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Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaks during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Report of Special Counsel John Durham, Wednesday, June 21, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Democratic congressman who also is running for U.S. Senate had his luggage swiped from his car while it was parked in a downtown San Francisco garage, Thursday, April 25, 2024.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaks during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Report of Special Counsel John Durham, Wednesday, June 21, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Democratic congressman who also is running for U.S. Senate had his luggage swiped from his car while it was parked in a downtown San Francisco garage, Thursday, April 25, 2024.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — San Francisco has earned an unwelcome national reputation for car burglaries that U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff was reminded of the hard way: The Democratic congressman had his luggage swiped from his car while it was parked in a downtown garage.
With his formal clothing gone, Schiff ended up at a fundraising dinner Thursday for his U.S. Senate campaign dressed like he was headed to a Los Angeles Dodgers game — in shirt sleeves and an insulated vest. Others who attended the event were mostly decked out in suit jackets and ties.
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A French court ruled Tuesday that filmmaker Roman Polanski did not British actor Charlotte Lewis, who has accused him of raping her as a teenager. The case stems from a 2019 interview with Paris Match magazine, where Polanski allegedly called Lewis a liar following her accusations. The court’s ruling did not address the truth of the rape allegation but focused solely on whether Polanski’s comments in the Paris Match interview constituted defamation against Lewis.Polanski rebutted Lewis’s allegations in the interview, describing them as a “heinous lie.” Lewis had contended the remarks were defamatory, launching a legal battle against the 90-year-old director, known for classics such as “Rosemary’s Baby,” “Chinatown,” and “The Pianist.”
First, Lamar Jackson. Then, Joe Burrow. The two-time defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs face a daunting test in opening their season after CBS unveiled Kansas City’s Week 2 opponent as being the Cincinnati Bengals. The Burrow-led Bengals will travel to play at Kansas City in a late-afternoon outing on Sept. 15. For Kansas City, the matchup will follow the Chiefs opening the NFL schedule hosting Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens on Sept. 5 in a rematch of last season’s AFC title game. The NFL is releasing highlighted portions of its schedule in advance of the league’s full schedule announcement on Wednesday night.
Police in Pakistan say a missile fired by a drone struck a house in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban along the Afghan border before dawn Tuesday, killing at least four villagers, including children. They say it is not clear who fired the missile and officers are investigating. The Pakistan army evicted Pakistani Taliban insurgents from the region years ago, but they have been regrouping there. Those killed in the missile strike were civilians with no known links to the insurgents. Villagers put their bodies on a road near a military camp and demanded information about who was responsible. Most of the previous drone strikes in the area were carried out by the United States or the Pakistan army.
Former France center back Raphael Varane will leave Manchester United when his contract expires at the end of the season. The 31-year-old Varane joined United in 2021 but has struggled to reproduce the kind of form he showed in a trophy-laden, decade-long spell at Real Madrid before that. Injuries have also played a part and restricted Varane to 93 appearances in his three seasons at United. Varane made the announcement on social media. He says he is “very positive for the future” following the arrival of Jim Ratcliffe as a co-owner.
Two French prison officers have been killed and three others seriously injured when their prison convoy was attacked in Normandy. Officials say the attack occurred as the convoy was returning to Évreux jail after a court hearing in Rouen. Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti said he would join a crisis unit to address the emergency. He said “All means are being used to find these criminals." French media reported that a prisoner being transported in the van may have escaped with the assailants. The incident has prompted a significant law enforcement operation in the northwestern region of France as authorities worked to secure the area and apprehend the assailants.
Donald Trump’s fixer-turned-foe is returning to the witness stand for a bruising round of questioning from the former president’s lawyers. Michael Cohen’s testimony on Monday linked Trump to all aspects of a hush money scheme that prosecutors say was aimed at stifling stories that threatened his 2016 campaign. He’s the prosecution’s star witness and will face questioning on Tuesday. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts. The case is the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president and the first of four prosecutions of Trump to reach a jury.
Downhill skier Breezy Johnson has been banned for 14 months for three violations of anti-doping rules and can't race until December. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has published its decision for Johnson’s failure to comply with the whereabouts rules. They oblige athletes to detail where they can be found for one hour each day to give a sample with no advance notice. Johnson’s whereabouts failures were from Oct. 29, 2022 to Oct. 10, 2023. She stopped racing on the World Cup circuit in December while under investigation. Johnson's ban expires on Dec. 9 before the first downhill next season.
By FADI TAWIL and KAREEM CHEHAYEB - Associated Press
More than 300 Syrians refugees are heading back home from northeastern Lebanon to an uncertain future in Syria as anti-refugee sentiment is surging in crisis-hit Lebanon. In the northeastern town of Arsal, Syrian refugees piled their belongings onto the back of trucks and cars on Tuesday as Lebanese security officers collected their U.N. refugee agency cards and other paperwork before clearing them to leave. Lebanon, in the throes of a severe financial crisis since 2019, hosts nearly 780,000 registered Syrian refugees and hundreds of thousands more who are unregistered. It's the world’s highest refugee population per capita. Leading Lebanese political parties have become increasingly vocal in recent months, demanding the Syrian refugees go back.
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Europe’s oldest monarch, King Harald V of Norway, has welcomed Denmark’s King Frederik and his Australian-born wife, Queen Mary, on their second official visit abroad after the Danish monarch’s mother abdicated this year. The 87-year-old Harald returned to work last month following two surgeries to implant pacemakers. Harald has said he has no plans to abdicate, unlike his second cousin Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, who stepped down after a 52-year reign. The Danish royal couple arrived in Oslo on their 10th wedding anniversary. Earlier this month, Frederik and Mary made their first state visit to Sweden.
