WCCO By Adam Duxter Click here for updates on this story FALCON HEIGHTS, Minnesota (WCCO) — If you visit the Dairy Building at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, you’re likely to find more than a cold ice cream treat. Near the back of the building, Gerry Kulzer is hard at work each day of the fair
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer It’s five months into the regular season and all 30 Major League Baseball managers who started the year with their respective teams are all still employed. That’s fairly rare but not totally uncommon. The ax could be coming soon. Here’s a look at some of the managers who are
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Opinion by Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King (CNN) — Editor’s note: Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King, along with their daughter, Yolanda Renee King, direct the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, a nonprofit think tank and community action group founded by Martin Luther King Jr. The views expressed here are
Continue ReadingOpinion by Katharine K. Wilkinson (CNN) — My most beloved neighbor is a rangy octogenarian who’s lived in our Atlanta neighborhood for her entire life. I nicknamed her QN after her Latin name: Quercus nigra. Pronounced “queen,” it feels like bare minimum recognition of her royalty. Imagine QN, if you will, as a dendro-grande-dame —
Continue ReadingCINCINNATI (AP) — In a story published August 26, 2023, about genetic testing in newborns, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of Dr. Paul Kruszka of GeneDx. The AP also erroneously stated the title of Dr. Jon Davis, who is the chief of newborn medicine at Tufts Medical Center, not chief of neonatology at
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By Tim Lister and Maria Kostenko, CNN (CNN) — Even as Ukrainian forces have breached the first line of Russian defenses on part of the southern front, soldiers taking part in the counteroffensive have revealed just how difficult it is to make more than incremental gains in the face of complex and multi-layered fortifications. Ukrainian
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Members of a Canadian First Nation have held a spiritual ceremony at a Scottish museum to begin the homeward journey of a totem pole stolen almost a century ago. The 11-meter (36-foot) pole is being restored by the National Museum of Scotland to the Nisga’a Nation in northern British Columbia. It is
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street as markets shift their attention from the Federal Reserve to more corporate earnings and economic reports. The S&P 500 was up 0.7% in early trading Monday. The Dow rose 274 points, or 0.8%, and the Nasdaq composite added 0.8%. U.S. stocks broke a three-week
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By Leqi Zhong Berkeley, California (CNN) — Sign up for CNN’s Stress, But Less newsletter. Our six-part mindfulness guide will inform and inspire you to reduce stress while learning how to harness it. In the pottery classroom at the North Berkeley Senior Center, Josie Adler shapes lumps of clay into works of art. Carving knives, awls,
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Adele stopped her show Saturday night in Las Vegas to scold a security guard who was “bothering” an audience member. According to video of the incident shared on social media, Adele was in the middle of singing “Water Under the Bridge” and stopped the music to ask what was
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — La FIFA, el organismo rector del fútbol mundial, suspendió provisionalmente este sábado al presidente de la Real Federación Española de Fútbol (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, por besar a la jugadora española Jennifer Hermoso después de la final del Mundial del pasado domingo. Luis Rubiales fue informado de la decisión de la FIFA
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street is poised for a modestly higher open Monday as attention shifts from the Federal Reserve to more corporate earnings and new economic data that could provide clues about the health of the U.S. economy. Futures for the Dow Jones industrials rose 0.3% and the
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By Sara Smart and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — A University of South Carolina student was fatally shot early Saturday after he tried to enter the wrong home on his own street, the Columbia Police Department said – the latest case in which someone in the US was shot after apparently approaching the wrong home.
Continue Reading WACH By Sara Smart and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — A University of South Carolina student was fatally shot early Saturday after he tried to enter the wrong home on his own street, the Columbia Police Department said – the latest case in which someone in the US was shot after apparently approaching the wrong
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Analysis by Al Goodman, CNN Madrid (CNN) — More than a week after Spain’s historic win over England in the Women’s World Cup final, there is little talk of soccer. Instead, the victory has been overshadowed by an unwanted kiss that has sparked global outrage and put the spotlight on Spain’s enduring culture of machismo
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Spanish media reports say about 170 migrants rescued in the Atlantic Ocean have been stuck for days aboard a Spanish Civil Guard boat near the African nation of Mauritania because authorities there refused to let them disembark. Leading Spanish newspaper El País says the Civil Guard rescued the migrants Thursday from a
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By Rob Picheta, Heather Law, Xiaofei Xu and Joseph Ataman, CNN (CNN) — France will ban schoolchildren from wearing abayas ahead of the upcoming academic year, the government has said, the latest in a series of contentious restrictions in the country on clothing associated with Muslims. French Education Minister Gabriel Attal said the long, robe-like
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CNN By Rob Picheta, Heather Law, Xiaofei Xu and Joseph Ataman, CNN (CNN) — France will ban schoolchildren from wearing abayas ahead of the upcoming academic year, the government has said, the latest in a series of contentious restrictions in the country on clothing associated with Muslims. French Education Minister Gabriel Attal said the long,
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — NATO members Poland and the Baltic states say they will seal off their borders with Russia’s ally Belarus if there are any military incidents or a massive migrant push by Minsk. The countries’ interior ministers said Monday they were seeing growing tensions on NATO’s and the European Union’s borders with Belarus,
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By Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — The world’s largest tech companies must comply with a sweeping new European law starting Friday that affects everything from social media moderation to targeted advertising and counterfeit goods in e-commerce — with possible ripple effects for the rest of the world. The unprecedented EU measures for online platforms will
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