By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — From the moment he first faced criminal charges, in 2006, Jeffrey Epstein has been the object of public fascination, conspiracy theories and outrage — especially after his lawyers got prosecutors to agree to a lenient plea deal that spared him from serious prison time. Epstein was eventually
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By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Kelsey Plum views her improved play this season to just having more time on the court. The Las Vegas guard is averaging a career-high 20.7 points and 5.7 assists this year to help the Aces to the best record in the league. She’s playing a career-best 34.7 minutes a
Continue Reading By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Kelsey Plum views her improved play this season to just having more time on the court. The Las Vegas guard is averaging a career-high 20.7 points and 5.7 assists this year to help the Aces to the best record in the league. She’s playing a career-best 34.7 minutes a
Continue ReadingBy Theo Hayes Click here for updates on this story SPARROWS POINT, Maryland (WBAL) — A Sparrows Point restaurant is giving kids hands-on training in the industry it loves. Half of the total blue crab harvest in the United States comes from the Chesapeake Bay. So, at the Miller’s Island Crab Camp, there are four
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hate crimes in California shot up 33% to nearly 1,800 reported incidents in 2021, the sixth highest tally on record and the highest since after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the state attorney general’s office said Tuesday. Attorney General Rob Bonta said that crimes against Black people were again the
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By Meron Moges-Gerbi and Cheri Mossburg, CNN A stretch of prime Southern California beachfront real estate was returned to the descendants of its Black owners Tuesday, nearly a century after the parcel was taken by the city of Manhattan Beach. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to give the land back to
Continue Reading By TOM FOREMAN Jr. Associated Press A lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims two employees with a North Carolina company say they were fired after refusing to participate in the firm’s daily Christian devotionals. The plaintiffs, one an atheist and the other an agnostic, say the daily prayer meetings went against their
Continue Reading By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuban authorities say they have intercepted more than a dozen speedboats arriving from the United States this year . Those included at least two shooting incidens and at least one death. They also say U.S. authorities have handed over a suspect in the wounding of a Cuban
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Airbnb said Tuesday it will make permanent a ban on parties originally implemented in the early months of the pandemic, citing its effectiveness at curbing unauthorized gatherings. The company announced a temporary ban on all parties in August 2020 as part of an effort to mitigate the spread of Covid-19
Continue Reading Associated Press President Joe Biden plans to meet on July 12 at the White House with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Mexico’s president skipped the recent Summit of the Americas in protest of the U.S. not inviting Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela to the event. The White House says in a statement that Biden and
Continue ReadingBy Stefano Pozzebon, CNN A fire inside an overcrowded Colombian prison killed 51 inmates in the early hours of Tuesday morning, authorities said, marking one of the deadliest incidents of its kind in the country’s recent history. The fire broke out amid a chaotic scene inside the penitentiary in the western Colombian city of Tolua.
Continue Reading By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ghislaine Maxwell, the jet-setting socialite who once consorted with royals, presidents and billionaires, was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for helping the financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls. The stiff sentence was a victory for a group of women who
Continue ReadingCNN By Jake Tapper and Annie Grayer, CNN Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, released a new statement Wednesday provided exclusively to CNN standing by her blockbuster testimony delivered in a hearing with the House select committee investigating January 6, in light of some pushback on her
Continue ReadingCNN By Katelyn Polantz and Marshall Cohen, CNN Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony before the House select committee this week increased the criminal exposure former President Donald Trump faces in the Justice Department’s ongoing January 6, 2021, investigation. Anecdotes recounted under oath by the former White House aide offer new avenues for investigators to potentially examine whether
Continue ReadingCNN By Emmet Lyons and Nicholas Pearce, CNN Five months of war have forced Ukrainians to adjust their expectations. After readying for a conflict they thought would be a sprint, many are now grappling with the likelihood of a “marathon,” said Olena Zelenska, Ukraine’s first lady. “It’s very difficult to hold on for five months,”
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A 17-year-old Indio baseball and football player graduated from high school and shortly after, he found out he had stage 4 colon cancer. Julissa and Miguel Ramos are the parents of Aeneas Ramos, the young man that was diagnosed with Metastatic Adenocarcinoma, also known as stage 4 colon cancer. He is currently on aggressive chemotherapy
Continue Reading By The Associated Press An Amtrak passenger train struck a dump truck at an uncontrolled crossing in a rural area of Missouri killing three people on the train and one in the truck. At least 150 others were injured. The crash happened Monday near Mendon, Missouri. Several cars derailed. The train was traveling from Los
Continue ReadingBy Gage Goulding Click here for updates on this story SANIBEL, Florida (WBBH) — There’s a new social media trend that’s creating a big problem on Southwest Florida beaches. People are digging giant holes on the beach and leaving before they fill them in. While there’s nothing wrong with actually digging the hole, leaving it
Continue Reading By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Tina Charles’ quest for an elusive WNBA title has brought her to Seattle following a messy end to her brief time in Phoenix. The Storm signed the five-time first-team all-WNBA center for the rest of the season on Tuesday, three days after she was let go
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN Español) — Cuando Hugo Chávez gobernaba en Venezuela, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva dirigía al Brasil, y consolidaban su popularidad Evo Morales en Bolivia, Rafael Correa en Ecuador y Néstor Kirchner y Cristina Fernández en Argentina, Colombia seguía transitando un camino en paralelo a la oleada de gobiernos de izquierda que dominó
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