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11 June

Pamela Smart accepts responsibility in husbands 1990 murder for first time

Pamela Smart, who is serving life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for coordinating with her teenage student to have her husband killed in 1990, has accepted responsibility in his death for the first time. In her latest plea for New Hampshire officials to reduce her sentence, Smart acknowledged that she previously “deflected blame” instead of recognizing her own part …

11 June

A weird 7-foot fish with a face "only a mother could love" washed ashore in Oregon – and its rarer than experts thought

An “unusual” and “strange looking fish” washed up onto an Oregon coast earlier this month, shocking people with its gargantuan size. At first, experts thought it was just a “run of the mill ocean sunfish,” known by the scientific nameMola mola, but now, they’ve learned it’s something else — and rare. The Seaside Aquarium said in a Facebook post last …

11 June

Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices at his companies over its new OpenAI deal

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is threatening to ban his employees from taking Apple devices into their workplaces after Apple CEO Tim Cook announced a partnership on Monday to integrate OpenAI’s artificial intelligence technology into its operating systems. On Monday evening, Musk wrote on his social media platform X that adding OpenAI’s tech into Apple’s systems “is an unacceptable security violation.” …

11 June

David Wroblewskis newest book "Familiaris" earns him his 2nd entry into Oprahs Book Club

Oprah Winfrey has announced her latest Book Club pick, “Familiaris,” by New York Times bestselling author David Wroblewski. Published by Blackstone Publishing, the book is a follow-up to Wroblewski’s acclaimed novel, “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle.” “David takes us on an extraordinary journey that brilliantly interweaves history, philosophy, adventure and mysticism to explore the meaning of love, friendship and living …

11 June

Heat stress can turn deadly even sooner than experts thought. Are new warnings needed?

Gwen Osborne, a 72-year-old retired newspaper reporter in Chicago, liked to spend long hours in her apartment reading her Bible and writing. It’s also where she died, overcome by the temperatures of a Midwestern heat wave. Osborne was one of three residents who died in the same building in May 2022. The building had a policy of not turning on …

11 June

As FDA urges crackdown on bird flu in raw milk, some states say their hands are tied

Officials in two of the three states probing their first cases of bird flu in dairy cattle this month said their hands are tied after the Food and Drug Administration pleaded with states to ramp up testing and restrictions on potentially infectious raw milk being sold to consumers within their borders. Wyoming, Iowa and Minnesota announced their first detections of …

11 June

New Yorks handling of COVID nursing home deaths at center of Congressional hearing. Read former Gov. Andrew Cuomos full opening statement.

NEW YORK — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling ofCOVIDin nursing homes was under scrutiny Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Republican lawmakers on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic specifically asked him about the state’s nursing home guidance in the early days of the pandemic. On March 25, 2020, New York mandated that nursing homes must admit patients …

11 June

ICE arrests 8 with suspected ISIS ties

Washington— Federal investigators arrested eight foreign nationals located in the U.S. with alleged ties to the terrorist groupISISin recent days, multiple officials with knowledge of the operation confirmed to CBS News on Tuesday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) apprehended the Tajikistani nationals in Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia, and they are currently facing immigration charges, the officials said. …

11 June

Juror on Hunter Biden trial says politics was not a factor in this case

The jury of six men and six women that convicted Hunter Biden on three felony gun charges Tuesday wanted to review the evidence and didn’t want to “rush judgment,” said one anonymous juror in an interview with CBS News. The juror also said politics didn’t factor into their decision. “We never talked about the president throughout the deliberation,” said anonymous …

11 June

Biden administration to bar medical debt from credit reports

Medical debt will be stricken from credit reports in a change proposed by the White House that could help millions of Americans land a job, rent a home or obtain a car loan. Vice President Kamala Harris and Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, formally announced the proposal to take unpaid medical bills off the table in …

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