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Police arrest 26-year-old suspect in connection with UnitedHealthcare CEO killing
Police have arrested 26-year-old Luigi Nicholas Mangione with a gun consistent with the one used to kill UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, New York's police commissioner Jessica Tisch said Monday. Mangione was taken into custody after police got a tip that he had been spotted at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania...
Dec 09, 2024
Stealth destroyer to be home for 1st hypersonic weapon on a US warship
The U.S. Navy is transforming a costly flub into a potent weapon with the first shipborne hypersonic weapon, which is being retrofitted aboard the first of its three stealthy destroyers. The USS Zumwalt is at a Mississippi shipyard where workers have installed missile tubes that replace twin turrets from a gun system t...
Dec 02, 2024
Traffic citations against Dolphins' Tyreek Hill dismissed after officers no-show at hearing
MIAMI (AP) - Traffic citations issued to Miami Dolphins star wide receiver Tyreek Hill after a September altercation with police have been dismissed after the charging officers didn't attend a court hearing. Hill's tickets for careless driving and failing to wear a seat belt were dismissed after the Miami-Dade Police o...
Nov 26, 2024
Netanyahu says he supports ceasefire proposal with Lebanon's Hezbollah
BEIRUT (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that he would recommend his cabinet adopt a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement with Lebanon's Hezbollah, as Israeli warplanes struck across Lebanon, killing at least 23 people. The Israeli military also issued a flurry of evacuation warnings -...
Nov 26, 2024
US regulators seek to break up Google, forcing Chrome sale as part of monopoly punishment
U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade. The proposed breakup floated in a 23-page document filed late Wednesday by the U.S. Depa...
Nov 21, 2024
Campbell's shareholders approve the company's new, soupless name
NEW YORK (AP) - Campbell's is ditching the soup - at least in name. And the change has now received shareholders' greenlight. Campbell Soup Co. announced its intention to change its name just over two months ago, saying it wanted to instead be known as the (slightly shorter) Campbell's Co. Shareholders overwhelmingly a...
Nov 20, 2024
Dozens are sickened and 1 person died after eating carrots contaminated with E. coli
NEW YORK (AP) - An outbreak of E. coli has infected dozens of people who ate bagged organic carrots, and one person died from the infection. Altogether, 39 people were infected and 15 were hospitalized in 18 states after eating organic whole and baby carrots sold by Grimmway Farms, the federal Centers for Disease Contr...
Nov 18, 2024
Insurers say bear that damaged luxury cars was actually a person in a costume
LOS ANGELES (AP) - California has seen its share of bears breaking into cars. But bears caught on camera entering luxury cars tipped off insurers that something wasn't quite right. In what's dubbed "Operation Bear Claw," the California Insurance Department said four Los Angeles residents were arrested Wednesd...
Nov 14, 2024
Suicides in the US military increased in 2023, continuing a long-term trend
WASHINGTON (AP) - Suicides in the U.S. military increased in 2023, continuing a long-term trend that the Pentagon has struggled to abate, senior defense officials said. The increase is a bit of a setback after the deaths dipped slightly the previous year. Officials said both the number of suicides and the rate per 100,...
Nov 14, 2024
Amazon launches an online discount storefront to better compete with Shein and Temu
Amazon has launched a low-cost online storefront featuring electronics, apparel and other products priced at under $20, an effort to compete with discount retailers that have increasingly encroached on the e-commerce giant's turf. In a blog post on Wednesday, the company said the new Amazon Haul storefront will mostly ...
Nov 14, 2024