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ABC NewsIppei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani's interpreter, to plead guilty to stealing millions from star player
Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter for MLB star Shohei Ohtani, has agreed to plead guilty to bank fraud in relation to stealing nearly $17 million from the star player in order to cover gambling debts, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Mizuhara, 39, has agreed to plead guilty to one count of bank fraud, which carries a maximum of 30 years in prison, and one count of subscribing to a false tax return, which carries up to three years in prison, according to the U.S Attorney's Office for the Central District of California. "The extent of this defendant's deception and theft is massive," U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said in a statement.
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RFK Jr. claims doctor said parasite 'ate' part of his brain
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign on Wednesday is responding to a New York Times report that described an incident where the independent candidate claims that a doctor told him that a parasitic worm was found in his brain more than a decade ago. In a 2012 deposition during a divorce from his second wife, Kennedy revealed that a doctor found a dead parasite in his brain -- one of multiple health conditions Kennedy said may have caused what he described in the deposition as "cognitive problems" he had experienced at the time, according to a New York Times report. In a statement, Kennedy spokeswoman Stefanie Spear said the candidate contracted a parasite during his travel as an environmental advocate -- likely when he visited either Africa, South America or Asia.
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School bus driver on a mission to spread positivity to students
A school bus driver in Florida is on a mission to spread positivity to elementary, middle and high school students on his route. Anthony Burgess has been shuttling students for Pinellas County Schools since September 2023. "I wanted to make it brighter and make it a fun space, so I was like, 'Hey, let's make some quotes,'" Burgess said.
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Getting illicit pills as easy as ordering food delivery via app, DEA administrator tells Congress
Getting illicit pills is as easy as ordering food delivery through an app, the Drug Enforcement Administration warned Congress on Tuesday. "We say all the time that the most dangerous place in the world right now is our homes because everyone has a smartphone, and within two or three … clicks on a smartphone, people are having pills delivered to their front doorstep like Uber Eats, like they get pizza delivered," DEA Administrator Anne Milgram told a House Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday. "We're losing 22 Americans, teenagers between the ages of 14 and 18, every single week right now" to illegal drug use, Milgram said.
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Wife throws husband a surprise birthday party at Costco, his favorite store
For a person who loves shopping at Costco, there's no reason to have their birthday party anywhere else. Emma Blevins coordinated ahead so that many of the couple's friends and family members would be at Costco the day of the party, pretending to be shopping.
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Attempted break-in takes place at Drake's Toronto mansion day after shooting of security guard: Police
A person was detained after allegedly attempting to break into Drake's mansion in Toronto a day after a security guard was shot while outside the residence, police said. A person allegedly tried to break into the residence on Wednesday and was apprehended and detained by police under mental health issues, Toronto police confirmed to ABC News. The latest incident comes after a male security guard working at the home was shot while standing outside the gate of the residence at approximately 2 a.m. Tuesday, according to Inspector Paul Krawczyk with the Toronto Police Service's Integrated Gun and Gang Task Force.
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Biden trolls Trump while touting new Microsoft project in 2024 battleground Wisconsin
President Joe Biden took shots at former President Donald Trump on Wednesday as he traveled to Wisconsin to tout a new multi-billion dollar Microsoft investment at the same site where a Trump administration project failed. The event in the 2024 election battleground state, billed by the White House as an official stop in his capacity as president, came as Biden ramps up both campaign and official visits across the country while his political rival is largely stuck in a Manhattan courtroom.
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Cruise ship employee charged after allegedly stabbing 3 people with medical scissors
A man accused of going on a stabbing spree with a pair of medical scissors while aboard a Norwegian Cruise Line ship was arrested on Tuesday and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, according to prosecutors. Ntando Sogoni, 35, from South Africa, who was working on the Norwegian Encore ship at the time of the incident, was arrested by FBI agents in Juneau, Alaska, on Tuesday after allegedly stabbing three individuals with medical scissors on Monday. In a press release from Alaska's U.S. Attorney's Office, prosecutors say Sogoni was sent to the ship's medical center for an assessment after fellow employees noticed him "attempting to deploy a lifeboat," but he became "irrational" and tried to leave, attacking a security guard and nurse.
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50 million Americans under severe weather threats amid multiday tornado outbreak
There have been more than 50 reported or confirmed tornadoes across nearly a dozen states since Monday, as the tornado threat continues Wednesday. In the last 24 hours, there have been 27 reported tornadoes across six states -- Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and Arkansas. There were more than 20 confirmed tornadoes on Monday across six states -- Tennessee, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Nebraska -- including a destructive EF4 tornado in Barnsdall, Oklahoma.
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Trump praises Kristi Noem amid book controversy: 'I like her a lot'
Former President Donald Trump has praised South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, saying he likes her "a lot" and that she's gone through "rough" days amid controversy of her newly released book. Noem is among Trump's close allies whose name has come up as Trump's potential vice presidential hopefuls. Noem has been harshly criticized for describing how she shot and killed her 14-month-old dog "Cricket" and was forced to admit what she called "errors" in her book including claiming she once met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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Trump seeking to fast-track challenge to gag order in his hush money trial
Former President Donald Trump is seeking to fast-track a challenge to the constitutionality of the limited gag order imposed on him by the judge overseeing his criminal hush money trial in New York. Trump's defense team on Wednesday asked an intermediate appeals court to issue a ruling on an expedited basis, or, alternatively, to grant them permission to appeal directly to the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals. The Appellate Division previously rejected Trump's attempt to pause the trial while he fights the limited gag order, which prohibits Trump from making statements about witnesses, jurors, attorneys, and others associated with the hush money case.
