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Top News Stories for Wednesday, May 8th 2024
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
In a private conversation on Tuesday with prosecutors and Donald Trump's lawyers, the judge overseeing the former president's hush-money trial rebuked him for "cursing audibly" during Stormy Daniels's testimony . New York Supreme Court Justice said Trump's behavior might have the effect of intimidating Daniels — who was testifying as a key witness in the case — and threatened to hold him in contempt of ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
Cease-fire talks to end the fighting in Gaza are still taking place in the background, despite Israel's military incursion into Rafah. Negotiators from both Israel and Hamas are in Cairo, having arrived hours after Israeli tanks and troops entered the city of Rafah, according to The New York Times. Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday it had taken operational control of the Gazan side of the Rafah border crossing ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
Police clashed with and arrested dozens of protesters on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus Tuesday night, after students reestablished an encampment in solidarity with Palestine. The Daily Collegian , tracking the protest into the early morning, reported more than 64 arrests. Those arrested included faculty, according to the UMass Students for Justice in Palestine . The group also posted video showing ...
Source: wbur.org
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance launched legal action against the US government on Tuesday after it passed sell-or-ban legislation targeting the short video app. TikTok argues that the law signed by president Joe Biden in April that forces its Chinese owners to divest in nine months violates the First Amendment of the US Constitution. According to the lawsuit, TikTok said "for the first time in history, ...
Source: technode.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
TOPICS: NASA 's Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station has been postponed to no earlier than May 17 due to a faulty valve in the Atlas V rocket's upper stage. The United Launch Alliance will replace the valve after discovering issues during prelaunch checks. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams remain in quarantine at NASA Kennedy, awaiting the next launch opportunity. NASA's Boeing Crew ...
Source: scitechdaily.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
PAULDING COUNTY, Ohio — A suspected tornado damaged homes in Northwest Ohio as the state again dealt with another round of severe weather. WTOL Channel 11 reports nine homes were among several buildings damaged Tuesday by a funnel cloud in Paulding County. At least one home was left uninhabitable. In Darke, Mercer and Warren counties, severe weather downed trees, damaged several buildings and knocked out ...
Source: cleveland.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
The biggest mistake companies of all sizes could make is to put conformity before innovation, according to EU AI Act co-rapporteur Dragoș Tudorache. The European Union's AI Act , a regulation aiming to ensure AI is human-centric and trustworthy, is one step away from becoming reality. The document is expected to be published in the Official Journal at the beginning of June, and will come into effect 20 days ...
Source: cio.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
DALLAS – After more than a century, Boy Scouts of America is rebranding as Scouting America , another major shakeup for an organization that once proudly resisted change. Founded 114 years ago, the Texas-based organization has recently been mired in turmoil over a flood of sexual abuse claims and bankruptcy. Now, the organization is leaning into a more inclusive message as girls have been joining throughout ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Tuesday condemned a "ferocious surge of antisemitism" in the United States following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack against Israel and said people were already forgetting the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. Speaking at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Days of Remembrance, Biden tied the anti-Jewish sentiment that led to the Nazi effort to exterminate Jews directly to ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
Panera Bread is discontinuing its controversial, highly caffeinated Charged Sips range that was linked to at least two wrongful death lawsuits in the US. The sandwich and coffee chain is phasing out the three drinks and replacing them with other beverages in the next two weeks, Bloomberg first reported, citing a company memo. Business Insider has approached Panera for confirmation. Panera told Bloomberg that the ...
Source: insider.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
The Google Pixel 8a is a budget-friendly phone with powerful performance and AI features like the higher-end Pixel 8 series. Google, one of the leading names in the technology world, has finally unveiled the Google Pixel 8a , the newest member of the long-awaited Pixel 8 series. It was introduced as a phone equipped with both budget-friendly and productive artificial intelligence capabilities. Despite being in the ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
WASHINGTON – When Marjorie Taylor Greene announced her plans to oust Mike Johnson from the speakership, the conservative agitator committed to follow through on her threats and call a vote on the speaker's future. But it's been more than a month since then and Greene, R-Ga., has yet to force a House vote on removing Johnson, R-La., despite her repeated statements that she will do so – whenever that is. ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($766,550 or less) decreased to 7.18% from 7.29%. Refinance demand increased to 5% for the week, although it was still 6% lower than the same week one year ago. Applications for a mortgage to purchase a home rose 2% for the week but were still 17% lower than the year-earlier week. A sign advertising a home for sale is ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
The Boston Celtics continued to put on a show in the NBA Playoffs , dominating the Cleveland Cavaliers 120-95 in Game 1 of their second-round series. Star wing Jaylen Brown scored 32 points in front of the home crowd at the TD Garden as the No. 1 seed Celtics showed why they are considered a favorite to win it all this season. Boston finished with an NBA-best 64-18 regular season record to earn the top seed. A Game ...
