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By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Manhattan district attorney says billionaire hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt has agreed to turn over $70 million worth of stolen antiquities. He will also be subject to an unprecedented lifetime ban on acquiring antiquities. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said Monday that in return,
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific railroad plans to expand its use of renewable fuels and explore using battery-powered locomotives in the coming years to cut its emissions of greenhouse gases 26% by 2030. To do that, the railroad plans to increase the amount of biodiesel it uses to 10% of all the fuel it
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles have again postponed imposing fees on containers left on docks too long, citing progress in moving the cargo from marine terminals. The “container dwell fee” will now not be considered before Dec. 13. The fee was imposed by the harbor commissions of both
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — Health officials in Arizona on Monday reported 3,022 new COVID-19 cases, but no additional deaths from the virus. The latest numbers pushed the state’s totals to 1,295,076 confirmed cases since the pandemic began and 22,589 known deaths. Arizona health officials had reported 5,236 cases and 14 deaths Friday, 6,043 cases and 164
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN Dictionary.com has chosen a term new to its online reference service for its Word of the Year — a word that, it says, “acts as a powerful prism through which to view the defining events and experiences of 2021.” “Allyship” is Dictionary.com’s 2021 Word of the Year, the online dictionary announced
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urielblanco (CNN Español) — Mira en esta nota cuáles son los días festivos en México en 2022. Los siguientes días están marcados por ley para diversas dependencias mexicanas e incluso para embajadas extranjeras en territorio nacional. Estos son los días festivos federales y puentes en Estados Unidos para 2022 Días festivos y puentes en México
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Los bomberos trabajaron arduamente para sofocar un incendio que estalló el sábado a las 9:30 de la mañana en una casa ubicada sobre la calle Foxdale cerca de Pierson Blvd en Desert Hot Springs. El fuego fue contenido en una hora, pero los traga humo permanecieron en el área varias horas para cerciorarse que el
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — New Florida football coach Billy Napier’s staff is starting to take shape. Napier hired four assistants who spent the last four years with him at Louisiana-Lafayette, including Patrick Toney as the team’s co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach and Mark Hocke as the team’s associate head coach and director of strength and
Continue ReadingCNN By Allie Malloy and Kate Sullivan, CNN The Biden administration will not send an official US delegation to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing as a statement against China’s “ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday. US athletes will still be allowed to compete in
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Ya están en la cárcel dos personas acusadas de varios robos en almacenes o storage de Palm Desert; el negocio se ubica en la calle Country Club, la policía hizo un cateo en una de las unidades y encontraron varios artículos robados, así como un arma de fuego y un cargador de alta capacidad, por
Continue Reading THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Youths have thrown petrol bombs and stones at police, who fired tear gas to disperse them, during a march in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki commemorating the fatal shooting of a teenager by a police officer 13 years ago. No arrests or injuries were reported after the clashes, which did
Continue Reading By CASEY SMITH Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors are no longer seeking the death penalty for the man charged in the fatal shooting of a police officer who had come to his aid after the man’s car overturned in a crash in Indianapolis four years ago. Marion Superior Judge Mark Stoner last
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Fred Hiatt, The Washington Post’s longtime editorial page editor, died on Monday morning. He was 66 years old. The Post’s newsroom was informed of Hiatt’s death on Monday afternoon by publisher Fred Ryan. The Post said in its obituary that Hiatt had cardiac arrest on November 24 while visiting his
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“I miss her sense of humor, her stubbornness… her energy, she was life. She was just a ball of life.” Nicole Crystal Sinkule was raised in Cathedral City. Her parents described her as a friend to everyone. “She was a bundle of joy. Everybody was her friend. Everybody is still her friend, that’s why we
Continue Reading NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A cruise ship that carried at least 17 passengers and crew members with breakthrough COVID-19 infections when it docked in New Orleans has set sail again with new passengers. The Louisiana Department of Health said Monday that nine crew members and eight passengers were infected when the Norwegian Breakaway docked in
Continue Reading By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys and a judge have hammered out jury instructions for the trial of a white Minnesota police officer who said she drew her handgun by mistake when she fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright. Kim Potter is charged with manslaughter in Wright’s death in
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Una balacera provocó la movilización de la policía quienes al llegar al lugar arrestaron a un sujeto que hirió a un hombre que trataba de evitar que le robara su bicicleta en la que se paseaba por la calle Rojo y Cesar Chávez en Coachella. Por fortuna la vida de la víctima no está en
Continue Reading By Amir Vera, Carma Hassan and Michelle Watson CNN Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo, whose tenure will be remembered for his handling of the George Floyd murder investigation, announced Monday that he will retire in mid-January. “After much personal reflection and thoughtful discussions with my family and Mayor Frey, I have made the decision that
Continue ReadingBy Sam Fossum and Kate Sullivan, CNN The Biden administration on Monday announced a new strategy to counter corruption and illicit finance, as well as new steps from the Treasury Department to tackle how illegal actors abuse the real estate market in the United States to hide their wealth. This week, the Treasury Department will
Continue Reading By ACACIA CORONADO and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department has sued Texas over its new redistricting maps, saying the plans discriminate against minority voters, particularly Latinos, who have fueled the state’s population boom. The lawsuit filed Monday claims the Republican-controlled state violated part of the Voting Rights Act in
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