Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The State Election Board in Georgia once toiled in relative obscurity. Now it hosts raucous meetings where public comment lasts for hours and attendees loudly heckle board members and speakers. The shift highlights how election administration has become scrutinized and politicized nationwide. Republican Party leaders take credit for placing a
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Sofía Barruti (CNN Español) — El Tribunal Superior Electoral de Brasil decidió este miércoles cancelar el envío de observadores electorales para los comicios presidenciales del 28 de julio en Venezuela, en represalia por las declaraciones del presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, sobre el sistema de votación brasileño. La noche de este miércoles, durante un mitin
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Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Thousands of secret law enforcement documents obtained by The Associated Press offer a never-before-seen window into a culture of corruption among U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents who parlayed the agency’s shadowy money laundering operations into a worldwide pursuit of binge drinking and illicit sex. Among the documents is a recovered
Continue Reading By Maija Ehlinger, Lex Harvey, Jerome Taylor, Ivana Kottasová and Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — A British policeman has been suspended and is facing criminal investigation after multiple videos emerged on social media showing officers beating at least three people inside Manchester Airport in an incident the city’s own force has labeled “truly shocking.” The viral
Continue Reading Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A former school police officer who was part of the slow law enforcement response to the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of failing to take action as a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers inside a fourth-grade
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Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A former school police officer who was part of the slow law enforcement response to the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of failing to take action as a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers inside a fourth-grade
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Hace más de una década que millones de sirios inundaron Turquía en masa, buscando refugio de la guerra civil en su país. Pero hoy en día, hay cada vez más indicios de que los refugiados pueden haber agotado su acogida. Este mes se han producido disturbios antisirios en varias ciudades
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By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Four days into the most consequential week of Kamala Harris’ political life, she confronted the most fraught foreign policy issue facing the country by looking directly into the eyes of an Israeli prime minister who decided not to even give her a passing name check in his address to Congress
Continue Reading CNN By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Four days into the most consequential week of Kamala Harris’ political life, she has to confront the most fraught foreign policy issue facing the country by looking directly into the eyes of an Israeli prime minister who decided not to even give her a passing name check in his
Continue Reading Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — In a WhatsApp chat that quickly devolved into depravity, a group of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents boasted about their “world debauchery tour” of “boozing and whoring” on the government’s dime. They swapped lurid images of their latest sexual conquests. And at one point they even joked about “forcible anal
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By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — The Murdoch family, famous for helming one of the world’s most influential news empires, is locked in a secret court battle over succession and control, according to a New York Times report citing sealed court documents. For years, public intrigue has swirled around what would happen to the Murdoch
Continue Reading TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A strong typhoon made landfall on China’s southeastern coast on Thursday evening after sweeping across the nearby island of Taiwan, where it caused landslides and flooding in low-lying areas and left three dead. Typhoon Gaemi had swept up the western Pacific, intensifying seasonal rains earlier in the week in the Philippines,
Continue Reading Associated Press CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) — Behind a church surrounded by rolling prairie on the outskirts of this Colorado town sits a donated RV that Joe Ridenour called home for a year after he lost his job during the pandemic. Being able to live in the RV, he said, allowed him to avoid returning
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday said she urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a cease-fire deal soon with Hamas so that dozens of hostages held by the militants in Gaza since Oct. 7 can return home. Harris said she had a “frank and constructive” conversation with Netanyahu
Continue Reading Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is propelling her presidential push by speaking Thursday to the American Federation of Teachers, the first labor union to formally endorse her candidacy. Having emerged as the likely Democratic nominee after President Joe Biden exited the race, Harris intends to travel aggressively to spread her message
Continue Reading Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris told Republicans to “bring it on” in what she described as a “fight for our most fundamental freedoms” as she spoke to the American Federation of Teachers on Thursday. It was her latest stop in her whirlwind debut as the Democrats’ likely presidential nominee after President
Continue Reading AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — China has ratcheted up its efforts to spur slowing growth by cutting a key policy rate and doubling subsidies for electric vehicles bought to replace older cars. The moves Thursday coincided with a downturn in world stocks that extended losses in Chinese markets that have swooned this year while
Continue Reading Associated Press A rare neurological disorder robbed Rep. Jennifer Wexton of her ability to speak clearly. But with the help of a powerful artificial intelligence program, the Virginia Democrat will use a clone of her voice to deliver what is believed to be the first speech on the House floor ever given via a voice
Continue Reading Associated Press When Jennifer Wexton rose Thursday to speak on the House floor, something she has done countless times before, the congresswoman used a voice she thought was gone forever. After a rare neurological disorder robbed her of her ability to speak clearly, Wexton has been given her voice back with the help of a
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Organizers of next month’s Democratic National Convention are tossing out their script. The Democratic Party will have a new nominee, a re-crafted program and less than a month to pull off what is normally planned over the course of a year. With President Joe Biden now out of the race
Continue Reading By Annie Grayer, Haley Talbot and Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — House Democrats Wednesday night praised President Joe Biden for his speech explaining his decision to step aside from the 2024 presidential race, putting an end to a bitter chapter of Democratic infighting over Biden’s future where many Democratic lawmakers publicly and privately pressured the president to
Continue Reading Associated Press A plan to help shore up the depleted Colorado River by cutting off water to alfalfa fields in California’s crop-rich Imperial Valley is finding support from the farmers who grow it. The Imperial Irrigation District — the biggest user of water from the 1,450-mile (2,334-kilometer) river — has offered to pay farmers to
Continue Reading Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — As state treasurer, Vivek Malek pushed Missouri’s main retirement system to pull its investments from Chinese companies, making Missouri among the first nationally to do so. Now Malek is touting the Chinese divestment as he seeks reelection in an Aug. 6 Republican primary against challengers who also are
Continue Reading AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s economy accelerated last quarter at a strong 2.8% annual pace, with consumers and businesses helping drive growth despite the pressure of continually high interest rates. Thursday’s report from the Commerce Department said the gross domestic product — the economy’s total output of goods and services — picked
Continue Reading By Nick Paton Walsh, Muhammad Darwish, Saskya Vandoorne and Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — Nearly two-thirds of ISIS-linked arrests in Europe in the last nine months have been of teenagers, according to a landmark academic study, as concern grows among European security officials ahead of the Paris Olympics of the growing potency and reach in
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By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The infant mortality rate in the United States rose in 2022, the first jump in 20 years, according to data released Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 20,500 babies died in 2022 before the age of 1, final records show. Overall, there were
Continue Reading AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Chicago White Sox haven’t had a record this bad in more than a half-century. They are now on pace to match the most losses in baseball’s modern era. With their 10-2 loss Wednesday night at Texas, the White Sox (27-77) have dropped 10 in a row and
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By Andrew McNicol and David Close, CNN (CNN) — Argentina thought it had leveled its Olympic soccer opener against Morocco in the dying seconds on Wednesday – before its goal was dramatically ruled out and a pitch invasion caused the final three minutes to be played in an empty stadium after a nearly two-hour delay.
Continue Reading Story by AP (CNN) — One person was killed and three others were injured at Cambodia’s famed centuries-old Angkor temple complex when a large tree was blown down onto their vehicle during a fierce rainstorm, the government said Wednesday. The accident occurred late Tuesday afternoon at the southern gate to Angkor Thom, which is near the more
Continue Reading Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A lawyer says activist publisher Jimmy Lai will testify in his defense at his Hong Kong national security trial. He was charged under a Beijing-imposed law that has all but wiped out public dissent. The founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper is charged with colluding with foreign forces
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