AP National Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — There’s more than just school pride and bragging rights to all that bellyaching over who might be in and who might be out of college football’s first 12-team playoff. Try the more than $115 million that will be spread across the conferences at the end of the season, all
Continue ReadingBy Liam Reilly and Jon Passantino, CNN New York (CNN) — Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, who blocked the newspaper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris and plans to overhaul its editorial board, says he will implement an artificial intelligence-powered “bias meter” on the paper’s news articles to provide readers with “both sides” of a story.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Environmentalists are heading to court to try to stop a plan to drill for oil in the watershed of a vulnerable north Florida river. The challenge brought by the conservation group Apalachicola Riverkeeper against the state’s environmental protection agency comes as the department has faced a wave
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A search for a convicted murderer in a California town has put residents on edge, with schools closing and Christmas events being postponed. Officials say Cesar Hernandez escaped Monday morning after arriving at the Kern County courthouse in Delano, a city of around 50,000 in central California. He was set to appear in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — As bitcoin reached historic highs, surpassing $100,000 for the first tim e, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele was triumphant on Thursday about his big bet on the cryptocurrency. The adoption of bitcoin — which has been legal tender in the Central American nation since 2021 — never
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Wood stove ashes placed in a plastic trash can hours earlier sparked a fire that caused about $25,000 damage to a southwest Bend home Wednesday night, officials said. The fire at a home in the 60000 block of River Bend Drive was called in by a neighbor shortly before 8:30 p.m.,
Continue ReadingBy Hunter Geisel Click here for updates on this story MIAMI (WFOR) — A man who was charged with kidnapping a Lyft driver in North Texas at gunpoint and forcing him to drive them more than 1,300 miles to South Florida over the summer has pleaded guilty to the crime. Miguel Alejandro Pastran Hernandez, 24,
Continue ReadingPor Laura Paddison, CNN El año pasado fue el más caluroso registrado, los océanos hirvieron, los glaciares se derritieron a un ritmo alarmante y los científicos se esforzaron por comprender exactamente por qué había ocurrido. Saben que el calor extraordinario fue alimentado por una serie de factores, principalmente la contaminación que calienta el planeta debido
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Thirteen children under the age of 14 have died at hospitals in central Mexico, and authorities suspect contaminated IV feeding bags. The federal Health Department ordered doctors across the country not to use IV nutrition bags made by the company Productos Hospitalarios. The outbreak of the drug-resistant bacteria was detected starting
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The U.S. Justice Department announced this week that an investigation into the Memphis Police Department after the beating death of Tyre Nichols had found a pattern of unlawful use of excessive force and discrimination against the city’s Black residents. The Memphis investigation is one of 12 similar investigations of state and local law
Continue ReadingBy Paula Ebben Click here for updates on this story MARBLEHEAD, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Massachusetts is known for its revolutionary history and in Marblehead, the Joe Frogger cookie can be traced back to colonial times. The molasses cookies were created by Lucretia Brown with some help from her husband Joseph. The couple are so cherished
Continue ReadingPor Jackie Wattles y Kristin Fisher, CNN en Español El programa Artemis de la NASA, que pretende devolver astronautas a la Luna esta década en medio de un renovado impulso internacional por la exploración lunar, se enfrenta a más retrasos. La agencia comunicó el jueves que una misión prevista para alunizar en 2026 no tendrá
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A U.S. Department of Justice investigation found that the Memphis Police Department committed a host of civil rights violations, including using excessive force, making illegal traffic stops and disproportionately targeting Black people in the majority Black city. The 17-month investigation was launched after officers fatally beat Tyre Nichols after
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Shortly before he was to be flogged and imprisoned for eight years, Mohammad Rasoulof fled Iran. His weekslong journey would take him from Tehran, through rural Iranian villages, on foot across a mountainous borderland and ultimately to Hamburg, Germany. As arduous and dangerous as the trip was, Rasoulof’s
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Macaulay Culkin’s three-year-old son is having what sounds like an utterly adorable identity crisis. Culkin’s son Dakota, whom he shares with fiancée Brenda Song, has not only seen his dad’s beloved ‘90s holiday classic “Home Alone,” but he thinks he in fact is Culkin’s signature character Kevin McCallister. “He
Continue ReadingAP Health Writer Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield says it won’t tie payments to the length of time a patient went under anesthesia. The insurance giant is reversing a stated policy change after widespread outcry. It wasn’t clear how many states would have been affected. The American Society for Anesthesiologists said in a news release
Continue ReadingIRVING, Texas (AP) — Colorado two-way standout Travis Hunter was named the Big 12 defensive player of the year, and Buffaloes quarterback Shedeur Sanders was picked as the top offensive player in a vote of the league’s coaches released Thursday. Arizona State’s Kenny Dillingham, the 34-year-old in the second season at his alma mater, was
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook a large area of Northern California on Thursday, knocking items off grocery store shelves, sending children scrambling under desks and prompting a brief tsunami warning for 5.3 million people along the U.S. West Coast. The quake struck at 10:44 a.m. west of Ferndale, a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a father is being accused of fatally shooting his adult son with Down syndrome at a home in East Texas after claiming he had mistaken him for an intruder and then later burning his body. The Sabine County Sheriff’s Office says Michael C. Howard told investigators he was
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The most expensive dinosaur fossil ever discovered will be on view in New York starting this weekend, American Museum of Natural History officials announced Wednesday. The giant stegosaurus fossil, dubbed “Apex,” is 11 feet (3.3 meters) tall and 27 feet (8.2 meters) nose to tail. The display will start in a
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