Colorado voters scrap bail for first-degree murder defendants
DENVER (CN) — Colorado voters on Tuesday passed a state constitutional amendment revoking the right to bail from people charged with first-degree murder. Voters also rejected measures to replace the...
View ArticleAnother Arizona woman imprisoned for role in polygamist child sex abuse ring
PHOENIX (CN) — A sixth spiritual wife of an Arizona religious leader who sexually abused 10 underage girls in the name of God was sentenced to prison Wednesday afternoon. Leilani Barlow, who admitted...
View ArticleSecret video recordings, Chicago politicos take center stage in Mike Madigan...
CHICAGO (CN) — The federal corruption trial of ex-Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan continued Wednesday with testimony from Fidel Marquez, a former vice president for energy company ComEd. Marquez...
View ArticleSorrentino’s ode to Naples, ‘Parthenope,’ gets mixed reviews in Italy over...
ROME (AP) — When director Paolo Sorrentino’s hit series “The Young Pope” debuted in 2016, it took the Vatican a year to grudgingly bless his imagined and occasionally blasphemous portrayal of the...
View ArticleUK doctor gets 31 years for poisoning mother’s partner with fake Covid vaccine
LONDON (AP) — A British doctor who was disgruntled about his inheritance and tried to kill his mother’s boyfriend by injecting him with a fake Covid-19 vaccine that was poison was sentenced Wednesday...
View ArticleDeforestation in Brazil’s Amazon drops by nearly 31% compared to previous year
AGUA CLARA, Brazil (AP) — Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday, the lowest level of destruction in nine years. In a 12-month span,...
View ArticleCorning faces EU antitrust scrutiny over Gorilla Glass deals with phonemakers
LONDON (AP) — Corning is facing European Union antitrust scrutiny after the bloc’s watchdog said Wednesday it’s investigating the speciality glass maker’s exclusive deals for its Gorilla Glass used in...
View ArticleAppeals court orders new trial for man on Texas’ death row over judge’s...
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Texas appeals court ordered a new trial Wednesday for a Jewish man on death row — who was part of a gang of prisoners that fatally shot a police officer in 2000 after escaping —...
View ArticleFed-up residents poised to recall Oakland mayor, Alameda County DA
OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — In a historic election for Northern California, vote counts Wednesday appeared to signal a recall of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price,...
View ArticleBroiling 2024 ‘virtually certain’ to claim new record for hottest year
(CN) — In 2023 the planet roasted during the hottest year on record — but this year is set to be even hotter. 2024 will in all likelihood end up as the warmest year since record-keeping began,...
View ArticleDNA evidence rewrites Pompeii’s ancient histories
(CN) — In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying Pompeii under layers of ash and freezing the lives of its people in time. This catastrophic event preserved the Roman town and its inhabitants, leaving...
View ArticleFederal judge tosses out ChatGPT plagiarism case from independent digital...
MANHATTAN (CN) — OpenAI on Thursday won the dismissal of a federal copyright suit brought by digital news websites Raw Story and AlterNet, with a New York judge finding the outlets failed to identify...
View ArticleRepublican David McCormick flips pivotal Pennsylvania Senate seat, ousts Bob...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican David McCormick has won Pennsylvania’s pivotal U.S. Senate seat, as the former CEO of the world’s largest hedge fund beat three-term Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in...
View ArticleBay Area battle over airport rebrand flies into federal court
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Beyond trademark infringement, the city of Oakland’s change of its airport name to include “San Francisco” is also confusing travelers, attorneys for the city of San Francisco...
View ArticleJudge weighs sanctions against Israeli spyware company NSO Technologies
OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — Arguing for sanctions against NSO Group Technologies Thursday, WhatsApp and its parent company Meta claimed the Israeli hacker-for-hire company withheld evidence in WhatApp’s...
View ArticleHealth care worker gets 2 years for accessing Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s medical...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A former health care worker who illegally accessed the health records of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before she died was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison....
View ArticleZuckerberg scores win in sprawling case over addictive nature of Facebook,...
OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — A federal judge on Thursday dismissed claims against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg that, as a corporate-officer participant, he concealed and misrepresented the harmful effects that...
View ArticleJudge says Wildlife Services can kill Montana grizzlies but orders further...
(CN) — A federal judge on Thursday allowed U.S. Wildlife Services to continue its program of capturing and sometimes killing predators, including threatened grizzly bears, in Montana but ordered the...
View ArticleJudge rules Biden program to keep undocumented spouses, stepkids in country...
TYLER, Texas (CN) — A Texas federal judge struck down the Biden administration’s “Keeping Families Together” program late Thursday evening, concluding the plan to keep over 550,000 undocumented...
View ArticleA broken-hipped democracy
Since I broke my hip this summer I’ve been talking to people who’ve suffered similar and worse things that changed their lives, temporarily or forever. And I’ve noticed that most people can’t remember...
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