By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Caesars Entertainment and the company that produces the show “Absinthe” in Las Vegas are teaming up on theater and dining projects in three states that will cost nearly $100 million. Caesars tells The Associated Press it has signed a deal with Spiegelworld to create new
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By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden plans to address the need for “transparency and accountability” in international and domestic financial systems when he meets later Thursday with Kenya’s leader. President Uhuru Kenyatta is under scrutiny over revelations that he and his family stashed millions of dollars
Continue Reading By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A prominent South Carolina lawyer has been charged with stealing insurance settlements meant for the sons of his late housekeeper. State police say Alex Murdaugh was arrested Thursday at a drug rehab facility in Orlando, Florida, where his attorneys say he has spent the past six
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By Joe Sutton and Dakin Andone, CNN US Border Patrol is working to reunite with their family two young girls found Tuesday wandering near Arizona’s border with Mexico. Two agents found the sisters — who are 4 and 6 years old — alone in a marshy area along the Colorado River in Yuma. The area,
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By Gregory Lemos and Jason Hanna, CNN Alex Murdaugh, a once-prominent South Carolina attorney embroiled in scandals including alleged life insurance fraud, was arrested Thursday in Florida on suspicion of misappropriating settlement funds in connection with the 2018 death of his family’s longtime housekeeper, authorities said. The arrest represents just the latest legal and personal
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By ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — A judge has ruled that Kansas’ Republican secretary of state did not violate the state’s open records law by ordering the removal of an election database function that generates a statewide report showing which provisional ballots were not counted. The decision Wednesday by Shawnee County
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Penn State coach James Franklin denies any of his defensive players pretended to be injured during the Iowa game. Franklin detailed each one who went down during a 12-minute session with reporters in response to Hawkeyes coach Kirk Ferentz, who indicated he was suspicious of some of the stoppages in play.
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The Kansas City Chiefs have not lost to Washington since 1983. That was the season after Washington won the first of three Super Bowl titles and before now-coach Ron Rivera made his NFL debut as a player. The Chiefs have won the past seven meetings. This is the first time these
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The Kansas City Chiefs have not lost to Washington since 1983. That was the season after Washington won the first of three Super Bowl titles and before now-coach Ron Rivera made his NFL debut as a player. The Chiefs have won the past seven meetings. This is the first time these
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Lemos, CNN Alex Murdaugh has been taken into custody in Orlando, Florida, on two felony counts of Obtaining Property by False Pretenses, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said Thursday. This is a developing story and will be updated. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2021 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.
Continue Reading Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A Vermont family has filed a lawsuit against Disney Cruise Lines, saying their 3-year-old daughter was sexually assaulted by an older child inside a ship’s day care center due to understaffing and poor training of employees. The lawsuit filed last month in federal court in Orlando says employees
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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN A bipartisan group of senators called on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to appoint a new senior official to lead the State Department’s efforts to address ongoing anomalous health incidents, also known as “Havana Syndrome,” saying the incidents reflect “a significant, unmitigated threat to our national security.” The lawmakers — led
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By Kate Sullivan and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday said the nation is “headed in the right direction” with its pandemic response but said it was “essential” that the 66 million unvaccinated Americans get their Covid-19 shots. During brief remarks from the White House, Biden argued that vaccine requirements, which he has
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines is betting that international travel will rebound in a big way by next summer. The airline said Thursday that it will launch service next spring to five new destinations including Amman, Jordan, and Spain’s Canary Islands. Most of the flights will come from Newark, New Jersey. United also plans to
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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Will Asian Americans become White? The question — which considers whether Asian Americans will fully assimilate into the multicultural elite — is at the heart of “The Loneliest Americans,” a provocative new book out this week from journalist and author Jay Caspian Kang. And the answer, according to Kang, is complicated.
Continue Reading REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft says it is shutting down its LinkedIn service in China later this year following tighter government rules on internet companies. The company said in a blog post Thursday it has faced “a significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements in China.” LinkedIn said it will replace its localized
Continue Reading By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to meet Pope Francis when he visits the Vatican later this month, as part of a four-day swing through Italy and the U.K. for global economic and climate change meetings. Biden plans to discuss the coronavirus pandemic, the climate crisis and poverty
Continue Reading By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister says he has discussed the Russian media situation in Belarus during a visit to the country. A journalist who worked for a Russian newspaper in Belarus was arrested this month after writing an article about a shootout in Minsk that killed an opposition
Continue Reading By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister says he has discussed the Russian media situation in Belarus during a visit to the country. A journalist who worked for a Russian newspaper in Belarus was arrested this month after writing an article about a shootout in Minsk that killed an opposition
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By Scott Glover and Daniel A. Medina, CNN Federal prosecutors in Kansas have launched a criminal grand jury investigation into a retired Kansas City police detective who is the subject of long-swirling allegations that he “exploited and terrorized” Black residents of the city’s north end for decades, CNN has learned. Roger Golubski is accused of
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