Alexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN)– Taco Bell quiere liberar la marca registrada “Taco Tuesday” de una cadena rival más pequeña. La cadena de tacos presentó este martes (naturalmente) una petición ante la Oficina de Patentes y Marcas de EE.UU. para cancelar la marca registrada, propiedad de su rival Taco John’s desde hace 34 años, porque
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand, Oren Liebermann and Jim Sciutto, CNN (CNN) — The damage to a Patriot air defense system following a Russian missile attack near Kyiv on Tuesday morning is minimal, three US officials tell CNN, with one official describing it as “minor” damage. The US sent inspectors to examine the system on Tuesday after
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Doug Maragas, winemaker and vineyard manager at Maragas Winery in Culver, said Tuesday he’s alarmed that for the first time since beginning their agricultural endeavor in Central Oregon, he has yet to see any bees pollinating the many flowering fruit trees at their estate vineyard.
Continue ReadingBy Ben Simmoneau Click here for updates on this story MERRIMAC, Massachusetts (WCVB) — People keep their whole lives in their cellphones — emails, photos, finances — and a Massachusetts man found out just how vulnerable a person can become if someone is able to get control of their phone number. It’s called “SIM swapping,”
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre is asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to remove him as a defendant in a civil lawsuit that seeks to recover millions of dollars of misspent welfare money. The funds were supposed to help some of the neediest people in the
Continue ReadingBy Mary Saladna Click here for updates on this story BOSTON, Massachusetts (WCVB) — Boston Celtics fans everywhere are feeling pretty stoked following Sunday’s Game 7 win over the Philadelphia 76ers to reach the Eastern Conference finals. Xavier Goncalves, of Raynham, Massachusetts, has even more reason to be excited because he got to take home
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Chen, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — The owners of Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood expect to recognize and negotiate with a union of strippers who had been dismissed from the club in March 2022, when they protested for safe working conditions and picketed outside for months. The negotiation is expected
Continue ReadingBy Marcie Cipriani Click here for updates on this story MOUNT PLEASANT TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania (WTAE) — A bald eagle that was found dead in a rural area of Western Pennsylvania last week had been shot, police confirmed Monday. Charges are pending against a man who turned himself in Monday morning, according to a state game
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Chicago Fire midfielder Xherdan Shaqiri remained Major League Soccer’s highest-paid player this year, and the league’s average salary rose 3.1% to just over $473,000. Toronto surpassed Atlanta as the team with the highest payroll at $25.7 million followed by the LA Galaxy at $23.5 million.
Continue ReadingBy Shawna Mizelle, CNN Washington (CNN) — Sarah Hughes, who won an Olympic gold medal for figure skating in the 2002 Winter Olympics, is now leaping into the political world as she starts a bid for Congress. Hughes, who was a high school student in Long Island at the time of her Salt Lake City
Continue ReadingBy Donald Judd (CNN) — President Joe Biden has officially vetoed a resolution that would halt a Commerce Department rule temporarily suspending tariffs on solar panels imported from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam – writing that passage “of this resolution bets against American innovation.” The resolution narrowly cleared the Senate earlier this month, with nine
Continue ReadingBy TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Za’Darius Smith puts a new edge on Cleveland’s offseason defensive makeover. The three-time Pro Bowl pass rusher officially joined the Browns Tuesday after the team agreed last week to acquire him from the Minnesota Vikings in exchange for fifth-round draft picks in 2024 and 2025. Smith’s
Continue ReadingBy TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Federal regulators are suing to block biotech drug developer Amgen’s more than $26 billion deal for Horizon Therapeutics. The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that the deal, announced last December, would give Amgen unfair leverage to block competition for Horizon medications. The FTC said the deal would entrench Horizon’s
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG and MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writers The WNBA has suspended Las Vegas coach Becky Hammon, one of the league’s marquee figures, for two games after former Aces player Dearica Hamby said she had been bullied and manipulated for being pregnant. Hammon, who in her first season last year led the Aces to
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists working at Pompeii have found two new victims that they say were killed by an earthquake that accompanied the volcanic eruption of 79 AD. The Italian city may be most closely associated with the destruction wrought by the eruption of Vesuvius, but these two men were in fact
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Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05) joined Rep. Michael McCaul (TX-10) to introduce the FEND Off Fentanyl Act, which seeks to combat the fentanyl crisis by targeting the illicit drug’s global supply chain.
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sonja Frisell’s production of Verdi’s “Aida” ends a 35-year run at the Metropolitan Opera on Thursday with its 262nd performance. The lavish staging features a Triumphal Scene with 272 people, four horses, 62 spears and 41 swords. The production is the second-most seen in the Met’s
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has announced a series of criminal cases tracing the illegal flow of sensitive technology, including Apple’s software code for self-driving cars and materials used for missiles, to foreign adversaries like Russia, China and Iran. Some of the alleged theft highlighted by the department dates
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Priscilla Presley has reached a settlement agreement over her petition questioning the validity of her late daughter Lisa Marie Presley’s will. “The parties would like to report that they’ve reached a settlement,” Ronson J. Shamoun, Priscilla Presley’s attorney, told Judge Lynn Scaduto at a court hearing in Los Angeles
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer The head of the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT told Congress on Tuesday that government intervention will be critical to mitigating the risks of increasingly powerful AI systems. “As this technology advances, we understand that people are anxious about how it could change the way we live. We
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