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SANTA CLARITA A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy fatally shot a man who assaulted the deputy at a shopping center, authorities said Thursday. The shooting occurred late Wednesday night in the Valencia section of the city of Santa Clarita when deputies responded to a business regarding a trespassing call, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
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By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press KIRUNA, Sweden (AP) — The beginning of the end of Europe’s dependency on China for precious rare earth materials may lie buried deep under the rugged reaches of northern Sweden, well above the Arctic Circle. Sweden’s iron-ore miner LKAB said Thursday it has identified “significant deposits” in Lapland of rare
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN It doesn’t sound like Theo James is shaken or stirred by chatter he should be the next James Bond. “The White Lotus” star recently appeared on SiriusXM’s “The Jess Cagle Show with Julia Cunningham,” where Cagle said, “I’m hoping you’re the next Bond.” It’s a sentiment that has been shared
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, Evan Perez, Phil Mattingly and Marshall Cohen, CNN Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday appointed a special counsel to take over the investigation into the Obama-era classified documents found at President Joe Biden’s home and former private office. The special counsel is Robert Hur, who was nominated to be US attorney in
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, CNN Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen on Thursday said he is appointing former Gov. Pete Ricketts to fill the Senate seat left vacant by Republican Ben Sasse‘s resignation. Ricketts, a Republican who completed his second term as governor earlier this month, will hold the seat until a special election in 2024. The seat
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is wobbling Thursday as it digests a report showing inflation slowed again last month, bolstering hopes the Federal Reserve may take it easier on the economy through smaller hikes to interest rates. The S&P 500 was 0.2% lower after flipping between small gains
Continue ReadingCNN, WESH, WUSA By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Dozens of messages, social media posts and videos show that leaders of the far-right Proud Boys not only planned for the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack but recruited others to help stop Joe Biden from becoming president, federal prosecutors said Thursday during opening statements
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN The rate of people dying from cancer in the United States has continuously declined over the past three decades, according to a new report from the American Cancer Society. The US cancer death rate has fallen 33% since 1991, which corresponds to an estimated 3.8 million deaths averted, according to the
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, Pete Muntean and Gregory Wallace, CNN Air travel appears to be going relatively smoothly a day after a Federal Aviation Administration system outage disrupted operations with nearly 11,000 delayed flights in the United States and more than 1,300 cancellations. “FAA operations are back to normal, and we are seeing no unusual delays
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand, CNN An American Navy veteran who has been detained in Russia for nearly a year was released from Russian custody on Thursday, his family’s spokesperson told CNN, after months of negotiations spearheaded by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson. Taylor Dudley, 35, of Lansing, Michigan, was detained by Russian border patrol police
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is opening relatively steady, holding onto most of the gains built recently on hopes that cooling inflation will get the Federal Reserve to take it easier on the economy and markets through smaller hikes to interest rates. The S&P 500 gave up an early gain and was 0.1% lower
Continue Reading SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s Parliament is demanding that the country’s government renegotiate the energy part of an EU-funded post-pandemic recovery plan, to save the country’s coal-fired power plants from closure. Lawmakers on Thursday voted 187-2 with nine abstentions to approve a revision of the plan, which is key to receiving 6.3 billion euros in
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister says that the United Arab Emirates agreed to extend a $2 billion loan to his country and provide a additional $1 billion as his nation struggles to recover from devastating floods this summer. Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s office made the announcement
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN “Plane” is a too-generic title for what’s actually a pretty good little movie, combining with the ad campaign to convey a sense the film is more “Rambo”-like than it is. A crisply executed thriller likely never to be offered as in-flight entertainment, the bare-bones story falls mainly in the plain
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Virgin Orbit said Thursday its first attempt to launch satellites into orbit from the U.K. failed after its rocket’s upper stage prematurely shut down. The U.S.-based company used a modified Boeing 747 plane to carry one of its rockets from Cornwall in southwestern England over the Atlantic Ocean on Monday. The plane
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Virgin Orbit said Thursday its first attempt to launch satellites into orbit from the U.K. failed after its rocket’s upper stage prematurely shut down. The U.S.-based company used a modified Boeing 747 plane to carry one of its rockets from Cornwall in southwestern England over the Atlantic Ocean on Monday. The plane
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN “This is my story, told my way,” the title character narrates at the outset of “Velma,” an adult-oriented take on “Scooby-Doo” that demonstrates the limits of stretching what amounts to a one-note joke into a series. Sporadically witty but ultimately rather tedious, the HBO Max comedy leverages more than a
Continue Reading By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Love her or loathe her, Barbie has been transformed again, this time into a version for children as young as 3. Gone is the contentious hourglass figure for My First Barbie, which launched Thursday ahead of July’s live-action film about the icon starring Margot Robbie and
Continue ReadingBy Danica Sauter Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A romance novelist is in hot water after she returned to Facebook two years after her Facebook account claimed she committed suicide in September 2020 due to bullying. According to NBC affiliate Local 3 News, Susan Meachen returned last week to
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN The once queen of Instagram is back. Selena Gomez recently posted a series of selfies on her verified Instagram account with the caption, “Wait can you tell I’m back on Instagram ?” In April 2022, the “Only Murders in the Building” star said during an appearance on “Good Morning America”
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