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Avenatti sentenced to 14 years in California fraud case 12/05/2022 10:29pm • SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) ��� Lawyer Michael Avenatti, who rose to fame representing porn star Stormy Daniels against Donald Trump, was sentenced in California on Monday to 14 years in prison for cheating clients out of millions of dollars. Avenatti was also fined $10 million by U.S. District Judge Investors press railroads to add sick time for workers 12/05/2022 09:35pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ��� Major freight railroads are facing pressure to add sick days for their workers from a new front: An influential investment group says some of its members are now pushing the measure that Congress declined to as part of the contracts they imposed last week to avert a potentially Kentucky's Dem governor files for red-state reelection bid 12/05/2022 07:07pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) ��� Fresh off an event trumpeting Kentucky's largest-ever economic development project, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear filed for reelection Monday, touting his work to increase jobs, expand health care and support teachers during a term marred by a pandemic and deadly storms. Beshe FAQ: How and Why We Rank and Rate Hospitals 12/05/2022 07:00pm • FAQ: 2022-2023 Best Hospitals: An OverviewFAQ: 2022-2023 Best Hospitals Specialty RankingsFAQ: 2022-2023 Best Hospitals Honor RollFAQ: 2022-2023 Best Hospitals Procedure and Condition RatingsFAQ: 2022-2023 Best Regional HospitalsFAQ: 2022-2023 Best Hospitals for Maternity FAQ: 2022-2023 Best Childre 7 Electric Vehicle ETFs to Buy 12/05/2022 07:00pm • The electric vehicle revolution continues to pick up speed.Industry estimates predict 10 million new electric vehicles will be sold in 2022 worldwide. That's almost 10 times the total from 2017. And with the current prices of gasoline and diesel making EVs appealing from both a financial and an envi North Carolina blackouts caused by shootings could last days 12/05/2022 06:42pm • CARTHAGE, N.C. (AP) ��� Tens of thousands of people braced Monday for days without electricity in a North Carolina county where authorities say two power substations were shot up by one or more people with apparent criminal intent. Across Moore County, many businesses and restaurants displayed �� Bribery, fraud charges dismissed against ex-NY Lt. Governor 12/05/2022 05:51pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Bribery and fraud charges against former New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin were tossed out Monday by a federal judge, leaving Benjamin to face only records falsification charges. Prosecutors notified the judge hours later that they were appealing the ruling. Six weeks before a sched Former Education Secretary King named SUNY chancellor 12/05/2022 05:43pm • Former U.S. Education Secretary John King Jr. has been appointed chancellor of the State University of New York, the nation's largest university system, SUNY announced Monday. King is scheduled to begin in January at a salary of a $750,000. The appointment marks a return to New York for King, who w Mall of America settles lawsuit over boy thrown from balcony 12/05/2022 04:01pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� The Mall of America in suburban Minneapolis said Monday that it will toughen its trespassing policies as part of a settlement with the family of a boy who was severely injured when a man with a history of causing disturbances at the mall threw the child from a third-floor balcon Jimmy V Classic more than game for Iowa's Patrick McCaffery 12/05/2022 03:45pm • Iowa's meeting with No. 15 Duke at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night is more than just another game to Patrick McCaffery. The game opens the Jimmy V Classic doubleheader, which raises funds for cancer research through the V Foundation. The second game matches No. 2 Texas against No. 17 Illinois Review: A Sugarplum Fairy waves a sweet 'Nutcracker' goodbye 12/05/2022 02:37pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� George Balanchine���s ���Nutcracker��� ends with a big, collective farewell wave. Every single dancer onstage is waving ��� from the Sugarplum Fairy and her fellow inhabitants of the Land of Sweets down below, to Marie and her Prince up above, soaring in their wooden sleigh. How ap Ex-Harvard coach, dad face jurors in admissions bribery case 12/05/2022 02:32pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� A wealthy Maryland businessman bought the run-down home of Harvard's fencing coach for well above its value, bankrolled the renovation of his $1 million condo and helped pay the coach's bills in a scheme to secure coveted spots for his sons at the elite university, a federal prosecut Nick Bollettieri, coach to many tennis stars, dead at age 91 12/05/2022 01:56pm • Nick Bollettieri, the Hall of Fame tennis coach who worked with some of the sport���s biggest stars, including Andre Agassi and Monica Seles, and founded an academy that revolutionized the development of young athletes, has died. He was 91. Bollettieri died Sunday night at home in Florida after a se In Bolivia, literacy training makes a profound difference 12/05/2022 01:37pm • PUCARANI, Bolivia (AP) ��� Anacleta Mamani has no teeth, but a happy smile: She���s learned to read and write at the age of 71, and now feels so empowered, she wants to run a road race in her Indigenous community in the Bolivian highlands near La Paz. Mamami is among more than 20,000 senior citizens Same-sex couples wary despite federal marriage rights bill 12/05/2022 01:24pm • Mary and Sharon Bishop-Baldwin were jubilant after winning a decadelong fight for the right to wed in Oklahoma. But eight years after tying the knot ��� on the day they won their lawsuit challenging a state ban on gay marriage ��� and seven years after the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed same-sex couple