By GISELA SALOMON, ELLIOT SPAGAT and AMY TAXIN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Migrants and asylum seekers fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries have increasingly found that protections in the United States are available to those with money or the savvy to find someone to vouch for them financially. President Joe Biden announced
Continue Reading By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Former Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s border barrier of shipping containers has been largely dismantled in time for a new Democratic administration, costing tens of millions of dollars over just a few months as they were set up and taken down again. Removal of the hulking red,
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By Jacqueline Howard and Brenda Goodman, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval Friday for the Alzheimer’s disease drug lecanemab, one of the first experimental dementia drugs to appear to slow the progression of cognitive decline. “Alzheimer’s disease immeasurably incapacitates the lives of those who suffer from it and has devastating effects
Continue Reading BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Army hockey coach Brian Riley is crediting a team trainer with potentially saving the life of forward Eric Huss, who suffered a severe neck injury caused by a skate during a game at Sacred Heart on Thursday. Huss, a junior from Dallas, Texas, caught an inadvertent skate to the neck in
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)– El Paso City officials confirm the number of migrant apprehensions has gone down dramatically, resulting in the closure of the El Paso Convention Center. In December, the Convention Center opened its doors to temporarily house asylum seekers who had arrived in the El Paso area. Thousands of cots were lined up, complete
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By Laura Ly, CNN A former athletics official at the University of Southern California was sentenced Friday to six months in prison after pleading guilty in an admissions scandal for allegedly helping students cheat their way into acceptances at the prestigious college. Donna Heinel, who was USC’s senior associate athletic director, had pleaded guilty in
Continue Reading By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans kicked off its annual Carnival season Friday, a weekslong celebration of joyous street parties, lavish balls and colorful parades — complicated this year by concerns over crime and a depleted police force that last year forced a shortening of Mardi Gras parade routes. City
Continue Reading By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Sonny Dykes needed only about five minutes with Joe Gillespie to know that he wanted the defensive coordinator who wields an atypical 3-3-5 base scheme on his staff at TCU. While utilizing the unorthodox lineup with three linemen, three linebackers and five defensive backs,
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By David Wright, CNN The Federal Election Commission has flagged issues with contributions made to embattled Rep.-elect George Santos‘ campaign, according to a letter addressed to the New York Republican’s fundraising committee this week. The commission has requested clarification and more information on certain donors and about apparent excessive contributions to Santos’ winning 2022 campaign
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVIA) — Following President Biden’s visit to El Paso Sunday he’ll travel to Mexico City for the North American Leaders Summit. Biden will join Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will preview the president’s travel. She’ll be joined by National Security
Continue Reading By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas water experts are sounding an alarm decades in the making: Farmers and ranchers in the state’s western half must stop pumping more water out of a vast aquifer than nature puts back each year or risk the economic collapse of a region important to the
Continue Reading DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Mavericks waived veteran guard Kemba Walker on Friday, moving on before his guaranteed salary kicked in and possibly creating more chances for rookie Jaden Hardy. Walker signed in November after going the first six weeks without a team coming off a season with the New York Knicks. The 32-year-old Walker
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By Ethan Cohen, CNN The co-chairs of the Democratic Party’s rule-making arm are recommending that New Hampshire and Georgia be given extra time to take steps toward changing their presidential primary dates. Last month, the Rules and Bylaws Committee of the Democratic National Committee approved a proposed calendar that would make South Carolina the first
Continue Reading (CNN) — Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s breathing tube was removed overnight and he’s spoken to his teammates via video, the Bills said Friday morning, four days after the 24-year-old’s in-game cardiac arrest stunned millions who watched the emergency play out live. “Love you boys,” Hamlin, still in a Cincinnati hospital, told his New York-based team
Continue Reading By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A lawyer for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been suspended from practicing law in Connecticut for six months for improperly giving Jones’ other attorneys in Texas confidential documents, including the medical records of relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The ruling by
Continue Reading By SARAH BRUMFIELD and BEN FINLEY NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A diesel fuel leak in Virginia shut down part of the Colonial Pipeline, the nation’s largest fuel pipeline, which supplies roughly half the fuel consumed on the East Coast, but it is expected to restart Saturday, the company said. The spill was discovered Tuesday. And
Continue Reading By Phil Mattingly, Betsy Klein and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday commemorated two years since the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol — a day he’s called “one of the darkest periods of our nation’s history” — seeking to elevate the law enforcement and election officials who held firm against
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Good Morning! A few high clouds will continue today along with breezy winds with high temperatures about 5 to 10 degrees above normal.
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LORDSBURG, New Mexico– U.S. Customs and Border Protection say a Border Patrol Agent was shot in the chest multiple times while on duty Thursday. The agent, assigned to the Lordsburg, New Mexico was shot by an occupant of a suspected smuggling vehicle on New Mexico Highway 146. The agent was able to return fire as the suspect’s car
Continue Reading DALLAS (AP) — Three people were fatally shot and two others were wounded in a shooting outside an apartment complex in north Dallas early Friday, police said. Officers were called to the complex about 4:30 a.m. Friday where two men and a woman were found shot to death in a parking lot, according to police
Continue Reading By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) — With a cheerful “soy Marcos” – “I’m Mark,” in Spanish – Bishop Mark Seitz introduced himself to migrants eating soup in the shelter on the grounds of the Catholic Diocese of El Paso, less than two miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. The migration crisis roiling
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette and Holly Yan, CNN The Mega Millions drew numbers Friday for a nearly $1 billion jackpot after Tuesday’s drawing yielded no winners. Numbers drawn Friday were 3, 20, 46, 59, 63 and the gold Mega Ball 13. The jackpot is estimated at $940 million ($483.5 million cash), according to the lottery. Friday’s
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The Great Salt Lake in Utah is facing “unprecedented danger,” experts say, as it has fallen to an alarmingly low level amid a climate change-fueled megadrought that’s tightening its grip in the West. Less than two weeks away from Utah’s 2023 legislative session, nearly three dozen scientists and conservationists released a
Continue Reading Prince Harry sat down with Anderson Cooper for a “60 Minutes” interview, to discuss his upcoming memoir ‘Spare.’
Continue Reading Prince Harry has accused his brother, William, of physically assaulting him during an argument over his wife, Meghan Markle, in 2019, according to The Guardian. CNN’s Bianca Nobilo and Max Foster discuss.
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN January’s full moon will light up the sky on Friday, and will be visible all around the world. It will reach peak illumination around 6:08 p.m. ET Friday, rising in the east as the sun sets in the US, according to EarthSky. The full moon is considered a micromoon because it
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New audio recorded the interaction between medical personnel who treated Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin after he collapsed on the field during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals.
Continue Reading By DAVID KOENIG and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines is anticipating a money-losing fourth quarter after a winter storm and technology meltdown led to nearly 17,000 canceled flights and stranded hundreds of thousands of holiday travelers. The cancellations will result in a pretax hit of $725 million to $825 million
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Dozens of states across the US are kicking off the new year with a bevy of tax changes for their residents and businesses. In fact, depending on where you live, your income tax rate may have already changed. Sales taxes on common items like gas and groceries have also undergone some
Continue Reading The House has adjourned until noon Friday after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) failed to win a majority of votes across 11 ballots over three days in his push to become House speaker. CNN’s Manu Raju and reporters spoke to him after the session.
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