MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the country’s military to increase its number of troops by 180,000 to a total of 1.5 million, as Moscow’s military action in Ukraine drags on for more than 2 ½ years. Putin’s decree, published Monday on the official government website, takes effect Dec. 1. It sets
Continue Reading Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Joe Wiederien was an unlikely candidate to challenge a Republican congressman in one of the nation’s most competitive House districts. A fervent supporter of former President Donald Trump, Wiederien was registered as a Republican until months earlier. A debilitating stroke had left him unable to drive. He had
Continue Reading SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Gordon has weakened to a depression as it swirls through open waters in the Atlantic. The storm was located about 1,020 miles (1,645 kilometers) east of the northeast Caribbean on Monday. It had top winds of 30 mph (45 kph) and was moving west at 8 mph
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CNN By Kayla Smith and Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — Straining every fiber to stay atop the 1,000 pound camel churning up sand two meters beneath her as it gallops at over 40 kilometers (24 miles) an hour, Taylor Dees is a long way from Texas. It’s around 12,700 kilometers (7,890 miles) from her hometown
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By Catherine Nicholls, CNN London (CNN) — Former BBC news presenter Huw Edwards has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment suspended for two years by a London court for having indecent images of children, according to PA Media. The suspended sentence comes with requirements including the completion of a sex offender treatment program and 25
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Three prominent columnists have resigned from the newspaper Jewish Chronicle over allegations it published fabricated articles about the Israel-Hamas war. The resignations came after the London-based newspaper removed multiple articles by a freelance journalist and apologized to readers. It said it conducted an investigation into the writer and was “not satisfied with
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Kicking off the work week we will look at above average temperatures and scattered shower potential. We are looking at about a 20% chance for some scattered showers and thunderstorms. Storms will start out west in the afternoon and push in eastward by evening. Rain chances do linger for your
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By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa does not plan to retire after sustaining the latest of several career concussions last week, sources told NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport. Tagovailoa was forced off the field during the Dolphins’ 31-10 loss against the Buffalo Bills on Thursday after diving for a first down
Continue Reading Associated Press KENYON, Minnesota (AP) — Serving coffee after Sunday worship outside Holden Lutheran Church, Jeff Davidson said he remains anchored in the congregation his Norwegian ancestors helped found in 1857 among cornfields because it’s “very full of very supportive people.” An hour’s drive north in a tough Minneapolis neighborhood, Lizete Vega shared the same
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By Rob Picheta, Jessie Yeung, Teele Rebane and Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Ryan Wesley Routh put his enmity toward Donald Trump – the man he once supported but then dismissed as an “idiot,” a “buffoon” and a “fool” – at the center of a rambling and fanciful worldview that also fixated on Ukraine, Taiwan,
Continue Reading MIAMI (AP) — Heavy winds and rains from a storm in the Atlantic that wasn’t quite organized enough to get a name hit a stretch of the southeastern U.S. coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the storm system reached the South Carolina coast Monday afternoon and was moving inland across the Carolinas. The system
Continue Reading By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — The NFL season continues to provide drama, thrills and plays worthy of praise. The 14 games on Sunday were no exception, providing no shortage of entertainment, with each matchup seemingly having drama and noteworthy moments. Here are the main storylines from Week 2’s Sunday games: Saints continue hot start
Continue ReadingBy Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) — At least 17 people have been killed in some of the worst floods to hit central Europe in decades as Storm Boris sweeps through the region, dumping well over a month’s worth of rain. Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary have all been hit with extreme rainfall. The
Continue Reading Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Rescuers freed an 11-year-old boy who slipped between two boulders near his school and was trapped for more than nine hours, a New Hampshire fire chief said Monday. The boy was pried out of the boulders in Windsor at about 3:15 a.m. He was taken to a hospital for
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Update: Angered residents attended the meeting and voiced their frustrations with the water situation in Sunland Park. Representatives from NMHealth and NMED answered the residents questions during the town hall. ABC-7 was in attendance for the meeting and captured video of the exchanges. SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico (KVIA) — New Mexico health and environment officials
