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Updated: February 18, 2025 @ 2:15 pm
JoAnne Klimovich Harrop (left) and her mother, Evelyn Klimovich, in 2019.
JoAnne Klimovich Harrop (left) and her mother, Evelyn Klimovich, in 2019.
JoAnne Klimovich Harrop (left) and her mother, Evelyn Klimovich, in 2019. (Photo courtesy of JoAnne Klimovich Harrop)
When the CEO responsible for a nursing home in Pittsburgh learned the facility would have to ban visitors during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, she immediately thought of JoAnne Klimovich Harrop, one of the residents’ daughters.
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National Football League player Ben Cleveland of the Baltimore Ravens has been charged with drunken driving in Georgia. An incident report obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday states that the former University of Georgia star football player was pulled over by a sheriff’s deputy near Milledgeville, Georgia, last Wednesday. In the report, a deputy says he noticed that Cleveland’s black pickup was weaving outside of its lane and left the roadway at one point. The AP left emailed messages seeking comment with multiple representatives of the Ravens.
Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and was a co-founder of Warsaw’s landmark Jewish history museum, has died. He was 98. The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews announced his death on Tuesday and described him as a person of exceptional moral and intellectual qualities who always stood on the side “of minorities, the excluded, the wronged.” Turski survived the Lodz ghetto, two death marches and imprisonment at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in what was then German-occupied Poland. He captured international attention with a stark warning about the dangers of indifference five years ago on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
“Saturday Night Live” will follow up its 50th anniversary celebrations with new shows and some familiar faces. Lady Gaga is doing double duty as musical guest and host on March 8. Before that, Shane Gillis will host March 1 with musical guest Tate McRae. McRae is slated to release her third album “So Close to What” in February. Lady Gaga’s second appearance as “SNL” host and fifth appearance as its musical guest will come the day after her new album “Mayhem” drops. Gillis has a fraught history with “SNL,” having had his cast member invite rescinded back in 2019. He hosted last February.
The Bay Area job market, a long-time engine for California’s economy, has sputtered badly in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, reflecting a profound shift in the fortunes of Silicon Valley.
JoAnne Klimovich Harrop (left) and her mother, Evelyn Klimovich, in 2019. (Photo courtesy of JoAnne Klimovich Harrop)
Oz Perkins is working some things out. The “Longlegs” filmmaker is the horror darling of the moment, but he also has a very famous, and very tragic, family history that he’s not afraid to face head-on in his work. He’s said that “Longlegs” is a movie about his mother, the late actor Berry Be…
LOS ANGELES — Rosebud Baker is an actor, writer and comedian who somehow manages to blend dark humor and sharp wit, all while wearing the face of an angel. She’s fearless, funny and turns even the most traumatic experiences into comedy gold. Her latest adventure? Motherhood.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco became the first well-known Republican to announce a bid for California governor to replace term-limited Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2026.
Ludvig Aberg is the kind of player Jon Rahm once worried about. It was October 2022 when Rahm was still with the PGA Tour. A fellow Spaniard had gone to the Saudi-funded LIV league and Rahm said the tour needed to give college players a direct path to the big leagues like in other sports. That already was in the works. PGA Tour University began offering the No. 1 college senior a card. In the first year it went to Aberg. Now the Swede has three wins, more than $18 million in earnings and is No. 4 in the world.
Businesses are shuttered and public transport is at a standstill in Colombia’s Choco department, as rebels from the National Liberation Army launched a three-day “armed strike” that confines civilians to their homes and restricts commercial activity. The move comes as violence worsens in several rural areas of Colombia, including the Choco region, where 1,600 people have been displaced from their homes over the past two weeks, according to Colombia’s human rights ombudsman’s office. On Monday, the U.S. embassy in Bogota issued a security alert, urging American citizens in the Choco region to leave the area “as soon as possible.”
