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Month: September 2024

NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski retires from ESPN to become basketball general manager at alma mater

By Wayne Sterling, CNN (CNN) — Known for the “Woj Bomb” from his relentless NBA breaking news and reporting, ESPN’s senior insider Adrian Wojnarowski dropped another one on Wednesday. Wojnarowski is retiring from the news industry to become general manager of the men’s basketball team at his alma mater, St. Bonaventure University, he announced. “Thirty-seven years

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Chelsea Handler and Connie Britton among celebrities urging Biden and Harris to bring hostages home to Israel

By Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — More than 50 celebrities have issued an open letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, urging the administration to do everything in its power to bring Israeli hostages home. Comedian Chelsea Handler, actress Connie Britton and Bravo’s Andy Cohen are among those who have signed the letter,

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Unidentified gunmen kill high-ranking migration official in one of Haiti’s biggest cities

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A high-ranking official with Haiti’s National Office of Migration has been killed in the north coastal city of Cap-Haitien. A reporter with Radio Caraïbes who was at the scene said  Kerwin Augustin, a regional representative who oversaw Haiti’s northern region, was shot near his house on Wednesday and died at a

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Justice Department seeks $100 million from two companies that owned ship that destroyed Baltimore bridge

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking more than $100 million from the two corporations that owned and operated the container ship that destroyed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March, claiming that their cost-cutting and negligence in the ship’s maintenance led to the “entirely avoidable” disaster. The two companies, Grace Ocean Private

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Harassment case dismissed against Alabama transportation director

GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a harassment charge against state Transportation Director John Cooper. Prosecutors in Marshall County said the complainant no longer wishes to pursue this matter. District Judge Mitchell S. Floyd dismissed the charge Tuesday.  Cooper was arrested last year on a misdemeanor harassment charge. An adjoining landowner, Gerald Carter,

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El exdirector de operaciones de OceanGate dice que el fabricante del malogrado sumergible Titán era “una cortina de humo”

Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — David Lochridge, exdirector de exploración marina de OceanGate que expresó preocupaciones sobre la seguridad del malogrado sumergible Titán, dijo este martes que la cultura de la empresa se centraba más en “hacer dinero” y “muy poco en la ciencia”. Ahora puedes seguirnos en WhatsApp Channel Lochridge compartió el testimonio en el segundo

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MrBeast and Amazon sued by competitors from his $5M reality show over alleged ‘unsafe’ conditions

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — MrBeast is accused of creating “unsafe” employment conditions, including sexual harassment, and misrepresenting contestants’ odds at winning his new Amazon reality show’s $5 million grand prize in a lawsuit filed Tuesday by five unnamed participants. The filing alleges that the multimillion-dollar company behind YouTube’s most popular channel failed to

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US Army deploys ‘Arctic Angels’ soldiers to remote part of Alaska amid Russian exercises

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — US Army soldiers were deployed to a remote island southeast of Alaska last week as part of a “force protection operation” amid an expected increase in Russian and Chinese military exercises in the region, according to an Army statement.  The North American Aerospace Defense command (NORAD) intercepted Russian military aircraft

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As Trump seeks Polish-American votes, he and the Polish president are due to be at the same event

Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Donald Trump and Polish President Andrzej Duda are scheduled to attend the same event this Sunday in Pennsylvania, a battleground state in this year’s presidential election, as Trump seeks to tap into the Polish-American vote. A meeting between the two has not yet been confirmed, but seemed possible given

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