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BROOKLYN, Ohio (AP) — A mother who shot and killed her 6-year-old son in an Ohio hotel after taking him there for a special day of fun has been sentenced to life in prison. Thirty-one-year-old Daneicha Bringht, of Parma had pleaded guilty to aggravated murder and other charges as part of a plea deal with
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgement against Rudy Giuliani are asking for a court order barring him from continuing to repeat the lies he spread about them following the 2020 election. The new suit filed Monday points to comments the former
Continue ReadingBy Morgan Rimmer, CNN Senate Minority Whip John Thune told CNN’s Manu Raju on Monday that there is no way the Senate can vote on an immigration deal this week, meaning aid for Ukraine and Israel will not pass either. “That is a fact, yeah. There’s no way,” he said. Senators have been negotiating in
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By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The first launch in more than a year of Blue Origin’s New Shepard tourism rocket, designed to vault paying customers on brief trips to the edge of space, was scrubbed Monday morning. The Jeff Bezos-founded company said the scrub of the uncrewed science mission was “due
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ, JAKE COYLE and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Marvel Studios and the Walt Disney Co. have dropped actor Jonathan Majors after his conviction on charges of assaulting his former girlfriend in New York City earlier this year. A Manhattan jury convicted the “Creed III” star Monday of one misdemeanor
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A pair of rare Nike sneakers donated to an Oregon homeless shelter in Portland sold for nearly $51,000 at auction on Monday. The shoes designed in 2019 for filmmaker Spike Lee sold for nearly double the high end of the predicted sale price. The gold Air
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, CNN (CNN) — Autonomous vehicle startup May Mobility announced its first fully driverless ride service Monday, offering human-free transit to those living in an Arizona retirement community. Retirees in Sun City, Arizona, are the first to test the Toyota-backed company’s autonomous cars without a human safety operator in the driver’s seat, the
Continue ReadingBy TRAVIS LOLLER and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee prisons are severely understaffed, leading to unsafe conditions for both inmates and guards. That’s according to an audit of the prison system by the state comptroller’s office. It found one prison had a vacancy rate of 61%. High vacancy and turnover persists
Continue ReadingBy JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press The Louisiana State Police are reinstating a veteran trooper who had been accused of withholding graphic body-camera footage of a fatal traffic stop. The video shows another officer dragging Black motorist Ronald Greene by his ankle shackles during his deadly arrest in 2019. A state police spokesman says Lt. John
Continue ReadingBy VALERIE GONZALEZ and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday approved sweeping new powers that allow police to arrest migrants who illegally cross the U.S. border and give local judges authority to order them to leave the country, testing the limits of how far a
Continue ReadingBy VALERIE GONZALEZ and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday approved sweeping new powers that allow police to arrest migrants who illegally cross the U.S. border and give local judges authority to order them to leave the country, testing the limits of how far a
Continue Reading By Holmes Lybrand, Josh Campbell, John Miller and Sabrina Shulman, CNN (CNN) — More than 400 Jewish facilities across the US have received false bomb threats over email since Saturday, according to the Anti-Defamation League, an international Jewish non-profit organization. Oren Segal, Vice President of the Center on Extremism at the Anti-Defamation League, told CNN
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — First baseman Matt Carpenter was released Monday by the Atlanta Braves, who acquired him last week from San Diego. The decision costs the Braves in effect $4 million. Atlanta obtained Carpenter along with left-hander Ray Kerr from the Padres on Friday for outfielder Drew Campbell. As part of the trade, the Padres
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macamilarincon (CNN) –– Un jurado declaró culpable a Jonathan Majors, actor de Marvel, de dos de los cuatro cargos en el caso penal de agresión y acoso en Nueva York, derivado de una disputa doméstica con su exnovia. Este lunes, Majors fue declarado culpable de un cargo de agresión imprudente y un cargo no penal
Continue Reading Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — El presidente de PDVSA y ministro de Petróleo, Pedro Tellechea suscribió este lunes un nuevo acuerdo marco con la española Repsol para la administración de la empresa mixta Petroquiriquire y siete anexos que la integran la compañía que opera en los estados Monagas, Zulia y Trujillo. El representante
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — The U.S. and a host of other nations are creating a new force to protect ships transiting the Red Sea that have come under attack by drones and ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced the
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Authorities today identified two suspects who were arrested in connection with an alleged road-rage shooting in Lancaster that left a 4-year-old boy dead. The shooting occurred at about 7:30 p.m. Friday in the area of Sierra Highway and East Avenue J, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. On Monday, the sheriff’s department identified
Continue ReadingBy NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland officials have approved a lease extension for the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards. The deal was approved Monday by the state’s Board of Public Works, which is a three-member panel chaired by Gov. Wes Moore. They unanimously voted for the lease extension, hours after it
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has delayed a vote on an Arab-sponsored resolution calling for a halt to hostilities in Gaza to allow unhindered access to deliver humanitarian aid to the massive number of civilians in need of food, water and medicine until Tuesday morning, as
Continue ReadingBy ADELLE M. BANKS, Religion News Service (RNS) — The Rev. Susan Sparks, a minister and a professional comedian, uses humor in her sermons to help her American Baptist congregation in New York City consider ways to approach those with whom they disagree. Pastor Joel Rainey, who leads a West Virginia evangelical church, hosts a
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