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By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has announced a crackdown on people smugglers, from a southern town near where a boat crowded with migrants broke apart, killing scores of people. After a Cabinet meeting in Cutro, Meloni announced a decree making migrant smuggling that results in death of migrants
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TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — No charges are immediately being filed against former NBA star Shawn Kemp following his arrest in a drive-by shooting in Washington, prosecutors said Thursday. Kemp, 53, was booked for investigation of felony drive-by shooting shortly before 6 p.m. Wednesday in Tacoma, online jail records show. No one was injured in the
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By AMY TAXIN and ADAM BEAM HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — California’s attempts at forcing its wealthy coastal cities to build more affordable housing spawned two lawsuits on Thursday, showcasing tensions around solving a crisis that has contributed to a surge in the homeless population in the nation’s most populous state. Attorney General Rob Bonta
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Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Estados Unidos y sus aliados han bloqueado o incautado activos por valor de más de US$ 58.000 millones que pertenecen o están controlados por rusos sancionados en el último año, mientras los gobiernos occidentales aumentan la presión sobre la invasión de Ucrania por parte del Kremlin, según un comunicado conjunto de
Continue Reading By JOSH BOAK Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — As political gridlock puts the government at risk of defaulting, President Joe Biden on Thursday made an opening bid with a budget plan that would cut deficits by $2.9 trillion over the next decade — a proposal that Republicans already intend to reject. It’s part of a
Continue Reading By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says it has signed an agreement to purchase a very large vessel that can transfer more than 1 million barrels of crude now stranded in a rusting old tanker off the coast of war-torn Yemen. It’s the first step in an eventual
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Detroit Red Wings have traded defenseman Steven Kampfer to the Arizona Coyotes for future considerations. The 34-year-old Kampfer will report to Tucson of the American Hockey League after the trade announced on Thursday. Kampfer has not played in the NHL since appearing in 20 games for the Boston Bruins in
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police on Thursday identified the suspect who allegedly shot and wounded three officers as a 32-year-old wanted parolee who was found dead hours after the standoff. The officers, all senior officers and members of a Los Angeles Police Department K-9 dog-handling unit, were expected to survive their injuries after
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell broadly on Wall Street and added to the week’s losses as markets remain anxious about the prospect of more aggressive action by the Federal Reserve to fight inflation. The S&P 500 fell 1.7% as of 3:30 p.m. Eastern and is tracking just
Continue Reading By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer When Joc Pederson takes the field for Israel in the World Baseball Classic, he’ll be wearing bright silver cleats with blue Stars of David inside each Nike swoosh. Edwin Díaz commissioned two different designs to wear for Puerto Rico: blue with a bronze trumpet across the Adidas stripes, and
Continue ReadingBy Katie Sivco Click here for updates on this story SAINT GEORGE ISLAND, Florida (WESH) — Great white shark Maple was pinged Monday morning about 43 miles southeast of St. George Island, Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico, according to tracking data from OCEARCH, a nonprofit organization that tracks marine life. Maple, who is named
Continue ReadingBy Kendall Keys Click here for updates on this story RACINE COUNTY, Wisconsin (WISN) — New video from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation shows an out-of-control car on I-41/I-94 between Seven Mile Road and Elm Road in Racine County around 11 a.m. Tuesday morning. The Racine County Sheriff’s Office said the driver, suffering from an
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a Florida law passed after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that raised the minimum age to purchase a gun from 18 to 21. The 3-0 ruling from the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals comes as aged-based restrictions are shaping up
Continue ReadingBy Marcus McIntosh Click here for updates on this story WAUKEE, Iowa (KCCI) — Friday night, Sue Usher did something she has done hundreds of times. “We let the dog out to use the bathroom,” she said. Moments later, she heard squealing and whimpering from her Waukee backyard. Her dog was attacked by coyotes. “He
Continue Reading By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — California men’s basketball coach Mark Fox was fired Thursday following the worst season in school history. The Golden Bears finished 3-29 in Fox’s fourth season as coach following a 69-52 loss Wednesday in the first round of the Pac-12 tournament against Washington State. Cal set
Continue Reading By AMY TAXIN and ADAM BEAM Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — California on Thursday sued one of its picturesque coastal cities and accused it of refusing to build more affordable housing, an issue Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom called the “original sin” of the state’s housing shortage. Attorney General Rob Bonta sued Huntington Beach,
Continue ReadingBy Jeff Dubrof Click here for updates on this story AMES, Iowa (KCCI) — For Iowa State University women’s basketball player Morgan Kane, her pregame routine is always the same: stretches, lay-up lines and low post work. But there is one thing that she would never stand to miss, her pregame hug with her biggest
Continue ReadingBy WCVB Staff Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WCVB) — When a man shouting odd claims and making threats aboard a United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Boston stepped into the aisle, one passenger from a neighboring row immediately stood up to confront him. That passenger was Jeff Neil, of Exeter,
Continue Reading By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former Goldman Sachs banker was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison for his role in looting a Malaysian development fund of billions of dollars used to finance lavish parties, a superyacht, premium real estate and even the 2013 film “The Wolf of Wall
Continue ReadingCNN By Tierney Sneed, CNN Jenna Ellis was censured by a disciplinary judge in Colorado Wednesday, in the latest effort to hold accountable attorneys who boosted former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election reversal gambits. Ellis signed a stipulation stating that several comments she made about the 2020 election violated professional ethics rules barring reckless, knowing
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