By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw received a 37% increase in compensation last year, even after the company’s railroad was involved in a financially and ecologically disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Shaw received $13.4 million in total compensation in 2023, up from $9.8 million in 2022. His base salary
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — A 26-year-old man was killed in a shooting on a light rail train in Seattle and a suspect who fled the scene remains on the loose, police said Monday. Officers responded around 11:30 p.m. Sunday to a report of a man shot on the light rail train downtown, the Seattle Police Department
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — A 26-year-old man was killed in a shooting on a light rail train in Seattle and a suspect who fled the scene remains on the loose, police said Monday. Officers responded around 11:30 p.m. Sunday to a report of a man shot on the light rail train downtown, the Seattle Police Department
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An 18-year-old man told Bend Police early Sunday morning that he’d been kidnapped, attacked and robbed by a group of people over a marijuana vape cartridge, leading to the arrest of two women and a man on robbery, burglary, kidnap and other charges, officers said Monday.
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By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer The U.S. government is threatening to sue PacifiCorp, a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, to recover nearly $1 billion in costs related to the 2020 wildfires in southern Oregon and northern California, though the company is trying to negotiate a settlement. The potential lawsuits were disclosed in an
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The gunfire that shattered the calm at pastor Joel Osteen’s megachurch in Houston only lasted about four minutes. But surveillance video and police body camera footage released Monday, more than two weeks after the Feb. 11 shooting at Lakewood Church, showed the terror of the brief
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The major global medical association for endocrinologists will review its clinical guidelines for gender-affirming care, the Endocrine Society told CNN on Monday. Despite recent moves by some US states to restrict or ban such care, the society said it’s a routine update that was not prompted by politics. The
Continue ReadingMauricio Torres (CNN) — Un deslizamiento de tierra ocurrido a siete kilómetros de Machupicchu Pueblo, en Perú, dejó la tarde de este domingo un saldo de 2 personas desaparecidas y 12 heridas, según informó este lunes el Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo a través de su cuenta en la red social X, antes Twitter.
Continue ReadingBy LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Hundreds of medical professionals in West Virginia have signed onto a letter condemning a bill advancing in the state House of Delegates that would bar transgender youth at risk for suicide from accessing medical interventions like hormone therapy. Advanced to the full chamber by a House
Continue ReadingWLKY, CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY, CAMPBELLSVILLE POLICE, CNN By Nic Anderson and Brammhi Balarajan, CNN (CNN) — The Kentucky student who was found unresponsive on campus this weekend died of strangulation, police said Monday, and the suspect arrested in his death was a fellow member of the Campbellsville University wrestling team. Campbellsville University student Josiah Kilman, 18,
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona and Lauren Fox, CNN Republicans who expressed support for in vitro fertilization in the wake of the controversial Alabama Supreme Court ruling are coming under scrutiny for also backing legislation that declares human life begins at conception, without an exception for IVF — two positions that appear to be at odds with
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Una TikToker cuyo video muestra dónde encontrar la casa real que aparece en la exitosa película “Saltburn” dijo que “no tenía idea” de que sus imágenes se volverían virales. Rhian Wiliams, consultora de marketing y relaciones públicas de 47 años en el Reino Unido, dijo a CNN que el
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California Edison will pay $80 million to settle claims on behalf of the U.S. Forest Service connected to a massive wildfire that destroyed more than a thousand homes and other structures in 2017. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says the utility agreed to the settlement on Friday without admitting wrongdoing or
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Federal judges are hearing arguments over whether Mississippi’s legislative maps are diluting the power of Black voters. Lawmakers adjusted the 122 state House districts and 52 Senate districts in 2022 to reflect population changes shown by the Census. The NAACP and several Black residents are
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Un calor sin precedentes abrirá la puerta a una ronda de tormentas inusuales en febrero en el Medio Oeste de Estados Unidos esta semana, cuando masas de aire radicalmente diferentes choquen entre ellas. Las fuertes tormentas empezarán a formarse el martes, cuando gran parte de EE.UU. quede atrapado en una montaña rusa
Continue ReadingBy SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Legislation that would end tax benefits for the United Daughters of the Confederacy is on its way to Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who hasn’t said whether he supports it. The Richmond-based women’s group was established after the Civil War and helped erect many of the
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Democrats in the New York Legislature have rejected a congressional map drawn by the state’s bipartisan redistricting commission. The votes on Monday set the stage for the party to craft lines that help Democrats in battleground House races that could determine control of Congress. The Democratic-dominated
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The political consultant behind robocalls that mimicked President Joe Biden’s voice says he was trying to send a wake-up call about the potential malign uses of artificial intelligence, not influence last month’s New Hampshire primary. Steve Kramer said Monday that he may be portrayed as a
Continue ReadingBy JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A member of the jury that convicted a South Carolina man of a hate crime based on gender identity has opened up about the historic case. Jurors last Friday found Daqua Ritter guilty in the fatal shooting of Dime Doe, a transgender woman whom
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press A second man is facing federal charges in connection with a human smuggling operation in which a family of four from India froze to death trying to enter the U.S. from Canada. Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel was arrested Wednesday in Chicago. He faces human smuggling charges. The victims were found dead
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