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By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Twitter is in chaos. Elon Musk, its new owner, has decimated its staff and this week gave those remaining an ultimatum — work grueling hours and be “extremely hardcore ” or leave. Hundreds chose the latter and headed for the door. There are already signs that the exodus is
Continue Reading By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City attorney has been sentenced to 15 months behind bars for firebombing an empty New York City police vehicle with another lawyer during protests over the murder of George Floyd. Before hearing her sentence on Friday, Urooj Rahman asked a judge to spare
Continue ReadingBy Pat Reavy Click here for updates on this story TAYLORSVILLE (KSL) — A Taylorsville day care employee has been arrested and accused of abusing a 2-year-old boy in her care. Juana Petatan Loyola, 67, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on Thursday for investigation of aggravated child abuse. On Nov. 2, a
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The Cities of Indio and La Quinta are set to fix the bumpy intersection at Jefferson Street and Highway 111. The intersection is filled with potholes, dips, and bumps. “We always have to be careful, we will always have to slow down,” said Luc Pelletier, an Indio resident. “Because there’s just so much of so
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By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer Elon Musk’s managerial bomb-throwing at Twitter has so thinned the ranks of software engineers who keep the world’s de-facto public square up and running that industry insiders and programmers who were fired or resigned this week agree: Twitter may soon fray so badly it could actually crash. Musk ended
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By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer Elon Musk’s managerial bomb-throwing at Twitter has so thinned the ranks of software engineers who keep the world’s de-facto public square up and running that industry insiders and programmers who were fired or resigned this week agree: Twitter may soon fray so badly it could actually crash. Musk ended
Continue Reading By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer Elon Musk’s managerial bomb-throwing at Twitter has so thinned the ranks of software engineers who keep the world’s de-facto public square up and running that industry insiders and programmers who were fired or resigned this week agree: Twitter may soon fray so badly it could actually crash. Musk ended
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN Al Roker has revealed he has been recently hospitalized and receiving treatment for blood clots. The “Today” weatherman has been absent from the show for two weeks and talked about his condition on Instagram, writing, “So many of you have been thoughtfully asking where I’ve been.” “Last week I was admitted
Continue Reading By JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — WNBA star Brittney Griner has begun serving her nine-year sentence for drug possession at a remote Russian penal colony that human rights advocates say is known for harsh conditions and violent criminals. It’s in a region once synonymous with the Soviet gulag. Griner was convicted Aug. 4
Continue Reading By JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — WNBA star Brittney Griner has begun serving her nine-year sentence for drug possession at a remote Russian penal colony that human rights advocates say is known for harsh conditions and violent criminals. It’s in a region once synonymous with the Soviet gulag. Griner was convicted Aug. 4
Continue Reading ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Schools in New York state are under orders to stop using Native American references in mascots, team names and logos by the end of the current school year. New York’s Department of Education told them so in a memo that points to a court decision in June. The Cambridge Central School
Continue Reading By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Champagne, whiskey, vodka and even some sommelier-selected wines will be available for some fans at World Cup stadiums in Qatar. And beer also. But the privilege of drinking alcohol will come at a price for this exclusive group of high rollers. Fans will be able
Continue Reading By KATE BRUMBACK and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge is weighing whether Georgia law allows counties to offer early voting on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. That would be the only possibility for Saturday voting before next month’s Senate runoff election between Democratic Sen Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker. Warnock’s campaign
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Elon Musk on Friday said Twitter plans to restore several controversial accounts that had previously been banned or suspended, but added that the company has not yet made a decision about the account of former President Donald Trump. The announcement came as a follow-up to a tweet in which Musk
Continue Reading The stepmother of a New Hampshire girl who disappeared in 2019 at age 5 and is presumed dead has been sent to prison for at least a year and a half after pleading guilty to perjury. Thirty-two-year-old Kayla Montgomery pleaded guilty Friday to lying to a grand jury about working at a doughnut shop on
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Allison Morrow, CNN Business November 2022 is a month that investors, particularly in cryptocurrencies, will never forget. And the worst may be yet to come. Over the past two weeks, the digital asset industry has watched in horror as FTX, the multi-billion-dollar crypto exchange created by one of its biggest and
Continue ReadingBy Allison Morrow, CNN Business November 2022 is a month that investors, particularly in cryptocurrencies, will never forget. And the worst may be yet to come. Over the past two weeks, the digital asset industry has watched in horror as FTX, the multi-billion-dollar crypto exchange created by one of its biggest and brightest stars, Sam
Continue Reading By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Four University of Idaho students who were found dead in a rental house near campus were stabbed to death in their beds and likely were asleep when they were attacked, a county coroner told a cable news channel. Latah County Coroner Cathy Mabbutt also told
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen, Kara Scannell, Jeremy Herb, Katelyn Polantz and Chandelis Duster, CNN Jack Smith, the special counsel announced by Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday to oversee the criminal investigations into the retention of classified documents at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and parts of the January 6, 2021, insurrection, is a long-time
Continue Reading By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Twitter is in chaos. Elon Musk, its new owner, has decimated its staff and this week gave those remaining an ultimatum — work grueling hours and be “extremely hardcore ” or leave. Hundreds chose the latter and headed for the door. There are already signs that the exodus is
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