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Review: 'Emily' gives new life to the ���strange��� Bront�� sis 02/16/2023 01:14pm • That name on the book cover is our first warning bell. Only two minutes into ���Emily,��� a bold and audacious retelling of Emily Bront�����s life starring an uncommonly compelling Emma Mackey, we spy freshly bound volumes of ���Wuthering Heights,��� her only novel and life���s achievement. ���By Em Father of July 4 parade shooting suspect pleads not guilty 02/16/2023 01:02pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� The father of a man charged with fatally shooting seven people at a Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago entered a not guilty plea on Thursday to charges that he helped his son obtain a gun license three years before the attack. Robert Crimo Jr.'s not guilty plea at a county co Gaudin to follow Caray as Braves' new play-by-play announcer 02/16/2023 11:58am • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Brandon Gaudin, the former voice of Georgia Tech broadcasts, was selected the new play-by-play announcer for the Atlanta Braves on Bally Sports South and Bally Sports Southeast. Gaudin replaces Chip Caray, who on Jan. 30 was named the television play-by-play voice of the St. Louis C Anti-poverty campaigners rage as energy giants rake in cash 02/16/2023 09:42am • LONDON (AP) ��� Anti-poverty campaigners fumed Thursday after the parent of Britain���s biggest home energy supplier said earnings more than tripled last year as consumers struggled to pay soaring utility bills. British Gas owner Centrica followed Shell and BP as the latest U.K.-based energy company Spain approves menstrual leave, teen abortion and trans laws 02/16/2023 09:13am • MADRID (AP) ��� The Spanish parliament on Thursday approved legislation expanding abortion and transgender rights for teenagers, while making Spain the first country in Europe that will entitle workers to paid menstrual leave. The driving force behind the two laws was Equality Minister Irene Mont Weekly jobless applications fall again despite Fed rate push 02/16/2023 08:53am • Fewer Americans filed for jobless benefits last week despite efforts by the Federal Reserve to loosen the labor market with higher interest rates as it tries to cool the economy. Applications for jobless aid in the U.S. for the week ending Feb. 11 fell by 1,000 last week to 194,000, from 195,000 Boat carrying 71 Rohingya refugees lands in Indonesia 02/16/2023 06:34am • ACEH BESAR, Indonesia (AP) ��� A boat carrying 71 weak and hungry Rohingya Muslims fleeing from refugee camps in Bangladesh landed Thursday in Indonesia���s northernmost province of Aceh, local officials said. Fifteen-year-old Shorif Uddin, who was on the boat with his parents, said two or three peo Michigan State students' training kicked in during shooting 02/16/2023 06:25am • EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) ��� When the texts began coming in about a shooter at Michigan State University, training that many students started receiving as schoolchildren automatically kicked in. They ran. They found a place to hide. They locked and barricaded the doors. They turned out the lights. T Andrew Tate's Muslim fanbase is growing. Some say he's exploiting Islam for internet popularity 02/16/2023 12:00am • Iman's ex-fianc�� first referenced social media influencer Andrew Tate in their relationship in October. Three months later, she says, it was all over.Her former partner, who is in his early 30s, became "very controlling," she says, after he started listening to Tate's podcast, promoting patriarchal Texas university bans woman ahead of Vegas stabbing trial 02/15/2023 11:59pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� The University of Texas at Dallas has banned a student from attending classes on campus while she serves house arrest in Texas ahead of trial in a Las Vegas-area stabbing that drew international attention, a campus official said Wednesday. Authorities in Nevada have said Nika Niko Colorado considers allowing local rent control amid crisis 02/15/2023 09:09pm • DENVER (AP) ��� In a vast hall at Colorado's Capitol building on Wednesday, Mary Bashor���s voice quavered as she described the terror she felt of possibly being pushed from her home of 28 years due to rent increases. ���My greatest fear is that I will have to leave my home I love, which is filled w Manfred: MLB prepared for whatever happens with Diamond 02/15/2023 08:17pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� Commissioner Rob Manfred said Major League Baseball is prepared for whatever happens to the financially troubled company that owns regional broadcast rights for 14 teams after Diamond Sports Group skipped about $140 million in interest payments due Wednesday. The missed payments by Pritzker calls for universal preschool in Illinois by 2027 02/15/2023 08:09pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) ��� Gov. J.B. Pritzker called Wednesday for making preschool available to every 3- and 4-year-old in Illinois within four years, arguing that the state's improved financial picture allows it to not only invest in early education but also take on such problems as homelessness a Grand jury indicts father of July 4 parade shooting suspect 02/15/2023 07:41pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� An Illinois grand jury on Wednesday formally indicted the father of a man charged with fatally shooting seven people at a Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago, the Lake County State's Attorney Office said. The indictment charges Robert Crimo Jr., 58, with seven counts of reckl Pence says he will fight subpoena as far as Supreme Court 02/15/2023 07:23pm • CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) ��� Former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that he will challenge a subpoena by the special counsel overseeing Trump investigations to compel his testimony before a grand jury ��� pursuing it to the Supreme Court if necessary. Special counsel Jack Smith, appointed