People who lost their homes to Hurricane Helene or California wildfires could get a sizeable tax break to move to Wisconsin. State Rep. Cindi Duchow and state Sen. Dan Feyen are sponsoring a bill that would give anyone who moves to Wisconsin from North Carolina or Los Angeles County due to the hurricane or the fires a $10,000 income tax credit for 2025. Duchow and Feyen introduced the bill Tuesday. They say in a memo seeking co-sponsors that the bill could help alleviate chronic workforce shortages in Wisconsin. The bill’s prospects are unclear. Spokespeople for Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu didn’t immediately respond to messages. Neither did a spokesperson for Gov. Tony Evers.
MINNEAPOLIS — As investigators piece together how Delta Air Lines Connection Flight 4819 crash-landed at Toronto International Airport, experts are pointing to weather, runway conditions and piloting as potential factors.
Steven Spielberg is gearing up to direct a new film starring Josh O’Connor and Emily Blunt. Universal Pictures said Tuesday that the still untitled “event film” is set for a theatrical release on June 12, 2026. Details are scarce about the new project, which will be based on a story by Spielberg and written by his frequent collaborator David Koepp. Colman Domingo, Colin Firth and Eve Hewson are also set to star. Universal had previously slated the next film from “Everything Everywhere All At Once” filmmakers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for June 12, but said a new date will be announced soon.
JT Toppin of No. 9 Texas Tech is The Associated Press men’s college basketball national player of the week. The 6-foot-9 sophomore and Big 12 player of the week rolled through wins against Arizona State and Oklahoma State. He had 41 points in a double-overtime win against the Sun Devils that marked the most in Division I last week. He also had 15 rebounds in that game. He followed by going for 32 points and 12 rebounds against the Cowboys. A pair of freshmen shared runner-up honors in Duke’s Cooper Flagg and Texas’ Tre Johnson.
French organizers of the 2030 Winter Games were united Tuesday to unveil the team given the tightest schedule of any modern Olympics. It’s just five years before the opening ceremony on Feb. 1, 2030. The French Alps Olympics must tie together snow and sliding venues in the mountains with skating and curling arenas on the Riviera coastal city Nice. Organizing committee president Edgar Grospiron was hired in the past week. At a launch event with national and regional politicians Tuesday in Lyon Grospiron says “What’s important now is that from now we organize it, we deliver it.”
Vatican says new scans show pope has the onset of bilateral pneumonia but remains in good spirits.
DALLAS — Having child care for her daughter while Chantel Gonzalez finished college kept her family off the streets, she said. Now, 11 years later, she helps parents find affordable options because she knows such offerings are limited.
SAN DIEGO — Paul Simon’s retirement from touring is officially over.
BOSTON — Karen Read has taken her double jeopardy challenge to toss the murder charge against her to federal court, filing a habeas corpus claim with U.S. District Court in Boston.
The Monaco Grand Prix has long been nicknamed “the jewel in Formula 1’s crown” but for all the sparkle, the racing has often been dull. That could change with a planned rule change that would require drivers to stop in the pits at least twice, potentially shuffling the running order on Monaco’s narrow streets at least a little. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says it would mean a minimum two stops per race, rather than the current one, and for cars to use three different tire compounds.
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A person with direct knowledge of the situation says Justin Turner has agreed to a $6 million, one-year deal with the Chicago Cubs. The person confirmed the deal to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because it was pending a physical. The veteran infielder can earn an additional $2.5 million in bonuses. The addition of Turner would give the team some security at third base should Matt Shaw need more seasoning in the minors. The 23-year-old Shaw has been slowed by a left oblique issue in spring training. The 40-year-old Turner also could back up Michael Busch at first base and go into the lineup at designated hitter.
Former Feyenoord forward Santiago Giménez has continued his scoring streak in the Champions League this season. But this time against the Dutch club. Giménez moved to AC Milan from Feyenoord last month in a 30 million euro transfer. He scored for the Rossoneri after just 40 seconds of the second leg of their Champions League knockout playoff. The 23-year-old held up his hands in apology after heading in from close range. It was Giménez’s sixth goal in seven Champions League matches. The Dutch club won the first leg 1-0 last week.
