PHOTO: Eurocopter EC130, Photo Date: June 27, 2010 Los investigadores federales pasaron su primer día completo en el desierto a 75 millas al noreste de Barstow y hoy están recogiendo los pedazos de un helicóptero que despegó de Palm Springs y se estrelló matando a seis personas, incluido un ejecutivo de un banco nigeriano, su
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Clayton Kershaw can make up to $37.5 million over two seasons as part of his new contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, getting the full amount depending on how many starts he makes following shoulder surgery. A three-time NL Cy Young Award winner who turns
Continue ReadingBy JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press The Arizona Legislature’s top two Republicans have challenged Democratic President Joe Biden’s creation of a new national monument last summer just outside Grand Canyon National Park, alleging he exceeded his legal authority in making that designation under a century-old law that lets presidents protect sites considered historically or culturally important.
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA SURK and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France condemned “hostile” disinformation maneuvers after the country’s authorities on Monday accused Russia of operating a long-running online manipulation campaign against Ukraine’s Western backers, in the lead up to the second anniversary of Moscow’s military invasion of its neighbor. The French foreign ministry said
Continue ReadingBy Mark Morales, John Miller and Celina Tebor, CNN New York (CNN) — A confrontation between two rival gangs led up to the Monday shooting inside a Bronx subway station that left one person dead and five injured, including two teenagers, New York City police said. Gunfire erupted as a northbound No. 4 train pulled
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say one person has been killed and five others injured in a shooting at a subway station in the Bronx. The Fire Department describes four of the injuries as serious. The shooting was reported about 4:38 p.m. Monday. Police say at least one person opened fire at
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge in Chicago has sentenced a former chief of staff to longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to two and a half years in prison for lying under oath to a grand jury to protect his once-powerful boss. U.S. District Judge John F. Kness imposed the sentence Monday on 69-year-old
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A megastructure found in the Baltic Sea may represent one of the oldest known hunting structures used in the Stone Age — and could change what’s known about how hunter-gatherers lived around 11,000 years ago. Researchers and students from Kiel University in Germany first came across the surprising row
Continue ReadingBy BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Free agent Jurickson Profar and the San Diego Padres have agreed to a $1 million, one-year contract that gives the 30-year-old outfielder the chance to make another $1.5 million in perftrmance bonuses based on plate appearances, two people familiar with the deal said Monday. The
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown said Monday that “US credibility is at stake” in the wake of comments from former President Donald Trump that he would encourage Russia to “do whatever the hell they want” to NATO partners that don’t meet spending guidelines on
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Parts of the Northeast were preparing Monday for a coastal storm that was expected to pack high winds and dump a foot or more of snow in some areas, leading to school closures, warnings against road travel and the possible disruption of flights. The nation’s largest
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican law enforcement agencies say they seized over 40 tons of methamphetamine at the biggest drug lab found during the current administration. The Mexican navy said Monday that the lab was located in Quiriego, a township in the northern border state of Sonora. It says the 91,000 pounds (41,310 kilograms) of
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday launched a task force aimed at addressing the “systemic” problem of mishandling classified information during presidential transitions, days after a Justice Department special counsel’s sharply critical report said he had done just that. The Presidential Records Transition Task Force will
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High school teams from Corona, Murrieta, Palm Desert, Riverside and Temecula will match wits and attempt their best legal maneuvering Thursday for a chance to win the title in the Riverside County Mock Trial Competition. The 42nd annual event got underway during the last week of January at the Larson Justice Center in Indio, the
Continue ReadingFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Federal officials are investigating an incident in which an American Airlines jet ran off the end of a runway after landing at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport over the weekend. The Federal Aviation Administration says the plane went into a safety area beyond the end of the runway. Passengers and crew
Continue ReadingCNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Donald Trump’s filing to the Supreme Court over his claim for sweeping presidential immunity begins with a quote from Yogi Berra. “This application is déjà vu all over again,” the former president’s lawyers write, noting that special counsel Jack Smith had tried and failed to get the nine justices
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say multiple people have been shot at a subway station in the Bronx. The shooting was reported about 4:38 p.m. Monday. The police have not yet said how many people were shot, the extent of their injuries or whether the shooter is in custody. The station is
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The National Labor Relations Board has granted Dartmouth’s trustees extra time to request a review of a regional official’s ruling that the school’s men’s basketball players are employees. The official’s ruling cleared the way for an election that could create the first labor union for NCAA athletes. The labor relations board’s
Continue ReadingBy Arit John, Ebony Davis, Aaron Pellish and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is hammering Donald Trump over his comments mocking the absence of her husband, who is deployed overseas, and using the former president’s remarks to highlight his long history of disparaging members of the military. The strategy is
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is defending its new TikTok account as a vital way to boost its appeal with young voters. It’s doing so even as the Biden administration continues to raise security concerns about whether the popular social media app might be
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