Music Midtown, popular Atlanta music festival, canceled this year
ATLANTA (AP) — A music festival that draws tens of thousands of people to Atlanta’s Piedmont Park will not take place this year. Posts Wednesday…
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Kenya’s public hospital doctors sign agreement to end national strike after almost 2 months
By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s public hospital doctors union has called off a national strike that had…
Continue Reading Cruise ship sails into New York City port with 44-foot dead whale across its bow
NEW YORK (AP) — A cruise ship sailed into New York City with a 44-foot dead whale across its bow. A spokesperson for the National Oceanic and…
Continue Reading Arkansas cannot prevent 2 teachers from discussing critical race theory in classroom, judge rules
By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled Arkansas cannot prevent two high school teachers from…
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EPISD hosting ribbon-cutting ceremony for Coach Wally Hartley PK-8
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Independent School District is set to celebrate the completion of a new campus. They will host a ribbon-cutting…
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Texas AG trying to get temporary injunction against El Paso’s Annunciation House, claiming it engages in ‘criminal conduct’
UPDATE – ABC-7 spoke with Jerome Wesevich, the attorney representing Annunciation House in the lawsuit involving the State of Texas, about the…
Continue Reading Haley won 1 in 5 Indiana Republican voters in the presidential primary. She left the race in March
By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — It’s been two months since Nikki Haley dropped out of the Republican race, but the…
Continue Reading Republican Congressmen introduce bill that would protect NCAA and conferences from legal attacks
By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer Two Republican Congressmen have introduced a bill that would provide the NCAA, college conferences and…
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Juarez photojournalist Christian Torres wins Pulitzer prize
JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Juárez photojournalist Christian Torres Chávez, who works at Norte Digital, won a Pulitzer prize covering immigration…
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West El Paso residents seeking legal action to stop affordable housing complex
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — West El Paso residents near Mesa Hills Drive and Bluff Trail Lane are moving forward in their effort to stop the Housing…
Continue Reading Kosovo prime minister deplores new condition ahead of Council of Europe’s membership vote next week
By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Kosovo’s prime minister has deplored the fact that some Western powers reportedly have…
Continue Reading Slow to expand, internet casino gambling is the future of US betting, industry execs say
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) — Internet casino gambling is legal in only a handful of states, but the industry is convinced…
Continue Reading Robert F. Kennedy Jr. challenges Donald Trump to debate at Libertarian Convention
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has challenged Donald Trump to a head-to-head debate for when both…
Continue Reading Scores of Syrians return home after years at camp housing people linked to the Islamic State group
By HOGIR AL ABDO Associated Press AL-HOL CAMP, Syria (AP) — Scores of Syrian women and children linked to the Islamic State group have left a…
Continue Reading Democrats commit $7 million to TV ads in 5 key state Senate races
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democrats plan to spend $7 million on television ads in five state Senate races…
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RFK Jr. details medical abnormality that he says was a parasitic worm in his brain
CNN By Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday detailed the medical abnormality he…
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New video shows Doña Ana County Sheriff’s deputy shoot Chaparral man five times during theft-in-progress call
CHAPARRAL, New Mexico (KVIA) — ABC-7 has obtained footage that shows a Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Deputy shooting and killing a man suspected of…
Continue Reading Bomb in northeastern Afghanistan kills 3 officers who were part of convoy handling poppy eradication
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban official says A sticky bomb exploded in northeastern Afghanistan, killing at least three police officers. AAbdul Mateen…
Continue Reading What is a tornado emergency and how is it different from a warning or a watch?
By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Tornado emergencies have been called in Michigan, Nebraska, Iowa and more states over the past…
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Fire burns East El Paso house
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Officials with the El Paso Fire Department say that a house on the 9800 block of Trinidad Drive in East El Paso caught fire…
Continue Reading Travis Kelce lines up another TV job and joins FX’s ‘American Horror Story: Grotesquerie’ season
By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Travis Kelce continues to work in the NFL off season. The Super Bowl winner has booked a role on “American…
Continue Reading Biden says US won’t supply weapons for Israel to attack Rafah, in warning to ally
By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he won’t supply offensive weapons Israel can use…
Continue Reading Advocates ask Supreme Court to back Louisiana’s new mostly Black House district
By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Voting rights advocates have filed an emergency motion asking the Supreme Court to keep in…
Continue Reading Young Michigan voters reveal deepening political problems for Biden seven months after start of Israel-Hamas war
CNN By John King, CNN Ann Arbor, Michigan (CNN) — The nervous Democrat in Jade Gray will get to the worrying part soon enough. But graduating…
Continue Reading Mexico hit by hours of rolling blackouts due to high temperatures and low power generation
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has been hit by hours of rolling blackouts late Tuesday due to high temperatures and temporary drops in electrical power…
Continue Reading Dogs entering US must be 6 months old and microchipped to prevent spread of rabies, new rules say
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — All dogs coming into the U.S. from other countries must be at least 6 months old and microchipped…
Continue Reading EU reaches a tentative deal on Ukraine aid coming from profits of frozen Russian assets
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union nations have reached a tentative breakthrough deal to provide Ukraine with billions in additional funds for arms and…
Continue Reading Kai Cenat’s riot charges dropped after he apologizes and pays for Union Square mayhem
NEW YORK (AP) — Charges of inciting a riot will be dropped against online streamer Kai Cenat after he agreed to pay restitution and apologize for…
Continue Reading Kosovo backs Ukraine even though Kyiv has not recognized its independence, foreign minister says
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Kosovo’s foreign minister says her country is convinced that Russia must lose the war in…
Continue Reading Republicans renew push to exclude noncitizens from the census that helps determine political power
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Some Republicans in Congress are pushing to require a citizenship question on the questionnaire for the…
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