By Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX fired a new GPS satellite into orbit on behalf of the US military on Wednesday, continuing an effort to bolster the constellation of global positioning and navigation satellites that underpin smartphone apps, wartime operations and more. The GPS satellite launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7:24 a.m. ET
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Short-term rental owners show up at City Council chambers by the dozen to voice their concerns about a proposed ordinance regulating properties. Wednesday, the City of El Paso sought feedback from the community and stakeholders to develop a short-term rental process. The city is looking to limit the number of
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN Paleontologists working in central India have made a rare discovery — a fossilized dinosaur hatchery with 92 nests and 256 eggs belonging to colonies of giant plant-eating titanosaurs. A study of the nests and their bowling ball-size eggs has revealed intimate details about the lives of the colossal, long-necked sauropods that
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Editor’s note: This story version corrects the part of town. This crash occurred in central El Paso. EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A van ended up on top of two parked cars Wednesday morning in central El Paso. There were no reported injuries. It happened between a Ross store and the Costco store in central
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CNN By Kristen Holmes, Gabby Orr and Kaitlan Collins, CNN Just days before Donald Trump hosts his first 2024 event in South Carolina, a state whose evangelical population has long played a critical role in its presidential primary, the former president is lashing out at religious conservatives who have declined to endorse his third presidential
Continue Reading By Shawna Mizelle and Michelle Watson, CNN Multiple lawsuits have been filed in Illinois challenging recently enacted gun legislation that bans certain firearms and high-capacity magazines in the state. The law, signed by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker last week, caps the sale of high-capacity ammunition magazines, bans “switches” that allow handguns to fire rounds automatically
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By Kristen Holmes, Gabby Orr and Kaitlan Collins, CNN Just days before Donald Trump hosts his first 2024 event in South Carolina, a state whose evangelical population has long played a critical role in its presidential primary, the former president is lashing out at religious conservatives who have declined to endorse his third presidential campaign.
Continue Reading By Amanda Watts, CNN The Oklahoma Attorney General has filed a motion to space out seven upcoming executions to allow the state Department of Corrections (DOC) more time between each event. In a filing dated Tuesday, Attorney General Gentner Drummond said that the current pace of executions is unsustainable in the long run. According to
Continue Reading (CNN) — A helicopter crash near a kindergarten in the Kyiv region has killed at least 14 people, including the leadership team of Ukraine’s interior ministry who were traveling on the aircraft, according to officials. A further 25 people, including 11 children, were injured following the incident in the city of Brovary Wednesday, the State Emergency Service
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Australia’s echidna has developed a curious way to cool off — blowing bubbles out of its beaklike snout. The short-beaked echidna is common across Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea and along with the platypus, it’s one of Earth’s few monotremes — mammals who lay eggs — and has been around for
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby and Kaanita Iyer, CNN The clock is now ticking to prevent a financial crisis. The US hit its debt ceiling Thursday, triggering the Treasury Department to start taking extraordinary measures to prevent a default. While Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen doesn’t expect the US to default on its debt before early June, Congress
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By Melissa Alonso and Chuck Johnston, CNN An American public defender who died this month while celebrating his first wedding anniversary in Mexico “was the victim of a brutal crime,” his family said, noting a coroner’s liaison told them the case was sent to a local prosecutor “to conduct a possible homicide investigation.” Elliot Blair,
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN As humans fiddle with the planet’s thermostat, scientists are piecing together Greenland’s history by drilling ice cores to analyze how the climate crisis has impacted the island country over the years. The further down they drilled, the further they went back in time, allowing them to separate which temperature fluctuations were
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Department of Parks and Recreation is looking for lifeguards pool managers, and more before the spring and summer swimming seasons. The department is in need of lifeguards who can working during early morning hours when the pools open. The city is getting ready to start hosing Lifeguard Certification
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By MICHAEL TARM and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER The Associated Press In Boston, the Justice Department is pressing judges to uphold Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence. In New York, it’s asking jurors to impose the death penalty on a man who killed eight people in an attack on a bicycle path. President Joe Biden campaigned
