By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson will serve an 11-game unpaid suspension, pay a $5 million fine and undergo professional evaluation and treatment as part of a settlement with the NFL following accusations of sexual misconduct by two dozen women. The league had sought to ban
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By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Creem, which once billed itself as “America’s only rock ‘n’ roll magazine,” is attempting a comeback after more than 30 years. J.J. Kramer, the son of the original founder, is behind the effort. Kramer was 4 years old when his father died. The original Creem
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By Melissa Alonso and Jennifer Henderson, CNN The Florida state Senate will pause its proceedings to remove state attorney Andrew Warren, who was suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis for his pledge not to prosecute certain cases, according to a letter penned by Senate President Wilton Simpson on Wednesday. The Republican governor announced he was suspending
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STORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn football defensive coordinator Lou Spanos has taken a leave of absence for personal reasons. The school provided no further details and did not say whether Spanos is expected to return this season. The 51-year-old served as UConn’s defensive coordinator from 2019-21 and became the Huskies’ interim head coach after Randy
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By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Even after Vince McMahon, the former WWE chief executive, retired from the company amid an investigation into his hush money payments to women, news of additional payments is still coming out. The latest revelation involves former president Donald Trump. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that $5 million of McMahon’s
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Amarachi Orie, CNN While nowadays you might have some chicken soup to fight a cold, a new project unearthing manuscripts up to 1,000 years old reveals the bizarre medical remedies recommended by those in the medieval era. The violence of medieval society is detailed in the recipes, from gruesome animal-derived treatments to advice on how
Continue Reading By Matt Egan The cost of diesel has tumbled from record highs, easing inflationary pressure on everything from trucking and farming to construction. The national average for diesel dipped slightly below $5 a gallon on Thursday for the first time since March 9, according to AAA. At $4.999, diesel prices have declined 82 cents since
Continue Reading By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson will serve an 11-game unpaid suspension, pay a $5 million fine and undergo professional evaluation and treatment as part of a settlement with the NFL following accusations of sexual misconduct by two dozen women. The league had sought to ban
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By AJ Willingham, CNN Life would be much more simple with a few directions. A status bar, for instance, to remind you to take care of yourself. Perhaps a few clues about other people’s intentions. Oh, and it wouldn’t hurt to have a place to experiment with it all, free from real-world consequences and the
Continue Reading BEREA, Ohio (AP) — AP source: Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson reaches agreement with NFL, will serve 11-game suspension, pay $5M fine.
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN) — Un capitán del Departamento de Bomberos de Los Ángeles negó ante una corte haber utilizado las imágenes del accidente de helicóptero que cobró la vida de Kobe Bryant y de otras ocho personas como un “truco” para entretener, cuando las mostró en la fiesta de una ceremonia de premiación. Llegaron al lugar
Continue Reading MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of Google employees are petitioning the company to extend its abortion health care benefits to contract workers and to strengthen privacy protections for Google users searching for abortion information online. Google parent company Alphabet had pledged to pay travel and other health care costs for employees seeking an out-of-state
Continue Reading By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Shila rushes into the living room when she hears her nephew scream. He’s just stepped on a staple that was jutting out of the damp floor in their Maryland apartment, and his toe is bleeding. “The floor is very dangerous,” Shila tells CNN as she tries to comfort the 2-year-old
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CNN By Kara Scannell, CNN Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty Thursday to his role in a 15-year-long tax fraud scheme, and as part of the deal he has agreed to testify against former President Donald Trump’s real estate company at trial. In court Thursday, Weisselberg said, “Yes,
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer NBA champions Patrick McCaw, Norris Cole and Jodie Meeks are among the 15 players who have been invited by USA Basketball to training camp for the FIBA AmeriCup tournament. The camp starts Tuesday in Las Vegas. The AmeriCup, the FIBA Americas region championship tournament that was last held in
Continue Reading By EDEN STIFFMAN of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy While grantmakers have historically put more resources into elementary and secondary education than early childhood, support for the youngest learners is on the rise. From 2006 to 2013, foundations overall gave at least $4.6 billion to support early-childhood education, according to data from Candid.
