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By Matthew Rodriguez Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL/KCBS) — Drivers near Downtown Los Angeles banded together to save a scared puppy lost on the busy 110 Freeway. In a TikTok video, the dog, with his leash still attached, sprinted down the freeway alongside driver James Leto’s car. The typically congested
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK Associated Press The federal government agreed to a modest $15 million fine for Norfolk Southern over last year’s disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Residents were generally underwhelmed by the deal the Environmental Protection Agency and Justice Department announced Thursday, two days after a federal judge signed off on the railroad’s $600
Continue ReadingBy Phil Tsekouras Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) has officially announced that it’s expanding north of the border with a first-ever Canadian team in Toronto. All three levels of government were on hand to mark Thursday’s announcement, as well as WNBA Commissioner Cathy
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s political party leaders crisscrossed the country on Thursday, kicking off a six-week election campaign in which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party is trying to overturn a widespread sense that it will be ousted from power. Voters will decide on July 4 whether to hand the
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Nielsen Click here for updates on this story CEDAR HILL, Texas (KTVT) — It was just another day at lunch for second grader Myla May at Collegiate Prep Elementary School in Cedar Hill. Until… “I felt like a sharp pain in my throat,” Myla said. She gasped for air and began to choke.
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlin Knapp Click here for updates on this story NAPLES, Florida (WFTX) — The Naples Police Department says a woman stole more than $153,000 from Naples Ballet, a non-profit organization. The investigation started on December 5, 2022 when the owner of the organization contacted police. The owner said more than $100,000 was fraudulently taken
Continue ReadingBy WFTX Digital Team , Dominga Murray Click here for updates on this story FORT MYERS, Florida (WFTX) — Fort Myers Police say they found a woman dead in a storm drain near the Fort Myers Country Club on Wednesday morning. Jim Fraser tells FOX 4 he was getting ready to play golf when he
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — There is no love lost between hip-hop moguls 50 Cent and Sean “Diddy” Combs. 50 Cent has long trolled Diddy on social media, most recently after CNN’s publication of surveillance video showing Combs assaulting his then-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, in 2016. On Tuesday, 50 Cent posted on social media
Continue ReadingBy Riley Moser Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (WCCO) — Police say they are investigating a hit-and-run outside a Minneapolis mosque as a potential bias crime. Officers were called to the parking lot of Alhikma Islamic Center, located at 116 32nd Street West, just before noon on Tuesday, according to the
Continue ReadingCNN By Brian Fung, Hannah Rabinowitz and Sabrina Souza, CNN Washington (CNN) — In a groundbreaking antitrust lawsuit that threatens to upend the way concertgoers pay for tickets, the US government and dozens of states sued Live Nation on Thursday, alleging that for years the parent company of Ticketmaster abused its industry dominance to harm
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s political party leaders are crisscrossing the country on the first day of a six-week election campaign. Voters will decide on July 4 whether to end the governing Conservatives’ 14 years in power and hand the opposition Labour Party the reins of government. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has interred late President Ebrahim Raisi at the holiest Shiite shrine in the nation, days after a fatal helicopter crash killed him, the country’s foreign minister and six others. Raisi was placed Thursday inside a tomb at the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad,
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — The first attempts to regulate artificial intelligence programs that play a hidden role in hiring, housing and medical decisions for millions of Americans are facing pressure from all sides and floundering in statehouses nationwide. Only one of seven bills aimed at preventing AI’s penchant to
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — The first attempts to regulate artificial intelligence programs that play a hidden role in hiring, housing and medical decisions for millions of Americans are facing pressure from all sides and floundering in statehouses nationwide. Only one of seven bills aimed at preventing AI’s penchant to
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY RAMER and ALI SWENSON Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission has issued a $6 million fine against the political consultant who sent AI-generated robocalls mimicking President Joe Biden’s voice to voters ahead of New Hampshire’s presidential primary. Steve Kramer also faces two dozen criminal charges in New Hampshire. Kramer
Continue ReadingBy Allen Henry Click here for updates on this story FOREST LAKE, Minnesota (WCCO) — Of the more than 16 million Americans who served in World War II, less than 1%, or 120,000, are still with us today. Robert Hanley says he’s been thinking about the men lost on the USS Houston for the last
Continue ReadingBy MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s public university system will likely see existing diversity jobs cut after its governing board voted Thursday to repeal its current diversity policy. The old policy outlines various diversity-related jobs in the University of North Carolina system and the new changes remove mention of those
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations has approved a resolution establishing an annual day to commemorate the 1995 genocide of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs. The move Thursday was vehemently opposed by Serbs who fear it will brand them all as “genocidal” supporters of the
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC and LISA RATHKE Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Hundreds of students in graduation robes walked out of the Harvard commencement chanting “Free, free Palestine” after weeks of protests on campus. School officials announced Wednesday, the day before Thursday’s graduation, that 13 Harvard students who participated in a protest encampment would not
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of mammoth bones have been uncovered in an Austrian wine cellar, in a discovery labelled an “archaeological sensation.” The remains are thought to be between 30,000 and 40,000 years old, according to experts. Andreas Pernerstorfer made the incredible discovery while renovating his wine cellar in the village of
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