WASHINGTON (AP) — The leader of the Arizona Republican party on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to step in and halt a lower court decision requiring her phone records to be turned over to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. State party chair Kelli Ward has said her
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A man has died after a fire broke out at his home in Beaumont Wednesday morning. The fire was reported at approximately 8:07 a.m. on the 1200 block of Beaumont Avenue. A caller told first responders that smoke coming from a dwelling unit behind a residence. Beaumont police and Cal Fire units arrived and found
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Microsoft, Spotify fall; Visa, Wingstop rise.
Continue Reading By BILL BARROW and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman came forward Wednesday to accuse Herschel Walker, the anti-abortion Republican running for U.S. Senate in Georgia, of encouraging and paying for her 1993 abortion — an accusation that came just weeks after a former girlfriend said he did the same for
Continue Reading By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A second railroad union has rejected its deal with the major U.S. freight railroads, reflecting workers’ increasing frustration with the lack of paid sick time in the industry. The vote by the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen adds to concerns about the possibility of a strike
Continue Reading By TOM KRISHER and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk posted video Wednesday showing him strolling into Twitter headquarters ahead of a Friday deadline to close his $44 billion deal to buy the company. Musk also changed his Twitter profile to refer to himself as “Chief Twit” and his location
Continue Reading The Associated Press Stock ended mixed on Wall Street as investors weighed the latest batch of earnings reports, including weak results from several heavyweight technology companies. The S&P 500 fell 0.7% Wednesday after shedding an early gain, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 2%. The Dow ended just barely in the green, thanks in part to
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN The backlash against one moment in Taylor Swift‘s “Anti-Hero” music video appears to have prompted the release of an updated version. Eagle-eyed Swift devotees noted on Wednesday that the Apple Music version of the Grammy-winner’s video, from her tenth studio album “Midnights,” no longer includes a controversial moment that showed the
Continue ReadingBy Stella Chan and Gregory Krieg, CNN A woman who claims she was in a years-long romantic relationship with Herschel Walker says the Republican Senate nominee for Georgia pressured her into having an abortion in 1993, she announced at a press conference on Wednesday. The woman, referred to as Jane Doe to protect her identity,
Continue ReadingBy Jessica Schneider and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday that the Justice Department formally introduced regulations barring department employees from secretly seeking journalists’ records except in limited circumstances. The new regulations only allow prosecutors to subpoena records in certain circumstances, including if the information they are seeking is imperative to prevent
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Weak quarterly results from several big technology companies weighed on stocks Wednesday, leaving major indexes mixed on Wall Street. The S&P 500 fell 0.7% after shedding an early gain, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite dropped 2%. The lower finish ended a three-day winning streak for
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CNN, WTMJ By Eric Levenson, Bill Kirkos and Brad Parks, CNN Darrell Brooks was found guilty of six counts of first-degree intentional homicide on Wednesday for driving his SUV into a crowd of Christmas parade attendees in Waukesha, Wisconsin, last November, killing six people and wounding dozens more. He faces a mandatory sentence of life
Continue Reading SAN DIEGO (AP) — Mike Davis, an author, activist and self-defined “Marxist environmentalist” whose greatest fears drove him to anticipate riots, fires and disease in such bestsellers as “City of Quartz” and “The Ecology of Fear,” has died at age 76. Davis died Tuesday after a long battle with esophageal cancer, his friend Jon Wiener
Continue ReadingBy KCAL/KCBS Staff Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL) — At least one student was hospitalized after as many as four students at Canoga Park High School experienced medical emergencies on Wednesday. According to Los Angeles School Police Department, all four students are safe after making “medical complaints” at around 10:40
Continue ReadingBy Kylie Atwood, Jeremy Herb, Katie Bo Lillis and Melanie Zanona, CNN After House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy suggested last week that Republicans might pull back funding for Ukraine next year if they take the majority, the GOP leader has worked behind the scenes to reassure national security leaders in his conference that he wasn’t
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A man is in police custody after a nearly 40-minute-long pursuit that left multiple patrol units damaged Wednesday morning in Indio. The incident started at approximately 11:55 a.m. when Indio police officers were called to the 83000 block of Calle Presidente to respond to a domestic family dispute. Ben Guitron of the Indio Police Department
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council was forced to recess Wednesday to clear chanting protesters from its chamber, as members were poised to formally rebuke two councilmen and the council’s former president for their involvement in a racism scandal. A small but noisy group crowded into the main aisle of an otherwise
Continue ReadingBy Paula Reid, Kara Scannell and Clare Foran, CNN Sen. Bob Menendez is facing a new federal investigation after a jury failed to reach a verdict in his 2017 trial for corruption, an adviser to the New Jersey Democrat said in a statement Wednesday. “Senator Menendez is aware of an investigation that was reported on
Continue Reading DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — A conservative speaker event at the University of California, Davis was canceled after a fight between about 100 protesters and counterprotesters broke out near the venue, university officials said. The event Tuesday evening was put together by a student organization affiliated with Turning Point USA, a group that organizes young people
Continue Reading By ABDOULIE JOHN Associated Press BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — Gambian lawmakers are calling for compensation for the families of 70 children who authorities believe may have died after taking a contaminated cough syrup imported from India. The special legislative session on Wednesday comes several weeks after the World Health Organization issued an alarm about four
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