TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A 65-year-old California fugitive who eluded authorities for nearly four decades before his arrest in June has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for killing a Florida woman. Donald Santini pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a deal with prosecutors to avoid a first-degree murder charge. Circuit Judge Samantha Ward
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe, Cindy Von Quednow and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Video and digital evidence helped “establish a clear sequence of events that led to the confrontation” at simultaneous pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian rallies in California that ended with the death of a Jewish protester and the arrest of his attacker, prosecutors said Friday. Ventura
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, Hamdi Alkhshali and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, has become a flashpoint in Israel’s war against Hamas, which began when gunmen from the militant group crossed the border into Israel on October 7, killing around 1,200 people. Palestinians and humanitarian agencies say the current fighting in and around Al-Shifa
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — E-40 built a three decade-plus career on the foundations of an unorthodox rap flow, schooling listeners with life lessons through his streetwise perspective. With a heavy dose of Bay Area slang, E-40 created a lane for his unique hip-hop vernacular that has made him
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — E-40 built a three decade-plus career on the foundations of an unorthodox rap flow, schooling listeners with life lessons through his streetwise perspective. With a heavy dose of Bay Area slang, E-40 created a lane for his unique hip-hop vernacular that has made him
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Ethics Committee announced Friday he has filed a resolution to force a vote on expelling Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., from Congress, one day after the committee issued a withering report detailing substantial evidence that Santos converted campaign donations for his own personal
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — New Hampshire’s likely Democratic primary voters still mostly plan to vote for President Joe Biden, even though his name won’t appear on their primary ballots in January, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire. And most of those likely Democratic
Continue ReadingFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — In a story published November 14, 2023, about the arrest of Donna Adelson in the murder of her son-in-law Daniel Markel, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Katie Magbanua and Sigfredo Garcia were once married. While they sometimes identified as married, they were never officially married. Also, Garcia was not
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Reports from Myanmar say airstrikes by the ruling military in a western region have killed at least 11 civilians, including eight children. A leading opposition group and area residents say the Wednesday attack on Vuilu village, south of Matupi township in Chin state, also left four people
Continue ReadingBy SARAH RANKIN Associated Press HENRICO, Va. (AP) — Susanna Gibson lost her Virginia legislative race this month, but she may not be done with politics. Gibson, a Democrat whose House of Delegates campaign and personal life were rocked by news reports that she had livestreamed sex acts with her husband on a pornographic website,
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Thousands of people are marching through central Athens to mark the 50th anniversary of a pro-democracy student uprising that was violently put down by the military dictatorship ruling Greece in 1973. The annual march started Friday from the Polytechnic campus, which was the headquarters of the uprising, and is heading towards
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — Honda is recalling nearly 250,000 vehicles in the U.S. because bearings can fail, causing the engines to stall and increasing the risk of a crash. The recall covers certain 2018 and 2019 Honda Pilot SUVs and Odyssey minivans and some 2017 and 2019 Ridgeline pickup trucks. Also affected are certain 2015 to
Continue ReadingBy ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Festive TV programming is starting to stack up like toys in Santa’s sleigh. Holiday favorites like “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and “A Christmas Story” will soon return, along with new family friendly films including “Dashing Through the Snow” on Disney+ and Melissa McCarthy’s “Genie” on Peacock. There’s music to enjoy
Continue ReadingBy JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A woman convicted of murder in the shooting death of rising professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson faces up to life in prison in Texas when sentenced in a case that led investigators on a 43-day international search to find her. Kaitlin Armstrong, 35, was convicted Thursday.
Continue ReadingBy EMMANUEL IGUNZA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — At least 130 people have died in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia following heavy rains that triggered what aid agencies describe as flooding seen only once every 100 years. Somalia has borne the brunt of the flash floods inundating the Horn of Africa region. The National Disaster
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union countries and lawmakers have reached a breakthrough to stop sending their plastic trash to poor countries. Under the agreement, the 27 EU countries will no longer be able to export their plastic waste to non-Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries, while the shipping of
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A Chinese court will hold hearings on claims for compensation for the Chinese relatives of people who died on a Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared in 2014 on a flight to Beijing, a representative of the families says. Jiang Hui, whose mother was on flight MH370, wrote on social media that
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is drifting in quiet trading on Friday as its scorching November rolls toward the close of a third straight winning week. The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged in afternoon and near its highest level in three months. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was
Continue ReadingBy MOHAMED SHARUHAN Associated Press MALE, Maldives (AP) — Mohamed Muizzu has been sworn as the Maldives’ fifth democratically elected president and says he will ensure there is no foreign military presence in the archipelago. Muizzu, who is seen as pro-China, campaigned on a promise to evict Indian military personnel and balance trade, which he
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British author A.S. Byatt, whose books include the Booker Prize-winning novel “Possession,” has died at the age of 87. Byatt’s publisher, Chatto & Windus, said Friday that the author died “peacefully at home surrounded by close family.” Byatt wrote two dozen books, starting with her first novel,
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