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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Apple’s eked out a slightly higher profit last quarter even though sales dipped during the period, a showing that may not be enough to sustain investor enthusiasm that recently made the iPhone maker the first publicly held U.S. company to be valued at $3 trillion. The results released Thursday
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge sentenced a former first-round NBA draft pick to 10 years in prison Thursday, saying he used his people skills to entice others to aid his $5 million health care fraud after he “frittered away” substantial earnings from his professional career. Terrence Williams, 36,
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge sentenced a former first-round NBA draft pick to 10 years in prison Thursday, saying he used his people skills to entice others to aid his $5 million health care fraud after he “frittered away” substantial earnings from his professional career. Terrence Williams, 36,
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By Tara John, Florencia Trucco and Karol Suarez, CNN (CNN) — Mexico’s President Andres Manuel López Obrador has condemned Texas’s anti-migrant buoys, calling the border enforcement tactic on the Rio Grande river “inhumane” after bodies were found in the waters that flow along the US-Mexico border. “No one should be treated like this. That kind
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — International pressure is mounting on leaders of the coup in Niger. The American secretary of state said Thursday that the United States supports West African leaders who have threatened to use force to restore the nation’s democracy. Meanwhile, Senegal offered troops to help. U.S. Secretary of
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Worthington Click here for updates on this story TOWSON, Maryland (WMAR) — When you tune in to WTMD radio on your late afternoon drive home, you hear the voice of Carrie Evans. What if you discovered – that voice was actually coming from a robot? That’s not happening at this station in Towson.
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A 31-year-old man was behind bars today for his alleged involvement in a robbery with two women that started in Rancho Mirage, where a person was lured into a vehicle and driven away before being robbed. The Palm Springs resident was arrested Wednesday in Cathedral City on suspicion of violating his parole, robbery and conspiracy,
Continue ReadingCNN By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — The day after former President Donald Trump was indicted over his efforts to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election, Trump repeated a lie that the indictment depicts as central to his attempt to obstruct the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s victory. Trump posted on social media
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has made a pitch to North Korean officials to increase the sale of munitions to Moscow. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Thursday that Shoigu spoke last week to
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Apple’s eked out a slightly higher profit last quarter even though sales dipped during the period, a time during which the iPhone maker became the first publicly held company in the U.S. to be valued at $3 trillion. The results released Thursday covered April through June, the third consecutive
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Sl supervisor del cuarto distrito, V. Manuel Pérez, el condado de Riverside y la organización sin fines de lucro Alianza Coachella Valley están trabajando en asociación para formar un Distrito de Financiamiento de Infraestructura Mejorada (EIFD) para llevar mejoras de infraestructura a las comunidades del este del Valle de Coachella. Como parte del proceso de
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is challenging all countries to tell Russia to stop using the Black Sea and Ukraine’s grain as “blackmail” and stop treating the world’s hungry and vulnerable people as leverage in its “unconscionable war.” America’s top diplomat lashed out at
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE and ED KOMENDA Associated Press People seeking medication abortions on the U.S. Territory of Guam must first have an in-person consultation with a doctor, a federal appeals court says, even though the nearest physician willing to prescribe the medication is 3,800 miles (6,100 kilometers) — an 8-hour flight — away. The ruling
Continue Reading Several east valley residents, spanning from Thermal to the Salton Sea, came together to learn more about Riverside County’s efforts to improve infrastructure. “I would like to see more roads, the improvement in roads as you come in here you can see all the bumps and stop signs, speed bumps, and more lightning around the
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Rep. Dan Bishop has announced he’ll run for state attorney general next year rather than seek to remain in Congress. Bishop confirmed his bid on Thursday on a Charlotte radio station. The Republican former state legislator is a member of the House Freedom
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Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) — El tifus transmitido por pulgas está aumentando en el condado de Los Ángeles, donde los casos registrados casi se han triplicado en la última década, pasando de 31 en 2010 a 171 en 2022. La enfermedad puede ser grave, pero rara vez es mortal, y tres muertes el año pasado
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, ERIC TUCKER, NOMAAN MERCHANT and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday to trying to overturn the results of his 2020 election loss, answering for the first time to federal charges that accuse him of orchestrating a brazen and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to block the peaceful
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Fulton County has reached a settlement with the family of a man who died in a bedbug-infested cell in the county jail’s psychiatric wing, the family’s lawyers said Thursday. Lashawn Thompson, 35, died in September, three months after he was booked into the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. Attorneys Ben Crump
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, ERIC TUCKER and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump appeared before a judge Thursday at the federal courthouse in Washington to surrender on charges that he plotted to overturn his 2020 defeat in the election, with the former president set to face a judge mere blocks from the U.S.
Continue ReadingBy JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M University reached a $1 million settlement Thursday with a Black journalism professor after botched attempts to hire her unraveled after pushback over her past work promoting diversity. The nation’s largest public school agreed to pay Kathleen McElroy $1 million, and apologized to her while
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