ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Texas Rangers being the only Major League Baseball team not to hold a Pride Night was not a decisive factor when the commissioner’s office picked the team to host this year’s All-Star Game. “There are a whole host of factors that go into deciding who’s going to get an All-Star
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Dozens of Indian nationals held in “slave-like” working conditions near Verona in northern Italy have been freed, a spokesperson for Italy’s financial police told CNN. Thirty-three Indian farm laborers were allegedly forced to work more than 10 hours a day, seven days a week, for wages of
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CNNEE (CNN) — Gabriel Attal, el ministro de Educación francés de 34 años, ha sido nombrado nuevo primer ministro del país, un nombramiento histórico por parte del presidente Emmanuel Macron mientras busca impulsar la decaída popularidad de su gobierno. Attal será el primer ministro más joven desde la fundación de la Quinta República Francesa en
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MILAN (AP) — The mayor of Venice is under investigation in a corruption scandal that has landed his top public works official in jail for an alleged system of kickbacks in return for granting favors to developers. Italian media reported that Mayor Luigi Brugnaro along with two aides are under investigation for allegedly agreeing to
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By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — Shalabh “Shalli” Kumar was filled with pride Monday night as Donald Trump made his highly anticipated announcement of who would be his running mate in the 2024 election. But it wasn’t Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s name alone that elicited the reaction for the founder of the Republican Hindu Coalition and the
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By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — On Tuesday, Sen. Bob Menendez was found guilty on 16 counts including bribery, extortion, wire fraud, obstruction of justice and acting as a foreign agent. A key piece of evidence prosecutors presented to jurors during the nearly seven-week-long trial was the gold bars the FBI seized from
Continue Reading ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Major League Baseball is considering whether to take any actions to protect players following threats arising from the proliferation of gambling in the U.S. “In the last month or so, players mentioned this issue to me,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Tuesday ahead of the All-Star Game. “It’s obviously one that’s
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By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Searing heat may have played a role in the infections of five workers who fell ill last week while culling a large flock of chickens infected with the H5N1 virus in Colorado, health officials said Tuesday. “At the time transmission is thought to have occurred, Colorado was experiencing 104-plus-degree
Continue Reading Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Last summer in Boston, locals say, it seemed to rain every weekend. This year, the city has baked, with Mayor Michelle Wu this week declaring a heat emergency. Neither scenario has been ideal. Wu declared the heat emergency Monday through Wednesday, with temperatures forecast to reach into the high 90s
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By Lauren Rapp and Nic F. Anderson, CNN (CNN) — Ninety giant African snails were confiscated by US Customs and Border Protection at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport late last month, the agency said in a news release Tuesday. An “odd odor” coming from a passenger’s bag tipped off agriculture specialists, officials said in the release. The passenger, who was arriving from
Continue Reading By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Elon Musk says he’s moving his companies out of California. In two posts on X Tuesday, the billionaire said he will move SpaceX’s HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas, a company town being built in the southern part of the state. Social media platform X will
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — City leaders are considering letting voters decide whether to have a multipurpose center in El Paso. The Multipurpose Performing Arts and Entertainment Facility project was approved by voters 12 years ago as a part of the 2012 Quality of Life Bond. Officials said the multipurpose center is the only remaining
Continue Reading Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized Tuesday after a video was posted online showing part of a private phone call between the independent presidential candidate and Republican former President Donald Trump. The video shows Kennedy listening on a speakerphone as Trump shares disproven claims about childhood vaccines, an issue that has
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Muchos de los aliados más cercanos de Estados Unidos ya temían la perspectiva del regreso de Donald Trump a la Casa Blanca. Ahora que el expresidente eligió a J. D. Vance como su compañero de fórmula, podrían tener mucho más de qué preocuparse. Al elegir a Vance, Trump ha enviado una
Continue Reading EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — WNBA great Sue Bird has been honored with a signature Barbie doll. Mattel announced Tuesday that it has issued a replica Barbie doll based on the basketball career of Bird. Bird played 21 seasons with the WNBA’s Seattle Storm, helping the franchise to four league titles. She also has won
