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Associated Press DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a sprawling labor system that dates back more than 150 years — including the brutal convict leasing era that replaced slavery — it has constructed a template for the commercialization of
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk stared at each other for over 11 minutes as the pair faced off ahead of their rematch on Saturday. In May, Ukrainian fighter Usyk handed Fury the first loss of his career after winning a tight split decision to become the undisputed heavyweight boxing
Continue ReadingBy Lindsay Weber Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO (KCRA) — A man convicted of murdering his wife while her four children were asleep inside the home was sentenced to prison on Wednesday, the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office said. Just before 6 a.m. on Dec. 21, 2020, deputies responded to an apartment
Continue ReadingBy Peyton Headlee Click here for updates on this story EL DORADO HILLS, California (KCRA) — Five people are safe after a Thursday morning house fire in El Dorado Hills. That’s thanks in part to the quick thinking of their neighbors. They jumped in to help a 78-year-old woman who was trapped on the second
Continue ReadingBy Amy Fleury Click here for updates on this story ELM GROVE, Wisconsin (WISN) — A retired Elm Grove police officer who was hit by a train while trying to rescue a 2-year-old stuck in a minivan on Memorial Day in 2009 died Tuesday. Officer John Krahn was directing traffic at the Elm Grove Memorial
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A storm was looming when the inmate serving 20 years for armed robbery was assigned to transport fellow prisoners to their jobs at private manufacturers supplying goods to companies like Home Depot and Wayfair. It didn’t matter that Jake Jones once had escaped or that he had failed two
Continue ReadingAccording to UCLA Health, Americans consume twice as much alcohol during the holiday season compared to the rest of the year. The holiday season is a time of cheer, but it also brings significant stress. A study from the American Psychological Association shows that 89% of U.S. adults experience stress during the holidays, with 41% reporting higher stress
Continue ReadingBy Maddie Augustine Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (KETV) — At just one year old, Ella Peters was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA. “It’s a rare neuromuscular disease that causes muscle weakness in kids,” Jennifer Peters, Ella’s mother, said. “It’s kind of like an ALS in adults.” Ella, now
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Por Zachary Wolf, CNN El presidente electo de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, confundió a los miembros del Congreso y dio vuelta el debate sobre el gasto público cuando exigió un aumento prematuro del techo de la deuda bajo “la vigilancia de Biden” en lugar de la suya propia. El viernes por la noche redobló su
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer Workers at Starbucks stores began a five-day strike Friday to protest lack of progress in contract negotiations with the company. The strikes by baristas and other workers were scheduled to take place in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle and could spread to hundreds of stores across the country by Christmas Eve. Starbucks
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By Kara Fox, Catherine Nicholls and Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — French President Emmanuel Macron has faced jeers from locals on the cyclone-battered French overseas territory of Mayotte, telling them they should be “happy to be in France, because if it wasn’t France you’d be 10,000 times even more in the s***.” Macron has come
Continue ReadingSOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s mountain rescue service says one person has died in an avalanche on Pirin Mountain, in the south of the country, rescue efforts are underway to find several others buried under the snow. According to initial information, the slide of a huge snow mass was caused by skiers who were descending
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Researchers on an expedition in Peru have discovered 27 animal species new to science – among them a “blob-headed fish” and a type of semi-aquatic mouse. The survey was conducted by Conservation International, an environmental non-profit. It was carried out over a 38-day expedition in 2022 by a team
Continue ReadingBy Todd Magel Click here for updates on this story DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) — Law enforcement agencies executed more than a dozen opioid search warrants in central Iowa on Wednesday, underscoring the region’s escalating fentanyl crisis. Des Moines police began their narcotics investigation earlier this year after an opioid overdose death, which has now
Continue ReadingBy Michael Cusanelli & Shelby Lincoln Click here for updates on this story ESSEX JUNCTION, Vermont (WPTZ) — An Essex, Vermont teenager was arrested on Thursday after police said he stole a vehicle and tried to evade police. The Colchester Police Department said they received several calls on Thursday afternoon around 1 p.m. about a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It’s perhaps Rio de Janeiro’s hardest trail. It features one particularly daunting section requiring a perilous scramble that can cause hikers to freeze up with fright. But 40-year-old paraplegic Ezequiel da Luz traversed jungle and surmounted rocks this week to reach Pedra da Gavea’s peak that towers over
Continue ReadingBy Heather Catallo Click here for updates on this story MILFORD, Michigan (WXYZ) — A local couple says they sent their son to a crisis center for help. But then they say he was transferred to a psychiatric hospital without their knowledge where he ended up dying while being restrained. The feds recently told Pontiac
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge moved slightly higher in November — but not as much as economists were expecting, an indication that price hikes aren’t accelerating in a worrisome fashion. Still, cost of living concerns are growing as 2025 approaches and uncertainty widens about potential inflationary global events
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards and Marcelo Medeiros, CNN (CNN) — A seven-year-old girl has been killed and eight others have been injured in a knife attack at an elementary school in the Croatian capital Zagreb. The 19-year-old attacker, believed to be a former student, entered a first-grade classroom at the Prečko Elementary School early Friday morning
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Italy’s data protection authority says it has fined OpenAI $15.6 million after wrapping up a probe into the collection of personal data by its generative artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT. The country’s privacy watchdog, known as Garante, said its investigation showed that OpenAI processed users’ personal data to train ChatGPT “without having an
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