Hundreds of people turned out Monday for a candlelight vigil to pray for and honor an elementary school teacher in virginia allegedly shot by a six-year-old student. The crowd gathered outside the Newport News Public Schools administration building. The shooting at Richneck Elementary happened on Friday, and the teacher, Abby Zwerner was critically hurt. She
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The Department of Education is proposing lower student loan payments for millions of people. It’s part of the Biden administration’s plan to change the existing income-driven repayment program. The administration hopes to “transform college financing and reduce future borrowers’ total payments per dollar by $0.40, while targeting that help on low- and middle-income borrowers,” Deputy
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(CNN) — Several classified documents from President Joe Biden’s time as vice president were discovered last fall in a private office, Biden’s attorneys acknowledged Monday. Attorney General Merrick Garland has asked the US attorney in Chicago to investigate the matter, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN, and congressional Republicans are also taking notice. Biden’s
Continue Reading (CNN) — [Breaking news update, published at 3:05 p.m.] Damar Hamlin was released from the hospital on Monday, a week after the Buffalo Bills safety’s heart stopped and he had to be resuscitated on the field during an NFL game. [Previous story, published at 1:12 a.m.] Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin has shown continued progress with his
Continue Reading CNN’s Jim Sciutto and Erica Hill speak with former senior FBI profiler Mary Ellen O’Toole about the latest revelations on the arrest of Brian Walshe, the husband of missing Massachusetts woman Ana Walshe, and what could happen next.
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A new automotive brand called Afeela, the child of a joint venture between Sony and Honda, is about to break cover in 2026 with its first model, a smooth-sided EV sedan. A prototype was revealed at the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Sony and Honda Mobility Chief Yasuhide Mizuno showed a prototype of the
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House Republicans are now planning on forming a new select committee to investigate the Department of Justice and the FBI, including their “ongoing criminal investigations,” setting up a showdown with the Biden administration and law enforcement agencies over their criminal probes, particularly those into former President Donald Trump. The new expanded committee proposal is a result
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Editor’s note: This story comes from the El Paso Times as part of the Puente News Collaborative, a group of newsrooms — including ABC-7, which explores issues with a bi-national perspective. CIUDAD JUAREZ – More than 200 Mexican federal agents were deployed by the National Institute of Migration to the Ciudad Juárez-El Paso border with
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The White House released details of President Biden’s visit to El Paso Sunday. The president will arrive at the El Paso International Airport at 12:45 p.m. Sunday. He will depart at 3:45 p.m. on his way to the North American Leaders Summit in Mexico City. The president will arrive at
Continue Reading (CNN) — Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s breathing tube was removed overnight and he’s spoken to his teammates via video, the Bills said Friday morning, four days after the 24-year-old’s in-game cardiac arrest stunned millions who watched the emergency play out live. “Love you boys,” Hamlin, still in a Cincinnati hospital, told his New York-based team
Continue Reading Mexican authorities released video of Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s son being arrested. He was later released following heavy fire from cartel members.
