By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Putting together a collection of Bush’s greatest hits was relatively easy. Convincing frontman Gavin Rossdale to do it was harder. He thought it sounded like a farewell. Rossdale relented and that’s why we have “Loaded: The Greatest Hits 1994-2023,” a 21-song set that includes such
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A jury is set to decide the perjury case against a former top prosecutor for the city of Baltimore. Jurors heard attorneys’ closing arguments on Wednesday in the trial of former state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby. The judge presiding over the trial said she expects jurors to
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Gwyneth Paltrow has been on a bit of an acting hiatus, but she has a former costar who may be able to lure her back to set. In an interview with “Entertainment Tonight” this week, Paltrow revealed who that would be. “Well, it would be very hard for
Continue ReadingBy SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has expressed disappointment with election results that allowed Democrats to take control of both the Virginia House and Senate, but pledged to work with the party’s new legislative majority on bipartisan priorities. Youngkin struck an optimistic tone as he told reporters gathered
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has announced he will require private concessionary railway companies to offer passenger service. If the companies refuse, the government will schedule its own trains on tracks that are currently used almost exclusively to carry freight. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has denied any notion that his decree, to be
Continue ReadingBy JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A Texas businessman at the center of the scandal that led to the historic impeachment of state Attorney General Ken Paxton has been charged with additional federal crimes. The new indictment of Nate Paul alleges that he defrauded business partners. It adds to earlier charges that the
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By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Citibank illegally discriminated against Armenian Americans for years by singling them out on credit card applications based on their surnames, a federal regulator alleged on Wednesday. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found that from at least 2015 through 2021, Citi “targeted” retail services credit card applicants whom employees associated
Continue Reading By Bryan Mena and Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Washington (CNN) — Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Loretta Mester is set to resign from her post next year, the bank announced Wednesday. Mester, one of the Fed’s most “hawkish” voices, is finishing her term on June 30, 2024. Hawkish is a term used to describe Fed
Continue ReadingBy GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press After Ohio voters on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment protecting the right to abortion and other forms of reproductive healthcare, advocates on both sides of the issue are looking at how they can get support on 2024 ballots in at least a dozen states. Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned
Continue Reading By Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — Retail pharmacy workers have told CNN that their employers have left them severely overworked and understaffed. These harsh working conditions, they say, make it difficult to safely fill prescriptions, which could put the health of their customers at risk. Now a formal unionization effort, backed by the
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A federal regulator says Citigroup intentionally discriminated against Armenian Americans when they applied for credit cards. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Wednesday that Citibank argued internally that Armenian Americans were more likely to commit fraud and referred to applicants as “bad guys” or affiliated
Continue ReadingST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. (AP) — A suburban Minnesota city became what is believed to be the first in the U.S. to elect a Somali American mayor when 27-year-old Nadia Mohamed was chosen to lead St. Louis Park. Mohamed won easily Tuesday night. She had been endorsed by the outgoing mayor, who did not seek
Continue Reading By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — Cruise, General Motors’ self-driving vehicle subsidiary, has recalled all 950 of its autonomous vehicles for a software update. Late last month, Cruise paused all its public testing operations while it investigated the incident that led to the recall. GM had announced Monday that it was pausing production of test
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The owners of a Colorado funeral home were arrested Wednesday in Oklahoma on charges linked to the discovery of 190 sets of decaying remains at one of their facilities, including some that apparently had been languishing there for four years. Investigators entered
Continue ReadingBy Hayley Crombleholme Click here for updates on this story ORLANDO, Florida (WESH) — A former teacher at an Orlando Christian school is facing charges, including sexual activity with a 16 or 17-year-old by a school authority figure, after being accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student for years. The former teacher, Harriet
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By Gul Tuysuz and Christian Edwards, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — Ukraine said it was responsible for the assassination of a Russia-backed official with a car bomb in the occupied eastern city of Luhansk on Wednesday. Mikhail Filiponenko, a lawmaker in the Kremlin-installed assembly, was a former head of the army of the so-called Luhansk People’s
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By Colin McCollough and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Former CIA officer Brian Jeffrey Raymond pleaded guilty on Tuesday in federal court to drugging and sexually abusing multiple women during overseas postings, according to court documents and the Department of Justice. Raymond, 47, admitted to sexually assaulting several women at his embassy-leased housing in Mexico
Continue ReadingBy Angela Rozier Click here for updates on this story PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida (WPBF) — Amazon driver Mone’t Robinson said Sept. 18, 2023, was just a regular day. The 21-year-old was in the Highland Reserve Community in Palm City Florida dropping off packages — she was making stop 100 out of 150 when the
Continue ReadingBy David Collins Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WBAL) — A federal judge granted lawyers some time to work out differences over the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s bankruptcy filing before heading back to court. Abuse survivors want to extend the deadline to file a claim and they want to know what church
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of tennis champion and LGBTQ activist Billie Jean King. Personal Birth date: November 22, 1943 Birth place: Long Beach, California Birth name: Billie Jean Moffitt Father: Willard J. Moffitt, engineer for a fire department Mother: Betty Moffitt, Avon sales representative Marriage: Ilana Kloss
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