By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Marc Short, the former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, suggested Wednesday that an FBI search of Pence’s Indiana home for any additional classified materials is “not too far off into the future.” “There have been conversations about a consensual search to be conducted, and I presume that’s not
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EL PASO, Texas — For the first time in the programs history, the El Paso Tigers swept the Regional 1-5A titles in the pool. “I was loading the score over and over on my phone and then I saw that it was finalized and I started crying, I cried in my mums arms,” El Paso
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By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board apparently have solved the mystery of why no one was found behind the steering wheel of a Tesla that crashed in a Texas two years ago, killing two men. The agency said in an investigative report released Wednesday on
Continue Reading By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer Forward Alex Morgan says the U.S. national team should have internal discussions about playing games in states that restrict transgender kids from participating in sports. The team is currently preparing for the SheBelieves Cup, a round-robin tournament with Canada, Brazil and Japan that starts next week. Matches are
Continue Reading By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Police are investigating possible vandalism at the Houston Zoo after workers discovered that someone had deliberately cut a four-inch gap in the mesh that covers a habitat for brown pelicans. The damage to the habitat comes after a series of thefts and incidents of vandalism at
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – A possible gas leak at the El Paso High campus led to the evacuation of students as El Paso ISD Police officers worked with the El Paso Fire Department to determine the cause of the odor. First responders determined it was safe for students to return to the campus at
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UPDATE 7:15 p.m.: The eastbound lanes on I-10 at Sunland Park has reopened for traffic on westbound lanes remain closed. An earlier version incorrectly mentioned the highway’s westbound lanes had also reopened. UPDATE: According to El Paso Fire, two people were transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. UPDATE 4:25 p.m.: An alert from the
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By MJ Lee, Senior White House correspondent The Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus is throwing its support behind Julie Su, the deputy Labor secretary, to replace Labor Secretary Marty Walsh who is soon departing the Biden administration — a significant public display of support for an Asian American to join President Joe Biden’s Cabinet. “We
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A cold front will arrive tomorrow and keep temps below average for this time of year. The front will also kick the winds up out of the north at around 30 mph – making it feel a bit colder. The weekend will warm up with temps in the mid and upper 60’s but another front
Continue Reading By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Opal Lee, the 96-year-old Texan whose efforts helped make Juneteenth a federal holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in the U.S., became on Wednesday only the second Black person whose portrait will hang in the senate chamber of the state Capitol. Lawmakers gave a lengthy
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Texas man pleads guilty to federal hate crime and gun charges in 2019 shooting that killed 23 at a Walmart in El Paso.
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By Kiely Westhoff and Steve Almasy, CNN The suspect in the shooting death of off-duty New York Police Department officer Adeed Fayaz has been charged with murder, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. Randy Jones, 38, was arraigned Wednesday and did not enter a plea. He was remanded to police custody, according to the
Continue Reading ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — All-Star outfielder Kyle Tucker went to salary arbitration with the World Series champion Houston Astros on Wednesday, asking for $7.5 million rather than the team’s $5 million offer. The $2.5 million gap matched the largest among 33 players who exchanged proposed salaries with their teams last month. The case was
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A disagreement led to a confrontation that fatally injured an 18-year-old northeast El Paso man, according to El Paso police. The confrontation happened on Feb. 2 at Magoffin and Noble. According to investigators, a 42-year-old male is accused of stabbing 18-year-old Jadon Jeter Robinson. A warrant for murder has been
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — Michael Irvin has been pulled from the remainder of NFL Network’s Super Bowl week coverage after a complaint about Irvin’s behavior in a hotel Sunday night. The Hall of Fame wide receiver went on a Dallas radio station Wednesday and said he was asked by network officials to move to another hotel
Continue Reading CNN By CNN staff President Joe Biden delivered his second State of the Union address on Tuesday. Here is a fact check of some of the claims from Biden and the Republican response by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Cutting the deficit Biden claimed his administration cut the federal deficit by “more than $1.7 trillion.”
