By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press The U.S. government says it received one bid for the right to drill offshore for oil and gas in Alaska’s Cook Inlet near habitat for bears, salmon and endangered Beluga whales. Hilcorp Alaska LLC submitted the sole bid during the sale which the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management conducted via
Continue Reading By JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Those at the forefront of the U.K.’s response to Russia’s war in Ukraine joined Queen guitarist Brian May and a fashion designer dubbed “the mother of the miniskirt” on the country’s new year’s Honors list. The 92-year-old designer Mary Quant who is best known for popularizing the
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By JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Those at the forefront of the U.K.’s response to Russia’s war in Ukraine joined Queen guitarist Brian May and a fashion designer dubbed “the mother of the miniskirt” on the country’s new year’s Honors list. The 92-year-old designer Mary Quant who is best known for popularizing the
Continue Reading By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia Thomas, the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, says she regrets sending texts to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows after the 2020 election, telling the House Jan. 6 committee that “I would take them all back if I
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Alejandra Ramos (CNN Español) — La justicia de Bolivia dispuso que el gobernador de Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, reciba tratamiento médico en la cárcel de Chonchocoro, según confirmaron tanto su abogado como las autoridades. El abogado del mandatario santacruceño, Juan Carlos Camacho, dijo a CNN que un juzgado de turno en La Paz aceptó
Continue Reading SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has filed paperwork with the state Supreme Court to appeal a local judge’s ruling that eliminating cash bail for criminal defendants is unconstitutional. Raoul’s notice of appeal requests the high court reverse Wednesday’s ruling by Kankakee County Circuit Judge Thomas Cunnington. Cunnington ruled that the General
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Stunning meteor showers, full moons and eclipses will light up the sky in 2023. The year is sure to be a sky-gazer’s delight with plenty of celestial events on the calendar. A comet discovered in March 2022 will make its closest approach to the sun on January 12, according to NASA.
Continue Reading HAMILTON, Ontario (AP) — Ontario officials say there was no evidence of working smoke alarms in a Hamilton house that caught fire, claiming the lives of four people. Hamilton fire Chief Dave Cunliffe said Friday that two adults and two children died in a hospital after firefighters pulled them from the second floor of the
Continue Reading By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press A police chief in Alaska pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that he assaulted an intoxicated man while he was off-duty at a resort restaurant, including allegedly shoving the man head-first into a wall and putting him in a chokehold. A grand jury returned an indictment Thursday for Ketchikan
Continue Reading By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s attorney general says former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows won’t face voter fraud charges related to his 2020 registration and absentee vote in the state. Attorney General Josh Stein told The Associated Press on Friday that there isn’t sufficient evidence to
Continue ReadingBy Dianne Gallagher, CNN The North Carolina Department of Justice announced Friday that there was “not sufficient evidence” to bring charges against former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and his wife, Debra Meadows, over allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election. “My office has concluded that there is not sufficient evidence to
Continue Reading By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press The release of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns show he maintained a bank account in China through 2017, his first year in the White House. Trump had claimed he closed the account before running for president. Trump also reported making no charitable donations in 2020, his final year in
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in central Mexico say they found a strange holiday-season package at a local airport: four human skulls being shipped to the United States. Mexico’s National Guard said Friday its officers were called to an airport in the city of Queretaro after an X-ray detected strange shapes in a cardboard box.
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Wall Street capped a quiet day of trading with more losses Friday, as it closed the book on the worst year for the S&P 500 since 2008. The benchmark index finished with a loss of 19.4% for 2022, or 18.1%, including dividends. It’s just its
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SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a Colorado man with a misdemeanor hate crime offense after he allegedly targeted two young adults of Asian descent with racist and homophobic comments last week as they recorded a TikTok food review video at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Northern California. The incident occurred Dec. 24
Continue Reading SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a Colorado man with a misdemeanor hate crime offense after he allegedly targeted two young adults of Asian descent with racist and homophobic comments last week as they recorded a TikTok food review video at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Northern California. The incident occurred Dec. 24
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A 19-year-old from Indio was behind bars today for his alleged involvement in posing as the seller of an Xbox gaming console and robbing someone at gunpoint. The teen was arrested Thursday night on suspicion of robbery, carrying a loaded firearm, conspiracy to commit a crime, possession of controlled substances with a firearm and possession
Continue ReadingBy Scottie Andrew, CNN Before there were countless TikTok users lip syncing and attempting complicated choreography to pop hits, there was Keenan Cahill — lip-sync extraordinaire. With little more than a desktop computer and pure passion, Cahill racked up millions of views on his YouTube channel by mouthing the words to hits of the day.
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Local police leaders are reacting to the death of a Riverside County Sheriff’s deputy who was killed in the line of duty Thursday afternoon in Jurupa Valley. “We feel devastated for them. And certainly when a colleague goes down, it affects everybody,” said Palm Springs Police Chief Andy Mills. Deputy Isaiah Cordero, 32, was shot
Continue ReadingBy WFOR Staff Click here for updates on this story LAUDERDALE LAKES, Florida (WFOR) — Surveillance video shows a man police said was shoplifting, running to the front door of a business, dropping clothes and kicking the front door of a Lauderdale Lakes store after realizing the door had been locked. It took place Wednesday,
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