By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Charlotte Knobloch was 6 years old when she saw the synagogues of Munich burning and watched helplessly as two Nazi officers marched away a beloved friend of her father who was beaten up and bleeding on the forehead. It was Nov. 9, 1938, or Kristallnacht — the
Continue Reading By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, MICHAEL GOLDBERG and AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — People in Mississippi’s largest county are demanding answers about why some polling places ran out of ballots and voters had to wait for them to be replenished on the day the state was deciding its most competitive governor’s race in
Continue Reading By BILL BARROW and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly half of Democrats disapprove of how President Joe Biden is handling the Israel-Hamas conflict. That’s according to a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll. Taken over five days in November, the poll shows a deep divide in the Democratic Party
Continue Reading By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — When it comes to age on the ballot, Texas didn’t wait until 2024 to weigh in. Asked to let judges stay on the bench until they’re 79 years old — a year younger than President Joe Biden — Texas voters soundly rejected the proposal in Tuesday’s
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By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As they face an increasingly urgent task to emerge as a clear alternative to former President Donald Trump, five Republican presidential candidates gathered Wednesday for the party’s latest debate. Trump, the overwhelming front-runner in the race, skipped the event, as he has the first
Continue Reading By MATTHEW LEE and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States and South Korea closed ranks behind common approaches to North Korea, Russia and China, vowing to continue to support Ukraine against Russia’s invasion and boosting humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza caught in Israel’s war against Hamas. In
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CNN By CNN Staff (CNN) — Five of the Republican presidential candidates made a variety of false, misleading or lacking-in-context claims on Wednesday during the third debate of the 2024 party primary. The frontrunner in the race, former President Donald Trump, again skipped the debate in favor of his own speech. Here is a fact
Continue Reading CNN By Gregory Krieg, Arit John, Steve Contorno, Daniel Strauss, Kit Maher and Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Less than a day after voters in multiple states rebuked GOP leaders who would restrict abortion rights, five Republicans running for president ignored the issue for the first 99 minutes of their third primary debate. Unlike their
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Antonio “L.A.” Reid, the Grammy-winning music executive who influenced the career of artists including Pink, Usher and Mariah Carey, was sued by a former music executive who says he sexually assaulted her and derailed her career. Drew Dixon filed the lawsuit Wednesday in a New York federal court. Dixon, who worked
Continue Reading By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — South Pacific leaders are heading to the stunning island of Aitutaki to discuss climate change and other regional concerns. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was among the leaders who traveled to the Cook Islands this week for the Pacific Islands Forum. The forum culminates in
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CNN By Maggie Hiufu Wong and Jake Kwon, CNN (CNN) — On scenic Geumjeong Mountain on the edge of Busan, South Korea’s second biggest city, lies the remains of what was once the country’s largest mountain fortress. Though now in ruins, this former bastion’s connection to the local community lives on in a nearby village
Continue Reading By OHAD ZWIGENBERG Associated Press INSIDE THE GAZA STRIP (AP) — International journalists escorted by the Israeli military got a glimpse of the devastation wrought by nearly two weeks of heavy fighting in the northern Gaza Strip. A journalist from The Associated Press and other reporters rode on Wednesday in a windowless armored vehicle, inside
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KPHO, KTVK, GOOGLE EARTH, ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT, CNN By Macie Goldfarb, CNN (CNN) — An Arizona woman died eight days after an elk apparently trampled her outside her home in what is believed to be the state’s first fatal elk attack on a person, wildlife officials said Tuesday. On October 26 at about
Continue Reading By ANDREW DALTON and KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — On Thursday, for the first time in more than six months, neither Hollywood’s actors nor its writers will be on strike. The long-awaited clearing in the industry’s stormiest season in decades comes as a deal was reached late Wednesday to end what was,
Continue Reading SEATTLE (AP) — Four county elections offices in Washington state were evacuated Wednesday after they received envelopes containing suspicious powders — including two that field-tested positive for fentanyl — while workers were processing ballots from Tuesday’s election. The elections offices were located in King County — home of Seattle — as well as Skagit, Spokane
