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Black mayor files federal lawsuit against town in wake of election

Published Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:14:46 GMT

A Black man who says he was elected mayor of a rural Alabama town but has been kept from taking office by White leaders of the town has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.Patrick Braxton, 57, is one of several plaintiffs named in Braxton et al v. Stokes et al. The other plaintiffs — James Ballard, Barbara Patrick, Janice Quarles and Wanda Scott — are people that Braxton hoped to name to the city council of Newburn after he was elected to office in 2020. However, Braxton said that the “minority White residents of (Newburn), long accustomed to exercising total control over the government, refused to accept this outcome.” Haywood Stokes III, the acting mayor of Newburn, instead allegedly worked with acting town council members to hold a special election where he was re-appointed to the mayoral seat and keeping Braxton from taking office and carrying out mayoral duties.Braxton said in the lawsuit, which CBS News reviewed, that Newbern had not held an election “for de...

Sports on TV for Monday, July 24

Published Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:14:46 GMT

Monday, July 24CRICKET5:30 p.m.CBSSN — MLC: San Francisco vs. Texas, Morrisville, N.C.MLB BASEBALL1 p.m.MLBN — San Francisco at Detroit7 p.m.MLBN — Regional Coverage: Colorado at Washington OR Kansas City at Cleveland10 p.m.MLBN — Regional Coverage: Toronto at LA Dodgers OR St. Louis at Arizona (9:30 p.m.)RODEO10 p.m.CBSSN — PBR Teams: The Cheyenne Frontier Days, Cheyenne, Wyo.SOCCER (WOMEN’S)4:30 a.m.FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Germany vs. Morocco, Group H, Melbourne, Australia7 a.m.FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Brazil vs. Panama, Group F, Adelaide, Australia10 p.m.FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Colombia vs. South Korea, Group H, Sydney1:30 a.m. (Tuesday)FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: New Zealand vs. Philippines, Group A, Wellington, New Zealand4 a.m. (Tuesday)FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Switzerland vs. Norway, Group A, Hamilton, New ZealandTBT BASKETBALL4 p.m.ESPN2 — TBT Tournament: The Nerd Team vs. Happy Valley Hoopers, First Round, Syracuse, N.Y.7 p.m.ESPN...

Police search for missing 68-year-old man with dementia from Little Haiti

Published Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:14:46 GMT

Miami-Dade Police are seeking the public’s help in finding a 68-year-old man reported missing by his family.Antoine Philippe was last seen Tuesday morning walking towards Little Haiti, wearing a white T-shirt and blue shorts with black and gray tennis shoes.Philippe, who had gone missing last year as well, suffers from dementia, according to his family.Anyone with information on Philippe’s whereabouts is urged to call Miami-dade Police.

Trump just qualified for the first Republican debate. But will he show up?

Published Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:14:46 GMT

Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Chris Christie and Tim Scott have all met the Republican National Committee’s polling and fundraising thresholds to earn invitations to the first primary debate next month, according to POLITICO’s tracking of the qualification process.Whether they all will show up is another question.Trump, in particular, has indicated he is not inclined to step foot on the stage, publicly waffling on whether he’ll make the trip to Milwaukee at the end of next month.“Ronald Reagan didn’t do it, and a lot of other people didn’t do it. When you have a big lead, you don’t do it,” the former president said during an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” last weekend.It is a melodrama that could carry on for weeks: Candidates have until 48 hours before the Aug. 23 debate to indicate if they’ll participate.Trump’s potential lack of participation could completely redefine the first debate. If Trump shows, it’s the first real opportunity fo...

Officials identify Dover-Sherborn Regional High student as victim killed in Sesuit Harbor boat crash

Published Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:14:46 GMT

School officials have identified the 17-year-old girl killed in a boating crash in Dennis Friday night as a Dover-Sherborn Regional High student.In a letter to the Dover-Sherborn Public School community, Superintendent Beth McCoy informed students, families and staff that Sadie Mauro, a rising senior, had been killed in a boating accident.Mauro and several other occupants were aboard a ship when it crashed into a jetty in Sesuit Harbor late on Friday, July 21. The teenager was unaccounted for after the crash, which left five people injured, including another teen who was hospitalized for a head laceration.Massachusetts State Police later said a body was recovered from the water around 11:30 p.m. after a search and rescue operation was conducted by Cold Storage Beach.“The Dover-Sherborn community is strong and is known for its strength and resiliency in the face of unimaginable tragedy,” McCoy said. “We will continue to support each other in the days and weeks ahead...