Source: cnn.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
created a secret AI model for US spy agencies that is not connected to the internet. William Chappell, its strategic missions and technology CTO, told Bloomberg that Microsoft spent 18 months working on the model, which is "air-gapped" so it's secure and can only be accessed by the US government. Chappell told the outlet that the model based on GPT-4 is now live, can answer questions, and will be able to write ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
UK-based autonomous vehicle (AV) technology startup Wayve announced on Tuesday (7 May) that it had raised $1.05bn in a funding round led by SoftBank Group . The funding will be used to boost the development of its Embodied AI technology, which Wayve has claimed can learn from human behaviour. The Series C funding round also included Nvidia as a new investor and returning investor Microsoft . ...
Source: verdict.co.uk
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
INDEPENDENCE, Missouri — A Missouri man is accused of strangling his ill wife to death in her hospital room, reportedly telling investigators he did it because he could not care for her anymore and he could no longer afford to pay her medical bills. Ronnie Wiggs, of Independence, was overheard by medical staff at Centerpoint Medical Center saying "I did it, I killed her, I choked her," according to a charging ...
Source: cleveland.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Ki Nam, a North Korean propaganda chief who helped build personality cults around the country's three dynastic leaders , has died at 94, the North's state media said. North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency said the country's current leader, Kim Jong Un , visited the body of Kim Ki Nam at a funeral hall in the capital, Pyongyang , early Wednesday and expressed condolences to ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
"New car smell" is a beloved benefit of buying a new vehicle. However, at least part of that scent could be due to toxic carcinogens released by flame retardants, a new study says. Flame retardant chemicals added to seat foam and other car components pollute the cabin air inside all personal vehicles, according to findings published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Further, these chemicals are ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing an anti-abortion group and nearly a dozen pregnancy centers in the state for false and misleading statements promoting an unproven procedure they claim can reverse the effects of the abortion pill. James alleges in the civil suit filed Monday that Heartbeat International and 11 of the anti-abortion pregnancy centers linked to it have engaged in fraud, deceptive ...
Source: cnn.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
The world experienced its hottest April on record, continuing an 11-month streak of unprecedented high temperatures, the European Union's climate change monitoring service has said. Each month since June 2023 has ranked as the planet's hottest on record , compared with the corresponding month in previous years, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Wednesday. The exceptionally warm conditions occurred ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
Vaxzevria was one of a number of shots released onto the market by pharmaceutical companies aimed at preventing people from catching COVID-19 The pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca said on Tuesday it is withdrawing its COVID-19 vaccine worldwide citing low demand and a "surplus of available updated vaccines" since the pandemic. The vaccine — called Vaxzevria – was one of a number of shots released ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
Mike Grier was so elated over winning the NHL draft lottery on Tuesday night, the San Jose Sharks general manager dispensed with tradition by coming out and stating exactly who he expects to select with the No 1 pick: Boston University center Macklin Celebrini. Where past GMs in Grier's position have kept their choice under wraps until they step to the podium on draft day, Macklin's abilities and ties to San Jose ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
WEDNESDAY, May 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- A Midwestern candy company has issued a massive recall due to the risk of salmonella tainting some of its products. Palmer Candy Company of Sioux City, Iowa, is recalling "white coated confectionary items" because they could be contaminated with salmonella, the company announced this week. The products are sold in bags, pouches, tubs and other retail packaging. Brand names ...
Source: healthday.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
Olive oil – 7 grams per day may keep the dementia away! In a recent study published in the journal JAMA Network Open , researchers used a large prospective cohort study to investigate the long-term associations between olive oil consumption and dementia mortality risk. Their cohort comprising 92,383 American adults revealed that consuming seven or more grams of olive oil per day was associated with a 28% ...