Continue Reading By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. nuclear chief says nuclear energy must be part of the equation to tackle climate change. The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency said climate-warming hydrocarbons still supply more than 80% of the world’s energy, even after the green transition of the
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UPDATE: El Paso Police are now saying that 9 cars were involved in the crash. The person who died is a 28-year-old man, according to police, but officials have not released his name “pending notification.” He died at the scene. An investigation revealed a heavy tow truck driver was travelling north on Loop 375 when
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CNN Opinion by Elliot Williams, CNN (CNN) — Capped off by Ivanka Trump’s testimony Wednesday, the civil trial over the fate of the Trump Organization has brought its share of star power to a Manhattan courtroom. Still, the allegations in the case are far less splashy than others in which the former president is currently
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles County coroner’s investigator has been arrested on suspicion of stealing a gold chain and crucifix from around the neck of a dead man. Prosecutors said Wednesday that the 34-year-old man faces one felony count of grand theft. Authorities say the investigator was recorded on surveillance video removing the
Continue Reading By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and BRIAN WITTE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has chosen a location for a new FBI headquarters in Maryland, the General Services Administration confirmed Wednesday, as the suburban Washington location was selected over nearby Virginia following a sharp competition between the two states. The site is planned for Greenbelt,
Continue Reading By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The University of Michigan warned Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti about overstepping his authority and rushing to judgement about an alleged sign-stealing scheme, saying he can’t discipline coach Jim Harbaugh under the conference’s sportsmanship policy. Two people who have seen Michigan’s response to the
Continue Reading HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Gov. Josh Green is announcing the creation of a $150 million fund to help those who lost family members or who were injured in Maui’s wildfires. The governor’s office says beneficiaries will receive payments of more than $1 million as early as April to June of next year. Those getting money
Continue Reading SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Little by little an employee of Costa Rica’s National Bank took advantage of a surveillance blindspot to slip more than $6 million worth of currency into envelopes and casually walk out of the country’s largest bank. First announced last month, it was the largest bank heist in the country’s
Continue Reading CNN By Abeer Salman, CNN Gaza and Jerusalem (CNN) — Thousands of Palestinians fled northern Gaza on Wednesday, traveling miles on foot through the battered enclave in a growing exodus as Israel intensifies its ground and air campaign. Streams of people – women, children, the elderly and disabled – made their way down Salah Eddin Street, one of
Continue Reading By DAVID HAMILTON AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Walt Disney Co. has reported sharp profit growth for its fiscal fourth quarter while announcing an expansion of its cost-cutting drive under returning CEO Bob Iger. The results topped Wall Street expectations and sent shares in the entertainment and theme park company up more than
Continue Reading By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man recounted the fear and desperation he and his wife faced while trying to flee Gaza amid the war between Israel and Hamas. Zakaria Alarayshi of suburban Detroit told reporters Wednesday that he and Laila Alarayshi hunkered down at a home
Continue Reading CNN, WFXT By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Three individuals have been arrested on charges of operating a “high-end brothel network” in Massachusetts and Virginia with a clientele that included elected officials, military officers and government contractors with security clearances, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. “Pick a profession,” Joshua Levy, acting US attorney for Massachusetts,
Continue Reading By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer In the United States, the national conference of Catholic bishops rejects the concept of gender transition, leaving many transgender Catholics feeling excluded. On Wednesday, the Vatican made public a sharply contrasting statement, saying it’s permissible, under certain circumstances, for trans people to be baptized as Catholics and serve as
Continue Reading By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Robert De Niro looked on Wednesday as a lawyer for a woman who worked for him for over a decade urged a jury in closing arguments to award her millions of dollars for emotional distress and reputational harm because the actor discriminated and retaliated against her.
Continue Reading By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Voters have approved a tax on mansions to pay for affordable housing initiatives in New Mexico’s capital city of Santa Fe. Uncertified election results on Wednesday show that nearly three-fourths of ballots were cast in favor of the new tax on home sales of over
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