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
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — At least one U.S. airline has temporarily canceled flights to Haiti’s capital after gang members opened fire and hit a U.N. helicopter flying near the country’s main airport. Spirit Airlines said in a statement Friday to The Associated Press that its daily flight to Port-au-Prince has been suspended through
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Chinese government-linked hackers have targeted the phone communications of former President Donald Trump and vice presidential nominee JD Vance as part of a much broader cyber-espionage effort aimed at high-level US targets, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN. The Chinese hackers also targeted people
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CAIRO (AP) — A senior United Nations official has called for more international attention to “the forgotten crisis” in Sudan, where more than a year and a half of war has pushed the African country to the brink of famine. The appeal Friday by Ted Chaiban, deputy head of the U.N. children’s agency
Continue ReadingBENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A man who kidnapped the manager of a Michigan sporting goods store and then stole 123 handguns has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. A judge sentenced Darnell Bishop on Friday. Bishop now joins his brother behind bars. Investigators say they handcuffed a Dunham’s Sports manager outside his
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida mother is suing a tech company over an AI chatbot that she says pushed her son to kill himself. The lawsuit filed this week by Megan Garcia of Orlando alleges that Character Technologies Inc. engineered a product that pulled 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III into an
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Hallmark Media executive vice president of programming Lisa Hamilton Daly instructed a former employee not to cast “old people” for Hallmark roles, saying that “our leading ladies are aging out,” according to a lawsuit filed against the network this month and obtained by The Associated Press. Penny Perry, a 79-year-old casting director who
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Hallmark Media executive vice president of programming Lisa Hamilton Daly instructed a former employee not to cast “old people” for Hallmark roles, saying that “our leading ladies are aging out,” according to a lawsuit filed against the network this month and obtained by The Associated Press. Penny Perry, a 79-year-old casting director who
Continue ReadingBy Whitney Wild and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Senior-level personnel changes at the US Secret Service as well as the creation of new divisions are underway as the agency works to resolve security breakdowns that preceded the two attempts on former President Donald Trump’s life this summer. Acting Director Ron Rowe laid out his
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By Cindy VonQuednow and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — More than three decades after Lyle and Erik Menendez were convicted of the murders of their parents and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the brothers now see a path to their potential release. Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón on Thursday filed a
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