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Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A man helped kill at least 118 eagles to sell their feathers and body parts on the black market as part of a long-running wildlife trafficking ring in the western U.S. that authorities allege killed thousands of birds, court filings show. Travis John Branson is scheduled to be sentenced
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it has opened an investigation into allegations that correctional officers systematically sexually abused incarcerated women at two state-run California prisons. Authorities found “significant justification” to open an investigation into the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla and the California Institution for Women in
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it has opened an investigation into allegations that correctional officers systematically sexually abused incarcerated women at two state-run California prisons. Authorities found “significant justification” to open an investigation into the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla and the California Institution for Women in
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By Mick Krever, Becky Anderson, Jeremy Diamond and Dana Karni, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in July effectively spiked a draft hostage and ceasefire deal by introducing a raft of new, 11th-hour demands, according to a report by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth citing a document it obtained. The report lends credence to charges
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An underwater tunnel that passes beneath New York City’s East River was punctured when a construction contractor accidentally drilled a hole through it. Social media video Wednesday show streams of water pouring into the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, worrying drivers as crews scrambled to plug the leak. A transit official said
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — A la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris le gusta presentarse como dura con la frontera y la inmigración. Anuncios de televisión recientes destacan su etapa como “fiscal del estado fronterizo” que persiguió agresivamente a los cárteles criminales y a los contrabandistas de drogas, así como su apoyo al “proyecto de ley de seguridad
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge is set to rule on whether it’s misleading to say that a proposed abortion-rights amendment would prevent any abortion regulations in the state. During a Wednesday trial, lawyers for the abortion-rights campaign asked Cole County Judge Cotton Walker to rewrite an official summary of the
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — Leonardo Bertulazzi, condenado en Italia por su participación en actividades del grupo terrorista Brigadas Rojas, espera una resolución de la Justicia argentina ante un pedido de extradición de su país natal, tras haber sido detenido el jueves en Buenos Aires. El Gobierno de Argentina informó ese día en un comunicado
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney says she’ll be voting for Democrat Kamala Harris for president. Cheney made that announcement at an event at Duke University in North Carolina on Wednesday night. Cheney was a conservative Republican who co-chaired the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Continue ReadingBy Kayla Tausche, Tami Luhby and Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris proposed increasing the long-term capital gains tax rate to 28% for wealthy Americans during an economic speech in New Hampshire on Wednesday, breaking with the policy laid out by President Joe Biden in his 2025 budget by suggesting a lower rate. The current long-term capital
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A death sentence was recommended today for a Jurupa Valley man who killed his estranged wife, while jurors recommended life in prison without the possibility of parole for the defendant’s nephew in the quarter-century-old slaying for which another man had been wrongfully convicted. A Riverside jury deliberated roughly two days before returning with recommendations in
Continue Reading By Gloria Pazmino, Mark Morales and Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — Following New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s comments Wednesday that China’s consul general in New York was removed from his position after her former aide was charged with acting as an agent for the Chinese government, the US State Department said later that “there was
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — United Nations officials are hailing limited pauses in the fighting between Israel and Hamas to allow children’s polio vaccinations as rare moments of hope in the war in Gaza. U.N. officials spoke Wednesday at a Security Council meeting to discuss the conflict. The U.N. World Health Organization says 187,000
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A sister of Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz says she doesn’t recognize the people wearing “Nebraska Walz’s for Trump” T-shirts in a photo that is making the rounds on social media. It turns out they are distant cousins. The photo shows eight smiling people wearing navy pro-Trump shirts, underneath
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Sacramento suburb will have to build more affordable housing for residents at risk of homelessness under a settlement announced Wednesday with California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration, which comes more than a year after the state alleged in a lawsuit that Elk Grove illegally denied an affordable
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Sacramento suburb will have to build more affordable housing for residents at risk of homelessness under a settlement announced Wednesday with California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration, which comes more than a year after the state alleged in a lawsuit that Elk Grove illegally denied an affordable
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal authorities in New York say a North Carolina musician has been charged with using artificial intelligence to create thousands of songs that he streamed billions of times to collect over $10 million in royalty payments. Michael Smith of Cornelius, North Carolina, was arrested on Wednesday on
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DALLAS (AP) — Newly emerged film footage of President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway toward a hospital after he was fatally wounded will go up for auction later this month. Experts say the find isn’t necessarily surprising even over 60 years after the assassination. “These images, these films and
Continue ReadingSandra Iveth Santos SALINAS, Calif., (KMUV-TV)— La policía respondió el martes al informe de una persona que amenazaba con herir a más personas. El sospechoso se negó a entregarse a las autoridades, lo que llevo a un atrincheramiento y confrontación policial por varias horas. Al llegar a la escena, las autoridades determinaron que el sospechoso,
Continue ReadingBy WLFI Staff Click here for updates on this story WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana (WLFI) — A Harrison High School student was hospitalized after fight with another student in the boys locker room. On Friday at 12:45 p.m., the Harrison High School Resource Officer was told of a student having a seizure. According to the Tippecanoe
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