By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — For many people, the upcoming total solar eclipse is a joyous and celebratory occasion. Countless skygazers are gearing up to witness the rare cosmological marvel as it crosses over Mexico, the US and Canada on April 8. Along with the 30 or so million people living in the path
Continue ReadingBy MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A Dominican judge denied a request by Wander Franco to suspend required monthly meetings with authorities investigating allegations the Tampa Bay Rays shortstop had a relationship with a 14-year-old girl. The judge also rejected a petition to return a $33,000 deposit Franco paid
Continue ReadingFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Federal job safety officials are beginning their investigation into the collapse of a crane in downtown Fort Lauderdale that killed a worker. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Friday began trying to determine what caused Thursday afternoon’s collapse that crushed two cars on a busy bridge that crosses the
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — President Joe Biden got a firsthand look Friday at efforts to clear away the “mangled mess” of remains of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, as cranes, ships and diving crews work to reopen one of the nation’s main shipping lanes. Aboard Marine One, circling
Continue ReadingINNSBRUCK, Austria (AP) — Skiing power couple Mikaela Shiffrin and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde have announced they’re engaged to be married. Shiffrin, a two-time Olympic champion who has won a record 97 World Cup races, holds her ring up to the camera in one of several photos they posted on their social media accounts. Aamodt Kilde
Continue ReadingBy ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press A new Hulu limited-series called “We Were the Lucky Ones” follows a Jewish family in Poland during World War II who get separated and spend years trying to reunite. It’s based on a book by Georgia Hunter, who wrote about her own family history. The show’s main cast is all
Continue ReadingBy DANA GAURUDER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The Oakland Athletics no longer have to wonder where they’ll play the next few seasons. That won’t make the long goodbye any easier. The A’s reacted to the announcement that this will be their last year in Oakland with a mixture of sadness and relief. “At least
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A majority of workers at a Mercedes-Benz plant near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, are calling for a vote to join the United Auto Workers union, which is on a drive to sign up non-union plants across the country. According to the UAW, the Mercedes workers have filed a petition with the National Labor
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man found guilty but mentally ill in the killing of an Indianapolis police officer has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for shooting his then-girlfriend but to time served for killing the officer. The city’s police chief calls the sentence “deeply” disappointing. Thirty-one-year-old Elliahs Dorsey was found guilty but mentally
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee is advancing a bipartisan bill to allow people convicted of felonies to apply to vote again without getting gun rights restored. The bipartisan effort to untangle the two rights has cleared early hurdles but several remain. The bill faces some GOP skepticism in the session’s
Continue ReadingBy DANA GAURUDER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The Oakland A’s no longer have to wonder where they’ll play the next few seasons. That won’t make the long goodbye any easier. The A’s reacted to the announcement that this will be their last year in Oakland with a mixture of sadness and relief. “At least
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press People impacted by nuclear contamination in the St. Louis region are urging federal lawmakers to approve a plan to spend billions of dollars to compensate Americans exposed to radiation by the government. Democratic U.S. Rep. Cori Bush and several people who lived along Coldwater Creek spoke Friday at a news
Continue ReadingBy Kit Maher and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Former first lady Melania Trump is set to appear at a fundraiser for the Log Cabin Republicans, according to a source familiar with the event. The fundraiser for the conservative LGBTQ group will be held on April 20 at Mar-a-Lago. The former first lady has taken
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The English indie-pop band Glass Animals, who made a splash with the song “Heat Waves” a few years ago, returns this summer with an album exploring love. A few furious weeks of writing by frontman, songwriter and producer Dave Bayley ended up with the band’s
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italian police say that underpaid and exploited Chinese laborers working for an unauthorized subcontractor made handbags and accessories for the Giorgio Armani fashion house. They say there was a series of supply chain abuses that the in-house production company failed to properly monitor. The Giorgio Armani fashion
Continue ReadingTALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The authoritarian president of Belarus says his country will suspend participation in the troubled Conventional Forces in Europe treaty that once was a key security doctrine for the continent. President Alexander Lukashenko has introduced a bill calling for the suspension to the parliament, which is fully under his control. The treaty,
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Residents across the Northeast are describing their experiences with an earthquake in a region where people are unaccustomed to feeling the ground move. Officials say Friday morning’s quake was centered about 45 miles west of New York City and had a preliminary magnitude
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Después de una excelente investigación la policía arrestó a un agente del sheriff del Condado de San Bernardino quien estaba asociado con una pandilla de motociclistas de la comunidad Twentynine Palms. Se trata de Christopher Bingham que paseaba en moto con miembros de la ganga quienes tenían una pistola, después catearon la casa del oficial
Continue ReadingBy KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has agreed to pay $17.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by two Muslim women who were forced to remove their head coverings to be photographed after they were arrested. The class-action lawsuit was filed in 2018 by Jamilla Clark and Arwa Aziz,
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — In times of triple-digit inflation, Argentines are used to seeing prices for household goods skyrocket, but even they are shocked by the cost of this season’s must-have item: mosquito repellent. Shops across Buenos Aires saw their supply plummet this year as dengue fever cases surged,
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