KVSP National
Page: 622
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, FILE (DES MOINES, Iowa) — Grilling pork chops, chowing down on corn dogs, visiting the famous “Butter Cow” dairy sculpture: these festivities and more await the 2024 presidential candidates starting Thursday at the Iowa State Fair. The fair, an annual celebration of Iowa’s agriculture industry, is a rite of passage for presidential […]
NOAA (NEW YORK) — A perfect storm of weather conditions led to the massive inferno that has killed dozens of people in Maui and caused widespread destruction on an island best known as paradise. The fires, which sparked Tuesday night, were fueled by an unfortunate combination of a landscape parched by drought conditions and strong […]
Christa Owen (MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — Police say a fourth suspect in the Riverfront Park melee turned herself in on Thursday. Charges were originally filed against three white boaters who allegedly assaulted a Black ferry co-captain in Montgomery, Alabama, on Saturday. According to the Montgomery Police Department, 21-year-old Mary Todd was booked and charged with one […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (SANDUSKY, Ohio) — Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose put Ohio’s Issue 1, a measure that could have ultimately hindered statewide attempts at protecting abortion access, at the center of his recently announced campaign for Senate. But now, after voters defeated the Republican-backed ballot measure, LaRose is left searching for a new […]
FILE — chuchart duangdaw/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Dangerous wildfires are spreading rapidly on Maui due to very dry conditions stemming from a drought combined with powerful trade winds being squeezed across Hawaii. At least 36 people have died from the wildfires on Maui and much of the coastal town of Lahaina has been “destroyed,” […]
Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily blocked Purdue Pharma’s plan to emerge from bankruptcy that shielded the founding Sackler families from liability in the nation’s opioid epidemic. The application for a stay, brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, was presented to Justice Sonia Sotomayor and […]
Prasit photo/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration has unveiled a $40 billion supplemental funding request to Congress, which includes aid for the war in Ukraine, border and migration, disaster response and firefighter pay — an ask that will be a hard sell to Republican lawmakers in the House. For Ukraine and other international needs, […]
FILE — chuchart duangdaw/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Dangerous wildfires are spreading rapidly on Maui due to very dry conditions stemming from a drought combined with powerful trade winds being squeezed across Hawaii. At least 36 people have died from the wildfires on Maui and much of the coastal town of Lahaina has been “destroyed,” […]
Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The 17-year-old suspect charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of 28-year-old professional dancer O’Shae Sibley has been indicted by a grand jury Thursday on the second-degree murder as a hate crime charge, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. The suspect and several others accompanying him said homophobic […]
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Dianne Feinstein is at home after briefly going to the hospital following a fall, according to her office. “Senator Feinstein briefly went to the hospital yesterday afternoon as a precaution after a minor fall in her home. All of her scans were clear and she returned home.” ABC […]
