AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota has had a frustrating and uneven start to this season, losing all three games against power conference teams in painful ways. For all the setbacks and struggles, the Gophers have been at their best while defending the pass — as in best-in-the-nation best. They’re the only team in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has threatened to use nuclear weapons and destroy South Korea permanently if provoked. South Korea’s leader had warned earlier this week that Kim’s regime would collapse if he attempted to use nuclear arms. The exchange of such rhetoric between the rival
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju and Haley Talbot, CNN Bozeman, Montana (CNN) — Tim Sheehy stumped behind closed doors earlier this week here with a crowd of supporters eager to make him the GOP’s Senate majority maker. But the 38-year-old political novice was also eager not to be seen outside those doors. Sheehy and his campaign have
Continue Reading
Three people were arrested after a police pursuit in connection with train burglaries in the Coachella Valley. The incident started at around 9:00 a.m., deputies were dispatched to the area of Lincoln Street and Avenue 60 in Thermal regarding found property. The reporting party told police that they found items that were possibly stolen and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) — The question of whether a 2-year-old beaver named Nibi can stay with the rescuers she has known since she was a baby or must be released into the wild was resolved Thursday when the Massachusetts governor stepped in to protect Nibi. The state issued a permit to Newhouse Wildlife Rescue
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — They began a pilgrimage that thousands before them have done. They boarded long flights to their motherland, South Korea, to undertake an emotional, often frustrating, sometimes devastating search for their birth families. These adoptees are among the 200,000 sent from South Korea to Western nations as children. Many
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Dozens of South Korean adoptees, many in tears, have responded to an investigation led by The Associated Press and documented by Frontline (PBS) last week on Korean adoptions. The investigation reported dubious child-gathering practices and fraudulent paperwork involving South Korea’s foreign adoption program, which peaked in the 1970s
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti joined a chorus of major conference leaders suggesting the NCAA Tournament be expanded beyond the current 68 teams. “I think there are some positive feelings towards expansion in our league,” Petitti said Thursday at Big Ten Media Day. The NCAA presented a plan
Continue ReadingBy Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Mexican soldiers opened fire at a pickup truck carrying migrants, killing six people from Egypt, El Salvador, and Peru, in an incident that the country’s President Claudia Sheinbaum described as a “regrettable.” The tragic event occured on Tuesday evening when soldiers spotted a vehicle carrying 33 migrants “going at
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is targeting red and rural counties in the final sprint to Election Day, according to campaign aides, with her appearance in Ripon, Wisconsin, on Thursday just part of a strategy to compete everywhere and narrow Donald Trump’s margins in those counties. “We got to
Continue Reading
Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors in Los Angeles are reviewing new evidence in the case of Erik and Lyle Menendez to determine whether they should be serving life sentences for killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion more than 35 years ago, the city’s district attorney said Thursday. Los Angeles County District
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for a New York City subway rider who was inadvertently shot in the head by police at a station has filed a legal claim against the city, accusing the officers of showing “carelessness and reckless” disregard for bystanders’ lives when they opened fire on a man holding
Continue Reading
Originally Published: 03 OCT 24 18:28 ETUpdated: 03 OCT 24 18:40 ETBy Vanessa Yurkevich and Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Striking members of the International Longshoremen’s Association will be back to work at the ports on Friday, two sources told CNN Thursday, as the union and the management group representing shipping lines, terminal
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer DETROIT (AP) — The union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports reached a deal Thursday to suspend a three-day strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract. The union, the International Longshoremen’s Association, is to resume working immediately. The temporary end to the
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman who says she worked as a hair-and-makeup stylist for Garth Brooks alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday that he raped her in a Los Angeles hotel in 2019. The woman does not use her name and goes by Jane Roe in the lawsuit filed in Los
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman who says she worked as a hair-and-makeup stylist for Garth Brooks alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday that he raped her in a Los Angeles hotel in 2019. The woman does not use her name and goes by Jane Roe in the lawsuit filed in Los
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors in Los Angeles are reviewing new evidence in the case of Erik and Lyle Menendez to determine whether they should be serving life sentences for killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion more than 35 years ago, the city’s district attorney said Thursday. Los Angeles County District
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In late August, shortly before resigning under a cloud of scandal, New York City’s former police commissioner blocked the discipline of three officers involved in a melee outside a Brooklyn juice bar. That same juice bar owner is now alleging a corrupt “shakedown” scheme involving the police commissioner’s twin
Continue ReadingBy Danny Freeman, Camila DeChalus and Nicki Brown, CNN Reading, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Fresh off his vice presidential debate, Tim Walz arrived Wednesday evening at a Puerto Rican-owned restaurant here in southeast Pennsylvania to speak with Latino voters. “This thing’s gonna come down to our ‘blue wall’ states, come down to Pennsylvania,” the Minnesota governor
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Before Hurricane Helene’s landfall last week, the National Weather Service began an all-out blitz to alert emergency planners, first responders and residents across the Southeast that the storm’s heavy rains and high winds could bring disaster hundreds of miles from the coast. Warnings blared phrases such as “URGENT,” “life
Continue Reading