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By Emma Tucker, Eric Levenson and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — One of the two paramedics convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, the 23-year-old Black man detained by police and injected with ketamine, was sentenced Friday in a Colorado courtroom to five years in prison, the minimum. Peter Cichuniec
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With Super Tuesday fast approaching, presidential campaigns are eyeing the biggest prize of the day, the California primary. Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican front-runner Donald Trump both hope that California — and contests in other states — can help them turn the corner toward the nomination
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With Super Tuesday fast approaching, presidential campaigns are eyeing the biggest prize of the day, the California primary. Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican front-runner Donald Trump both hope that California — and contests in other states — can help them turn the corner toward the nomination
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG and MATT OTT Associated Press Markets on Wall Street were quietly mixed early Friday after wrapping up their fourth straight winning month and hitting record highs the day before. Futures for the S&P 500 were essentially flat but moving higher before the bell, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped
Continue ReadingVIENNA (AP) — Austrian police say they are investigating 17 people on suspicion of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl over a period of several months. Most of the suspects are minors. Police said Friday that 12 of the suspects are minors between the ages of 14 and 18. One is 19 and two are below
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — An officer and a civil process server have been killed and two other officers wounded after gunfire erupted as the process server was delivering an eviction notice in Missouri and police rushed in to help, officials said. A suspect is in custody, Independence Police Chief Adam Dustman said Thursday
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With contests in 16 states and American Samoa, the Super Tuesday primaries will be the largest day of voting of the year outside of the November election. Just how “super” it is may be a matter of perspective. Both Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican front-runner Donald
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA and KATIE MARIE DAVIES Associated Press Under a heavy police presence, thousands of people bade farewell Friday to Alexei Navalny at his funeral in Moscow after his still-unexplained death two weeks ago in an Arctic penal colony. The service followed a battle with authorities over the release of the body of President
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian state media and online accounts tied to the Kremlin have begun pushing misleading and incendiary claims about U.S. immigration. It’s an apparent effort to target American voters before the 2024 election. Experts who track Russian disinformation say that by focusing on immigration, Russia is trying to
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN, THALIA BEATY and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over what he says is a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker’s founding aims of benefiting humanity rather than pursuing profits. In a lawsuit filed at San Francisco Superior Court, billionaire Musk said that when he
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN, THALIA BEATY and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over what he says is a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker’s founding aims of benefiting humanity rather than pursuing profits. In a lawsuit filed at San Francisco Superior Court, billionaire Musk said that when he
Continue ReadingBy Zeena Saifi, Don Riddell and Brooke Jenner, CNN (CNN) — For 108 days, Palestinian photographer Motaz Azaiza risked his life in Gaza to tell the story of the war to millions of followers on Instagram, as friends and family members were killed around him. But he has now left his native Gaza, feeling dismayed.
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER, ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — The federal judge overseeing the classified documents prosecution of Donald Trump is expected to set a trial date on Friday, a crucial decision that could affect whether the former president and leading Republican candidate faces a jury this year
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press STINNETT, Texas (AP) — As the largest wildfire in Texas history engulfed his town, Danny Phillips was left helpless. “We had to watch from a few miles away as our neighborhood burned,” he said, his voice trembling with emotion. In his hard-hit town of Stinnett, population roughly
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A new report says the British government’s contentious plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda could cost nearly half a billion British pounds, plus hundreds of thousands more for each deported person. The report released on Friday by the National Audit Office comes
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Environmental activists are staging a protest in a forest near Berlin against plans to expand the grounds of electric car maker Tesla’s first plant in Europe and are vowing to stay in place for weeks. Between 80 and 100 activists have been camping in the forest since early Thursday, according to an
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom is poised to hold its first election in five years in a country battered by the cost-of-living crisis, the fallout from Israel-Hamas conflict and deep divisions over how to deal with migrants and asylum seekers crossing the English Channel from Europe on small inflatable
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Outraged Japanese opposition lawmakers have submitted a no-confidence motion accusing the governing party of trying to push through a budget bill without adequate debate because of disruptions caused by a scandal over its fund-raising practices. They slammed Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for failing to provide details about
Continue ReadingBy David Goldman and Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, saying the company behind ChatGPT has diverged from its original, nonprofit mission by partnering with Microsoft for $13 billion and keeping its code for its newest generative AI products a secret. Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in
Continue ReadingBy JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Alexander Stubb has been sworn as Finland’s new president and said the Nordic country has taken “the final step into the Western community of values” by becoming a NATO member. Theformer prime minister replaced President Sauli Niinistö, who held the job for two six-year terms. Finland joined
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