By Christian Olaniran Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — Actor Kevin Spacey’s waterfront home sold for $3.24 million at a public auction Thursday on the steps of a Baltimore Circuit Court. The 9,000-square-foot home in Harborview was sold to a Maryland developer, according to Sam Sheibani of Compass, a nationwide
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Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s Democratic Alliance is taking the African National Congress, the party it co-governs the country with, to court over a preelection speech given by President Cyril Ramaphosa. It’s an early sign of friction between the country’s most important partners in a new multiparty coalition. The DA
Continue Reading By Andrea Olson Click here for updates on this story ARCO, Idaho (eastidahonews.com) — Roberta Armstrong has had a good life but still wonders from time to time how it would have been different had her father lived. Lt. Robert W. Madsen of Minnesota died in a training crash 80 years ago at what’s now
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AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Max Scherzer always has the mindset to be aggressive on the mound, attack hitters and find ways to pitch around lineups while being in the strike zone. Along the way over 17 big league seasons, the three-time Cy Young Award winner has piled up a lot of strikeouts.
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By Danya Gainor and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Rep. Jennifer Wexton of Virginia made history Thursday as the first lawmaker to use an artificial intelligence-generated model of her voice to speak for her on the House floor. “My battle with progressive Supranuclear palsy, or PSP, has robbed me of my ability to use
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By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — The US economy just got its latest health check, and it looks promising. Gross domestic product, which measures all the goods and services produced in the economy, registered at a robust 2.8% annualized rate in the second quarter, after adjusting for inflation and seasonality, the Commerce Department said
Continue Reading By Aziza Shuler Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KDKA) — A Lehigh Valley Division I athlete put his dreams of attending law school on hold. He’s now dedicating his future to teaching youth tennis in Philadelphia. “Attitude, character, as well as effort,” Gabe Knowles, a tennis coach at Legacy Youth Tennis, said.
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are everywhere lately. While promoting their upcoming Marvel epic “Deadpool & Wolverine,” out Friday, the pair have done every interview, hosted a late night show and are probably commanding your social media feed. But instead of poking fun at each other as they’ve done
Continue Reading Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — New federal court rulings are narrowing the Biden administration’s enforcement of a rule for protecting LGBTQ+ students from discrimination and allowing critics to limit it even further school by school. The rule is to take effect on Aug. 1. A federal judge in Missouri blocked enforcement in six additional
Continue Reading By Tom Ignudo, Joe Brandt Click here for updates on this story BERWYN, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — A Chester County woman was charged for deliberately setting a fire at a historic Main Line home on Tuesday morning. Easttown Township Police charged Kathryn Frankel with arson, risking catastrophe and other related offenses on Wednesday after a fire
Continue Reading AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — The feuding this week among officials in the Olympics, the anti-doping world and the United States government over eradicating drugs from sports is hardly new. They’ve been going at it for decades. The tension reached a new level on the eve of the Paris Games when the International Olympic
Continue Reading By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The US Justice Department on Thursday announced the indictment of an alleged North Korean government-backed hacker for allegedly participating in a scheme to break into US hospital computer systems and extort them for ransom. Rim Jong Hyok is part of a group of hackers working for North Korea’s military
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — Make sure you’ve got enough pages in your passport, because TIME has just released its list of the world’s 100 greatest places to visit in 2024. From Costa Rica to Koh Samui to the Republic of the Congo, the team of editors at the New York-based news magazine has
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The union representing workers at Lear Corp.’s Missouri plant that makes seats for General Motors vehicles says it has reached a tentative agreement with the company, ending a strike that was in its fourth day. About 480 workers at the Lear Corp. plant who walked out at midnight Sunday were back at work Thursday. They
Continue Reading By Bo Evans Click here for updates on this story ARLINGTON, Texas (KTVT) — The newly reimagined Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey production is back in North Texas — bringing the same excitement with a slew of new acts. At the center of all the action is a hometown kid who’s ushering in a
