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Side hustles take center stage in paying bills for Hollywood workers on strike 09/21/2023 11:49am • NEW YORK (AP) — Lighting for the entertainment industry is Ryan Meyer's lifeblood. Before the Hollywood strikes, he worked 40 hours a week or more as a gaffer or director of photography. He also has a company that usually earns more than a million dollars a year in production support. Most of that First private US passenger rail line in 100 years is about to link Miami and Orlando at high speed 09/21/2023 11:42am • MIAMI (AP) — The first big test of whether privately owned high-speed passenger train service can prosper in the United States will launch Friday when Florida's Brightline begins running trains between Miami and Orlando, reaching speeds of 125 mph (200 kph). It's a $5 billion bet Brightline's own Outdated headline sparks vicious online hate campaign directed at Las Vegas newspaper 09/21/2023 11:04am • NEW YORK (AP) — A Las Vegas newspaper is being viciously attacked online for its coverage of an alleged murder of a retired police chief, either because of a misunderstanding or a deliberate attempt to mislead. The “firehose of hatred” has led the Las Vegas Review-Journal to sift through email Wave of migrants that halted trains in Mexico started with migrant smuggling industry in Darien Gap 09/21/2023 10:18am • HUEHUETOCA, Mexico (AP) — Thousands of migrants riding atop railway cars in Mexico this week or waiting in mile-long lines by the tracks to hitch a ride to the U.S. have triggered the closure of one U.S. border crossing and forced Mexico’s largest railroad to suspend dozens of freight trains. Bu Prepping for No. 1 Georgia reminded UAB coach Trent Dilfer of getting ready for NFL games 09/21/2023 06:10am • ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — First-year UAB coach Trent Dilfer says watching game film of No. 1 Georgia takes him back to his days as an Super Bowl-winning quarterback. Dilfer realizes that’s not good news for his Blazers against the two-time defending national champion Bulldogs on Saturday night. Georgi Police say a man and woman are dead after an apparent murder-suicide inside a Georgia Walmart 09/20/2023 11:14pm • HIRAM, Georgia (AP) — A man and woman were shot and killed in an apparent murder-suicide Wednesday inside a Walmart in a Georgia town, police said. The shooting took place at about 7:30 p.m. in the Walmart Super Center in Hiram, a small town about 20 miles (35 kilometers) northwest of Atlanta, pol DC man convicted of pistol-whipping man, shooting another at Clyde's Restaurant 09/20/2023 10:33pm • A Montgomery County jury convicted a D.C. man Wednesday on charges related to a 2022 shooting at the Clyde's Restaurant location in Chevy Chase, Maryland. David Lee Brown III, 29, was found guilty of attempted voluntary manslaughter, first-degree assault and use of a handgun, according to a news Suspect in fatal shootings of 4 people in suburban Chicago dead after car crash in Oklahoma 09/20/2023 10:18pm • A suspect in the shooting deaths of a suburban Chicago couple and their two children died in a fiery crash Wednesday in Oklahoma, police said. Nathaniel Huey Jr., 32, of Streamwood, Illinois, was suspected in the deaths of Alberto Rolon, Zoraida Bartolomei and their two sons, ages 7 and 9, whose nam Biden's Democratic allies intensify pressure for asylum-seekers to get work permits 09/20/2023 09:52pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — As more than 115,000 migrants arrived in New York City over the past year after crossing the border from Mexico, Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul begged President Joe Biden for one thing, above all others, to ease the crisis: “Let them work,” both Democrats have said UK leader Rishi Sunak delays ban on new gas and diesel cars by 5 years in contentious climate shift 09/20/2023 09:36pm • LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced Wednesday that he’s delaying by five years a ban on new gas and diesel cars that had been due to take effect in 2030, watering down climate goals that he said imposed “unacceptable costs” on ordinary people. The move angered green groups, op Illinois man pleads guilty to trying to burn down planned abortion clinic 09/20/2023 09:21pm • URBANA, Ill. (AP) — A 73-year-old man has pleaded guilty to driving a car into a planned abortion clinic in eastern Illinois and trying to set the building on fire earlier this year, prosecutors said Wednesday. Philip J. Buyno of Prophetstown, Illinois, entered the plea Tuesday to a federal charge Suspect in ambush killing of LA deputy pleads not guilty due to insanity 09/20/2023 09:16pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The man charged with murder in the ambush killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity on Wednesday. Officials say Kevin Cataneo Salazar fatally shot 30-year-old Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer, who was sitting in a patrol car, Jeep maker Stellantis makes a new contract offer as auto workers prepare to expand their strike 09/20/2023 08:34pm • General Motors and Stellantis announced fresh layoffs Wednesday that they blamed on damage from the United Auto Workers strike, and the labor standoff grew more tense just two days before the union was expected to call for new walkouts. Stellantis provided a glimmer of hope for a breakthrough by giv Fantasy plays: Players to start and sit for NFL Week 3 09/20/2023 07:41pm • The NFL dialed up the scoring in Week 2 after a lackluster opening week. Teams averaged 22.7 points per game in Week 2 — a noticeable improvement on Week 1. That helped us in fantasy as things began to even out and look a little more like we expected them to look prior to the season. Still, there Saints safety Marcus Maye suspended 3 games in connection with 2021 DUI case 09/20/2023 07:41pm • METAIRIE, La. (AP) — New Orleans Saints safety Marcus Maye has been suspended without pay for three games for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy, the league said Wednesday. The suspension starts with Sunday's game at Green Bay and ends following New Orleans' Week 5 game at New England on O