Month: November 2022
Art from Microsoft founder Paul Allen sells for $1.6 billion
NEW YORK (AP) — Works by artists including Cézanne, Seurat, and van Gogh sold for a record-breaking $1.6 billion during Christie’s two-day auction of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen’s masterpiece-heavy collection. All 155 of the artworks put up for auction Wednesday and Thursday in New York sold, and five paintings sold for prices
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Autoridades siguen buscando soluciones rápidas para ayudar a las familias de Oasis Mobile Home Park
Poco a poco se empiezan a concretar los planes para reubicar a las familias
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La mujer más alta del mundo toma su primer vuelo luego de que una aerolínea modificara varios asientos
Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Rumeysa Gelgi, la mujer viva más alta del mundo, abordó recientemente un avión desde su país de origen, Turquía, a San Francisco. Sin embargo, no se trataba de un vuelo cualquiera. Fue el primero de Gelgi y uno que reflejó la creciente atención a la accesibilidad. Gelgi, de 25 años, mide
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Palm Desert, Xavier Prep girls tennis programs fall in respective CIF-SS semifinal
It was a tough Thursday for our two local tennis programs, Palm Desert and Xavier Prep, with both of them falling short of reaching the CIF-SS championship game. The Aztecs and Saints suffered losses in their respective semifinal. Top-seeded Palm Desert fell 12-6 at Fountain Valley in Division 2. Meanwhile, Xavier Prep lost 10-8 at
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Silver says he doesn’t believe Kyrie Irving is antisemitic
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has “no doubt” that suspended Brooklyn guard Kyrie Irving is not antisemitic, he said at a conference on Thursday, while LeBron James took to Twitter to defend his former teammate whose status with the Nets remains a mystery. Those developments followed Nike co-founder Phil Knight
Continue ReadingGet free entry to all US National Park sites on Friday
By Forrest Brown, CNN The US National Park Service offers free entry a handful of times each year to all of its more than 400 sites. We’re at the last one for 2022. No fees will be charged to enter any site — including the marquee names — on Friday, November 11. The NPS chose
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Dive boat captain pleads not guilty in fiery deaths of 34
By STEFANIE DAZIO and EUGENE GARCIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A dive boat captain pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court for a second time to manslaughter in the fiery deaths of 34 people trapped below deck on his burning vessel three years ago off the Southern California coast. A federal grand jury
Continue Reading Warnock, Walker pivot to overtime in Georgia Senate contest
By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger, Herschel Walker, are pivoting to a second and decisive round of their Senate race in Georgia. That’s while party leaders and donors around the country begin gearing up for a four-week campaign blitz that could determine control of the
Continue Reading US judge in Texas strikes down Biden loan-forgiveness plan
By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press A U.S. judge in Texas on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden’s plan to provide millions of borrowers with up to $20,000 apiece in federal student-loan forgiveness — a program that was already on hold as a federal appeals court in St. Louis considers a separate lawsuit by six states challenging
Continue Reading Democrat Val Hoyle wins US House seat in Oregon’s 4th
By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Democrat Val Hoyle has won the open U.S. House seat in Oregon’s 4th Congressional District. Hoyle’s victory means the seat will stay blue following the retirement of Democratic Rep. Peter DeFazio, the state’s longest serving congressman. Hoyle defeated Republican Alek Skarlatos in his second
Continue Reading US to buy South Korean howitzer rounds to send to Ukraine
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official says the U.S. will buy 100,000 rounds of howitzer artillery rounds from South Korean manufacturers to provide to Ukraine. The agreement comes as Ukrainian leaders press for more weapons and aid to take advantage of a counteroffensive that is pushing
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US judge in Texas strikes down Biden loan-forgiveness plan
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A U.S. judge in Texas on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden’s plan to provide millions of borrowers with up to $20,000 apiece in federal student-loan forgiveness. District Court Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of former President Donald Trump based in Fort Worth, said the program usurped Congress’ power to make
Continue Reading Rams confident in John Wolford if Stafford sits out Sunday
By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — John Wolford has led the Los Angeles Rams to victory over the Arizona Cardinals before, and his teammates are confident he can do it again if needed Sunday. The fact that Wolford has never won another NFL regular-season start and has barely played at
Continue Reading Rams confident in John Wolford if Stafford sits out Sunday
By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — John Wolford has led the Los Angeles Rams to victory over the Arizona Cardinals before, and his teammates are confident he can do it again if needed Sunday. The fact that Wolford has never won another NFL regular-season start and has barely played at
Continue Reading Trump team urges court to leave Mar-a-Lago arbiter in place
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump have urged a federal appeals court to leave in place an independent arbiter who was assigned to review documents seized by the FBI in an August search of the former president’s Florida estate. The Trump team said in a filing Thursday that veteran
Continue Reading UN: Taliban has plunged Afghanistan into `dire’ conditions
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a resolution accusing the Taliban of violating the human rights of Afghan women and girls. It also says the Taliban have failed to establish a representative government and plunged the country into “dire economic, humanitarian and social conditions.” The
Continue Reading US sending Ukraine $400 million more in military aid
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will send $400 million more in military aid to Ukraine amid concerns financial assistance for the war against Russia could decline if Republicans take control of Congress. The announcement came Thursday, as the vote counting from the midterm elections continues. Republicans
Continue Reading Thieves target alcohol illnesses in Australian data dump
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Cybercriminals have dumped personal medical records on the dark web for a third day, this time focusing on alcohol-related illnesses, as they pressure Australia’s largest health insurer to pay a ransom for the stolen customer data of almost 10 million people. The criminals began dumping hundreds
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