The 13-year-old boy arrested in the deadly stabbing of Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors allegedly picked up a knife when one of his friends dropped it and saw the attack, police said. More details about the case emerged on Tuesday when police officers testified at a Manhattan family court hearing. After the testimony, Judge Carol
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EL PASO, Texas — Many teens and young adults having been using vaping products with THC. While there may be health precautions, people who are caught with THC can face felony charges. That’s why the Paso del Norte Health Foundation and the El Paso Behavioral Health Behavior Consortium are working together to warn teenagers from
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The House Rules Committee on Tuesday approved six hours of debate on the House floor before voting on Wednesday on whether to impeach President Donald Trump on two articles of impeachment. Read the rules here: cnn.com/2019/12/17/politics/read-impeachment-rules-house/index.html
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The House Rules Committee on Tuesday approved six hours of debate on the House floor Wednesday on the resolution to impeach President Donald Trump. The Rules panel announced the parameters of the impeachment debate after voting to approve the rule on the impeachment articles along party lines. The six hours of floor time will be
Continue Reading The House Rules Committee on Tuesday approved six hours of debate on the House floor before voting on Wednesday on whether to impeach President Donald Trump on two articles of impeachment. Read the rules here:
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The Trump administration announced a proposed change to rules it hopes will radically transform the kidney donation system in the United States resulting in 5,000 more organ transplants a year. The organ procurement system for kidneys is “broken,” US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Tuesday. Almost 8,000 Americans die while waiting for
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Click here for updates on this story PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WTKR) — Police tracked down an Amazon delivery vehicle after it was stolen on Tuesday. An Amazon delivery driver was delivering package around 1:56 p.m., in the 3100 block Armistead Avenue when the vehicle was stolen. The delivery driver got out of the vehicle to deliver
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(CNN Español) — La cadena de comida rápida McDonald’s anunció a través de su cuenta oficial de Twitter de Perú que decretó dos días de duelo por la muerte de dos de sus empleados. “En relación a la terrible pérdida de nuestros colaboradores Carlos Gabriel Edgardo Campos Zapata y Alexandra Antonella Porras Inga, queremos anunciar
Continue Reading It was on White House letterhead. It read like a string of President Donald Trump’s tweets. And it was just as dishonest. On Tuesday afternoon, Trump released a six-page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in which — employing his distinctive vocabulary and punctuation — he blasted Democrats’ push to impeach him, defended his dealings
Continue Reading Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday bluntly acknowledged some of the political realities surrounding the upcoming Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, notably saying, “I’m not impartial about this at all.” “I’m not an impartial juror,” he said flatly. “This is a political process. There is not anything judicial about it. Impeachment is a
Continue Reading (CNN) — Este martes el papa Francisco cumple 83 años. Aquí te mostramos algunos datos de la vida del primer pontífice no europeo de la era moderna. Personal Fecha de nacimiento: 17 de diciembre de 1936 Lugar de nacimiento: Buenos Aires, Argentina Nombre de nacimiento: Jorge Mario Bergoglio Padres: Mario Bergoglio y Regina (Sivori) Bergoglio
Continue Reading It is a moment nearly six years in the making. A moment he has had to risk his life for time and again. He smuggled photos of war crimes out of Syria to demand that the world, specifically the United States, do something about what was happening in his home country. On Tuesday, he would
Continue Reading The State Department plans to dramatically downsize the number of American personnel in Iraq, according to a memo sent to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and obtained by CNN. The document, dated December 6 and sent by Bureau of Legislative Affairs Assistant Secretary Mary Elizabeth Taylor to committee Chairman Jim Risch, an Idaho Republican, outlines
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EL PASO, Texas — The U.S. Border Patrol’s tactical unit is mourning the loss of one of their own K-9 agents after he was shot and killed during a confrontation in northeast El Paso Tuesday morning. Bulder was a 5-year-old Belgian Malinois that had been serving with a Special Border Patrol Tactical unit for a
Continue Reading These days, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a cultlike figure among Democrats for going head-to-head with President Donald Trump. The moments are iconic: Pelosi, sunglasses-clad, coming out of a White House meeting after Democrats won back the House, following a rhetorical tussle in the Oval Office. In October, when Trump tweeted a picture of a
