By Paradise Afshar and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A 19-year-old man entered a guilty plea Tuesday in connection with the murders of his mother and three siblings in 2020 at their home in Grantsville, Utah, his attorney says. Colin Jeffery Haynie, who goes by Jeffery, “did accept responsibility today and entered guilty pleas to all of
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nneka Ogwumike scored a season-high 35 points and the Los Angeles Sparks pulled away in the second halfand handed the Indiana Fever their 10th straight loss, 86-79. Ogwumike, whose career high is 38 points, made 12 of 20 shots with two 3-pointers for Los Angeles (11-14). She missed a jumper and
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BEIJING (AP) — Four people have died in a gas explosion at a six-story residential building in the Chinese port city of Tianjin. State broadcaster CCTV said Wednesday that 13 other people had injuries that were not life-threatening. The cause of the explosion remains under investigation, but it points to the deterioration of infrastructure following
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By Jason Hanna and Christina Maxouris, CNN A dangerous heat wave that has wilted the south-central US spread across the country Wednesday, with about 110 million people under heat alerts in more than two dozen states from California to New England — and many areas recording high temperatures in the 90s or triple digits. That
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, CNN Towns and farmlands inundated by floods, homes and roads buried by landslides, crops withering under scorching heat, hazmat-suited Covid workers collapsing from heatstroke. Since summer began, scenes of devastation and misery have been playing out across China as the world’s most populous nation grapples with an unrelenting torrent of extreme weather
Continue Reading By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The All-Star Game showcased what baseball has become — home runs, strikeouts and offense-killing shifts. The National League didn’t have a hit between the first and eighth innings of Tuesday night’s 3-2 loss, its ninth in a row. Four of the five runs scored on
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tiffany Hayes had a season-high 31 points, Rhyne Howard scored 24 and the Atlanta Dream knocked off the Las Vegas Aces 92-76. Hayes and Howard each scored 11 in the first quarter to help Atlanta (12-14) jump out to a 35-18 lead. Howard made 5 of 6 from 3-point range in
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The tax burden for funding state government and public schools in New Mexico is shifting slightly toward wealthier residents as the state stops collecting taxes on most Social Security benefits. The Legislature’s budget and accountability office estimates that recent state tax reforms will reduce state income by about $94 million
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The tax burden for funding state government and public schools in New Mexico is shifting slightly toward wealthier residents as the state stops collecting taxes on most Social Security benefits. The Legislature’s budget and accountability office estimates that recent state tax reforms will reduce state income by about $94 million
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(Courtesy: NMSU Athletics) LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Four members of the NM State baseball program have been selected in the 2022 Major League Baseball Draft. The Aggies saw a pair of pitchers selected in Ian Mejia and Sammy Natera, in addition to a pair of incoming freshman – Nick Peoples and Milo Rushford.”We’re stoked for
Continue Reading By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Giancarlo Stanton homered into an especially sweet spot in his Dodger Stadium homecoming at the All-Star Game, putting his name alongside some of the sluggers he loved watching from the left field seats as a kid. Byron Buxton followed with another drive and the American
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon and Yoonjung Seo, CNN South Korea’s homegrown KF-21 Boramae fighter jet flew for the first time on Tuesday, putting the country among the few nations to have developed and flown an advanced supersonic fighter. The prototype jet took a 33-minute roundtrip flight from an air force base in the southern city of
Continue Reading By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan lawmakers have elected the unpopular prime minister as their new president. Wednesday’s choice risked reigniting turmoil in the South Asian nation reeling from economic collapse and months of round-the-clock protests. The crisis has already forced out one leader, and a few hundred protesters
Continue Reading By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angels star Shohei Ohtani called his shot before leading off the Midsummer Classic at Dodger Stadium, telling Fox’s Tom Verducci in the on-deck circle that he was going to jump on Clayton Kershaw quickly. He promised “first pitch, first swing, that’s it.” Then he flared
Continue Reading LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Anti-abortion activists from across the country converged in southern New Mexico on Tuesday to protest relocation plans by the Mississippi clinic at the center of the court battle that overturned Roe v. Wade, but New Mexico’s governor vowed not to back down from her support for access to abortions. Democrat
