By Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN Charges against four men who were arrested in 1947 after launching the first of the “freedom rides” to fight Jim Crow Laws have been posthumously dismissed by a North Carolina judge 75 years after their convictions. During a special session Friday leading up to the weekend celebration of Juneteenth, North Carolina
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By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nathan Dettmer pitched three-hit ball over seven shutout innings, and Texas A&M capitalized on Notre Dame’s mistakes to beat the Fighting Irish 5-1 in a College World Series elimination game Tuesday. The No. 5 national seed Aggies (44-19) will play Oklahoma in the Bracket 1
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Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — Una mezcla de enojo con los funcionarios locales, frustración con el departamento de policía del distrito escolar y tristeza desgarradora por el tiroteo masivo del mes pasado en la Escuela Primaria Robb dominó el foro abierto en la reunión de la junta escolar del lunes en Uvalde, Texas. Ocho personas, padres
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By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection is turning to former President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign on state and local officials to overturn his 2020 election loss. In its fourth hearing this month, the panel examined how Trump focused on a few
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EL PASO, Texas – A passenger died after a fiery crash into a light pole at the Montwood and Zaragoza intersection in east El Paso. Police say it happened Saturday just after 12:30 a.m. Special Traffic Investigators say the driver, 23-year-old Kederick Renard Brooks Jr. of northeast El Paso was driving a Nissan Altima northbound
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EL PASO, Texas – Jim Bowden’s road to the El Paso Athletic Hall of Fame was filled with a lot of hard work and determination. Nothing came easy to the former Eastwood Trooper and former UTEP Miner. Bowden fell in love with the game of basketball, and it was that sport that helped shape the
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RANDALIA, Iowa (AP) — A northeast Iowa farmer has pleaded not guilty to livestock neglect after 3,000 hogs died on his property. Derek David Smith filed the written plea Monday in Fayette County District Court. Court records say the 41-year-old Smith was hired by Valley Farms to care for the hogs on his property near
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by Chris Isidore Tesla is moving ahead with plans to layoff about 10% of its salaried staff, CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday. But he also expects the company’s overall workforce will be larger a year from now than it is today. Musk has been sending out conflicting signals on his staffing plans for the last
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso police officer was bitten by a handcuffed suspect who had been stopped for not having a vehicle registration sticker, according to El Paso police. Investigators say it happened at the 12000 block of Castle Keep, located off Pebble Hills Blvd near Loop 375. Police arrested 37-year-old Rogelio Fernando
Continue Reading By Amir Vera and Melissa Alonso, CNN Dartmouth College announced Tuesday it was eliminating student loans for undergraduates and replacing them with “expanded scholarship grants,” the university said in a news release. The initiative is part of the Ivy League school’s “The Call to Lead” leadership campaign, and will begin starting June 23 for the
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN In the most newsworthy aspect of “The Umbrella Academy’s” third season, the Netflix series incorporates Elliot Page’s transitioning into the story, a moment that’s addressed sensitively and relatively early. Beyond that, the show descends from its second-season cliffhanger into an ever-more-convoluted world of shifting timelines, battling super-teams and existential dangers,
Continue Reading CNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — Rodrigo Londoño, conocido por su alias “Timochenko” cuando se desempeñaba como comandante de las FARC, reconoció este martes, ante la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz de Colombia (JEP), la responsabilidad de la guerrilla desaparecida en los secuestros, que calificó como “uno de los más abominables crímenes” cometidos por la organización
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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN A call between detained WNBA star Brittney Griner and her wife, Cherelle Griner, has been rescheduled, the US State Department said Tuesday, after a “mistake” prevented the couple from speaking on their anniversary Saturday. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Tuesday that the call “will take place in relatively short order”
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN)– Aunque Martin Sheen dice que su nombre sigue siendo legalmente Ramón Estevez, se arrepiente de haberlo cambiado por su carrera. El protagonista de “West Wing” habló con Closer Weekly sobre la adopción de su nombre artístico. “Ese es uno de mis arrepentimientos. Nunca cambié mi nombre oficialmente”, dijo. “Sigue siendo Ramón Estevez
Continue Reading By Jennifer Henderson and Ella Nilsen, CNN A Chief’s Review of New Mexico’s Hermits Peak Fire released Tuesday found that US Forest Service errors during a routine prescribed burn contributed to the largest wildfire in New Mexico history. A years-long backlog of projects owing to department furloughs during the 2018-2019 government shutdown, complications of working