Source: news-medical.net
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
GEORGE – Nearly 40 construction workers were still missing Wednesday in the rubble of a building that collapsed in South Africa on Monday as rescue teams continued to search for survivors for a third day in the wreckage of the unfinished five-story apartment complex. Seven workers have been confirmed dead, while authorities in the city of George on South Africa's south coast released new information on the ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
In a surprise new song , rapper Macklemore praises college students across the US who are protesting Israel's war in Gaza, vowing that he will not vote for President Joe Biden come November. The song, released Monday, is titled "Hind's Hall" in reference to the new temporary name pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University gave to a building they occupied on campus . With its release, the ...
Source: cnn.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
From new iPad models to an Apple Pencil Pro to a new M4 processor, here's what Apple unveiled during its 'Let Loose' keynote. During what Tim Cook called "the biggest day for the iPad since its introduction," Apple announced new updates to its iPad lineup, including a new OLED iPad Pro , a new iPad Air, a new Apple Pencil Pro , and a new Magic Keyboard . For months now, we've heard rumors that Apple was planning to ...
Source: zdnet.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
A Boeing whistleblower and other aviation experts painted a troubling picture of Boeing's safety practices at a Senate hearing in April 2024 (Kent Nishimura/AFP) US air safety authorities are investigating whether embattled aviation giant Boeing completed required inspections on its 787 aircraft and whether employees falsified records, officials said Monday. The issue centers on whether Boeing undertook required ...
Source: rawstory.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge in Florida presiding over the classified documents prosecution of former President Donald Trump has canceled the May 20 trial date, postponing it indefinitely. The order from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon had been expected in light of still-unresolved issues in the case and because Trump is currently on trial in a separate case in Manhattan charging him in connection ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
May 7, 07:27 PM Russian officials on Tuesday said an American soldier being held in Vladivostok will remain in jail for at least two more months while authorities review the theft charges against him. Staff Sgt. Gordon Black , who has served in the Army since 2008, was arrested by Russian police on May 2 after traveling from his South Korean base to the Russian city, which sits near the country's ...
Source: militarytimes.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Nintendo has thrown Switch players a long-awaited bone alongside announcing its end-of-year financials results , confirming the console's successor will be unveiled before April, 2025. Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa said that a next-generation Nintendo Switch console will be announced "within this fiscal year" — giving the Japanese gaming giant a deadline of March 31st, 2025. That aligns nicely with its ...
Source: theverge.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
The Social Security Administration said Monday it has enough funds to pay all scheduled benefits and associated administrative costs until 2035, one year later than projected last year. "This year's report is a measure of good news for the millions of Americans who depend on Social Security , including the roughly 50% of seniors for whom Social Security is the difference between poverty and living in dignity ...
Source: usatoday.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Walt Disney — The media giant slid more than 4% even after Walt Disney Company posted fiscal second-quarter earnings that beat expectations, bolstered by after narrowing streaming losses. Hims & Hers Health — The stock surged 14% after the telehealth consultation platform posted second-quarter revenue guidance that topped estimates. Hims & Hers ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
The 24-year-old won the beauty pageant last year and represented the US at the Miss Universe competition in November. Competition organisers say they are reviewing plans for "the transition of responsibilities to a successor". The current Miss USA has said she is relinquishing her title to prioritise her mental health. Noelia Voigt, 24, won the beauty pageant last year and represented the US at the Miss Universe ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Authorities in the U.K., U.S., and Australia today revealed new sanctions against the infamous Russian hacking gang LockBit and named a Russian man believed to be the group's administration and lead developer. The man alleged to lead LockBit is Russian national Dmitry Khoroshev. Known online as LockBitSupp, Khoroshev is claimed by the U.K. National Crime Agency to have thrived on anonymity and had ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
If you've ever wondered what it would look like to fall into a black hole, then NASA's new black hole simulation is sure to mesmerize you. The simulation shows what happens as the viewer approaches the black hole, eventually falling into the "point of no return." You can see the video for yourself below. It was created using the Discover supercomputer at NASA's Center for Climate Simulation. This particular version ...
Source: bgr.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
UPDATE—May 7, 2024: This article has been updated to reflect additional information about Disney's outlook and more recent share price values. After Disney ( DIS ) reported a net loss for its fiscal second quarter despite returning a surprise profit in its direct-to-consumer entertainment segment and gave weak guidance for the third quarter, CEO Bob Iger and other executives joined the company's earnings ...
