By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer James Harden averaged 36 points a few seasons ago. Devin Booker once scored 70 in one game. There are many more players doing much more scoring now than when LeBron James began his NBA career in 2003-04. Tracy McGrady led the league with 28 points per game that season,
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By Holmes Lybrand, CNN A Libyan man accused of being involved in making the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988 pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to three federal charges brought against him in Washington, DC. Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi faces two charges of
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in northern Mexico say they have found the bodies of 14 people in an overturned pickup truck submerged in a canal. The civil defense office in the northern border state of Nuevo Leon said Wednesday that five Guatemalan identification cards or passports were found on the bodies. The office said
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Catholic Diocese is holding a news conference to discuss the appointment of a new auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of El Paso. The Very Rev. Anthony C Celino, JCL. Bishop-elect Celino is the current Pastor of St. Raphael Parish in East El Paso and the current Judicial
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CNN By Brian Fung, CNN Access to Twitter has been restored in Turkey, according to internet monitoring company Netblocks. “The restoration comes after authorities held a meeting with Twitter to ‘remind Twitter of its obligations’ on content takedowns and disinformation, ” the firm tweeted. Earlier on Wednesday, NetBlocks said traffic filtering had been applied at
Continue Reading By Jeremy Diamond, CNN Newly minted White House chief of staff Jeff Zients has tapped Natalie Quillian, his former deputy on the Covid response team, to serve as deputy White House chief of staff, White House officials told CNN. Quillian was widely expected to join Zients once again at the White House and now becomes
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A Gadsden ISD spokesperson says the bus on its way to Yucca Heights Elementary in Chaparral was involved in a minor traffic accident Wednesday morning, but none of the 13 students on board were injured. Luis Villalobos says the “minor” traffic accident happened Wednesday morning in Chaparral. Villalobos says the
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Recent telescope data revealed that a small planet in the far reaches of our solar system has a dense ring round it. And scientists are baffled as to why. The planet, Quaoar, is one of roughly 3,000 small planets that orbit the sun beyond Neptune, and at 690 miles (1,110-kilometers) wide,
Continue Reading By Ethan Cohen and Greg Krieg, CNN Pennsylvania Democrats have swept three state House special elections, CNN projects, securing control of the chamber after a months-long dispute with Republicans. Democrats easily won the Pittsburgh-area races in November’s general election, claiming a 102-101 majority — their first in more than a decade. But with two members
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EL PASO, Texas — Texas Department of Public Safety officials confirmed an early morning pursuit that ended in Central El Paso. Officials say they a trooper attempted to conduct a traffic stop when the vehicle sped away. The pursuit eventually stopped at the intersection of N. Raynor St. and Douglas Ave. Eight individuals fled the
Continue Reading By Ashley Killough and Holly Yan, CNN Patrick Crusius plead guilty to all federal charges on Wednesday, nearly three and a half years after the 2019 mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas — one of the deadliest attacks on Latinos in modern US history. Crusius, 24, had pleaded not guilty in 2020
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Three former Twitter executives are on capitol hill Wednesday to discuss the handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story. Lawmakers from the House Oversight Committee, are investigating why twitter temporarily blocked users from sharing the New York Post story in the closing weeks of the 2020 Presidential election. Committee Chairman James Comer believes the government
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The death toll from the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria has reached more than 11,000 according to authorities. In Turkey, the death toll has risen to more than 8,000, with nearly 50,000 others reported injured, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday, during a visit to disaster areas near the epicenter of Monday’s earthquake.
