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Top News Stories for Wednesday, May 8th 2024
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
NEW YORK – As the third week of witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial takes place, all eyes are on who will be called next and whether the former president will be able to abide by the terms of his now twice-broken gag order that bars him from speaking publicly about jurors, witnesses and some others connected to the case. An attorney for Stormy Daniels, Clark Brewster, told The Associated ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Washington, DC – The United States has played down the deadly Israeli assault on Rafah, saying the offensive appears to be "limited" despite concerns over the fate of the more than 1.5 million Palestinians sheltering in the southern Gaza city. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters on Tuesday that the US still opposes a major Israeli offensive against Rafah. Israel had stepped up ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Hundreds of Chicago-area college students have joined the wave of pro-Palestinian protests sweeping campuses across the country, expressing support for the people of Gaza and demanding their universities divest from Israel. Only one protest camp in the Chicago area remains, at DePaul University's Lincoln Park campus. Police cleared an encampment at the University of Chicago on Tuesday. On Saturday, police arrested ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Apple will finally unveil its 2024 iPad lineup that so many people have been waiting for. I know I'm excited about one particular model, the 11-inch OLED iPad Pro , though I will wait for Apple's iPadOS 18 demos at WWDC to decide whether or not I buy one. Others might be eying the 13-inch iPad Pro or one of the two iPad Air 6 variants that Apple is expected to unveil on Tuesday. And many will buy a new iPad as ...
Source: bgr.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Boeing called off its first astronaut launch because of a valve problem on the rocket Monday night. The two NASA test pilots had just strapped into Boeing's Starliner capsule for a flight to the International Space Station when the countdown was halted, just two hours before the planned liftoff. United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno said an oxygen pressure-relief valve on the upper ...
Source: military.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
ByteDance, the owner of the social media platform TikTok , has filed a lawsuit against the United States government in an effort to block a law that would force it to divest from its US assets . On Tuesday, lawyers for ByteDance filed the complaint in the US Court of Appeals in Washington, DC, arguing the law was "obviously unconstitutional". President Joe Biden signed the law less than two weeks ago, on April 24, ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Ms Nome allegedly offered to walk away from her governorship early if she was offered the NRA job South Dakota governor Kristi Noem was reportedly gunning for a top job at the National Rifle Association as recently as last fall, according to a new report. Ms Noem – who saved future opponents time and energy by willfully choosing to include in her new book that she shot her dog decades ago – reportedly ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday that it is investigating whether Boeing employees may have skipped key inspections of certain 787 Dreamliner aircraft and falsified reports to say the work was completed. The agency said Boeing voluntarily disclosed the issue last month, telling regulators that inspections of areas of the jet where the wings join the fuselage may not have been done as required. It ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Four tornadoes swept through Michigan Tuesday as tens of millions of people across the Central United States braced for severe storms, damaging hail and powerful winds. A tornado watch – which indicates conditions are ripe for tornadoes to form – was issued by the National Weather Service for much of Indiana, western Ohio and southern Michigan at 5 p.m. The weather service confirmed four tornadoes in ...
Source: usatoday.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Aileen Cannon, overseeing Trump's prosecution on charges of retaining classified files, says case is not ready to take before jury The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump's prosecution on charges of retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club on Tuesday formally scrapped her scheduled 20 May trial date without setting a new date, ruling the case was nowhere near ready to take before a jury in Florida. ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Kendrick Lamar and Drake have allegedly removed copyright stipulations from the diss tracks aimed at each other as the rap rivals' war of words continues to grip social media. Lamar and Drake, whose full name is Aubrey Drake Graham, have spent recent weeks lobbing insults and allegations at one another on a host of tracks as the long-established bad blood between the two reaches boiling point. The current war of ...
Source: newsweek.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
– The U.S. Army soldier arrested in Russia last week was being held in a pretrial detention facility, the Army said Tuesday. Russian reports said he would be held for two months pending an investigation. Staff Sgt. Gordon Black flew to Vladivostok, a Pacific port city, to see his girlfriend and was arrested after she accused him of stealing from her, according to U.S. officials and Russian police. The Army ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Building on the success of Ansible Lightspeed, Red Hat will extend generative AI capabilities across its platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. For IT leaders experiencing skills gaps in the data center and cloud, Red Hat believes it may have an answer. At Red Hat Summit 2024 in Denver today, the company announced plans to extend its Red Hat Lightspeed generative AI capabilities across ...
