By Jeremy Diamond, CNN Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — The UN agency for Palestinian refugees on Monday accused Israel of detaining and torturing some of its staffers, coercing them into making false confessions about the agency’s ties to Hamas. “Some of our staff have conveyed to UNRWA teams that they were forced to (make) confessions
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The first over-the-counter birth control pill will be available in U.S. stores later this month, allowing American women and teens to purchase contraceptive medication as easily as they buy aspirin. Manufacturer Perrigo said Monday it has begun shipping the medication, Opill, to major retailers and pharmacies.
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Last week’s botched execution of a death-row inmate in Idaho showed the secrecy around capital punishment. Idaho lawmakers strengthened the state’s execution-secrecy law in 2022. It now ensures that the identities of people or entitities involved in making or supplying fatal drugs remain
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Cal Fire is trying to put out a small blaze near the 27000 block of Rio Del Sol Road in the unincorporated part of Thousand Palms. Officials say the fire broke out just before 2:30 a.m. Monday. Cal Fire tells News Channel 3 that 2 acres of 15-foot mulch piles and landscape debris are burning
Continue ReadingBy JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Rajah Caruth was like any other 4-year-old boy the first time he watched the movies “Cars” and vowed to become his own version of Lightning McQueen. He was, his family insists, obsessed with becoming a racecar driver. He jus wasn’t sure he would ever
Continue ReadingBy BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Restitution for decades of abuse at two now-shuttered reform schools where boys were beaten, raped and killed is now in the hands of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. The Senate unanimously passed a bill Monday to set aside $20 million for victims. The bill creates a process
Continue ReadingBy SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio is ready to begin doling out hundreds of millions of dollars in opioid settlement money to community and government organizations. The OneOhio Recovery Foundation plans to release its formal request for proposals on Monday. The foundation has been tasked with distributing $860 million
Continue ReadingBy Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — The Democratic National Committee has accused the super PAC backing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign of committing additional campaign finance violations on Monday, a further escalation of Democrats’ efforts to diminish Kennedy’s independent White House bid. The DNC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union leveled its first antitrust penalty against Apple on Monday, fining the U.S. tech giant nearly $2 billion for unfairly favoring its own music streaming service by forbidding rivals like Spotify from telling users how they could pay for cheaper subscriptions outside of iPhone
Continue ReadingCNN By John Fritze, Devan Cole and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump should appear on the ballot in Colorado in a decision that follows months of debate over whether the frontrunner for the GOP nomination violated the “insurrectionist clause” included in the 14th Amendment. The
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty Monday in New York to perjury in connection with testimony he gave at the ex-president’s civil fraud trial. Weisselberg, 76, surrendered to the Manhattan prosecutor’s office earlier Monday and entered state court in
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to ban the Republican former president over the Capitol riot. The justices ruled a day before the Super Tuesday primaries that states cannot invoke a post-Civil War constitutional provision to
Continue ReadingBy CNN staff (CNN) — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump should appear on the ballot in Colorado in a decision that follows months of debate over whether the frontrunner for the GOP nomination violated the “insurrectionist clause” included in the 14th Amendment. Read the opinion here: The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2024 Cable News
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers JetBlue and Spirit Airlines are ending their proposed $3.8 billion merger after a federal judge blocked the deal, ruling it would hurt competition. JetBlue said Monday that even though both companies still believe in the benefits of a combination, they felt they were unlikely to meet
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Iowa star Caitlin Clark has achieved one final NCAA scoring milestone. She scored 35 points against Ohio State on Sunday to pass the late Pete Maravich of LSU as the all-time NCAA Division I scoring leader, men or women. Clark now has 3,685 points in 130 games. Maravich had 3,667 in
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Three Red Sea underwater cables providing internet and telecommunications around the world have been cut as the waterway remains a target of Yemen’s Houthi rebels. A statement Monday by Hong Kong-based HGC Global Communications acknowledged the cuts but did not say what caused the
Continue ReadingBy JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian royal palace says King Harald V’s health is improving but that he’ll need a permanent pacemaker after falling ill during a trip to Malaysia. The 87-year-old monarch was transferred to an Oslo university hospital on Monday for medical tests. Harald returned to Norway aboard
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, Devan Cole and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump should appear on the ballot in Colorado in a decision that follows months of debate over whether the frontrunner for the GOP nomination violated the “insurrectionist clause” included in the 14th Amendment. The opinion
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Making instant videos is the next wave of generative artificial intelligence, much like chatbots and image-generators before it. And the pop star Madonna is among the early adopters. Madonna’s team used an AI text-to-video tool to make moving images of swirling clouds featured in her ongoing Celebration Tour. The
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Senior U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein, who is visiting Beirut, says if a truce is reached in the Gaza Strip, it will not automatically translate to calm along the volatile Lebanon-Israel border which has witnessed a rise in tensions. Since the Israel-Hamas war started, Lebanon’s militant group Hezbollah
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