CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Today, a lot of business students would probably pay serious money for Elon Musk’s opinion of their work. In 1995, though — long before he took control of Tesla and, later, founded SpaceX — Musk was a teaching assistant helping grade exams and papers at the University
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury has awarded a largely symbolic settlement of more than $301 billion in a lawsuit against a Corpus Christi bar. The suit stems from a 2017 crash that killed 59-year-old Tamra Kindred, her 16-year-old granddaughter Aujuni Anderson, and the other driver, Joshua Delbosque. Kindred’s daughters alleged Beer Belly’s
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury has awarded a largely symbolic settlement of more than $301 billion in a lawsuit against a Corpus Christi bar. The suit stems from a 2017 crash that killed 59-year-old Tamra Kindred, her 16-year-old granddaughter Aujuni Anderson, and the other driver, Joshua Delbosque. Kindred’s daughters alleged Beer Belly’s
Continue Reading SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile’s President Sebastian Piñera has signed a law permitting same-sex couples to marry and adopt. The ceremony came a little more than six months after the conservative leader surprised many by saying he would smooth the way for a marriage equality law that had long been stuck in the nation’s Congress.
Continue Reading By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and FRANCESCA EBEL Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A fire at Tunisia’s largest Islamist party’s headquarters in the capital Tunis Thursday killed one person and injured eighteen, authorities and the party said. The latter included a former prime minister who was hurt jumping out of a window. In a statement,
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers wide receiver Randall Cobb has a core injury that will prevent him from playing Sunday and could keep him out for much longer. Packers coach Matt LaFleur says Cobb has a “pretty significant injury” and is “going to be out for a while.” The NFC North-leading Packers
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California woman faces criminal charges because authorities say she told her basketball player daughter “you better hit her” before the girl punched an opposing player in the head during a game. Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said Thursday that the mother’s words were the
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California woman faces criminal charges because authorities say she told her basketball player daughter “you better hit her” before the girl punched an opposing player in the head during a game. Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said Thursday that the mother’s words were the
Continue Reading The Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Rapper Travis Scott says in an interview that he didn’t know that fans had died at his Astroworld festival in Houston until after his performance ended. In the interview with Charlamagne Tha God posted on Thursday, Scott said he paused the performance a couple of times but couldn’t hear
Continue Reading The Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Rapper Travis Scott says in an interview that he didn’t know that fans had died at his Astroworld festival in Houston until after his performance ended. In the interview with Charlamagne Tha God posted on Thursday, Scott said he paused the performance a couple of times but couldn’t hear
Continue Reading By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press One casualty of this year’s congressional redistricting process across the country is the swing seat in a House district. Political lines are redrawn every 10 years to reflect population changes. Both parties, but especially Republicans, are trying to protect their congressional incumbents during the latest redistricting. To do that they’re
Continue Reading CNN By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Amtrak service will likely be reduced next year as it complies with the upcoming vaccine requirement for federal workers. Amtrak president Stephen Gardner testified before a House of Representatives committee Thursday that the passenger rail operator does not anticipate having enough employees to run all trains when the mandate
Continue Reading By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press One casualty of this year’s congressional redistricting process across the country is the swing seat in a House district. Political lines are redrawn every 10 years to reflect population changes. Both parties, but especially Republicans, are trying to protect their congressional incumbents during the latest redistricting. To do that they’re
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CNNEE (CNN) — El año 2021 fue extraordinario, incluso sin precedentes, con noticias que se desvelaron rápidamente comenzando con el violento asalto al Capitolio de EE.UU. que nos sacudió el sexto día de enero de 2021 y que dejó fotos memorables. Luego fuimos testigos del final de una presidencia de EE.UU. y el comienzo de
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EL PASO, Texas — It’s a special reunion just in time for the holidays. Yesenia Madrigal lost her dog, Max, two years ago. Madrigal now lives in Nebraska. Just a few days ago she and her family received a Christmas miracle in the form of a phone call. Madrigal said, Max, her miniature schnauzer of
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CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Ahmed Qorei, former prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority. Personal Birth date: March 1937 Birth place: Abu Dis, West Bank Birth name: Ahmed Ali Mohammed Qorei Other Facts His last name can be spelled Qurei, Qureia, Qrei, Qurai or Korei. It is pronounced
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By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Museum of Art is dropping the Sackler name from seven exhibition spaces amid growing outrage over the role the family may have played in the opioid crisis. The museum and the Sackler family jointly announced on Thursday that the institution and their once-deep
Continue Reading By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Museum of Art is dropping the Sackler name from seven exhibition spaces amid growing outrage over the role the family may have played in the opioid crisis. The museum and the Sackler family jointly announced on Thursday that the institution and their once-deep
Continue Reading By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Coyotes are all caught up on their bills. The hockey team paid off overdue taxes and other bills a day after receiving word the city of Glendale was going to lock them out of Gila River Arena if they didn’t get caught up.
