ROME (AP) — The Vatican is insisting at the close of a trial in London that it was the victim of a years-long fraud over its investment in a London property. The Vatican submitted a final concluding statement on Thursday at the close of the trial brought by British-Italian broker Raffaele Mincione. Mincione is seeking
Continue Reading Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey has decided to move let a proposal for a backup power plant at one of the country’s largest sewage treatment facilities move forward. Newark residents have put up a hard fight against it, and they’re angry about the decision. The existing plant dumped some 840 million gallons
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Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. government says $325 million in federal funds will be available for solar and battery storage installations across Puerto Rico as the U.S. territory struggles with chronic power outages. The U.S. Department of Energy program will target community centers and healthcare facilities, as well as common
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By Jenna Wells Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — An investigation is ongoing after Columbus, Ohio police officers shot and killed a man in Milwaukee Tuesday afternoon. The Milwaukee Police Department said 13 CPD officers were staged near 14th and Vliet Street, when they saw a man with a knife in
Continue Reading WDJT, SHARPE FAMILY PHOTO, MARCELIA NICHOLSON, CNN By Jenna Wells Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — An investigation is ongoing after Columbus, Ohio police officers shot and killed a man in Milwaukee Tuesday afternoon. The Milwaukee Police Department said 13 CPD officers were staged near 14th and Vliet Street, when they
Continue Reading Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that Mississippi legislators, not the courts, must decide whether to change the state’s practice of stripping voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies. The list of disenfranchising crimes includes nonviolent crimes such as forgery and timber theft. The state’s original list of
Continue Reading WBZ, TOWN OF NANTUCKET, NANTUCKET CURRENT, CNN By Brandon Truitt Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WBZ) — More pieces of a broken wind turbine off the coast of Massachusetts are falling into the Atlantic Ocean. The CEO of Vineyard Wind was at Nantucket’s Select Board meeting Wednesday evening, apologizing and answering questions
Continue Reading By Brandon Truitt Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WBZ) — More pieces of a broken wind turbine off the coast of Massachusetts are falling into the Atlantic Ocean. The CEO of Vineyard Wind was at Nantucket’s Select Board meeting Wednesday evening, apologizing and answering questions about the initial break when he suddenly
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — A lot of habits picked up in the pandemic era have stuck around. For most of us, that means grabbing Ubers when we could take the subway, or ordering food rather than walking to the store. For the super-rich, however, those convenient little time-saves now include ditching scheduled flights
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — When things would get tense between the kids in my house, sometimes my dad would sit beside us and talk out how to address our feelings and resolve conflict. Other times, he would start a food fight at dinner or scoop us up unceremoniously in our jeans and T-shirts
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Anabella González (CNN Español) — El Consejo Nacional Electoral de Venezuela le dio la victoria en las elecciones presidenciales de este domingo a Nicolás Maduro, aunque la oposición no reconoce los resultados y varios líderes internacionales piden transparencia. De confirmarse los resultados del CNE, Maduro iniciaría un tercer mandato. ¿Cómo ha sido su recorrido hasta
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By Kyle Feldscher, Jeff Zeleny and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN Washington (CNN) — As President Joe Biden isolates at his Delaware beach home after testing positive for Covid-19, he is growing increasingly isolated from many corners of his Democratic Party as he faces deepening questions about whether he should continue his reelection campaign. The announcement of Biden’s
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Sunland Park, N.M. (KVIA) — A man is in serious but stable condition after having both legs amputated after possibly being struck by a train, according to Sunland Park Fire Chief Danny Medrano. They’re ‘X’ account says they were called out before 7:30 a.m. Thursday. The post also says that Sunland Park Police and U.S.
