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By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ Republican attorney general has asked the state’s highest court to reward the GOP-controlled Legislature for following through on a decade’s worth of court-mandated education funding increases by closing a lawsuit filed by local school districts. The action requested Wednesday by Attorney General Kris Kobach’s
Continue ReadingBy Giri Viswanathan, CNN (CNN) — More than 1 million people in the US visited an emergency department for injuries related to assault in 2020. But according to a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics, rates of those visits vary by factors such as age and race. The study, published Thursday, used
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are edging lower, and yields are climbing Thursday following mixed economic reports that offered no slam-dunk clues about where interest rates are heading. The S&P 500 was down 0.5% in afternoon trading. It’s threatening to break a four-day winning streak, its longest since
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The Pentagon calls it FrankenSAM. It’s a project that cobbles together air defense weapons for Ukraine from an array of parts from around the world. But now, as congressional gridlock delays funding for the war in Ukraine, the Frankenstein-like program for surface-to-air missiles has become more
Continue ReadingBy SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — One of the leaders of the nationwide protests that have paralyzed much of Guatemalan commerce for nearly two weeks is a young one-time law student who is now leader of one of the country’s most important Indigenous organizations. Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei has tried to
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Authorities in Britain say a Kenya Airways plane from Nairobi bound for London’s Heathrow Airport has been intercepted by air force fighter jets and diverted to land at Stansted airport because of a potential security threat. But the Essex Police force says that officers have established that there was “nothing of concern”
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 31-year-old San Francisco man has been identified as the driver who was shot and killed by police after crashing a car into the Chinese consulate on Monday, drawing condemnation from the White House and Chinese government. The city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner identified the driver as Zhanyuan Yang
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 31-year-old San Francisco man has been identified as the driver who was shot and killed by police after crashing a car into the Chinese consulate on Monday, drawing condemnation from the White House and Chinese government. The city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner identified the driver as Zhanyuan Yang
Continue ReadingBy LAUREN PASTRANA Click here for updates on this story DAVIE, Florida (WFOR) — A South Florida native whose parents moved here during World War II is making Miami proud. Carol Clarkson knows how expensive groceries can be and that’s why she puts her bargain hunting skills to use for a good cause. “I like
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert and Robert Shackelford, CNN (CNN) — A powerful storm will traverse nearly 1,500 miles of the US through the weekend and unload snow, severe thunderstorms and flooding rain along its path, culminating in the eighth consecutive dreary weekend in parts of the Northeast. The storm will dump the first significant snow of
Continue ReadingBy JOHN MACLAUCHLAN Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — A southwest Miami-Dade karate instructor is accused of lewd behavior with a nine-year-old student. Darwin Rojas-Frias, 58, teaches at Showakai Karate-Do USA. According to police, on Friday, September 29th, he was having a one-on-one lesson with the girl in which her
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By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Former NFL player Sergio Brown, who had been missing since his mother was found dead last month, has been arrested and is expected to face a first-degree murder charge in the killing once he is extradited from California to Illinois, police say. Police in the Chicago suburb of Maywood,
Continue Reading By Matthew Chance, Richard Allen Greene and Joshua Berlinger, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — The Israeli government has not confirmed the specific claim that Hamas attackers cut off the heads of babies during their shock attack on Saturday, an Israeli official told CNN, contradicting a previous public statement by the Prime Minister’s office. “There have been
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors have rewritten their indictment against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his wife to charge them with conspiring to have him act as an agent of Egypt and Egyptian officials. The superseding indictment, filed in Manhattan federal court on Thursday, accuses Menendez
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — When it comes to packing on the pounds to survive an Alaska winter, this year’s undisputed champ is Grazer. The brown mama bear has won this year’s Fat Bear Week at Alaska’s Katmai National Park. Grazer had no problems dominating the finals of the bracket-style tournament
Continue ReadingBy OMAR ALBAM Associated Press DANA, Syria (AP) — United Nations humanitarian officials have sounded an alarm over a humanitarian crisis in rebel-held northwestern Syria. They warned on Thursday that intense shelling by government forces displaced almost 70,000 people in recent weeks. The Syrian government, backed by Russia, pounded the country’s northwest after a drone
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK and SEUNG MIN KIM ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is expected to announce soon that the U.S. government will begin operating evacuation flights to help Americans leave Israel as Israel prepares to escalate retaliatory action on Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. That’s according to two people familiar
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on August 7, 1998, which killed 224 people. Terrorist group al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the bombings. Facts The bombings took place eight years to the day after US troops were ordered to Saudi Arabia in the
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Police say two former employees of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor are the focus of an investigation into a secret recording of several City Council members and a labor leader that entangled City Hall in a racism scandal. The aftermath shook public trust in government and led to the
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Police say two former employees of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor are the focus of an investigation into a secret recording of several City Council members and a labor leader that entangled City Hall in a racism scandal. The aftermath shook public trust in government and led to the
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