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By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Coach Kyle Shanahan plans to shake up his quarterback rotation in the second exhibition game for the San Francisco 49ers. Shanahan said Wednesday that the Niners are planning to give Sam Darnold most of the first half snaps on Saturday night at home
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By Whitney Wild, Sarah Moon and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — After days of national controversy over the raid of a small town’s newspaper office and the publisher’s home, the items seized have been returned and will be examined by a forensic analyst, the Kansas paper’s co-owner and publisher told CNN on Wednesday. An attorney
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s Senate and House voted minutes apart Wednesday to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill limiting LGBTQ+ instruction in the early grades, immediately making it law. The law, which is expected to face a legal challenge, requires public school teachers in
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Little Rock School District says it will continue offering an Advanced Placement course on African American studies that Arkansas education officials have said won’t count toward a student’s graduation credit. The district on Wednesday announced the decision days after the Arkansas Department of Education
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood and Kayla Tausche, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke by phone on Wednesday with American Paul Whelan, who is being held in a remote prison camp in Russia, a source familiar told CNN. The top US diplomat told Whelan to “keep the faith and we’re doing
Continue ReadingBy BOBBY CAINA CALVAN, JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Public schools on Maui started the process of reopening and traffic resumed on a major access road in signs of recovery a week after wildfires demolished a historic town and killed over 100 people, even as officials raised concerns
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Si hay algo que puede decirse de la extensa acusación del jurado investigador sobre 41 cargos presentados contra el expresidente Donald Trump y 18 de sus partidarios, es que la fiscal de distrito del condado de Fulton, Fani Willis, está yendo a fondo. El caso se construye alrededor de un cargo
Continue ReadingBy Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Last year, as interest rates rose and inflation stayed stubbornly high, total household wealth declined for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis. That might sound like bad news, but the numbers tell a more optimistic story. Here’s the deal: The grand total of all the
Continue Reading CNN By Nouran Salahieh, Raja Razek and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — The search for victims isn’t even halfway over, but the devastation wrought by Maui’s wildfires already defies imagination as scrutiny mounts over their cause – and officials’ response. At least 111 people – including children – were killed in last week’s catastrophe. And
Continue Reading By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Waiehu, Hawaii (CNN) — Two days before the Maui inferno, Brenda Keau’s husband Tony called his mom for a chat. He didn’t worry when he didn’t reach her, figuring he would try again in a couple of days. “That opportunity never came,” Keau said. Now he’s given his
Continue ReadingST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota woman has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for fraudulently applying for roughly $7 million in pandemic aid, $4.7 million of which the government paid out. U.S. District Judge Eric Tostrud sentenced 40-year-old Bloomington resident Tequisha Solomon on Tuesday. She had pleaded guilty to
Continue ReadingST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota woman has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for fraudulently applying for roughly $7 million in pandemic aid, $4.7 million of which the government paid out. U.S. District Judge Eric Tostrud sentenced 40-year-old Bloomington resident Tequisha Solomon on Tuesday. She had pleaded guilty to
Continue ReadingBy JOHN O’CONNOR and MELISSA PEREZ WINDER Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Officials say Illinois will provide funeral and burial services for the migrant toddler who died last week on a bus headed to Chicago from Texas. Jismary Alejandra Barboza González would have turned 4 next week. She died Aug. 10 while on a
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — A police dispatcher and a detective have testified in the trial of two white men in Mississippi who are accused of chasing and shooting at a Black FedEx driver. Brandon Case and his father, Gregory Case, are charged with attempted first-degree murder, conspiracy and shooting
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. wildlife managers announced Wednesday that they will investigate whether a bird that is inextricably linked to the piñon and juniper forests that span the Western United States warrants protection under the Endangered Species Act. The pinyon jay’s numbers have declined over the last half-century
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Ian Happ had just been called up to the majors by the Chicago Cubs and was looking for pictures to hang in his apartment. From that simple desire came a vivid vision and one unlikely partnership with an English artist who made it come to life.
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Jermell Charlo looms at least 3 inches above Canelo Álvarez when they stand face to face. When they pose side by side for photos, their upper torsos laden with their championship belts, Charlo clearly has longer arms. Anybody who doesn’t know better would just
Continue ReadingPLUM, Pa. (AP) — The co-owner of a home that exploded in western Pennsylvania last weekend has died from injuries he suffered in the blast, which also killed his wife and four other people. Fifty-six-year-old Paul Oravitz died Wednesday in a Pittsburgh hospital, four days after the explosion in Plum. He had had severe burns
Continue ReadingORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A central Florida art museum which was raided last year by the FBI over an exhibit of what turned out to be forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings has sued its former executive director and others, claiming they were part of a scheme to profit from the eventual sale of the fake artwork.
Continue ReadingORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A central Florida art museum which was raided last year by the FBI over an exhibit of what turned out to be forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings has sued its former executive director and others, claiming they were part of a scheme to profit from the eventual sale of the fake artwork.
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