LOS ANGELES (AP) — UCLA coach Mick Cronin is a winner even before the college basketball season starts next month. A 3-year-old filly co-owned by Cronin won the $63,000 feature at Santa Anita by three-quarters of a length on Friday. Sent off at 6-1 odds, So Very Smart paid $14.40, $6.40 and $8.20. The victory
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A department spokesman says two Albuquerque police officers were found to have violated restraint procedures in the Easter Sunday death of a man with a genetic disorder who they were taking into custody for allegedly punching a relative. The Albuquerque Journal reported Thursday an autopsy showed 43-year-old Danny White died of
Continue Reading By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Boston Celtics coach Ime Udoka says he hasn’t discussed with center Enes Kanter the player’s criticism of the Chinese government that led to the team’s games being pulled off television there. Udoka said before the team’s home opener against the Toronto Raptors that he was aware
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By Emma Tucker A Minneapolis police officer was charged with manslaughter for allegedly crashing his squad car into a vehicle during a high-speed chase earlier this year, which resulted in the death of an innocent man, authorities announced Friday. Officer Brian Cummings has been charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminal vehicular homicide in connection with
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CNN By Donie O’Sullivan, Tara Subramaniam and Clare Duffy, CNN Business Just days after insurrectionists stormed the Capitol on January 6th, Facebook’s Chief Operational Officer Sheryl Sandberg downplayed her company’s role in what had happened. “We know this was organized online. We know that,” she said in an interview with Reuters. “We… took down QAnon,
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Rick formed Friday off Mexico’s southern Pacific coast and is forecast to hit that coast at hurricane strength by late Sunday or Monday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Rick was located about 305 miles (490 kilometers) south of the resort of Zihuatanejo. The storm had winds of 45
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A 911 call has been released moments after Alec Baldwin shot a prop gun on the set of the movie “Rust,” where the film’s director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, died and director Joel Souza was injured.
Continue Reading By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and SOPHIA EPPOLITO Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal civil rights investigation found widespread racial harassment of Black and Asian American students at a Utah school district, including hundreds of documented uses of the N-word and other racial epithets over the last five years. The probe released Thursday by
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Temps will stay rather hot over the weekend with highs in the mid-’80s. The winds will kick up a bit by the afternoon with gusts from the SW/W at about 30 mph. Winds get stronger early next week as a cold front arrives from the west. Tuesday’s gusts look to hit 40 mph.
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By Caroll Alvarado, CNN A Colorado police officer has been put on administrative leave and an internal investigation is underway after another officer reported him for yelling and cursing at a 17-year-old female during a traffic stop, according to a release by the Aurora Police Department. The June 29 incident was recorded on bodycam video
Continue Reading An Aurora police officer is on administrative leave after being reported for misconduct by another officer for yelling and cursing at a teenage girl during a traffic stop.
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — A San Jose, California woman born in India was one of two foreign tourists killed in the apparent crossfire of a drug-gang shootout in Mexico’s Caribbean coast resort of Tulum. Authorities said one of the dead women was Anjali Ryot. An Instagram account under the same name showed a post of
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN Español) — Estados Unidos está por abrirles las puertas a los visitantes extranjeros totalmente vacunados, aunque no todos podrán gozar de este beneficio. De acuerdo con la política de viajes de EE.UU., únicamente se considera que una persona está completamente vacunada cuando recibió las dosis completas de las vacunas aprobadas o
Continue Reading RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Steven Alker shot a 9-under 63 on Friday to take the first-round lead in the Dominion Energy Charity Classic, the first of three PGA Tour Champions playoff events. Alker had a bogey-free round on The Country Club of Virginia’s James River Course, making nine birdies in a 12-hole stretch from No.
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN There is a moment in the beginning of the new book from Christine Pride and Jo Piazza that is written from the perspective of a 14-year-old Black boy. After being shot by police, he thinks of his school picture that his mom will use when he dies and his death becomes
Continue Reading BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — World No. 1-ranked Ash Barty won’t defend her season-ending WTA Finals title and is done for the year due to continuing COVID-19 travel and quarantine restrictions. Barty said in a statement that “I wanted to let everyone know that I won’t be competing in any further tournaments in 2021, including the
Continue Reading By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A jury weighing the fate of fallen Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes has had its first chance to listen to recordings of her boasting to investors about purported breakthroughs in blood-testing technology. The technology heralded as a quantum leap in blood testing later dissolved
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A jury weighing the fate of fallen Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes has had its first chance to listen to recordings of her boasting to investors about purported breakthroughs in blood-testing technology. The technology heralded as a quantum leap in blood testing later dissolved
Continue Reading SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s Democratic governor will soon be headed to Scotland for the United Nations’ upcoming climate conference, where world leaders will talk about accelerating action toward the goals of the Paris Agreement to slow global warming. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s office announced her travel plans Friday. She will be accompanied
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By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Southern Mississippi has accepted an invitation to join the Sun Belt Conference. The decision is another blow to Conference USA, which already had six members announce their departures this week. Two people familiar with the decision told The Associated Press that Southern Miss had agreed to leave
Continue Reading By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Southern Mississippi has accepted an invitation to join the Sun Belt Conference. The decision is another blow to Conference USA, which already had six members announce their departures this week. Two people familiar with the decision told The Associated Press that Southern Miss had agreed to leave
Continue Reading By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Seattle Seahawks running back Rashaad Penny is hoping for a run of good health beginning this week. He was designated to return to practice from injured reserve with the expectation that he will be added to the active roster ahead of Monday’s matchup with New
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN) — La Patrulla Fronteriza de Estados Unidos realizó casi 1,66 millones de arrestos por cruces ilegales en la frontera con México durante el año pasado, el número anual más alto de detenciones registrado, según datos publicados por la agencia el viernes. En septiembre, la agencia fronteriza realizó 185.515 arrestos, lo que
Continue Reading By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has allowed a Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in effect for now. But in an unusual move the justices said they want to hear arguments in the case at the soonest opportunity. Those arguments at the high court on Nov. 1
Continue Reading By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has allowed a Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in effect for now. But in an unusual move the justices said they want to hear arguments in the case at the soonest opportunity. Those arguments at the high court on Nov. 1
Continue Reading BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — A judge in California has ruled that state prison guards who work in and around facilities’ health care settings must be vaccinated against the coronavirus. The judge’s decision Friday does not extend to all state prison employees, including guards who work in other settings. The state Department of Public Health in
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Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Justice Sonia Sotomayor sent a strong reminder Friday that she is not a justice looking to carve out compromises with a conservative majority. She knows she will be in dissent in cases that most capture the public’s attention for the foreseeable future. Still, she writes to illuminate
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By Natasha Bertrand, Oren Liebermann, Zachary Cohen and Ellie Kaufman, CNN The Biden administration has told lawmakers that the US is nearing a formalized agreement with Pakistan for use of its airspace to conduct military and intelligence operations in Afghanistan, according to three sources familiar with the details of a classified briefing with members of
Continue Reading By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. investigator says North Korea has never been more isolated from the international community as a result of its drastic steps to prevent COVID-19. TTomás Ojea Quintana said the ruptured global ties are having “a dramatic impact on the human rights of the people
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