documents filed
Continue Reading More than half a million hermit crabs have been killed after becoming trapped by plastic pollution on two remote islands, a new study from the University of Tasmania found. Research teams estimated that about 508,000 of the crustaceans have been killed in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean and about 61,000 on Henderson
Continue Reading NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission arrived at near-Earth asteroid Bennu a year ago, and the spinning top-shaped space rock has been full of surprises. The latest findings now classify it as an active asteroid with observable events happening on the surface. OSIRIS-REx and Bennu got to meet face-to-face on December 3 of last year. OSIRIS-REx has been
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Baltimore (WJZ) — It was a routine call that led to an unlikely friendship between a Baltimore City Police officer and a young man from the southeast side of the city. On September 3, Officer Johnathan Harris received a call for a person in distress. “We’re canvassing the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Boston (WBZ) — The MBTA has taken its new Orange Line trains out of service again, this time over to an “uncommon noise” determined to be coming from wear pads. The six new cars debuted back in August. A month later, they were temporarily taken out of service
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Chicago Heights (WBBM) — The United States Post Office Inspector General is investigating a fraud scheme that victims believe revolves around a south suburban post office. As CBS 2’s Mike Puccinelli reported, investigators believe someone has been ripping off individual customers and area entrepreneurs at the Chicago Heights
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Dalworthington Garden (KTVT) — A Dalworthington Gardens man started working on his holiday display months ago. Now his passion has spread down the street, attracting thousands of people every year. David Kulesz was on vacation the week of Thanksgiving, but he was not kicking back and relaxing. “It
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Cell phones are a literal pain in the neck — and face, eyes, nose, ears and head. A new study analyzing national emergency room data shows injuries to those areas of our bodies have risen “steeply” over the last 20 years. The study found most injuries occurred to people between the ages of 13 and
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A man accused of building a fake border crossing in order to trick and exploit migrants has been detained by Russian authorities. The suspect was arrested for creating a false frontier near Russia’s border with Finland, deceiving four people who thought he was smuggling them into the European Union, according to Russian state news agency
Continue Reading Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, was closer to the central figures in the Ukraine scandal than he let on, even as his committee investigated the matter, according to congressional findings and news reports. A sweeping report from House Democrats indicated that Nunes and a top aide exchanged multiple phone
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Retailers looking to get Americans off e-commerce sites and into physical stores this holiday season may be relying on Santa Claus more than ever. Department stores, such as Kohl’s, have struggled to bring post-Thanksgiving shoppers into their brick-and-mortar locations so far this year. A handful of big-box behemoths, including Walmart, Target and Best Buy, gobbled
Continue Reading If big banks held marriage ceremonies to celebrate their mergers, Elizabeth Warren would be the first one to shout, “I object!” Warren fears these tie-ups will create Too-Big-To-Fail institutions like those at the heart of the 2008 financial crisis. That’s why the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate plans to introduce legislation that takes direct aim at
Continue Reading Nota del editor: Vaclav Masek Sánchez recibió su maestría en el Centro para Estudios Latinoamericanos y el Caribe (CLACS) de la Universidad de Nueva York (NYU), donde actualmente es instructor adjunto. Su investigación académica se centra en las historias políticas en Centroamérica. (CNN Español) — Aunque las convulsiones sociales recientes se concentran en Sudamérica, la
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Fresno (KOVR) — Officers say a driver is lucky to be alive after a horrific crash in Central California on a foggy Tuesday morning. The crash happened near S. Golden State and S. Chestnut avenues, south of Fresno. It’s unclear exactly what led up to the crash, but
Continue Reading Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Donald Trump before he was elected President, filed a lawsuit Thursday against Fox News alleging the news organization defamed her. In the lawsuit, which was filed in a New York state court, McDougal accused host Tucker Carlson of acting with a “reckless
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story West Chester (KYW) — A gym in West Chester threw a very special party for one of their favorite clients for his 100th birthday. At 99 years old, Paul Earley goes to the gym nearly every day. Earley is such a familiar face at Anytime Fitness that his
Continue Reading Ambassadors from France, Germany and the UK have again alleged that Iran has developed nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, in a joint letter addressed to the United Nations Secretary-General officially released by the UN on Wednesday. The ambassadors listed four examples of activity indicating nuclear-capable missiles, adding that “Iran’s developments of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles and related technologies
Continue Reading House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats are injecting an urgent new argument into their already fast-moving impeachment drive: President Donald Trump poses such a flagrant threat to American governance and democracy that there is no time to waste. “If we allow a President to be above the law, we do so surely at the peril of
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President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court Thursday to block a subpoena for his financial documents, arguing that the House exceeded its authority when it ordered Trump’s longtime accounting firm Mazars USA to turn over his personal records. The justices have already put a temporary freeze on the subpoena while they consider in the coming
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In a feat of engineering, human will and blatant disregard of speed limits, three men claim that they broke the record for the “Cannonball Run,” a cross-country drive from New York to Los Angeles. Arne Toman, Douglas Tabbutt and Berkeley Chadwick say they started their drive on November 11 at 12:57 a.m. at the Red
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Phoenix (KTVK) — A Phoenix-area woman is making it her mission to pay it forward in honor of her late husband. Candice Brooks’ husband, Craig, died suddenly from a heart attack two years ago. He was only 38 years old. Brooks says he was compassionate, helping others no
Continue Reading (CNN) — Puede que veas mucho azul en 2020. Pantone anunció este miércoles por la noche que su Color del año 2020 es el azul clásico, un tono que recuerda al cielo al anochecer. “Es un color que anticipa lo que sucederá después”, dijo Laurie Pressman, vicepresidenta del Pantone Color Institute, que selecciona el color
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