By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors heard former President Donald Trump blast a woman who accused him of rape as a “nut job” and “mentally sick” in a video recording that was shown Thursday during the trial of her federal lawsuit. A transcript of Trump’s remarks about
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN A swarm of bees touched down on a parked Delta Air Lines aircraft Wednesday, delaying a flight from Houston to Atlanta for about three hours. “Bee-lieve it or not, Delta flight 1682 from Houston-Bush to Atlanta took a delay yesterday afternoon after a friendly group of bees evidently wanted to talk
Continue ReadingBy EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A court in Kenya has ruled that one of two pastors under investigation for the deaths of more than 100 of their congregants can be released on bond or bail. Pastor Ezekiel Odero was jailed in connection with the deaths of parishioners at his coastal megachurch.
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Questions are mounting about why an Oklahoma sex offender accused of killing six people and himself was ever freed from prison in the first place. The discovery of the bodies Monday near Jesse McFadden’s home came on the very day that he was to stand trial on charges that he
Continue ReadingBy Celine Alkhaldi, Mohammed Tawfeeq, Sana Noor Haq and CNN journalists in Sudan Sudanese actress Asia Abdel-Majid was killed in crossfire during fighting in the capital Khartoum on Wednesday, amid clashes between two warring factions that have devastated Sudan and led to the deaths of hundreds of civilians. The 80-year-old was killed after shells hit
Continue ReadingBy JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer Alabama is firing baseball coach Brad Bohannon, saying he violated “the standards, duties and responsibilities expected of university employees.” The firing was announced three days after a report warning of suspicious wagers prompted Ohio’s top gambling regulator to bar licensed sportsbooks in the state from accepting bets on Alabama
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Anheuser-Busch InBev CEO Michel Doukeris addressed the Bud Light controversy in the company’s earnings call Thursday, saying it’s “too early to have a full view” of the impact of sponsoring an Instagram post by transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. “The Bud Light volume decline in the US over the first three
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Beech and Kara Scannell, CNN An investigation has been launched into allegations of employment discrimination and a hostile work environment at the National Football League (NFL), according to a joint statement from New York Attorney General Letitia James and California Attorney General Rob Bonta. It comes just over a year since the NFL
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Cuatro miembros del grupo de ultraderecha Proud Boys fueron declarados culpables de conspiración sediciosa por un jurado en Washington por su papel para impedir por la fuerza el traspaso pacífico del poder del entonces presidente Donald Trump a Joe Biden tras las elecciones de 2020. Los acusados Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs,
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN The only thing consistent about mortgage rates right now is that they are volatile in the wake of mixed economic signals and recent bank failures. Mortgage rates ticked down this week, after climbing for two weeks in a row. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.39% in the week ending May 4,
Continue ReadingBy JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer To mark NASCAR’s 75th season, The Associated Press interviewed 12 key contributors to the industry on multiple topics. According to the survey, developing new stars and engaging a younger audience are among the biggest challenges facing NASCAR in the coming years. NASCAR viewership was down nearly 500,000 viewers
Continue ReadingBy KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Czech forward Petr Klima, a Stanley Cup winner with the Edmonton Oilers in 1990, has died. He was 58. The news was announced by HC Litvinov, the Czech club where he started his career in the 1981-82 season, and by Kadan, where he previously worked as the
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A European judicial team has questioned the brother of Lebanon’s embattled Central Bank governor who is is being investigated abroad over several financial crimes and the laundering of some $330 million. Thursday’s hourslong questioning is part of a probe by a delegation from France, Germany, and Luxembourg,
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and three other members of the far-right extremist group were convicted Thursday of a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press ANN’S GROVE, Guyana (AP) — Guyana is poised to become the fourth-largest offshore oil producer in the world, placing it ahead of Qatar, the United States, Mexico and Norway. But the list of needs is long in this South American country of 791,000 people. Many worry their lives won’t change
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — First Horizon y TD Bank cancelaron un acuerdo de US$ 13.000 millones que habría formado el sexto banco más grande de Estados Unidos, lo que se suma a la agitación que afecta a los prestamistas regionales del país. Atrapado en la peor crisis bancaria desde 2008, el precio de las
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News is opposing a renewed effort by three news organizations to unseal documents related to its recently settled defamation lawsuit, saying it would do nothing but “gratify private spite or promote public scandal.” The Associated Press, The New York Times and National Public Radio
Continue ReadingBy KAREN MATTHEWS and ADAM BEAM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors in New York and California launched an investigation of the NFL’s workplace culture on Thursday, issuing subpoenas to executives of one of the world’s richest sports league in search of documents related to an array of accusations that include racial discrimination and
Continue ReadingBy KAREN MATTHEWS and ADAM BEAM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors in New York and California launched an investigation of the NFL’s workplace culture on Thursday, issuing subpoenas to executives of one of the world’s richest sports league in search of documents related to an array of accusations that include racial discrimination and
Continue ReadingAIGLE, Switzerland (AP) — The International Cycling Union says it will review its rules regulating transgender athletes and expects to make a fresh decision in August. The UCI’s statement did not refer to the women’s race in the United States last weekend won by Austin Killips. The 27-year-old Killips is a transgender woman and won
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