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EL PASO, Texas — The family of Walmart shooting victim Alexander Hoffman must now communicate through a private attorney with anything having to do with the case. 409th district court judge Sam Medrano issued an order today requiring the Hoffmans to work with lawyer Justin B. Underwood. The Hoffman’s surviving family are his widow, Rosa Maria
Continue Reading By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The saga of struggling retailer Bed Bath & Beyond keeps getting curiouser and curiouser. Shares of the company have surged more than 60% in the past week and soared nearly 250% in the past month thanks to meme investors on Reddit. Those self proclaimed “apes” have been touting
Continue Reading By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. housing market has gone from red-hot to decidedly tepid since the spring, though you wouldn’t know it by this summer’s sharp rebound in homebuilder’s stocks. The rally by homebuilders follows a pullback in mortgage rates since June, suggesting investors are already looking ahead
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Patrick Swayze would have turned 70 on Thursday if it were not for the pancreatic cancer he died from in 2009. The “Dirty Dancing” star was one of the first public figures to reveal he had the disease, the same one that Alex Trebek and Steve Jobs died from. Swayze was diagnosed
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey “The Wonder Years” actress Danica McKellar left acting to pursue a mathematics career and now she’s explaining why. McKellar’s young son Draco recently interviewed his mom for ET, asking her, “You were about my age when you acted in ‘The Wonder Years.’ What do you remember most about those years?” McKellar said
Continue Reading MONACO (AP) — A Russian shot putter who reached the 2012 Olympic final has been banned based on 10-year-old evidence. The Athletics Integrity Unit said Irina Tarasova was banned for two years and disqualified from all her shot put results between July 2012 and July 2016. She placed ninth in the 2012 Olympic final. The
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By Brandon Miller, Judson Jones and Rachel Ramirez, CNN The flash drought conditions expanded and intensified in New England over the past week, according to the latest report from the US Drought Monitor. Extreme drought — level 3 out of 4 — now covers parts of eastern Massachusetts, Connecticut and the entire state of Rhode
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN) — Allen Weisselberg, exdirector financiero de la Organización Trump, se declaró culpable este jueves de su participación en un plan de fraude fiscal que se extendió por 15 años. Y, como parte del acuerdo, accedió a testificar en juicio contra la compañía de bienes raíces del expresidente Donald Trump. Ante la corte, Weisselberg
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza Chautauqua, Nueva York (CNN) — El sospechoso acusado de apuñalar a Salman Rushdie fue puesto en prisión preventiva sin fianza, y se dictaron órdenes temporales de protección para los oradores que supuestamente atacó en la institución de Chautauqua. Además, se declaró inocente. Las órdenes temporales de protección dictadas para Rushdie y Ralph
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By MATTHEW BROWN and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. oil industry hit a legal roadblock in January when a judge struck down a $192 million oil and natural gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico over future global warming emissions from burning the fuels. It came at a pivotal
Continue Reading By MATTHEW BROWN and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. oil industry hit a legal roadblock in January when a judge struck down a $192 million oil and natural gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico over future global warming emissions from burning the fuels. It came at a pivotal
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By Kara Scannell, CNN Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty Thursday to his role in a 15-year-long tax fraud scheme, and as part of the deal he has agreed to testify against former President Donald Trump’s real estate company at trial. In court Thursday, Weisselberg said, “Yes, your
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess and Holly Yan, CNN A brain-eating amoeba typically found in freshwater lakes and rivers may have killed a child in what would be Nebraska’s first known death from the parasite, health officials said. The child, whose age was not disclosed, died this week in Douglas County, its health department said. The child
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Pensándolo bien, quizá sea mejor no pasar la sal. Agregar sal a tu comida en la mesa se asocia con una menor esperanza de vida y un mayor riesgo de muerte prematura, según un nuevo estudio. El estudio analizó a más de 500.000 personas en el Biobanco del Reino Unido
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