Pence says he’s ‘not yet convinced’ Trump’s actions on January 6 were criminal

Published Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:14:46 GMT

(CNN) — Former Vice President Mike Pence said he’s “not yet convinced” that Donald Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021, were criminal, as the former president faces a potential indictment over his actions that day.“I really do hope it doesn’t come to that,” Pence told CNN’s Dana Bash in an interview that aired Sunday on “State of the Union.”“In one town hall after another, across New Hampshire, I heard a deep concern … about the unequal treatment of the law, and I think one more indictment against the former president will only contribute to that sense among the American people,” Pence said. “I would rather that these issues and the judgment about his conduct on January 6 be left to the American people in the upcoming primaries, and I’ll leave it at that.”Pence, who bucked pressure from Trump when he certified the results of the 2020 election, said Trump’s actions on January 6 were reckless but added he believed history would hold Trump ac...

Next year’s Olympics are pushing Paris to confront crack cocaine use on city streets

Published Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:14:46 GMT

PARIS (AP) — Neighborhoods in northeast Paris have struggled for years with the scourge of crack cocaine and its use in public. The Summer Olympics, kicking off a year from Wednesday, are offering an impetus to tackle the problem.Yet despite a surge in arrests and new promises of tougher security around the 2024 Paris Games, some residents question whether the newfound focus is just pushing users elsewhere instead of treating medical and mental health problems, a lack of housing and jobs and other deeper ills at the root of the crack crisis.Residents in the 18th and 19th arrondissements, or districts, of the French capital have long complained about the open-air crack use in their neighborhoods that stands in sharp contrast to the postcard-perfect tourist areas of Paris farther south.Small groups of people could be seen using illicit drugs on Sunday at the Porte de la Chapelle metro station and a nearby tram stop located across the street from a new multi-purpose aren...

Police narrow search for infant lost in flash flood, after 2-year-old sister’s body found

Published Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:14:46 GMT

WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. (AP) — Search teams in Pennsylvania were focusing on one underwater area Sunday as they try to find a 9-month-old boy swept away in a flash flood, hours after authorities confirmed that the body of his 2-year-old sister was recovered from the Delaware River.Upper Makefield Township police said in a Facebook post Sunday that although 2-year-old Matilda Sheils had been “brought home to her loving family” after her body was recovered Friday, officials are “devastated that we have not yet been able to reunite Conrad with his sister and family.”Hundreds of people including search and rescue teams, marine units and police and fire personnel have scoured the area with the aid of “K-9s, sonar, drones, boats, divers, heavy equipment, GPS mapping and air units,” police said, adding that they were now at the point that “our search will be dependent upon the conditions of the river.”Authorities have centered their efforts on an area near where the cree...

Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro fades from the spotlight

Published Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:14:46 GMT

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is fading from the spotlight, showing the courts’ power over the electoral system and the political shortcomings of the increasingly powerless former leader.Brazil’s top electoral court ruled last month that Bolsonaro is ineligible to run for any political office until 2030 for abusing his power and casting unfounded doubts on the country’s electronic voting system. Bolsonaro was once called the “Trump of the Tropics” after emerging as a crusading outsider promising to shake up the system and pursuing an aggressive brand of identity politics including conservative values. Trump, who also cast doubt on the U.S. electoral system and faces legal trouble, remains the front-runner for the Republican Party’s nomination. A clear demonstration of Bolsonaro’s waning power was a tax reform vote in Congress’ lower house this month. A proposal supported by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s government to ...

‘Barbie,’ in 1st, and ‘Oppenheimer,’ in 2nd, fuel historic box office bonanza

Published Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:14:46 GMT

“ Barbenheimer ” didn’t just work – it spun box office gold. The social media-fueled fusion of Greta Gerwig’s “ Barbie ” and Christopher Nolan’s “ Oppenheimer ” brought moviegoers back to the theaters in record numbers this weekend, vastly outperforming projections and giving a glimmer of hope to the lagging exhibition business, amid the sobering backdrop of strikes. Warner Bros.’ “Barbie” claimed the top spot with a massive $155 million in ticket sales from North American theaters from 4,243 locations, surpassing “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” (as well as every Marvel movie this year) as the biggest opening of the year and breaking the first weekend record for a film directed by a woman. Universal’s “Oppenheimer” also soared past expectations, taking in $80.5 million from 3,610 theaters in the U.S. and Canada, marking Nolan’s biggest non-Batman debut and one of the best-ever starts for an R-rated biographical drama.It’s also the first time that one movie opened to more than $1...