By Jennifer Henderson, CNN Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, the woman who authorities say fled to Costa Rica after allegedly killing an elite professional cyclist and was missing for more than 40 days, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in a Texas court Wednesday. Before an appearance in Travis County District Court, Armstrong’s attorney, Rick Cofer, filed
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By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says that U.S. military officials believe it’s “not a good idea” for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to visit Taiwan at the moment. Biden’s comments came in an exchange with reporters on Wednesday. The Chinese Foreign Ministry has said it would take “resolute and
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EL PASO, Texas — A former teacher has been sentenced to life in prison for coercion and enticement of a minor according to federal officials. Ricardo Ortiz has plead guilty to three counts of coercion and enticement of a minor on March 9, 2022. According to court documents, Ortiz began chatting with a 14-year-old on
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By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The family of a 9-year-old Houston girl who died after she was shot by a man who had opened fire when he was robbed at an ATM said Wednesday they remain angered by a grand jury’s decision to not indict the man. “That was not an
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CNN By Evan Perez and Kara Scannell, CNN The federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s business activities is nearing a critical juncture as investigators weigh possible charges and prosecutors confront Justice Department guidelines to generally avoid bringing politically sensitive cases close to an election, according to people briefed on the matter. While no final decision has
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By Fredreka Schouten A Democratic super PAC on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission in a bid to force the agency to take action against former President Donald Trump for, in their view, essentially running for president without formally declaring himself a candidate. The lawsuit from American Bridge 21st Century follows a
Continue Reading By Sonia Moghe, CNN New York police are investigating whether the son of a retired New York state judge killed his mother in the family’s Manhattan apartment before jumping to his own death, a law enforcement source told CNN on Wednesday. Police said they responded to the family’s Upper East Side apartment building after receiving
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh, CNN An elementary school in Marietta, Georgia, is halting the rollout of a new logo after an uproar from parents who pointed out its similarities to a Nazi symbol. East Side Elementary School, located in Georgia’s second-largest school district, debuted the new logo in a Monday email to parents. The redesign portrayed
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By Jennifer Hauser, CNN Extreme heat in Europe has caused famed rock band Pearl Jam to cancel its concert in Vienna on Wednesday night. The band told fans on Instagram that lead singer Eddie Vedder’s throat was “damaged” at his last show outside Paris due to heat, dust and smoke from nearby fires. “To all
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DALLAS, Texas – UTEP’s running back duo of Ronald Awatt and Deion Hankins were recognized to the 2022 Doak Walker Award Watch List as announced by the PwC SMU Athletic Forum, which released the preseason candidates on Wednesday. The prestigious Doak Walker Award was created in 1989 to recognize the nation’s premier running back for
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CNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — Nairo Quintana ocupó el sexto lugar en el Tour de Francia de 2022. Se dice fácil, pero el ciclista colombiano, el mejor de la historia de su país y de Latinoamérica, compitió contra más jóvenes y lo hizo tras unas temporadas difíciles. Tiene 32 años y parece decidido a dejar
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Esta semana, muchos de nosotros hemos tenido que lidiar con las temperaturas récord que azotan Europa y parte de Estados Unidos. Aunque el preocupante calor te haga desear bajar las persianas, poner el ventilador y quedarte lo más quieto posible, hay trabajos que hacer y sueldos que ganar, y esa es
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Major League Baseball’s Midsummer Classic remains the most-watched all-star game in professional sports, even though it drew record lows in viewership for the fifth time since 2015. The game in Los Angeles averaged 7.51 million viewers on Fox, a decline of 9.7% from last year’s contest in Colorado. The audience peaked
Continue Reading By Kacey Cherry, CNN In a celebratory and historic ceremony, Bruce’s Beach, an oceanfront property was formally returned to the descendants of a Black couple in Southern California on Wednesday, nearly a century after being wrongfully stripped of the land. The great-great grandson of the original land owners, Willa and Charles Bruce, was presented by
Continue Reading By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America Officials say a fire at the Hoover Dam was isolated to the single area in an exceedingly rare case of a transformer catching on fire. Officials say equipment failure caused a transformer to explode Tuesday at the dam about 25 miles southeast of Las Vegas on the Nevada-Arizona
