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AP Sports Writers Virginia basketball coach Tony Bennett is retiring effective immediately. The program said Thursday that Bennett will announce his retirement at a news conference Friday. No reasons were given for Bennett’s abrupt departure less than three weeks before the start of the season. The 55-year-old Bennett led the Cavaliers to the national title
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MIAMI (AP) — The former judge who presided over the trial of the 2018 Parkland high school mass murderer has sharply criticized his public defenders during a presentation to Miami law students. Former Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer told the Florida International University law students Thursday that the public defenders who represented Nikolas Cruz
Continue ReadingAP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Teen smoking hit an all-time low in the U.S. this year. It’s part of a big drop in the youth use of tobacco that includes electronic cigarettes and hookahs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday reported a 20% drop in the estimated number of middle
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to hundreds of victims of clergy sexual abuse dating back decades. The settlement with 1,353 people who allege that they were abused by local Catholic priests is the largest single child sex abuse settlement with a Catholic archdiocese, according to
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, MJ Lee, Kylie Atwood and Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — For months, frustrated American officials looking to end the war in Gaza have mused quietly about the one scenario they believed could loosen deadlocked ceasefire talks: the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, believed to be hiding deep underneath Gaza in the group’s
Continue ReadingAP Technology Writer Netflix on Thursday reported that its subscriber growth slowed dramatically during the summer, a sign the huge gains from the video-streaming service’s crackdown on freeloading viewers is tapering off. The 5.1 million subscribers that Netflix added during the July-September period represented a 42% decline from the total gained during the same time
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urielblanco (CNN Español) — El Gobierno de México presentó una iniciativa de reforma a la ley Federal del Trabajo para regular las condiciones laborales de los trabajadores de plataformas digitales, como choferes y repartidores. Abarcaría a cerca de 658.000 personas, según datos del Servicio de Administración Tributaria (SAT). La reforma otorgaría a estos trabajadores acceso
Continue ReadingINGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Kawhi Leonard won’t play for the Los Angeles Clippers to start the season because of ongoing rehabilitation from inflammation in his right knee, according to a report. Citing unidentified sources, ESPN reported Thursday that Leonard will be sidelined indefinitely. He hasn’t played during the preseason, which concludes Thursday night at home
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to hundreds of victims of clergy sexual abuse dating back decades. The settlement with 1,353 people who allege that they were abused by local Catholic priests is the largest single child sex abuse settlement with a Catholic archdiocese, according to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s killing of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ top leader and the mastermind of the group’s Oct. 7 2023, attack, is a dramatic turning point in the brutal yearlong war that it touched off. Sinwar’s killing on Wednesday decapitates the Palestinian militant group that has already been reeling from months
Continue ReadingAssociated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group of Oklahoma parents, teachers and ministers are suing to stop the state’s top education official from forcing schools to incorporate the Bible into their lesson plans. The lawsuit filed Thursday with the Oklahoma Supreme Court also asks the court to stop State Superintendent Ryan Walters from spending
Continue ReadingBy Rick Westhead Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Content advisory: This article includes allegations of sexual assault. The Ontario Provincial Police has acknowledged that one of its employees did not follow the organization’s policy when an alleged victim of sexual assault called a local detachment earlier this year to
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Aiello Click here for updates on this story OTTAWA (CTV Network) — Federal Canadian cabinet ministers Filomena Tassi, Carla Qualtrough, and Dan Vandal announced Thursday they will not run for re-election. Senior government sources tell CTV News at least one other – Marie-Claude Bibeau – doesn’t plan to run again, setting the stage
Continue ReadingAP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — All-Star first baseman Freddie Freeman was out of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ starting lineup for Game 4 of the National League Championship Series against the New York Mets. Freeman has been playing with a badly sprained and swollen right ankle throughout the postseason. He also missed Game 4
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Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Supreme Court has upheld the wording of a ballot measure that would revoke the license issued for a planned casino. Justices on Thursday rejected the challenge to the proposed constitutional amendment that had claimed the measure was misleading. The court earlier this week rejected another part
Continue ReadingAP Science Writer How a sperm and an egg fuse together has long been a mystery. New research by scientists in Austria provides tantalizing clues, showing fertilization works like a lock and key across the animal kingdom, from fish to people. “We discovered this mechanism that’s really fundamental across all vertebrates as far as we
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new report says more than 1 billion people in the world live in acute poverty, over half are children and nearly 40% live in conflict-torn and fragile countries. The report released Thursday by the U.N. Development Program and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative says more than
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris says the death of Hamas’ top leader, Yahya Sinwar, “gives us an opportunity to finally end the war in Gaza.” Harris made the comment Thursday at a Wisconsin college campus where she was campaigning. Harris said the war must end with Israel secure, the hostages
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Divorce records for Arizona Democratic Senate candidate Ruben Gallego and his ex-wife, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, were made public Thursday after an Arizona court unsealed most of the seven-year-old case file. The records offer little insight into the high-profile marriage or the reasons it fell apart. There are no allegations
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