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Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction overturned by court
2021-06-30 16:39:27 FILE - In this April 26, 2018 file photo, actor and comedian Bill Cosby departs the courthouse after he was found guilty in his sexual assault retrial, at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. Pennsylvania’s highest court has overturned comedian Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction. The court said Wednesday that they found an agreement with a previous prosecutor p
Charges expected Thursday for Trump“s company, top executive
2021-06-30 15:28:46 FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2017, shows President-elect Donald Trump, left, his chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, center, and his son Donald Trump Jr., right, attend a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. Manhattan prosecutors have informed Donald Trump’s company that it could soon face criminal charges stemming from a long-running investigation into t
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Devastated condo community looks to Biden visit for comfort
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2021-07-01 05:22:29 View of the Champlain Towers South, as the search and rescue teams for survivors continue on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, in Surfside, Fla., seven days after the building collapsed. (Pedro Portal/Miami Herald via AP) SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — As the search for survivors of a Florida condo collapse enters its second week, rescue crews and relatives of those still missing are scheduled
PG&E seeks $3.6 billion in rate hikes for wildfire safety
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2021-07-01 03:02:58 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric asked regulators Wednesday to grant a $3.6 billion rate hike to help it pay for hardening its power systems to prevent deadly wildfires. The nation's largest electric utility requested the hike beginning in 2023, with half of the increase devoted to wildfire safety, spokeswoman Lynsey Paulo told the Sacramento Bee. The hike would inc
Los Angeles considers stricter limits on homeless camping
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2021-07-01 04:16:38 FILE - In this June 8, 2021, file photo, a jogger walks past a homeless encampment in the Venice Beach section of Los Angeles. Los Angeles City Council is poised to clamp down on homeless encampments, making it illegal to pitch tents on some sidewalks, beneath overpasses and near parks. The measure being considered Thursday, July 1, 2021, is billed as a humane way to get peopl
Indonesia holds mass vaccination to scale up virus fight
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2021-07-01 04:45:40 A woman receives a shot of the Sinovac vaccine for COVID-19 during a vaccination campaign at the Patriot Candrabhaga Stadium in Bekasi on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, July 1, 2021.(AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Thousands of Indonesians lined up at a sports stadium to get a COVID-19 vaccine dose Thursday in a mass, one-day event that's par
NKorea“s Kim vows to boost China ties amid pandemic hardship
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2021-07-01 04:07:52 FILE - In this June 18, 2021, file photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during a Workers' Party meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea. After saying for months that it kept the coronavirus completely at bay, North Korea on Wednesday, June 30, came closest to admitting that its anti-virus campaign has been less than perfect. Independe
Trump Organization CFO expected in court after indictment
2021-07-01 05:08:37 Donald Trump’s company and his longtime finance chief are expected to be charged Thursday with tax-related crimes stemming from a New York investigation into the former president’s business dealings. (June 30) New York prosecutors are expected to announce the first criminal indictment Thursday in a two-year investigation into Donald Trump’s business practices, accusing his nam
Historic Northwest heat wave may have killed hundreds
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2021-07-01 04:05:51 With the temperature well over 100 degrees, Spokane, Wash., firefighter Sean Condon, left and Lt. Gabe Mills, assigned to the Alternative Response Unit of of Station 1, check on the welfare of a man in Mission Park in Spokane, Wash., Tuesday, June 29, 2021. The special fire unit, which responds to low priority calls, has been kept busy during this week's heatwave. (Colin Mulva
Rumsfeld, a cunning leader who oversaw a ruinous Iraq war
2021-07-01 04:07:10 FILE - In this Dec. 24, 1974, file photo, President Gerald Ford and presidential assistant Donald Rumsfeld huddle over bills during work session in Vail, Colo. The president was spending a working holiday at the ski resort with his family. Rumsfeld, the two-time defense secretary and one-time presidential candidate, died Tuesday, June 29, 2021. He was 88. (AP Photo, File) WASH
As it turns 100, China“s ruling party grooms new faithful
2021-07-01 03:29:41 Students at the China Executive Leadership Academy recite a poem by revolutionary leader Mao Zedong in front of a wartime military outpost in Jinggangshan in southeastern China's Jiangxi Province, on April 9, 2021. As China celebrates the 100th anniversary of its 1921 founding, such trainings are part of efforts by President Xi Jinping's government to extend party control over
Firmly in control, China“s Communist Party marks centenary
2021-07-01 00:32:10 Chinese flags are waved during a rehearsal for a ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Chinese Communist Party at Tiananmen Gate in Beijing Thursday, July 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party is marking the 100th anniversary of its founding with speeches and grand displays intended to showcase economic pro