Continue Reading By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk was depicted Wednesday as either a liar who callously jeopardized the savings of “regular people” or a well-intentioned visionary as attorneys delivered opening statements at a trial focused on a Tesla buyout that never happened. Lawyers on opposing sides drew the starkly different
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CNN By Brian Fung, CNN The University of Texas at Austin blocked TikTok from its IT network on Wednesday under an earlier order by Gov. Greg Abbott banning the short-form video app from state-managed electronic resources. The move makes it impossible for users of TikTok to access the app, even on personal devices, if they
Continue Reading CNN By Kristen Holmes, CNN Former President Trump’s campaign sent a letter to Facebook’s parent company, Meta, Tuesday petitioning them to unblock his Facebook account, a source familiar with the letter tells CNN. NBC first reported the news. Trump’s Facebook and Twitter accounts were blocked following the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
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EL PASO, Texas — A Juarez man is now facing human smuggling charges after a pursuit that ended outside a northwest El Paso home Wednesday morning, according to spokesperson for the Texas Department of Public Safety. Texas DPS says the chase started along Transmountain Road. The driver, 34-year-old Federico Ceniceros jumped out of the car
Continue Reading By Amanda Jackson, CNN A woman and boy were killed by a polar bear that had been chasing residents in a tiny, remote community in Alaska, state troopers said Tuesday. The bear had chased residents after entering the western Alaska town of Wales before attacking the woman and boy, an Alaska State Troopers dispatch report
Continue Reading CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting at Davos has long been a lightning rod for conspiracy theories. Extremist figures such as Infowars host Alex Jones have reliably used the event to drive up fear and paranoia about sinister schemes the “globalists” are supposedly plotting. In the past,
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The crisis situation at the U.S. Border could lead to an ultra-rare impeachment of a Cabinet secretary. Articles of impeachment have already been introduced in the House against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The House Judiciary Committee, which would have jurisdiction over an impeachment resolution, is prepared to move ahead with formal proceedings if there
Continue Reading By Phil Mattingly, Chief White House correspondent The White House strategy to manage the special counsel investigation into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents has taken shape. Pledge full cooperation. Attack House Republicans. Don’t engage on the details of an ongoing matter. Most of all, maintain the meticulously planned strategic road map on which
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Good Morning! The rain has made an exit but the weather remains active this afternoon. Winds will increase throughout the day and will be the strongest along the east slopes. A Wind Advisory will begin at 10 AM for far east El Paso, the Sacramento Mountains, and Hudspeth County. Winds could peak near 35+ mph.
Continue Reading By Jamie Gangel and Jeremy Herb, CNN The National Archives told congressional Republicans it will only share information related to the discovery of classified information in President Joe Biden‘s former think tank office and residence after consulting with the Justice Department to ensure it does not interfere with the criminal probe. In a new letter
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch, CNN Six officers have been put on administrative leave in Raleigh, North Carolina, in connection with the death of a man in custody Tuesday after he was shocked by a stun gun. Officers responding to a “suspicious vehicle” just before 2 a.m. tried to arrest the man, who they say resisted, “and
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“Saturday Night Live” alum Leslie Jones started a temporary stint as host of “The Daily Show” taking on the big stories in Washington DC.
Continue Reading By Steve Contorno, Kit Maher and Chris Boyette, CNN Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis called on state lawmakers to make permanent existing penalties for companies that require all employees get the Covid-19 vaccination, his latest move to curtail pandemic mitigation efforts. The proposal would extend indefinitely measures DeSantis signed in 2021 that made Florida the
Continue Reading By Hadas Gold, CNN The United States has transferred American munitions stored in Israel for use in Ukraine and plans to send more soon, US and Israeli officials told CNN Wednesday. A US official told CNN they have moved “some” of the 300,000 155-millimeter shells that the US and Israel agreed would be transferred, and
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, CNN A young mother was clutching her 10-month-old son and running for safety when both were gunned down in a horrific attack that left six dead in a small central California community, the sheriff said. Forensic evidence shows a shooter stood over 16-year-old Alissa Parraz and her son Nycholas and shot both
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