Continue Reading By Ed Lavandera and Ashley Killough, CNN (CNN) — CenterPoint Energy executives apologized and promised to do better Thursday after power outages from Hurricane Beryl wreaked havoc for millions across the Houston area earlier this month. Appearing before the Public Utility Commission of Texas in Austin, the company’s chief executive was apologetic and outlined a
Continue Reading CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — After weeks of troubleshooting and recent tests meant to replicate the issues plaguing Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, NASA and Boeing officials still aren’t ready to name a return date for the two astronauts piloting the vehicle on its inaugural crewed test flight. But engineers do finally have some possible
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Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Southwest Airlines cambiará a asientos asignados por primera vez en su historia, un cambio que permitirá a la aerolínea de tarifas bajas cobrar una prima por algunos de los asientos de sus aviones. La aerolínea también comenzará a ofrecer vuelos nocturnos de “ojos rojos” por primera vez, lo que,
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Yoweri Museveni, president of Uganda since 1986.PersonalBirth date: August 15, 1944Birth place: Ntungamo, UgandaBirth name: Yoweri Kaguta MuseveniFather: Amos Kaguta, a cattle keeperMother: Esteri KokundekaMarriage: Janet (Kataaha) Museveni (August 1973-present)Children: Muhoozi Kainerugaba and three daughtersEducation: Dar Es Salaam University (Tanzania), B.A., Economics,
Continue Reading By Marvin Hurst Click here for updates on this story DALLAS, Texas (KTVT) — As more West Nile Virus cases are being reported in North Texas, a 15-year survivor of the severe neuroinvasive form of the virus is sharing his harrowing experience from late August 2009. “I was on the porch in 2009 with my
Continue Reading Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The trial has started for the daughter of baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Eckersley, who is accused of abandoning her baby after giving birth in the woods in subfreezing temperatures on Christmas night in 2022. But attorneys for 27-year-old Alexandra Eckersley, who was homeless, say she didn’t know
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has issued an Ozone Action Day for the El Paso Area Thursday from 6 AM to 9PM MDT. According to the TCEQ, atmospheric conditions are expected to produce high levels of ozone pollution in the El Paso area. Smoke from wildfires across the
Continue Reading Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is putting her own stamp on the campaign that she inherited from President Joe Biden. From her music to her stump speech, she’s reshaping the message around her background and image. Democrats have been energized by her first outings on the campaign trail as she’s visited
Continue Reading Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Hundreds of migrants and homeless Parisians climbed aboard buses to be driven out of the city. They are latest group of people sleeping on the streets to be moved to the fringes of Paris ahead of the Olympic opening ceremony. They’re to be set up in temporary lodging until at
Continue Reading AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Lupita Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Sandra Oh will help reopen the newly revitalized Delacorte Theater in Central Park in a free production of “Twelfth Night.” Director Saheem Ali picked William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy “Twelfth Night” to christen the return in the summer of 2025. The
Continue Reading By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — As long as she’s been on the political scene, Vice President and likely Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has proudly repped the salmon pink and apple green of Alpha Kappa Alpha. Alpha Kappa Alpha is a historic African American sorority, founded on the campus of Howard University, Harris’ alma
Continue Reading By Nicole Comstock Click here for updates on this story MENIFEE, California (KCAL/KCBS) — A deep sense of loss coursed through a Menifee community as many stood by candlelight and remembered three young softball players and their mother. Olivia, 12, Emmalynn, 11, Gianna, 8, and their mother Karly Perez died while returning home from a
Continue Reading By Michael Chen Click here for updates on this story SAN DIEGO, California (KGTV) — The cleanup continues after vandals broke into and heavily damaged an endangered bird nesting area off Bonita Cove. On Mariner’s Point, a trail of damage has been left inside a nesting preserve for the endangered California Least Tern. “This is
Continue Reading AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Flavor Flav stopped for hugs, handshakes and high-fives as he made his way around the Team USA House at the Paris Games on Thursday. He never stopped smiling. “This is quite an experience for me right now, you know, because the only time I’ve ever seen the Olympics was
Continue Reading By Matthew Rodriguez Click here for updates on this story RIVERSIDE, California (KCAL/KCBS) — Riverside police and their federal law enforcement partners arrested a man in Mexico accused of killing someone 19 years ago. In June 2005, 38-year-old Alfonso Vera tried to stop a man from beating his girlfriend in the 4700 block of Doane
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