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New York fraud trial accusing Trump of lying about his wealth opens as he denounces it as a 'scam'

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:18:48 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The fraud lawsuit that could cost former President Donald Trump control of some of his most prized properties went to trial Monday, with New York state lawyers vowing to hold him accountable while he denounced the case as a politically motivated “scam.”The civil case, brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, accuses the business-mogul-turned-politician and his company of deceiving banks, insurers and others by habitually misstating his wealth in financial statements.“They were lying year after year after year,” Kevin Wallace, a lawyer in James' office, said in an opening statement as Trump sat at the defense table. He looked straight ahead, arms crossed, facing away from a screen that showed details of Wallace's presentation. Defense lawyers, in their openings, said that the financial statements were true. Trump's holdings are "Mona Lisa properties" that can command top dollar, attorney Alina Habba said.“That is not fraud. That is real estate," she said, a...

Tickled P!NK

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:18:48 GMT

Tickled P!NK: Pop icon P!NK released her ninth studio album earlier this year, and Trustfall proves that she’s still a major creative force. She doesn’t get enough credit for the fact that she’s been remarkably consistent with the quality over those nine albums , and she has plenty of great material for a big show at SoFi. The bill is great too. Pat Benatar & Neil Geraldo are main support, while Grouplove and DJ Kid Cut Up open.Back in November 2022, a press release read, “Today, three-time Grammy Award-winning singer, performer, and  international pop icon P!NK announces her highly anticipated return to the road. Summer Carnival 2023  will bring P!NK to stadiums across the U.S. and Canada alongside her friends and special guests, including 2022 Hall of Fame inductees, Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Grouplove and KidCutUp at SoFi Stadium on October 5, 2023. The 21-city tour is produced by Live Nation. The announcement of P!NK’s Summer Carnival 2023 tour follows the releas...

Coast Guard suspends search for missing swimmer following apparent shark attack near Point Reyes

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:18:48 GMT

POINT REYES — The search for a swimmer who was thought to be attacked by a shark near Point Reyes has been suspended with no plans to resume, according to a spokesperson with the U.S Coast Guard.The spokesperson confirmed at 8 a.m. Monday that the search had been suspended. The agency’s search was prompted by reports that a swimmer was apparently attacked by a shark and dragged into the water around 10:40 a.m. Sunday off the coast of Wildcat Beach.Searching parties aiding the Coast Guard included the Marin County Sheriff’s Office, Marin County Fire Department and the National Park Service. There was no word as of Monday morning whether those agencies would continue their searches.Attempts to reach the National Park Service on Monday morning were not immediately successful.There have been 210 shark attacks and incidents — 15 of them resulting in fatalities — off the California coast since 1950, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The last reported shark...

Pac-12 power ratings: As Stanford and ASU race to the bottom, 0-18 looms

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:18:48 GMT

Two weeks into conference play, the pecking order at the bottom of the Pac-12 standings has more clarity than the hierarchy at the top.For various reasons — some far beyond their control — Stanford and Arizona State have staked early claim to the cellar in a rugged conference that offers few opportunities to change that fate.Will either finish 0-9?Could both finish 0-9?Winless seasons are not as common as fans might think. The last team to reach those depths was Oregon State in 2017, when coach Gary Andersen stepped down in early October.And since the Pac-12 switched to a nine-game conference schedule in 2006, only six teams have gone winless in league play — six teams in 16 years. (We’re excluding the truncated 2020 season.)But the last time two teams were winless in league play in the same season, the Pac-12 was known as the Pacific Coast Conference. It happened several times in the pre-World War II era and once during the conflict, in 1943.Since then, neve...

2 arrested after loaded guns allegedly found in car with 4-year-old

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:18:48 GMT

(KRON) -- Two men were arrested in Vallejo last month after police said they found two loaded firearms in a car with a 4-year-old in the backseat. One of the guns was inside a “Super Mario” kids backpack, according to Vallejo Police Department.The arrests came after Vallejo police were called to the 900 block of Cronin Drive on Sept. 24 following a report of a man brandishing a firearm. Police found two men and one woman in the area, standing beside a Toyota Carolla. VPD's Drone Team was able to observe one of the men toss an object inside the car’s front passenger area as authorities arrived, police said.Officers at the scene located a loaded firearm without a serial number after all three suspects were detained, according to Vallejo PD. A 4-year-old child was found to be sitting in the backseat. Fight leads to stabbing at Six Flags in Vallejo With the child out of the car, Vallejo police allowed K-9 Otis to search for further evidence of firearms and ammunition. The K-9 indicate...

