Defiant FIFA president Blatter says he does not fear arrest
A day after winning a fifth term in an election overshadowed by allegations of rampant corruption, FIFA president Sepp Blatter says he does not fear arrest. Jillian Kitchener reports.
A day after winning a fifth term in an election overshadowed by allegations of rampant corruption, FIFA president Sepp Blatter says he does not fear arrest. Jillian Kitchener reports.
The New York City mayor drank a cup of water to prove to residents their tap is safe after a test showed heightened arsenic levels in one.
A Russian court confirmed Tuesday that U.S. soldier Gordon Black would be held in custody for at least two months after he was arrested on theft charges in Vladivostok.
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Panera Bread said it's discontinuing its Charged Sips drinks that were tied to at least two wrongful death lawsuits due to their high caffeine content. Panera didn't say Tuesday whether the drinks were being discontinued because of the lawsuits or health concerns, and it wouldn't comment on the timeline for removing them from stores. Panera said it's introducing new low-sugar and low-caffeine drinks after listening to customers' suggestions..
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels is a key witness in Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal hush money trial. Here's a closer look at who she is and her background.
Republican plaintiffs call the effort to fold protection for transgender students under the 1972 Title IX law unconstitutional. The lawsuits filed in federal courts in Missouri and Oklahoma are the latest GOP attempts to halt the new regulation seeking to clarify Title IX, a landmark 1972 sex discrimination law originally passed to address women’s rights and applied to schools and colleges receiving federal money. Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota joined as plaintiffs in the Missouri lawsuit.
One-time movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was returned to a New York City jail in what his publicist said Tuesday was the result from a published report claiming he was getting VIP treatment during his 10-day stay at a hospital. The publicist, Juda Engelmeyer, said Weinstein was moved late Monday from Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan to an infirmary at the city’s Rikers Island jail complex. The move came hours after The City, a nonprofit news outlet, reported that Weinstein was housed in a private room in the hospital’s intensive care unit with a television, phone and a bathroom rather than a separate floor where inmates normally reside.
Teams scurried on Tuesday to deliver humanitarian aid in Porto Alegre and other flood-ravaged municipalities in southern Brazil, where queues formed for drinking water as forecasters warned of more downpours.In the municipality of Alvorada, east of Porto Alegre, there were queues of people with buckets and plastic bottles, collecting drinking water from the few taps still working.
Stormy Daniels, the porn star at the heart of Donald Trump's historic criminal trial, testified Tuesday -– in sometimes explicit detail –- about an alleged 2006 sexual encounter with the former president in a hotel penthouse suite.What followed was detailed testimony about the sexual encounter Daniels said she had with Trump -– his boxer shorts, the sexual position, that he did not wear a condom -– all while the former president stared on in silence, stony faced.
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels recounted the details of her alleged extramarital affair with former President Donald Trump during Tuesday’s testimony in the hush money trial.
Panera is phasing out a highly caffeinated selection of lemonade beverages that's at the center of several lawsuits.
Judge Aileen Cannon has indefinitely postponed former President Donald Trump’s classified documents trial in Florida, citing significant issues around classified evidence that would need to be worked out before the federal criminal case goes to a jury.
A lawsuit was filed on behalf of 95 men and women who claim they were sexually abused by employees while housed at youth centers throughout Illinois.
A bill to ban the sale and transfer of semi-automatic firearms was nixed in Colorado’s Democratic-controlled Legislature on Tuesday as lawmakers pressed forward with a slew of other gun control bills on the 25th anniversary year of the Columbine High School massacre. Both factors loom large over gun control debates in the Legislature, complicating attempts at such bans that nine other Democratic-controlled states have in place, including California and New York. The Colorado House passed the ban in a historic first, after roughly the same proposal was swiftly nixed last year.
A Florida judge on Tuesday indefinitely postponed Donald Trump's criminal trial over his alleged mishandling of classified documents, making it unlikely the case will be heard before the November presidential election.The postponement is a major setback for special counsel Jack Smith, who brought the charges against Trump, and makes it unlikely the case will be heard before the election now less than six months away, in which Trump is the Republican presumptive nominee for president.
Salvage teams have recovered the body of the sixth – and believed to be the final – victim killed in the March 26 Baltimore bridge collapse, authorities announced Tuesday, marking a grim milestone in the weekslong recovery operation that followed the disaster.
Two women campaigning for President Joe Biden after facing medical emergencies because of abortion restrictions in their states visited Michigan on Tuesday to highlight what they say are the risks to women’s health since federal abortion protections were overturned. Democrats are aiming to make abortion rights a central issue in the 2024 election in the battleground state, hoping it will appeal to undecided voters and some members of the party who don't like how Biden has handled the Israel-Hamas war.
Washington is redoubling efforts to disrupt migration routes that lead to the United States, in particular via charter flights to Central America, top diplomat Antony Blinken said at regional talks Tuesday.The United States has "stepped up efforts against those preying on vulnerable migrants," notably those flying people from Asia, Africa and elsewhere to Central America, Blinken said.
Alexander Louie, 34, told authorities he was not taking his HIV medication so he could purposely infect his partners.
The 2024 campaign is at a stage when the two sides are trying to energize the base and gull the other candidate to waste time and resources.