Month: August 2023
Beyond Meat revenue plummets in the second quarter due to flagging US demand
DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Plant-based meat substitute maker Beyond Meat said its revenue plunged 30.5% in the second quarter as consumer demand for its burgers, sausages and other products fell despite price cuts. The El Segundo, California-based company lowered its full-year revenue forecast as a result. Beyond Meat now expects revenue between $360 million
Continue ReadingTory Lanez’s father pleads for mercy at rapper’s sentencing for shooting Megan Thee Stallion
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper Tory Lanez ‘s father grew emotional in court Monday as he described his son losing his mother at age 11 as a judge prepares to sentence Lanez for shooting and wounding hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion. Los Angeles prosecutors are asking a judge to
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More gay men can give blood as ‘one of the most significant changes in blood banking history’ gets underway
Originally Published: 07 AUG 23 06:48 ET Updated: 07 AUG 23 16:13 ET By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Back when Kody Kinsley was in high school, he was so dedicated to boosting the US blood supply that he helped run blood drives. But Monday will be the first time as an adult that Kinsley
Continue ReadingSimon & Schuster purchased by private equity firm KKR for $1.62 billion
NEW YORK (AP) — Simon & Schuster has been sold to the private equity firm KKR, months after a federal judge blocked its purchase by rival publisher Penguin Random House because of concerns that competition would shrink the book market. An executive for KKR is calling the deal a chance to work with “one of
Continue ReadingTory Lanez’s father, son appeal to judge before rapper’s sentencing for shooting Megan Thee Stallion
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writers LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper Tory Lanez ‘s father grew emotional in court as he described his son losing his mother at age 11 as a judge prepares to sentence Lanez on Monday for shooting and wounding hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in the feet. Los Angeles prosecutors are
Continue ReadingTory Lanez’s father, son appeal to judge before rapper’s sentencing for shooting Megan Thee Stallion
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writers LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper Tory Lanez ‘s father grew emotional in court as he described his son losing his mother at age 11 as a judge prepares to sentence Lanez on Monday for shooting and wounding hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in the feet. Los Angeles prosecutors are
Continue ReadingAppeals court upholds Josh Duggar’s conviction for downloading child sex abuse images
By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday upheld Josh Duggar’s conviction for downloading child sexual abuse images, rejecting the former reality television star’s argument that a judge should have suppressed statements he made to investigators during the search that found the images. A three-judge panel of
Continue ReadingMore gay men can give blood as ‘one of the most significant changes in blood banking history’ gets underway
By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Back when Kody Kinsley was in high school, he was so dedicated to boosting the US blood supply that he helped run blood drives. But Monday will be the first time as an adult that Kinsley — now the secretary of North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services
Continue ReadingArgentines ask patron saint of work for jobs with elections around the corner
By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentines have lined up on a bitterly cold winter morning as part of an annual pilgrimage to a Roman Catholic shrine for the patron saint of work. They asked for jobs and prosperity as many struggle to make ends meet while struggling with one of
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Man guilty of 2019 fatal Cathedral City shooting sentenced to 40 years to life
A San Bernardino man was sentenced today to 40 years to life in state prison for fatally shooting a man outside a Cathedral City home in 2019. Christian Isaiah Jimenez, 24, was convicted June 13 of one felony count of murder in the Aug. 19, 2019, shooting of 21-year-old Alberto Rafael Sosa Alvarez. A sentence-enhancing
Continue ReadingCowboys release kicker Vizcaino to leave 28-year-old rookie Aubrey as the only one in camp
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys released kicker Tristan Vizcaino on Monday, leaving 28-year-old rookie Brandon Aubrey as the only kicker with two more weeks of training camp in California. Vizcaino was part of what amounted to an emergency competition at kicker last January after Brett Maher missed four consecutive PATs in a 31-14
Continue ReadingAttorneys for 3 last-known survivors of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre appeal dismissed reparations case
By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Attorneys seeking reparations for three living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre have filed an appeal in the case with the Oklahoma Supreme Court. The appeal was filed Friday after a district court judge in Tulsa dismissed the case last month. The lawsuit is trying
Continue ReadingGlacial dam outburst in Alaska’s capital erodes riverbanks, destroys at least 2 buildings
By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Raging waters that ate away at riverbanks, destroyed at least two buildings and damaged others had receded Monday in Alaska’s capital city after an outburst of weekend flooding from a glacial lake, authorities said. Levels along the Mendenhall River had begun falling by Sunday and returned
Continue ReadingNYC plans to house migrants on an island in the East River
By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mayor Eric Adams says the city will house as many as 2,000 migrants on an island in the East River where a migrant center was set up last year and then taken down weeks later. Adams said Monday that New York state will reimburse
Continue ReadingTwo Russian missile strikes hit a city in eastern Ukraine, killing 5 people and wounding 31
By HANNA ARHIROVA and JIM HEINTZ Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say that two Russian missiles have hit the center of Pokrovsk, a city in the eastern Donetsk region, killing five people and wounding 31 more. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an online statement accused Russia of trying to leave “only broken
Continue ReadingA Florida man is charged with flooding an emergency room after attacking a nurse and stripping
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — A man in southwest Florida has been charged with flooding a hospital’s emergency rooms after attacking a nurse and stripping off his clothes. The 53-year-old became agitated while in a waiting room at the North Collier Hospital in Naples, Florida on Saturday. The Collier County Sheriff’s Office says the man barged
Continue ReadingPregnant woman’s arrest in carjacking case spurs call to end Detroit police facial recognition
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Detroit woman who was arrested in connection with a suspected robbery and carjacking when she was eight months pregnant is suing the city and one of its police officers for what she says is an over- reliance on facial recognition technology. Prosecutors dropped the case
Continue ReadingWilliam Friedkin, Oscar-winning director of ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘The French Connection,’ dead at 87
By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — William Friedkin, the generation-defining director who brought a visceral realism to 1970s hits “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist” and was quickly anointed one of Hollywood’s top directors when he was only in his 30s, has died. He was 87. Friedkin, who won the best
Continue ReadingWilliam Friedkin, Oscar-winning director of ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘The French Connection,’ dead at 87
By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — William Friedkin, the generation-defining director who brought a visceral realism to 1970s hits “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist” and was quickly anointed one of Hollywood’s top directors when he was only in his 30s, has died. He was 87. Friedkin, who won the best
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