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Boris Johnson, former prime minister of the United Kingdom. Personal Birth date: June 19, 1964 Birth place: New York, New York Birth name: Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson Father: Stanley Johnson, environmentalist, writer, former politician Mother: Charlotte Johnson Wahl, painter Marriages: Carrie Symonds (2021-present); Marina
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by Patrick Lohmann, Source New Mexico SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico’s red chile harvest might become a casualty of a recent Supreme Court ruling that halted Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s ability to spend federal money without the Legislature. Lujan Grisham announced a $5 million program in August that chipped in taxpayer money to
Continue Reading By Ali Zaslav and Lauren Fox, CNN The Senate voted on Thursday to advance a bill to create a fast-track process allowing Democrats to raise the federal debt limit, a crucial next step as lawmakers race the clock to avert a catastrophic debt default. To get there, the plan’s supporters needed to break a GOP
Continue Reading French President Emmanuel Macron has urged Britain to make it easier for people to apply for asylum and harder for people to work illegally to stem risky migration efforts across the English Channel after a recent deadly sinking. Macron also accused the British government of reneging on promises over fishing licenses and of betraying French-British
Continue Reading French President Emmanuel Macron has urged Britain to make it easier for people to apply for asylum and harder for people to work illegally to stem risky migration efforts across the English Channel after a recent deadly sinking. Macron also accused the British government of reneging on promises over fishing licenses and of betraying French-British
Continue Reading By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Five mixed-race women who were taken away from their Black mothers in infancy and sued the Belgian state for allegedly committing a crime against humanity have lost their case. One of their lawyers told The Associated Press on Thursday that they will likely appeal the Brussels court’s
Continue Reading By Lauren Fox, Sonnet Swire and Matthew Hoye, CNN The Elizabeth Dole Foundation confirms it has cut ties with event organizer Tim Unes who was working on late Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole’s funeral arrangements because of Unes’ alleged role in helping to organize the January 6 “Stop the Steal” rally, which ultimately led to
Continue Reading ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina authorities say a high school student has been taken into custody after he was found carrying a rifle with a loaded magazine on a school bus. According to The Daily Advance of Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten said the juvenile student was carrying a pistol-grip AK-47
Continue Reading By Daniel Dale President Joe Biden visited Missouri on Wednesday to promote the infrastructure law he signed in November. And Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican who is also a US Senate candidate in the 2022 election, greeted Biden with a scathing letter — one which began with a false claim. Schmitt’s first paragraph
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CNN, KKTV, RUSSIA 24 By Clare Foran, Ali Zaslav and Lauren Fox, CNN The Senate voted on Thursday to advance a bill to create a fast-track process allowing Democrats to raise the federal debt limit without votes from Republicans, a crucial next step as lawmakers race the clock to avert a catastrophic debt default. A
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — This weekend’s Premier League game between Brighton and Tottenham has been postponed because of an outbreak of COVID-19 among the London club’s players and staff. Tottenham’s Europa Conference League game against Rennes had already been pushed back this week and the Premier League said Thursday that it approved a request from Spurs
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