Continue Reading VACAVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Power has been restored at an overcrowded California men’s prison that ran on emergency generator power for three days following a major electrical outage amid a heat wave. Corrections officials say the problem was fixed shortly after 2 p.m. Tuesday at California State Prison, Solano. The electricity had been out since
Continue Reading Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge’s order blocking a Biden administration rule for protecting LGBTQ+ students from discrimination applies to hundreds of schools and colleges across the U.S. A group that opposes the rule now hopes to extend it further. Kansas-based U.S. District Judge John Broome, an appointee of then-President Donald Trump,
Continue Reading CNNEspañol sjv (CNN) — El senador de Ohio J. D. Vance, elegido como aspirante a vicepresidente por Donald Trump, fue alguna vez un ferviente crítico del expresidente. En mensajes privados, antes de la elección de Trump, se preguntó si él era el “Hitler de Estados Unidos” y en 2017 dijo que el entonces presidente era
Continue Reading Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia appeals court has set a December hearing for arguments on the appeal of a lower court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against former President Donald Trump. Trump and other defendants had asked the Georgia Court
Continue Reading Associated Press Lawyers say few people ultimately opted out of the $600 million class action settlement Norfolk Southern offered to people affected by last year’s disastrous East Palestine train derailment despite the questions residents raised about the deal. The plaintiffs’ attorneys said in a filing Monday that only 173 of the more than 190,000 households
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Temps will once again be in the triple digits on Wednesday. Storm chances will likely be best in our northern counties but gradually drift to the south, and southwest late Wednesday night through the weekend. As moisture gradually builds, temperatures will gradually cool to the mid 90s.
Continue Reading By Heather Law and Abbas Al Lawati, CNN (CNN) — The jihadist ISIS group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Shiite-Muslim mosque in the Gulf Arab state of Oman that killed six people Monday evening. The Sunni-Muslim Islamist group said in a statement late on Tuesday that three of its “suicide attackers” fired
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — In 2016, a venture capitalist and Yale law graduate named JD Vance published a memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.” The instant bestseller turned Vance into a media star and was later adapted into an Oscar-nominated film directed by Ron Howard. Eight years after its publication, Vance’s book has found its way back onto the bestseller lists,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Warner Brothers donated several items used in the filming of one of its new movies to Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore in El Paso. The movie, staring Leonardo DiCaprio, has been filming in the Sun City. ABC-7 is working to learn additional information, such as the title of the film and
Continue Reading Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Naomi Pomeroy, an award-winning chef who helped put Portland, Oregon, on the map as a culinary destination, has drowned in an inner tubing accident. She was 49 years old. The Benton County Sheriff’s Office says Pomeroy drowned Saturday evening in the Willamette River near Corvallis after the group she
Continue Reading AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — A new artificial turf surface at the Oakland Athletics’ temporary home in Sacramento, California, will have a hydration element because of summer heat at the open-air ballpark. “We think that’s the best that we can do in terms of playing surface in the heat,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred
Continue Reading AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — A new artificial turf surface at the Oakland Athletics’ temporary home in Sacramento, California, will have a hydration element because of summer heat at the open-air ballpark. “We think that’s the best that we can do in terms of playing surface in the heat,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred
Continue Reading SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A rights report says the government of El Salvador has arrested 3,319 underage suspects and sentenced 579 during the harsh 2 1/2 year-old crackdown on street gangs. The report issued Tuesday by Human Rights Watch says the minors have been held in “inhumane conditions,” and sometimes in the same
Continue Reading Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal appeals court says Minnesota’s law banning 18 to-20-year-olds from getting permits to carry guns in public is unconstitutional. Tuesday’s ruling affirms a lower court decision that concluded that the Second Amendment guarantees the rights of young adults to bear arms for self-defense. The three-judge panel cited a landmark
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Memorial Medical Center, one of two major hospitals in Las Cruces, is under investigation by New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez for allegedly refusing to treat indigent cancer patients, as well as for violating state law. The AG’s office announced the investigation during a Tuesday morning news conference, where
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