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Kim Potter sentenced to 2 years in Daunte Wright’s death
Kim Potter, the former suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she fatally shot Daunte Wright, was sentenced Friday to two years in prison. Wright’s family denounced the sentence as too lenient and accused the judge of being taken in by a “white...
Skiing for joy, Gu wins 3rd Olympic medal — a halfpipe gold
Pure joy on the halfpipe looked like this on a sunny, windswept day at the Beijing Olympics: —It was multinational freeskiing sensation Eileen Gu learning her gold medal was secure, then falling to her knees at the top of that halfpipe, covering her mouth with her mittens and screaming “Oh...
Republican lawmakers bar journalists from statehouse floors
Republican lawmakers in several states are scaling back access to government business, extending pandemic-era rules that restrict when journalists can report from the floors of state legislative chambers and, in effect, making it easier to dodge the press. As the public returns to the corridors of state capitols, new rules...
Ottawa crackdown: police arrest 100 after 3-week protest
OTTAWA, Ontario — Police arrested scores of demonstrators and towed away vehicles Friday in Canada’s besieged capital, and a stream of trucks started leaving under the pressure, raising authorities’ hopes for an end to the three-week protest against the country’s covid-19 restrictions. By evening, at least 100 people had been...
In GOP embrace of truckers, some see racist double standard
Former President Donald Trump, who repeatedly called Black Lives Matter protesters “thugs” and “anarchists,” said there’s “a lot of respect” for the overwhelmingly white truckers who blocked streets in the Canadian capital and shut down border crossings with the U.S. to oppose covid-19 restrictions. To Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, the...
Take the 5th? The choice could soon be Trump’s in N.Y. probe
NEW YORK — To plead the Fifth, or not to plead the Fifth? That is the question Donald Trump may face after a New York judge ordered the former president to testify in a long-running state civil investigation into his business practices. Trump’s lawyers are almost certain to appeal Judge...
Ukrainian rebels evacuate civilians to Russia amid crisis
Spiking tensions in eastern Ukraine on Friday aggravated Western fears of a Russian invasion and a new war in Europe, with a humanitarian convoy hit by shelling and pro-Russian rebels evacuating civilians from the conflict zone. A strong explosion hit the eastern city of Donetsk. The Kremlin declared massive nuclear...
Prince Harry lawyers say he feels unsafe bringing kids to UK
Lawyers for Prince Harry told a court hearing on Friday that the British royal is unwilling to bring his children to his homeland because it is not safe. Harry has launched a legal challenge to the U.K. government’s refusal to let him personally pay for police protection when he comes...
Sotheby’s selling art treasures from divorced couple’s trove
Artworks by Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol and other modern masters are going up for auction in a sale ordered by a U.S. court as part of a billionaire couple’s acrimonious divorce. Sotheby’s auction house announced Friday that it will offer 30 works from the Macklowe Collection on May...
Niemann seizes glorious day at Riviera with 63 to lead by 3Video
LOS ANGELES — Joaquin Niemann had an idea how Riviera was playing Thursday when he saw no one from the morning draw posting better than a 5-under-par 66. He hit the ball so well in the Genesis Invitational that he didn’t even bother paying attention to anyone else. When his...
Senate sends Biden bill averting federal shutdown
The Senate gave final approval Thursday to legislation averting a weekend government shutdown, sending President Joe Biden a measure designed to give bipartisan bargainers more time to reach an overdue deal financing federal agencies until fall. Final passage was by a bipartisan 65-27 vote, five more than the 60 votes...
Olympics drama creates uncertain future for top Russian figure skatersVideo
BEIJING — The gold medalist said she felt empty. The silver medalist pledged never to skate again. The favorite left in tears without saying a word. After one of the most dramatic nights in their sport’s history, Russia’s trio of teenage figure skating stars each enter an uncertain future. Her...
Driver Greg Biffle trying to race into Daytona 500 after 5-year NASCAR absenceVideo
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Greg Biffle grabbed a seat on stage and flexed a bicep as he posed for pictures. He smiled, exhaled and summed up his return to Daytona International Speedway in four words: “It’s been a while.” Nearly six years, to be more precise. The former NASCAR Cup...
