By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Television viewers will find nearly blanket prime-time coverage of a Congressional hearing Thursday on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. That’s with the exception of Fox News Channel. The top-rated cable channel said it will cover the first in a series of House Select Committee public
Continue ReadingLEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky has hired longtime assistant coach K.T. Turner to round out head coach John Calipari’s staff. Turner fills the opening created when Jai Lucas left to become an assistant at Duke. The nearly 20-year veteran spent last season as associate head coach at Oklahoma under Porter Moser and helped the Sooners
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Mike Matheny spent about 20 minutes in the dugout before his Kansas City Royals took the field against the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday and tried to put what has been a miserable 20-game stretch into perspective. “There’s some things we can get better
Continue ReadingBy TOM CANAVAN AP Sports Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — In his second season removed from a major injury on his right knee, Saquon Barkley is showing signs that he might be able to regain the form that made him one of the NFL’s top running backs in his first two seasons with the
Continue ReadingBROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Paul Casey has withdrawn from the U.S. Open. This is the third straight major he has missed this year because of a back injury. Casey last competed at the WGC-Match Play in March. He played two holes of his opening match when he conceded because of back spasms. He didn’t play
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities have urged a town to evacuate after a wildifire erupted in a hilly area of southern Spain. Three firefighters were injured combating the blaze Wednesday, one of them with burns over 25% of his body. The blaze broke out an area of Andalusia around an hour’s drive northwest of the
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer A group of U.S. senators led by Vermont independent Bernie Sanders is lending its support to workers at two CNH Industrial plants in Wisconsin and Iowa who have been on strike for better pay and benefits for more than a month. The senators wrote a letter urging the company
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump, his namesake son and his daughter Ivanka have agreed to answer questions under oath next month in the New York attorney general’s civil investigation into his business practices. That’s unless their lawyers persuade the state’s highest court to step in. A Manhattan
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey John Stamos and Bob Saget were an unlikely duo. When they worked together on the beloved family sitcom “Full House” from 1987 to 1995, they had different working styles — a disparity that could cause tension at times. Saget could be, according to Stamos, “annoying” and “goof off.” “The truth is —
Continue ReadingBy TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Deshaun Watson’s complex legal situation has the Cleveland Browns in limbo and unclear about the quarterback’s immediate future. They do have a better handle on Baker Mayfield’s. The team said that Mayfield, who lost his job when the Browns traded for and signed Watson in
Continue ReadingCOOS BAY, Ore. (AP) — A recently hired Oregon hospital chief operations officer no longer holds the job after hospital officials say they learned he had been convicted and sentenced to five years in prison on charges of wire fraud and false representation of a Social Security number. Larry Butler Jr., who most recently held
Continue ReadingCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Newly released video shows a masked woman in a hooded shirt set fire to a planned abortion clinic in Wyoming, and federal authorities are offering a $5,000 reward for tips leading to an arrest. The Wellspring Health Access clinic was set to open in Casper in mid-June as the only facility
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Henderson, Danielle Sills and Christina Maxouris, CNN An Arizona inmate convicted of killing an 8-year-old girl nearly 38 years ago was executed by lethal injection Wednesday morning, the state’s attorney general announced in a news release. Frank Atwood’s execution took place at the Arizona State Prison Complex just after 10:15 a.m. local time,
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — No one would have been surprised if Donald Parham tried to ease back into things after he had a frightening injury late last year. The Los Angeles Chargers tight end though has been participating throughout the offseason program as he prepares for the upcoming
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A South African boxer who became disoriented during a fight and walked away from his opponent toward an empty corner of the ring while throwing punches has died of a brain injury. Boxing South Africa says that lightweight Simiso Buthelezi died on Tuesday
Continue ReadingBy Kate Bennett, CNN First lady Jill Biden said last month as she wrapped a six-day trip to Latin America that she was not concerned about the threat of boycott from certain countries at the upcoming Summit of the Americas. “I’m not worried. I think that they’ll come,” Biden said, a prediction that this week
Continue ReadingCNN, HOST TV, POOL, @CUBAONU, US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, ANDRES MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR By Kate Bennett, CNN First lady Jill Biden said last month as she wrapped a six-day trip to Latin America that she was not concerned about the threat of boycott from certain countries at the upcoming Summit of the Americas. “I’m not
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Former Donald Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro, who is being prosecuted for contempt of Congress, told a federal judge on Wednesday that he is “at a severe disadvantage” because he has no lawyer five days after his arrest. He also continued to speak publicly on Wednesday about
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES and JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Democrats on Wednesday braced for renewed Republican attacks on their management of crime across the U.S. after residents in San Francisco voted overwhelmingly to recall the city’s progressive district attorney, suggesting that even the party’s most loyal supporters are frustrated with the way
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