A lack of snow along a dangerous stretch of trail has led organizers of the world’s most famous sled dog race to move the start of the Iditarod farther north. The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race will still have its ceremonial start in Anchorage on March 1, but the official start for the 33 teams will be two days later in Fairbanks, about 360 miles north. It is the fourth time the race start has been moved from the Anchorage area because of a lack of snow. The race previously started in Fairbanks in 2003, 2015 and 2017. The winner of the rugged race across the Alaska wilderness is expected in Nome about 10 days after the start.
The NASCAR Cup Series races in Atlanta this weekend after William Byron won the season-opening Daytona 500.
Finding the U.S. border effectively closed to them by drastic measures put in place by the Trump administration, thousands of Latin American migrants trapped in Mexico are gearing up for the hard trek back to their countries, with some already crossing into Guatemala, the first stop in Centr…
Reggie Miller will be NBC Sports’ lead game analyst when it begins its coverage of the NBA next season. The network made the announcement on Tuesday. Miller has been one of TNT Sports lead NBA analysts for 20 years. He called his 18th All-Star Game this past weekend. When Miller joins NBC in October, he is expected to call one or more games per week during the regular season and playoffs. NBC will have up to 100 regular-season games. NBC will also have the All-Star Game and All-Star Saturday Night.
Haiti National Police and members of the Kenya-led multinational force were in the hills above Port-au-Prince battling armed gangs, when the billows of black smoke started rising from the city below.
Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is proposing cutting taxes by nearly $2 billion, echoing a priority of Republicans. Evers on Tuesday also outlined a plan to fight water pollution and push back on President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Evers delivers his two-year spending plan to the Republican-controlled Legislature on Tuesday night. Republicans have promised to dramatically rewrite the plan, as they have done on his three previous budgets, before passing it later this year. But Republicans say their priority is using the state’s roughly $4 billion budget surplus to cut taxes. Evers is also calling for additional spending Republicans have said they will oppose.
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Polish prosecutors say they’re considering whether to open a criminal investigation into an open-air exhibition in 2022 of damaged Russian military vehicles after one of them was found to contain live explosives. The exhibits, including a damaged T-72 tank, were brought to Poland from the battlefields in Ukraine a few months after the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022. The Government Agency of Strategic Reserves is seeking a criminal investigation into those responsible for failing to carry out proper security checks on the vehicles.
The trial of the only suspect ever charged in the 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur has been postponed. Duane “Keffe D” Davis’ murder trial was supposed to begin next month in Las Vegas. But attorney Carl Arnold told a Nevada judge that the defense needs time to do critical investigative work. That includes interviewing witnesses who can testify that Davis was not in Las Vegas at the time of the shooting. Arnold said the hope is to ensure his client gets a fair trial. The judge on Tuesday granted the defense motion, setting the trial for February 2026. Davis has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and has been jailed since his September 2023 arrest.
NEW YORK, N.Y., Feb. 18, 2025 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — HitPaw is preparing to integrate DeepSeek AI into HitPaw FotorPea, enhancing AI-powered image generation. With HitPaw FotorPea’s Upcoming Integration of DeepSeek AI, users can expect a more powerful and refined AI-driven image generation …
For people who already have high-interest-rate debt, having an emergency fund can help guard against resorting to additional high-cost financing in a pinch. It also helps you defray unexpected expenses without needing to raid your retirement accounts.
Turkey says top diplomats from Ethiopia and Somalia have held a first round of technical talks aimed at resolving a dispute sparked by a deal between Ethiopia and Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland. Turkey has been mediating between the Horn of Africa countries after concerns about potential conflict in an already volatile region. Tensions have simmered since landlocked Ethiopia signed a memorandum of understanding last year to lease part of Somaliland’s coastline for a marine base. In return, Ethiopia would become the first country to formally recognize Somaliland’s independence. Turkey says the next round of talks will be in March.
“Mass chaos” is how one Minnesotan aboard the Delta flight from Minneapolis to Toronto described the immediate aftermath inside the jetliner that crash-landed Monday afternoon.
Toronto airport CEO says all but two of 21 passengers injured in Delta crash have been released from hospitals.
WASHINGTON — The United States formally brought Russia in from the cold Tuesday with high-level talks aimed at ending Moscow’s war with Ukraine and reestablishing long-frozen diplomatic and economic ties.
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