Continue Reading (CNN) — Una estudiante de 5 años de una escuela primaria en Vista, California, recaudó suficiente dinero para pagar los saldos negativos de 123 estudiantes en su escuela. Katelynn Hardee, una estudiante de kindergarten en la Escuela Primaria Breeze Hill, escuchó a un padre decir que estaba teniendo dificultades para pagar un programa extracurricular. “Ella
Continue Reading The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court slammed the FBI for mistakes it made in the Carter Page surveillance warrants. Read the order here: cnn.com/2019/12/17/politics/fisa-court-responds-to-fbi/index.html
Continue Reading (CNN) — El expresidente de Pakistán Pervez Musharraf fue condenado a muerte en ausencia por alta traición en un tribunal especial de su país. Un tribunal especial anunció el martes que la sentencia había sido acordada por 2 a 1, con uno de los tres jueces que no respaldó la sentencia de muerte sino una
Continue Reading A Russian spy-ship has returned to international waters off the southeastern coast of the United States and is operating in what two US officials told CNN is an “unsafe manner.” The Viktor Leonov, a Russian surveillance ship, has been sailing off the coast of South Carolina and Florida in the last few days, officials tell
Continue Reading The Trump administration still does not view the mass killing of Armenians from 1915-1923 as genocide, despite overwhelming bipartisan support by US lawmakers to formally recognize it as such. In a statement released Tuesday, State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said the administration has not changed its position on the matter. “Our views are reflected in
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — With Tuesday night expected to be the coldest of the year so far, the region’s homeless population prepares for another night in the freezing temperatures. “It’s a drag,” said Wayne Marshall, who is originally from Denver, but currently living on the streets of Las Cruces. “It gives you a sense
Continue Reading (CNN) — El presidente Donald Trump podría convertirse en el tercer presidente de la historia de Estados Unidos en enfrentar un juicio político. ¿Cómo llegamos hasta aquí y qué sigue? La Comisión de Reglas de la Cámara de Representantes de EE.UU. se reúne para establecer los parámetros para un debate sobre los cargos de juicio
Continue Reading (CNN) — Donald Trump se enfrenta a un proceso para un juicio político, un procedimiento que lleva a un juicio para determinar si un funcionario público es culpable de abuso de poder u otros delitos. Una condena efectiva en ese proceso lleva a la destitución del cargo. Estos son otros presidentes alrededor del mundo que
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Rosie the Riveter has inspired generations of women and now a test dummy named after her is breaking new barriers. Wearing a red bandana and a blue spacesuit, Rosie the Rocketeer is the first official passenger to ride Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the stars. The spacecraft is designed to carry astronauts to the International
Continue Reading Bill Taylor, the top US diplomat in Ukraine and key witness in public House impeachment hearings of President Donald Trump, will depart from his temporary post on January 2, two sources familiar with his plans tell CNN. The former ambassador had been brought out of retirement earlier this year to take on duties in the
Continue Reading The typically ultra-close-lipped Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court slammed the FBI for mistakes it made in the Carter Page surveillance warrants and ordered the agency to detail how it will improve its warrant applications in light of the errors, uncovered recently by the Justice Department’s inspector general. The order is a startling departure from the court’s
Continue Reading For the fifth time since 2013, wide receiver Josh Gordon has been suspended for some form of substance abuse. An NFL spokesperson made the announcement Monday, saying Gordon, who plays for the Seattle Seahawks, has been suspended indefinitely without pay for violating NFL policies on performance-enhancing substances and substances of abuse. Gordon, who has deleted
Continue Reading President Donald Trump may think Congress is focused only on impeachment. But there are signs of life on the Hill beyond impeaching Trump this week. The House did its part to avoid a government shutdown (by passing a $1.4 trillion spending bill), plus is planning to vote on Trump’s marquee trade bill, USMCA, in coming days. That
Continue Reading Rep. Jared Golden, a freshman Democrat who represents a Maine congressional district President Donald Trump won in 2016, said in a statement Tuesday that he will split his vote on articles of impeachment, voting to approve the article accusing Trump of abuse of power and against the article on obstruction of Congress. In a lengthy
Continue Reading President Donald Trump, on the verge of becoming the third US president to be impeached, sent an extraordinary letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday, excoriating House Democrats and casting himself as a victim of an attempted coup. A day before the full House is set to vote on articles of impeachment accusing him
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