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By Zahid Mahmood and Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — An Italian appeals court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of two Americans accused of killing an Italian police officer in 2019, according to a joint statement from the lawyers representing them in Italy. The court sentenced Finnegan Lee Elder to 15 years and two months
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The city of Palm Springs has canceled a planned weekend concert due to the extreme heat warning. The concert was set to be held at the Downtown Park as part of the city’s Fourth of July activities. Temperatures are set to be around 120 degrees on that day, according to our First Alert Weather team.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that recently deployed Kenyan police will be crucial to helping control the country’s gangs and moving toward democratic elections — and he called feedback from their initial days in the capital “extremely, extremely positive.” He said his
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A California man was convicted of murder with a hate crime enhancement Wednesday for the 2018 stabbing death of a gay University of Pennsylvania student. Samuel Woodward, 26, was found guilty of first-degree murder plus the enhancement in the killing of Blaze Bernstein, a gay, Jewish college sophomore
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Belén Liotti (CNN Español) — Desde este jueves y durante tres semanas, los 10 candidatos presidenciales de Venezuela recorrerán el país para buscar apoyo para sus postulaciones y convertir en votos sus propuestas de país. Ya algunas vallas con los rostros y consignas de los candidatos se observan en diferentes ciudades del país, como evidencia
Continue ReadingOXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A former engineer at a U.S. military air logistics center has been charged with making false statements and obstructing justice during the criminal investigation into a 2017 military plane crash in Mississippi that killed all 16 service members aboard, prosecutors said Wednesday. James Michael Fisher, 67, was arrested Tuesday after a
Continue ReadingRUIDOSO, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say a lightning strike caused the larger of two wildfires that has killed at least two people and destroyed or damaged more than 1,400 structures in New Mexico. The South Fork Fire was first reported June 17 on the Mescalero Apache Reservation and forced the evacuation of the Village of
Continue ReadingBy Jeanne Sahadi, CNN New York (CNN) — A federal judge on Wednesday preliminarily delayed a ban on noncompete agreements from taking effect for a handful of employers on September 4. Unless the judge makes another ruling to the contrary before that date, the ban on noncompete agreements will go into effect for the majority
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Two horses were struck and killed by passing vehicles late Tuesday after they ran onto a Los Angeles freeway, authorities said. Other drivers saved a third horse and helped the animal over to the freeway’s shoulder to avoid getting hit, according to the California Highway Patrol. CHP Officer Josh Greengard told
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Two horses were struck and killed by passing vehicles late Tuesday after they ran onto a Los Angeles freeway, authorities said. Other drivers saved a third horse and helped the animal over to the freeway’s shoulder to avoid getting hit, according to the California Highway Patrol. CHP Officer Josh Greengard told
Continue ReadingSANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — California man convicted of first-degree murder in killing of gay University of Pennsylvania student in a 2018 stabbing.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Four anti-abortion activists who were convicted for their roles in a 2021 Tennessee clinic blockade will serve sentences ranging from six months in prison to three years of supervised release. U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger sentenced the four Tuesday and Wednesday. All four were convicted of serious felony conspiracy
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Humans aren’t the only ones capable of performing amputations to save lives. Florida carpenter ants have been observed biting off the injured limbs of nestmates, depending on the location of the wounds, to help their counterparts survive, according to a new study. About 90% to 95% of the ants
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A 20-year-old man pleaded guilty today to an amended charge of assault with a semi-automatic firearm in the shooting of a 32-year-old Coachella resident. Judge Melissa Hale sentenced Jeraldo Mederos to 14 years in state prison Wednesday at the Larson Justice Center in Indio after the defendant entered his guilty plea. Mederos, who previously pleaded
Continue Reading Belén Liotti (CNN) — La actriz Judy Garland nunca grabó su voz para leer un audiolibro de “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, pero pronto podrás escuchar su interpretación de la novela infantil que inspiró la película. A principios de esta semana, la empresa de inteligencia artificial ElevenLabs dijo que busca incorporar voces en off de
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 68-year-old tourist from New Zealand was struck and killed by a car during a botched robbery at an upscale mall in a popular Southern California beach city south of Los Angeles, police said. Violence broke out Tuesday afternoon at Newport Beach’s Fashion Island mall when two men, one
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 68-year-old tourist from New Zealand was struck and killed by a car during a botched robbery at an upscale mall in a popular Southern California beach city south of Los Angeles, police said. Violence broke out Tuesday afternoon at Newport Beach’s Fashion Island mall when two men, one
Continue ReadingBy Ariel Edwards-Levy and Dana Elobaid, CNN (CNN) — Most Americans think that former President Donald Trump will not concede if he loses the presidential election in November, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. And despite the vast majority of Americans agreeing that the loser of an election has an obligation to
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, se unirá a las celebraciones alrededor del país por el Día de la Independencia este jueves 4 de julio con su tradicional discurso desde la Casa Blanca donde, como cada año, los festejos incluyen una parrillada, fuegos artificiales y música en vivo. Se
Continue ReadingBy Sabrina Souza and Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — Sen. Bob Menendez’s defense team rested its case Wednesday without calling the New Jersey Democrat to the stand in his federal corruption trial. Menendez’s lawyers called five witnesses over two days of testimony, including his sister, sister-in-law and the attorney for a friend of Jose Uribe, the New
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