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By Amy Cassidy, CNN A 17-year-old has become the youngest person to fly around the world solo in a small aircraft on Wednesday after first taking off on March 23, according to Guinness World Records (GWR). British-Belgian national Mack Rutherford touched down earlier in the day in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, where his journey
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A jury awarded $26 million to a Pasadena special-needs student who was sexually assaulted by three classmates, her lawyers said Wednesday. A Los Angeles County jury in Long Beach ruled Tuesday in a negligence lawsuit against the Pasadena Unified School District. The suit said the student, which it identified only as
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By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it found four new fever cases in its border region with China that may have been caused by coronavirus infections, two weeks after leader Kim Jong Un declared a widely disputed victory over COVID-19. North Korean state media said Thursday that health
Continue Reading SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Southern California’s Orange County has agreed to pay $480,000 to an inmate who was pregnant but suffered a miscarriage after sheriff’s deputies stopped at a Starbucks while driving her to a hospital. Sandra Quinones, who is no longer in custody, alleged in a federal lawsuit that sheriff’s staff delayed treatment
Continue Reading By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press A federal judge in Idaho has barred the state from enforcing a strict abortion ban in medical emergencies over concerns that it violates a federal law on emergency care. The ruling Wednesday evening came after a federal judge this week in Texas made the opposite call, barring the federal government
Continue ReadingCNN By Tami Luhby, CNN President Joe Biden’s student loan debt relief plan is expected to help mainly working and middle class borrowers, an updated report from an influential research group found. That’s a shift from its earlier projection that more higher-income borrowers would benefit from basic loan forgiveness. About 75% of the benefit will
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Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Sylvester Stallone asegura él y su esposa Jennifer Flavin se divorciarán “amistosamente y en privado”. “Amo a mi familia. Abordamos estos problemas personales de manera amistosa y privada”, dijo Stallone en un comunicado a CNN. Flavin presentó su petición en el condado de Palm Beach, Florida, el viernes, “para
Continue Reading By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A conservative federal appeals court has upheld Mississippi’s removal of voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies. Attorneys who challenged the provision argued that authors of the state’s 1890 constitution showed racist intent in setting the disenfranchising felonies by choosing crimes they thought were
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is shutting down the hybrid virtual, in-home care service it’s spent years developing. It’s a surprising move that underscores the challenges Amazon faces as it moves into health care. Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Health Services, said in an email sent to staff that Amazon Care will end
Continue ReadingCNN By Amy Cassidy, CNN A 17-year-old has become the youngest person to fly around the world solo in a small aircraft on Wednesday after first taking off on March 23, according to Guinness World Records (GWR). British-Belgian national Mack Rutherford touched down earlier in the day in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, where his
Continue Reading By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The Uvalde school district fired police chief Pete Arredondo on Wednesday under mounting pressure in the grieving Texas town to punish officers over letting a gunman at Robb Elementary School remain in a fourth-grade classroom for more than an hour with an AR-15 style rifle as
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN A US district court on Wednesday evening granted a Biden administration request, temporarily blocking Idaho’s ban on abortion in situations where the ban conflicts with federal standards for emergency care. “This Court is not grappling with” the larger questions about a right to an abortion, US District Judge B. Lynn Winmill
Continue ReadingBy Carter Williams Click here for updates on this story PROVO (KSL) — Kevin Shurtleff’s first experience with Utah Lake came as a teenager, when he went to water ski on the lake in the 1970s. He points out there were harmful algal blooms back then much like there are now, though, perhaps not as
Continue Reading By CORA LEWIS and ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press New York (AP) — President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program announced on Wednesday aims to provide $10,000 in student debt cancellation for millions of Americans. But for federal Pell grant recipients, that amount is $20,000. Pell grants were created by the Higher Education Act in 1965
Continue ReadingBy Pat Reavy Click here for updates on this story ST. GEORGE (KSL) — An elderly man shot and killed by police near the Utah-Arizona border had pointed a gun at officers, prompting police to use deadly force, according to court documents. About 7:20 a.m. on Aug. 3, St. George police and Utah Highway Patrol
Continue ReadingBy Carter Williams Click here for updates on this story SALT LAKE CITY (KSL) — The changing climate continues to play a significant role in Utah, U.S. and world policy, as evidenced by the Paris Agreement or the growing regional dispute over how to handle water cutbacks in the Colorado River. And while the subject
Continue Reading By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief is calling on Myanmar’s military-installed government to include ethnic Rohingya in a solution to the country’s political crisis. The comment came Wednesday on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the start of the Muslim minority’s mass exodus to Bangladesh to
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Como parte de su programa “operación calles limpias”, el equipo de atención a personas sin hogar del departamento de policía de Palm Springs y la unidad de cumplimiento de códigos despejaron un gran campamento que acumulaba una gran cantidad de basura cerca de East Palm Canyon y Crossley Road. La policía notificó al dueño de la
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