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By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Attorneys for a Native Hawaiian man who has been imprisoned for more than 20 years for the 1991 sexual assault, kidnapping and murder of a white woman visiting Hawaii will ask a judge Tuesday to dismiss his conviction due to new evidence — including DNA testing
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By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Over the past few years, a number of companies have attempted to act as the cryptocurrency equivalent of a bank, promising lucrative returns to customers who deposited their bitcoin or other digital assets. In a span of less than 12 months, nearly all of the
Continue Reading By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Over the past few years, a number of companies have attempted to act as the cryptocurrency equivalent of a bank, promising lucrative returns to customers who deposited their bitcoin or other digital assets. In a span of less than 12 months, nearly all of the
Continue Reading By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Natasha Lyonne stars in the new anthology procedural series “Poker Face” for Peacock debuting Jan. 26. Lyonne plays a woman named Charlie who can innately tell if people are lying. In each episode Charlie finds herself stumbling upon a murder where she pieces together how someone
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN Doja Cat wowed onlookers on Monday as she arrived at Schiaparelli’s latest runway show in a dramatic head-to-toe look adorned with red body paint and 30,000 Swarovski crystals. The eye-catching outfit, which was custom-designed by the fashion house’s creative director Daniel Roseberry, was brought to life by makeup artist Pat McGrath, whose
Continue Reading By TERRY TANG and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) — Mymy Nhan was a regular at the Star Ballroom for more than a decade, choosing the Los Angeles-area dance hall popular with older Asian Americans as the place to “start the year fresh” with Lunar New Year celebrations, her niece said Monday.
Continue Reading DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A woman who fatally shot her terminally ill husband inside a Florida hospital was taken into custody over the weekend after SWAT team members used a nonlethal explosive device to distract her and then tried to use a stun gun on her, authorities said Monday. However, the Taser gun failed
Continue ReadingBy Katie Bo Lillis, Natasha Bertrand, Alex Marquardt and Kylie Atwood, CNN The Biden administration has recently raised concerns with China about evidence it has suggesting that Chinese companies have sold non-lethal equipment to Russia for use in Ukraine, in an effort to ascertain how much Beijing knows about the transactions, according to two US
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — A report by the United Nations shows growing numbers of people in Asia lack enough to eat as food insecurity rises with higher prices and worsening poverty. The report by the Food and Agricultural Organization and other U.N. agencies says nearly a half-billion people, more than
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — A report by the United Nations shows growing numbers of people in Asia lack enough to eat as food insecurity rises with higher prices and worsening poverty. The report by the Food and Agricultural Organization and other U.N. agencies says nearly a half-billion people, more than
Continue ReadingHeather Chen, CNN Temperatures in China’s northernmost city plunged to minus 53°C (minus 63.4 degrees Fahrenheit) — its coldest ever recorded, meteorologists said. Located in the northeastern Heilongjiang province and nestled near Russian Siberia, Mohe is widely known as “China’s North Pole” and is one of the few places in the country to have a
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung and Junko Ogura, CNN Japan’s prime minister issued a dire warning about the country’s population crisis on Monday, saying it was “on the brink of not being able to maintain social functions” due to the falling birth rate. In a policy address to lawmakers, Fumio Kishida said it was a case of
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The California Supreme Court on Monday overturned the murder convictions and death sentence for a man who killed three people and committed a series of other crimes in San Diego in 1985. The court ordered a new trial for Billy Ray Waldon, ruling unanimously that a lower court judge improperly allowed
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CNN, KPIX, KGO By Christina Maxouris, Casey Tolan and Curt Devine, CNN The man suspected of killing four people at a California mushroom farm and three others at a nearby site Monday had legal possession of a semi-automatic weapon that was registered to him, a sheriff said. The suspect, Chunli Zhao, 66, was not known
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Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — El gobierno de la presidenta de Perú, Dina Boluarte, presentó notas de protesta a los embajadores de Bolivia y Colombia en el país por las declaraciones de los presidentes Luis Arce y Gustavo Petro sobre la crisis sociopolítica en esa nación. “El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores entregó una nota al
Continue Reading By JEFF CHIU AND OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — Seven people were killed in two related shootings Monday at agricultural facilities in a California coastal community south of San Francisco, and a suspect was in custody, officials said. Four people were found dead and a fifth injured from gunshot
Continue Reading KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Authorities in Nepal have handed to relatives the bodies of 60 of the 72 people killed in a plane crash last week. Rescuers are still searching for two bodies at the site where a Yeti Airlines flight crashed at the resort town of Pokhara. The airline said that among the 10
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer TIANJIN, China (AP) — As technicians in a distant control room watch on display screens, an automated crane at one of China’s busiest ports moves cargo containers from a Korean freighter to self-driving trucks in a scene tech giant Huawei sees as its future after American sanctions crushed its
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer TIANJIN, China (AP) — As technicians in a distant control room watch on display screens, an automated crane at one of China’s busiest ports moves cargo containers from a Japanese freighter to self-driving trucks in a scene tech giant Huawei sees as its future after American sanctions crushed its
Continue Reading By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities aired the results Monday of the investigation of an Election Day 2020 police shooting that killed a man in a vehicle after the man killed two women, wounded a teenage girl and abducted a 12-year-old boy who died when he was shot as police approached.
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