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Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — A teenager on a field trip to see a Detroit court ended up in jail clothes and handcuffs because a judge said he didn’t like her attitude. Judge Kenneth King even asked other kids in the courtroom Tuesday whether the 16-year-old girl should be taken to juvenile detention, WXYZ-TV reported. King, who
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s Supreme Court ruled that minors don’t need their parents’ permission to get an abortion in the state. Wednesday’s unanimous opinion agrees with a lower court ruling that found the parental consent law violates the privacy clause in the state constitution. The ruling comes as an initiative to ask
Continue ReadingBy Aaron Pellish and Ebony Davis, CNN (CNN) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Wednesday that he has agreed to participate in a vice presidential debate on CBS News on October 1. CBS News posted to social media Wednesday its invitation to Walz and Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, offering the candidates two dates
Continue ReadingAssociated Press OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford came out of a joint practice with the Dallas Cowboys on Wednesday early because of hamstring tightness, a team spokesman said. Stafford missed approximately the second half of the workout, but the 36-year-old remained on the sideline in pads and did not show
Continue ReadingAP Technology Writer Cisco Systems is planning to lay off 7% of its employees, its second round of job cuts this year, as the company shifts its focus to more rapidly growing areas in technology, such as artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. The company based in San Jose, California, did not specify the number of jobs
Continue ReadingANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Anchorage police say officers fatally shot a 16-year-old girl holding a knife in the fourth deadly shooting involving police in Alaska’s largest city since mid-May. Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case told reporters that the shooting happened when officers responded to a disturbance between two family members late Tuesday. Alaska Public Media
Continue ReadingAP Technology Writer Cisco Systems is planning to lay off 7% of its employees, its second round of job cuts this year, as the company shifts its focus to more rapidly growing areas in technology, such as artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. The company based in San Jose, California, did not specify the number of jobs
Continue ReadingSAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — California technology company Cisco says it is cutting 7% of its workforce as it shifts its focus to AI, cybersecurity.
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office says it has identified the man who allegedly broke into Donald Trump’s Virginia campaign office earlier this week as 39-year-old Toby Shane Kessler. Kessler spent a “brief period of time” in the office, the sheriff’s office said in a news release Wednesday, and did
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — UNICEF says children in West and Central Africa are increasingly exposed to extreme heat, creating health concerns. The U.N. children’s agency in a new report published on Wednesday says that the frequency of heat waves in the region has more than quadrupled since the 1960s, leaving children more vulnerable
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The US expressed frustration Wednesday that North Korea is continuing to refuse to allow teams into the reclusive country to recover the remains of American casualties from the Korean War. “The United States government reaches out often to North Korea on any number of issues, one of which is this
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An informational pamphlet for Arizona voters, who will decide in the fall whether to guarantee a constitutional right to an abortion, can refer to an embryo or fetus as an “unborn human being,” the state’s highest court ruled Wednesday. The Arizona Supreme Court justices sided with Republican lawmakers, who drafted
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The developers of a long-delayed copper-nickel mining project in northeastern Minnesota have announced plans for a series of studies over the next year on potential ways to improve environmental safeguards and make the mine more cost- and energy-efficient. The studies could lead to significant changes to the project formerly known
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The suspected hack of Donald Trump’s campaign is the latest indication that foreign adversaries looking to meddle in the election are quickening their pace ahead of November. Trump’s campaign has blamed Iran for the incident, which saw hackers gain access to internal campaign documents that were later released to news
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s attorney general has dropped a lawsuit accusing the state’s largest hospital system of violating patient privacy laws when a doctor told a newspaper that a 10-year-old Ohio girl had traveled to Indiana for an abortion. The Indianapolis Star reported Monday that a federal judge approved Attorney General Todd Rokita’s request. Rokita
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Google said Wednesday that an alleged Iranian hacking operation aimed at US presidential campaigns is ongoing and more wide-ranging than previously known as the hackers continue to target the email accounts of current US officials and people associated with Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden and former President
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Quotes from Wyoming’s governor and a local prosecutor were the first things that seemed slightly off to Powell Tribune reporter CJ Baker. Then, it was some of the phrases in the stories that struck him as nearly robotic. The dead giveaway, though, that a reporter from a competing news outlet was using generative
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A white Florida woman told investigators she fired a shot through her door at a Black neighbor because she panicked as the other woman pounded heavily on her door and threatened her amid an ongoing dispute over the neighbor’s children. That is according to a video statement played Wednesday in court at the
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In Desert Hot Springs, 700 backpacks containing spiral notebooks, glue sticks, pencils, folders, and more were handed out to students at Cabot Yerxa Elementary School. The donation was made by the Walter Clark Legal Group as part of a larger effort this year to get 1,600 backpacks into the hands of students in need. “I
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