CNN, KABC, KFSN By Eric Levenson and Cheri Mossburg, CNN Prosecutors said in opening statements of Harvey Weinstein’s second criminal trial Monday that eight women will testify in court they were sexually assaulted by the powerful Hollywood mogul. “Each of these women came forward independent of each other, and none of them knew one another,”
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN A new teaser trailer for the fourth season of “Succession” is short but delivers the drama. It also confirms when viewers can expect to see the new season of the HBO show. (CNN and HBO are both part of Warner Bros. Discovery.) The teaser aired during the “House of the Dragon”
Continue ReadingBy JOSHUA GOODMAN and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN MIAMI (AP) — The Biden administration is ratcheting up pressure on President Daniel Ortega’s authoritarian rule in Nicaragua, threatening a ban on Americans from doing business in the nation’s gold industry, raising the possibility of trade restrictions and stripping the U.S. visas of some 500 government insiders. The actions,
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business The clock is ticking for Elon Musk to complete his deal to buy Twitter. The billionaire Tesla CEO has until 5 p.m. ET on Friday to close his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter or face a trial that was previously delayed to allow both parties to close the deal. The
Continue ReadingBy Bill Kirkos and Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN On the day his state trial was set to begin on charges of aiding and abetting in George Floyd’s killing, a former Minneapolis police officer pleaded guilty Monday. J. Alexander Kueng, who was slated to stand trial with Tou Thao, was charged with aiding and abetting second-degree
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL PHILLIS and JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — An armed former student broke into a St. Louis high school Monday morning warning, “You are all going to die!” before fatally shooting a teacher and a teenage girl, and wounding seven others before police killed him in an exchange of gunfire. The
Continue ReadingHILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) — A Washington County Sheriff’s deputy stabbed a male patient multiple times after he tried to take the officer’s firearm, officials said Monday. The deputy was at the Kaiser Permanente Westside Medical Center’s Emergency Department with the patient, who was being admitted on a civil hold, when the patient charged the deputy
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Dos víctimas y el presunto atacante murieron en el tiroteo de este lunes en la escuela Central VPA de St. Louis, según el comisario del Departamento de Policía Metropolitana de St. Louis, el teniente coronel Michael Sack. Durante una conferencia de prensa, Sack dijo que el atacante y una mujer
Continue ReadingBy Ariel Edwards-Levy The Wisconsin race for governor has no clear leader, while Democratic gubernatorial candidates hold the edge in Michigan and Pennsylvania, according to new CNN polls conducted by SSRS in the three key states. Wisconsin‘s incumbent Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has the support of 50% of likely voters, while Republican Tim Michels has
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director Across two states with Republican-held Senate seats that could prove pivotal to control of the chamber in this fall’s elections, one incumbent faces an evenly divided electorate while the Democrat holds a narrow edge in the other, according to new CNN polls conducted by SSRS. In Wisconsin, the survey
Continue ReadingToyin Owoseje and Christian Edwards, CNN Four people have been arrested for criminal damage, after a waxwork of King Charles III was vandalized at Madame Tussauds in London on Monday. Two supporters of the campaign group Just Stop Oil were captured on camera smearing chocolate cake over the lifelike model of the British monarch. In
Continue ReadingBy JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer Oscar Tschiebwe was the consensus men’s college basketball player of the year last season, an accomplishment usually followed by a jump to the NBA. Kentucky’s big man decided to take a different route. He’s coming back — and he may be even better this season. “He’s a better passer.
Continue ReadingBy JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer Oscar Tschiebwe was the consensus men’s college basketball player of the year last season, an accomplishment usually followed by a jump to the NBA. Kentucky’s big man decided to take a different route. He’s coming back — and he may be even better this season. “He’s a better passer.
Continue ReadingBy Christine Romans, CNN Kraft Heinz CEO Miguel Patricio says higher inflation and supply issues are coursing through the food industry, forcing companies to adopt new strategies for everything from production to promotion to packaging. And he doesn’t see an end to either issue anytime soon. “We’ve already increased the prices that we were expecting
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Banks are in a bind. Rising interest rates should be good news for financial firms because they boost profitability for loans. But banking giants like JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America have been hit hard this year as the volatility on Wall Street from the Federal Reserve’s
Continue ReadingBREST, France (AP) — French club Brest has asked the discipline commission of the French league to investigate allegations by one of its players that he was targeted by racist insults during a league game. Algerian forward Islam Slimani said he was called a derogatory term by Clermont captain Johan Gastien during Brest’s 3-1 win
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Si eres una de esas personas con una cuenta de redes sociales para su perro, sigue leyendo… Yappy.com, un minorista en línea de regalos para mascotas, está buscando su próximo “Chief Fluff Officer”, un trabajo que paga hasta US$ 10.000 al año. Yappy.com está buscando a su próximo “Chief Fluff Officer”.
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer Before he began tearing the roof off arenas as lead singer of hard rock icon AC/DC, Brian Johnson was fixing roofs. In his new memoir, the “Highway to Hell” singer recounts how he went from being a vinyl car roof fitter in the northeast of England to leading one
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN One in 10 Americans over 65 had dementia, while 22% experienced mild cognitive impairment, the earliest stage of the slow slide into senility, according to a new study conducted between 2016 and 2017. The research, which the authors said is the first nationally representative examination of cognitive impairment prevalence in more
Continue ReadingGOOD MONDAY MORNING, EVERYONE… We are looking ahead at a week that stays chilly and carries us in and out of storm activity. Rain is likely today, as are highs in the low 50’s. SW winds will pick up to 5-15 mph, with some areas seeing gusts as highs as 20-25 mph. Rain will taper
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