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By Veronica Miracle and Jeffrey Kopp, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Friday sentenced David DePape to 30 years in prison, after he was convicted in the violent October 2022 attack on Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul. DePape was sentenced to 30 years for assault and 20 years for attempted kidnapping, which will run concurrently. Judge
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A former OpenAI leader who resigned from the company earlier this week said Friday that safety has “taken a backseat to shiny products” at the influential artificial intelligence company. Jan Leike, who ran OpenAI’s “Superalignment” team alongside a company co-founder who also resigned this week, wrote in a series of posts on the
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — After a string of hospitalizations for long COVID, Paul Schrader had a realization. “If I’m going to make a film about death,” Schrader told himself, “I’d better hurry up.” The health of the 77-year-old filmmaker, whose films and scripts have covered half a century of
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — After a string of hospitalizations for long COVID, Paul Schrader had a realization. “If I’m going to make a film about death,” Schrader told himself, “I’d better hurry up.” The health of the 77-year-old filmmaker, whose films and scripts have covered half a century of
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER and KIM CHANDLER Associated Press TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Workers at two Mercedes-Benz plants near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, were voting against joining the United Auto Workers union Friday, in a test of the UAW’s ambitious plan to unionize auto plants in the historically nonunion South. Unofficial totals posted on a union website Friday
Continue ReadingBy KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Would Lisa Simpson set up a tent at New York University to protest the war in Gaza? How would Principal Skinner respond if she did? Hard to say, but some NYU students facing discipline for their actions during this spring’s pro-Palestinian protests have been assigned a
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Americans in more than half of the states will face voting restrictions this year that weren’t in place four years ago during the last presidential election, a new analysis finds. Twenty-eight states – ranging from political battlegrounds such as North Carolina to Republican strongholds such as Alabama and Idaho – have
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Since its creation roughly 14 years ago, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has faced lawsuits, political and legal challenges to the idea of whether the Federal Government’s aggressive consumer financial watchdog agency should be allowed exist at all. Now cleared of any legal ambiguity, CFPB
Continue ReadingBy Lysée Mitri Click here for updates on this story SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California (KCRA) — The Department of Fish and Wildlife is working on a new Black Bear Conservation Plan for California. One of the goals is to minimize conflict as the number of encounters between black bears and people climbs in the state.
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — Bob Baffert does not need to bring the Kentucky Derby winner to the Preakness to become the center of attention at Pimlico Race Course. The two-time Triple Crown-winning Hall of Fame trainer is a magnet for attention as the sport’s most-known figure, and he has more
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A former OpenAI leader who resigned from the company earlier this week said Friday that safety has “taken a backseat to shiny products” at the influential artificial intelligence company. Jan Leike, who ran OpenAI’s “Superalignment” team alongside a company co-founder who also resigned this week, wrote in a series of posts on the
Continue ReadingBy KPIX staff Click here for updates on this story MONTEREY COUNTY, California (KPIX) — A Salinas man who fled to Mexico after killing someone in 2002 was finally sentenced to prison, Monterey County prosecutors said. Juan Gabriel Nunez, 48, was sentenced to 18 years and four months to life in state prison for a
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Security video aired by CNN appears to show Sean “Diddy” Combs attacking singer Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016, the latest in a monthslong series of public allegations and revelations of physical and sexual violence from the hip-hop mogul. The video aired
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Security video aired by CNN appears to show Sean “Diddy” Combs attacking singer Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016, the latest in a monthslong series of public allegations and revelations of physical and sexual violence from the hip-hop mogul. The video aired
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Albert Einstein was right: There is an area at the edge of black holes where matter can no longer stay in orbit and instead falls in, as predicted by his theory of gravity. Using telescopes capable of detecting X-rays, a team of astronomers has for the first time observed
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Sofía Barruti (CNN Español) — El 21 de junio de 2021, en plena pandemia del covid-19, la sección 26 de la Audiencia Provincial de Madrid condenó a César Román, más conocido como el Rey del Cachopo, a 15 años de prisión como autor del homicidio de su pareja con la concurrencia de las agravantes de
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN Español) — Tras un ataque en La Concordia, Chiapas, el jueves, que resultó en la muerte de seis personas, incluida la candidata a la presidencia municipal, Lucero López Maza, el presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, aseguró este viernes que se tiene información de se están enfrentando dos grupos criminales en
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — When a gunman shot Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico this week, shock rippled across the Central European country — even though the pro-Russia leader himself warned that the country was so divided that an assassination attempt was possible. Slovaks have long been divided over the path
Continue ReadingBy Avis Favaro Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — For nearly three months, Amanda Huska has been in an Ontario hospital, part of it in ICU on life support, because of severe liver failure. Her history of alcohol use is getting in the way of her only potential treatment: a
Continue ReadingBy Kimberly King Click here for updates on this story CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Sculptor Chas Fagan has made his home in Charlotte for decades, and it was Fagan who was hired as the artist to create the seven-foot bronze statue of North Carolina’s revered pastor, the late Reverend Billy Graham. “I first saw
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