UNC trustees OK journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones“ tenure bid
2021-06-30 05:10:55 Deborah Dwyer, a doctoral candidate, holds a sign while gathered with fellow students and alumni on the steps of Carroll Hall, where the UNC-Chapel Hill Hussman School of Journalism and Media is located, before the university's Board of Trustees is scheduled to vote on tenure for distinguished journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, in Chapel Hill, N.C. Ha
NCAA clears athletes for compensation as state laws kick in
2021-06-30 21:40:24 FILE - In this March 18, 2015, file photo, the NCAA logo is displayed at center court as work continues at The Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, for the NCAA college basketball tournament. The NCAA Board of Directors is expected to greenlight one of the biggest changes in the history of college athletics when it clears the way for athletes to start earning money based on the
As the Titanic decays, expedition will monitor deterioration
2021-06-30 13:57:54 FILE - This 2004 photo provided by the Institute for Exploration, Center for Archaeological Oceanography/University of Rhode Island/NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration, shows the remains of a coat and boots in the mud on the sea bed near the Titanic's stern. OceanGate Expeditions, an undersea exploration company, plans to dive to the sunken Titanic to begin what’s expected to be
Canadian Indigenous group says more graves found at new site
2021-06-30 18:12:34 A memorial is seen outside the Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia., Sunday, June, 13, 2021. The remains of 215 children were discovered buried near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School earlier this month. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP) CRANBROOK, British Colombia (AP) — A Canadian Indigenous group said Wednesday a search using ground-penetr
EXPLAINER: Why Bill Cosby“s conviction was overturned
2021-06-30 20:54:20 FILE - In this April 24, 2018, file photo, Bill Cosby, left, arrives with his wife, Camille, for his sexual assault trial, at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. Pennsylvania’s highest court has overturned Cosby’s sex assault conviction. The court said Wednesday, June 30, 2021, that they found an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being cha
Donald Rumsfeld, a cunning leader undermined by Iraq war
2021-06-30 20:22:28 FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2006, file photo, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld asks for another question following his Landon Lecture at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan. The family of Rumsfeld says he died Tuesday, June 29, 2021. He was 88. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner) WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling Donald H. Rumsfeld energetic was like calling the Pacific wide. When others would
House votes to launch new probe of Jan. 6 insurrection
2021-06-30 04:15:19 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., responds to a question about her creation of a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, during a news conference, during a news conference to discuss a surface transportation bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 30, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) WASHINGTON (AP) — Split along party
Stories of survival keep hope alive as rescuers race clock
2021-06-30 20:15:09 Search and rescue personnel work atop the rubble at the Champlain Towers South condo building, where scores of people remain missing after it partially collapsed the week before, Wednesday, June 30, 2021, in Surfside, Fla.(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) For 17 days, Reshma Begum survived under heaps of rubble after an eight-story garment factory collapsed in Bangladesh eight years ago
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dies at 88
2021-06-30 19:35:02 FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2011, file photo, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld speaks to politicians and academics during a luncheon on security in rising Asia, in Taipei, Taiwan. The family of Rumsfeld says he has died. He was 88. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Rumsfeld, the two-time defense secretary and one-time presidential candidate wh
July 4, Juneteenth and the meaning of national holidays
2021-06-30 15:19:06 This image shows an 1876 engraving titled "Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776" made available by the Library of Congress. On that day, the Continental Congress formally endorsed the Declaration of Independence. Celebrations began within days: parades and public readings, bonfires and candles and the firing of 13 musket rounds, one for each of the original states. Near
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts suffer huge declines in membership
2021-06-30 14:10:49 In this June 10, 2021 photo provided by Barry Bedlan, members of Troop 298 of Frisco, Texas are among the first to embark a 12-day trek across the Philmont Scout Ranch, outside Cimarron, N.M. Boy Scout and Girl Scouts’ leadership say their summer camps are full, special events are sold out, and they’re expecting many thousands of families – some new to scouting, some who left
Actor Allison Mack gets 3 years in NXIVM sex-slave case
2021-06-30 05:15:35 Allison Mack, center, leaves federal court with her mother, Mindy Mack, after being sentenced, Wednesday, June 30, 2021, in New York. The "Smallville" actor was sentenced to three years in prison for her role in the scandal-ridden, cult-like NXIVM group. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) NEW YORK (AP) — TV actor Allison Mack, who played a key role in the scandal-ridden, cult-like group
Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction overturned by court
