Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group launched one of its deepest strikes into Israel in mid-May, using an explosive drone that scored a direct hit on one of Israel’s most significant air force surveillance systems. This and other successful drone attacks have given the Iranian-backed militant group another deadly option for an
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By Katie Houlis Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, New York (WCBS, WLNY) — A Brooklyn man is facing charges after he allegedly threw a lit firework into a Verizon utility work van, injuring two people. It happened on the evening of Jan. 31 in Crown Heights. Authorities said 36-year-old Kevindale Nurse,
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The Texas Tribune Students who started school during or after the COVID-19 pandemic have a harder time saying goodbye to their parents when they drop them off, Plains Independent School District Superintendent Robert McClain said. Third graders are behind in their reading, teacher Heather Harris said, so the district hired a reading specialist to work
Continue Reading By Naveen Dhaliwal Click here for updates on this story PATERSON, New Jersey (WCBS, WLNY) — A 75-year-old woman in New Jersey said she was drugged, then robbed of thousands of dollars. Tuesday morning, when Maria Ramos was returning from a doctor’s appointment, she said a woman approached her asking for directions. “She turned around,
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By Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said he’s taking steps to ban the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, in the country for 10 days, after a public dispute with its owner Elon Musk over the contested election that Maduro claimed to have won. The embattled Maduro said Thursday that
Continue Reading AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — As of this moment, Matt Anderson is planning to make another go at an Olympic gold medal in men’s volleyball four years from now. At age 41. If his body holds up. If his young family is all in on the idea. Four-time U.S. Olympians Anderson and David Smith
Continue Reading By Nick Caloway Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, New York (WCBS, WLNY) — A street in New York City’s Greenwich Village is now named after Jimi Hendrix. A stretch of West 8th Street is now known as Jimi Hendrix Way. The sign stands outside of Electric Lady Studios, which was opened
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Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The United Nations refugee agency says government authorities in ethnically divided Cyprus have rounded up dozens of migrants and pushed them back inside a U.N.-controlled buffer zone that they crossed to seek asylum. UNHCR spokeswoman Emilia Strovolidou told the Associated Press Friday that as many as 99 asylum seekers
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Prime Minister Donald Tusk has accused Poland’s previous government of illegally spending 100 billion Polish zlotys or $25 billion as he announced a government effort to try to recover the money. Tusk said Friday that six months of investigations and audits had revealed widespread financial abuse with 62 members of the
Continue Reading By Nick Caloway Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, New York (WCBS) — A street in New York City’s Greenwich Village is now named after Jimi Hendrix. A stretch of West 8th Street is now known as Jimi Hendrix Way. The sign stands outside of Electric Lady Studios, which was opened by
Continue Reading WLNY By Nick Caloway Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, New York (WCBS, WLNY) — A street in New York City’s Greenwich Village is now named after Jimi Hendrix. A stretch of West 8th Street is now known as Jimi Hendrix Way. The sign stands outside of Electric Lady Studios, which was
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By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — The Olympic Village is mystical place for us non-Olympians. But apparently, there are some perks that even some athletes aren’t aware of. Take Team USA’s rugby sevens bronze medalist Ariana Ramsey, for example. When the 24-year-old arrived in Paris, she apparently knew of the free food on offer in
Continue Reading Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A senior prosecutor in Norway says that a Russian citizen who was arrested in the Scandinavian country in 2022 on espionage charges and who was part of a massive prisoner swap between Russia and the U.S. this month is unlikely to be prosecuted. Frederik G. Ranke of the national
Continue Reading By Chantal Cook, Michael Hudak Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WSVN) — A quick-thinking neighbor stopped two thieves from stealing his friend’s motorcycle out of a Miami apartment parking garage. The last thing Ricky Boada expected to run into when coming back to his Little Havana apartment, on June 11, was
Continue Reading MILWAUKEE (AP) — All four hotel workers charged in connection with D’Vontaye Mitchell’s death are now in custody, more than five weeks after they allegedly piled onto the Black man while trying to remove him from a Milwaukee hotel. Jail records show Herbert Williamson was taken into custody Friday, three days after he and his
