By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A federal jury has ruled that a health clinic in a Montana town where hundreds of people died from asbestos exposure submitted 337 false asbestos claims making its patients eligible for benefits such as Medicare. The seven-person jury said in a Wednesday
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — A New Jersey lawyer recently charged with sexually assaulting four women in Boston 15 years ago has been indicted on suspicion of five additional attacks during the same time period. Prosecutors say 35-year-old Matthew Nilo, of Weehawken, New Jersey, was indicted Tuesday on seven charges stemming from five attacks on four women
Continue ReadingSAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Rapper Quando Rondo has bonded out of jail after he was indicted on drug and gang charges in his hometown of Savannah, Georgia. Court records show a judge granted a $100,000 bond for the 24-year-old rapper, whose given name is Tyquian Terrel Bowman. The Chatham County Sheriff’s Office says he was
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Madonna has postponed her career-spanning Celebration tour due to what her manager called a “serious bacterial infection.” Manager Guy Oseary wrote on Instagram Wednesday that the singer had spent several days in an intensive care unit after becoming ill on Saturday. He said the 64-year-old
Continue ReadingBy Isabel Yip, CNN (CNN) — For Nancy Johnson, Windsor Park was like a dream when she first moved to a new home in the historically Black North Las Vegas neighborhood in 1976. But within a few years, the cracks began to show – and homes started to sink. “The homes, the streets started cracking,
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The days surrounding the 4th of July is the Humane Society of Central Oregon’s busiest week of the year.
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Un avión de Delta Air Lines logró descender “sin su tren de aterrizaje” al Aeropuerto Internacional de Charlotte Douglas, en Carolina del Norte, la mañana de este miércoles, informó la Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA, por sus siglas en inglés). El incidente no dejó personas heridas, pero la pista se cerró
Continue ReadingBY ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer Sinead Farrelly, who came forward with misconduct allegations that sparked a reckoning in U.S. soccer, has been named to Ireland’s team for the Women’s World Cup. Farrelly and fellow player Mana Shim accused former National Women’s Soccer League coach Paul Riley of misconduct and sexual coercion in an
Continue ReadingCNN By Marshall Cohen Washington (CNN) — The tape of a conversation with Donald Trump and others made at his golf club in New Jersey has become perhaps the most critical publicly known evidence in the federal indictment against the former president. Special counsel Jack Smith has charged Trump with mishandling classified information after leaving
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen Washington (CNN) — The tape of a conversation with Donald Trump and others made at his golf club in New Jersey has become perhaps the most critical publicly known evidence in the federal indictment against the former president. Special counsel Jack Smith has charged Trump with mishandling classified information after leaving the
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN (CNN) — OpenAI, the company behind the viral ChatGPT tool, has been hit with a lawsuit alleging the company stole and misappropriated vast swaths of peoples’ data from the internet to train its AI tools. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed Wednesday in a California federal court, claims that OpenAI secretly
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN (CNN) — OpenAI, the company behind the viral ChatGPT tool, has been hit with a lawsuit alleging the company stole and misappropriated vast swaths of peoples’ data from the internet to train its AI tools. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed Wednesday in a California federal court, claims that OpenAI secretly
Continue ReadingBy TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — For the second time in a week, Washington Nationals manager Dave Martinez watched the end of a game on television back in the clubhouse. At least this time, Martinez watched a Nationals victory. Martinez was ejected in the sixth inning of Wednesday’s game against the Seattle
Continue ReadingCNN, WAPT By Shawn Nottingham and Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — The Rankin County Sheriff’s Office in Mississippi has fired multiple deputies after two Black men filed a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging six White deputies entered their private residence illegally and tortured them for nearly two hours. “Due to recent developments, including findings during
Continue ReadingBy GUILLERMO GARAT Associated Press MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Residents of Uruguay’s capital are increasingly exasperated after two months of salty-tasting tap water that has damaged water heaters, boosted demand for bottled water and reportedly caused stomach ailments. People in Uruguay have always been able to safely drink the water that comes from their taps,
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER, DYLAN LOVAN and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Federal judges in Kentucky and Tennessee on Wednesday blocked portions of bans on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, handing down the rulings shortly before the statutes were set to go into effect. The ruling is similar to roadblocks that federal courts
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI and JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s youngest brother said in a radio interview that the president has been “very open-minded” in conversations the two have had about the benefits of psychedelics as a form of medical treatment. Frank Biden made the comments during a call into The
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bulls and center Nikola Vucevic have agreed to a $60 million, three-year extension, keeping the two-time All-Star off the free agent market. The move was hardly a surprise. Bulls executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas and Vucevic had expressed a desire to
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A U.N. human rights expert says that a specialized international force is needed to help fight gang violence in Haiti and that an embargo on weapons should be implemented immediately. William O’Neill spoke Wednesday at the end of a 10-day trip after meeting with civil
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers have sent right-handed reliever Peter Strzelecki to Triple-A Nashville and promoted left-hander Thomas Pannone. Strzelecki had served as the Brewers’ main setup man earlier this season and allowed just one run over his first 13 2/3 innings of the year. But he has tailed off since. Strzelecki had
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