A man kills a grizzly bear in Montana after it attacks while he is picking berries
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A man picking huckleberries in Montana shot and killed a grizzly bear after it attacked and injured him badly enough that he had to be hospitalized. Montana wildlife officials say the 72-year-old man was alone when the adult female charged him Thursday. He killed the bear with a handgun. The attack happened two miles north of Columbia Falls in northwestern Montana. Female grizzlies are known to attack to defend their cubs. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks officials were trying to determine if this grizzly had any cubs. They said Friday they had no more information to release, including the man's name and condition.
Former NFL star Lawrence Taylor charged with failing to update address on sex offender registry
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor has been charged in Florida with failing to update his address on the state’s sex offender registry. Court records show the former New York Giants linebacker turned himself in to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday and was released with no bail. He entered a not guilty plea. It’s the second time he’s been charged with the offence. Taylor pleaded guilty in New York in 2011 to misdemeanor sexual misconduct charges. He was sentenced to six years of probation and ordered to register as a sex offender.
Harvey Weinstein retrial in NYC tentatively set for November
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has tentatively scheduled Harvey Weinstein’s planned retrial on rape and sexual assault charges to begin on Nov. 12. Weinstein wore an American flag pin on his jacket during a brief court appearance in Manhattan on Friday. The former Hollywood mogul’s pretrial hearing was delayed over 90 minutes because of disruptions to court and corrections computer systems from a global technology outage. New York’s highest court threw out Weinstein’s 2020 conviction earlier this year. Weinstein has denied wrongdoing. Prosecutors say they are still actively pursuing new claims against Weinstein, though they concede that they hadn’t yet brought findings to a grand jury.
Italian judge orders a journalist to pay 5,000 euros in damages for making fun of Meloni's height
ROME (AP) — A judge in Milan has ordered an Italian journalist to pay 5,000 euros or nearly $5,500 in damages to Premier Giorgia Meloni for making fun of her height in social media posts. The judge ruled on Wednesday that two social media posts by journalist Giulia Cortese amounted to “body shaming.” Cortese was also handed a suspended fine of 1,200 euros or around $1,300. Cortese described Meloni as a “little woman” in a post on X in October 2021. She then wrote in a separate post: “You don’t scare me, Giorgia Meloni. After all, you’re only 1.2 meters tall. I can’t even see you.”
University of Florida president Ben Sasse is resigning after his wife was diagnosed with epilepsy
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — University of Florida president Ben Sasse has announced that he will leave his position of nearly two years to focus on taking care of his family after his wife was diagnosed with epilepsy. In a post late Thursday on the social platform X, Sasse says that “after extensive prayer and lots of family tears,” he asked university officials to start looking for a new president. The university says his resignation is effective July 31. Sasse says his wife was recently diagnosed with epilepsy and has been having “a new batch of memory issues." She suffered a series of strokes in 2007. Sasse is also a former senator from Nebraska.
Lou Dobbs, conservative pundit and longtime cable TV host for Fox Business and CNN, dies at 78
NEW YORK (AP) — Lou Dobbs, the conservative political pundit and veteran cable TV host who was a founding anchor for CNN and later was a nightly presence on Fox Business Network for more than a decade, has died. He was 78. His death was announced Thursday in a post on his official X account, which called him a “fighter till the very end – fighting for what mattered to him the most, God, his family and the country.” He hosted “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on Fox from 2011 to 2021, following two separate stints at CNN. No cause of death was given.
Comedian Bob Newhart, deadpan master of sitcoms and telephone monologues, dies at 94
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bob Newhart has died at age 94. Jerry Digney, Newhart’s publicist, says the actor died Thursday in Los Angeles after a series of short illnesses. The accountant-turned-comedian gained fame with a smash album and became one of the most popular TV stars of his time. Newhart was a Chicago psychologist in “The Bob Newhart Show” in the 1970s and a Vermont innkeeper on “Newhart” in the 1980s. Both shows featured a low-key Newhart surrounded by eccentric characters. The second had a twist ending in its final show — the whole series was revealed to have been a dream by the psychologist he played in the other show.
The winner in China's panda diplomacy: the pandas themselves
WASHINGTON (AP) — China’s giant panda loan program has long been a tool of diplomacy, but its significance for species conservation has proved important, too. That could have been an important reason why Beijing is renewing its cooperation with U.S. zoos and sending new pandas while bilateral relations are otherwise low. The number of giant pandas in the wild has risen to 1,900, and the animal is no longer considered at risk of extinction but is given the safer status of vulnerable. Americans can take some credit for this accomplishment, because conserving the bear species has been not purely a Chinese matter but a global effort where U.S. scientists and researchers are indispensable.
EA Sports College Football 25, among most anticipated sports video games in history, hits the market
EA Sports College Football 25, among the most highly anticipated sports video games of all time, has flooded the market as gamers who waited more than a decade for the franchise’s next installment rush to play. The game officially launched Friday, with EA Sports increasing its server capacity ahead of time to handle the crush. More than 2.2 million people had already played the game during an early-access period before launch. EA Sports has said its goal for the game was “to feel like a love letter to college football and its fans.”
Paris Olympic competition nears total gender parity. Take a look at the athlete gender breakdown
GENEVA (AP) — The founder of the modern Olympics and former IOC president, Pierre de Coubertin, once said women competing in the Games would be “impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic and improper.” Over a century later, the 2024 Paris Olympic Games are targeting gender parity in the same city where women made their Olympic debut in 1900. The IOC set a goal of a 50-50 split among the more than 11,000 men and women registered to compete from July 26 to Aug. 11, although the latest numbers from the IOC suggest organizers might fall just short of that goal.
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