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby, CNN At least $191 billion in pandemic unemployment benefits could have been improperly paid, with a “significant portion” attributable to fraud, according to a new estimate from the Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General. That’s up from the office’s projection last year of at least $163 billion in improper payments. The
Continue Reading By Nicki Brown and Lauren del Valle, CNN The man who allegedly attacked New York police officers with a machete on New Year’s Eve pleaded not guilty to state charges in court Wednesday. Trevor Bickford, 19, appeared in a Manhattan courtroom wearing a tan uniform with his wrists and ankles shackled. He spoke only to
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – Officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection found 50 pounds of illegal drugs during two separate searches. The first happened on February 3 when a 50-year-old man was crossing into the U.S. from Mexico at the Bridge of the Americas and was referred for a secondary inspection of his vehicle.
Continue Reading By Eric Bradner, CNN The 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against WinRed in its effort to block subpoenas from Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office in an investigation into whether the GOP donation processing website violated the state’s consumer protection law. Ellison, a Democrat, is investigating WinRed’s pre-checked recurring donation boxes that enroll
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Editor’s note: Follow this live blog for developments. Devices were prohibited inside the courtroom, therefore, no cameras were allowed. UPDATE: Patrick Crusius was standing between his two lawyers before Federal Judge David Guaderrama as the state described the events of August 3, 2019. Prosecutors say Crusius was shooting at the First Convenience bank inside the
Continue Reading By Sean Lyngaas, CNN One of President Joe Biden’s top cybersecurity advisers will retire next week as the Biden administration continues to face a myriad of foreign hacking threats and US officials urge — and sometimes compel — US companies to tighten their defenses. The departure of Chris Inglis, who has over four decades of
Continue Reading By Betsy Klein and Arlette Saenz, CNN President Joe Biden brought his State of the Union populist economic messaging to Wisconsin on Wednesday, firing back at Republicans and highlighting US manufacturing in a preview of an expected 2024 argument in the battleground state. Biden made clear that he was willing to continue the fight as
Continue Reading By MJ Lee and Jacqueline Howard, CNN The Biden administration is planning to roll out a roadmap as early as Thursday on what it will mean for the country when the Covid-19 public health emergency comes to an end later this year, according to a source familiar with the forthcoming announcement. The administration is supposed
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico(KVIA) — Plans are in the works for a state-of-the-art children’s museum in Doña Ana County. It will be a 44-ft, toy hauler RV that’s being retrofitted into a mobile museum. It will serve all of Doña Ana County, including rural areas. The plan is to have the museum operational by the
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Juarez residents are still saddened three and a half years after the 2019 Walmart massacre. The tragedy happened just across the border from Juarenses, who usually go to El Paso to get groceries or to visit family members. ABC-7 spoke with some Juarez residents on Wednesday ahead of the re-arraignment that
Continue Reading By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A man convicted of killing three teenagers while they slept in a Texas Panhandle home more than 25 years ago was executed on Wednesday, the sixth inmate to be put to death in the U.S. this year and the second in as
Continue Reading By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The US Department of Justice has released its recommendations for reform of the Columbus, Ohio, police department following a nearly two-year review process. The report recommends reworking the role of community liaisons, so officers serve longer terms in the role, receive longer training, and consequently are better able to solve problems.
Continue Reading (CNN) — Authorities in Quebec said two children have died and six others were taken to area hospitals with injuries after a city bus drove into a daycare center in a Montreal suburb Wednesday morning. During a briefing Wednesday, a spokesperson for Laval Police said the driver of the bus, a 51-year-old man who is
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Gov. Greg Abbott’s office is warning state agency and public university leaders this week that the use of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives — policies that support groups who have been historically underrepresented or discriminated against — is illegal in hiring. In a memo written Monday and obtained by The Texas Tribune, Abbott’s chief of
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