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GRAIN VALLEY, Mo. (AP) — An intoxicated pilot was arrested after landing a small aircraft early Friday on Interstate 70 southeast of Kansas City, Missouri, after radioing that he had run out of fuel, authorities said. The landing about 2:30 a.m. east of Grain Valley, roughly 20 miles (32 kilometers) southeast of Kansas City, closed
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Officials form Japan’s top police agency began their probe into security lapses blamed for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination a week ago Friday. Mourners carrying bouquets stood in a long line Friday to lay flowers and pray while a team of investigators inspected the site
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Officials in a West Virginia county plan to appeal a federal judge’s ruling in favor of three major U.S. drug distributors in a landmark lawsuit that accused them of causing a health crisis by distributing 81 million pills over eight years. The Herald-Dispatch reports the Cabell County Commission voted unanimously Thursday
Continue Reading HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Officials in a West Virginia county plan to appeal a federal judge’s ruling in favor of three major U.S. drug distributors in a landmark lawsuit that accused them of causing a health crisis by distributing 81 million pills over eight years. The Herald-Dispatch reports the Cabell County Commission voted unanimously Thursday
Continue ReadingCNN By Laura He, CNN Business China’s banking regulator has pledged to boost lending to help developers finish stalled property projects and boost buyers’ demand, as a growing mortgage boycott by homebuyers exacerbates the country’s real estate woes. The China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) reiterated Thursday that it will provide “active credit support”
Continue Reading AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio medical examiner on Friday will provide a summary of the autopsy of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man killed in a hail of police gunfire in Akron after a chase last month. It is anticipated that the Summit County medical examiner will reveal how many times Walker was shot
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Met Office issued its first ever “red” warning for exceptional heat, saying record temperatures early next week will put even healthy people at risk of serious illness and death. The warning covers Monday and Tuesday, when temperatures in England may reach 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) for the first time,
Continue Reading By RAF CASERT and JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive has intensified its legal standoff with Hungary by taking Budapest to the EU’s highest court over a restrictive law on LGBT issues and media freedom. The EU had already tried for a year to make Hungary change a law that
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Dock workers at Germany’s North Sea ports are on strike in the latest of several walkouts that have added to pressures on shipping as their union demands a hefty pay rise to counter high inflation. The 48-hour strike, ends on Saturday morning, has largely paralyzed cargo handling at major German ports including
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Dock workers at Germany’s North Sea ports are on strike in the latest of several walkouts that have added to pressures on shipping as their union demands a hefty pay rise to counter high inflation. The 48-hour strike, ends on Saturday morning, has largely paralyzed cargo handling at major German ports including
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez and Jill Martin, CNN Nearly 100 visa issues for athletes and officials scheduled to be participating in the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, US, remain unresolved, a World Athletics spokesperson told CNN Thursday. In total, 374 visa cases have been escalated to a joint group comprising of the United States Olympic and
Continue Reading By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press KHIMKI, Russia (AP) — A lawyer for WNBA star Brittney Griner at her drug possession trial in Russia on Friday gave the court a U.S. doctor’s letter recommending she use medical cannabis to treat pain. Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and standout for the Phoenix Mercury, was arrested at
Continue ReadingCNN By Katie Hunt, CNN The blue whale’s giant corpse was lying washed up on a rocky beach on the Pacific coast of Patagonia, at the southern tip of South America. The huge mammal was 46 feet (14 meters) long, and its deflated body yielded no visible clue as to how it had died. It
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN The blue whale’s giant corpse was lying washed up on a rocky beach on the Pacific coast of Patagonia, at the southern tip of South America. The huge mammal was 46 feet (14 meters) long, and its deflated body yielded no visible clue as to how it had died. It took
Continue Reading By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Consumers picked up their spending in June from May despite surging prices in gas and food. U.S. retail sales rose 1% last month, from a revised decline of 0.1 % in May, the Commerce Department said Friday. Sales at furniture stores rose 1.4%, while consumer
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A new law is going to use special technology to better track guns when they are fired, which is ultimately expected to help police solve crimes at a faster rate. This is one of the new laws that went into effect on July 1, 2022. The microstamping bill was signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in
Continue Reading By DANIEL POLITI and DEBORA REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Business leaders across Argentina are scrambling to deal with a fresh rash of import restrictions that many say are the most stringent in recent history as the government tries to shore up diminishing Central Bank reserves. Some warn that the situation could
Continue ReadingBy Nadine Schmidt, CNN One of postwar Germany’s most publicized terrorism trials concluded Friday as a former German soldier was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for plotting a far-right attack on senior politicians while posing as a Syrian refugee. The 33-year-old former army officer — identified as Franco A. in accordance with German privacy
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Continue ReadingCNN By Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco, CNN The economic measures that Democrats are now trying to get through Congress are a mere shadow of the sweeping $3.5 trillion reconciliation package that the majority party initially floated last year. But the plan has been steadily shrinking, with West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a moderate Democrat,
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