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DALLAS (AP) — Federal officials are suing SkyWest Airlines on behalf of a former employee who says she was subjected to sexual harassment by co-workers, included asking her for sex and making explicit comments about rape in her presence. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against SkyWest on Wednesday in federal court.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper A$AP Rocky has pleaded not guilty to felony assault with a firearm charges stemming from a 2021 confrontation in Hollywood. He is accused of drawing a gun and firing it twice in the direction of a former friend during an argument in Hollywood in November 2021. He pleaded not guilty
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By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — A federal judge in Cleveland awarded $650 million in damages Wednesday to two Ohio counties that sued CVS, Walgreens and Walmart over the way the national pharmacy chains distributed opioids to their communities. U.S. District Judge Dan Polster said in his ruling that the money will be
Continue Reading By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Rudy Giuliani is facing a special grand jury in Atlanta after being ordered by a judge to appear before the panel investigating possible illegal attempts to influence the 2020 election in Georgia. The former New York mayor and attorney for then-President Donald Trump remained inside the Fulton
Continue Reading MILAN (AP) — Two foreign tourists who sped down Venice’s Grand Canal on motorized surf boards Wednesday have been heavily fined and the boards have been confiscated, city authorities said. The mayor’s office said in a statement that the two were fined 1,500 euros ($1,530) each over the incident, and the city’s attorney is preparing
Continue Reading By MICHAEL TARM and DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly kept an ugly side of his life hidden as he escaped poverty in Chicago and rose to pop music stardom, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday at the singer’s trial on charges accusing him of enticing girls for sex and rigging a 2008
Continue Reading ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two oil and gas companies have announced plans to invest $2.6 billion into developing a major oil field on Alaska’s North Slope. The Anchorage Daily News reports that Australia-based Santos and Spain-based Repsol made the announcement Tuesday. The announcement was cheered by state political leaders. Santos has a 51% stake in
Continue Reading ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two oil and gas companies have announced plans to invest $2.6 billion into developing a major oil field on Alaska’s North Slope. The Anchorage Daily News reports that Australia-based Santos and Spain-based Repsol made the announcement Tuesday. The announcement was cheered by state political leaders. Santos has a 51% stake in
Continue Reading By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Today’s sharks have nothing on their ancient cousins. A giant shark that roamed the oceans millions of years ago could have devoured a creature the size of a killer whale in just five bites, new research suggests. For their study published Wednesday, researchers used fossil
Continue Reading By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday implored fellow Republicans to stop lashing out at the FBI over the search of Donald Trump’s Florida home and denounced calls by some of the former president’s allies to defund the FBI, saying that was “just as wrong” as
Continue Reading By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A Russian spacewalker had to rush back inside the International Space Station on Wednesday when the battery voltage in his spacesuit suddenly dropped. Russian Mission Control ordered Oleg Artemyev, the station commander, to quickly return to the airlock so he could hook his suit
Continue ReadingCNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business A spacewalk was cut short just a few hours into what was intended to be a nearly seven-hour spacewalk after a Russian cosmonaut was repeatedly ordered to drop what he was working on and return to the International Space Station’s airlock because of an issue with his spacesuit. NASA
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — After a quiet first half of 2022, the meme stock is back. Beyond and back, in fact. Shares in Bed Bath & Beyond jumped another 12% Wednesday afternoon on huge trading volume. The mall-based home goods retailer’s stock has quadrupled in a little more than two weeks. For a while on
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Two people were hit by a car while crossing the street on a busy Palm Springs roadway – weeks after someone warned the city a key safety feature there was broken. Palm Springs resident Matt Robinson said while driving by the flashing crosswalk on Palm Canyon Drive near Prescott Drive a few weeks ago, he saw
Continue Reading By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of California children for an attempted $5 million ransom in 1976 — in what a prosecutor called “the largest mass kidnapping in U.S. history” — is being released by the state’s parole board. Gov.
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macamilarincon (CNN) — Tres meses después de que empezara el brote actual de la viruela del mono, Estados Unidos ya tiene más de 12.000 casos… y contando. Por qué catalogar la viruela del mono como una enfermedad de transmisión sexual va más allá de una simple etiqueta Y a pesar de un suministro creciente de la
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN A tiny fish that lives in the icy waters off the coast of Greenland may be unassumingly small, but scientists have found it’s exceptional in more ways than one. The variegated snailfish is full of naturally occurring antifreeze proteins at previously unseen levels that help it survive in subzero waters, according
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business The union that was the first to win a representation vote at an Amazon facility has filed for an election among about 400 employees at another Amazon distribution center. The facility is in suburban Albany, New York. The National Labor Relations Board, which oversees union representation votes, has confirmed the
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — France is being whipped by violent storms that have flooded Paris subway stations, snarled traffic and disrupted the president’s agenda. Winds over 60 mph were recorded at the top of the Eiffel Tower during a flash flood Tuesday. President Emmanuel Macron postponed a World War II commemoration on the French Riviera planned
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La policía ya dio a conocer más detalles del accidente automovilístico que ocurrió el pasado lunes sobre la I-10 después que se le ponchó una llanta al auto que manejaba una mujer que perdió control, se salió del camino, se volcó y se impactó con un muro de concreto. Se trata de Justine Vallez de
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