Source: cio.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Nintendo said Tuesday it will make an announcement about a highly anticipated new console by the end of March 2025 as sales decline of the hugely popular Switch, which is now in its eighth year. Despite logging a record net profit in the year to March, helped by the weak yen, the game giant expects net profit to drop nearly 40 percent in the current financial year. Players and investors have been hungry for news ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
The trustees for Social Security and Medicare warn policy changes are needed or else the programs won't be able to pay full benefits to retiring Americans. They did announce a measure of good news in their annual report Monday. The "Go Broke" dates for both programs have been pushed back thanks to the improving economy. Medicare is getting a five-year lifeline and can continue full payouts through 2036. Social ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Miss USA 2023 Noelia Voigt has resigned from the title, she announced on social media. Voigt, of Utah, was crowned Miss USA in November 2023, but resigned Monday, citing mental health. "In life, I strongly value the importance of making decisions that feel best for you and your mental health. As individuals, we grow through experiencing different things in life that lead us to learning more about ourselves," Voigt ...
Source: cleveland.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading. Reddit — The social media stock popped nearly 18% on the back of a better-than-expected quarterly earnings in its first report since the company's initial public offering in March. Reddit saw a faster rate of advertising revenue growth than its top competitors. Reddit posted $243 million in revenue, while analysts polled by FactSet forecast ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
A team of scientists seems to have discovered a previously hidden genetic cause of Alzheimer's. In a new study Monday, the researchers found strong evidence that people carrying two copies of a genetic variation already tied to Alzheimer's risk are practically destined to develop the neurodegenerative disorder as they get older. As much as 2% of the general population may have the same mutation, suggesting that the ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Google Pixel 8a hands-on: Flagship AI and a 120Hz OLED screen for $499 You also get IP67 dust and water resistance, wireless charging and the same Tensor G3 chip as the standard Pixel 8. A new Pixel ...
Source: engadget.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
This isn't the first time the organization has sought to change its moniker. After more than 100 years, the Boy Scouts of America are getting a rebrand. On Tuesday, the organization announced that it will be changing its name to Scouting America, to reflect the organization's thousands of female members. The new name is the extent of the organization's rebrand, as girls have been welcomed into the group—which ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Restaurant chain Panera said on Tuesday that it plans to stop selling its Charged Sips caffeinated beverages that are at the center of multiple lawsuits. The company will phase out the caffeine-laden lemonade drinks nationwide, a spokesperson confirmed to . As of Tuesday, they were still available for purchase on Panera's website. The move comes as Panera revamps its menu to offer new "low-caffeine" ...
Source: cbsnews.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! The president has struggled to balance his support for Israel since the attack by Hamas – the deadliest day for Jews worldwide since the Holocaust – with his efforts ...
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
True to its name, a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage spreads out repayment over 30 years, with an interest rate that remains the same for the life of the loan. It's "a uniquely American construct," said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst for Bankrate. In this article monkeybusinessimages | Getty Most U.S. homebuyers taking out a mortgage opt for a 30-year fixed-rate option — but they may not realize how ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Editor's Note: This story was included as an excerpt in WBUR's weekly health newsletter, CommonHealth. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here . Early Monday morning, when most Americans were still sleeping, Steward Health Care filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. bankruptcy code. The filing came after months of concern and uncertainty about Steward's financial ...
Source: wbur.org
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
The U.S. Justice Department on May 7 unsealed charges against a Russian national for his alleged role as the creator, developer and administrator of LockBit, arguably one of the most prolific ransomware gangs and an early pioneer of the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model. In a 26-count indictment by a grand jury in the District of New Jersey, the filing said that since September 2019, Dimitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, ...
Source: scmagazine.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Consumer credit increased at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.5% in March. Total outstanding credit increased to $5.05 trillion during the month. The FDIC failed to provide its employees a workplace safe from sexual harassment, discrimination and other misconduct, an independent investigation... Financial institutions can improve the value of their suspicious activity reports for law enforcement by ...
Source: bankingjournal.aba.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
'She can't decide what she wants to do other than try and be famous' House Democrats don't like the fact that they might have to save House Speaker Mike Johnson . But they are coming to accept they will do it, if it means stopping Johnson from cutting a deal with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene . On Tuesday, Greene met for more than an hour with the speaker in his office , even as votes began on the House ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Understanding the conflict two years on. More on this topic As Russian leader Vladimir Putin was sworn in as president for the fifth time on Tuesday, his country's armed forces made preparations to hold tactical nuclear weapons drills, presenting a dramatic split screen that underlined just how much Russia has changed since Putin was first sworn in as president 24 years ago to the day. As Russian leader Vladimir ...