Nearly half of U.S. bald eagles suffer lead poisoning
America’s national bird is more beleaguered than previously believed, with nearly half of bald eagles tested across the U.S. showing signs of chronic lead exposure, according to a study published Thursday. While the bald eagle population has rebounded from the brink of extinction since the U.S. banned the pesticide DDT...
Penn State beats Minnesota, avenging loss to Golden Gophers 5 days earlierVideo
UNIVERSITY PARK — Jalen Pickett scored 20 points, John Harrar had 10 points and 10 rebounds, and Penn State beat Minnesota, 67-46, on Thursday in the second meeting in five days. It was Penn State’s largest win over Minnesota in program history. Pickett sank a long 3-pointer with 9 minutes,...
Israeli strawberry clocks in as world’s heaviest on record
KADIMA-ZORAN, Israel — After a year-long jam, a mammoth Israeli strawberry is entering the record books. Weighing a whopping 10.19 ounces, more than half a pound, the titanic berry this week was declared the world’s largest by Guinness World Records. The strawberry was picked on Chahi Ariel’s family farm near...
Miners, families testify against bill to ax injury benefits
Jonathan Barber was 29 years old with an infant son when injuries he received on the job in a West Virginia coal mine left him paralyzed and in a wheelchair. Barber was struck between his shoulder blades by an unstable brow at a mine in April 2017. He lay buried...
‘Candy Bomber’ who dropped sweets during Berlin airlift dies
U.S. military pilot Gail S. Halvorsen — known as the “Candy Bomber” for his candy airdrops during the Berlin airlift after World War II ended — has died at age 101. Halvorsen died Wednesday following a brief illness in his home state of Utah, surrounded by most of his children,...
Biden moves to reverse Trump-era limits on green cards
SAN DIEGO — The Biden administration on Thursday proposed reversing a rule that denies green cards to applicants who receive certain government benefits, one of former President Donald Trump’s signature moves to limit legal immigration. The administration stopped applying the more expansive Trump-era limits in March, making the announcement more...
Truckers in Canada hold their ground despite threats of crackdown
OTTAWA, Ontario — Hundreds of truckers clogging the streets of Canada’s capital stood their ground and defiantly blasted their horns Thursday as police poured in, threatening to break up the nearly three-week protest against the country’s covid-19 restrictions. Busloads of police arrived near Ottawa’s Parliament Hill, and workers put up...
What do you give Yoko Ono on her birthday? A tribute albumVideo
NEW YORK — Ben Gibbard wasn’t necessarily looking for music by Yoko Ono when he went record shopping a few decades ago. He was just browsing in the “O” section and stumbled on a copy of her 1973 album “Feeling the Space.” “It wasn’t super-expensive and I was like, ‘Yeah,...
Romance fraud: Looking for love in wrong place proves costly
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — For the victim, a 78-year-old man from Annandale, it started with an effort to find some companionship. He created an account on a social network called iFlirt, then made contact with someone identifying herself as a widowed woman in her 30s who seemed interested. As the...
Former Angels employee convicted in Skaggs’ overdose death
FORT WORTH, Texas — A former Los Angeles Angels employee was convicted Thursday of providing Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs the drugs that led to his overdose death in Texas. Eric Kay was convicted on one count each of drug distribution resulting in death and drug conspiracy. He faces up to...
Construction wraps on problem-plagued Mariner East pipeline
PHILADELPHIA — Work is finished on a multibillion-dollar pipeline system that connects the vast Marcellus Shale gas field in western Pennsylvania to an export terminal near Philadelphia, according to its corporate owner, which faces criminal charges that it fouled waterways and residential water supplies during pipeline construction. Energy Transfer said...
MLB labor talks last 15 minutes as lockout continues
NEW YORK — The threat to Opening Day on March 31 appeared to intensify Thursday when the drawn-out talks to end Major League Baseball’s lockout ended just 15 minutes after they had resumed following a four-day break. What was supposed to be the second day of spring training workouts instead...
