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Independent report criticizes Cuomo's 'top-down' management of New York's COVID-19 response 06/14/2024 08:14pm • NEW YORK (AP) — An investigation into New York’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic found former Gov. Andrew Cuomo's “top down” approach of dictating public health policy through his office, rather than coordinating with state and local agencies, sewed confusion during the crisis. In the stat Worst rainfall that triggered floods in Florida is over as affected residents clean up 06/14/2024 08:04pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Although more rain could trigger additional isolated Florida flooding on Friday, forecasters say the strong, persistent storms that dumped up to 20 inches (50 centimeters) in southern parts of the state appear to have passed. Some neighborhood streets in the Miami and Biden, Meloni meet on sidelines of G7 summit but one notable matter wasn't on the table: abortion 06/14/2024 06:35pm • BORGO EGNAZIA, Italy (AP) — President Joe Biden and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had a lot to talk about Friday when they met on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit, but one notable matter wasn't on the table: abortion, an issue that emerged as an unexpected friction point among th Pope Francis meets more than 100 comedians at the Vatican: 'You also make God smile' 06/14/2024 06:12pm • VATICAN CITY (AP) — Before flying to Italy's southern Puglia region to meet world leaders at the Group of Seven summit, Pope Francis hosted a very different audience at the Vatican on Friday celebrating the importance of humor. The pontiff welcomed more than 100 comedians from 15 nations, includin Holly Bobo murder case returns to court, 7 years after a Tennessee man's conviction 06/14/2024 06:02pm • SAVANNAH, Tenn. (AP) — Seven years after a man was convicted of killing nursing student Holly Bobo, the case has returned to the Tennessee courtroom where his intense, highly publicized murder trial unfolded. With Bobo's parents sitting in the courtroom, a judge heard legal arguments Friday as par No wrecking ball yet — but Arlington Co. begins boarding up vacant Key Bridge Marriott 06/14/2024 04:40pm • Several weeks after Arlington County declared the former Key Bridge Marriot "a public nuisance" due to its unsafe and unsanitary conditions, county public safety personnel began to board up and seal the multi-story building on Friday. Aaron Miller, deputy county manager for public safety, sai The Latest | Group of Seven summit turns to migration after promising tens of billions to Ukraine 06/14/2024 03:55pm • BORGO EGNAZIA, Italy (AP) — A summit meeting of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations focused on migration on Friday, the second and final day of the gathering in southern Italy, seeking ways to combat trafficking and increase investment in countries from where migrants start out on of G7 leaders tackle migration, AI and economic security on second and final day of summit in Italy 06/14/2024 03:30pm • BARI, Italy (AP) — The Group of Seven leading industrialized nations turned their attention to migration, artificial intelligence, economic security and the Indo-Pacific region on Friday, the second and final day of their summit in Italy. The G7 leaders stressed their determination to meet global The Supreme Court's ruling on mifepristone isn't the last word on the abortion pill 06/14/2024 03:29pm • The Supreme Court 's ruling on technical grounds Thursday keeps the abortion pill mifepristone available in the U.S. for now, but it won't be the last word on the issue, and the unanimous opinion offers some clues for how abortion opponents can keep trying to deny it to women nationwide. Some state Tesla driver tells police he was using 'self-drive' system when his car hit a parked police vehicle 06/14/2024 01:10pm • DETROIT (AP) — A Tesla apparently operating on one of the company's automated driving systems crashed into a parked police vehicle Thursday near Los Angeles, narrowly missing an officer who was managing traffic at another crash. The Tesla driver told police in Fullerton, California, that he engage Humid conditions could turn into stormy weather Friday 06/14/2024 01:09pm • Friday's humid conditions could give way to strong storms in the evening throughout the D.C. region, bringing gusty winds, heavy rain and lightning. Here's what you need to know. 7News First Alert meteorologist Jordan Evans said after a mostly sunny day — with temperatures ranging between the u An Italian activist elected to European Parliament has been freed in Hungary, will return home soon 06/14/2024 12:39pm • ROME (AP) — An Italian anti-fascist activist was released from house arrest in Hungary on Friday after being elected as a new member of the European Parliament for the Italian Green and Left Alliance, the party’s leaders said. Local police in Budapest removed Ilaria Salis’ electronic bracelet Illinois is hit with cicada chaos. This is what it's like to see, hear and feel billions of bugs 06/14/2024 11:31am • RIVERWOODS, Ill. (AP) — The ground had seemed to undulate at night, alive with bugs. Crawling cicada nymphs, striving to get higher after 17 years underground, marched en masse toward and up trees, pausing to shed their skin and emerge as adults. And then the fun began. Cicada chaos is flourishing What happened this week in the UK election campaign, from manifesto launches to robots and Haribos 06/14/2024 11:08am • LONDON (AP) — The U.K.'s general election campaign has now passed the halfway mark, and finally the main political parties have published their plans for government should they win on July 4. Beyond the carefully choreographed set piece events, there's always a potential banana skin around the co US Catholic bishops approve outreach to Native Americans and acknowledge boarding school 'traumas' 06/14/2024 10:45am • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — U.S. bishops on Friday approved new guidelines for ministering to Indigenous Catholics, a long in-the-works effort to reinvigorate the ministry and assure those communities that they don't need to feel torn between their Native identity and their Catholic one. “You are bo