Source: foreignpolicy.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Black holes, those mysterious places in space where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape, make for great movie plot twists. But Hollywood aside, there are many things humans don't understand about a black hole. A new video from NASA attempts to show what it looks like when an object crosses the event horizon, or boundary, of a black hole. Since no technology can survive this experience, ...
Source: cnet.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Robinhood's SEC battle asks if crypto is a security. The answer could change how we trade. Whether cryptocurrency is a security or not may have to do with how retail investors treat it. Robinhood, one of the most popular retail brokerages for investing in securities, is trying to convince the Securities and Exchange Commission that crypto is not a security. On Monday, Robinhood HOOD, +1.18% revealed that its crypto ...
Source: marketwatch.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
In the last five days, Helldivers 2 was removed from the PC market in 177 countries and the game's Steam reviews collapsed under the weight of more than 200,000 negative ratings, dropping from Positive to Mixed. It's now Tuesday and the Helldivers 2 Steam page is overrun with people ranting against Sony and celebrating democracy, and for anyone taking their first glance at the game, it's all a bit confusing. Here's ...
Source: engadget.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
A recent analysis of a sperm whale's vocalizations suggests variations in 'clicks' represent a kind of alphabet that forms the basis of a complex communication system. Members of the conservation initiative Project CETI discovered series of clicks less than 2 seconds in length act as codas – basic units ( phonemes ) of cetacean speech. The highly social mammals have previously been heard identifying ...
Source: sciencealert.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Kathy Hochul made comment at California conference to showcase upstate AI center before apologizing on Monday night The governor of New York, Kathy Hochul , has rapidly backtracked on remarks she made on Monday after she came under a blizzard of criticism for saying that Black children in the Bronx did not know the word "computer". Hochul had intended her appearance at the Milken Institute Global Conference in ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
TUESDAY, May 7, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Planters peanut products sold at Publix and Dollar Tree in five states are being recalled due to the risk of Listeria contamination, maker Hormel announced. The products are Planters Honey Roasted Peanuts (4 ounces) and Planters Deluxe Lightly Salted Mixed Nuts (8.75 ounces). So far, there have been no reports of illness linked to the recalled products, the company ...
Source: healthday.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Today's high-rate environment has made it pretty tough for people to juggle their daily living expenses and their revolving debt. After all, when interest rates are high overall, variable-rate debt, like credit card debt , tends to cost a lot more than it otherwise would. And, with the average credit card rate currently closing in on 22% , and persistent inflation pushing prices higher on housing, gas and food, ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more . Earth's magnetic field plays a key role in making our planet habitable. The protective bubble over the atmosphere shields the planet from solar radiation, winds, cosmic rays and wild swings in temperature. However, Earth's magnetic field almost collapsed 591 million years ...
Source: cnn.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
The Walt Disney Co. swung to a loss in its second quarter because of restructuring and other charges, but adjusted profit topped expectations and theme parks continued to strengthen. Wall Street reacted negatively to the report with the company's stock down 9.5% to $105.39 at closing. Revenue at Disney's domestic theme parks rose 7%, while its theme parks overseas reported a 29% increase. The company reported more ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Air-gapping GPT-4 model on secure network won't prevent it from potentially making things up. Microsoft has introduced a GPT-4-based generative AI model designed specifically for US intelligence agencies that operates disconnected from the Internet, according to a Bloomberg report . This reportedly marks the first time Microsoft has deployed a major language model in a secure setting, designed to allow spy agencies ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
A British AI startup that specializes in autonomous driving technology has raised more than $1 billion from some high-profile backers, including Microsoft and computer chip-maker Nvidia . Called Wayve, the London-based company said Tuesday the funding will allow it to accelerate the development of its embodied AI technology which enables vehicles to "interact with, comprehend, and learn from human ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
At least 20 Tesla vehicles with Autopilot engaged were involved in crashes since the company issued a voluntary recall for the advanced driver-assist system last December, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration revealed in a new filing this week . Tesla recalled over 2 million vehicles with Autopilot in response to NHTSA's investigation into dozens of crashes involving the company's driver-assist ...
