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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Late Tuesday, Fitch Ratings became the second of the three major credit-rating firms to remove its coveted triple-A assessment of the United States government’s credit worthiness. Fitch cited the federal government’s rising debt burden and the political difficulties that the U.S. government has had in addressing
Continue ReadingCNN By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Lizzo is addressing a lawsuit filed against her by three of her former dancers. The complaint, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday and obtained by CNN through an attorney for the plaintiffs, alleges that the three women were subjected to a hostile work environment and
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Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Las autoridades de la ciudad de Chihuahua, en México, decidieron prohibir la interpretación de canciones que “promuevan la violencia contra las mujeres”, citando los altos niveles de violencia doméstica. El concejo de la ciudad aprobó por unanimidad la medida el pasado 26 de julio, según el alcalde Marco Bonilla, quien dijo
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CNN, KPTV By Sara Smart, Emma Tucker and Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — After a woman escaped from a makeshift “dungeon” made of cinder blocks in a man’s Oregon home, the FBI says it is looking for additional victims in other states. The man, 29-year-old Negasi Zuberi, was taken into federal custody on suspicion of
Continue ReadingBy PETER SMITH and MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — The gunman who stormed a synagogue in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community and killed 11 worshippers will be sentenced to death for perpetrating the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, a jury decided Wednesday. Robert Bowers spewed hatred of Jews and espoused white
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press The gunman who last month killed a Fargo police officer and wounded two others and a civilian admitted to owning about 10 guns and 6,000 rounds of ammunition in a 2022 police interview following a kitchen fire at his home. Firefighters notified police after seeing guns, ammunition and propane tanks
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge on Wednesday ordered former NFL cornerback Damon Arnette to appear in person to resolve a felony gun case by pleading guilty to two misdemeanors stemming from an argument with Las Vegas Strip casino valets in January 2022. “I’m going to need the justification
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Willy the rodeo goat has lassoed the hearts of residents in a rural South Texas county ever since she escaped from an animal enclosure July 15. She was finally found Monday. Residents in Willacy County had searched for her on horses, all-terrain vehicles and by drone.
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Texas Rangers certainly expected to win a lot of games this season after bolstering their rotation with some proven veterans and hiring three-time championship manager Bruce Bochy last winter, a year after they committed a half-billion dollars for an All-Star middle infield. Now there
Continue Reading Karen Esquivel (CNN Español) — La beca Jóvenes Construyendo el Futuro, uno de los programas sociales insignia del Gobierno del presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador en México, abrió este martes su periodo de registro 2023 para nuevas vinculaciones. El programa, que está bajo la dirección de la Secretaría de Trabajo y Previsión Social (STPS), vincula
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — Lawyers for former Buffalo Bills punter Matt Araiza will be allowed to ask about the sexual history of the woman who accused him and other men of raping her at a house party near San Diego State University, a judge ruled this week. Superior Court Judge Matthew Braner said Monday he
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Mr. Rex, one of Cabazon’s monumental dinosaurs, stands tall in Cabazon paying tribute to the late actor of Pee-Wee Herman, Paul Reubens. Reubens died at the age of 70 years after a cancer diagnosis, his publicist announced Monday. The Cabazon Dinosaurs had their moment to shine in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985) when Pee-Wee hitchhikes to
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Jamie Foxx credits his sister with saving his life. Foxx, who in April was hospitalized after he experienced an undisclosed “medical complication,” posted a birthday message to his sister, Deidra Dixon, in an Instagram post on Tuesday. “You are magical you are beautiful you are the courageous lionesses
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities issued a shelter-in-place order and searched Senate office buildings near the U.S. Capitol Wednesday afternoon amid reports of an active shooter. But a floor-by-floor search of the three buildings found nothing, and Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said the cause of the security scramble “may have been a bogus call.” The
Continue ReadingBy MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Rochester Museum and Science Center in New York state has returned the ancestral remains of 19 Native Americans to the Oneida Indian Nation. This marks the second repatriation from the museum’s collections to the tribe, which is required by federal law. Museum president
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press Most taxpayers will be able to digitally submit a slew of tax documents and other communications to the IRS next filing season and the agency plans to go completely paperless in 2025. The effort to reduce the exorbitant load of paperwork that has plagued the agency — dubbed the “paperless
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sued USASF Servicing, the financial arm of a chain of auto dealerships found mostly in the South. The bureau alleges the company committed a laundry list of illegal practices, like disabling borrowers’ cars, double billing customers, and illegally repossessing
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A 22-year-old man suspected in a late-night shooting that injured two people was arrested today in Palm Springs. The suspect, a Palm Springs resident, was arrested early Wednesday morning near North Indian Canyon Drive, according to inmate records. He was subsequently booked into the John J. Benoit Detention Center in Indio, where he remains
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN) –– El Senado de Estados Unidos se cerró temporalmente en la tarde de este miércoles, mientras la Policía del Capitolio investigaba los reportes sobre un atacante armado en el edificio de oficinas de Russell, lo que encendió las alarmas más de dos años después del ataque del 6 de enero de 2021. Sin embargo,
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal indictment appeared to be more than two and half years in the making, but the American public heard many of the key details of the case outlined in a series of hearings last year – as a well as an 800-page
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