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By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mary J. Blige is bringing her mission to empower women beyond her music to her hometown — with the help of the singer’s superstar friends. Taraji P. Henson, Tiffany Haddish and Jill Scott and other stars and experts will join Blige for her Strength
Continue ReadingSAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Texas man who made an online threat of a mass attack on a convention of young conservative activists in Florida in 2022 was sentenced to five years in federal prison. Federal prosecutors said 20-year-old Alejandro Richard Velasquez Gomez of San Antonio posted a threat on social media to attack the
Continue ReadingBy AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Halle Berry is joining a group of bipartisan senators to push for legislation that would put $275 million toward research and education around menopause, the significant hormone shift women go through in middle age. The legislation calls for the federal government to spend more on clinical trials
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists reported Thursday. Scientists observed Rakus pluck and chew up leaves of a medicinal
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK, PHILIP MARCELO, ERIC TUCKER and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer who negotiated a pair of hush money deals at the center of Donald Trump’s criminal trial recalled Thursday his “gallows humor” reaction to Trump’s 2016 election victory and the realization that his hidden-hand efforts might have
Continue ReadingBy Radina Gigova and Hande Atay Alam, CNN (CNN) — Human rights groups are calling for the release of a Saudi woman, who they say has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for supporting women’s rights and for the way she dressed. Manahel al-Otaibi, a 29-year-old fitness instructor and women’s rights activist, was sentenced during a
Continue ReadingBy Michael Williams, Jeff Zeleny, Kevin Liptak and Kayla Tausche, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Thursday attempted to balance the right to free speech and his desire for law and order in his first extensive remarks on campus protests against the war in Gaza – but insisted he has not changed his
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Scientists working in Indonesia have observed an orangutan intentionally treating a wound on their face with a medicinal plant, the first time this behavior has been documented. Rakus, a male Sumatran orangutan, treated a wound on his face by chewing leaves from a climbing plant named Akar Kuning and
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The US military has finally acknowledged that it mistakenly killed a civilian man in an airstrike in Syria nearly a year ago after misidentifying him as a senior al Qaeda leader, according to the findings of an investigation ordered by US Central Command last summer. The
Continue ReadingBy Shimon Prokupecz, Evelio Contreras and Rachel Clarke, CNN Philadelphia (CNN) — The chants, banners and tents announce the presence of the student protest camp at the University of Pennsylvania from several blocks away. Unlike other colleges witnessing demonstrations around the Israel-Hamas war, UPenn’s campus is open and accessible to all. Visitors may approach the
Continue ReadingCNN By Shimon Prokupecz, Evelio Contreras and Rachel Clarke, CNN Philadelphia (CNN) — The chants, banners and tents announce the presence of the student protest camp at the University of Pennsylvania from several blocks away. Unlike other colleges witnessing demonstrations around the Israel-Hamas war, UPenn’s campus is open and accessible to all. Visitors may approach
Continue ReadingBy Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN (CNN) — An attorney discipline judge in California has rejected a request from ex-Trump election lawyer John Eastman to reactivate his law license following her recent recommendation that he be disbarred, which rendered him unable to practice law for now. Eastman, who devised a multi-step plan for then-Vice President Mike
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is rejecting calls from student protesters to change his approach to the war in Gaza while insisting that “order must prevail” on college campuses across the country. Biden on Thursday defended the right to free speech and said he opposes sending in the National
Continue ReadingBy KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Jessica Pratt released her debut self-titled album, which she boasts had virtually no post-production, the singer-songwriter was critically praised for her austere guitar and hypnotic voice. The 2011 album’s imperfections were a feature rather than a drawback. It should come as no surprise then that
Continue ReadingBy KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Jessica Pratt released her debut self-titled album, which she boasts had virtually no post-production, the singer-songwriter was critically praised for her austere guitar and hypnotic voice. The 2011 album’s imperfections were a feature rather than a drawback. It should come as no surprise then that
Continue ReadingSHERMAN, Texas (AP) — A Texas school board has accepted a voluntary separation agreement with its superintendent who was suspended after removing a transgender student from a role in the musical “Oklahoma!” The board did not reveal the terms of the settlement it agreed to Wednesday with Tyson Bennett. The board in November apologized and
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mary J. Blige is bringing her mission to empower women beyond her music to her hometown — with the help of the singer’s superstar friends. Taraji P. Henson, Tiffany Haddish and Jill Scott and other stars and experts will join Blige for her Strength
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press President Joe Biden said Thursday that “dissent is essential for democracy,” but “chaos” has no part in a peaceful protest. He spoke as arrests continue on campuses around the U.S. as police dismantle camps of students protesting Israel’s war in Gaza. At UCLA, officers arrested at least 132 people in sometimes
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Japan’s “Moon Sniper” lander has defied the odds for a third time, surviving yet another long, frigid lunar night despite not being designed to endure such harsh conditions, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Temperatures during the lunar night can plunge to minus 208 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 133
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Arrests continue on campuses around the U.S. as police dismantle camps of students protesting Israel’s war in Gaza. At UCLA, officers arrested more than 100 people in sometimes violent confrontations. Most protesters left the library at Portland State University, where police on Thursday were preparing to arrest those who remained behind
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