Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Florida está bajo advertencia de tormenta tropical y se declaró el estado de emergencia ante la llegada de la potencial tormenta tropical Debby, que podría desencadenar varios días de lluvias torrenciales e inundaciones en el estado y en el sureste de Estados Unidos a partir de este fin de semana.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Conn’s Home Plus is closing stores nationwide. The furniture store made headlines for bankruptcy talks in recent weeks. Now, ABC-7 has confirmed that the location in El Paso at Bassett Mall, and another location in Las Cruces on Telshor Boulevard, are both closing down. ABC-7 will continue to follow this
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AP Business Writer WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Attorneys for Elon Musk and Tesla’s corporate directors are asking a Delaware judge to vacate her ruling requiring the company to rescind a massive and unprecedented pay package for Musk. Friday’s hearing follows a January ruling in which Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick concluded that Musk engineered the
Continue Reading By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — TikTok has failed to stop children from joining the app and has unlawfully collected their personal data, the US Justice Department alleged in a lawsuit filed Friday. The lawsuit accuses TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, of violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by allowing
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a Memphis police officer and a motorist who was driving with a gunshot wound have been killed in a car crash. Police say officers were called to the location of a crash involving a Nissan and a Memphis Police Department squad car at about 3 a.m. Friday. Police said
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AP Business Writer The Justice Department sued TikTok on Friday, accusing the company of violating children’s online privacy law and running afoul of a settlement it had reached with another federal agency. The complaint, filed together with the Federal Trade Commission in a California federal court, comes as the U.S. and the prominent social media
Continue Reading Associated Press A bus that was transporting a professional baseball team from Iowa to a game in Illinois caught fire. Earlham Fire & Rescue said in a Facebook post that members of the Sioux City Explorers made it off the charter bus safely early Friday. The fire department blamed a mechanical issue for sparking the
Continue ReadingCNN By Mary Gilbert and Taylor Ward, CNN Meteorologists (CNN) — A tropical storm warning has been issued and a state of emergency declared in parts of Florida in anticipation of Tropical Storm Debby – a storm that hasn’t yet formed but could unleash multiple days of heavy, flooding rainfall to the state and the
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By Ruta Ulcinaite Click here for updates on this story ST. CLAIR SHORES, Michigan (WXYZ) — A 21-year-old St. Clair Shores man spends his free time cleaning up after his community and asks for nothing in return. All he would like to see is people clean up after themselves and spread a little positivity in
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican army has acknowledged for the first time that some of its soldiers have been killed by drug cartel bomb-dropping drones. The defense secretary did not provide exact figures on the number of casualties suffered in the attacks, which apparently occurred in the western state of Michoacan. But Gen. Luis
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By Ethan Cohen and Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris has won enough votes from Democratic delegates to win the party’s nomination for president, Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison announced Friday. Harris will become the first Black woman and first Asian American to lead a major-party ticket. The announcement came during a virtual
Continue Reading By Mike Sullivan Click here for updates on this story NEWBURYPORT, Massachusetts (WBZ) — A Haverhill man spent a decade barely able to speak following a partial laryngectomy to battle cancer. He can now speak thanks to the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. He became just the third person in the U.S. to receive a larynx
Continue Reading WBZ By Mike Sullivan Click here for updates on this story NEWBURYPORT, Massachusetts (WBZ) — A Haverhill man spent a decade barely able to speak following a partial laryngectomy to battle cancer. He can now speak thanks to the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. He became just the third person in the U.S. to receive a
Continue Reading EL PASO, TX (KVIA) — Months after the El Paso Zoological Society ended its partnership with the City of El Paso and the Zoo itself, the nonprofit will celebrate the end of its Conservation Guardian Summer Camp this afternoon. El Paso Community College hosted the month-long summer camp, where kids “immerse themselves in nature and get
Continue Reading Associated Press PARIS (AP) — On the other side of the Atlantic from Wall Street, a market more wholesome than cutthroat has sprung up at the Paris Olympics. The commodity at the center of it all? Pins. The city has seen an influx of collectors from all over the world, each eager to begin or
