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Month: August 2024

With ‘Cancer Moonshot’ announcement, Biden turns to causes most important to him in final months in office

By Kayla Tausche, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s first public event planned since his exit from the 2024 race last month marked a cause close to home: Announcing a major financial award from the cancer-curing policy arm he created in the wake of his son Beau Biden’s death. The “Cancer Moonshot” program, founded while Biden

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George Clooney has some choice words for Quentin Tarantino, who said he doesn’t think Clooney is a movie star

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — George Clooney has a profanity-laced bone to pick with director Quentin Tarantino. “Quentin said some s—t about me recently, so I’m a little irritated by him,” Clooney said in an interview with GQ published on Tuesday, which he did alongside his “Wolfs” costar Brad Pitt. Clooney went on to

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‘Lab-grown’ meat maker files lawsuit against Florida ban

Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A manufacturer of “lab-grown” meat has filed a lawsuit challenging a recently enacted Florida law that bans the sale of the product. The lawsuit argues the restrictions against cultivated meat are unconstitutional and unfairly protect Florida farmers from competition by out-of-state producers. U.S. regulators first signed off

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Google rolls out Pixel 9 phones earlier than usual as AI race with Apple heats up

AP Technology Writer MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google on Tuesday unveiled its next generation of Pixel phones, providing the maker of Android software a head start on the next iPhone in the race to bring more artificial-intelligence services to devices that have become people’s constant companions. The showcase held near Google’s Mountain View, California,

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Chaparral man charged with stockpiling guns, homemade bomb components

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — 76-year-old Chaparral resident Frederick Urban was charged with illegally stockpiling firearms and explosives in Las Cruces Monday. Urban appeared before a federal judge and will remain in jail until a detention hearing. Court documents allege that Urban, a previously convicted felon, according to state officials, owned numerous firearms. When

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San Francisco prosecutors charge 26 pro-Palestinian demonstrators who blocked Golden Gate Bridge

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco prosecutors have charged 26 protesters who blocked the Golden Gate Bridge for hours in April to demand a cease-fire in Gaza. The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office says the protesters were charged with felony conspiracy, false imprisonment, obstruction of a thoroughfare and several other charges. Traffic snarled for hours

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Indiana attorney general drops suit over privacy of Ohio girl who traveled for abortion

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s attorney general has dropped a lawsuit accusing the state’s largest hospital system of violating patient privacy laws when a doctor told a newspaper that a 10-year-old Ohio girl had traveled to Indiana for an abortion. The Indianapolis Star reported Monday that a federal judge approved Attorney General Todd Rokita’s request. Rokita

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Woman who hurled racist slur at a Black University of Kentucky student pleads guilty following mediation

By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — A former University of Kentucky student facing assault charges after repeatedly hurling a racial slur at a Black student on campus in 2022 pleaded guilty on Monday, following mediation in court, her attorney told CNN. Sophia Rosing pleaded guilty in Fayette County Circuit Court to four counts of fourth-degree

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California lawmakers resurrect controversial bill allowing early release for some felons serving life without parole

By Ashley Zavala Click here for updates on this story     SACRAMENTO, California (KCRA) — After being shelved for nearly a year, California lawmakers in the Assembly dusted off a controversial, proposed law that will allow some convicted felons serving life without parole to petition for early release. The proposal would create a process for those

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Before lobster, Maine had a thriving sardine industry. A sunken ship reminds us of its storied past

Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An 83-foot (25-meter) motor boat that was one of the first refrigerated sardine carriers during the heyday of Maine’s sardine industry is going to be scrapped after a recovery operation to retrieve the sunken vessel. The Jacob Pike fell victim to a storm last winter. The 21-year-old great-great-grandson of

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“Detenciones arbitrarias y uso desproporcionado de la fuerza alimentan clima de miedo” en Venezuela, advierte la ONU

Sol Amaya (CNN Español) — La tensión en Venezuela sigue en aumento tras las elecciones presidenciales del 28 de julio, cuyos resultados aún se disputan entre el oficialismo y la oposición mayoritaria, mientras crecen las denuncias de violaciones a los derechos humanos. Ante este contexto, la Oficina del Alto Comisionado para los Derechos Humanos de

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EE.UU. y Colombia dialogan sobre situación en Venezuela, dice el canciller colombiano

Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) — El canciller colombiano, Luis Gilberto Murillo, confirmó que sostuvo una conversación con el secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Antony Blinken, donde resaltó que siguen en contacto con “todos los sectores oficiales y políticos en Venezuela”, como parte del esfuerzo diplomático de su país junto a Brasil y México ante

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