[ad_1] CNN — President Joe Biden is heading to the US-Mexico border on Sunday on the heels of major policy announcements and following relentless calls from Republicans who believe the trip is overdue. The trip to the border – the first for Biden since he took office – comes as …
Read More »Kevin McCarthy, the view from home
[ad_1] CNN — The young man smiling in the last Bakersfield High School student newspaper for the 1983 school year was captioned – “Most Likely to Succeed.” That graduating student wasn’t then-senior Kevin McCarthy, the California Republican who on Saturday became the House speaker for the 118th US Congress, a …
Read More »Colorado will halt busing of migrants to New York City and Chicago following conversation with cities’ mayors, governor says
[ad_1] CNN — After earlier announcing that Colorado would help asylum-seeking migrants leave the state for their intended destinations, Gov. Jared Polis said the state would not be sending additional buses of migrants to New York City and Chicago following “a very productive conversation” with the mayors of both cities, …
Read More »Los Angeles County: A traffic stop involving a deputy threatening to shoot a driver in the chest is under investigation, police say
[ad_1] CNN — A Los Angeles County traffic stop in which a local rapper was approached by a deputy who threatened that the man would “take one to the chest” if he failed to comply with exiting his parked vehicle is now under investigation, according to police. Rapper Feezy Lebron …
Read More »Police search for suspect in officer-involved shooting in downtown Phoenix
[ad_1] CNN — The Phoenix Police Department is seeking an “armed and dangerous” suspect who fled after shooting and wounding a Scottsdale detective Friday night. A manhunt is underway for Kenneth Hearne, 37, the suspect who police said fled from a two-story balcony after firing on officers, the Scottsdale Police …
Read More »Albuquerque police are investigating at least four shootings at Democratic officials’ homes and offices
[ad_1] CNN — Officials in Albuquerque, New Mexico, are investigating a fifth shooting that may be connected to a string of shootings involving the homes and offices of local Democratic elected leaders as targets. The New Mexico Attorney General, two state senators, a current county commissioner, and a former commissioner …
Read More »A Wall Street Journal reporter was handcuffed by police while standing outside a Chase Bank. The newspaper is demanding answers
[ad_1] New York CNN — The Wall Street Journal is demanding answers from the Phoenix Police Department after an officer detained and handcuffed one of its reporters outside a Chase Bank — an incident that press freedom advocates say raises First Amendment concerns and mirrors a larger, growing hostility from …
Read More »At least 1 killed as powerful bomb cyclone slams into California with hurricane-force winds and heavy rain
[ad_1] CNN — A powerful bomb cyclone slammed into the California coast Wednesday night, lashing the state with heavy downpours and hurricane-force winds as the storm advanced onshore, knocking over trees and killing a child. The low-pressure storm system moved in from the Pacific, bringing damaging winds, excessive rainfall and …
Read More »Colorado launches new alert system to help find missing Indigenous people
[ad_1] CNN — After community members spent days searching for Wanbli Vigil in knee-deep snow and brush in Denver, Colorado, authorities activated a statewide alert system on Tuesday to help find the missing 27-year-old Lakota man. Vigil’s disappearance is the first case to activate Colorado’s new Missing Indigenous Person Alert …
Read More »National Weather Service warns California as ‘bomb cyclone’ approaches
[ad_1] CNN — Another powerful storm, known as a bomb cyclone, is hitting the California coast and the National Weather Service in the Bay Area is warning residents that the “truly brutal” system needs to be taken seriously. The system could trigger “immediate disruption to commerce, and the worst of …
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