By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — An attorney for Harvey Weinstein at his Los Angeles rape and sexual assault trial told jurors Thursday that prosecutors’ case relies entirely on asking them to trust women whose testimony showed they were untrustworthy. “‘Take my word for it’ — five words that sum up
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A German auction house says the recent sale of a watercolor by Wassily Kandinsky has been put on hold in response to the Polish government’s claim that the painting was stolen from an exhibition at the National Museum in Warsaw in 1984. The Grisebach auction house, which sold the 1928 painting “Untitled”
Continue ReadingSOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Hundreds of people have attended a street protest in Bulgaria’s capital to oppose a revision of the Election Code that reinstates paper ballots. The previous reformist government had replaced those ballots with voting machines. The We Continue the Change party and the Democratic Bulgaria political alliance called Thursday’s protest in Sofia,
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A rural Arizona county certified its midterm election results on Thursday, following the orders of a judge who ruled that Republican supervisors broke the law when they refused to sign off on the vote count by this week’s deadline. Two Republicans on Cochise County’s three-member board
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY, AUDREY McAVOY and HAVEN DALEY Associated Press HILO, Hawaii (AP) — The spectacle of incandescent lava spewing from Hawaii’s Mauna Loa has drawn thousands of visitors and is turning into a tourism boon for this Big Island town near the world’s largest volcano. Some hotels in and around Hilo are becoming fully
Continue ReadingWINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Police alleged Thursday that a Canadian man previously charged with murdering an Indigenous woman also killed three other women — two also confirmed to be Indigenous and one believed to be. Jeremy Skibicki was charged May 18 and kept in custody after the partial remains of Rebecca Contois, 24, were found
Continue ReadingBy JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer AL KHOR, Qatar (AP) — Germany was eliminated from the group stage of the World Cup for the second tournament in a row. The four-time champions beat Costa Rica 4-2 but it wasn’t enough to advance to the round of 16. Japan’s 2-1 victory over Spain allowed both of
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Ten Los Angeles students appear to have overdosed on cannabis edibles Thursday at their middle school in the San Fernando Valley, officials said. The students, between 12 and 15 years old, were in mild to moderate distress at Van Nuys Middle School around 10:30 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Fire
Continue ReadingBy Ty Steele Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KCRA) — After 21 years of meth addiction and a decade of homelessness on the streets of Sacramento, Tracey Knickerbocker, 61, said God saved her life so she could show others a path out of homelessness and back to the real world. Knickerbocker
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Stocks ended mixed after an uneven day of trading and bond yields fell broadly after the government reported that a measure of inflation that’s closely watched by the Federal Reserve eased in October. The S&P 500 ended 0.1% lower Thursday. The benchmark index is coming off its second straight monthly gain. A
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Salesforce Inc., down $13.25 to $147.00. Bret Taylor is resigning as as Co-CEO of the customer-management software developer . Synopsys Inc., up $18.30 to $357.84. The maker of software to test and develop chips gave investors a strong profit forecast. Snowflake
Continue ReadingBy Rebecca Wright, Ivan Watson and Enwer Erdem, CNN For more than five years, Sharapat Mohamad Ali and her brother Mohamad had been unable to contact their family in far western China, where the government has been accused of incarcerating up to 2 million Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in internment camps. They believe
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed increasing ethanol and other biofuels that must be blended into the nation’s fuel supplies over the next three years. Thursday’s announcement was welcomed by renewable fuel and farm groups but condemned by environmentalists and oil industry groups. The proposal also includes
Continue ReadingBy Paul LeBlanc, CNN US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron signaled progress on Thursday in a lingering impasse over the billions of dollars in electric vehicle subsidies included in the sweeping health care, tax and climate bill known as the Inflation Reduction Act that was passed over the summer. Macron has repeatedly
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AAA is expanding its capabilities and membership benefits by providing more services for electric vehicle drivers with the addition of a mobile charging truck in Bend, the organization said Thursday.
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A German auction house says the recent sale of a watercolor by Wassily Kandinsky has been put on hold in response to the Polish government’s claim that the painting was stolen from an exhibition at the National Museum in Warsaw in 1984. The Grisebach auction house, which sold the 1928 painting “Untitled”
Continue ReadingBy ALECIA REID Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, NY (WCBS) — Colder temperatures are heading our way and tenants from a NYCHA housing complex in Queens are concerned they’ll have to face another winter with no heat. They tell CBS2’s Alecia Reid they can’t get a solid answer from anyone. “It’s
Continue ReadingBy Uliana Pavlova and Tara John, CNN The Kremlin said on Thursday that any details of prisoner swap discussions with the United States will not be publicly disclosed and that Moscow is not planning to engage with the Biden administration before the end of the year, according to Russian state media. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — The Maryland Department of Health announced the launch of the Trained Military Assistance Provider program, an initiative to reduce suicides among Maryland service members and veterans, in a statement Thursday. The TMAP program, which consists of 3.5 hours of online training
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The Lions and Jaguars are both coming to Ford Field at 4-7. But the teams have good offenses and two shaky defenses and it could make for an entertaining game. The Lions need to get running back D’Andre Swift going while Jacksonville needs Trevor Lawrence to keep rolling against the struggling
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