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer Former Washington safety Deshazor Everett pleaded guilty to reckless driving for his role in a crash that killed his passenger. Everett was initially charged in Virginia with felony involuntary manslaughter in January after an investigation found he was speeding before his sports car slammed into trees and rolled over
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Dozens of family members of Americans detained abroad gathered in Washington on Wednesday to unveil a mural of their loved ones, to urge the country not to forget about them and again call for the US government to act decisively to bring them home. For many of the families, it has
Continue Reading By Michael Warren and Dan Merica, CNN In the fight to control the Senate, Democrats and Republicans are staring at equally uncertain, yet markedly different, paths to the majority. Republican candidates are enjoying a favorable political environment, defined by an unpopular Democratic president presiding over a time of notably high inflation. But Senate Republicans have
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer The five women who currently hold assistant general manager jobs around the NHL each took very different paths to the position. Vancouver’s Cammi Granato and Toronto’s Hayley Wickenheiser were Hall of Fame players. Wickenheiser got a medical degree while working in hockey. Granato did some broadcasting and scouting along
Continue Reading TORONTO (AP) — Police in London, Ontario., have ordered an internal review of their investigation into an alleged sexual assault involving members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team. Hockey Canada, meanwhile, said it will no longer use a fund maintained by membership fees collected across the country to settle sexual assault claims. London police
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Editor’s note: The special airs Saturday, July 30 at 9:30 p.m. on ABC-7. Emergence Health Network, through its Texas System of Care El Paso initiative, is committed to meeting the behavioral health needs of the children and adolescents in our El Paso community, along with multiple other local agencies committed to their care. Emergence Health
Continue Reading By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Wrier Sage Karam returns to Pocono Raceway this weekend for his first race at the Pennsylvania track since a fatal incident seven years ago. Karam was a rising star when he sput out in August 2015 and his car hit the wall. Fellow driver Justin Wilson was struck in the
Continue Reading PALERMO, Sicily (AP) — Another seeded player withdrew from the Palermo Ladies Open when Zhang Shuai pulled out with an unspecified “physical problem.” The third-seeded Zhang was scheduled to play Jasmine Paolini and the Italian was given a walkover into the quarterfinals where she will face either eighth-seeded Nuria Parrizas Diaz or Julia Grabher. Fourth-seeded
Continue Reading Several days of unusually warm weather in northern Greenland have triggered rapid melting, made visible by the rivers of meltwater rushing into the ocean. CNN’s René Marsh reports.
Continue Reading By AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner Jim Phillips says the league is looking for ways to boost its revenue and shrink a rising financial gap with leagues like the Big Ten and Southeastern Conference. That growing gap is stirring uncertainty about the league’s long-term future. Speaking Wednesday
Continue Reading By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press Plans to build an aluminum mill in Kentucky have taken a new turn. A steel producer says it will construct and operate the mill somewhere in the southeastern U.S. That’s after it reached a deal with the company that has failed to deliver on its promise to build the plant
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Prosecutors rested their case against Steve Bannon on the third day of his trial, having kept to an approach to keep things simple and straightforward for the jury. To present their evidence that Bannon, the ex-adviser to former President Donald Trump, was in contempt of Congress for not
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN)– El quidditch, el deporte de la vida real inspirado en el juego aéreo que practican los jóvenes magos de “Harry Potter”, abandona su nombre extravagante. Ahora, los atletas se montarán en escobas para jugar al quadball. El US Quadball y la Major League Quadball, los dos organismos que rigen este deporte en
Continue Reading CNN By Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen, CNN The House January 6 committee’s final prime-time hearing Thursday is all about 187 minutes. That’s the period of a little more than three hours as the riot unfolded in the US Capitol that the House select committee has argued then-President Donald Trump was derelict in his duties.
Continue Reading By Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen, CNN The House January 6 committee’s final prime-time hearing Thursday is all about 187 minutes. That’s the period of a little more than three hours as the riot unfolded in the US Capitol that the House select committee has argued then-President Donald Trump was derelict in his duties. The
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