By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Twitter is trying to thwart billionaire Elon Musk’s takeover attempt with a “poison pill” — a financial device that companies have been wielding against unwelcome suitors for decades. Ingredients of each poison pill vary, but they are all designed to give corporate boards an option to flood the market
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By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A long-awaited statue of pitcher Tom Seaver has been unveiled by the New York Mets in a 40-minute ceremony that began about 2 1/2 hours before their home opener against Arizona. With thousands of fans gathered around, cell phones held high and craning their necks
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN An old-fashioned courtroom miniseries with a somewhat more modern backdrop of sexual politics, “Anatomy of a Scandal” is a crisply told, nicely binge-able mystery that doesn’t overstay its welcome. Adapted from a novel, the material certainly doesn’t break any ground but proves watchable enough for its various twists, some admittedly
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN Liz Sheridan, a veteran stage and screen actress who played Jerry Seinfeld’s mother, Helen, on “Seinfeld,” died Friday morning, her manager and friend Amanda Hendon confirmed to CNN. Sheridan had celebrated her 93rd birthday earlier this week, Hendon said. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law. Though she had dozens
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu has won on her Billie Jean King Cup debut to leave Britain level with the Czech Republic in Prague. Raducanu’s swift rise was evident before she beat Tereza Martincova 7-5, 7-5 in what was her first match for Britain and her first professional match on clay. The
Continue Reading By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, earned $610,702 during their first year in the White House and paid $150,439 in federal income taxes. That’s a tax rate of 24.6% for 2021, well over the average federal rate of around 14%. Those totals, released on Friday, tax
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WINFIELD, Kan. (AP) — Law enforcement officers say three sheriff’s deputies were shot and a suspect was killed during a confrontation in central Kansas. Cowley County Sheriff David Falletti said the deputies were following a car that had been reported as suspicious Friday. The sheriff says shots were fired when deputies contacted the driver on
Continue Reading MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Former South Carolina guard Erik Stevenson has signed with West Virginia for the 2022-23 season. West Virginia coach Bob Huggins announced Stevenson’s signing Friday. The 6-foot-4 Stevenson will have one season of eligibility remaining. Stevenson spent his first two seasons at Wichita State and one season at Washington. He started every
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Columbia City Clerk Sheela Amin has called for a special election to be held on August 2 to break the Ward 3 tie between Karl Skala and Roy Lovelady.
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By MJ Lee and Kaitlan Collins, CNN The White House released President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ tax returns on Friday, showing that the first couple earned more than $600,000 and the second couple made over $1.6 million in 2021. The President and first lady Jill Biden paid $150,439 in federal income taxes
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — Anne Milgram, administradora de la Administración de Control de Drogas de Estados Unidos (DEA, por sus siglas en inglés), advirtió sobre los eventos de sobredosis masivas provocadas por el fentanilo en el programa “At This Hour” de CNN el viernes. “Esta es una tendencia que no hemos visto antes”, dijo Milgram.
Continue Reading NEW HAMPTON, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the decade-old home invasion shotgun death of a rural Nashua man. Television station KIMT reports that 49-year-old Randy Lee Patrie pleaded not guilty earlier this week in the October 2012 death of 70-year-old Carl Gallmeyer. About a year after
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Longtime college basketball broadcaster Dick Vitale is celebrating after finishing chemotherapy at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Florida. He tweeted Thursday that he was cancer-free, and posted a video of himself ringing the bell in excitement. Vitale, 82, said in the fall he had been diagnosed with lymphoma, months after multiple surgeries
Continue Reading By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court has upheld a jury’s findings that illusionist David Copperfield and the MGM Grand weren’t financially responsible for a British tourist’s injuries during a Las Vegas Strip show in 2013. Gavin Cox and his wife accused the multimillionaire magician, the hotel and business
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By Cheri Mossburg, CNN A shoe store owner aiming at would-be shoplifters opened fire in a California mall but struck a 9-year-old girl waiting in line to see the Easter Bunny, police said. The child was flown to Loma Linda Medical Center after the April 12 shooting in the Mall of Victor Valley and had
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg, CNN A shoe store owner aiming at would-be shoplifters opened fire in a California mall but struck a 9-year-old girl waiting in line to see the Easter Bunny, police said. The child was flown to Loma Linda Medical Center after the Tuesday shooting in the Mall of Victor Valley and had surgery.
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El presidente de Ucrania, Volodymyr Zelensky, dijo a CNN este viernes que “todos los países del mundo” deben estar preparados para la posibilidad de que el presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, utilice armas nucleares tácticas en su guerra contra Ucrania. Zelensky dijo a Jake Tapper de CNN, en una entrevista exclusiva
Continue ReadingBy Marissa Armas Click here for updates on this story DENVER, Colorado (KCNC) — Walking through Lower Downtown, LoDo, in Denver, there aren’t many signs of what once was, except for a plaque near 20th and Blake. “A white mob descended on the Chinatown that was existing in LoDo, and basically they brutalized the people
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By Brenda Goodman, Deidre McPhillips and Tasnim Ahmed, CNN New York State health officials are alerting the public to two new viral subvariants — offshoots of Omicron’s BA.2 virus — that are spreading more quickly through the central part of that state. The new branches of BA.2’s family tree are BA.2.12 and BA.2.12.1. They are
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story Robbie Owens (KTVT) — A new TikTok challenge is sweeping the country, turning what in years past would have perhaps been an annoying teenage prank into potential for real trouble. “He could have shot them,” said a Dallas mother of a startled homeowner’s encounter with
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