By TERRY TANG Associated Press Two major U.S. cities have elected their first Asian American mayor and a third could join them. Boston’s next mayor will be Michelle Wu. The city’s first Asian American city councilor on Tuesday beat Annissa Essaibi George, who is Arab Polish American. In Cincinnati, Aftab Pureval, who is of Tibetan
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By John Harwood As economic concerns erode President Joe Biden’s political standing, his aides are trying to assure Americans they’re doing everything possible to address fears about inflation and hard-to-find goods heading into the holiday season. The White House website is rolling out a new Supply Chain Dashboard, to be updated every two weeks, that
Continue Reading FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Police say three people have been arrested in the killing of a 19-year-old woman who was last seen leaving a Halloween party over the weekend in Northern California. Fairfield Police Lt. Jausiah Jacobsen said in a statement that Leilani Beauchamp, of Carmel, was last seen leaving a party Saturday in Sacramento
Continue Reading By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the Republican-controlled Legislature violated the state constitution by including new laws banning school mask mandates and a series of other measures in unrelated budget bills. Tuesday’s ruling from the state’s high court came less than two hours after the
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By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Baseball was especially good to Fox, with the Atlanta-Houston World Series lifting the network to its first weekly ratings win in the young TV season. The series rebounded from last year’s contest, which hit an all-time viewership low. The drop was attributed to the pandemic
Continue Reading By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Baseball was especially good to Fox, with the Atlanta-Houston World Series lifting the network to its first weekly ratings win in the young TV season. The series rebounded from last year’s contest, which hit an all-time viewership low. The drop was attributed to the pandemic
Continue Reading By Chandelis Duster, CNN Democrat Shontel Brown, a Cuyahoga County Council member, will win Ohio’s 11th Congressional District, CNN projects Tuesday. The seat that was vacated by former Rep. Marcia Fudge who became President Joe Biden’s secretary of housing and urban development earlier this year. CNN projected Brown’s win over Republican candidate Laverne Gore, on
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By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer Four weeks remain in Big Ten play, and Michigan State, Ohio State and Michigan all remain in pursuit of a spot in the national semifinals. The Rose Bowl is next on the list. Iowa and Minnesota have also reached the six-win threshold for bowl game eligibility. Wisconsin and Penn
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco, CNN President Joe Biden and congressional Democratic leaders have slashed the size of the party’s sweeping spending package in half to woo Sen. Joe Manchin. Yet, the West Virginia lawmaker is still throwing up red flags about the size of the proposal and the measures that would pay for
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican police have found the bullet-ridden bodies of five men and six boys in the western state of Michoacan, where several drug cartels have been waging bloody turf battles. State prosecutors said late Monday the 11 bodies were found near the town of Tarecuato, in the northern part of the state
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers acquired defensive lineman Charles Omenihu from the Houston Texans in exchange for a 2023 sixth-round draft pick. Omenihu must pass a physical for the deal made just before Tuesday’s trade deadline to become official. Omenihu was originally drafted in the fifth round by Houston in 2019.
Continue Reading SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers acquired defensive lineman Charles Omenihu from the Houston Texans in exchange for a 2023 sixth-round draft pick. Omenihu must pass a physical for the deal made just before Tuesday’s trade deadline to become official. Omenihu was originally drafted in the fifth round by Houston in 2019.
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A cold front arriving later in the day Wednesday will temporarily bring us some colder air and kick the winds up a little. Gusts are expectd to hit around 40 mph on the west side of town and lowering our temperatures by Thursday to the mid and upper 60’s. Temps will quickly warm to the
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation decided against sending water rushing through the Grand Canyon this fall to redeposit sediment because of persistent drought. Agency officials said opening the bypass tubes at the Glen Canyon Dam would have reduced the elevation of Lake Powell at a time when it’s at historic lows.