Source: theverge.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 -
KYIV — Ukraine's security services said Tuesday that they had foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky and other top military and political figures. Two Ukrainian colonels accused of participating in the plot have been arrested on suspicion of treason. The Ukrainian domestic intelligence agency, the SBU, said in a statement that the plot had involved a network of agents — ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
The company's new advertiser tool can help you get more out of a single product image. Social media feeds are an ideal place to advertise, and a well-executed campaign can help businesses grow significantly -- but creating them is a lot of work. Meta's new generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools aim to help make curating the perfect ad easier. On Tuesday, Meta unveiled new generative AI ...
Source: zdnet.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Conservative judges cite a former liberal Supreme Court justice to justify their boycott against Columbia. The problem is... it's a lie. Yesterday, 13 Trump-appointed federal judges took a break from their busy schedule of adjudicating cases and controversies on the taxpayer's dime to write a snarling letter to Columbia University declaring that they would no longer hire any graduate of either the law school or the ...
Source: abovethelaw.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
BEIJING — Chinese state media are reporting a knife attack with possible deaths at a hospital in the country's southwest. The official Xinhua News Agency said there were more than 10 casualties in what it called a "vicious assault" on Tuesday in Yunnan province. An online post from Guizhou province television citing unnamed authorities said that two had died and 23 people were injured. A suspect has been ...
Source: time.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) - Floridians will save more than a billion dollars in state taxes over the next year. Governor Ron DeSantis signed off on a tax package Tuesday that includes a tax holiday on property and flood insurance premiums. "We are providing some different types of relief. These are not something that we have done every year. Some of these things are new," DeSantis said. ...
Source: mysuncoast.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
OpenAI is recruiting researchers to test its new deepfake detector. As the US moves toward criminalizing deepfakes—deceptive AI-generated audio, images, and videos that are increasingly hard to discern from authentic content online—tech companies have rushed to roll out tools to help everyone better detect AI content. But efforts so far have been imperfect, and experts fear that social media platforms ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Disgraced biotech company founder is now due to be released in August 2032, two years and four months before original date Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced former chief executive of the blood-testing company Theranos , has had her federal prison sentence shortened again, new records show. The 40-year-old Holmes is now scheduled for release on 16 August 2032 from a federal women's prison camp in Bryan, Texas, ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
This beloved condiment has been shown to help the body run longer—now, new research suggests it could keep your brain in young shape, too. Remember the days before we used olive oil, and instead primarily cooked in ingredients like butter, margarine, and vegetable oil? Thanks to popular influences like doctor talk shows, cooking TV, and Blue Zones research , we now understand that olive oil—rich in ...
Source: thehealthy.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Thirteen years after the rule was supposed to be finalized, on Monday federal banking regulators again proposed a rule governing incentive-based compensation practices at financial institutions. The proposed rule was issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The National Credit Union Administration is expected to sign ...
Source: cuinsight.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 -
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 -
Two years ago, Veena Singla of San Francisco volunteered to participate in a study researching drivers' exposure to flame retardants used on car seats. Singla drives a hybrid car to help the environment, but hadn't thought much about the air inside her vehicle. But according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, "vehicles are likely important sources of ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
The American Cancer Society said Tuesday that it is seeking participants for what may be the largest national study of its kind, one that aims to solve the mystery of why Black women have the lowest survival rate of any racial or ethnic group in the US for most cancers. Thanks to new new medicines and better detection, cancer deaths in the United States have been declining since a peak in 1991, but Black women have ...
Source: cnn.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Researchers are looking at proactive ways through which we can defend ourselves from viruses. A team of scientists from Cambridge University have developed a vaccine that works against the common elements of all coronaviruses. The vaccine, which has only been tested on mice so far, promises to protect us from existing strains, as well as ones that haven't emerged yet. "Our focus is to create a vaccine that will ...
Source: zmescience.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 -
Cape Town, South Africa — Rescue teams trying to find dozens of construction workers missing since a multi-story apartment complex collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa have made contact with 11 people buried alive beneath the mangled wreckage, authorities said Tuesday. One man called his wife from underneath the rubble of the five-story building that had been under construction when it collapsed ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
A woman in Australia accused of serving a meal intentionally made with poisonous mushrooms pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to three counts of murder and five counts of attempted murder. Erin Patterson appeared at Latrobe Valley Magistrates Court via video link from a prison in Melbourne, in the southeastern state of Victoria, where she has been held since her November arrest in connection with a fatal meal at her ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
A Missouri man is facing a second degree murder charge for strangling his wife to death as she was lying in a hospital bed over the weekend, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker announced. According to court records, Ronnie Wiggs admitted to police that he killed his wife, who had come to the hospital for a new port for dialysis. On Friday, May 3, just before 11:30 p.m., a uniformed officer working off duty ...