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(CNN) — Mexican authorities have arrested Ovidio Guzmán, son of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, a source from the federal government of Mexico told CNN, in a dramatic operation in the northern state of Sinaloa on Thursday that led to clashes around the city of Culiacán. Guzmán is described as “a high-ranking member of
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President Joe Biden on Thursday announced a weekend visit to the Texas-Mexico border, along with a new immigration plan that would allow 30,000 migrants per month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to enter the country and be able to work legally for up to two years. In order to qualify, the migrants must apply
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Twitter is being sued by a landlord in California for breach of contract. According to a copy of the complaint filed last week in California Superior Court in San Francisco, Twitter missed a rent payment of $136,260 for its California office. That triggered a notice from the landlord on Dec. 16, giving Twitter five more
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UPDATE: WASHINGTON (AP) — House adjourns for 2nd day without a speaker after Kevin McCarthy fails to win enough Republican support. UPDATE: WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans adjourn House until 8 p.m. as standoff deepens over electing Kevin McCarthy as speaker. McCarthy failed to win speakership in a sixth round of voting. WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — State and local government officials are in Juarez to honor the victims killed in Sunday’s attack on “el Cereso 3”. The jail was attacked on Jan. 1 by a group of armed men. The officials joined the families of those killed in their mourning. Hundreds of officials were joined by
Continue Reading By Mark Morales, CNN Trevor Bickford, the 19-year-old accused of attacking New York Police Department officers with a machete on New Year’s Eve, traveled to the city “in order to kill people and carry out jihad,” prosecutors say. Bickford allegedly went to the Times Square checkpoint just after 10 p.m., authorities have said. At the
Continue Reading By Michelle Watson, CNN A New Year’s Day police check on a stolen car report ended when the car plunged over 20 feet and landed on a house and another vehicle in North Caldwell, New Jersey, authorities said in a Facebook post. Officers were at the scene after responding to a report of a stationary
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There was no winner Tuesday in the first Mega Millions drawing of 2023. Which means the next drawing on Friday will be worth $940 million dollars. Tuesday’s drawing featured nearly 3 million winning tickets for prizes ranging from $2 up to $4 million. Six tickets matched the first five numbers, winning the lottery’s second-highest prize
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The House of Representatives is adjourned until noon today after Representative Kevin McCarthy failed to secure the necessary republican support to gain the speakership. Division within the GOP resulted in three-failed rounds of voting. The last time a Speaker of the House election had numerous ballots was in 1923. A lack of GOP support thwarted
Continue Reading By Brandon Griggs and Faith Karimi, CNN Two adults and two children somehow escaped serious injuries after their Tesla plunged off a cliff along California’s Pacific Coast Highway and crashed on a rocky beach some 250 feet below. The incident occurred Monday morning at an area called Devil’s Slide, some 20 miles south of San
Continue Reading CNN By Clare Foran, Melanie Zanona, Annie Grayer and Kristin Wilson, CNN The new House Republican majority faces a once-in-a-century fight to elect the next speaker after GOP leader Kevin McCarthy failed to lock down the votes needed to win in the first round of voting. The vote can now go to a second ballot,
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The 118th congress is being sworn in today and before members take their oaths of office, the House is scheduled to elect a new speaker. Republican leader Kevin McCarthy still does not have enough votes to secure the win. McCarthy can only afford to lose four republican votes because of the razor thin GOP majority.
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EL PASO, Texas — Texas was the largest-growing state by population in the U.S. between July 2021 and December 2022, according to the yearly Census by the U.S. Census Bureau. The state reached a total population of 30,029,572: a 470,708 increase since July 2021, meaning Texas surpassed the 30-million-population threshold last year. Texas is second
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Andrew Tate, a former professional kickboxer and online personality who frequently made misogynistic comments to his large following on social media sites, has been remanded into custody for 30 days by a judge in Romania after the police charged him and three others with human trafficking, rape and forming an organized criminal group. Prosecutors with
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Thousands of Californians are starting the first week of 2023 without power and others are under evacuation orders, after a deadly storm hammered the state with historic rain, heavy snow and life-threatening flooding that shut down major highways. A deadly west coast storm system is now moving toward the east, with several other states bracing
Continue Reading By Josh Campbell, Jim Sciutto, Lauren del Valle, Mark Morales and John Miller, CNN A graduate student at Washington State University was arrested Friday in his home state of Pennsylvania in last month’s killings of four University of Idaho students in their off-campus home — a brutal attack that rattled a small college town, authorities
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President Joe Biden capped a year of what he called “historic progress” by signing the Omnibus Funding Bill Thursday. The massive 1.7 trillion dollar legislation invests in medical research, disaster recovery, veteran’s health care and provides military assistance to Ukraine. Biden tweeted a picture signing the bill into law, adding, “looking forward to more in
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Texas says it has bused more than 16,000 migrants to northern cities this year. Governor Greg Abbott’s office released a year-end review of his program Thursday. Officials say the state started busing migrants to so-called sanctuary cities on April 13th. At first Washington D.C. was the only destination, but New York, Chicago and Philadelphia were eventually
Continue Reading CNN By Oren Liebermann, CNN A Chinese fighter jet intercepted a US reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea last week and performed an “unsafe maneuver,” forcing the US aircraft to take evasive action, according to Indo-Pacific Command, the command responsible for overseeing US military operations in the region. On December 21, a Chinese Navy
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