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — This is America, which means Donald Glover has choices. And the actor and writer has made one in deciding to retire his musical alter ego, Childish Gambino. “It’s not fulfilling,” he told the New York Times in a recent interview. “I just felt like I didn’t need to
Continue Reading AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A horrific crash that killed six high school girls in Oklahoma two years ago has the head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board urging parents to warn teenagers about the risk of driving after using marijuana. Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy made the appeal to parents Thursday as her agency
Continue Reading By Sergey Gudkov, CNN (CNN) — American citizen Travis Leake has been sentenced to 13 years in a penal colony in Russia, state media RIA Novosti reported Thursday, after he was detained on drug charges last year. A Moscow court had accused the “former paratrooper and musician” of engaging in a narcotics business, according to RIA. Leake pleaded
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Gymnastics champion Simone Biles reflects on her previous Olympic competitions as she prepares for the Paris games in a new Netflix docuseries, “Simone Biles Rising.” Biles made the surprising decision to withdraw from competition at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 after she was becoming disoriented in her routines
Continue Reading COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Two Amur tiger cubs have had their first public outing at Cologne Zoo in Germany, one of several zoos that have sought to help keep up the numbers of the rare big cats. The cubs — a female named Tochka and a male named Timur — were born in mid-April and
Continue Reading Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Un video que se hizo viral el 8 de julio sacudió las redes sociales y sacó a flote el incremento de denuncias por acoso escolar que según el Patronato Nacional de la Infancia (PANI) pasó de 655 en 2022 a 826 en 2023, muy lejos de las 186 que se
Continue Reading By Andrew Carey, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — The Biden administration received another rebuff from Israel Wednesday night – this time from the country’s parliament – over the United States’ long-standing support for the eventual establishment of a Palestinian state. A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been US policy for decades, but absent negotiations
Continue Reading By Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Jurors returned mixed verdicts Thursday in the trial of a man accused of killing Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll at her home. Michael Jackson-Bolanos, 29, faced four charges. Jurors deadlocked on the charges of felony murder and home invasion. They found him not guilty of premeditated murder but found
Continue Reading Originally Published: 18 JUL 24 05:00 ET By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden announced another round of student loan debt forgiveness Thursday, totaling $1.2 billion for 35,000 public-sector workers including teachers, nurses and firefighters. The borrowers qualify for the debt relief through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, which was created
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — The daughter of Dubai’s ruler has apparently announced her divorce on social media in what would be a rare move for a princess in the United Arab Emirates. The Instagram account of Sheikha Mahra bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the daughter of UAE Prime Minister and Dubai ruler
Continue Reading Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Kyiv official says Ukraine’s army has pulled out from a village in the eastern Donetsk region, surrendering another front-line position as Russian forces blast Ukrainian defenses in a relentless onslaught. The official said Thursday the village of Urozhaine was reduced to rubble and rendered indefensible. Russia seized Urozhaine
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — When it comes to influential films in the world of climate research and weather reporting, few (if any) can hold a candle to “Twister,” Jan de Bont’s epic action movie that has spawned a sequel blowing through theaters this weekend. When the film came out in 1996, Dr. Elizabeth
Continue Reading Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Los investigadores ahora creen que la cuenta de Steam a nombre del hombre que disparó contra el expresidente Donald Trump durante el fin de semana es falsa, dijo a CNN un funcionario estadounidense informado sobre el asunto. Temprano este jueves, citando una fuente familiarizada con el asunto, CNN había informado que
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By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — Team USA put in a much improved team performance on Wednesday to earn a dominant 105-79 win over Serbia and reigning NBA MVP Nikola Jokić. After an underwhelming win over Australia on Monday, USA big man Anthony Davis lamented the team’s lack of effort, but there was plenty of
Continue Reading Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s divided National Assembly has kept a centrist member of President Emmanuel Macron’s party as speaker. Speaker Yaël Braun-Pivet has been the speaker of the National Assembly since 2022 and retained her post Thursday after three rounds of vote in the lower house of parliament. The 53-year-old Braun-Pivet received the
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Hopes have been raised for the future of a critically endangered species of crocodile after 60 eggs hatched in the wild – the largest recorded breeding event for the species this century. The Siamese crocodiles successfully hatched in five different nests in the Cardamom National Park in Cambodia, according
Continue Reading Originally Published: 17 JUL 24 16:39 ET By Katie Lobosco and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to let it continue cutting monthly student loan payments for roughly three million borrowers enrolled in a student loan repayment plan implemented last year. The fate of the program, known as SAVE (Saving
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