By Amanda Watts, CNN A woman is dead after she fell to her death during her first solo training skydive in northwest Georgia. The 26-year-old woman was jumping at Skydive Spaceland Atlanta, located in Polk County roughly 55 miles north of Atlanta, on Sunday when the accident happened, Christy West from Skydive Spaceland said in
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NEW YORK (AP) — The chair of former President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee pleaded not guilty Tuesday to the latest charges in an indictment accusing him of secretly working for the United Arab Emirates to influence Trump’s foreign policy. Wealthy businessman Tom Barrack, who was arrested last year and released on $250 million bail, entered
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NEW YORK (AP) — The chair of former President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee pleaded not guilty Tuesday to the latest charges in an indictment accusing him of secretly working for the United Arab Emirates to influence Trump’s foreign policy. Wealthy businessman Tom Barrack, who was arrested last year and released on $250 million bail, entered
Continue Reading By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press A contractor hired to clean up the nation’s worst coal ash spill is not immune from being sued by workers who say they weren’t properly protected. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that the Tennessee Valley Authority is not immune from the suit, so Jacobs Engineering
Continue Reading SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Sacramento County resident who recently traveled to Europe may have the first confirmed case of the monkeypox virus in California, officials said Tuesday. Confirmation for the monkeypox virus is pending with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the state public health department said in a news release. The
Continue Reading By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer More than 40 Democratic members of Congress are asking Google to stop what they see as the unnecessary collection and retention of people’s location data, arguing the information could be used to identify women seeking abortions. In a letter sent Tuesday to Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google parent
Continue Reading By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer More than 40 Democratic members of Congress are asking Google to stop what they see as the unnecessary collection and retention of people’s location data, arguing the information could be used to identify women seeking abortions. In a letter sent Tuesday to Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google parent
Continue Reading BOSTON (AP) — Nineteen people have been indicted in a complex money laundering scheme to move millions of dollars in drug proceeds from Colombian cartels through U.S. banks. Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that the charges brought in Massachusetts are the result of a five-year investigation into the money laundering organization based in Colombia. Authorities say
Continue Reading By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man wanted in an apparently unprovoked fatal shooting aboard a New York City subway train surrendered to police on Tuesday, hours after authorities posted his name and photo on social media and implored the public to help find him. Andrew Abdullah, 25, turned himself
Continue Reading By KEN SWEET and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will close the last avenue for Russia to pay its billions in debt back to international investors on Wednesday, making a Russian default on its debts for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution all but inevitable. The Treasury Department said in
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Dotson and Sammy Mngqosini, CNN The UK government has approved the sale of Chelsea Football Club to an ownership group led by Todd Boehly in a deal worth more than $5 billion. The sale of Chelsea, which was previously owned by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, has also been approved by the English Premier
Continue Reading By CALEB JONES and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A high school prom in Hawaii where masked dancers weren’t allowed to touch. A return to virtual city council meetings in one Colorado town after the mayor and others tested positive following an in-person session. A reinstated mask mandate at skilled nursing facilities in
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By CASEY SMITH Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Indiana voted Tuesday to override the GOP governor’s veto of a bill banning transgender females from competing in girls school sports and join about more than a dozen other states adopting similar laws in the past two years. State senators voted 32-15
Continue Reading By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — One of the women accusing Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson of sexual misconduct while she gave him a massage says she felt “scared” and threatened by a comment he made following a therapy session. Appearing on HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel,” Ashley Solis provided graphic
Continue Reading By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — For the first time in nearly 20 years, the Pittsburgh Steelers began organized team activities with uncertainty at quarterback. Ben Roethlisberger retired in January after 18 seasons. The team signed Mitch Trubisky and drafted Kenny Pickett to compete with Mason Rudolph for the starting job. Coach
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El jefe de DC Films y productor de “Aquaman” declaró que el equipo creativo tenía dudas sobre el papel de Amber Heard en la secuela de la película por la falta de química con el coprotagonista Jason Momoa. Este martes se reprodujo una declaración grabada en marzo de Walter Hamada, presidente
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– Un ciudadano iraquí que reside en Columbus, Ohio, fue arrestado este martes y enfrenta cargos federales relacionados con un supuesto complot para asesinar al expresidente George W. Bush, informó el Departamento de Justicia. A Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab lo acusan de apoyar e instigar el intento de asesinato de un exfuncionario de Estados
Continue Reading BY LISA RATHKE The Associated Press Moriah Wilson had shifted gears a number of times in her 25 years of life, but no matter her focus — collegiate ski racing, a career in logistics and, most recently, professional mountain bike and gravel racing — those who knew her described her as “exceptional in every way.”
Continue Reading BY LISA RATHKE The Associated Press Moriah Wilson had shifted gears a number of times in her 25 years of life, but no matter her focus — collegiate ski racing, a career in logistics and, most recently, professional mountain bike and gravel racing — those who knew her described her as “exceptional in every way.”
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann, Devan Cole, Barbara Starr and Ellie Kaufman, CNN The congressional naming commission which was set up to remove Confederate names from military bases has unveiled proposals to rename nine bases on Tuesday. The proposed names include women, African-American, Native American and Latino service members, a nod to the diverse ranks the US
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