By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A push to mandate members of religious clergy report child sexual abuse when it’s brought to their attention is facing pushback from churches throughout the United States. That’s the case in Utah, where four separate proposals to narrow the so-called clergy-penitent privilege loophole have not
Continue ReadingBy ‘A’ali’i Dukelow Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — Jesse Nielsen, the man who was convicted of sexually assaulting his own mother, appeared remorseful during his sentencing at Honolulu Circuit Court on Tuesday. Nielsen and his 68-year-old mother entered a plea agreement. “I don’t know what to say other than I
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By Anna Cooban, CNN One of Europe’s biggest media groups has warned journalists that artificial intelligence (AI) could steal their jobs, and has provided tips for how reporters can avoid the chop. The chief executive of Axel Springer — which owns Insider, Politico and German tabloid newspaper Bild — told employees in a memo Tuesday
Continue Reading By Clare Duffy, CNN Twitter’s timeline page appeared to experience a prolonged outage on Wednesday morning, marking the latest service disruption for the platform under new owner Elon Musk. Some Twitter users who opened up their “for you” timeline were greeted with a blank screen and a message saying, “welcome to your timeline,” encouraging them
Continue Reading By Clare Duffy, CNN Twitter’s timeline page appeared to experience a prolonged outage on Wednesday morning, marking the latest service disruption for the platform under new owner Elon Musk. Some Twitter users who opened up their “for you” timeline were greeted with a blank screen and a message saying, “welcome to your timeline,” encouraging them
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Consillio Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — Marilyn Giovannetti works as an educational assistant at a nearby school, but lives in a tent in Moiliili. The 60-year-old mother of five has all but given up on finding a home. “Just the rent alone just makes me not want to
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By COSTAS KANTOURIS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press TEMPE, Greece (AP) — Rescuers delved Wednesday through flattened, burned-out carriages for survivors and bodies after a passenger train and a freight train crashed head-on in central Greece overnight, killing at least 36 people and injuring scores. Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis resigned Wednesday, saying he felt it
Continue Reading By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business The Fox Corporation board has a huge mess on its hands — and it needs to work quickly to clean it up. That’s according to Jeffrey A Sonnenfeld, the renowned professor and senior associate dean for leadership studies at the Yale School of Management. Sonnenfeld told CNN on Tuesday that
Continue Reading By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Former House Speaker Paul Ryan was grilled last week over his decision to remain on the board of directors of Fox News’ parent company after damning court documents showed that the right-wing network knowingly peddled election lies to its audience. In the interview, conducted by conservative commentator Charlie Sykes at
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SAKHIR, Bahrain (AP) — The team principal of AlphaTauri has denied that the group would be put up for sale following a report that energy-drink giant Red Bull might seek to offload the less successful of its two Formula One teams. German magazine Auto Motor und Sport reported last week that Red Bull would consider
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — NBC’s “Today” show is without both of its hosts and addressed Hoda Kotb’s absence on the program Wednesday. Kotb is dealing with an unspecified “family health matter,” the show’s Craig Melvin said. She’d been absent from the network morning show last week and this week without any explanation. Meanwhile, co-host Savannah
Continue Reading By JOHN ANTCZAK, AMY TAXIN and BEN FINLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Emergency crews in California scrambled Wednesday to shuttle food and medicine to mountain communities stranded by back-to-back winter storms that have dumped so much snow some residents can barely see out their windows. In San Bernardino County east of Los Angeles,
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Una serie de tormentas invernales consecutivas han azotado el oeste de Estados Unidos esta semana, causando ventiscas y fuertes nevadas en muchas zonas de California. Las brutales condiciones registradas durante todo el día dejaron a muchas personas varadas, provocaron el cierre de autopistas, dejaron sin electricidad a miles de hogares y enterraron
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (Albany Herald) — A San Fernando Valley man was sentenced today to 85 months in federal prison for stalking two sisters in California by sending them text messages that threatened them with rape and murder and for threatening and harassing a teenage girl
Continue Reading By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli protesters against a contentious government plan to overhaul the judicial system have blocked roads and are clashing with police in central Tel Aviv. The demonstrators are calling Wednesday a “national disruption day” as the government barrels ahead with legislation that would weaken the Supreme
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Al menos 36 personas murieron y más de 85 resultaron heridas cuando dos trenes, uno de ellos de pasajeros, chocaron en el norte de Grecia este martes por la noche, informó el Servicio de Bomberos del país. Vassilis Varthakogiannis, portavoz de los bomberos, dijo en una sesión informativa televisada
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore and Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN General Motors is cutting an unspecified number of white-collar jobs globally, part of its announced efforts to slash costs to remain competitive in the shift to electric vehicles. “We are looking at all the ways of addressing efficiency and performance,” said Arden Hoffman, the company’s chief people officer,
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer TikTok said Wednesday that every account held by a user under the age of 18 will have a default 60-minute daily screen time limit in the coming weeks. The changes arrive during a period in which there are growing concerns among different governments about the app’s security. Families have
Continue Reading By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republicans and their anti-abortion allies, who suffered a series of defeats in ballot questions in states across the political spectrum last year, are changing tactics as new legislative sessions and the new election season start. In states where citizens have direct access to the ballot, Republicans
Continue Reading By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republicans and their anti-abortion allies, who suffered a series of defeats in ballot questions in states across the political spectrum last year, are changing tactics as new legislative sessions and the new election season start. In states where citizens have direct access to the ballot, Republicans
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