DENVER (AP) — A jury has awarded nearly $9 million to three families who accused a Colorado fertility doctor of using his own sperm to inseminate three mothers who requested anonymous donors. The jury reached its decision late Wednesday, finding Dr. Paul B. Jones liable along with his clinic, Women’s Health Care of Western Colorado.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Keeneland says an exercise rider has died after being thrown from a horse at its training track. A Keeneland spokeswoman confirmed 20-year-old Callie Witt died Friday morning after being thrown from a 2-year-old horse. On-site medical personnel immediately tended to Witt for life-threatening injuries, according to a statement by Keeneland. The
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By Rosa Flores, Rosalina Nieves and Jason Hanna, CNN A group of attorneys filed a federal lawsuit against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star” effort to arrest migrants under state criminal trespassing laws, alleging it targets “Black and Brown — primarily Latino — individuals for prosecution.” The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in the US
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN Business) — Airbnb no le exigirá a la mayoría de sus empleados que vuelvan a la oficina, nunca. La compañía comunicó este jueves a sus empleados que pueden trabajar permanentemente a distancia y que pueden trasladarse a cualquier lugar del país en el que trabajan actualmente. Hacerlo no tendrá un impacto negativo
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ELOY, Ariz. (AP) — The pilot in charge during a forbidden Red Bull plane-swapping stunt is taking full responsibility for the ensuing crash over the Arizona desert. Luke Aikins admitted in a post on his Instagram Friday he disregarded a denial from the Federal Aviation Administration two days before Sunday’s mid-air crash. Aikins and another
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico state representative has agreed to pay a $250 fine under a settlement with the State Ethics Commission stemming from a drunken driving arrest. The commission said Albuquerque Democrat Georgene Louis violated the state Governmental Conduct Act by seeking favorable treatment from police during her Feb. 13 arrest
Continue Reading MONTREAL (AP) — American pharmaceutical company Moderna says it will build a vaccine factory in Montreal, its first outside of the United States. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Trudeau said Friday that the factory will be operational as soon as 2024. He says it will employ up to 300 people and able to produce 100
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN) — Los Centros de Control y Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. (CDC) siguen investigando los casos de hepatitis aguda de causa desconocida entre los niños. La agencia publicó este viernes más detalles clínicos sobre algunos casos en un informe de Morbidity and Mortality Weekly. Hasta el momento, se han registrado al menos
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Brian Ulrich, one of the 11 members of the Oath Keepers facing sedition-related charges, pleaded guilty to “obstruction of an official proceeding” and seditious conspiracy in federal court on Friday, becoming the second person to plead guilty to the gravest charges to emerge from the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack.
Continue Reading By Kara Scannell, CNN Former President Donald Trump said in a sworn affidavit that he doesn’t have any documents sought by the New York attorney general in its investigation of the Trump Organization’s finances. The one-page signed affidavit filed with the court Friday was Trump’s unsuccessful attempt to end the civil contempt and daily fine
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – What was once a vibrant street in Las Cruces is now a troubled corridor with abandoned buildings, broken glass and graffiti. Over a six-month period, businesses along the El Paseo corridor had dozens of incidents of property crime, according to city data obtained by ABC-7. The vast majority were smaller
Continue Reading By Jay Croft, CNN In his escalating feud with Disney, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday night “additional legislative action” is coming to undo the company’s special tax district. He said the legislature will address the legality and any potential tax fallout from the state’s recent move to erase Disney’s self-governing status. DeSantis spoke during
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Navegar un barco colosal no es algo sencillo bajo cualquier circunstancia, pero algunas rutas, como el estrecho Canal de Suez, propenso a las tormentas de arena, que el año pasado fue tristemente célebre luego de que un portacontenedores lo bloqueara, o las ventosas vías fluviales de Alaska, rodeadas de glaciares, son
Continue Reading Investigators say it’s unclear whether two Russian gas executives were in contact before they, along with their families, were found dead within 24 hours. CNN’s Brian Todd reports.
