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Continue ReadingBy Paul LeBlanc, CNN Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said Thursday it’s “more likely than not” the US will enter a recession, calling it a consequence of the “excesses the economy has been through.” “Historical experience suggests that the kind of inflation we have rarely returns to normal levels — target levels of around
Continue Reading By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Mark Kotsay made a point to stay the course with a positive spirit in his first season managing the Oakland Athletics, setting an example for his young club by keeping his cool even as the losses piled up month after month. Even before they started
Continue Reading By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brad Pitt’s lawyer said Thursday that he will continue to respond in court to allegations from ex-wife Angelina Jolie that he abused her and choked one of their children on a flight in 2016, saying he has taken responsibility for his actual actions but not
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By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brad Pitt’s lawyer said Thursday that he will continue to respond in court to allegations from ex-wife Angelina Jolie that he abused her and choked one of their children on a flight in 2016, saying he has taken responsibility for his actual actions but not
Continue Reading By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Republican candidate for Kansas governor is pivoting from education to crime as a focus in the final weeks of the campaign. GOP challenger and Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is portraying Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly as anti-police because she created a commission on policing
Continue Reading By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI estimates violent crime rates didn’t increase substantially last year, though they remained above pre-pandemic levels, according to annual crime data. But the report presents an incomplete picture, in part because it doesn’t include some of the nation’s largest police departments. The analysis, released Wednesday, found
Continue Reading By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s capital city is still grappling with a troubled water system, and it could soon see garbage piling up outside homes and businesses. Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba announced Thursday that garbage collection will cease after Saturday unless the city starts paying a company that
Continue Reading By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A North Carolina man pleaded guilty Thursday to plotting with other members of the far-right Proud Boys to violently stop the transfer of presidential power after the 2020 election, making him the first member of the extremist group to plead guilty to a
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Victor Wembanyama blocked a shot Thursday afternoon, ran to the other end of the court, went airborne from just inside the foul line, corralled an alley-oop pass with one hand and slammed home a dunk. The entire sequence lasted eight seconds. It may have been
Continue Reading By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels are going straight from another disappointing regular season into another incredibly uncertain offseason, only for a different reason than usual this time. Owner Arte Moreno put a “For Sale” sign on his franchise six weeks ago, saying he is strongly thinking
Continue Reading By BILL BARROW and MEG KINNARD Associated Press WADLEY, Ga. (AP) — Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker is remaining defiant after reports alleging he encouraged and paid for a woman’s 2009 abortion — and later fathered a child with her. Digging in on his denials of reporting by The Daily Beast, Walker, a football
Continue Reading HUNTINGTON, Ind. (AP) — A northeastern Indiana university has placed its women’s cross country head coach and an assistant on leave after two former runners claimed in a federal lawsuit they were doped and sexually assaulted. Huntington University, a private, Christian liberal arts university, said Thursday it placed head coach Lauren Johnson and assistant coach
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By Amanda Musa, CNN Eighty-four undocumented migrants have been rescued from a semi-truck in southern Texas, according to a tweet from Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra. A concerned citizen called in to report a semi-truck at a residence in Weslaco, Texas, according to Guerra. Weslaco is located about eight miles north of the US border
Continue Reading By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Two Russians who said they fled the country to avoid military service have requested asylum in the U.S. after landing on a remote Alaska island in the Bering Sea. Karina Borger, a spokesperson for U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, says the office has been in communication with
Continue Reading By Rob Frehse, CNN The man who allegedly stabbed to death an on-duty emergency medical technician with the Fire Department of New York was indicted on murder and weapons charges, the Queens District Attorney’s office announced Thursday. Peter Zisopoulos, 34, was charged with one count of murder in the second degree and one count of
Continue ReadingCNN By Elissa Strauss, CNN My teenage years, like many of our teenage years, were raw ones. I felt vulnerable, destabilized and confused, and I chronicled every bit of it on the pages of highly guarded diaries. Looking back, I see there was a beauty to this rawness. All those strong feelings helped me figure
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By MATT O’BRIEN and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers A judge has delayed a looming trial between Twitter and Elon Musk, giving the Tesla CEO more time to close his $44 billion deal to buy the company after months spent fighting to get out of it. Musk had asked to halt the upcoming Delaware court
Continue ReadingCNN By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN US District Judge Amit Mehta ruled Thursday that the jury in the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy case will not see a “death list” of Georgia election officials allegedly written by a defendant, saying that it is “too prejudicial.” The document was found in a search of defendant
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Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — Un hombre de 38 años fue detenido “pacíficamente” el jueves después de que supuestamente disparó fatalmente a una persona y se atrincheró en una habitación de hotel durante más de seis horas en Dearborn, Michigan, según las autoridades. Luego de horas de negociaciones, “el hombre armado atrincherado ha sido detenido sin
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