By Brenda Goodman and Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — The benefits of puberty-blocking drugs for transgender children are drawing fresh attention after the scientist leading a major federally funded study was quoted by The New York Times as saying she had delayed publication of some of her results because of fears that they would be
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A makeshift aquarium that popped up this summer in a puddle beneath a leaky New York City fire hydrant is no more. City workers have paved over the Bed-Stuy goldfish aquarium days after fire officials fixed the leak. The pond’s disappearance comes to the dismay of area residents who
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — A former U.S. border inspector was sentenced Friday to 23 years in prison for taking bribes to allow people and drug-laden vehicles to enter the country, authorities said. Witnesses testified at trial that Leonard Darnell George, 42, agreed to allow the vehicles through his lane in late 2021 at the San
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — A former U.S. border inspector was sentenced Friday to 23 years in prison for taking bribes to allow people and drug-laden vehicles to enter the country, authorities said. Witnesses testified at trial that Leonard Darnell George, 42, agreed to allow the vehicles through his lane in late 2021 at the San
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A conservative federal court says Mississippi cannot count mail-in ballots that arrive shortly after Election Day. But, Friday’s decision was not expected to affect the upcoming Nov. 5 election. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sent the case back to a district judge. The panel stopped short of
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Sandra Iveth Santos ACTUALIZACIÓN: CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, Calif., (KMUV-TV)— La Oficina del Sheriff de Monterey confirmó que el sospechoso ha muerto. Según el reporte, el hombre falleció en el hospital después de que los agentes abrieran fuego. Esto después de que fracasaran los esfuerzos por neutralizarlo, según la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Monterey. ACTUALIZACIÓN: CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA,
Continue ReadingAP National Writer Less than two weeks before Election Day, The Washington Post said Friday it would not endorse a candidate for president in this year’s tightly contested race and would avoid doing so in the future — a decision immediately condemned by a former executive editor but one that the current publisher insisted was
Continue ReadingAssociated Press YARDLEY, Pa. (AP) — Russian actors were behind a widely circulated video falsely depicting mail-in ballots for Donald Trump being destroyed in Pennsylvania, U.S. officials confirmed on Friday. The video had taken off on social media Thursday but was debunked within three hours by local election officials and law enforcement after members of
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fernando Valenzuela was on the minds of the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees at Friday’s opener of the World Series between the storied franchises. An informal memorial at a sign welcoming fans to Dodger Stadium that popped up soon after the pitcher’s death on Tuesday was
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have connected the identity of skeletal remains found in a well at Norway’s Sverresborg castle to a passage in a centuries-old Norse text. The 800-year-old Sverris saga, which follows the story of the real-life King Sverre Sigurdsson, includes the tossing of the body of a dead man —
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By Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Michael Jeffries pleaded not guilty to a 16-count indictment at his arraignment in a New York federal court on Friday. Jeffries was indicted Wednesday on 16 federal counts of sex trafficking and international prostitution and is accused of leveraging “a network of employees, contractors
Continue ReadingJACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Law enforcement officers in western Wyoming say the driver who struck and killed a famous grizzly bear south of Grand Teton National Park was not speeding and the bear’s death was an accident. The death of grizzly No. 399 on Tuesday night saddened tourists, wildlife biologists and photographers who for years
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders has led to 75 illness across 13 states, including 22 hospitalizations and one death, according to new data posted Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food and Drug Administration. Two of the hospitalized
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By Jason Kravarik and Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — Erik and Lyle Menendez have always maintained that they killed their parents because they were being sexually abused by their father. New evidence that may support the Menendez brothers’ allegations – some brought to light in a Peacock docuseries last year – could soon lead to the men
Continue ReadingSTOUGHTON, Wis. (AP) — Pizza inadvertently laced with THC has apparently sickened dozens of people in Wisconsin. Health officials say Famous Yeti’s Pizza in Stoughton served pizza contaminated with THC from Monday through Thursday. THC is the principal psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. Paramedics began alerting health officials in Dane County on Thursday that they had
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By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — A military law enforcement investigation is still ongoing into the incident at Arlington National Cemetery when an employee was reportedly pushed by a member of former President Donald Trump’s campaign. An Army spokesperson previously said in August that the service “considers this matter closed.” The Army on Friday released
Continue ReadingAMSTERDAM (AP) — Amsterdam police say they have found a prematurely born baby who was abducted from the maternity ward of a Paris-region hospital earlier this week. The baby, Santiago, was discovered Friday in a hotel with his parents and taken to a hospital. Police say in a message on X that his parents were
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer When Chase Budinger was playing in the NBA, he had a locker room full of teammates who were working together to win and support each other off the court. Since switching to beach volleyball, it’s always been just him and a single partner. That’s changing this season on the AVP tour, with
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer When Chase Budinger was playing in the NBA, he had a locker room full of teammates who were working together to win and support each other off the court. Since switching to beach volleyball, it’s always been just him and a single partner. That’s changing this season on the AVP tour, with
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — When dinosaurs roamed Earth, their surroundings looked very different than the world of today. But there were also some similarities. And now scientists have confirmed a new one: Diverse firefly species lit up the night during the late Mesozoic. The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient firefly species
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