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By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN (CNN) — Patrick Morrissey had never rowed a day in his life when he decided to take part in a 41-day journey to traverse 2,800 miles across the Pacific Ocean in a boat powered only by human muscles. Living with Parkinson’s disease, he’s used to having moments that challenge him, but
Continue Reading By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — When Pete Buttigieg launched his presidential bid in the spring of 2019, he acknowledged that — at least on paper — he didn’t strike the image of a winning candidate. “I recognize the audacity of doing this as a Midwestern millennial mayor,” he told the crowd in his hometown
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La boxeadora argelina Imane Khelif está en el centro de una agria polémica sobre su elegibilidad para participar en los Juegos Olímpicos después de que una rival abandonara un combate en sólo 46 segundos. Khelif, peso wélter ligero de 25 años, asestó un fuerte primer puñetazo en el combate del jueves
Continue Reading Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Las integrantes del equipo egipcio de voleibol de playa femenino se han pronunciado en contra de la prohibición de que las atletas usen hijab después de competir en un partido olímpico de voleibol de playa con ropa modesta. Marwa Abdelhady y Doaa Elghobashy representaron a Egipto en los Juegos Olímpicos de París
Continue Reading Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota voters will decide in November whether to eliminate property taxes. The change would be a first for a state and a major move. Officials estimate it would require more than $1 billion every year in replacement revenue from the state. Former Republican state Rep. Rick Becker is
Continue Reading By John MacLauchlan Click here for updates on this story FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (WFOR) — Ahead of the wet weather South Florida is expecting this weekend from an approaching tropical wave, that has the potential to become a tropical depression or storm once it reaches the Gulf of Mexico, several cities are offering their residents
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Olympic glory is thrilling, but it doesn’t always pay the bills. Veronica Fraley, a discus thrower on Team USA, shared as much earlier this week, when she told her followers on X that she was struggling to make ends meet. “I compete in the Olympic Games TOMORROW and can’t
Continue Reading SAG HARBOR, N.Y. (AP) — A New York judge has suspended Justin Timberlake’s driver’s license over his DWI arrest in June. Timberlake pleaded not guilty Friday at a virtual court appearance on Long Island. The former NSYNC singer said little during the remote arraignment. Police arrested Timberlake after they say he ran a stop sign
Continue Reading By Raja Razek and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — D’Vontaye Mitchell, the 43-year-old man who was pinned to the ground in June by security officers outside a Hyatt Regency hotel in Milwaukee, died from “restraint asphyxia and toxic effects of cocaine and methamphetamine,” according to an autopsy report released Friday by the Milwaukee County Medical
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It was December 2022 and the U.S. government’s chief hostage negotiator had just delivered Brittney Griner back to America after her 10-month imprisonment in Russia. Roger Carstens went to his hotel room anticipating a quick snooze after several sleepless days and had just put his head on the pillow when
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has secured enough votes from delegates to become her party’s nominee for president, Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison said Friday. The announcement was made before the online voting process ends on Monday, reflecting the breakneck speed of a campaign that is eager to maintain momentum
Continue Reading CNN By Krystal Hur, CNN New York (CNN) — Stocks tumbled Friday as a disappointing jobs report added to fears that the US economy is weakening. The Dow closed 612 points, or 1.5%, lower, after falling more than 900 points earlier in the session. The S&P 500 lost 1.8% and the Nasdaq Composite declined 2.4%.
Continue Reading By Tara Campbell Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — In a controversial push to get San Francisco’s unhoused population out of town, Mayor London Breed has put out an executive order to buy bus tickets for the homeless population as the city’s shelters near full. This comes as Mayor Breed
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Two 15-year-olds were taken into custody after Las Cruces Police officials say they were found with guns at Organ Mountain High School Thursday morning. The school was placed under a short shelter in place order while police searched for the teens. Officials say officers found one handgun on each
Continue Reading By Tim Johns Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — For thousands of Bay Area runners, this year’s San Francisco Marathon has been a massive disappointment. On Tuesday, participants received an email stating that a mistake had caused organizers to miscalculate one of the half marathon courses. Instead of being 13.1
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