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Trump complains jury selection moving too fast in Manhattan hush money trial
NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump complained Wednesday about jury selection in his Manhattan hush money case as the trial moves faster than expected toward opening statements.
After prosecutors and defense lawyers agreed on a surprisingly robust total of seven jurors in one day, Trump sought to tap the brakes on the process that seemed...Read more
Alaska Airlines flights resume after an hour of grounding Wednesday
Alaska Airlines flights have resumed after they were grounded for an hour Wednesday morning, the company said in a statement.
In its statement, Alaska said it had experienced an issue “while performing an upgrade to the system that calculates our weight and balance.”
All flights by Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air, which is owned by Alaska,...Read more
Ukraine says 17 dead as Russian missiles hit northern city
Ukraine said the death toll in a Russian missile attack on a northern city had risen to 17 as Volodymyr Zelenskiy criticized his country’s partners for failing to provide sufficient protection against such strikes.
The Ukrainian president has stepped up calls for more air defense as Kremlin troops exploit Ukraine’s weakness in order to hit ...Read more
Renters across LA are under strain and many fear becoming homeless, survey finds
LOS ANGELES — Nearly 4 in 10 renters in Los Angeles County have worried about losing their homes and becoming homeless in the last few years, according to the results of a new survey from UCLA. A similar share have worried that they or their family would go hungry because they cannot afford the cost of food.
The 2024 Quality of Life Index,...Read more
All Alaska Airline flights grounded
All Alaska Airlines flights have been grounded as of Wednesday morning, according to an advisory from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.
Airlines contracting with Alaska such as Horizon Air and SkyWest Airlines are exempt from the ground stop, FAA said in its advisory.
Alaska Airlines did not immediately respond to requests for comment....Read more
Dubai's record rain floods expensive homes and halts flights
Dubai flights have been severely disrupted and cars were left stranded on flooded roads after record rainfall over the past day brought the city to a standstill.
The United Arab Emirates experienced its heaviest downpour since records began in 1949, Dubai’s media office said in a statement. It caused chaos for residents as water entered the ...Read more
Conservative justices stir trouble for Republican politicians on abortion
Abortion opponents have maneuvered in courthouses for years to end access to reproductive health care. In Arizona last week, a win for the anti-abortion camp caused political blowback for Republican candidates in the state and beyond.
The reaction echoed the response to an Alabama Supreme Court decision over in vitro fertilization just two ...Read more
Saudis, UAE warn of war dangers as Israel-Iran tensions boil
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates called for maximum “self-restraint” in the Middle East to spare the region “from the dangers of war and its dire consequences,” in an unusually frank joint statement Wednesday.
The comments came after a call between Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and UAE President Mohammed Bin...Read more
OJ Simpson never paid the Goldmans the millions he owed them. Can they finally collect?
LOS ANGELES -- For the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, it has been nearly three decades of court fights, painstaking forensic accounting, detective work and, ultimately, frustration.
The goal: Make O.J. Simpson pay.
A civil court jury in 1997 found Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend and ordered the...Read more
Bob Menendez poised to blame his wife in bribe case defense
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Bob Menendez is prepared to blame his wife at his bribery trial for withholding information from him about gifts they allegedly accepted from businessmen seeking favors, a newly unsealed court document shows.
The revelation came Tuesday in a portion of a March court filing in which lawyers for the New Jersey Democrat...Read more
Dali's owner declares 'general average' in Key Bridge disaster. What does that mean?
BALTIMORE — The latest development in the fallout from the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse traces its roots back millennia. It also could contribute to litigation about who’s paying for what that’s expected to take years.
The owner of the Dali, the massive cargo ship that lost power and knocked down the Key Bridge on March 26, killing ...Read more
Ukraine says 13 dead as Russian missiles hit northern city
Ukraine said at least 13 people were killed by a Russian missile attack on a northern city as Volodymyr Zelenskiy criticized his country’s partners for failing to provide sufficient protection against such strikes.
The Ukrainian president has stepped up calls for more air defense as Kremlin troops exploit Ukraine’s weakness in order to hit ...Read more
Sugar cravings could be caused by loneliness, study finds
If you’ve spent a lonely night at home eating chocolates and/or ice cream, you shouldn’t feel guilty. That’s because loneliness can cause an intense desire for sugary foods, a new study found.
Published in JAMA Network Open, researchers linked brain chemistry from those who socially isolate to poor mental health, weight gain, cognitive ...Read more
Haitian Americans worry about relatives and friends in Haiti amid violence
The Rev. Jean Cassamajor, pastor of Bethesda First Haitian Baptist Church in Austell, has tried to get his daughter out of Port-au-Prince for years.
Today, though, his efforts have become more urgent as a surge in gang violence has forced thousands to leave the Caribbean nation’s capital, and left many others frightened and hunkered down in ...Read more
FDA announces recall of heart pumps linked to deaths and injuries
A pair of heart devices linked to hundreds of injuries and at least 14 deaths has received the FDA’s most serious recall, the agency announced Monday.
The recall comes years after surgeons say they first noticed problems with the HeartMate II and HeartMate 3, manufactured by Thoratec Corp., a subsidiary of Abbott Laboratories. The devices are...Read more
Worried about housing shortages and soaring prices? Your community’s zoning laws could be part of the problem
Local governments often try to combat housing costs and create affordable housing by passing legislation that changes current zoning and land-use regulations. But the changes are not without controversy. SciLine interviewed Jessica Trounstine, the centennial chair and professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, who discussed why ...Read more
Other states, like Arizona, could resurrect laws on abortion, LGBTQ+ issues and more that have been lying dormant for more than 100 years
When the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to get an abortion in June 2022, Justice Clarence Thomas suggested that the court “should reconsider” other rights it currently recognizes – like the rights for same-sex couples to have sex and marry.
If the Supreme Court overturns legal precedents on these and other ...Read more
Native American voices are finally factoring into energy projects – a hydropower ruling is a victory for environmental justice on tribal lands
The U.S. has a long record of extracting resources on Native lands and ignoring tribal opposition, but a decision by federal energy regulators to deny permits for seven proposed hydropower projects suggests that tide may be turning.
As the U.S. shifts from fossil fuels to clean energy, developers are looking for sites to generate ...Read more
Reagan’s great America shining on a hill twisted into Trump’s dark vision of Christian nationalism
In August 1982, Ronald Reagan’s father-in-law was dying. Nancy Reagan’s beloved dad, Loyal Davis, was an atheist – a troubling fact to the 40th president. So Reagan penned a private, handwritten note in which he recounted how the prayers of colleagues and friends had cured him of a painful stomach ulcer.
Giving hope for what lay...Read more
Know thyself − all too well: Why Taylor Swift’s songs are philosophy
Taylor Swift isn’t just a billionaire songwriter and performer. She’s also a philosopher.
As a Swiftie and a philosopher, I’ve found that this claim surprises Swifties and philosophers alike. But once her fans learn a bit more about philosophy – and philosophers learn a bit more about Swift’s work – both groups can ...Read more
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