Source: foxnews.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
And is it feasible? Plus three other questions about the student protesters' demands. A core demand at the heart of the protests over the war in Gaza currently roiling college campuses across the US and around the world: that universities divest from Israel . That means withdrawing funds their endowments have invested in companies that are linked to Israel. Their demands have revived a long-running debate about ...
Source: vox.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Visa is introducing a generative AI tool to assign real time risk scores to transactions in a bid to stop enumeration attacks that use automated scripts and botnets to test for vulnerabilities. Better known as brute force attack, an enumeration attack occurs when a hacker attempts repeatedly — using automated scripts or software — to submit card-not-present transactions through a combination of payment ...
Source: finextra.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Weightlifter Oleksandr Pielieshenko, who competed for Ukraine at the 2016 Rio Olympics , has died while fighting in his country's war with Russia, according to statements from the Ukraine Olympic Committee and the Ukraine Weightlifting Federation posted Monday. "On May 5, an honored master of sports of Ukraine Oleksandr Pielieshenko died in the war with the enemy; a contestant of the 2016 Olympic Games, where he ...
Source: cnn.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
A federal judge declined Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall's (R) request to dismiss two lawsuits, filed by an abortion fund and health care providers, challenging his threat to prosecute organizations that "aid and abet abortions." "The right to interstate travel is one of our most fundamental constitutional rights," U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson wrote in a preliminary ruling on Monday. "Alabama can no ...
Source: truthout.org
Monday, May 6th, 2024 -
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday that the EU would not shrink back from taking tough measures to protect its economy and security, amid tense trade relations with China. "China that plays fair is good for all of us," she said following talks in Paris with Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron. "Europe will not waver from making tough decisions ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Monday, May 6th, 2024 -
Lost Caravaggio that almost sold for €1,500 to go on show at Prado in Madrid Ecce Homo will be museum's second Caravaggio, after being spotted on sale in Spanish capital in 2021 A lost Caravaggio painting of the scourged and thorn-crowned Christ that was misattributed and almost sold for just €1,500 is to go on show at the Prado museum in Madrid three years after its discovery shocked the art world and ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, May 6th, 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! The Seattle company said revenue dropped 2% in the January-March period as store traffic slowed around the world. Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says the company's leaders ...
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Monday, May 6th, 2024 -
V ideo footage of a student making racist gestures, seemingly imitating a monkey, toward a Black woman who was part of a scheduled pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Mississippi, colloquially known as Ole Miss, went viral last week, and on Sunday a fraternity announced that it had removed one member from its chapter at the school over the incident. The Phi Delta Theta General Headquarters said in a ...
Source: time.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
Monday, May 6th, 2024 -
The Jerusalem offices of Al Jazeera were raided Sunday after Israel's far-right Cabinet banned the Qatar-based satellite news network—the sole international media outlet providing 24/7 live coverage from Gaza—from operating in the country. "If you're watching this… then Al Jazeera has been banned in Israel ," correspondent Imran Khan said in a ...
Source: truthdig.com
Monday, May 6th, 2024 -
BF Borgers agreed to pay a $14 million fine after admitting it had falsely claimed filings for hundreds of companies met accounting standards Donald Trump's social media company said Monday that it has parted ways with its auditor after the firm was accused of "massive fraud" by the Securities and Exchange Commission for falsely signing off on regulatory filings that didn't meet accounting standards. Trump Media & ...
Source: marketwatch.com
Monday, May 6th, 2024 -
May 6 (UPI) -- Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday announced that he plans to run for re-election to the Senate. Sanders, I-Vt., announced his intention to run again in a social media post , saying "it has been the honor of my life" to serve his first three terms in the Senate. "In recent years working together, we have made important progress in addressing some very serious challenges but much, much more needs to be ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, May 6th, 2024 -
NEW YORK (AP) — New York is suing an anti-abortion group and almost a dozen pregnancy counseling centers for promoting an unproven method to reverse medication , Attorney General Letitia James announced Monday. James, a Democrat, sued Heartbeat International and 11 pregnancy centers in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, arguing the groups violated laws around making false or misleading advertisements. The case ...
Source: aol.com