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By Jamie Gangel, CNN The Secret Service was only able to provide a single text exchange to the DHS inspector general who had requested a month’s worth of records for 24 Secret Service personnel, according to a letter to the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, and obtained by CNN. The revelation provides insight
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Basketball player Kiki Rice and cross country runner Colin Sahlman have been named national high school athletes of the year. Rice, of Washington, is the ninth female basketball player to win the award sponsored by Gatorade since it began in 2003. Sahlman, of Newbury Park, California, is the first male cross
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Basketball player Kiki Rice and cross country runner Colin Sahlman have been named national high school athletes of the year. Rice, of Washington, is the ninth female basketball player to win the award sponsored by Gatorade since it began in 2003. Sahlman, of Newbury Park, California, is the first male cross
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, CNN The Mega Millions jackpot has ballooned to $630 million after there were no winners to match Tuesday’s winning six numbers. The numbers were 2, 31, 32, 37, 70 plus the gold Mega Ball 25, according to the lottery’s website. The night’s $555 million jackpot was the fifth largest in the lottery’s
Continue Reading By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clayton Kershaw’s news conference after his first All-Star Game start was nearly over when Blake Grice spoke up. The 10-year-old from Denver said his grandfather was a Dodgers fan and a Redondo Beach native who died of brain cancer. Meeting Kershaw allowed Blake to check
Continue Reading By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Ukrainian high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh delivered good news to her war-torn country with a silver-medal performance at world championships. The 20-year-old cleared 2.02 meters (6 feet, 7 1/2) inches to add the outdoor silver to the indoor title she won in March. That win came
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EL PASO, Texas – A UTEP assistant soccer coach has been nominated for an ESPY award. Kate Ward was named a finalist for the ESPY for Best Athlete With A Disability in Women’s Sports. Ward is hard of hearing, but she doesn’t let her disability get in the way of her love of soccer. She’ll soon
Continue Reading By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — British 1,500-meter champion Jake Wightman was in disbelief after he crossed the finish line. His face captured the evening best. Nothing quite went to script, yet everything seemed almost perfect on a wild night at the world championships. The in-stadium announcer for Wightman’s race was
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — Las primarias de Maryland están programadas para poner a prueba las opiniones de los votantes demócratas sobre el establecimiento del partido y la voluntad de los republicanos de apegarse a lo que ha sido una fórmula ganadora para el Partido Republicano en el estado azul profundo. El gobernador republicano Larry Hogan,
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By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Jon Hamm would like to introduce everyone to the “Hamm Slamm.” Get your mind out of the gutter. Ahead of the MLB All-Star Game, the “Mad Men” star stepped in as a field reporter and spoke to some of baseball’s biggest names about their favorite nicknames for a home run —
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — Durante 46 años, la respuesta a quién mató a Lindy Sue Biechler fue un misterio. Pero con la ayuda del ADN extraído de una taza de café a principios de este año, los investigadores pudieron acusar a un hombre de Pensilvania del apuñalamiento de la mujer de 19 años en 1975.
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The anti-abortion community in Las Cruces held a rally Tuesday night outside the Las Cruces Women’s Health Organization clinic, the newest abortion clinic in New Mexico that is preparing to open its doors. Organizers say they are worried New Mexico, one of the few states in the region where abortion
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges is facing three felony domestic violence charges in Southern California after being accused of assaulting his girlfriend in front of their two children last month. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said his office filed one felony count of injuring a child’s parent and two
Continue Reading By Barbara Starr and Ellie Kaufman, CNN The US Army is now projecting that for the next two years it will massively fail to recruit as many troops as it hoped, falling short by nearly 40,000 new recruits, according to the latest estimates and testimony from the Army’s second highest leader. “We’ve got unprecedented challenges
Continue Reading By The Associated Press American forward Haji Wright is staying with Turkey’s Antalyaspor, agreeing to a three-year contract. The 24-year-old from Los Angeles spent last season at Antalyaspor on loan from the Danish club SønderjyskE. He scored 14 goals in 32 league matches and had a seven-game scoring streak that ended in May’s season finale.
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