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By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clayton Kershaw has never been one for making excuses. Whether it’s his health or velocity, both of which have taken hits in recent years, he would rather gut out whatever is going on in silence. “He’s a survivor, he’s a competitor,” Los Angeles Dodgers manager
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The ex-IRS contractor accused of leaking former President Donald Trump’s tax information to reporters is scheduled to enter into a plea agreement to federal charges, according to the court docket. While it is not yet clear what charges the man, Charles Littlejohn, will plead guilty to,
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Texas man who attacked the U.S. Capitol with a metal tomahawk — and is now the face of a website selling merchandise portraying jailed rioters as “political prisoners” — was sentenced Friday to seven years behind bars. Shane Jenkins, 46, tried to smash a Capitol window
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A former Cathedral City police officer already facing drug charges and suspected of violating terms of a protective order and attacking a woman was charged today with a felony count of making criminal threats. Claudiu Murzea, 46, was also charged with one misdemeanor count each of battery on a spouse and violating a court
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. independent investigator says Iranian authorities are cracking down on protesters, unlawfully detaining human rights activists, including new Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, and carrying out an “alarming” number of executions. The wide-ranging report on human rights abuses in Iran by Javaid Rehman,
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Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Los presidentes de Panamá y Costa Rica hacen un llamado a los líderes regionales a abordar la cuestión de los migrantes, escribieron los dos líderes en una declaración conjunta emitida el viernes. El presidente de Panamá, Laurentino Cortizo, y el presidente de Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves, instaron a los
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A $7 million settlement has been reached with the California Highway Patrol in the fatal shooting of a driver and wounding of his girlfriend during a 2020 traffic stop in Oakland, lawyers for the man’s family and the survivor said Wednesday. Erik Salgado, 23, who was driving a car that had
Continue ReadingBy DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press The New Jersey attorney general’s office has opened an inquiry into how local law enforcement handled an investigation into a December 2018 car crash that involved Sen. Robert Menendez’s wife Nadine, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the situation. Nadine Menendez had been dating the New Jersey Democrat
Continue ReadingALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A teenager and her parents have filed a $30 million lawsuit against a Virginia school system after she was sexually assaulted in a women’s restroom by a male student. The family alleges Loudoun County Public Schools failed to immediately investigate the attack. The family also alleges that school officials tried to
Continue ReadingDECATUR, Ala. (AP) — City and state officials asked for patience Friday in the investigation of the fatal police shooting of a Black man at his Alabama home, a day after hundreds mourned him at a vigil. Steve Perkins, 39, was shot and killed by police at his home in Decatur, on Sept. 29 in
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A former US Army sergeant who allegedly lived in China for several years was arrested Friday on charges of keeping national defense information and attempting to share it with the Chinese government. According to court filings, Joseph Daniel Schmidt was an active-duty soldier in the US Army from 2015
Continue ReadingBy HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer Eager as the National Football League has been to cater to the recent public fixation with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, it’s certainly not taking any credit for creating the outsized storyline that has emerged around the pop superstar and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end. “Not orchestrated by
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee has filed a federal lawsuit against a Tennessee city that passed an anti-drag show ordinance. The ordinance is designed to ban drag performances from taking place on public property. The legal challenge is the latest development in the ongoing
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN New York (CNN) — United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain said Friday that Ford, General Motors and Stellantis will all avert an expansion of the UAW’s work stoppages at this time, suggesting the unprecedented strikes against all three could be nearing an end. Fain said the union made
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has voted 4-3 along partisan lines to hear a challenge to Republican-drawn legislative maps after a newly elected liberal justice declined to recuse herself. Justice Janet Protasiewicz’s decision Friday to remain on the case increases the chance that Republicans, who control the
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A New York appeals court judge on Friday rejected Donald Trump’s attempt to stop the ongoing $250 million civil fraud trial, but temporarily halted the process of breaking up the former president’s businesses. Associate Justice Peter Moulton issued the ruling after a brief hearing Friday
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — A slain Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter’s personal devices and other records are protected even after death, the Nevada Supreme Court has ruled. The state’s highest court ruled Thursday that Nevada’s shield law, which protects journalists from disclosing sources, precludes Las Vegas police and prosecutors from going through Jeff German’s things, the
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN) –– El aumento de la actividad sísmica del volcán Kilauea, uno de los más activos de Hawai, generó aproximadamente 320 terremotos en un período de 24 horas, según un comunicado del Observatorio Vulcanológico de Hawai, perteneciente al Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS, por sus siglas en inglés). La sismicidad debajo del punto
Continue ReadingVANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — An Oregon man who fatally shot a sheriff’s deputy in southwest Washington has been sentenced to life in prison. The Columbian reports 28-year-old Guillermo Raya Leon of Salem was sentenced Thursday in the 2021 death of Clark County sheriff’s Sgt. Jeremy Brown. A jury found him guilty last week of aggravated
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A former U.S. Army intelligence officer has been charged with attempting to provide classified defense information to the Chinese security services during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic — including some listed in a Microsoft Word document titled “Important Information to Share with Chinese Government.” Authorities on
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