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Judge dismisses juror who compared Connecticut missing mom case to the 'Gone Girl' plot 01/19/2024 08:17pm • A judge on Friday dismissed a juror in the trial of a Connecticut woman accused of helping her boyfriend cover up the murder of his estranged wife, after the panelist likened the case to the novel and movie “Gone Girl.” Judge Kevin Randolph received an unsigned note from a juror in the trial of Zach Johnson makes 10 birdies, shares 1st-round lead with Alex Noren at The American Express 01/18/2024 08:15pm • LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) — Zach Johnson embraced the pressure of being the U.S. Ryder Cup captain last year, even if the experience didn't go the way anybody on his team hoped. A few months later, Johnson is past all the pressure and the second-guessing — and those newly lightened shoulders might Strickland and Du Plessis take hostilities into octagon for middleweight title at UFC 297 01/18/2024 06:37pm • When Sean Strickland went after Dricus Du Plessis last month outside the octagon during UFC 296, jumping over a row of seats to throw a series of haymakers, it would have been easy to dismiss that as a publicity stunt to promote their main event at UFC 297. Du Plessis insisted this week what happene Kidnapping of California woman that police called a hoax gets new attention with Netflix documentary 01/18/2024 05:28pm • VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) — The ordeal of Denise Huskins, whose kidnapping from her boyfriend’s Northern California home was first dismissed as a hoax by law enforcement, is getting renewed attention as the subject of a new Netflix docuseries, “American Nightmare.” Here’s a look at the facts of NY midwife who gave kids homeopathic pellets instead of vaccines fined $300K for falsifying records 01/18/2024 03:37pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A New York midwife who gave nearly 1,500 children homeopathic pellets instead of required vaccinations has been fined $300,000, the state's health department announced this week. Jeanette Breen, who operates Baldwin Midwifery on Long Island, administered the pellets as an alternati Mexican soldiers find workshop for making drone bombs, military uniforms 01/18/2024 11:22am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican soldiers and police have found a small factory used to make a kind of bomb usually dropped by drones, authorities said. The facility, which was found late Wednesday, was about the size of a warehouse and had a computer-controlled lathe and milling machine, suggesting th The Vatican's top expert on AI ethics is a friar from a medieval Franciscan order 01/18/2024 10:16am • ROME (AP) — Friar Paolo Benanti wears the plain brown robes of his medieval Franciscan order as he pursues one of the most pressing issues in contemporary times: how to govern artificial intelligence so that it enriches — and doesn’t exploit — people’s lives. Benanti is the Vatican's go-t Arlington woman accused of impersonating immigration lawyer, defrauding clients of $700K 01/17/2024 10:00pm • An Arlington, Virginia, woman has been charged with falsely posing as an immigration attorney and defrauding clients of about $700,000, according to a federal grand jury indictment. Patricia De Oliveira Souza Lelis Bolin, a 29-year-old Brazilian national, is accused of pretending to be a lawyer t Gunmen abduct volunteer searcher looking for her disappeared brother, kill her husband and son 01/17/2024 12:28pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Gunmen burst into a home in central Mexico and abducted one of the volunteer searchers looking for the country's 114,000 disappeared and killed her husband and son, authorities said Wednesday. Search activist Lorenza Cano was abducted from her home in the city of Salamanca, in t 'Not rock 'n' roll's little sister': Inside country music's new golden era — and what comes next 01/17/2024 11:25am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — It was an unexpected musical success story last year, one that has only continued to snowball: Country music, with its loyal listenership on the margins of pop's mainstream, had a crossover moment. Some of the biggest albums and songs of the year are credited to country musician US fugitive accused of faking his death to avoid rape charges denies he is the suspect at hearing 01/17/2024 05:40am • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man accused of faking his death and fleeing the U.S. to avoid rape charges in Utah denied at a court appearance Tuesday that he is the suspect and, in an apparent British accent, called allegations that he wasn't giving his true name “complete hearsay." Nicholas Rossi, wh What does the Baltimore Sun's new owner have planned for the paper? 01/16/2024 08:31pm • A local buyer taking over a struggling newspaper in the 21st century is normally cause for some celebration. But The Baltimore Sun’s newly announced owner has a very specific political background, and some are concerned about what the 187-year-old publication could become. David D. Smith, execu Here’s how ChatGPT maker OpenAI plans to deter election misinformation in 2024 01/16/2024 06:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) — ChatGPT maker OpenAI has outlined a plan to prevent its tools from being used to spread election misinformation as voters in more than 50 countries prepare to cast their ballots in national elections this year. The safeguards spelled out by the San Francisco-based artificial intell North Korea will no longer pursue reconciliation with South because of hostility, Kim Jong Un says 01/16/2024 05:40pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would no longer pursue reconciliation with South Korea and called for rewriting the North’s constitution to eliminate the idea of shared statehood between the war-divided countries, state media said Tuesday. The historic Fake 911 report of fire at the White House triggers emergency response while Biden is at Camp David 01/15/2024 10:48am • WASHINGTON (AP) — A fake 911 call that the White House was on fire sent emergency vehicles to the complex Monday morning, when President Joe Biden and his family were at Camp David. Fire engines and other emergency vehicles responded to a report just after 7 a.m. that the White House was ablaze