By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal jury has weighed seditious conspiracy charges against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four associates for a second day without reaching a verdict in a high-stakes trial stemming from the U.S. Capitol attack. Jurors are expected to resume their deliberations Tuesday. Rhodes and his co-defendants
Continue ReadingBy CARLA K. JOHNSON and MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writers China’s strategy of controlling the coronavirus with lockdowns, mass testing and quarantines has provoked the greatest show of public dissent against the ruling Communist Party in decades. Most protesters on the mainland and in Hong Kong have focused their anger on restrictions that confine families
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Elon Musk on Monday claimed that Apple has “threatened” to pull Twitter from its iOS app store, a move that could be devastating to the company Musk just acquired for $44 billion. “Apple has also threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but won’t tell us why,” Musk said
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek Actualización: ¿Por qué México no clasificó a octavos del Mundial de Qatar y Polonia sí? (CNN Español) — Tras la derrota contra Argentina el sábado, las posibilidades de la selección de México de pasar a octavos de final en el Mundial de Qatar quedaron seriamente comprometidas. Sin embargo, aunque sea matemáticamente, la clasificación
Continue ReadingBy RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge has halted a lawsuit filed by basketball legend Julius Erving against a brand-development and marketing company. The judge ruled Monday that the dispute must go to arbitration. The lawsuit stems from a 2016 deal in which the Hall of Fame player known
Continue ReadingBy RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge has halted a lawsuit filed by basketball legend Julius Erving against a brand-development and marketing company. The judge ruled Monday that the dispute must go to arbitration. The lawsuit stems from a 2016 deal in which the Hall of Fame player known
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer Purdue quarterback Aidan O’Connell returned home to his family following last weekend’s victory at rival Indiana. He still hasn’t returned to campus. So as the Boilermakers began preparing for the first Big Ten championship game in school history, their sixth-year quarterback and uncontested leader remained in Illinois. His family
Continue ReadingSCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Major League Baseball Players Association has elected six new players to its eight-member executive subcommittee. Astros pitcher Lance McCullers Jr., Cardinals pitcher Jack Flaherty, Cubs outfielder Ian Happ, Giants outfielder Austin Slater, White Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito and Rockies pitcher Brent Suter are the new members. Rangers infielder Marcus Semien
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said Aliyah Boston’s availability for Tuesday night’s game with No. 15 UCLA is a game-time decision. Boston hurt her right ankle in Sunday’s win over Hampton. She left for the locker room right before halftime and returned in the third quarter with a walking boot over
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Wynn Resorts Ltd., up $3.27 to $78.20. The Chinese gambling haven of Macao tentatively renewed the casino operator’s license, along with several others. Apple Inc., down $3.89 to $144.22. Wall Street is worried that protests and lockdowns in China could continue
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Tiger Woods is out before he ever got back. Woods has withdrawn from his own Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas because of plantar fasciitis in his right foot. Woods says the injury occurred as he was preparing to play in the 20-man field at
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso and Zoe Sottile, CNN The label on a cup of Velveeta’s microwaveable mac and cheese says the meal only takes three and a half minutes to prepare. But a Florida woman says this is false — and she’s suing the manufacturer for $5 million. Amanda Ramirez, of Hialeah, has filed a proposed
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business Billionaire investor Leon Black has been sued by a woman alleging he “brutal[ly]” raped her at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse in spring 2002. Cheri Pierson names both Black — the co-founder and former CEO of private equity behemoth Apollo Global Management — and the estate of the late Epstein as
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Stocks fell broadly on Wall Street as protests spread in China calling for President Xi Jinping to step down amid growing anger over severe restrictions imposed as part of his “zero COVID” strategy in the world’s second-largest economy. The S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq fell. Small-company stocks
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN Americans gathered for Thanksgiving last week amid a flu season that’s worse than any has been in more than a decade, and experts continue to urge caution as multiple respiratory viruses circulate at high levels nationwide. A growing number of US states — now 33 — are experiencing “high” or “very
Continue ReadingCNN, CBS: WBBM, WCVB, MALL OF AMERICA By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Americans gathered for Thanksgiving last week amid a flu season that’s worse than any has been in more than a decade, and experts continue to urge caution as multiple respiratory viruses circulate at high levels nationwide. A growing number of US states — now
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Federal Reserve officials said they favor raising the Fed’s key rate to roughly 5% or more and keeping it at its peak through next year — longer than many on Wall Street have expected. John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York,
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press Attorneys for a Black man on Missouri’s death row say he might not be facing execution if he were white. Lawyers representing Kevin Johnson made their arguments before the Missouri Supreme Court on Monday. Meanwhile, Gov. Mike Parson announced on Monday that he will not grant clemency. Johnson is scheduled
Continue ReadingBy STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer LUSAIL, Qatar (AP) — Portugal became the third team to reach the round of 16 at the World Cup by beating Uruguay 2-0. Bruno Fernandes curled in a cross from the left that barely went over the head of Cristiano Ronaldo and bounced into the far corner of the
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Researchers in the Oregon State University College of Engineering have taken a key step toward improving the lives of patients with epilepsy by developing a sensor system for quickly testing their saliva to see if they have the correct level of anti-epileptic medicine in their system.
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