By Steve Almasy and Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — The former interpreter and longtime friend of MLB megastar Shohei Ohtani has agreed to plead guilty to illegally transferring almost $17 million from the Los Angeles Dodgers player’s bank account, according to a news release from the US Department of Justice. Ippei Mizuhara will plead guilty to
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Armenia’s prime minister has visited Moscow and held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid spiraling tensions between the estranged allies. Putin hosted Nikol Pashinyan for talks following a summit of the Eurasian Economic Union, a Moscow-dominated economic alliance they both attended earlier in the day. In brief remarks at the start
Continue ReadingBy GREGORY BULL Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Gregory Bull started covering the U.S.-Mexico border in 1994 as a newspaper photographer at the Brownsville Herald in Texas. Since then, he has covered the border from both sides for The Associated Press, based in Mexico and later along the California side in San Diego. On
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By Chris Boyette and Justin Lear, CNN (CNN) — Steve Albini, an audio engineer who influenced the sound of legendary indie and alternative rock musicians like Nirvana and The Pixies, died Tuesday night in Chicago of a heart attack at age 61, according to his recording studio, Electrical Audio. The studio said they had no
Continue ReadingGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a Michigan man, who is accused of taking explosives to Massachusetts last year to target a building known as the Satanic Temple. Luke Terpstra is charged in Michigan with two felonies: transportation of an explosive and possession of an unregistered explosive. He will appear in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A number of power outages were reported around Mid-Missouri on Wednesday. According to the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives outage map, 568 power outages were reported in Maries County at 3:15 p.m., with 480 occurring for Three Rivers Electric Cooperative customers. The total was brought down to 306 by 5:15 p.m. Three
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has challenged Donald Trump to a head-to-head debate for when both address a Libertarian convention later this month. It comes as the presumptive GOP nominee has ramped up both criticism of Kennedy’s independent bid and demands that President Joe Biden meet him
Continue ReadingKaren Esquivel (CNN Español) – Distintos apagones de electricidad se registraron la tarde de este martes en al menos 11 entidades de México, incluidos Ciudad de México, Estado de México, Hidalgo, Tabasco, San Luis Potosí, Puebla, Guanajuato, Chiapas, Tamaulipas, Oaxaca y Querétaro, según reportes de residentes en redes sociales y la consultora Admonitor. El problema
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis Star sports columnist Gregg Doyel, whose interaction with WNBA No. 1 draft pick Caitlin Clark at her introductory news conference was criticized in the national media as being inappropriate, will not cover the Indiana Fever in person this season. Gannett spokesperson Lark-Marie Antón said in a statement the corporate owner of
Continue ReadingBy Katie LaGrone Click here for updates on this story CLEARWATER, Florida (WFTS) — “I was blindsided” Outside Jimmy Klass’s mobile home in Clearwater, symbols of American pride hang not just front and center but also on the side and back of his home. America is, after all, the only home this 66-year-old has ever
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration plans to propose a new rule Thursday aimed at speeding up the asylum claims process for some migrants — a potential prelude to broader actions from President Joe Biden later this year that would impose a bigger crackdown at the
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A cyberattack has disrupted “clinical operations” at major health care nonprofit Ascension, forcing it to take steps to minimize any impact to patient care, an Ascension spokesperson told CNN on Wednesday. “There has been a disruption to clinical operations, and we continue to assess the impact and duration of
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled a Catholic school in North Carolina had the right to fire a gay teacher who announced a decade ago that he was going to marry his longtime partner. A panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed
Continue ReadingST. LOUIS (AP) — The New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals game has been rained out. The teams will instead play at 5:15 p.m. on Aug. 5 in St. Louis. The Mets were looking to sweep the series on Wednesday. The last time they swept the Cardinals was in April 2007 to open that
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PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Pulaski County Jail inmate was charged with murder after another man died from injuries he sustained in a fight on Monday, according to court documents. Darrin Lee, 38, of St. Robert, was charged with second-degree murder, first-degree assault and second-degree felony murder. He is currently being held at the Pulaski
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By Faraz Javed , Kent Saunders Click here for updates on this story DETROIT (WXYZ) — In Southwest Detroit, Mexicantown has been celebrating Cinco De Mayo for decades. But this past Sunday, folks say their annual celebrations came to a screeching halt when the Detroit Police Department closed a long stretch of Vernor Highway, impacting
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By Kevin Liptak, CNN Racine, Wisconsin (CNN) — President Joe Biden said for the first time Wednesday he would halt some shipments of American weapons to Israel – which he acknowledged have been used to kill civilians in Gaza – if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders a major invasion of the city of Rafah. “Civilians
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story STOCKTON, California (KCRA) — Former Stockton Unified School District Board President AngelAnn Flores appeared in court Monday for the first time since being charged with misusing a district credit card. Court documents show Flores is facing four felony charges for making false or fraudulent claims,
Continue ReadingBy Brett Kast Click here for updates on this story BERLIN TOWNSHIP, Michigan (WXYZ) — A suspected drunken driver launched her truck into the air and into a marsh with children inside the vehicle. It happened Sunday afternoon near Superior Avenue and North Avenue in Newport. The Monroe County sheriff says there were minor injuries.
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By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN (CNN) — More than 200 people with diabetes were injured when their insulin pumps shut down unexpectedly due to a problem with a connected mobile app, the US Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday. Version 2.7 of the t:connect Apple iOS app – used with the t:slim X2 insulin pump with Control-IQ
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