Continue Reading By Naveen Dhaliwal Click here for updates on this story PATERSON, New Jersey (WCBS) — A 75-year-old woman in New Jersey said she was drugged, then robbed of thousands of dollars. Tuesday morning, when Maria Ramos was returning from a doctor’s appointment, she said a woman approached her asking for directions. “She turned around, the
Continue Reading AP Basketball Writer PARIS (AP) — Jayson Tatum has not played in two of the five U.S. games at the Paris Olympics, held out of both matchups against Serbia. And once again, U.S. coach Steve Kerr said Friday that it’s not an indictment of Tatum. “It’s not what I’m not seeing from Jayson. It’s what
Continue Reading Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A federal indictment has charged three current and former executives of Smartmatic in a scheme to pay more than $1 million in bribes to put its voting machines in the Philippines, a setback for a company that has been feuding with allies of Donald Trump over unsubstantiated claims that it
Continue Reading Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The University of North Carolina Board of Governors has voted to approve the nomination of Lee Roberts as the next chancellor of UNC at Chapel Hill. Roberts has served as the interim chancellor at UNC since the start of the year when former Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz left to become
Continue Reading Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University has decided against removing from campus buildings the name of a family whose company makes the powerful painkiller OxyContin, despite protest from parents whose children fatally overdosed. The decision last month by the Harvard Corporation to retain Arthur M. Sackler’s name on a museum building and second building
Continue Reading By Tynisa Senior Click here for updates on this story BELLE GLADE, Florida (WSVN) — A witness recalls the tireless rescue efforts of the sole survivor of the Palm Beach County canal crash that claimed the lives of nine people, including several young children. According to the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Offices, four adults and six
Continue Reading WLNY By Katie Houlis Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, New York (WCBS, WLNY) — A Brooklyn man is facing charges after he allegedly threw a lit firework into a Verizon utility work van, injuring two people. It happened on the evening of Jan. 31 in Crown Heights. Authorities said 36-year-old Kevindale
Continue Reading By Katie Houlis Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, New York (WCBS) — A Brooklyn man is facing charges after he allegedly threw a lit firework into a Verizon utility work van, injuring two people. It happened on the evening of Jan. 31 in Crown Heights. Authorities said 36-year-old Kevindale Nurse, who
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Sofía Benavides (CNN) — “Es con gran tristeza que debemos anunciar la muerte de un sueño. Midnight Trains murió hoy, rodeado de familiares y amigos”. Ese fue el epitafio del fundador de Midnight Trains, Adrien Aumont, el 31 de mayo, lo que indicaba que su visión de crear una nueva red de trenes nocturnos de
Continue Reading CNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — La tarde del 9 de agosto de 2023, en medio de una campaña presidencial marcada por un adelanto de elecciones, Ecuador se paralizó cuando se confirmó que el entonces candidato Fernando Villavicencio recibió varios disparos al salir de un mitin en el norte de Quito. Un atroz crimen que dio
Continue Reading GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office is expressing concerns about reports that Iran has executed 29 people over two days this week. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk decried “an alarmingly high number” of executions in such a short period of time. His office said it verified 38 people were
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By Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — Former president and Republican nominee Donald Trump brought out Hulk Hogan and Kid Rock to the RNC last month, while Megan Thee Stallion, George Clooney and Jennifer Aniston are among the star-powered artists who have voiced support for Vice President Kamala Harris in her White House bid. But do
Continue Reading By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Classroom supplies, shoes, clothing and electronics needed for the upcoming school season are expected to cost American families about $875 on average, according to the National Retail Federation. While that’s $15 below last year’s record high, it’s still the second-highest estimate ever. We’d like to hear about your plans for back-to-school spending:
Continue Reading By Ted Scouten Click here for updates on this story FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (WFOR) — Those employed by the Transportation Safety Administration at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport say you never know what’s in someone’s carry-on until it hits the X-ray machine. “So here we have grenades. Some are replicas, some are actually real,” TSA Officer
Continue Reading ROME (AP) — Italian beach establishments mounted a symbolic two-hour strike early Friday aimed at pressuring the government not to enact a decades-old EU directive to liberalize the sector, long a symbol of Italy’s failure to reform the economy. Italy’s 6,500 beach concessions generate some 1.4 billion euros ($1.5 billion) in annual revenues, paying just
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