Month: June 2023
Memorial for Las Vegas mass shooting takes shape as 5 potential designs revealed
By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A series of white angel wings rise up from the earth bathed in a warm glow of light, their sweeping forms creating a long covered pathway surrounded by trees in a possible centerpiece for the memorial to modern America’s deadliest mass shooting. It’s one of five
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Federal judge calls Indiana attorney general’s TikTok lawsuit largely ‘political posturing’
By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The fate of the Indiana attorney general’s lawsuit against the social media company TikTok is uncertain after a federal judge lambasted much of the case as “political posturing.” While U.S. District Judge Holly Brady ruled against TikTok’s request to move the case to federal court, that decision
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Ukraine trying to end battlefield stalemate in what may be start of counteroffensive
By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces were making a major effort to end a battlefield stalemate and punch through Russian defensive lines in southeast Ukraine for a second day Monday, in what may herald the start of a long-anticipated counteroffensive after 15 months of war. Russian officials seemed to be
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Young, wild and free: Wolverine spotted in California for only second time in last 100 years
BISHOP, Calif. (AP) — A wolverine was spotted three times last month in the eastern Sierra Nevada, a rare occurrence for an animal that’s only been seen one other time in California over the last 100 years, state wildlife officials said. While wolverines are native to California, they’ve been essentially extinct from the state since
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Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who was convicted of spying for Russia, dies in prison
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former FBI agent who took more than $1.4 million in cash and diamonds to trade secrets with Russia and the former Soviet Union in one of the most notorious spying cases in American history died in prison Monday. Robert Hanssen, 79, was found unresponsive in his
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Tras audios atribuidos a Benedetti, Petro dice que su Gobierno no ha ordenado interceptar teléfonos ni allanamientos ilegales
Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) — El presidente de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, afirmó este domingo en su cuenta de Twitter que su gobierno no ha ordenado interceptar teléfonos ni practicar allanamientos ilegales, en respuesta a la publicación en la revista Semana de unos audios atribuidos al exembajador de ese país en Venezuela, Armando Benedetti, en los
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Nearly 80 students, mostly girls, are poisoned in Afghanistan, say officials
By Masoud Popalzai, Ehsan Popalzai and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 80 primary school students, mostly girls, are suspected to have been poisoned over the weekend and taken to hospital in Afghanistan’s Sangcharak district, Mohammad Rahmani, the head of Education Department in the northern Sar-e-Pul province, told CNN. The intelligence unit of the provincial
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DNA from drinking glass linked New Jersey man to 4 Boston sexual assaults, prosecutor says
BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors say a lawyer was linked to a series of sexual assaults in Boston about 15 years ago by DNA obtained from a drinking glass he used at a corporate event earlier this year. Matthew Nilo, of New Jersey, was ordered held on $500,000 bail after he pleaded not guilty at his
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2nd flight carrying migrants lands in Sacramento; California officials say Florida arranged travel
By TRÂN NGUYỄN and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Another plane carrying migrants arrived in Sacramento on Monday, marking the second flight in recent days that California officials allege was coordinated by Florida. The flight carrying roughly 20 migrants that arrived Monday follows the arrival Friday of 16 migrants from Colombia
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2nd flight carrying migrants lands in Sacramento; California officials say Florida arranged travel
By TRÂN NGUYỄN and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Another plane carrying migrants arrived in Sacramento on Monday, marking the second flight in recent days that California officials allege was coordinated by Florida. The flight carrying roughly 20 migrants that arrived Monday follows the arrival Friday of 16 migrants from Colombia
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2nd flight carrying migrants lands in Sacramento; California officials say Florida arranged travel
By TRÂN NGUYỄN and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Another plane carrying migrants arrived in Sacramento on Monday, marking the second flight in recent days that California officials allege was coordinated by Florida. The flight carrying roughly 20 migrants that arrived Monday follows the arrival Friday of 16 migrants from Colombia
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Apple unveils sleek, $3,500 ‘Vision Pro’ goggles. Will they be what VR has been looking for?
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple on Monday unveiled a long-rumored headset that will place its users between the virtual and real world, while also testing the technology trendsetter’s ability to popularize new-fangled devices after others failed to capture the public’s imagination. After years of speculation, Apple CEO Tim Cook
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Mexico president’s ruling party ousts once-dominant party in most populous state
By MARÍA VERZA and LISSETTE ROMERO Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The ruling party of Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has won the governorship of the country’s most populous state. The victory in the State of Mexico deals a life-threatening blow to the old ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party — or PRI — which
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Ex-part owner of Minnesota Vikings gets over six years in cryptocurrency scam
NEW YORK (AP) — A former part owner of the Minnesota Vikings who defrauded a short-lived professional football league known as the Alliance of American Football in a $700 million cryptocurrency scam was sentenced Monday to over six years in prison. Reginald Fowler, 64, of Chandler, Arizona, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to six
Continue ReadingFact check: Trump boasts about a massive oil purchase that never happened
By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump, now a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, claimed in a television interview on Thursday that he not only purchased 75 million barrels of oil for the national Strategic Petroleum Reserve but did so for a remarkably low price. “We had so much oil
Continue ReadingConvicted spy Robert Hanssen dies in prison
By Michelle Watson, Shawna Mizelle and Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — Robert Philip Hanssen, who received payments of $1.4 million in cash and diamonds for the information he gave the Soviet Union and Russia, has died, the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Monday. He was 79 years old. Hanssen had been in custody at Colorado’s
Continue ReadingIssa Rae on weaving magic in ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’
By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — If Issa Rae was going to play a superhero in a Marvel project, of course it would be a pregnant one. in “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” she stars as Jessica Drew, a.k.a. Spider-Woman, who just happens to be with child in the new animated film that spans alternate
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Mysterious species buried their dead and carved symbols 100,000 years before humans
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have uncovered evidence that members of a mysterious archaic human species buried their dead and carved symbols on cave walls long before the earliest evidence of burials by modern humans. The brains belonging to the extinct species, known as Homo naledi, were around one-third the size of a
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