By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California’s gigantic water supplier has taken the unprecedented step of requiring about 6 million people to cut their outdoor watering to one day a week as an extended drought plagues the state following another dry winter. The board of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern
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HARRISON, N.J. (AP) — Two-time FIFA Player of the Year Carli Lloyd is re-joining NJ/NY Gotham FC as a minority owner six months after retiring from the game. The National Women’s Soccer League announced the move Wednesday. The New Jersey native joins an ownership group led by Gov. Phil Murphy and his wife, Tammy. Lloyd
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks on Wall Street managed only meager gains Wednesday, after a broad rally led by technology companies faded by late afternoon, leaving the market little changed a day after a big sell-off. The lackluster finish punctuated a wobbly start for stocks,
Continue ReadingBy Dana Kozlov Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Multiple violent attacks were reported on the CTA Red Line in fewer than 24 hours – two of them occurred only half a mile apart. On Tuesday night, the well-known victim of one of the attacks talked exclusively to CBS 2 Political
Continue ReadingBy WBZ Staff Click here for updates on this story SALEM, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Marvin McClendon, a 74-year-old man from Alabama, has been arrested for the 1988 murder of 11-year-old Melissa Tremblay in Lawrence. At a news conference Wednesday morning, Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett said McClendon was arrested in Alabama Tuesday night and charged
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A home was completely destroyed by a fire Wednesday morning in Thermal. The fire was first reported at approximately 9:19 a.m. on the 88000 block of Avenue 76. The first responding crews arrived and found a 1,200-square-foot single-story home “well-involved” in fire. The fire was contained at 10:30 a.m., CAL FIRE confirmed. No injuries were
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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN An “unknown yet highly contagious and sometimes fatal disease” has plagued a federal wild horse holding facility in Colorado, killing 67 horses. The Cañon City facility, located 115 miles south of Denver, is under voluntary quarantine due to the outbreak, the Bureau of Land Management said in a news release. The
Continue Reading WARSAW (AP) — Poland’s air navigation agency says it has agreed to implement all of the demands of the country’s air traffic controllers’ union. The agreement prevents the threat of a mass cancellation of flights in Warsaw in the coming days. Earlier this week Poland’s government announced plans to drastically reduce flights at Warsaw’s two
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Una serie de explosiones inexplicables sucedieron en partes de Transnistria, un territorio separatista de Moldova que ha albergado a tropas rusas por décadas, suscitando temores de que la guerra de Moscú podría expandirse pronto más allá de Ucrania y generar un nuevo espacio de conflicto en el este de Europa. Dos
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer The St. Louis Blues are no longer the big, bruising team they were when they won the Stanley Cup in 2019. This incarnation is reliant far more on speed, skill and scoring. The Blues will try to win that way this time around starting with their first-round series against
Continue Reading By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Brittney Griner remains detained in Russia and it’s unclear how an unexpected prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia that freed marine veteran Trevor Reed on Wednesday will affect the status of the WNBA star. Griner has been detained in Russia since mid-February. The deal announced by the
Continue Reading By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Brittney Griner remains detained in Russia and it’s unclear how an unexpected prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia that freed marine veteran Trevor Reed on Wednesday will affect the status of the WNBA star. Griner has been detained in Russia since mid-February. The deal announced by the
Continue Reading By FRANK BAJAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Cyberattacks by state-backed Russian hackers have destroyed data across dozens of organizations in Ukraine and produced “a chaotic information environment,” Microsoft says in a report released Wednesday. Nearly half the destructive attacks were against critical infrastructure, many times simultaneous to physical attacks, the report notes. A top
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By LAURAN NEERGAARD Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday the coronavirus is under better control in the United States. but the pandemic isn’t over — and the challenge is how to keep improving the situation. “We are in a different moment of the pandemic,” said Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, in an interview with
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Holzberg DePalo, CNN New York’s highest court blocked the state’s Democratic-drawn congressional map Wednesday, concluding that the new boundaries represented a partisan gerrymander that violates the state constitution. The court ruled that a new map must be created for the 2022 election. New York’s primary election is scheduled for June 28, but the
Continue ReadingBy Jasmine Wright, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris does not have Covid-19 symptoms a day after testing positive for the coronavirus, according to a White House official on Wednesday. Harris has been working from the Naval Observatory, where an official said Tuesday she would isolate. “The vice president remains asymptomatic. She is feeling good and
Continue Reading SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A woman arrested in the kidnapping of a 3-month-old baby from his San Francisco Bay Area home is a friend of the family and was present when a man abducted the baby while his grandmother unloaded groceries, police said Wednesday. Yesenia Ramirez, 43, had driven the child and his grandmother
Continue ReadingJacqui Palumbo, CNN Sana Noor Haq, CNN The world’s largest blue diamond ever to come to auction has sold for 450,925,000 HKD, or $57.5 million. Named “The De Beers Cullinan Blue,” the massive 15.10-carat step-cut gem sold at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong after an eight-minute bidding war among four hopeful buyers, according to Sotheby’s. The
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