By WAFAA SHURAFA, JOSEF FEDERMAN and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel expects to launch a long and difficult ground offensive into Gaza soon to destroy Hamas, the defense minister said Friday, as airstrikes intensified after nightfall and the territory’s internet and mobile communications services collapsed. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s first official probe of sex abuse by clergy members or people connected to the Catholic Church includes a survey that indicates the number of victims could run into hundreds of thousands. The survey was part of a damning report by the office of Spain’s ombudsman following
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The number of catalytic converter theft claims dropped in the first half of this year, the first time that’s happened since 2019, according to data from insurance company State Farm. State Farm said that there were approximately 14,500 claims from Jan. 1 through June 30. That compares with more than 23,000
Continue ReadingBy ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Police have recaptured a murder suspect who escaped custody in September, forcing an hours-long shelter-in-place order at George Washington University. Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department says 30-year-old Christopher Haynes was arrested Thursday by the U.S. Marshals Service’s Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force in nearby Oxon Hill, Maryland.
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — Forecasters say Tammy has redeveloped into a tropical storm over the Atlantic Ocean. The National Hurricane Center says the storm around midday Friday was about 215 miles east of Bermuda, with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph. It was moving northwest at 3 mph. Tropical Storm Tammy formed earlier this month in
Continue ReadingBy CNN Impact Your World (CNN) — Hurricane Otis slammed into Mexico near the popular resort town of Acapulco on October 25, devastating the coastal community. The category 5 hurricane, the strongest storm on record to hit Mexico’s Pacific coast, devastated the tourist destination and home to 800,000 residents. At least 46 people are dead
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and LEA SKENE Associated Press HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Loved ones are grieving the loss of a Maryland judge who was gunned down outside his home last week. They remembered Washington County Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson as dedicated, fair and even-keeled on the bench. Police believe 49-year-old Pedro Argote shot and
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — An alliance of ethnic rebel groups has launched a coordinated offensive in northeastern Myanmar to seize military targets in areas near the Chinese border. That’s according to the groups and residents of the area and it could become a new major front in the strife-torn Southeast Asian
Continue ReadingBy ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Six of nine deputies have pleaded not guilty to charges ranging from second-degree murder to aggravated assault in the beating and death of a Black man who was having a psychotic episode in a Memphis jail last fall. The deputies were charged in September in the
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried, testifying at his fraud trial Friday, cast himself as a bumbling cryptocurrency visionary who knew nothing about the industry when he started FTX or about marketing when he became the face of his company and not enough about his businesses to
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried, testifying at his fraud trial Friday, cast himself as a bumbling cryptocurrency visionary who knew nothing about the industry when he started FTX or about marketing when he became the face of his company and not enough about his businesses to
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — A partial lunar eclipse will take over the night sky on Saturday for a dazzling show that will allow sky-gazers to see part of Earth’s shadow reflected on the moon. For those in the eclipse path — which spans all of Europe, Africa, most of Asia and western Australia, according
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La policía logró arrestar a dos adolescentes sospechosos de matar a Jestine Carrillo de 17 años y Brandon Anguiano de 16 en julio del año pasado cuando fueron encontrados en Coachella dentro de un carro con varias heridas de bala que les provocaron la muerte. Según el informe en febrero fue arrestado un adolescente de
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer JPMorgan Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon and his family are planning to sell 1 million shares of the bank starting next year, according to a regulatory filing. This is Dimon’s first such stock sale since he began his tenure with JPMorgan, the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission
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Ayer se presentó por primera vez en la corte Kristian Galeana de 27 años quien es acusado de herir de bala a un agente del sheriff en Thousand Palms el miercoles de la semana pasada cuando los oficiales llegaron al área de la Ramon Road para interrogar al chofer del auto Jose Rosales y cuando
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Después de una investigación las autoridades arrestaron a un sujeto de 25 años que organizaba robos minoristas en los condados de Los Ángeles y Riverside incluyendo varios asaltos en tiendas de El Paseo en Palm Desert. Se trata de Nickolas Mallory a quien durante un cateo le decomisaron mercancía robada varias armas, cartuchos de balas
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Firefighters were on the scene of a four-vehicle collision along Fred Waring Drive just east of Washington Street Friday morning. It was reported shortly after 7:30 a.m. at the front entrance to the Palm Royale Country Club. A driver in a pickup truck ran into a guard shack and another truck that appeared to be exiting the complex. Two other vehicles also suffered damage in
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Several agencies were working to contain a 100-acre wildfire burning in Palm Springs early Friday morning at the base of the mountains near Tramway Road and Highway 111. Firefighters were called to the scene shortly after midnight of the flames burning near the Palm Springs Visitors Center. According to Palm Springs Fire Department’s Battalion Chief
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Minnesota Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips has announced a primary challenge of President Joe Biden. He formally entered the race Friday in New Hampshire, after months of unsuccessfully urging other top Democrats to mount their own runs. Phillips says he’s hoping to head off
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russia has named a replacement for the former head of the country’s Aerospace Forces, who was dismissed in the wake of this summer’s brief rebellion against the military establishment. Information on the Defense Ministry website shows that Col. Gen. Viktor Afzalov has been given the post formerly held by Gen. Sergei Surovikin.
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