2021-06-30 16:39:27 FILE - In this April 26, 2018 file photo, actor and comedian Bill Cosby departs the courthouse after he was found guilty in his sexual assault retrial, at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. Pennsylvania’s highest court has overturned comedian Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction. The court said Wednesday that they found an agreement with a previous prosecutor p
New results due in NYC mayor race after vote count blunder
2021-06-30 13:38:59 FILE - Frederic Umane, President of the New York City Board of Elections, addresses poll workers at Frank McCourt High School, Tuesday, June 22, 2021, in New York. New York City's first mayoral contest using ranked choice voting has been thrown into chaos after city election officials posted incorrect preliminary vote counts in the Democratic primary and then withdrew them. (A
California tests off-the-grid solutions to power outages
Associated Press / 15h
2021-06-30 14:36:07 A house shown in the distance is powered by Pacific Gas & Electric's new Remote Grid Initiative site shown near Yosemite National Park in Briceburg, Calif., on June 7, 2021. When a wildfire tore through Briceburg nearly two years earlier, the tiny community on the edge of Yosemite National Park lost the only power line connecting it to the electrical grid. Rather than rebuildi
UN war crimes court convicts 2 Serbs over Bosnia atrocities
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2021-06-30 08:00:29 Former head of Serbia's state security service Jovica Stanisic, centre, and his subordinate Franko "Frenki" Simatovic, right, appear in court at the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday June 30, 2021. A UN court is delivering judgments in the retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, accused of organizin
Four more bodies found in condo rubble; at least 16 dead
2021-06-30 05:03:10 Search and rescue personnel work atop the rubble at the Champlain Towers South condo building, where scores of people remain missing after it partially collapsed the week before, Wednesday, June 30, 2021, in Surfside, Fla.(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) SURFSIDE, Florida (AP) — Four more bodies have been found in the rubble of a collapsed Florida condo tower, a fire official said Wedn
To aid island during pandemic, students forgo senior trip
Associated Press / 16h
2021-06-30 13:52:14 In this June 13, 2021 photo provided by Melissa Burns, Islesboro Central School seniors prepare to toss their mortarboards to celebrate their graduation. The Class of 2021 – all 13 of them – were eyeing a trip to Greece, or maybe South Korea, but they wound up going nowhere. The seniors decided to donate $5,000 to help out struggling neighbors after the coronavirus pandemic ch
Microsoft exec: Targeting of Americans“ records “routine“
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2021-06-30 14:10:18 This May 6, 2021 photo shows a sign for Microsoft offices in New York. Federal law enforcement agencies secretly seek the data of Microsoft customers thousands of times a year. That's according to congressional testimony being given Wednesday, June 30, by a senior executive at the technology company. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal law enforcement agencies s
European troops make low-key return home from Afghanistan
2021-06-30 13:12:12 Soldiers of the German Armed Forces have lined up in front of the Airbus A400M transport aircraft of the German Air Force for the final roll call in Wunstorf, Germany, Wednesdat, June 390, 2021. The last soldiers of the German Afghanistan mission have arrived at the air base in Lower Saxony. The mission had ended the previous evening after almost 20 years. The soldiers had bee
EXPLAINER: How bad is the pandemic in North Korea
Associated Press / 17h
2021-06-30 10:13:33 FILE - In this April 15, 2021, file photo, a man and a woman wearing face masks walk along a street on the Day of the Sun, the birthday of late leader Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang, North Korea. After saying for months that it kept the coronavirus completely at bay, North Korea on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, came its closest to admitting that its anti-virus campaign has been less th
William, Harry to unveil Diana statue as royal rift simmers
2021-06-30 11:23:23 FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday Feb. 28, 2018, Britain's Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, right, sit with Prince Harry, left, and his fiancee Meghan Markle, as they attend the first annual Royal Foundation Forum in London. Under the theme 'Making a Difference Together', the event will showcase programmes run or initiated by The Royal Foundation. Links n
Joining Trump at border, GOP congressman eyes path to power
Associated Press / 18h
2021-06-30 09:35:39 FILE - In this March 16, 2021, file photo ranking member Jim Banks of Ind., speaks during a House Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel, hearing about Military Criminal Investigative Organization Reform Recommendations from the Fort Hood Independent Review Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington. As the GOP looks to take back the House in 2022 midterm
As COVID recedes in prisons, will any lessons learned stick?
Associated Press / 20h
2021-06-30 10:13:37 FILE - In this April 28, 2020, file photo, inmates at the Westville Correctional Facility in Westville, Ind., watch protesters from a window. The protesters wanted better safety measures after an outbreak of COVID-19 cases at the prison. For 15 months, The Marshall Project and The Associated Press tracked the spread of COVID-19 through prisons nationwide. Prisons were forced t
Putin: US aircraft involved in Black Sea incident
2021-06-30 09:37:27 Russian President Vladimir Putin attends his annual live call-in show in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, June 30, 2021. Speaking in a live call-in program Wednesday, Vladimir Putin has voiced hope that the country could avoid a nationwide lockdown amid a surge of new infections. (Sergei Savostyanov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin
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