By SCOTT McFETRIDGE and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa teachers will be banned from raising gender identity and sexual orientation issues with students through grade six, and all books depicting sex acts will be removed from school libraries, under a bill Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed Friday. The new
Continue Reading AVON, Conn. (AP) — A hungry black bear barged into the garage of a Connecticut bakery, scared several employees and helped itself to 60 cupcakes before ambling away. Workers at Taste by Spellbound in the town of Avon were loading cakes into a van for delivery on Wednesday when the bear showed up. There are
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CNN By Sana Noor Haq, Maria Kostenko, Sebastian Shukla and Joseph Ataman, CNN (CNN) — At least two people died and dozens more were left injured after Russian forces struck a medical facility in the city of Dnipro on Friday morning, after intense shelling rained over central Ukraine overnight. A 69-year-old man was killed while
Continue Reading By Sana Noor Haq, Maria Kostenko, Sebastian Shukla and Joseph Ataman, CNN (CNN) — At least two people died and dozens more were left injured after Russian forces struck a medical facility in the city of Dnipro on Friday morning, after intense shelling rained over central Ukraine overnight. A 69-year-old man was killed while “just
Continue Reading By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — About 1,000 employees of First Republic Bank are being let go about a month after it was seized by regulators and acquired by JP Morgan Chase. The vast majority of First Republic employees, roughly 7,200 before it ran into trouble, were offered jobs by JPMorgan,
Continue Reading LANTANA, Fla. (AP) — Two people are dead after a small plane crashed at a South Florida airport. Palm Beach County sheriff’s officials say the Cessna Skyhawk crashed late Friday morning at the Palm Beach County Park Airport in Lantana. Flight records show that the plane was taking off or had just taken off when
Continue ReadingCNN By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — On Good Friday 2017, Wyatt Werneth got a call from his wife, who had gone grocery shopping with their daughter: The car’s broken down. Please rescue us. Werneth hopped in his vehicle to assist, driving by Patrick Space Force Base near Cape Canaveral, Florida. From the A1A highway,
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — On Good Friday 2017, Wyatt Werneth got a call from his wife, who had gone grocery shopping with their daughter: The car’s broken down. Please rescue us. Werneth hopped in his vehicle to assist, driving by Patrick Space Force Base near Cape Canaveral, Florida. From the A1A highway, Werneth
Continue Reading By Jay Croft and Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — Maryland’s Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the reinstatement of Adnan Syed’s murder conviction while it decides whether to hear his appeal in the long-running, twisted tale. Syed served more than 20 years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, before prosecutors dropped
Continue ReadingCNN By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Tom Hanks called on Harvard’s 2023 graduating class to defend truth in a powerful commencement address on Thursday. The Oscar winner, who received an honorary doctorate of arts, joked he was receiving the degree “without having done a lick of work” other than playing a Harvard professor in
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Sol Amaya (CNN) — Durante años se prometieron automóviles totalmente autónomos, pero a pesar de las numerosas pruebas en carretera y los avances tecnológicos, todavía estamos esperando. En 2016, Lyft predijo que la mayoría de sus viajes serían autónomos para 2021, mientras que en 2017, General Motors dijo que produciría en masa vehículos totalmente autónomos
Continue Reading By EDWIN KINDZEKA MOKI Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Cameroon’s government say that more than 30 women abducted by separatist rebels for protesting illegal taxes imposed on them were released. The women were taken from the farming village of Babanki in the Northwest Region along the border with Nigeria. The separatists were collecting monthly
Continue Reading By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden will promote women and youth empowerment and plans to attend a royal wedding in Jordan during an upcoming trip to the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. The first lady’s office says she’ll depart Wednesday on a six-day trip that will take her to Jordan,
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Vatican cardinal on trial in the Holy See’s big financial crimes case has complained he can’t properly defend himself because prosecutors have withheld key evidence. Cardinal Angelo Becciu spoke out in court after Judge Giuseppe Pignatone rejected his lawyers’ latest attempt to force prosecutors to turn
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A 19-year-old college baseball player has died from head injuries after a dugout collapsed on him while he was volunteering in Pennsylvania, according to school officials. Angel Mercado, a student and baseball player at Central Penn College, died at Holy Spirit Hospital in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, Wednesday evening, according
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By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Rose Zhang dominated amateur golf like no other female in the modern game. Now the Stanford star is ready to take on the best. Zhang announced Friday she is turning pro, ending an amateur career in which the 20-year-old sophomore set the Stanford record with 12 wins — one
Continue Reading By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities say Russia’s southern Belgorod region that borders Ukraine came under attack from Ukrainian artillery fire, hours after two drones struck a Russian city in a region next to the Crimea Peninsula. The Kremlin’s forces meanwhile struck a clinic in Dnipro on Friday, killing two and
Continue ReadingBy Dianne Gallagher and Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN (CNN) — A South Carolina judge has temporarily blocked the state’s new abortion restrictions from going into effect, just one day after Gov. Henry McMaster signed them into law. The law, which limited most abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, was signed by McMaster, a
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Un choque entre dos carros terminó en tragedia ayer a las 2:50 de la tarde en la intersección de la vieja carretera 86 y la calle Pierce en Oasis donde una persona murió y otra que resultó herida fue transportada al hospital. El área que se encuentra en una zona agrícola y cerca de un
Continue Reading By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army veteran who stormed the U.S. Capitol in a military-style formation with fellow members of the Oath Keepers was sentenced Friday to more than eight years in prison, a day after the far-right extremist group’s founder received an 18-year prison
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