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Ammon Bundy vs. hospital: $52 million in damages awarded over child trafficking smear campaign

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:10 GMT

Far-right activist Ammon Bundy, an associate and three groups connected to them must pay more than $50 million in damages for accusing an Idaho hospital of child trafficking and for harassing its medical staff, a jury has decided.The defamation lawsuit by St. Luke’s Regional Health accused Bundy and Diego Rodriguez of making defamatory statements against the hospital and its employees after Rodriguez’s infant grandson was removed from his family for several days in March 2022 and taken to St. Luke’s amid concerns for his health.The emergency room physician, Dr. Rachel Thomas, testified that the 10-month-old baby’s stomach was distended, his eyes were hollow and he was unable to sit up, according to the Idaho Statesman newspaper. Police said at the time that medical personnel determined the child was malnourished.Bundy urged his followers to protest at the hospital and at the homes of child protection service workers, law enforcement officers and others involv...

San Francisco man charged with Section 8 housing scheme

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:10 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A San Francisco man received Section 8 rental assistance vouchers while living in a house that he owned, prosecutors said Wednesday. A federal grand jury indicted 63-year-old Gregory Finkelson for conspiracy, theft of government property, and money laundering. Between 2006 and 2020, Finkelson allegedly stole approximately $341,455 in Section 8 rental assistance by hiding from housing authorities his true income, his ownership of the house where he lived, and the fact that he was the owner of a company. If he had been truthful about his employment and house ownership, he would have never qualified for Section 8 benefits, according to the indictment.Finkelson worked with a co-conspirator in Russia to hide the fact that he owned the house where he lived, investigators said. Finkelson also established numerous bank accounts in his co-conspirator’s name to conceal the fact that he received and controlled the Section 8 payments, rather than a separate landlord.To q...

Missing Redwood City child located, police say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:10 GMT

(KRON) -- A missing 8-year-old child in Redwood City has been located, according to the Redwood City Police Department. The child, identified only by her first name, Shayla, was reported missing earlier in the day Wednesday. Family operated $7.6 million recycling can smuggling scheme: DOJ She is 4 feet, 5 inches tall, 80 pounds, with long dark braided hair, police said. She was last seen wearing gray pants, a yellow shirt, and green crocs. Her last known location was in the area of Mi Rancho Market at 137 Roosevelt.She's been missing since just before 10 a.m. this morning, according to Redwood City PD.Anyone with any information on Shayla is asked to call Redwood City PD at (650) 780-7100.

Swifties are preparing for Taylor Swift concerts by listening to these songs

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:10 GMT

(KRON) -- Taylor Swift is bringing her Eras Tour to Santa Clara this weekend and her adoring fans, known as "Swifties" are preparing by listening to her set list. Swift will perform for thousands of fans at Levi's Stadium on July 28 and 29. According to internet search data, fans in "Swiftie Clara" are getting ready by listening to the pop star's hit song "Cruel Summer." The song is from her seventh studio album "Lover," and is currently her most popular song on Spotify.US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift performs onstage on the first night of her Eras Tour at AT&T Stadium on March 31, 2023, in Texas. (Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images)Language learning platform Preply analyzed internet search volume for every song on the Eras Tour setlist within the past three months. "The study revealed that in Santa Clara, fans are most keen to learn the lyrics right to Cruel Summer ahead of the show. Fans have also been eager to learn the lyrics to 'Lover' and 'Cardigan' in prepar...

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred’s term extended until 2029 by major league owners

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:10 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred’s term extended until 2029 by major league owners.Source

Muere la cantante Sinéad O’Connor a los 56 años, según reporte

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:10 GMT

(CNN) — La cantante irlandesa Sinead O’Connor murió a los 56 años, según reportó este miércoles RTE, la emisora ​​pública de Irlanda.La noticia de su muerte fue confirmada por RTE, quien compartió un comunicado familiar:“Con gran tristeza anunciamos la muerte de nuestra querida Sinead. Su familia y amigos están devastados y han pedido privacidad en este momento tan difícil”.No se informó sobre la causa de muerte.CNN se ha comunicado con representantes y familiares de O’Connor.Noticia en desarrollo…The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

Ukrainian security service claims responsibility for October Crimea bridge blast

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:10 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s security service claimed responsibility for the first time on Wednesday for an explosion that badly damaged the Kerch Bridge linking the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula with Russia last October. The explosion, which Russian authorities said was caused by a truck bomb, left three people dead.Speaking on Ukrainian national television on Wednesday, Ukrainian Security Service head Vasyl Malyuk said his agency was behind the attack.“There were many different operations, special operations. We’ll be able to speak about some of them publicly and out loud after the victory, we will not talk at all about others,” Malyuk said. “It is one of our actions, namely the destruction of the Crimean bridge on October 8 last year.”A further attack on the bridge last week, killing a couple and seriously wounding their daughter, left a span of the roadway hanging perilously. The damage initially appeared to be less severe than what was caused by the assault in October, b...

Stock market today: Wall Street remains mixed after Fed raises interest rates

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:10 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks remain mixed Wednesday after the Federal Reserve followed through on Wall Street’s expectations and raised interest rates to their highest level in more than two decades.The S&P 500 was 0.1% lower in afternoon trading, not far from where it was before the Fed announced what traders hope will be the final rate hike for a long time. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 27 points, or 0.1%, at 35,466, as of 2:11 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.2% lower.Microsoft weighed on the market after falling 4.2%. That was despite reporting stronger profit and revenue for the spring than analysts expected. Analysts said the company made comments that were perhaps intended to rein in huge expectations for upcoming growth from artificial intelligence. Investors also may have been hoping to hear more about when slowing growth at its Azure cloud computing business will trough.Another Big Tech behemoth, Alphabet, helped to limit the market’s losses....

Sinéad O’Connor, the gifted, provocative Irish singer made a star with ‘Nothing Compares 2 U,’ dies at 56, reports say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:10 GMT

DUBLIN (AP) — Sinéad O’Connor, the gifted, provocative Irish singer made a star with ‘Nothing Compares 2 U,’ dies at 56, reports say.Source

British billionaire whose family trust owns Tottenham soccer club faces US insider trading charges

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:10 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Lewis, the British billionaire whose family trust owns the Tottenham Hotspur soccer team, on Wednesday pleaded not guilty in New York to insider trading charges alleging that he fed corporate secrets to romantic partners, personal assistants, friends and his pilots, earning them millions of dollars illegally. He was then released on $300 million bail.Lewis and two of his pilots — Patrick O’Connor and Bryan ‘Marty’ Waugh — surrendered early in the morning to the FBI, a prosecutor said. The pilots also pleaded not guilty at an arraignment in Manhattan federal court. They were each released on $250,000 bail.U.S. Attorney Damian Williams, who announced the charges Tuesday night in a video, said Lewis was accused of “orchestrating a brazen insider trading scheme” that utilized his access to corporate boardrooms to feed inside tips to friends and lovers.“Those folks then traded on that inside information — and made millions of dollars in the stock market — because, tha...