Continue Reading CNN By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Google on Wednesday detailed plans to use artificial intelligence technology to radically change how people search for information online, one day after rival Microsoft announced a revamped version of Bing powered by AI. At an event in its Paris office, Prabhakar Raghavan, an SVP at Google, said the company will
Continue Reading CNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN When President Joe Biden took to the House Chamber on Tuesday for his annual State of the Union address, his message was one of unadulterated optimism — even in the face of open hostility. The spectacle of Biden smiling and offering a pointed riposte through multiple rounds of heckling from
Continue Reading By Tina Burnside, CNN A man shot and killed after a police pursuit was a suspect in a drive-by shooting that injured 11 people last month in Lakeland, Florida, the Polk County sheriff said. Twenty-one-year-old Alex Greene was under surveillance by detectives in the Eagle Lake area of Polk County on Monday, Sheriff Grady Judd
Continue Reading By TERESA M. WALKER AP Pro Football Writer Tennessee quarterbacks coach Pat O’Hara called six-year journeyman Joshua Dobbs hours after a loss on Christmas Eve, asking him to come to the team headquarters on Christmas Day. Though he had signed just four days earlier, the Titans decided to turn the offense over to Dobbs and
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe and Eric Levenson, CNN After five Memphis police officers brutally beat Tyre Nichols last month, one officer took two cell phone photos of the visibly injured 29-year-old Black man and texted one image to at least five people, newly revealed internal police department documents show. Demetrius Haley — one of five officers
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Good Morning! Some areas picked up light rain last night but that same weather system will continue to move east generating storms across parts of Texas this afternoon and evening. The skies will clear and the afternoon will be filled with sunny skies and westerly breezes around 5 to 15 mph. High temperatures will run
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By MATTHEW BROWN and SAM METZ Associated Press HARLOWTON, Mont. (AP) — Near the banks of Montana’s Musselshell River, cattle rancher Michael Miller saw a large, white orb above the town of Harlowton last week, a day before U.S. officials revealed they were tracking a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the state. The balloon caused
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald, CNN Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex will be deposed as part of a defamation case brought against the duchess in the United States by her half-sister, Samantha Markle, a Florida judge ruled on Tuesday. Markle is suing Meghan for “defamation and injurious falsehood” following the couple’s 2021 interview with Oprah
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg, CNN A pair of California woodpeckers are surely crushed after a pest control technician on a routine call recently found their massive trove of acorns cleverly stashed in the walls of a California home. The Sonoma County homeowners called on Nick Castro, owner of Nick’s Extreme Pest Control, when they spotted worms
Continue Reading CNN senior political analyst John Avlon breaks down four key moments from President Joe Biden’s 2023 State of the Union address.
Continue Reading LeBron James has just made history, becoming the NBA’s all-time leading scorer. His legacy as one of the game’s legends is unquestionable.
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN After the Super Bowl this weekend, the host stadium will have tons of leftover food — but it won’t go to waste. An army of volunteers has an elaborate game plan to gather thousands of pounds of surplus food and quickly get it to people in need. Here’s what else you
Continue Reading Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah told GOP Rep. George Santos of New York: “You don’t belong here,” according to a member who witnessed the tense exchange in the House of Representatives chamber.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Patrick Crusius, who is accused of murdering 23 people at an El Paso Walmart back in 2019, will plead guilty to federal hate crimes charges according to his attorneys. His re-arraignment is set for Wednesday at 2 p.m. and will take place in the Ceremonial Courtroom at El Paso’s federal
Continue Reading By Jeremy Herb, Sara Murray, Alayna Treene and Annie Grayer, CNN Former Twitter executives acknowledged to lawmakers Wednesday that the social media company erred when it temporarily suppressed a New York Post story regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop in October 2020, but the officials emphasized there was no government involvement in the decision. Republicans grilled the
Continue Reading By Sara Smart, Brian Todd, Aileen Graef and Aya Elamroussi, CNN The 6-year-old boy who shot his first-grade teacher in a Virginia school had a history of disturbing behavior, including cursing at staff members, trying to whip students with his belt and choking a teacher, according to a legal notice sent to the school board.
Continue Reading Key testimony from a witness in Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial said she talked with Murdaugh on the night of his wife’s and son’s deaths, and that he made her ‘nervous’. CNN’s Randi Kaye reports.
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