By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press An advertising agency that helped develop marketing campaigns for OxyContin and other prescription painkillers and a drugmaker announced separate agreements Thursday worth a total of $500 million to avoid going to trial on claims that they bore some responsibility for the nation’s opioid crisis. Publicis Health, part of the Paris-based
Continue ReadingBy ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press The failed campaign and expansive political operation to make Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis the Republican nominee for the White House cost $168 million. The sum has been reported in filings to the Federal Election Commission. The pro-DeSantis super PAC Never Back Down is reporting payments of more than $130.6
Continue ReadingFES, Morocco (AP) — Authorities in Morocco have arrested 30 people in the city of Fes on charges of blackmail, threats and trafficking of newborn babies. Morocco’s state-owned news agency reported on Wednesday that the suspects were arrested this week. They include law enforcement agents, doctors, nurses and other health professionals. They are accused of
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Frente a la costa siberiana, no lejos de Alaska, un buque ruso lleva cuatro años atracado en el puerto. El Akademik Lomonosov, la primera central nuclear flotante del mundo, envía energía a unas 200.000 personas en tierra utilizando tecnología nuclear de última generación: pequeños reactores modulares. Esta tecnología también se utiliza
Continue ReadingBy Zahid Mahmood and Marshall Cohen, CNN LONDON (CNN) — A London judge has dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against retired British spy Christopher Steele over his controversial 2016 dossier that contained unverified and salacious allegations about Trump’s ties to Russia. A judge from the London High Court dismissed the data privacy lawsuit against Steele and his company,
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of the teenager who killed four people at a Michigan high school in 2021, took the stand in her manslaughter trial Thursday and testified it was her husband’s responsibility to store their son Ethan’s gun safely. “I just didn’t feel comfortable
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Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — A shot of the latest Covid-19 vaccine can help cut the chances of getting a symptomatic infection by half, early data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests. Vaccine manufacturers updated their formulations to target the Omicron variant XBB.1.5, which was the predominant circulating strain for
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Peloton shares slid more than 20% Thursday after the fitness company said it expects to report another loss in the current quarter and is trimming its full-year revenue forecast, signaling that its several years-long turnaround is spinning out. CEO Barry McCarthy wrote in a letter to investors
Continue ReadingBy David Close, CNN (CNN) — The Washington Commanders are hiring Dan Quinn as the team’s next head coach, a source within the organization told CNN Thursday. Quinn has served as the Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator since 2021. He was the Atlanta Falcons head coach from 2015-2020, leading the Falcons to a Super Bowl appearance
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — El equipo de Fórmula Uno Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS anunció el jueves que el siete veces campeón de Fórmula Uno Lewis Hamilton dejará el equipo después de la temporada 2024. Hamilton se unirá a Ferrari para la temporada 2025 con un contrato de varios años, según un comunicado del equipo Ferrari. En un comunicado,
Continue ReadingBy Hunter Sowards Click here for updates on this story MANTECA, California (KOVR) — Rey Pena has been a San Francisco 49ers fan since his dad took him to his first game when he was 5 years old. Since then, he has cheered on Sourdough Sam and the team through decades of ups and downs.
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A new report says inaccurate racial profiling data on traffic stops made by the Connecticut State Police was largely the result of data-entry mistakes and other errors, not intentional efforts by troopers to submit bogus information. Gov. Ned Lamont ordered the independent review after an audit
Continue ReadingBy Benjamin Brown and Ingrid Formanek, CNN (CNN) — About six million people in more than 200 towns, villages and cities in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia will be banned from washing their cars or filling swimming pools as the regional government on Thursday declared a state of emergency due to a water shortage
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press When two Native American boys from Nebraska died after being taken to a notorious boarding school hundreds of miles away, they were buried there without notice. Nearly 130 years later, the Winnebago Tribe wants the boys back home. So far, the Army has refused to return the remains of Samuel
Continue ReadingFLINT, Mich. (AP) — A second contractor says it has reached a $25 million settlement over its role in Flint, Michigan’s lead-contaminated water scandal. Boston-based Veolia North America said Thursday that the class-action litigation agreement includes payments of $1,500 for individual minors. It says the agreement will resolve claims made on behalf of more than
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Media outlets say two gunmen have taken seven hostages at a factory owned by Procter & Gamble in northwest Turkey, apparently in protest of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Turkish media Thursday published an image of one of the purported suspects inside the factory, a man wearing
Continue ReadingBy ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer MIAMI (AP) — Some of Roberto Clemente’s most impactful career and life moments are on display at the Miami Marlins’ loanDepot Park. A traveling exhibit titled “3,000” — a nod to the day on Sept. 30, 1972, that the late Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder became the first Latin American-born major
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Two of the Jonas Brothers are seeing the world more clearly these days. After years of forgetting their glasses on tour stops and dealing with dry eyes from their contacts, Kevin and Joe Jonas decided that before they hit the stage again later this month, they would both undergo
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — Nearly a year on from a banking crisis that led to the collapse of three US regional lenders and the emergency takeover of Credit Suisse in Europe, a fresh chill is running through banks as far apart as New York, Tokyo and Zurich. Common to all of them
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