Source: investopedia.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Sperm whales rattle off pulses of clicks while swimming together, raising the possibility that they're communicating in a complex language. Ever since the discovery of whale songs almost 60 years ago, scientists have been trying to decipher their lyrics. Are the animals producing complex messages akin to human language ? Or sharing simpler pieces of information, like dancing bees do? Or are they communicating ...
Source: nytimes.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Meta is rolling out a new way for advertisers to create marketing materials. Businesses can now use Meta's artificial intelligence (AI) tools to create images for advertising campaigns, Meta said in a Tuesday (May 7) blog post . Business owners can feed the AI an image of their products and generate new backgrounds for it. The model also offers image expansion, which resizes the image to fit a range of ...
Source: pymnts.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. says she regrets making an offhand remark that suggested Black children in the Bronx do not know what the word "computer" means. Hochul, a Democrat, made the extemporaneous comment Monday while being interviewed at a large business conference in California to discuss expanding economic opportunities in artificial intelligence for low-income communities. "Right now, we have ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
We know that inheriting two copies of a specific gene variant, called apolipoprotein E4 ( APOE4 ) , greatly increases the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease later in life. Now, a new study has found that people with two copies of APOE4 are all but certain to develop Alzheimer's if they live long enough. The findings suggest two copies are not just a risk factor but an underlying cause of the disease, which ...
Source: sciencealert.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
At least two people were killed and another 21 injured in a knife attack in a hospital in China's southwestern province of Yunnan on Tuesday, local authorities said. The attack, described by Chinese state media outlet Xinhua as a "violent incident" took place at a local hospital in Zhenxiong county, the news agency reported, adding that authorities were gathering more information. A separate statement from the ...
Source: edition.cnn.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
As fears mount over the proliferation of deepfake images that could influence this year's many elections, OpenAI today announced the creation of a new tool to detect if an image was made with its own DALL-E AI image generator. Unfortunately, OpenAI's deepfake detector only works successfully on images made by its own generative artificial intelligence, but it's a start. For years now, deepfake images have plagued ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
DETROIT — Federal highway safety investigators want Tesla to tell them how and why it developed the fix in a recall of more than 2 million vehicles equipped with the company's Autopilot partially automated driving system. Investigators with the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have concerns about whether the recall remedy worked because Tesla has reported 20 crashes since the remedy was sent ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top military and political figures, Ukraine's state security service said Tuesday. Two colonels in the State Guard of Ukraine, which protects top officials, were detained on suspicion of enacting the plan drawn up by Russia's Federal Security Service, or FSB, a ...
Source: time.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan , a Republican, is bucking his party and endorsing President Joe Biden over Donald Trump in this year's election. "This November, I am voting for a decent person I disagree with on policy over a criminal defendant without a moral compass," he wrote in an opinion piece in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution . Duncan wrote that the GOP can't rebuild until it rebukes Trump, who he ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL—A massive tax relief package is incoming in the Sunshine State, thanks to Governor Ron DeSantis signing a new bill providing over half a million dollars to Floridians in tax holidays, insurance premiums, and tax credits for certain businesses. DeSantis signed HB 7073 at a Cape Canaveral press conference Tuesday morning, stating that with this new bill, Florida has allocated "close to $7 ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
A group of 13 conservative US federal judges are vowing to not hire Columbia University law students or undergraduates because of how the school has handled pro-Palestinian demonstrations on its campus in recent weeks. The judges sent a letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik and the dean of Columbia's law school Gillian Lester , on Monday, outlining their position and describing the Manhattan campus as ...
Source: cnn.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Federal regulators adopted a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) on incentive-based compensation requiring large banks to make their executive compensation arrangements "more sensitive to risk." CW Event Spotlight Compliance Week's Financial Crimes and Regulatory Compliance Summit will take place June 10-11 at Fordham Law School in Manhattan, New York. The event agenda includes 40+ speakers, including ...
Source: complianceweek.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Disgraced Theranos founder's release date moved up, prison records show Theranos founder and convicted felon Elizabeth Holmes has had more time cut from her prison sentence, after her original release date was slashed by nearly two years last summer. Holmes, 40, was originally ordered to serve more than 11 years behind bars after she was found guilty in January 2022 of four counts of fraud and conspiracy for ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
In one of the biggest beefs in recent hip-hop history, Drake and Kendrick Lamar are feuding — to the point that police were asked about their feud after a security guard was shot outside Drake's Toronto mansion on Tuesday. But it wasn't always this way. Over a decade ago, the pair collaborated on a few songs: On Drake's 2011 track "Buried Alive Interlude," on Lamar's 2012 release "Poetic Justice," and on A$AP ...
