By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyer said Tuesday that the searches of the rapper’s Los Angeles and Miami properties by federal authorities in a sex trafficking investigation were ”a gross use of military-level force” and that Combs is “innocent and will continue to fight” to clear
Continue ReadingHOUSTON (AP) — Police are investigating the death of an 8-year-old girl whose body was found inside a large pipe for a lazy river at a Houston hotel where she’d been swimming with her family. Aliyah Jaico’s death Saturday has been ruled an accidental drowning by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences. Her autopsy
Continue ReadingBy GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark could face sanctions, including disbarment in Washington, D.C., if a three-person panel thinks he violated ethics rules in his role in trying to help former President Donald Trump overturn the 2020 presidential election. The center of the hearing before the Board
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Republican state senators are making another attempt to impose a conservative stamp on the state’s public schools. A bill passed Tuesday would ban transgender girls from playing high school sports with other girls. It would also limit sex education and would require a system for notifying
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — A New York judge has imposed a gag order on Donald Trump, limiting the former president from making statements about potential witnesses in the criminal trial relating to hush money payments scheduled to begin next month. Judge Juan Merchan also said that Trump
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press The bridge that collapsed into a Maryland river after a ship strike was iconic. It was erected almost five decades ago, named after the author of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and part of the very fabric of Baltimore. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore calls its loss Tuesday unprecedented and heartbreaking. Erected in
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Top officials were gathering Tuesday in southern New Mexico to mark the 25th anniversary of the nation’s only underground repository for radioactive waste. The nuclear pollution came from decades of research and bomb making. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant has taken in around 13,850 shipments
Continue ReadingBy JULIE CARR SMYTH and SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two families of transgender minors have filed a constitutional challenge to an Ohio law that severely limits gender-affirming healthcare for youth under 18. Tuesday’s lawsuit, brought in Franklin County Common Pleas Court by the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Ohio and
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By JONATHAN LANDRUM AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean “Diddy Combs’ lawyer said Tuesday that the searches of his Los Angeles and Miami properties by federal authorities in a sex-trafficking investigation were ”a gross use of military-level force” and that Combs is “innocent and will continue to fight” to clear his name. It’s
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean “Diddy Combs’ lawyer said Tuesday that the searches of his Los Angeles and Miami properties by federal authorities in a sex-trafficking investigation were ”a gross use of military-level force” and that Combs is “innocent and will continue to fight” to clear his name. It’s
Continue ReadingBy Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — With its soft gray lines and sleek, curving exterior, Project Hive looks less like a school and more like a wellness retreat or modern art museum. The structure’s distinctive appearance, with a texture resembling a cocoon or the structure’s namesake beehive, is down to the construction method used to
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ lawyer says the searches of his properties were ‘excessive’ and that the music mogul is innocent.
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California police department has been handcuffed by Lego after the toy company asked the agency to stop adding Lego heads to cover the faces of suspects in images it shares on social media. The Murrieta Police Department has been using Lego heads and emojis
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Police announced the arrest Tuesday of a second suspect in connection with robberies this past October at the Gucci Store in Palm Desert. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said an additional theft occurred at the same business on the afternoon of Feb. 12. The circumstances were also similar to the robberies back in October. Isaiah
Continue ReadingBy Jenna Ebbers Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN, Nebraska (Lincoln Journal Star) — It was still drizzling in Wood River as the sun rose, but the sandhill cranes passing through the area didn’t mind the rain. And neither did Vernon Williams. The 90-year-old Lincoln man watched in awe as hundreds of cranes
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Two former officials of a Massachusetts veterans home where at least 76 people died during the COVID-19 pandemic will avoid jail time in the case. Bennett Walsh, the former superintendent of the Veterans’ Home in Holyoke, and Dr. David Clinton, its former medical director, settled their criminal
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Lady Gaga knows her listeners are eager for updates on her upcoming seventh studio album. On Tuesday, while speaking with YouTuber NikkieTutorials, the “Bad Romance” singer assured her fans, known as Little Monsters, that “I’m working as fast as I can” to finish it. “I will say that I
Continue ReadingSPARKS, Nev. (AP) — The city of Sparks has agreed to a $525,000 settlement with a former police officer who filed a lawsuit in 2021 accusing the city of violating his free speech rights by suspending him for contentious comments he posted on his private social media account. George Forbush, a 20-year veteran of the
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Medicare shelled out $5.7 billion on Ozempic and other similar diabetes drugs in 2022, up from $57 million in 2018, according to a new KFF analysis. The pricey medications, which include Mounjaro and Rybelsus, have become super popular for the treatment of diabetes and for weight loss. But Medicare
Continue ReadingBy Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Simone Pathe, CNN (CNN) — North Carolina pastor Mark Harris has won the Republican nomination for North Carolina’s 8th Congressional District, making him the likely next member of Congress from this red district some five years after his apparent victory in an earlier House election was thrown out over ballot
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