By Jorge Engels, CNN Ecuadorian authorities said Monday they are in “total control” of a prison in the south of the country after a riot broke out the day before, killing at least 20 inmates. Violence at the Turi prison, near the city of Cuenca, started early Sunday due to a leadership dispute among incarcerated
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Judiciary panel deadlocks 11-11 on Jackson for Supreme Court, but historic confirmation still on track in full Senate. This is a developing news story. Download the KVIA news app to get alerts the moment news breaks.
Continue Reading CNN, FROM FACEBOOK, CBS, “FACE THE NATION”, FROM КИЕВСКИЙ ДВИЖ, MTPBS, EBU, CBS/”Face The Nation”, MTPBS/EBU By Allie Malloy, CNN President Joe Biden on Monday called the atrocities allegedly committed by Russian forces in Bucha, Ukraine, a “war crime” and called for a trial to take place against Russian President Vladimir Putin. The US President
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Will Smith resigns from film academy over Chris Rock slap, says he ‘betrayed the trust of the academy.’ Statement from Will Smith: “I have directly responded to the Academy’s disciplinary hearing notice, and I will fully accept any and all consequences for my conduct. My actions at the 94th Academy Awards
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, CNN A federal judge upheld Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction on sex trafficking charges Friday, ruling that a juror’s misstatements on a pretrial questionnaire should not cause a mistrial. Judge Alison Nathan issued the ruling nearly a month after the juror testified in court he made an “inadvertent” mistake when he indicated in the
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By Kristin Wilson, CNN The House has voted with a slim bipartisan majority to federally decriminalize marijuana. The vote was 220 to 204. Republicans Tom McClintock of California, Brian Mast and Matt Gaetz, both of Florida, joined the majority of Democrats in supporting the bill, while Democrats Henry Cuellar of Texas and Chris Pappas of
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By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration will end Trump-era pandemic restrictions that effectively blocked migrants from entering the United States on May 23, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday. Former President Donald Trump invoked a public health authority, known as Title 42, at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, a
Continue Reading By Holmes Lybrand Concluding one of the more unnerving cases surrounding January 6, a man who brought multiple firearms, Molotov cocktails and other weapons near the US Capitol that day was sentenced to 46 months behind bars on Friday. Lonnie Coffman, 72, parked his truck — filled with 11 Mason jars filled with gasoline and
Continue Reading By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Amazon warehouse workers at a facility in New York City have voted to form the first US union in the tech giant’s 27-year history, marking a stunning victory for a bootstrapped effort led by a fired employee. In a closely watched election, workers at a Staten Island, New York,
Continue Reading The new documentary “Chicago v. Jussie Smollett” explores Jussie Smollett’s stranger-than-fiction saga and dives in to unanswered questions about crime and punishment in a city that can’t afford any more distrust in law and order. Watch it now on CNN+.
Continue Reading By Nathan Hodge, CNN Russian forces have withdrawn from Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the state enterprise overseeing Ukraine’s nuclear power plants said on Thursday. “It was confirmed that the occupiers, who seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and other facilities in the Exclusion Zone, marched in two columns towards the
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday announced an unprecedented release of oil from US reserves and several steps his administration is taking to punish oil companies for not increasing production from unused leases on federal land. The steps are an attempt to reduce gas prices while also putting an
Continue Reading By Chandelis Duster, CNN US citizens will have the option to select “X” when identifying their gender on US passport applications starting in April and on other documents, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday. “Starting on April 11, US citizens will be able to select an X as their gender marker on their US
Continue Reading By Donald Judd and Paul LeBlanc, CNN “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider visited the White House on Thursday to mark the International Transgender Day of Visibility as the Biden administration rolled out a series of measures in support of transgender Americans. “The more that people like me can be seen, the harder it is to sustain
Continue Reading By Jaide Timm-Garcia, CNN A Florida judge approved an $83 million settlement Wednesday for former condo owners and heirs of those killed last year when the Champlain Towers South residential building in Surfside partially collapsed. The compromise settlement was originally agreed upon in February, the Miami Herald reported. Nearly $50 million of the settlement would
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Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, CNN The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced it will once again require applicants to take the SAT or ACT, reversing a Covid-era policy that made the standardized tests optional and rejecting the idea that the tests hurt diversity. “Our research shows standardized tests help us better assess the academic preparedness of all
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CD. JUAREZ, Chihuahua – Javier Donlucas was born in Juarez. Five years ago, he left to start a new life in Eastern Europe; establishing his family in Ukraine. But three days after Russia’s invasion – he made the difficult decision to make the perilous journey back home. His biggest concern was the emotional toll this
Continue Reading Retired Air Force Col. Cedric Leighton says that Ukrainians engaged in very good intelligence and sabotage work to destroy an Alligator class landing ship used to transport tanks.
Continue Reading CNN By Brad Lendon and Gawon Bae, CNN North Korea’s launch last week of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), reported to be its most formidable yet, may have been a less advanced weapon than previously believed, according to a South Korean military official. The official, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, said South Korean
Continue Reading By Allie Malloy and Kevin Liptak, CNN The United States will welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainians and others fleeing Russia’s aggression, a senior administration official announced Thursday. “To meet this commitment, we are considering the full range of legal pathways to the United States,” the official said, which includes US refugee admissions program, parole and
Continue Reading By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business iPhone owners with an Arizona driver’s license or state ID can now upload either to their Apple Wallet, marking the first time a US state has supported digital versions of this type of identification in the app. But the uses remain very limited, for now. Starting Wednesday, Arizona residents
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Madeleine Albright, 1st female US secretary of state, has died of cancer, her family says. This is a breaking news story. Download the KVIA news app to get alerts the moment news breaks.
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EL PASO, Texas – Months after Afghans fled their country and resettled in El Paso, the process to help find them jobs continues. In August, many Afghans fled the county after the Taliban had taken over Kabul. El Calvario United Methodist Church Refugee Resettlement Program is an agency that has been helping the Afghan refugees
Continue Reading By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A US Capitol riot suspect who fled the United States has been granted refugee status in Belarus, according to Belarusian state-owned television BelTA. The California man, Evan Neumann, went to Europe after being charged in connection with the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. Neumann initially settled in Ukraine,
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has convicted Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin of illegally entering restricted U.S. Capitol grounds but acquitted him of engaging in disorderly conduct during the riot that disrupted Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s presidential election victory. U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden heard one day of testimony without a jury
Continue Reading By Stephanie Halasz and George Ramsay, CNN Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been sentenced to nine years in a maximum-security jail, according to Russian state-owned news agency Tass. A prominent Kremlin critic, Navalny was convicted on fraud charges by Moscow’s Lefortovo court over allegations that he stole from his Anti-Corruption Foundation. Navalny, 45, is
Continue Reading Moving video shows a Ukrainian soldier playing their national anthem to his fellow troops.
Continue Reading By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Google has reached a settlement with six engineers who alleged the company unlawfully retaliated against them over their workplace organizing efforts. The settlement, first reported by Vice News Monday, was confirmed by labor attorney Laurie Burgess, who represented the workers, as well as in a court filing Friday. The
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, Olga Voitovych, Tim Lister and Victoria Butenko, CNN A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor, Borys Romanchenko, was killed Friday by a Russian strike on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Romanchenko’s death was confirmed by the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial institute in a series of tweets. Romanchenko survived the camps at Buchenwald, Peenemünde, Dora and
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