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OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s Roman Catholic archdiocese filed for bankruptcy Monday, saying the filing is necessary to manage more than 500 lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse by church officials. The Chapter 11 protection filing will stop all legal actions against the archdiocese and thus allow it to develop a settlement
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Charlize Theron knows she may be looking a bit different these days, and she’s perfectly fine with that. The actress told Allure magazine in a recently published interview: “My face is changing, and I love that my face is changing and aging.” Still, she told the publication, “people
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A natural El Nino, human-caused climate change, a stubborn heat dome over the nation’s midsection and other factors cooked up Tropical Storm Hilary’s record-breaking slosh into California and Nevada, scientists figure. Cooked up is the key phrase, since hot water and hot air were crucial in rapidly growing Hilary
Continue ReadingHAMBURG, Calif. (AP) — Weekend lightning strikes ignited new wildfires near a complex of blazes that have been burning since last week through the Klamath National Forest near California’s border with Oregon, authorities said Monday. The lightning on Sunday accompanied heavy rain showers that caused mudslides that closed parts of State Route 96, but the
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas has asked five school districts offering an Advanced Placement African American Studies course to send in their materials for review. Education Secretary Jacob Oliva told the districts Monday the state is concerned the course may violate state law placing restrictions on how race is
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed (CNN) — A coalition of media organizations, including CNN, is asking the federal court in Washington, DC, to give more transparency into the legal fight over a search warrant special counsel Jack Smith obtained for materials from former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account. The news outlets are asking for the court to
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday told survivors of Hawaii’s wildfires that the nation “grieves with you” and promised that the federal government will help “for as long as it takes” Maui to recover from damage caused by the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday told survivors of Hawaii’s wildfires that the nation “grieves with you” and promised that the federal government will help “for as long as it takes” Maui to recover from damage caused by the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Knicks are suing the Toronto Raptors, the Raptors head coach and a former Knicks employee, saying the worker stole thousands of videos and other scouting secrets to give to his new Canadian employer. The lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court on Monday seeks
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Japanese media say North Korea has told Japan it plans to launch a satellite in the coming days, in what could be a second try to put a military spy satellite into orbit. In late May, North Korea tried to launch its first spy satellite
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — The rain of jokes fell down on Hilary Duff this weekend amid Hurricane Hilary, with one jokester in particular being her husband Matthew Koma. Koma, the singer for the Indie band Winnetka Bowling League, took to his TikTok account on Friday to poke fun at Duff sharing the same
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The generic drug maker Teva Pharmaceuticals agreed Monday to pay $225 million to settle price-fixing charges related to sales of a widely used cholesterol-lowering drug. The U.S. Department of Justice said the agreement also requires Teva to divest its business making and selling the drug, pravastatin, a generic
Continue ReadingFAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Environmental groups have filed a lawsuit in Virginia to try to keep the state in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. The Southern Environmental Law Center filed the long-promised lawsuit in Fairfax County Circuit Court on Monday. The initiative is an effort by mid-Atlantic and Northeast states to reduce power plants’ carbon
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By Jackie Wattles and Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — The loss of Luna 25, Russia’s first moon mission in decades, likely came down to engine failure, Yury Borisov, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos, told state media on Monday. “Before making adjustments, the spacecraft reoriented, and at 14:10 the engines were turned on, that
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Mideast envoy says the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has killed over 200 Palestinians and nearly 30 Israelis so far this year – already surpassing last year’s annual figures and the highest number since 2005. Tor Wennesland told the U.N. Security Council on Monday that the
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Shares of Zoom jumped in after-hours trading Monday after the company said it expects to rake in stronger-than-expected earnings in the rest of this fiscal year. The company, which provides video and audio chat services, raised its outlook for profitability for the 2024 fiscal year in its second quarter
Continue ReadingBy ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday thanked Canadians for their support in his first public remarks about his family since he and his wife, Sophie, announced they are separating after 18 years of marriage. The two announced the decision in statements posted on Instagram early this
Continue ReadingBy SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A judge has ruled that most of the claims of sexual abuse and other mistreatment made in a long-running civil lawsuit by dozens of former patients of a Virginia children’s hospital can move forward. Richmond Circuit Court Judge Bradley Cavedo rejected defendants’ arguments this month that
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Black FedEx delivery driver who says two white men shot at and chased him in Mississippi in 2022 has now been fired from his job. The former driver, D’Monterrio Gibson, spoke to The Associated Press on Monday, shortly after he received an email about
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press KAHULUI, Hawaii, (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrived in Maui on Monday to comfort survivors of the devastating wildfires that ripped through the western part of the Hawaiian island, as his administration responds to the devastation whose full scope is still unknown. The Bidens
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