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Sean Kingston and mom face federal fraud charges MIAMI (AP) – Sean Kingston and his mother now are facing federal charges of fraud as well as state charges in Florida. Kingston and his mother, Janice Turner, appeared in federal court in Miami on Friday. A grand jury returned an indictment earlier this month accusing them of a scheme to defraud victims of high-end vehicles, jewelry and other goods. Robert Rosenblatt, an attorney for Kingston and Turner, could not be reached for comment, but he had...
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Olympics opening ceremony director hopes to subvert “Emily in Paris” image of city PARIS (AP) – If everything you know about Paris is from the series “Emily in Paris,” the artistic director of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony hopes to change your perspective. Thomas Jolly says shows like “Emily in Paris” and movies like “Amelie” created an image of Paris that is not the city Parisians know. However, Jolly says the opening ceremony will play with images like that and “turn them on their heads.”...
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Detroit’s giant slide is back. There will probably be fewer bruises this time DETROIT (AP) - Ready, set, go! A six-lane giant slide has reopened in Detroit at Belle Isle state park. In 2022, the slide made headlines after viral videos showed riders flying and bouncing down the bumpy ramp. It got a mention on Jimmy Kimmel’s TV show and even inspired a song. Among the changes are padding to the slide, new sacks for riders — and no more wax. Eleven-year-old Eliseah Griffin says...
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Small businesses grapple with global tech outages created by CrowdStrike NEW YORK (AP) - Businesses from airlines to hospitals have been grappling with faulty software update that caused technological havoc worldwide on Friday. The breadth of the outages highlighted the fragility of a digitized world dependent on a few providers for key computing services. But the problem appeared to divide those affected into the haves and have nots. Major customers of Microsoft and CrowdStrike are getting IT support to resolve the issues, but smaller businesses...
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Restaurant critic’s departure reveals potential hazards of the job NEW YORK (AP) - Restaurant critics appear to have the best job in journalism, enjoying meals a few nights a week on someone else’s dime. But New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells is painting a more complicated picture. In a recent column, Wells announced he’s leaving the beat because the constant eating has led to obesity and other health problems. To write a review, critics usually make two or three visits to a restaurant so...
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Here are the scores from yesterday's sports events: INTERLEAGUE FinalMilwaukee8Minnesota7FinalSan Diego2Cleveland1FinalL.A. Dodgers9Boston6 AMERICAN LEAGUE FinalToronto5Detroit4FinalKansas City4Chicago White Sox1FinalTampa Bay6N.Y. Yankees4FinalTexas3Baltimore2FinalSeattle6Houston4FinalL.A. Angels8Oakland5 NATIONAL LEAGUE ...
Venezuelan opposition voters band to safeguard election, warning of the ruling party's tricks
SABANETA, Venezuela (AP) — Tears roll down the face of Tanyia Colmenares when she recalls her truncated dream of being a lawyer, which ended after two semesters in law school when she had to drop out to survive Venezuela's complex crisis. While she never got to defend a client in court, she has agreed to try to defend something far greater at the end of this month: Venezuela's democracy. Colmenares...
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Small businesses grapple with global tech outages created by CrowdStrike NEW YORK (AP) — Businesses from airlines to hospitals have been grappling with faulty software update that caused technological havoc worldwide on Friday. The breadth of the outages highlighted the fragility of a digitized world dependent on a few providers for key computing services. The breadth of the outages highlighted the fragility of a digitized world dependent on a few providers for key computing services. But the problem appeared to divide those affected into the...
Vice President Kamala Harris leads list of contenders for spots on the Democratic ticket
President Joe Biden's decision to step down as the Democratic Party's nominee for president opens the door for other contenders to become the Democratic nominee in November. The president has thrown his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris, and other prominent Democrats moved quickly to rally around her candidacy, but it's unclear just how smooth her path to the party's nomination is. Here are some of the leading contenders for a spot on the Democratic ticket: KAMALA HARRIS ...
China's central bank cuts interest rates, moving to put more pep into the economy
BANGKOK (AP) — China’s central bank has cut both its five-year loan prime rate and its one-year rate, moving to revive its ailing property sector and rev up the slowing economy. The five-year rate, which is a benchmark for mortgages, was cut by 10 basis points to 3.85% from 3.95%. The one-year rate was reduced to 3.35% from 3.45%. The People’s Bank of China also reduced collateral requirements for its medium-term lending facility for banks. It said that was intended to ease pressure on the bond market. The world’s second largest economy has struggled to regain momentum since the COVID-19 pandemic and a slump in the property market has been a major hindrance. Economic growth fell to 4.7% in the last quarter, but remained at the government’s target rate of about 5% for the first half of the year.
JD Vance makes solo debut as GOP vice presidential candidate with Monday rallies in Virginia, Ohio
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (AP) — Republican JD Vance will make his first solo appearances on the campaign trail Monday, a day after the 2024 presidential race was thrown into upheaval as President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, making the Democratic candidate an open question. Vance, an Ohio senator, is scheduled to hold a rally in his hometown of Middletown on Monday afternoon, followed by a second rally Monday evening in Radford, Virginia, fresh off his rally debut with Donald Trump over the weekend. ...
