By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Meta on Wednesday posted the second quarterly revenue decline in its history since going public and warned that it is making “significant changes” aimed at cutting costs ahead of 2023, as it confronts an economic downturn that is hitting its core online advertising business. For the three months ended in
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By Holmes Lybrand Attorneys for the man accused of attempting to murder Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh told a federal judge Wednesday they have no concerns about their client’s competency. During a status conference in the case against Nicholas Roske, Maryland federal judge Peter J. Messitte told defense attorneys there was a “very high likelihood”
Continue ReadingBy Kacey Cherry and Raja Razek, CNN A former county official in Nevada entered a not guilty plea Wednesday in the stabbing death of a Las Vegas investigative journalist last month. Robert Telles, who was the public administrator for Clark County, is charged with murder in the death of Jeff German, who was found stabbed
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HOUSTON (AP) — A man has received a death sentence for the fatal 2019 shooting of a law enforcement officer who was the first Sikh deputy in his Texas agency. A Harris County jury deliberated about 35 minutes Wednesday before returning the death sentence for 50-year-old Robert Solis. The jury convicted him of capital murder
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KEARNEY, Mo. (AP) — Officials say one construction worker died and three others were injured when a bridge under construction collapsed in a rural area in northwest Missouri. Clay County officials on Thursday identified the fatality as 22-year-old Connor Ernst of California, Missouri. Sheriff’s officials initially said two people were injured when the bridge fell
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By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer Adam Wainwright will pitch for the St. Louis Cardinals next season, choosing to return for an 18th with the franchise while longtime teammates Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina head into retirement. The 41-year-old Wainwright agreed Wednesday to a $17.5 million, one-year contract that includes $10 million in deferred pay
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By Ariane de Vogue, Sara Murray and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Lawyers for Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward and her husband Michael Ward filed an emergency motion with the Supreme Court on Wednesday asking the justices to block a subpoena from the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, for phone and text records. Hours
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By KOVR Staff Click here for updates on this story ORANGEVALE, California (KOVR) — An 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of cruelty to animals after a cat was found dead in an Orangevale neighborhood. The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office says, back on Sept. 7, deputies started investigating a report of two cats being
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By Deidre McPhillips, CNN For nearly two decades, Kristin Friberg has been a librarian with the Princeton Public Library in New Jersey, where one of her many roles is to lead local book groups. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, she worried about the book club participants who had become friends over the years and the
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By Amir Vera and Stephanie Gallman, CNN Authorities have identified the boy found dead inside a suitcase in rural Indiana earlier this year, according to a Wednesday news release from the Indiana State Police. The body of Cairo Ammar Jordan of Atlanta, Georgia, was found in rural Washington County inside a hard-shell suitcase with a
Continue Reading By BOB SMIETANA Religion News Service BRANSON, Mo. (RNS) — A night at the Dolly Parton Stampede is a microcosm of life in these polarized United States. For nearly two hours, on a hot August night, a capacity crowd divided by North and South, Red and Blue, tried to outshout the other side, egged on
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By Dan Heching, CNN The backlash against one moment in Taylor Swift‘s “Anti-Hero” music video appears to have prompted the release of an updated version. Eagle-eyed Swift devotees noted on Wednesday that the Apple Music version of the Grammy-winner’s video, from her tenth studio album “Midnights,” no longer includes a controversial moment that showed the
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By Stella Chan and Gregory Krieg, CNN A woman who claims she was in a years-long romantic relationship with Herschel Walker says the Republican Senate nominee for Georgia pressured her into having an abortion in 1993, she announced at a press conference on Wednesday. The woman, referred to as Jane Doe to protect her identity,
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By Jessica Schneider and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday that the Justice Department formally introduced regulations barring department employees from secretly seeking journalists’ records except in limited circumstances. The new regulations only allow prosecutors to subpoena records in certain circumstances, including if the information they are seeking is imperative to prevent
Continue Reading By TOM KRISHER and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk posted video Wednesday showing him strolling into Twitter headquarters ahead of a Friday deadline to close his $44 billion deal to buy the company. Musk also changed his Twitter profile to refer to himself as “Chief Twit” and his location
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By KCAL/KCBS Staff Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL) — At least one student was hospitalized after as many as four students at Canoga Park High School experienced medical emergencies on Wednesday. According to Los Angeles School Police Department, all four students are safe after making “medical complaints” at around 10:40
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By Kylie Atwood, Jeremy Herb, Katie Bo Lillis and Melanie Zanona, CNN After House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy suggested last week that Republicans might pull back funding for Ukraine next year if they take the majority, the GOP leader has worked behind the scenes to reassure national security leaders in his conference that he wasn’t
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By Eric Levenson, Bill Kirkos and Brad Parks, CNN Darrell Brooks was found guilty of six counts of first-degree intentional homicide on Wednesday for driving his SUV into a crowd of Christmas parade attendees in Waukesha, Wisconsin, last November, killing six people and wounding dozens more. He faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison
Continue Reading By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal judge in Maryland said he is likely to order a mental evaluation for a California man charged with trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte said during a brief hearing that he believes a mental evaluation will show
Continue Reading By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 400 school districts spanning all 50 states and Washington, D.C., along with several tribes and U.S. territories, are receiving roughly $1 billion in grants to purchase about 2,500 “clean” school buses under a new federal program. The Biden administration is making the grants available as part
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