NEW YORK (AP) — The marketing executive who oversaw a partnership between Bud Light and a transgender influencer is taking a leave of absence after it snowballed into cries for boycotts from some angry customers, according to media reports. Alissa Heinerscheid, Bud Light’s vice president of marketing, will be replaced by Todd Allen, most recently
Continue ReadingBy DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Denver Nuggets are the league’s best shooting team with a clean bill of health and the two-time reigning NBA MVP in Nikola Jokic. Their depth is right up there on that asset list, too, as the Minnesota Timberwolves have been reminded during this so-far lopsided
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — Hertha Berlin’s hopes of Bundesliga survival were pinned on Pál Dárdai’s return for the last six games of the season. He did not get a warm welcome on Saturday for his third stint as Hertha coach. The club’s hardcore fans stayed outside in protest while the
Continue ReadingBy Christina Maxouris and Raja Razek, CNN The Texas Senate passed a bill Thursday requiring each public school classroom to display a copy of the Ten Commandments, a move that drew backlash from civil liberty advocates who say lawmakers should not dictate what religious materials students are exposed to. The legislation, which passed the state
Continue ReadingGLENWOOD, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota sheriff’s deputy who died in a shootout was remembered as a loving father and husband, heroic military veteran and selfless law enforcement officer. Pope County Deputy Josh Owen was killed on his 44th birthday while responding to a domestic assault. Two other law enforcement officers were wounded. The suspect
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — Bélgica destruyó un envío de cerveza estadounidense después de objetar el eslogan de su fabricante de que era “El champán de las cervezas”. La aduana belga aplastó las 2.352 latas de cerveza Miller High Life a principios de esta semana, argumentando que estaban etiquetadas incorrectamente como champán. La medida se produjo
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — One of the last two remaining survivors of the USS Arizona battleship, which sank during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died. Ken Potts was 102. Randy Stratton, whose late father, Donald Stratton, was Potts’ Arizona shipmate and close friend, said Potts died Friday in
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Real Madrid has beaten Celta Vigo 2-0 to pressure Barcelona before the Spanish leader hosts Atletico Madrid needing a win to quash any fears of a late season slump. Marco Asensio put Madrid ahead three minutes before halftime. Center back Éder Militão headed in a second
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A German publisher has fired one of its magazine’s editors and apologized to the family of Michael Schumacher for publishing a fake interview with the Formula One great that was generated by artificial intelligence. Funke magazines managing director Bianca Pohlmann says “This tasteless and misleading article should never have appeared. It does
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN A poodle named Toodles in Pennsylvania was revived with Narcan after suffering an apparent drug overdose, according to a local shelter. The dog was rushed to Blue Pearl Emergency Hospital on Monday, according to a Facebook post from the Pennsylvania SPCA. The pup was discovered in the Philadelphia neighborhood of Kensington
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The NAACP warns that “separate and unequal policing” will return to Mississippi’s majority-Black capital under a state-run police department, and the civil rights organization is suing the governor and other officials over it. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves says violent crime in Jackson has made it
Continue ReadingPITTSBURGH (AP) — Manager Derek Shelton’s contract was extended by the Pittsburgh Pirates after the team’s 14-7 start its best since 1992. Shelton’s contract was set to expire after this season. The Pirates announced the new deal but did not specify a length. Shelton entered the season with a 142-242 record over three years.
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in Mexico say they have seized a huge collection of exotic animals including 10 tigers, five lions and other species in a cartel-dominated town. The announcement came just a week after U.S. prosecutors revealed that a boss of the Sinaloa cartel fed his enemies, alive and dead, to tigers he
Continue ReadingRIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a suspected drug trafficker is on the run with nearly 60 pounds of methamphetamine belonging to a California sheriff’s department. Deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department planned an undercover sting to identify drug traffickers. But the suspect took the drugs, drove off and failed to yield when authorities
Continue ReadingBy JERRY BEACH Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Gerrit Cole and Alek Manaoh pitched scoreless ball after a chirpy buildup, and the New York Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on pinch-hitter DJ LeMahieu’s walkoff bases-loaded single in the ninth inning. Rookie Anthony Volpe hit a two-run homer in the eighth off Yimi
Continue ReadingFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A widow and her family are suing Celebrity Cruises for allegedly mishandling her husband’s body after he died while they were on a ship last year, saying it was left to decompose and they suffered extreme emotional trauma. After Marilyn Jones’ husband of 55 years, Robert Jones, died of a
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The Oregon National Guard and the U.S. Navy conducted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday to officially open the Unmanned Aerial System Operating Facility in Boardman.
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — TV personalities Gayle King and Charles Barkley will headline a new prime-time weekly CNN show, “King Charles,” debuting in the fall, the network announced Saturday as it tries to engineer a turnaround amid tumbling ratings. CNN chairman and CEO Chris Licht said in a statement that the show “will be an
Continue ReadingCNN By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business CNN will be the home to a new weekly prime-time show featuring Gayle King and Charles Barkley, the news network announced on Saturday. King and Barkley sat down together on TNT’s NBA Tip-Off Saturday to discuss the details of the live show, titled King Charles, which is set to
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — El presidente de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, se reunirá este sábado en Bogotá con miembros de la Plataforma Unitaria Democrátiva de Venezuela, que integra a miembros de la oposición venezolana, informó en un comunicado la Presidencia colombiana. “El encuentro tiene lugar en la Hacienda de Hato Grandre, en vísperas
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