Continue Reading By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — Robert Lewandowski has scored a hat trick on his 100th Champions League appearance to lead Bayern Munich into the last-16 with a 5-2 rout of Benfica. Juventus has also booked its place in the knockout rounds with a 4-2 win over Zenit St. Petersburg. They’re the
Continue Reading By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Division of Public Health Administrator Elke Shaw-Tulloch says the rate of COVID-19 hospitalizations and newly confirmed coronavirus cases has been dropping in Idaho, but the numbers are still high enough to leave hospitals overtaxed. That means hospitals will remain under a “crisis standards of care”
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After two weeks of searching, four-year-old Cleo Smith has been found alive. Officials say a 36-year-old man with no connection to the family is in police custody.
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Attempting to adapt in retail can create some strange bedfellows. Like homegoods’ chains and supermarkets. Bed Bath & Beyond will sell some of its bedding, storage and baby furniture at Kroger beginning next year, the two companies announced Tuesday. Bed Bath & Beyond’s items will first be available on Kroger’s
Continue Reading By Matt Egan, CNN Business Democrats want to tax stock buybacks to help pay for President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion spending plan. Billionaire investor Charlie Munger isn’t happy about it. “I think it’s insane. Literally insane,” Munger, the right-hand man of legendary investor Warren Buffett, told CNN in an interview. The Build Back Better framework,
Continue Reading By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer TCU athletic director Jeremiah Donati says the abrupt ending to Gary Patterson’s tenure as head coach was unimaginable not too long ago. Donati says in the end the Horned Frogs were no longer reaching the high expectations that had been built over Patterson’s 21 seasons as head coach. The
Continue Reading By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer TCU athletic director Jeremiah Donati says the abrupt ending to Gary Patterson’s tenure as head coach was unimaginable not too long ago. Donati says in the end the Horned Frogs were no longer reaching the high expectations that had been built over Patterson’s 21 seasons as head coach. The
Continue Reading By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee has issued subpoenas to top executives of ExxonMobil, Chevron and other oil giants, charging that the companies have not turned over documents needed by the committee to investigate allegations that the oil industry concealed evidence about the dangers of global
Continue Reading By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Break up Big Tech? How about shrinking the tech companies’ shield against liability in certain cases? Or creating a new regulator to strictly oversee the industry? Those ideas have captured official attention in the U.S., Europe, U.K. and Australia as controversy has enveloped Facebook, Google, Amazon
Continue Reading By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Break up Big Tech? How about shrinking the tech companies’ shield against liability in certain cases? Or creating a new regulator to strictly oversee the industry? Those ideas have captured official attention in the U.S., Europe, U.K. and Australia as controversy has enveloped Facebook, Google, Amazon
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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Donald Trump’s lawyers are defending his ability to assert executive privilege, even as an ex-President, in a reply brief in his lawsuit against the National Archives and the House select committee over January 6-related documents. This is the last written argument scheduled to come in before a
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Florida firefighter who was photographed inside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge. Court records show Andrew Williams changed his plea Tuesday in Washington federal court. He faces up to six months in prison for partaking in the riot
Continue Reading CNN, PFIZER, NATIONWIDE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, TEXAS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, HARTFORD HEALTHCARE By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Health care workers in New York have gone to the Supreme Court to challenge the state’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate, arguing it violates their religious liberty rights. This challenge is nearly identical to a recent case brought by
Continue Reading CNN By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN About one-third of Virginia voters call the economy the most important issue facing the state, placing it ahead of other topics that have dominated headlines in the closing days of the Virginia gubernatorial race between Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin, according to the preliminary results of CNN’s Virginia
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — El estado de ánimo en Glasgow fue optimista este martes cuando los líderes mundiales concluyeron su cumbre de alto nivel en la conferencia climática COP26. Varios anuncios importantes iluminaron la perspectiva sobre si la reunión puede lograr resultados significativos. Esto es lo que sucedió el segundo día. La gran promesa sobre
Continue Reading WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation on Tuesday reported 23 more COVID-19 cases, but no coronavirus-related deaths for the 22nd time in the past 34 days. The latest numbers pushed the tribe’s totals to 36,934 confirmed COVID-19 cases from the virus since the pandemic began more than a year ago. The known death
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