SEATTLE (AP) — A former Seattle man who stole over $1 million in jobless benefits and small business loans during the COVID-19 pandemic was sentenced on Tuesday to more than eight years in prison, Seattle U.S. Attorney Nick Brown said in a statement. Bryan Sparks, 42, was indicted for the fraud scheme in November 2021
Continue ReadingCarolina Calero (CNN) — Lupita Nyong’o entiende por qué la gente puede creer que ella y Janelle Monáe tuvieron una relación romántica. Ambas son amigas desde que se conocieron en la Gala del Met en 2014, cuando Nyong’o era relativamente nueva en el mundo del espectáculo y acababa de ganar un Oscar por su interpretación
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A New York City college has fired an adjunct professor who was recorded on video berating abortion opponents on campus earlier this month and who later reportedly threatened a journalist with a machete. A Hunter College spokesperson confirmed Tuesday that Shellyne Rodriguez was fired after the May 2 incident. Video shows
Continue ReadingCarolina Calero (CNN) — Jeff Bridges es un superviviente. Hasta ahora, el actor ha vencido un cáncer avanzado y un caso grave de covid-19. En un nuevo reportaje de portada para la revista AARP, Bridges cuenta que estaba en un descanso pandémico de su serie “El viejo” cuando “estaba haciendo unos ejercicios en el suelo
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Alyssa Thomas had 22 points and 10 rebounds while DeWanna Bonner added 15 points to help the Connecticut Sun beat the Washington Mystics 88-81. Connecticut created some separation midway through the fourth quarter by going on a 10-2 run, capped by a three-point play by Brionna Jones for a 75-67 lead. Tiffany
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — Attorneys general across the U.S. joined in a lawsuit against a telecommunications company accused of making more than 7.5 billion robocalls to people on the national Do Not Call Registry. The 141-page lawsuit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Phoenix against Avid Telecom, its owner Michael D. Lansky and company
Continue ReadingBy PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Legislature has approved abolishing a position Democrats in the state’s largest county created to oversee more than 2 million voters around Houston. The bill sent to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday would change who runs elections in Harris County months before an
Continue ReadingSCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Austin Overn hit a three-run home run in the fifth inning and the go-ahead triple in the sixth as Southern California scored the final five runs to beat UCLA 6-4 in pool play at the Pac-12 Tournament. Nick Lopez and Ryan Jackson hit back-to-back singles to lead off the bottom of
Continue ReadingBy WES CROSBY Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Nathan Eovaldi pitched a complete game for the second time in five starts after throwing just two in the first 226 of his major league career, leading the Texas Rangers over the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-1. Eovaldi (6-2) allowed six hits, struck out five and walked one, his
Continue ReadingBy Donie O’Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — On a recent Sunday morning, I found myself in a pair of ill-fitting scrubs, lying flat on my back in the claustrophobic confines of an fMRI machine at a research facility in Austin, Texas. “The things I do for television,” I thought. Anyone who has had an MRI or
Continue ReadingCNN By Donie O’Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — On a recent Sunday morning, I found myself in a pair of ill-fitting scrubs, lying flat on my back in the claustrophobic confines of an fMRI machine at a research facility in Austin, Texas. “The things I do for television,” I thought. Anyone who has had an MRI
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — La jueza 41 de control de garantías de Bogotá, Laura Barrera, negó la solicitud de preclusión hecha por la Fiscalía General de la Nación en la causa penal por los presuntos delitos de fraude procesal y soborno contra el expresidente de Colombia Álvaro Uribe. La funcionaria dijo que no encontró
Continue ReadingLEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Multi-sport athlete Charles “Cotton” Nash has died at the age of 80. Nash was a three-time All-America forward at Kentucky who also played baseball for the school. He went on to play in the NBA, ABA and Major League Baseball. The school announced Nash’s death on Tuesday but did not specify
Continue ReadingBy Emma Tucker and Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — The father of slain University of Idaho student Kaylee Goncalves said he felt “rage” in the courtroom on Monday as he attended the arraignment for the man accused of killing his daughter and three other students. “You go through all kinds of emotions, but rage is
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A celebration of life ceremony for Bill Smith, the visionary behind Bend’s Old Mill District, took place on a cool but blue-sky sunny Tuesday afternoon at the Hayden Homes Amphitheater, in the midst of the riverfront development he envisioned and worked to bring to life.
Continue ReadingBy TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Romy González’s two-run double broke a seventh-inning tie and sent the Chicago White Sox to a 4-2 win over the Cleveland Guardians. González snapped a 2-2 tie with his hard hit off Cleveland rookie Logan Allen, who was probably left in the game one batter too
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand, Oren Liebermann and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The senior general in charge of US forces in the Middle East ordered that his command announce on Twitter that a senior al Qaeda leader had been targeted by an American drone strike in Syria earlier this month – despite not yet having confirmation
Continue ReadingBy Derek Van Dam, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Typhoon Mawar was barreling toward Guam early Wednesday, threatening to slam into the US territory as the strongest storm there in decades. The typhoon, which strengthened rapidly in recent days, is posing a “triple threat” of devastation including deadly winds equivalent to at least a Category 4
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — After 445 episodes, 23 seasons and 12 years, Blake Shelton is saying goodbye to “The Voice.” The country star, who has been a coach on the NBC singing competition series since its inception in 2011, marked his last taping on the show with an emotional Instagram post on his
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press The state of Texas is suing the Biden administration to have a newly introduced asylum rule thrown out. Texas is arguing in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the administration’s use of a phone app called CBP One is encouraging illegal immigration. The app is used by migrants to set up
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