Takeaways from a day that fundamentally changed the presidential race
President Joe Biden’s abrupt decision to bow out of the presidential race and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic candidate against former President Donald Trump caused a political earthquake on Sunday. It also changes the contours of a presidential race — which most voters said they did not want to see — that has seemed rigidly set for more than a year. Here are some takeaways from the historic day. ...
Harris looks to lock up Democratic nomination after Biden steps aside, reordering 2024 race
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris moved swiftly to lock up Democratic delegates behind her campaign for the White House after President Joe Biden stepped aside amid concerns from within their own party that he would be unable to defeat Donald Trump. Biden's exit Sunday, prompted by Democratic worries over his fitness for office, was a seismic shift to the presidential contest that upended both parties' carefully honed plans for the race. ...
Harris gets chance to press reset on 2024 race against Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the past year, the presidential campaign seemed destined to be a monotonous slog featuring two candidates, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, that voters didn’t really want. But that all changed on a quiet Sunday afternoon just 107 days before the election. Biden’s decision to drop out of the race and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor resets the campaign with a...
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A 7-month-old tree kangaroo peeked out of its mom's pouch at the Bronx Zoo and here are the photos NEW YORK (AP) — Another baby tree kangaroo can be seen at the Bronx Zoo after months of hiding in its mother's pouch. New York zoo officials say the Matschie’s tree kangaroo was born in December, but just started poking its head out in public. They say it's typical for this small, tree-dwelling kangaroo species to spend about 7 months in the pouch. The joeys are...
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Biden drops out of 2024 race after disastrous debate inflamed age concerns. VP Harris gets his nod WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House, ending his bid for reelection after a disastrous debate with Donald Trump that raised doubts about the incumbent’s fitness for office. The unprecedented announcement, delivered less than four months before the election, immediately upended a campaign that both political parties view as the most consequential in generations. The president — intent...
Today in Entertainment History: Ross played Central Park
On July 22, 1965, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones were fined five pounds for urinating on the wall of a London gas station. They were charged with “insulting behavior.” In 1967, Vanilla Fudge made their concert debut in New York. In 1969, singer Aretha Franklin was arrested for disorderly conduct after a disturbance in a Detroit parking lot. ...
Delta Air Lines says cancellations continue as it tries to restore operations after tech outage
NEW YORK (AP) — Airlines, including Delta Air Lines, continued to struggle to restore operations two days after a faulty software update caused technological havoc worldwide and resulted in several carriers grounding flights. Total cancellations within, into or out of the U.S. on Sunday clocked in at 1,461, according to the latest data from FlightAware. Delta and United Airlines topped the cancellations. Delta Chief Executive Ed Bastian said in a...
Biden's withdrawal injects uncertainty into wars, trade disputes and other foreign policy challenges
Joe Biden's withdrawal from the U.S. presidential race injects greater uncertainty into the world at a time when Western leaders are grappling with wars in Ukraine and Gaza, a more assertive China in Asia and the rise of the far-right in Europe. During a five-decade career in politics, Biden developed extensive personal relationships with multiple foreign leaders that none of the potential replacements on the Democratic ticket can match. After his announcement, messages of support and gratitude for his years of service poured in from...
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Of the dozens of newspapers being printed in Eau Claire in the mid-1800s, two stood the test of time. The newspaper business was fiercely competitive in those days. Many efforts failed; however, the Eau Claire Leader and the Eau Claire Daily Telegram survived. W. H. Lamb began the Eau Claire Leader in April 1881. At the time, the newspaper had a daily circulation of 300. The Leader was sold to William K. Atkinson in 1885. This morning paper grew to a circulation of 3,000 by 1889. In 1896, the Leader moved into a building at 407 South Barstow Street where it remained until 1912, when the Leader and the Telegram merged. The evening Eau Claire Daily Telegram was started in 1894 by William Irvine of Chippewa Falls. W. P. Welch and A. J. Rich purchased the Telegram in August 1895. Later, W. P. Welch, G. A. Bary and Charles Fiske incorporated the paper into the Telegram Publishing Co. The Leader and Daily Telegram merged into the Eau Claire Press Company in 1912 under the Company’s first president, C. W. Fiske. The two papers were published from the same building at 405 South Barstow Street until moving to a new and larger facility at 701 South Farwell Street. Ancestors of the Atkinson and Graaskamp families founded the Eau Claire Press Company and merged the two existing local papers: the Eau Claire Leader and the Daily Telegram. The Company's initial focus centered around the printing and publishing of these two local papers. On June 8, 1970, the two papers were merged into the afternoon Leader-Telegram. After 130 years of ownership by the Atkinson and Graaskamp families, APG purchased the Leader-Telegram in June 2018.
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