By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Reggie Bush has his Heisman back. The Heisman Trust reinstated the former Southern California tailback as the 2005 Heisman Trophy winner on Wednesday, citing fundamental changes in the structure of college athletics during the 14 years since Bush forfeited the trophy and the honor. Bush
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A Sydney bishop who was stabbed repeatedly in an alleged extremist attack blamed on a teenager has backed X Corp. owner Elon Musk’s legal bid to overturn an Australian ban on sharing graphic video of the attack on social media. Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel said in
Continue ReadingLIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian judge has ordered 18 months of preventative detention for an Iranian and two Peruvian men while they are investigated for allegedly trying to kill two Israelis living in the South American country. The ruling by Magistrate Miguel Quevedo was handed down Tuesday but released Wednesday. The judge said the
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Emma Stone is setting the record straight about her viral reaction to a joke made at this year’s Oscars by host Jimmy Kimmel. In March, a clip of Stone’s reaction to Kimmel’s joke went viral on social media with many users collectively concluding, based on speculative lip-reading, that Stone
Continue ReadingBy Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — TikTok’s expected legal challenge to a law signed Wednesday by President Joe Biden forcing the popular app’s parent company to spin off its US operations could be a seminal moment in First Amendment law in what is shaping up to be a year of defining cases. The new law gives TikTok’s parent company
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — La plenaria del Senado de Colombia aprobó el proyecto de ley de reforma pensional con 49 votos a favor y cuatro en contra, informó este martes a través de su cuenta en X. El proyecto de ley ahora deberá pasar por la Cámara de Representantes antes de ser sancionada ¿Qué
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — An Indigenous group in Brazil says its members detained 12 people for allegedly mining illegally in the Amazon and handed them over to police. The non-profit Urihi Associação Yanomami says the incident took place Tuesday in the northern state of Roraima, which borders Venezuela. The organization
Continue ReadingCNN By John Fritze, Tierney Sneed and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court appeared ready to reject former President Donald Trump’s claims of sweeping immunity and the broad protections he has sought to shut down his federal election subversion case, but also reluctant to give special counsel Jack Smith carte blanche to pursue
Continue ReadingCNN By Haley Talbot, Lauren Fox and Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson called on Columbia University’s president to resign Wednesday during a tense news conference where the crowd repeatedly interrupted the speaker and at times loudly booed him and other GOP lawmakers who were with him as they stood at the microphones. “We just can’t allow
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A woman who sued Mississippi’s capital city over the death of her brother is rejecting a settlement after officials publicly disclosed how much the city would pay his survivors. George Robinson died in January 2019, days after three Jackson police officers pulled him from a
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN) — Un jurado investigador de Arizona presentó una acusación contra los aliados del expresidente Donald Trump por sus esfuerzos para anular su derrota en las elecciones de 2020, incluidos los falsos electores de ese estado y varias personas relacionadas con su campaña. Boris Epshteyn, exayudante de la Casa Blanca que sigue siendo
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A self-exiled Chinese businessman is set to face an anonymous jury at his May fraud trial. Guo Wengui goes on trial May 22 in Manhattan federal court. Judge Analisa Torres has issued an order Wednesday, noting that Guo’s lawyers do not object to a partially sequestered
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN Español) — El informe anual de la organización defensora de derechos humanos Amnistía Internacional (AI) advierte de una reducción del espacio cívico en toda la región de las Américas, lo que arriesga “los avances en materia de derechos humanos logrados en los decenios anteriores”. AI califica como “alarmante” el ritmo de reducción
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A new rule in California aims to limit health care price increases to just 3% each year. The Health Care Affordability Board approved the rule on Wednesday. It sets a statewide cost growth target of 3% each year. The Office of Health Care Affordability would gather
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VALE, Ore. (KTVZ) – A 17-year-old male driver was killed and his 13-year-old sister was seriously injured Tuesday afternoon in a collision with an SUV driven by a Redmond man who was passing a semi-truck on U.S. Highway 20 in Malheur County, Oregon State Police said. Troopers said they responded at 4:25 p.m. Tuesday to
Continue ReadingBy JACQUES BILLEAUD, JONATHAN J. COOPER and JOSH KELETY Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump ‘s chief of staff Mark Meadows, lawyer Rudy Giuliani and 16 others for their roles in an attempt to overturn Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. The indictment
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A grand jury in Arizona has handed up an indictment against former President Donald Trump’s allies over their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, including the fake electors from that state and several individuals connected to his campaign. Boris Epshteyn, a former White House aide who
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — County commissioners in rural New Mexico have extended authorization of a migrant detention facility in cooperation with federal authorities over objections by advocates for immigrant rights who allege inhumane conditions. A 3-0 vote of the Torrance County commission Wednesday cleared the way for a four-month
Continue ReadingBy JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Several relatives of patients who died while waiting for a new liver said Wednesday they want to know if their loved ones were wrongfully denied a transplant by a Houston doctor accused of manipulating the waitlist to make some patients ineligible to receive a new organ. Officials
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN) — El presidente de la Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos, Mike Johnson, le pidió la renuncia a la presidenta de la Universidad de Columbia durante una tensa conferencia de prensa celebrada este miércoles, en la que la multitud interrumpió varias veces al orador y en ocasiones abucheó ruidosamente tanto a él
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