1 dead after crash on eastbound I-80 at Napa-Solano boundary

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:18:48 GMT

(BCN) -- One person is dead after a traffic collision along eastbound Interstate Highway 80 right at the boundary of Napa and Solano counties early Monday morning, the California Highway Patrol said. Armed robbery leads to fatal crash near Bayview after SFPD chase The accident, which involved a lone vehicle, happened around 4:19 a.m. Monday along eastbound I-80 at the American Canyon Road onramp, just east of American Canyon, according to the CHP.Two inner lanes of eastbound I-80 were shut down at the scene of the crash at 4:46 a.m., but were reopened by 6:14 a.m., the CHP said.Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

Las paletas mexicanas están de moda; conoce por qué casi todas las tiendas tienen el mismo nombre

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:18:48 GMT

ANAHEIM, California — Al crecer en México, Rubén Jiménez aprendió a hacer paletas desde cero, ayudando a su padre y a su abuelo, que eran paleteros, a fabricar y vender las populares paletas heladas en su tienda o en carritos.Jiménez, de 35 años, ha convertido la modesta tradición familiar en un creciente imperio de paletas mexicanas: “La Michoacana Plus” tiene más de 85 franquicias en todo Estados Unidos, en California, Arizona, Texas, Oregon, Louisiana, Oklahoma y Mississippi, y sus vibrantes tiendas ofrecen más de 100 sabores de paletas heladas y más de 50 sabores de helado en lugares tan lejanos como Guatemala e incluso en Dubai, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, donde abrió la primera paletería del país el año pasado y planea abrir una segunda. En un país conocido por su calor y donde la gente no bebe alcohol pero aman los dulces, las paletas han sido un éxito, dijo Jiménez. CNBC: si formaran un país, los latinos en EEUU serían la quinta economía del mundo, según estudio ...

Inter and Benfica looking to recover from disappointing Champions League starts

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:18:48 GMT

MILAN (AP) — Inter Milan and Benfica are looking to recover from disappointing starts to their Champions League campaigns when they meet at San Siro on Tuesday in a repeat of last season’s quarterfinals.Inter, which went on to lose to Manchester City in the final, needed a last-minute equalizer from Lautaro Martínez to snatch a 1-1 draw at Real Sociedad in their group opener. Sociedad was playing its first match back in Europe’s elite in a decade.Benfica did worse as an early red card contributed to a 2-0 loss at home to Salzburg in Group D.Both Inter and Benfica have won all but one of their domestic matches this season and they will be hungry to get their first victory in the Champions League.“Benfica is a great team,” Inter coach Simone Inzaghi said. “It will be an intense match and we will need a great performance because they lost their first match against Salzburg in an unexpected and undeserved way because despite the numerical inferiority they created a lot.“This will be a v...

Taste of Bethesda returns with 40 restaurants to try

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:18:48 GMT

toggle audio on and off change volume download audio WTOP's Jason Fraley previews Taste of Bethesda (Part 1) $(function () { $('.wtop-audio-container .fa-play').on('click', function(){ var audio_filename = $('div.wtop-audio-file').data("mp3-url"); ga('send', 'event', 'Audio', 'play', audio_filename); }); }); Your mission this entire week is to work up an appetite to do some serious eating this weekend.The 31st annual Taste of Bethesda returns to Bethesda, Maryland, this Saturday, Oct. 7 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.“We haven’t been able to have Taste of Bethesda since 2019, so we are incredibly excited to be back brin...

AP Top 25 Reality Check: Another ranked Red River Rivalry, but Texas, Oklahoma could be even higher

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:18:48 GMT

Perfect starts by Texas and Oklahoma have set up the 43rd meeting between the Red River Rivals where both teams will be ranked.The Longhorns were No. 3 in Sunday’s AP Top 25 and the Sooners moved up a couple of spots to a season-high No. 12.The top of the rankings were mostly unchanged, with Georgia No. 1 and Michigan No. 2, though the Bulldogs received a season-low 35 first-place votes out of a possible 62.The Texas-Oklahoma rivalry has the second-most ranked matchups of any series in major college football. Michigan-Ohio State is No. 1. The Wolverines and Buckeyes have played 48 times when both teams were ranked, including last year.The combined ranking of 15 for Oklahoma and Texas is the best for a Red River Game since 2011, when they were a combined 14, with the Sooners at No. 3 and Longhorns 11th.In 2018, the only time Texas and Oklahoma have met in the Big 12 Conference championship, the combined ranking also was 14 (Oklahoma at No. 5 and Texas at No. 9).This will be the...