European carmaker Stellantis says it will begin selling electric vehicles from its Chinese partner Leapmotor in nine European countries later this year. Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavres said Tuesday that sales will begin in September in European countries including Belgium, France, Italy and Germany, and later in the year in South America, Middle East and Africa, India and the Asia Pacific, Tavares said. The two companies said they're forming a joint venture to manufacture and sell Leapmotor’s electric vehicles outside of China. They did not say where the vehicles sold in Europe would be produced. Leapmotor CEO Zhu Jiangming said that geopolitical uncertainty may make it necessary for Chinese EV brands to manufacture globally.
A young Thai activist who went on a hunger strike after being jailed for advocating reform of the country’s system of monarchy has died in a prison hospital. Netiporn Sanesangkhom was a member of the activist group Thaluwang, known for their bold and aggressive campaigns demanding reform of the monarchy and abolition of the law that makes it illegal to defame members of the royal family. She appears to be the first political activist in Thailand to have died from a hunger strike. The Corrections Department said Netiporn, 28, suffered cardiac arrest early Tuesday morning.
The English Premier League chief executive says Everton is still in negotiations with 777 Partners over a takeover of the club despite the Miami-based investment group plunging into legal and financial turmoil. 777 reached an agreement with Everton in September to buy out the club majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri. The deal was subject to the approval of English soccer authorities and it has yet to be finalized. The prospective sale has been thrown into doubt because 777 is facing a $600 million fraud lawsuit in a federal court in New York and its Australian airline is grounded. Premier League CEO Richard Masters says Moshiri “wants to continue to have discussions with 777” over the possible sale.
By DAVID SHARP and JENNIFER McDERMOTT - Associated Press
Researchers around the world are racing to create large wind turbines and floating platforms as upcoming lease auctions bring offshore wind closer to reality. Floating turbines are the only way for some countries and U.S. states to capture a massive amount of offshore wind energy. As the technology advances, it could help the world shift away from fossil fuels to cut planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. In Maine, researchers are focusing on a simple platform that could be made with materials like concrete readily available around the world. Eventually, they envision turbines rising hundreds of feet tall and capable of producing 15 to 20 megawatts of electricity apiece.
Police across the United States have been warned for decades that the common tactic of handcuffing someone facedown could turn deadly. An Associated Press investigation has found that what some officers are doing on the street conflicts with what has been recognized as safe. That's a deadly disconnect that highlights ongoing failures in police training. Each state writes its own standards, and individual departments and training centers determine what officers hear in classrooms and gyms. The safest techniques don’t always filter down to officers.
European Union nations have officially endorsed a major overhaul of the bloc’s failed asylum system. Tuesday's move wraps up years of work and comes just as campaigning for next month's Europe-wide elections gathers pace. Migration could be an important issue. The New Pact on Migration and Asylum lays out rules for handling people trying to enter Europe without authorization, from how to screen them to deporting them if they’re not allowed to stay. Mainstream political parties believe it solves the problems that have divided EU nations since well over 1 million migrants arrived in 2015. But the reforms will only enter force in 2026. Critics say the system is aimed at keeping people out and will restrict asylum rights.
For decades, police across the United States have been warned that the common tactic of handcuffing someone facedown could turn deadly if officers pin them on the ground with too much pressure or for too long. Yet failures in training of officers have created a deadly disconnect between what’s long been known as safe and what some police do on the streets. An investigation led by The Associated Press found that some officers aren’t being taught that holding someone facedown could impede breathing, and that others who were trained in the best practice of promptly rolling a person off their chest didn’t do so in an encounter that ended in death.
A Paris memorial honoring people who distinguished themselves by helping to rescue Jews in France during the country’s Nazi occupation in World War II has been defaced with painted blood-red hands. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo decried the vandalism as “unspeakable.” She said the memorial was defaced overnight Monday to Tuesday. The attack on the Wall of the Righteous comes in the context of tensions and anger in France over the Israel-Hamas war. Antisemitic acts have surged in France, a country with the largest Jewish and Muslim populations in western Europe.
By JOHN SEEWER, REESE DUNKLIN and TAYLOR STEVENS - Associated Press
An Associated Press investigation found that police across the U.S. violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining people in hundreds of fatal encounters that didn’t involve a firearm. Police breached those safety warnings not just once or twice, but in three or more ways in roughly 45% of the 1,000 deaths identified by AP over a decade’s time. Most often, officers pinned people facedown in ways that could restrict their breathing or stunned them repeatedly with Tasers. Some officers had little choice but to break guidelines recommended by law enforcement groups and safety experts, known as best practices, to save or protect someone. But many decisions were harder to explain, happening after officers had people handcuffed and controlled.
“Bad Boys for Life” producer Doug Belgrad will join Netflix as its vice president of film as the streaming giant continues to beef up its movie ranks following a major shakeup.
NEW YORK — George Clooney will make his Broadway debut next spring in a stage adaptation of “Good Night, and Good Luck,” a historical drama about the venerated broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow, producers announced this week.
The U.S. government’s highway safety agency has opened another investigation of automated driving systems, this time into crashes involving Waymo’s self-driving vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened the probe after getting 22 reports of Waymo vehicles either crashing or doing something that may have violated traffic laws. In the past month, the agency has opened at least four investigations of vehicles that can either drive themselves or take on at least some driving functions as it appears to be getting more aggressive in regulating the devices. In the probe of Waymo, formerly Google’s self-driving vehicle unit, the agency said it has reports of 17 crashes and five other reports of possible traffic law violations.
The country artist known simply as Ernest is a couple of cocktails deep on a recent afternoon in the rooftop garden of West Hollywood's Soho House, a diamond pendant the size of a AA battery nestled within the open neck of his blue western shirt.