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Cynthia Erivo shares how 'special' Met Gala performance with Ariana Grande came to life
Cynthia Erivo is opening up about her "special" performance with Ariana Grande at the Met Gala on Monday night. In a sweet Instagram post she shared Wednesday, Erivo explained how grateful she was when Grande asked her to take the stage with her and how much she loves her "Wicked" co-star. Erivo, who plays Elphaba in the upcoming "Wicked" film alongside Grande, who plays Glinda, also shared in her post the story behind how the performance came to be.
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Woman says she lost 60 pounds after undergoing experimental weight loss procedure
Brooke Nelson said she was over 200 pounds and struggling to lose weight when she decided to take part in a clinical trial of a new, minimally-invasive weight loss procedure. The procedure Nelson underwent is called endoscopic ablation, which the lead author of the clinical trial, Dr. Christopher McGowan, says targets ghrelin, the so-called "hunger hormone." According to McGowan, an obesity medicine, internal medicine, and gastroenterology specialist, the procedure involves inserting a camera into the patient's stomach while fluids are administered to protect the underlying stomach tissue.
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Grand jury indicts Laken Riley murder suspect on 10 counts
The suspect accused of killing 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley has been formally indicted on murder and other offenses in connection with the brutal slaying on the University of Georgia campus. A grand jury indicted Jose Ibarra, 26, with malice murder and felony murder in connection with the death of Riley, who was found dead in a wooded area on the Athens campus on Feb. 22 after she didn't return from a run. The indictment was returned on Tuesday and alleges that Ibarra killed the Augusta University student by "inflicting blunt force trauma to her head and by asphyxiating her" and seriously disfigured her head by striking her "multiple times" with a rock.
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Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones chase tornadoes in new heart-pounding 'Twisters' trailer: Watch here
A new trailer for the highly anticipated "Twisters" film is here. Daisy Edgar-Jones is featured in the new trailer, which dropped Wednesday, as Kate Cooper, a former storm chaser, who crosses paths with Tyler Owens, played by Glen Powell, a reckless social-media superstar who thrives on storm-chasing. The trailer opens with a dramatic scene at what appears to be a rodeo.
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How olive oil could lower risk of dementia mortality
From vegetables and legumes to fish and fresh herbs, Mediterranean ingredients provide a wide array of health benefits, and the Mediterranean diet is consistently ranked the top overall diet. Now, researchers have found new health associations between consuming more than 1/2 teaspoon of olive oil a day and lower risk of dementia-related death. According to a new study published Monday in the journal JAMA Network Open, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health followed the dietary decisions of 92,383 health care professionals over 28 years and found that those who incorporated more olive oil of any kind into their diet lowered their probability of dying from dementia.
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Prince Harry steps out solo in London while King Charles III attends Buckingham Palace garden party
Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, is not seeing his father King Charles III while he is in London to mark the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games, ABC News has confirmed. A spokesperson for the duke told ABC News on Tuesday that Charles' schedule does not allow time for him to see his younger son, who now lives in the United States. "It unfortunately will not be possible due to His Majesty's full programme," the spokesperson said of a meeting between Harry and Charles.
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US withheld bomb shipment to Israel out of fears it could be used in Rafah
The Biden administration opted to pause a shipment of some 3,500 bombs to Israel last week because of concerns the weapons could be used in Rafah where more than one million civilians are sheltering "with nowhere else to go," a senior administration official told ABC News. Other weapon transfers from the U.S. to Israel -- including the sale of Joint Direct Attack Munition, or JDAM kits -- are being closely scrutinized as part of a larger review of U.S. military aid to Israel that began last April, the official said. The decision to pause the shipment and consider slow-walking others is a major shift in policy for the Biden administration and the first known case of the U.S. denying its close ally military aid since the Israel-Hamas war began.
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Democrats work to keep protests from disrupting Chicago convention, with concerns over parallels to 1968
In 1968, violence at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, with hundreds of protesters arrested in a police crackdown, upended the party's gathering and soured public opinion in the final months before the presidential election. Now, more than 50 years later, as college campuses across the United States have erupted into protests over the Israel-Hamas war, some experts say history could repeat itself at this year's DNC convention -- also in Chicago. While the 1968 protests were against the Vietnam War, activists today are blaming President Joe Biden for his support of Israel's military operations in Gaza -- and some have expressed intentions to disrupt the party's plan to nominate him this summer for a second term.
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Khloé Kardashian explains why it took 8 months to name son
Khloé Kardashian opened up in a recent podcast episode about taking several months to legally name her second child Tatum. Kardashian spoke about the deliberations over her son's name on the May 7 episode of the "SHE MD" podcast. After explaining the familial significance behind the name of her first child, daughter True, the reality star said, "Tatum is a little different of a story."