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Year: 2024

Hasty Pudding honors ‘Saltburn’ actor Barry Keoghan as its Man of the Year

By STEVE LeBLANC BOSTON CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals roasted Barry Keoghan, best known for his roles in “Dunkirk,” “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,” and “The Banshees of Inisherin,” as its 2024 Man of the Year Friday. Keoghan, who also starred in the thriller “Saltburn,” was presented with a pudding

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Arkansas parole board chair resigns after police personnel file shows he lied about sex with minor

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The chair of Arkansas’ parole board has resigned after personnel records revealed he was fired from a local police department for lying to investigators about having sex with a minor. Jamol Jones stepped down Friday, a week after Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders named him chair.

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Primo del expresidente Juan Orlando Hernández se declara culpable de narcotráfico ante corte de EE.UU.

macamilarincon (CNN Español) –– Mauricio Hernández Pineda, exfuncionario de la Policía Nacional de Honduras y primo del expresidente Juan Orlando Hernández, se declaró culpable este viernes de un delito relacionado con narcotráfico en una corte federal de Nueva York, según documentos judiciales que revisó CNN. El exfuncionario policial formaba parte de un caso que involucra

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State Treasury proactively returning $10 million in unclaimed funds to Oregonians

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon State Treasurer Tobias Read announced Friday that the state Treasury will be proactively returning approximately $10 million in unclaimed property this month to individuals as part of the agency’s 2024 ‘Checks Without Claims’ initiative. “We’re excited to reconnect thousands of individuals with their unclaimed funds without requiring any action on

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A painting by René Magritte may fetch $64 million at an auction marking a century of surrealism

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A major work by surrealist painter René Magritte that hasn’t been shown in public for a quarter century could fetch 50 million pounds ($64 million) at auction next month. Christie’s auction house announced Saturday that it will offer “L’ami intime” (The Intimate Friend) at a March 7

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Maine family gives up on proposal to honor veterans with the world’s tallest flagpole

COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine (AP) — A family with an audacious plan to build the world’s tallest flagpole as a centerpiece for a billion-dollar project honoring veterans is abandoning the idea. An attorney said Friday that the Worcester family won’t pursue the flagpole project in Washington County or elsewhere. Instead they will look for other ways

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Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — National security adviser Jake Sullivan; House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.; Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Sullivan; House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. ___ CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Sullivan; Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz.; Reps. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, and Jim Himes, D-Conn.; International Monetary

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Jack Smith’s prosecutors use new filing to fight back against Trump’s claims in Mar-a-Lago documents case

By Katelyn Polantz, Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Washington (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith’s office is defending how the federal government during Joe Biden’s presidency sought to repossess White House records Donald Trump took, and how the case evolved into a federal investigation. The expansive, 67-page filing offers a detailed retelling of the

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