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Month: February 2024

Chiefs are releasing wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling to save salary cap space, AP source says

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs are releasing wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling, according to a person familiar with the decision. The move gives the the Super Bowl champions $12 million in much-needed salary cap space. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity

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ICC awards $56 million in reparations to thousands of victims of convicted Ugandan rebel commander

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Judges at the International Criminal Court have awarded reparations of more than 52 million euros ($56 million) to thousands of victims of a convicted commander in the shadowy Ugandan rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army. The nearly 50,000 victims covered by the order include former

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Moldovan breakaway region appeals to Russia as a spat with the pro-Western government worsens

By STEPHEN McGRATH and AUREL OBREJA Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Officials in Moldova’s Russia-backed breakaway region of Transnistria have appealed to Moscow for protection as tensions escalate with the pro-Western government. Moldova is a candidate to join the European Union. The government imposed new customs duties at the start of the year on

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Pentagon considering tapping last source of Ukraine military funding as Congress stalls on additional aid

By Natasha Bertrand and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The Pentagon is weighing whether to tap into the last remaining source of funding it has for military aid to support Ukraine’s war effort against Russia even without guarantees that those funds will be replenished by Congress, multiple defense officials told CNN. The Defense Department still has around $4 billion

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Boeing given 90 days by FAA to come up with a plan to improve safety and quality of manufacturing

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The Federal Aviation Administration is giving Boeing 90 days to come up with a plan to fix quality problems and meet safety standards for building new planes. The agency said Wednesday that the directive follows meetings with top Boeing officials, including the company’s CEO at FAA headquarters in Washington.

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Hunter Biden in defiant deposition blasts GOP, insists he did not involve his father in business

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden was defiant Wednesday in a closed-door deposition on Capitol Hill, blasting a Republican impeachment inquiry into his father and the family’s business affairs as a “house of cards” built on “lies” as he faced a battery of probing questions from lawmakers. “For more than a

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A pregnant Amish woman is killed in her rural Pennsylvania home, and police have no suspects

SPARTANSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Investigators says they have no suspects in the killing of a pregnant 23-year-old Amish woman inside her home in rural northwestern Pennsylvania. A state police spokeswoman said Wednesday that Rebekah A. Byler had been killed inside her home near Spartansburg. They say a relative and a family friend discovered her body

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Donald Trump has less than 30 days to post the money. The former president is seen here attending the closing arguments in the Trump Organization civil fraud trial in New York.

Trump must come up with the full bond amount to cover the $454 million civil fraud trial judgment, appeals court judge rules

By Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump must come up with the full amount to cover the $454 million verdict in the civil fraud trial, an appeals court judge ruled Wednesday. Associate Justice Anil Singh, however, lifted a ban on Trump’s ability to obtain loans from New York

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Willy Wonka-inspired experience sparks outrage and online mockery after police called to event

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Families attending a Willy Wonka-inspired event in Glasgow, Scotland were promised “optical marvels” and “extraordinary props” for a £35 ($44) ticket, but when they arrived they found a sparsely decorated warehouse and offered a quarter cup of lemonade — or limeade when supplies ran out. People there became so

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Northern Ireland judge rules that amnesty law for ‘the Troubles’ breaches human rights

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A judge has ruled that a new law that gives immunity from prosecution for most offenses committed during Northern Ireland’s decades of sectarian violence is not compliant with human rights. The British government’s Legacy and Reconciliation Bill stops most prosecutions for alleged killings by militant groups and

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