Source: pbs.org
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
A federal judge has allowed a lawsuit against Alabama's Attorney General Steve Marshall to go forward. The decision comes after Marshall filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that several abortion rights groups lacked standing to sue him for threatening to prosecute anyone who helps an Alabama woman obtain an out-of-state abortion. On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Myron Thompson declined to dismiss the ...
Source: reason.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
CHICAGO – Three men who say they were sexually abused as children while incarcerated at Illinois juvenile detention centers came forward Tuesday as part of a lawsuit that chronicles decades of disturbing allegations of systemic child abuse. Calvin McDowell, 37, who alleged he was abused by a chaplain at a suburban Chicago youth center as a teenager, said he didn't want others suffering as he did for decades. ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth and Venus were born in the midst of a chaotic star system. With the neighboring worlds being of the same size and similar structure, it's believed that both planets likely began with similar amounts of water. Today, however, Venus is a hellish world with intense heat and crushing pressure, and most of its water is gone. Scientists aren't sure how it became an intense desert-like ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
With the goal of enrolling more than 100,000 participants, the American Cancer Society is planning the largest U.S.-based, behavioral- and environmental-focused study on cancer risk and outcomes in Black women. Compared to white women, Black women are 40% more likely to die from breast cancer and are 2.3 times more likely to die from stomach cancer, according to CDC data compiled by HHS. To discover the root ...
Source: beckershospitalreview.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! An independent review of the agency cites incidents of stalking, harassment, homophobia and other violations of employment regulations. WASHINGTON — An independent review ...
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Fayette Janitorial Service was also ordered to change practices that the Labor Department said had led to the hiring of at least two dozen children in dangerous slaughterhouses and meatpacking facilities. Listen to this article · 4:11 min A Tennessee-based sanitation company has been fined more than $649,000 after an investigation revealed that it had illegally employed at least two dozen children at ...
Source: nytimes.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Paris — Ukrainian double European champion weightlifter Oleksandr Pielieshenko was killed in the war against Russia, the Ukrainian weightlifting federation announced Monday. Pielieshenko, 30, won European gold in 2016 and 2017, and narrowly missed out on a medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics where he came fourth in the 85kg category. "It is with great sadness that we have to tell you that the heart of the great ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Visa has launched a generative artificial intelligence (AI) solution designed to help issuers combat enumeration attacks. The new VAAI Score tool is being added to the Visa Account Attack Intelligence (VAAI) offering, beginning with U.S. issuers, the company said in a Tuesday (May 7) press release emailed to PYMNTS. "With the VAAI Score, our clients now have access to real-time risk scoring that can ...
Source: pymnts.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday told Kristi Noem to "stop digging herself in a hole" after the South Dakota governor suggested that President Joe Biden 's dog Commander be put down. (Watch the video below.) Noem turbocharged a rocky rollout of her new book, " No Going Back ," by defending a passage in which she described shooting her 14-month-old dog Cricket over behavioral problems. She went further in an interview ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
MELBOURNE – A woman accused of serving her ex-husband's family poisonous mushrooms pleaded not guilty in an Australian court on Tuesday to three charges of murder and five charges of attempted murder. Erin Patterson, 49, appeared briefly in Latrobe Valley Magistrates Court by video link from a Melbourne prison, where she has been held since her arrest in November last year. She is accused of killing her ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Denver Nuggets point guard Jamal Murray threw a heat pack on to the court during his team's playoff loss on Monday night, opening himself up for potential discipline for the unsportsmanlike act. Murray was seated at the far end of Denver's bench when he hurled the object onto the court with about 4:40 left in the second quarter as Timberwolves big man and fellow Kentucky Wildcats alum Karl-Anthony Towns drove ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, May 6th, 2024 -
The comparison from San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich didn't arrive without considerable thought. He knows the pitfalls of such an exercise. But the Spurs' season was over and rookie forward-center Victor Wembanyama was the topic. "He's made me understand that he has those Tim Duncan qualities of innate basketball IQ and a fire that he wants to be the best," Popovich told reporters. Now, he has something else ...
Source: usatoday.com