By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Workers at more than 200 U.S. Starbucks locations walked off the job Thursday in what organizers said was the largest strike yet in the 2-year-old effort to unionize the company’s stores. The Workers United union chose Starbucks’ annual Red Cup Day to stage the walkout
Continue ReadingINDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a pregnant woman who was shot in the head at a Missouri mall last week has died. Police in the Kansas City suburb of Independence confirmed her death Thursday. She had been on life support following a Friday shooting at Independence Center. Police say she was shot in the
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate convicted of strangling a 5-year-old girl abducted from a store and then burning her body nearly 22 years ago is facing execution. David Renteria was set to receive a lethal injection Thursday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday made America’s case to national leaders and CEOs attending the Asia-Pacific summit that the United States is committed to high standards in trade and to partnerships that will benefit economies across the Pacific. “We’re not going anywhere,” he
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday made America’s case to national leaders and CEOs attending the Asia-Pacific summit that the United States is committed to high standards in trade and to partnerships that will benefit economies across the Pacific. “We’re not going anywhere,” he
Continue ReadingWINDSOR, Ontario (AP) — A Canadian man has been found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder for deliberately using his pickup to kill four members of a Muslim family two years ago. The jury on Thursday also convicted 22-year-old Nathaniel Veltman on one count of attempted murder for injuring a fifth family member in
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A 37-year-old man fatally shot his octogenarian grandparents inside what was supposed to be a safe and comfortable home, a prosecutor told jurors today, but the defendant’s attorney said there are holes in the evidence, raising reasonable doubt about his guilt. Frank Scott Castro III is charged with two counts of murder, along with a
Continue ReadingCNN, KCRG By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Jeremy Goodale, one of two Iowa teenagers who pleaded guilty to the 2021 murder of their Spanish teacher, was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday. He will be eligible for parole in 25 years. Goodale’s co-defendant, Willard Miller, was sentenced in July to life in prison with
Continue ReadingHIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) — Nearly three decades after the body of a teenage girl was found in an alley in an enclave north of downtown Detroit, authorities have finally identified her. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children said Thursday that a break in the case came after a profile developed from DNA
Continue ReadingCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — In a story published November 16, 2023, about fracking in Ohio state parks, The Associated Press erroneously reported that an Ohio commission to consider fracking on public lands was not formalized under former Ohio Gov. John Kasich from 2011 to 2018 and that its first meeting was December 2022. The commission
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — Fire officials say a Chicago commuter train has collided with rail equipment, injuring more than 20 people, some of them critically. The Chicago Fire Department says a Chicago Transit Authority train crashed into snow-removal equipment Thursday morning. Fire officials say the train collided with the slower-moving rail equipment near the Howard CTA
Continue ReadingBy JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury has convicted a 35-year-old woman of murder in the May 2022 shooting death of rising professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in a case that led investigators on a 43-day international search for the killer. Kaitlin Armstrong was convicted Thursday and faces a sentence
Continue ReadingBy PAUL NEWBERRY AP National Writer Fifteen years ago, Michael Phelps won a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics wearing a high-tech swimsuit with a catchy name, the Speedo LZR Racer. The super suit era lasted just one more year, thwarted by a ludicrous assault on the record books. But it still matters
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Florida law that limits drag shows in the state will remain blocked, the Supreme Court said Thursday, dealing a blow to a key initiative championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. Florida had asked the high court to narrow a lower court’s injunction that stopped the law from
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Space is full of extreme phenomena, but the “Tasmanian devil” may be one of the weirdest and rarest cosmic events ever observed. Months after astronomers witnessed the explosion of a distant star, they spotted something they have never seen before: energetic signs of life releasing from the stellar corpse
Continue ReadingBy FRANCIS KOKUTSE Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Delegates at a reparations summit in Ghana have resolved to set up a Global Reparation Fund to push for overdue compensation for millions of Africans enslaved centuries ago during the transatlantic slave trade. The resolution was announced Thursday at the Accra Reparations Conference, which featured senior
Continue ReadingBy Jessica Xing, CNN (CNN) — Former US Marine Daniel Penny put Jordan Neely in a lethal six-minute chokehold that continued for nearly a minute after the homeless subway performer had “ceased all purposeful movement,” according a court filing by Manhattan prosecutors on Wednesday. “The evidence before the grand jury establishes that Jordan Neely transitioned from
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Right-hander Ricky Vanasco and the Los Angeles Dodgers agreed Thursday to a one-year contract that pays the pitcher $900,000 while in the major leagues and $250,000 while in the minors. The 25-year-old was acquired from Texas Rangers on June 1 for left-hander Luis Valdez. Vanasco spent a month on the 40-man
Continue ReadingBy Paula Reid, Evan Perez, Katelyn Polantz and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Washington (CNN) — Special counsel prosecutors are using a Los Angeles grand jury to seek documents and possible testimony from multiple witnesses as part of the ongoing federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s business dealings, according to people familiar with the probe. James Biden, President
Continue ReadingBy RALPH D. RUSSO and LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writers ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan announced Thursday that coach Jim Harbaugh will serve a three-game suspension from the Big Ten and the conference will end its investigation into a sign-stealing scheme as part of an agreement to resolve the school’s lawsuit against the league.
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