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By STEFANIE DAZIO and MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors charged a Los Angeles city councilman with embezzlement and perjury Tuesday in the latest criminal case to upend the scandal-plagued governing board of the nation’s second-largest city. Curren Price, Jr. faces five counts of grand theft by embezzlement, three counts of
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By SYLVIA HUI and MARIA SHERMAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Artificial intelligence has been used to extract John Lennon’s voice from an old demo to create “the last Beatles record,” decades after the band broke up, Paul McCartney said Tuesday. McCartney, 80, told the BBC that the technology was used to separate the Beatles’
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Los seres humanos se originaron en África, pero los arqueólogos han debatido intensamente para saber en qué momento exacto nuestros primeros antepasados abandonaron el continente y cómo se extendieron por el mundo. Dos fósiles encontrados en una cueva del norte de Laos sugieren que el Homo sapiens, nuestra especie, vivía en
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When the remains of an early human ancestor were found in Ethiopia in 1974, the discovery provided an unprecedented look at a species that lived millions of years before humans walked the Earth. The rare fossil, representing 40% of a skeleton belonging to a female Australopithecus afarensis, was named
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By MARC LEVY Associated Press U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg promised Tuesday to help repair the East Coast’s main north-south highway as quickly as possible and said that the destruction of a section of I-95 will likely raise the cost of consumer goods because truckers must now travel longer routes. Speaking near the site where
Continue Reading By BEN FINLEY Associated Press The first-grade teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student in Virginia has resigned from her position, school officials said Tuesday, more than two months after she sued the district for $40 million. The last day of Abby Zwerner’s contract was Monday, Newport News Public Schools said in a statement.
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By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Berry Henson always imagined moments like this. He’s at the U.S. Open, playing practice rounds with Phil Mickelson and soaking up whatever information he can get for his first major championship against the best players in the world. He just didn’t imagine it would take
Continue Reading By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks is denying union organizers’ claims that it is banning Pride displays in its U.S. stores in the wake of Target and other brands experiencing a backlash. But Starbucks Workers United, the union organizing U.S. Starbucks stores, says store managers around the country have been curtailing or removing displays
Continue Reading By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks is denying union organizers’ claims that it is banning Pride displays in its U.S. stores in the wake of Target and other brands experiencing a backlash. But Starbucks Workers United, the union organizing U.S. Starbucks stores, says store managers around the country have been curtailing or removing displays
Continue Reading By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature has sent the governor a ban on green investing as part of a broader GOP crusade against big businesses that champion sustainability and workplace diversity. The bill passed by the Senate Tuesday bans state government entities from using “environmental, social
Continue Reading By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A stadium financing bill aimed at drawing the Oakland Athletics to Las Vegas cleared a major hurdle Tuesday after being approved by the Nevada Senate, but not before lawmakers amended the measure to strengthen its benefits for the community. The 13-8 Senate vote
Continue Reading By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A stadium financing bill aimed at drawing the Oakland Athletics to Las Vegas cleared a major hurdle Tuesday after being approved by the Nevada Senate, but not before lawmakers amended the measure to strengthen its benefits for the community. The 13-8 Senate vote
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Warmer than yesterday, high temperatures have climbed into the mid-90s across the valley floor. This is still below the average for the month. Yet again, winds will strengthen through the evening and last into the night, tapering into the morning. It may be sunny and warm, but our weather pattern is far from stagnant. Multiple
Continue Reading By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Add Jon Rahm to the many PGA Tour players who were frustrated and surprised about last week’s announcement of a partnership between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the primary funder of rival circuit LIV Golf. Rahm — the No. 2 player
Continue Reading By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Add Jon Rahm to the many PGA Tour players who were frustrated and surprised about last week’s announcement of a partnership between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the primary funder of rival circuit LIV Golf. Rahm — the No. 2 player
Continue Reading Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) — La Fiscalía de Colombia anunció que acusará formalmente a Oscar Iván Zuluaga, excandidato a la presidencia, por presuntamente haber recibido en 2014 fondos de la empresa Odebrecht para pagar a un publicista. En un comunicado, la Fiscalía dijo este martes que la imputación también alcanzará a su hijo y gerente
Continue Reading By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration said Tuesday that it will extend legal status by 18 months for more than 300,000 people from El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal, disappointing some advocates and members of Congress who sought a more generous offer. The extensions provide “continued safety and protection”
Continue Reading The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of Reddit communities have gone dark this week in protest of upcoming API changes, which include a controversial policy that will charge some third-party apps for continued use. Organizers of the blackout, which began on Monday, say Reddit’s changes threaten to end key ways of historically customizing the
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tory Lanez’s sentencing for shooting and wounding hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion was delayed on Tuesday. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Herriford accepted the defense’s request to delay Lanez’s sentencing, which is now scheduled for Aug. 7. Prosecutors are seeking a 13 year prison sentence and Lanez faces deportation to
Continue Reading By AMY BETH HANSON and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A high school athlete who is one of 16 young plaintiffs who took Montana to court over climate change says increased smoke from forest fires has made it difficult to run races. Mica Kantor, now 15, says a doctor prescribed an inhaler
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