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By Jen Christensen, CNN Finally, Covid-19 vaccines for kids under the age of 5 are going into tiny arms and legs this week. Since the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended two options for this age group — one from Pfizer/BioNTech and another from Moderna — parents and caregivers may be wondering which
Continue Reading By Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visited a Washington, DC, vaccination clinic on Tuesday where children under the age of 5 are being immunized against Covid-19 — part of the first cohort of young kids to be immunized against the virus following the US Centers for Disease Control and
Continue Reading By Amir Vera, Amanda Musa and Jarrod Wardwell, CNN Attorneys of the man accused of driving an SUV through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, changed his plea in court Monday, saying mental health issues played a role in the crash. Darrell Brooks, 40, originally pleaded not guilty to several counts of first-degree intentional homicide
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN Business) — Kellogg se dividirá en tres empresas diferentes en una importante reestructuración de la compañía de 116 años. La primera compañía incluirá la unidad de cereales de Kellogg’s North America, que incluye Raisin Bran y Rice Krispies, su unidad de botanas y aperitivos se convertirá en una segunda compañía,
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez, CNN A visitor center will open next to the iconic Stonewall Inn to honor and preserve the history of the fight for LGBTQ rights, the nonprofit Pride Live announced on Tuesday. The nearly 3,700 square feet center in New York City is expected to open in the summer of 2024 after a
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By Kevin Dotson, CNN Four-time Super Bowl champion Rob Gronkowski, a tight end in the NFL for 11 seasons as a member of the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, announced his retirement Tuesday on social media. This is Gronkowski’s second time retiring from the NFL, having previously hung up his cleats in New
Continue Reading By Jack Guy and Eduardo Aragón, CNN Two elderly Jesuit priests were among three people killed Monday inside a church in Chihuahua state, northern Mexico. The third person had sought refuge inside the church in the village of Cerocahui before all three were killed around 6 p.m. local time (8 p.m. ET), according to a
Continue Reading By Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent An airman has been arrested by military law enforcement in connection to an April attack at a US military base in northern Syria that injured four US service members. “As part of an ongoing investigation, on June 16, an Airman was taken into custody stateside in conjunction with the
Continue Reading CNN By Marshall Cohen, Jeremy Herb and Zachary Cohen, CNN The latest hearing before the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection revealed new details Tuesday about how former President Donald Trump pressured state officials to help him overturn the 2020 presidential election. The panel featured testimony from three Republican officials who were all
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen, Jeremy Herb and Zachary Cohen, CNN The latest hearing before the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection revealed new details Tuesday about how former President Donald Trump pressured state officials to help him overturn the 2020 presidential election. The panel featured testimony from three Republican officials who were all on
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Justice Sonia Sotomayor made crystal clear on Tuesday that she believes the conservatives on the Supreme Court — including three of President Donald Trump’s nominees — are set to move the country sharply to the right by eviscerating or ignoring decades of precedent on issues that most
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN After a long day of putting the mega moon rocket through its paces, NASA’s Artemis team is determining the pathway to launch — and just how long or short that path may be. Monday’s crucial test, known as the wet dress rehearsal, simulated every stage of launch without the rocket leaving
Continue Reading By Katie Lobosco, CNN The Internal Revenue Service will finally get through the massive pandemic-induced backlog of federal tax returns filed in 2021 this week, the agency said on Tuesday. But more than twice as many returns filed in 2022 still await processing compared with a typical year at this point. The IRS began the
Continue Reading By Kara Scannell The Justice Department will drop the remaining fraud counts facing disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti after he agreed to plead guilty to multiple charges last week. Prosecutors with the US attorney’s office for the Central District of California said in a court filing Tuesday they wouldn’t move ahead with the remaining 31 counts
Continue Reading By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten years ago, the Texas Republican Party used its platform to oppose teaching critical thinking in schools. In 2014, it declared homosexuality a chosen behavior contrary to God and endorsed “reparative therapy” to reverse it. By 2020, the party was ready to remind the world that “Texas
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