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová and Uliana Pavlova, CNN At least five prominent Russian businessmen have reportedly died by suicide since late January, with three of them allegedly killing members of their families before taking their own lives. Four of the dead men were associated with the Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom or one of its subsidiaries.
Continue Reading By SALLY HO and GARANCE BURKE Associated Press Child welfare officials in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, the cradle of Mister Rogers’ TV neighborhood and the icon’s child-centric innovations, are using an algorithm to support agency workers as they make decisions meant to protect children from neglect. The AP identified several concerns about the technology, including questions
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By Deidre McPhillips, CNN The US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention continues to investigate cases of acute hepatitis with unknown causes among children and released new clinical details about some of the cases on Friday. So far, there have been at least 18 cases reported in at least four states — and dozens more
Continue Reading CNN By CNN CNN has obtained 2,319 text messages that former President Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows sent and received between Election Day 2020 and President Joe Biden’s January 20, 2021, inauguration. Meadows selectively provided these messages to the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
Continue Reading By SALLY HO and GARANCE BURKE Associated Press Child welfare officials in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, the cradle of Mister Rogers’ TV neighborhood and the icon’s child-centric innovations, are using an algorithm to support agency workers as they make decisions meant to protect children from neglect. The AP identified several concerns about the technology, including questions
Continue Reading By Wesli Jones, CNN A mid-air “plane swap” ended with a crash landing, divers captured a jaw-dropping view inside a shark’s mouth and late-night comedians couldn’t wait to joke about Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. Skydiving 2.0 The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a mid-air stunt that ended with a plane crashing in the Arizona desert
Continue Reading See what it’s like to end up in the mouth of a shark. CNN’s Jeanne Moos takes us there.
Continue Reading A high school weightlifter was in danger of being disqualified from the state championship because of her hair, so teammates and even some opponents stepped in to help.
Continue Reading Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and other late night hosts took on the news of Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of Twitter.
Continue Reading The shape of Amazon’s screwy new headquarters inspires mock and awe. CNN’s Jeanne Moos has the best jokes.
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EL PASO, Texas – The local El Paso brewery- Deadbeach Brewery- is throwing a large, free event for the public this weekend. It will be the first-ever Borderland Beerfest! The event will be family-friendly and will include live music from various artists, as well as painters, who will be painting live on the scene. There
Continue Reading Victoria Fernandez (CNN Español) — Después de que el muro fronterizo entre EE.UU y México se elevara a 9 metros de altura, la cantidad de caídas y muertes de migrantes en un centro de trauma de nivel 1 en California aumentó significativamente, según una nueva investigación publicada este viernes en JAMA Surgery. “Elevar el muro
Continue Reading By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press Fair housing advocates have announced a settlement to resolve a lawsuit against real estate brokerage Redfin that will expand housing opportunities for consumers in communities of color. Under the agreement announced Friday, Seattle-based Redfin will change its minimum housing price policy, alter other practices, and pay $4 million to
Continue Reading By The Associated Press A shipment of honeybees bound from California to Alaska died after an airline re-routed them through Atlanta, then left them to sit on the tarmac during hot weather. Delta Air Lines said Friday it is making changes to prevent a repeat of what happened last weekend. About 5 million honeybees were
Continue Reading By Holmes Lybrand A member of the ISIS terror cell nicknamed the “Beatles” was sentenced to life in prison on Friday by US District Judge T. S. Ellis in Alexandria, Virginia. Alexanda Kotey pleaded guilty in September to taking part in a hostage scheme that led to the deaths of Americans, Japanese and British citizens
Continue Reading By Sana Noor Haq, CNN The US military delivered a new birthday cake to an Italian woman, exactly 77 years after American soldiers fighting in her local village ate the original gateau that was made for her 13th birthday. Sgt. Peter Wallis and Col. Matthew Gomlak presented Meri Mion with an icing-covered cake topped with
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