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By Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — “Reservation Dogs” star D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai made a powerful statement on the red carpet at Sunday’s Emmy Awards ceremony, pairing a black tuxedo with what looked like a bloody red handprint smeared across his mouth. The 22-year-old Canadian, who is of Oji-Cree First Nations descent, was the first Indigenous North
Continue Reading AP Business Writer Washington state went to court Monday to try to block a proposed merger between Albertsons and Kroger, saying shoppers would pay hundreds of millions more for groceries each year if the supermarket chains are no longer closely competing. Albertsons and Kroger insist a merger would help them lower prices and better compete
Continue Reading By Jamie Barton, CNN (CNN) — The Texas Longhorns are the highest-ranked team in college football for the first time in 16 years following their 56-7 rout of the UTSA Roadrunners on Saturday night. The Longhorns leapfrogged the Georgia Bulldogs in first place in the AP Top 25, after Kirby Smart’s team struggled to a
Continue Reading By Sam Joseph, CNN (CNN) — The Green Bay Packers left it all – and a little bit more – on the field against the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday. With starting quarterback Jordan Love sidelined after suffering a knee injury in the Packers’ season opener against the Philadelphia Eagles in Brazil, newly acquired backup Malik
Continue Reading By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — It’s a pivotal week for the US economy, with the Federal Reserve expected to cut interest rates for the first time since 2020. The move would mark a major milestone both for the central bank’s long fight with inflation and for Americans battling a higher cost of living
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EL PASO, Texas — From west to east El Paso, to Southern New Mexico there’s a construction project in almost every part of the Borderland. Here’s a complete list of TxDOT’s and Las Cruces road closures September 16 to September 20. For updates in El Paso, click here. (https://twitter.com/txdotelp) For a look at more information
Continue Reading By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — FX’s hugely popular “Shōgun” dominated the Emmys on Sunday night, winning 18 of its 25 nominations and becoming the first non-English TV show to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series. And on the red carpet outside LA’s Peacock Theater, the show’s cast and crew (and their significant
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By Gregory Krieg, Mark Morales and Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s administration is unraveling. Late Saturday night, the mayor abruptly announced the resignation of his top lawyer and most ardent public defender. Days earlier, his police commissioner stepped down under pressure as a quartet of federal probes targeting numerous
Continue Reading By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. 1. Trump The FBI is investigating an apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at his Florida golf club on Sunday. Trump is safe and was not harmed in the incident, his
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By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — It’s that time of year when any cough or sniffle could be Covid-19, flu or RSV — but there are ways to fend them off. Forecasts from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that this respiratory disease season will be similar to last year’s — which brought
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler and Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — A pastor who the United States says was wrongfully detained in a Chinese prison for nearly two decades has been released, according to the State Department, ending a case that the Biden administration said was a top priority in efforts to stabilize relations with Beijing. David Lin,
Continue Reading RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Authorities say Moroccan security forces stopped groups of people who sought to force their way across the border into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta. Calls recently circulated on social networks for a mass migration attempt. Some people attempted to breach a border fence that has long been a flashpoint for
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone and Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — The Titan submersible sent its final message just six seconds before it lost contact with the surface during its ill-fated dive to the Titanic, according to a US Coast Guard body probing the vessel’s implosion in June 2023, which killed all five people on board.
Continue Reading Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Greek-flagged oil tanker ablaze for weeks after attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has been “successfully towed to a safe area without any oil spill.” That’s according to a statement from a European Union naval mission on Monday. Operation Aspides issued the statement regarding the oil tanker
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Sofía Barruti (CNN) — Washington y Seúl podrían llegar a un acuerdo para compartir los costos de las fuerzas estadounidenses estacionadas en Corea del Sur antes de fin de año, aunque el acuerdo actual no expira hasta fines de 2025, ya que ambas partes sienten una sensación de urgencia para consolidar un nuevo acuerdo antes
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