By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A metallurgist in Washington state has pleaded guilty to fraud after she spent decades faking the results of strength tests on steel that was being used to make U.S. Navy submarines. Elaine Marie Thomas was the director of metallurgy at a foundry in Tacoma. The foundry supplied
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By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A metallurgist in Washington state has pleaded guilty to fraud after she spent decades faking the results of strength tests on steel that was being used to make U.S. Navy submarines. Elaine Marie Thomas was the director of metallurgy at a foundry in Tacoma. The foundry supplied
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By Daniel Dale, CNN A new national television ad from House Republicans’ campaign arm deceptively uses images of events that occurred during former President Donald Trump’s time in office to attack President Joe Biden’s tenure. The 30-second ad from the National Republican Congressional Committee, titled “Chaos,” begins with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi predicting “bold progress
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By Angela Dewan, Amy Cassidy, Ella Nilsen and Rachel Ramirez, CNN The second week of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, has begun — and things are starting to heat up. Here’s what to know. What a ‘Glasgow Agreement’ might look like The UK’s COP26 presidency released something that is called, quite oddly, a
Continue Reading By Angela Dewan, Amy Cassidy, Ella Nilsen and Rachel Ramirez, CNN The second week of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, has begun — and things are starting to heat up. Here’s what to know. What a ‘Glasgow Agreement’ might look like The UK’s COP26 presidency released something that is called, quite oddly, a
Continue Reading By Matt Rivers and Natalie Gallón, CNN The man’s voice trembled as he spoke, standing in the middle of an open field in southern Nicaragua. He was tense, despite the cool breeze and the mid-morning sunshine. If any of his government colleagues knew he was speaking to foreign journalists, he would surely be imprisoned. “I
Continue Reading By Rosa Flores and Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN A detailed operations plan for the Astroworld music festival in Houston didn’t include a specific contingency for a surging crowd incident despite three people being trampled and hospitalized at the same festival in 2019. Eight people in the crowd of more than 50,000 died Friday night after a
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By Rosa Flores, Victor Blackwell, Amir Vera and Travis Caldwell, CNN Houston firefighters stationed outside of the Astroworld concert venue Friday night were not in radio communications with the emergency medical providers hired by the concert organizers as the deadly crowd swell unfolded, the city’s fire chief told CNN on Tuesday. According to the president
Continue Reading By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The African Union’s envoy for the Horn of Africa is warning that there is a short “window of opportunity” and little time to reverse the crisis in northern Ethiopia which has drastically deteriorated in recent weeks amid an escalating offensive by Tigray forces against the
Continue Reading By JOHN FLESHER and DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The release of communications related to Benton Harbor’s water crisis shows strained ties between state environmental regulators and the head of the city’s drinking water system as they tried to contain what has become Michigan’s second high-profile lead contamination crisis in less than
Continue Reading By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer In the hours following the pandemonium at the Astroworld Festival that left eight people dead and dozens injured, the requests for donations started multiplying on social media. Some immediately seemed genuine. Others were immediately suspect. Crowdfunding is an increasingly popular method of getting financial help directly to people who
Continue Reading By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer In the hours following the pandemonium at the Astroworld Festival that left eight people dead and dozens injured, the requests for donations started multiplying on social media. Some immediately seemed genuine. Others were immediately suspect. Crowdfunding is an increasingly popular method of getting financial help directly to people who
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By JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas is mired in a four-game losing streak with a game coming up against Kansas. Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian in the first season of six-year, $34 million guaranteed contract. He says the rebuild is like working on a “classic car” that needs a lot more
Continue Reading CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two California couples gave birth to each others’ babies after a mix-up at a fertility clinic and spent months raising children that weren’t theirs before swapping the infants. That’s according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles. Daphna Cardinale says she and her husband had immediate
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By Matt Egan, CNN Business Robinhood said Monday it was hit by a data breach earlier this month that exposed information on millions of customers and that hackers later demanded an extortion payment. The trading platform said in a statement that the November 3 attack allowed the unauthorized party to obtain a list of email
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Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper and fashion mogul Ye’s high-end clothing company Yeezy has agreed to pay $950,000 to settle a lawsuit over slow shipping to customers. The district attorneys of four California counties brought the suit last month. They said Yeezy had violated state law by failing to send online orders within 30 days.
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By Eric Levenson, Brad Parks and Carma Hassan, CNN Kyle Rittenhouse testified Wednesday that he acted in self-defense when he fatally shot a man who had thrown a plastic bag at him and chased him last year in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in what is likely to be the pivotal testimony of his homicide trial. “I didn’t
Continue Reading By Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden honored the NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks at a White House ceremony on Monday, marking the first visit to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue by an NBA championship-winning team since 2016. Harkening back to the first NBA team visit to the White House, made by the Boston Celtics during the Kennedy
Continue Reading By Gloria Borger, CNN Chief Political Analyst No doubt about it, there’s a lot to worry about in the country these days: Covid. Inflation. Poverty. Polarized politics. Democracy itself. But Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has decided to make us fret about something he considers to be a crucial issue of our time: the decline
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