By Jennifer Korn, CNN (CNN) — Google’s refusal to bargain with unionized YouTube Music workers is illegal, a Wednesday ruling from the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found. After a group of Texas-based contract workers for YouTube Music unanimously voted last April to join the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU), Google refused to bargain over
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police in St. Vincent and the Grenadines say U.S. actor Christian Oliver and his two daughters died in a plane crash near a tiny private island in the eastern Caribbean. Police said in a statement that the crash occurred Thursday just west of Petit Nevis island near Bequia as
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 500 gun purchases have been blocked since a new gun law requiring stricter background checks for young people went into effect in 2022, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Friday, the day after a school shooting in Iowa left a sixth-grader dead. The bipartisan law passed
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — The man charged with killing seven people at a Fourth of July parade in 2022 asked to again be represented by public defenders after firing them last month. Robert Crimo III faces 21 counts of first-degree murder, 48 counts of attempted murder and 48
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — The connection that comes from friends, family and partners isn’t just nice to have — it’s crucial. Nearly 1 in 4 adults across the world have reported feeling very or fairly lonely, a 2023 Meta-Gallup survey has found. “For too long, loneliness has existed behind the shadows, unseen and underappreciated,
Continue ReadingBy KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — Emma Stone reflected on her career highlights and Meryl Streep praised Billie Eilish and “Barbie” with saving the movie industry Thursday during one of the first stops of Hollywood’s awards season. Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Stone and Cillian Murphy were among the A-listers who descended on
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NEWS 12 NEW JERSEY LLC By Alisha Ebrahimji and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — A migrant surge continues to overwhelm authorities at the US-Mexico border — and in US cities where many asylum seekers are being sent. Here are the latest developments: After attempting to pump the brakes on “rogue buses” from Texas dropping off migrants by the
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By Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — The New York attorney general is seeking more than $370 million from Donald Trump and his co-defendants and to bar the former president from doing business in the state, according to a post-trial brief filed Friday in Trump’s civil fraud trial. New York
Continue ReadingDALLAS (AP) — More details are coming out about a man accused of punching a flight attendant on an American Airlines plane this week. When he was being arrested in Amarillo, Texas, he spit on police officers and kicked one in the groin. That’s according to an FBI agent’s account, which was unsealed by early
Continue Reading By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A group of House Democrats is demanding Justice Clarence Thomas recuse himself from a case stemming from the Colorado ruling disqualifying Donald Trump from holding office, citing past efforts by Thomas’ wife to reverse the 2020 election results. In a letter sent by eight Democrats on Thursday to Thomas,
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The City of Columbia found traces of so-called “forever chemicals” in its water after testing the city well field for the first time.
Continue ReadingBy LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press Actor Shia LaBeouf, known for his off-screen troubles as well as his film roles, has converted to Catholicism after being confirmed on New Year’s Eve at a Mass presided over by Capuchin Franciscan friars. The Capuchin Franciscans-Western American Province announced the news on its Facebook site where it posted
Continue ReadingBy DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Thermo Fisher, an American biotech company, has halted sales of its DNA testing products in Tibet, amid concerns that its products might have assisted the Chinese government in a surveillance campaign in the ethnic region. U.S. lawmakers applaud the company’s move but also say more needs to
Continue ReadingBy Annette Choi and Curt Merrill, CNN (CNN) — CNN is tracking mass shootings in the United States using data from the Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit group formed in 2013 to track gun-related violence. Both CNN and GVA define a “mass shooting” as a shooting that injured or killed four or more people, not
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE, WAFAA SHURAFA and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of the Lebanese militia Hezbollah said Friday that his group must retaliate after a presumed Israeli strike hit a Beirut neighborhood this week, killing a senior Hamas official, or else all of Lebanon would be vulnerable to Israeli attack. Hassan
Continue ReadingBy SIBI ARASU Associated Press Azerbaijan’s ecology minister has been named to lead the United Nations’ annual climate talks later this year. That’s prompting concern from some climate activists over his former ties to the state oil company in a major oil-producing nation. Mukhtar Babayev worked at the country’s state oil company for over two
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say a man involved in a fight at a Philadelphia train station was killed when he fell onto the tracks and was struck by a train. The fight at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority station occurred around 4:30 p.m. Thursday, when 40-year-old Chaz Wearing and another man began arguing. The dispute
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 61-year-old man with schizophrenia is still missing three weeks after the St. Louis nursing home where he lived abruptly closed. The Missouri State Highway Patrol on Wednesday issued an endangered silver advisory seeking the public’s help in finding Frederick Caruthers, who was among about 175
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 61-year-old man with schizophrenia is still missing three weeks after the St. Louis nursing home where he lived abruptly closed. The Missouri State Highway Patrol on Wednesday issued an endangered silver advisory seeking the public’s help in finding Frederick Caruthers, who was among about 175
Continue ReadingBy TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — An advisory council says California Gov. Gavin Newsom should slash by at least a third the cost of his $360 million plan to build a campus with classrooms in the notorious San Quentin State Prison. In a report released Friday, the group says the saved money
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