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By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A former Illinois lawmaker and candidate for governor has abruptly pleaded guilty to nine counts of wire fraud, money laundering and tax evasion in federal court. Sam McCann’s reversal Thursday halted a three-day-old bench trial accusing him of misusing up to $550,000 in campaign contributions.
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has signed legislation censuring a conservative member of the state Board of Education whose social media post questioning the gender of a high school basketball player triggered a firestorm of derogatory comments. The board had voted unanimously Wednesday to reprimand and
Continue ReadingINDIO, Calif. (AP) — A former Los Angeles police officer who shot and killed a mentally ill man who attacked him in a Costco store won’t be retried for voluntary manslaughter, prosecutors said. Salvador Sanchez won’t face a second trial for killing 32-year-old Kenneth French and wounding his parents in 2019 during a confrontation at
Continue ReadingINDIO, Calif. (AP) — A former Los Angeles police officer who shot and killed a mentally ill man who attacked him in a Costco store won’t be retried for voluntary manslaughter, prosecutors said. Salvador Sanchez won’t face a second trial for killing 32-year-old Kenneth French and wounding his parents in 2019 during a confrontation at
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Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — Paola Roldán, la mujer que padece una enfermedad degenerativa y cuyo reclamo llevó a la Corte Constitucional a despenalizar la eutanasia, rechazó este jueves las críticas de la Iglesia católica de Ecuador, que calificó de “diabólico querer defender la vida dando a un homicidio un marco de legalidad”.
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN (CNN) — Artificial intelligence leader OpenAI introduced a new AI model called Sora which it claims can create “realistic” and “imaginative” 60-second videos from quick text prompts. In a blog post on Wednesday, the company said Sora is capable of generating videos up to 60 seconds in length from text
Continue ReadingBy Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Montana Rep. Matt Rosendale has ended his bid for Senate less than a week after launching his campaign, citing former President Donald Trump’s endorsement of his Republican primary opponent. “I have long been a supporter of the President, and remain so. But I have been forced to calculate what
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Wary airline passengers already on guard for unruly passengers and even real-life snakes on planes might have one more thing – however improbable – to add their slate of possible in-flight disruptions. And it’s an icky one: Maggots. Yep, those creepy creatures that thrive on fetid foods and waste
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Washington (CNN) — Chronic failures by the Bureau of Prisons contributed to the deaths of hundreds of federal prison inmates, the Department of Justice’s Inspector General said in a blistering report released Thursday. The report found that recurring failures within the Bureau of Prisons, such as inaccurate mental health screenings or
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By Kareem Khadder, Lauren Izso, Sana Noor Haq and Mick Krever, CNN (CNN) — Israeli special forces raided Nasser Hospital in Gaza, the largest functioning hospital in the enclave, after laying siege to the facility for days. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had detained a number of suspects in Thursday’s raid, which it
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a deadly rush hour shooting at a New York City subway station earlier this week. The U.S. Marshals Service says the teen is one of three suspects wanted for Monday’s shooting. Authorities say it began with a dispute between two rival gangs
Continue ReadingBy Michael Williams and Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — The White House on Thursday confirmed that the national security threat flagged by the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee the previous day is related to “an anti-satellite capability that Russia is developing,” but sought to soothe concerns about the danger it presents to the
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — What would it mean if Russia used nuclear warheads to destroy U.S. satellites? Your home’s electrical and water systems could fail. Aviation, rail and car traffic could come to a halt. Your cellphone could stop working. These are among the reasons why there was alarm this week
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The maker of ChatGPT on Thursday unveiled its next leap into generative artificial intelligence with a tool that instantly makes short videos in response to written commands. San Francisco-based OpenAI’s new text-to-video generator, called Sora, isn’t the first of its kind. Google, Meta and the startup Runway ML are among the
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana Congressman Matt Rosendale is dropping his bid for the U.S. Senate less than a week after announcing he was running. Rosendale said Thursday that “the hill was just too steep,” citing a lack of resources and former President Donald Trump’s endorsement
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer South Carolina, Stanford, Ohio State and Colorado would be the No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament if it began now. The NCAA women’s basketball selection committee on Thursday did its first reveal of the teams in line for the top 16 seeds. “It was extremely challenging this year,
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Legislature has voted to censure a conservative member of the state Board of Education whose social media post questioning the gender of a high school basketball player triggered a firestorm of derogatory comments. The board had voted unanimously Wednesday to reprimand and censure
Continue Reading By Cindy Von Quednow and Kelly McCleary, CNN (CNN) — A high school student in California was arrested and is facing attempted murder charges in a plot to carry out a shooting on campus that was uncovered after a classmate expressed concerns the teen was “fixated on school shootings and had access to weapons,” police
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A former teacher at a Christian school in Banning who had inappropriate contact with a female student was sentenced today to three months in jail and three years’ felony probation, as well as ordered to register as a sex offender. Nicholas Garrett Corl, 26, of Banning pleaded guilty last month to attempted sexual intercourse
Continue Reading Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — El parlamento griego aprobó el jueves una ley que legaliza el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo, en una victoria histórica para los derechos humanos en Grecia y convirtiéndolo en el primer país de mayoría cristiana ortodoxa en establecer el matrimonio igualitario para todos. La decisión, apoyada por 176
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