By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Mozambique’s former finance minister has lost a last-ditch legal appeal in South Africa and faces extradition to the United States over a $2 billion corruption scandal related to loans to Mozambican state-owned companies. U.S. prosecutors allege that Manuel Chang, Mozambique’s finance minister from 2005 to 2015, was
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By Lauren del Valle and Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — The mother of Brian Laundrie, the man who killed his fiancée, Gabby Petito, and later himself in 2021, wrote to her son saying she would help him “dispose of a body” or “bake a cake with a file in it” to help him in jail,
Continue ReadingBy James Stratton Click here for updates on this story PRAIRIE CITY, Iowa (KCCI) — Dick Haws doesn’t like to take interstates. He typically takes two-lane roads — “blue highways” as he calls them — they’re red on his Rand McNally atlas, but he says they’re blue on most. But, there’s one two-lane road he
Continue Reading By Sugam Pokharel, CNN London (CNN) — A man has been arrested after a car was driven at the gates of Downing Street in London, the official residence of the UK prime minister, police said Thursday. In video broadcast by the BBC, a small silver car can be seen driving at slow speed across Whitehall,
Continue Reading By Nick Valencia and Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — An attorney for an 11-year-old Mississippi boy who was shot by a police officer after he called 911 for help said Thursday there was “no way” the boy could have been mistaken for an adult. The attorney, Carlos Moore, is asking for “a full and
Continue Reading CNN By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — The undated “burn after reading” letter from Brian Laundrie’s mother could provide what one legal analyst called the “proverbial smoking gun” in the civil case brought by Gabby Petito’s family against his parents. But the note, recovered from Laundrie’s backpack after his remains were found in October 2021,
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Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Shares of Nvidia, already one of the world’s most valuable companies, skyrocketed Thursday after the chipmaker forecast a huge jump in revenue, signaling how vastly the broadening use of artificial intelligence could reshape the tech sector. The company based in Santa Clara, California, is close to joining the exclusive club
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Shares of Nvidia, already one of the world’s most valuable companies, skyrocketed Thursday after the chipmaker forecast a huge jump in revenue, signaling how vastly the broadening use of artificial intelligence could reshape the tech sector. The company based in Santa Clara, California, is close to joining the exclusive club
Continue Reading By COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writer MILAN (AP) — German airline Lufthansa on Thursday signed a deal with the Italian government for a minority share in the long-struggling ITA Airways, formerly Alitalia. ITA Airways and its Alitalia predecessor have long been searching for an industrial partner as the Italian airline lost out on domestic and
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — A polygamous sect leader and some of his followers have been indicted for allegedly conspiring to travel across Arizona state lines and get “wives” for him, authorities said Thursday. A federal grand jury on Wednesday issued a superseding indictment against 47-year-old Samuel Rappylee Bateman of Colorado City, Arizona, and 10 of his
Continue Reading By LISA MASCARO, STEPHEN GROVES, SEUNG MIN KIM and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans pushed debt ceiling talks to the brink Thursday, displaying risky political bravado in leaving town for the holiday weekend just days before the U.S. could face an unprecedented default hurling the global economy into chaos. At the
Continue Reading By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose this week to its highest level since mid March, driving up borrowing costs for prospective homebuyers facing a housing market that’s constrained by a dearth of homes for sale. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average
Continue Reading By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For all the concern over when the government might run out of money to cover all its bills, it turns out that no one can be absolutely sure exactly when the country faces a potential default — the dreaded “X-date.” Calculating when the country is going to
Continue Reading By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two years ago, signing a bill intended to punish Twitter and other major social media companies, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis blasted the platforms as “suppressing ideas” during the COVID-19 pandemic and silencing conservative voices. What a turnaround. The new Elon Musk-owned version of Twitter helped DeSantis
Continue ReadingBy Karin Johnson Click here for updates on this story CINCINNATI (WLWT) — Not only is Michael Rush a local father, he’s also a retired federal law enforcement officer. After the Parkland shooting in Florida in February 2018, he decided more needed to be done to protect our kids. Seventeen people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Adams Click here for updates on this story LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (WLKY) — There were hugs and tears in an otherwise empty hallway outside a Jefferson County courtroom Wednesday morning. A mother whose only child had been murdered told the prosecutor, “You never waivered. You never backed down.” Danielle Yannelli, an assistant commonwealth’s attorney,
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Mortgage rates are beginning to feel the impact of the debt-ceiling standoff, jumping higher for the second week in a row amid the uncertainty. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.57% in the week ending May 25, up from 6.39% the week before, according to data from Freddie
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Thursday for leading a far-reaching plot to keep then-President Donald Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election. A second Oath Keepers member, Kelly Meggs, the leader
Continue Reading By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Doug Boles grew up revering the colorful, flavor of race day at the Indianapolis 500. Back then, it wasn’t easy finding a ticket to the Greatest Spectacle in Racing. Then came the 12-year split that threatened to ruin American open-wheel racing and ticket sales predictably crashed.
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Millman and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — In Washington, honoring America’s Vietnam veterans is not a partisan issue. A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including military veterans Reps. Mike Waltz and Seth Moulton, participated in a volunteer cleaning of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial ahead of Memorial Day. Waltz, a combat-decorated Green Beret, has led
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