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By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former Las Vegas Raiders player Henry Ruggs was sentenced Wednesday to at least three years in a Nevada prison for killing a woman in a fiery crash while driving his sports car drunk at speeds up to 156 mph on a city street nearly two years
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY MCAVOY and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press KAHULUI, Hawaii (AP) — A wildfire tore through the heart of Maui on Wednesday with alarming speed and ferocity, destroying homes and businesses in a historic tourist town and forcing panicked residents to jump into the ocean to flee the flames. Fire was widespread in Lahaina
Continue ReadingBy GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Ohio voters rejecting a measure that would have made it more difficult to change the state’s constitution is one of several developments related to abortion policy in several states this week. Ohio voters kept in place the rule that the state constitution can be amended with a simple majority of
Continue ReadingBy ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Special counsel Jack Smith’s team obtained a search warrant in January for records related to former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, and a judge levied a $350,000 fine on the company for missing the deadline to comply, according to court documents released Wednesday. The new details were included in
Continue ReadingBy ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Special counsel Jack Smith’s team obtained a search warrant in January for records related to former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, and a judge levied a $350,000 fine on the company for missing the deadline to comply, according to court documents released Wednesday. The new details were included in
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Continue ReadingCNN By Tierney Sneed, Katelyn Polantz and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The special counsel investigation into Donald Trump secured a search warrant of the former president’s Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, according to a newly unsealed court filing. The search was so secret that Twitter was initially barred from telling Trump the search warrant had been
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Barbie has already pulled in over a billion dollars. That still may not be enough to save AMC Theaters, which has a looming bill it may not be able to pay back. The world’s largest theater chain said Tuesday that sales increased 15% during the quarter ending
Continue ReadingBy COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Sixto Rodriguez, who lived in obscurity as his music career flamed out early in the U.S. only to find success in South Africa and a stardom he was unaware of, died Tuesday in Detroit. He was 81. Rodriguez’s legacy would take off back home after the singer
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK DAMP Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Three more Pittsburgh neighborhoods have just been discovered to have mosquitos with West Nile Virus. The Allegheny County Health Department will be out tonight spraying mosquito pesticides in Beltzhoover, Hill District, Lawrenceville, as well as Schenley Park. The pesticides are not harmful
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By Alisha Ebrahimji and Sahar Akbarzai, CNN (CNN) — American nurse Alix Dorsainvil and her daughter have been released after they were kidnapped 13 days ago from the community ministry where Dorsainvil works in Haiti, the organization said. “It is with a heart of gratitude and immense joy that we at El Roi Haiti confirm the safe
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN Business New York (CNN Business) — Critics accuse President Joe Biden of waging a war on the oil industry that is hurting consumers at the gas pump. And yet, on his watch, US oil production is poised to shatter all-time records set during the Trump administration. US oil output is now
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Washington (CNN) — A judicial order forcing Apple to change some of its app store terms will not need to take immediate effect while litigation over the decision plays out, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said on Wednesday, handing a temporary defeat to opponents of the company. The order is a
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — A federal judge is heaping sanctions on Southwest Airlines for, he says, failing to follow his orders in a case involving a fired flight attendant’s free-speech rights. U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr said Southwest acted as if its own policy limiting what employees can say is
Continue ReadingBy ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Special counsel Jack Smith’s team obtained a search warrant in January for records related to former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, and a judge levied a $350,000 fine on the company for a delay in complying, according to court documents released Wednesday. The details were included in a decision
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Bobbie Boyd is in a losing battle against near triple-digit temperatures in northwest Arkansas. Her window air conditioner runs nonstop and the ballooning electric bill carves about $240 out of her $882-a-month fixed income. So the 57-year-old cuts other necessities. Boyd eats one meal a
Continue ReadingBy Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — Does the name Sylvia Robinson ring a bell? For hip-hop fans, it should. Not only did she found Sugar Hill Records, the first hip-hop record label, with husband Joe Robinson, she also produced the 1979 track “Rapper’s Delight” by The Sugarhill Gang. That track achieved massive commercial success, becoming
Continue ReadingBy ABBY SEWELL Associated Press KORNIDZOR, Armenia (AP) — The former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is warning that Azerbaijan is preparing genocide against ethnic Armenians in its Nagorno-Karabakh region. Luis Moreno Ocampo called for the U.N. Security Council to bring the matter before the international tribunal. A report by Ocampo issued Tuesday
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey (CNN) — The attorney for the plaintiffs in the complaint against Lizzo tells CNN that “at least” six more inquiries have come in from other people with similar stories about the singer. Ron Zambrano, the plaintiffs’ attorney and a partner and employment litigation chair at West Coast Employment Lawyers, said, “We have
Continue ReadingBy ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Special counsel Jack Smith’s team obtained a search warrant in January for records related to former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, and a judge levied a $350,000 fine on the company for a delay in complying, according to court documents released Wednesday. The details were included in a decision
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