MOSCOW (AP) — Europe’s top human rights court has ruled that Russian authorities failed to conduct an effective investigation into the killing of a prominent human rights activist in the Russian republic of Chechnya. Tuesday’s ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) related to the July 15, 2009 murder of Natalia Estemirova, a
Continue Reading By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Older adults who are childless in the U.S. are more likely to be college educated, working and white than those with children. And their numbers are growing. A new Census Bureau report released Tuesday shows that 1 in 6 adults age 55 and older are childless. Childless older women appear
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Alexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN Business) — Elizabeth Holmes, la desprestigiada fundadora y exCEO de Theranos, irá a juicio esta semana, más de tres años después de que se levantaran múltiples cargos federales en su contra por fraude y conspiración por presuntamente haber tergiversado a sabiendas las capacidades de la tecnología de análisis de sangre
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By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Just one game after Skylar Thompson threw for more than 300 yards in leading Kansas State to an upset of No. 3 Oklahoma last year, the senior quarterback’s season was over due to a shoulder injury. Now, nearly a year later, he’s back for a
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By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Just one game after Skylar Thompson threw for more than 300 yards in leading Kansas State to an upset of No. 3 Oklahoma last year, the senior quarterback’s season was over due to a shoulder injury. Now, nearly a year later, he’s back for a
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Ron Rivera has turned a vast majority of Washington’s roster in two offseasons since taking over as coach and head of football operations. Just 18 players brought in by the previous regime of Bruce Allen and Jay Gruden are part of Washington’s initial 53-man roster.
Continue Reading By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As the WNBA enters its final few weeks of the regular season, the race between teams battling for playoff berths and byes is heating up. Connecticut, Las Vegas and Seattle are all vying for the coveted double bye. The Sun have the inside track holding
Continue Reading By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As the WNBA enters its final few weeks of the regular season, the race between teams battling for playoff berths and byes is heating up. Connecticut, Las Vegas and Seattle are all vying for the coveted double bye. The Sun have the inside track holding
Continue Reading By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As the WNBA enters its final few weeks of the regular season, the race between teams battling for playoff berths and byes is heating up. Connecticut, Las Vegas and Seattle are all vying for the coveted double bye. The Sun have the inside track holding
Continue Reading By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As the WNBA enters its final few weeks of the regular season, the race between teams battling for playoff berths and byes is heating up. Connecticut, Las Vegas and Seattle are all vying for the coveted double bye. The Sun have the inside track holding
Continue Reading By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers face tough economic and security challenges as they step back into power in a country that is vastly different from the one they left 20 years ago. When they last ruled in the late 1990s, Afghanistan was a poor agricultural nation, and
Continue Reading OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The wife of California’s new attorney general is leading in her race for his old Assembly seat. Mia Bonta was backed in Tuesday’s special general election by a powerful coalition that her challenger says makes her beholden to corporate interests. Bonta and fellow Democrat Janani Ramachandran are vying for the San
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Continue Reading By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and MARTIN CRUTSINGER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The sharp shock of the coronavirus recession pushed Social Security a year closer to insolvency but left Medicare’s exhaustion date unchanged, the government reported Tuesday in a counterintuitive assessment that deepens the uncertainty around the nation’s bedrock retirement programs. The new projections in the
Continue Reading ELKO, Nev. (AP) — A magnitude 4.7 earthquake rumbled in a remote area of northeast Nevada, where officials said they had no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The U.S. Geological Survey said it struck about 10:20 a.m. east of Elko, where a sheriff’s office dispatcher said she had no calls or reports of an
Continue Reading By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — There is never a good time to make a coaching change in college football, but the downtrodden Kansas program was forced into perhaps the most inconvenient of all: a month after national signing day and just as spring practices began. But new Jayhawks coach Lance
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — For Alicia Keys, “Girl On Fire” isn’t just a million-selling single, but the title and inspiration for a young adult graphic novel scheduled for next year. HarperCollins Publishers announced Tuesday that “Girl On Fire,” the story of 14-year-old Lolo Wright and her telekinetic powers, will come out March 1. The book
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By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Canadian National’s $33.6 billion deal to acquire Kansas City Southern railroad is in jeopardy after federal regulators on Tuesday rejected a key part of the plan and opened the door for a competing $31 billion offer from Canadian Pacific Railway. The Surface Transportation Board said
Continue ReadingBy Kerry Flynn, CNN Business Mike Richards is out as executive producer of “Jeopardy!” and “Wheel of Fortune,” Sony, the company behind the two shows, announced Tuesday. The news comes after a turbulent past month for “Jeopardy!” in which Richards was first named its new host and then stepped down about a week later amid
Continue Reading MOUNTAIN VIEW Google is once again postponing a return to the office for most workers until mid-January, in addition to requiring all employees to be vaccinated once its sprawling campuses are fully reopened. The highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus is driving a dramatic spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, leading companies to delay
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