By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s leader has presented a $34.8 billion spending plan for 2024 to federal lawmakers with a focus on stabilizing Africa’s largest but ailing economy and tackling a deadly security crisis. President Bola Tinubu projects the economy will grow by at least 3.76% next year. He lists
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, JACK JEFFERY and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — International mediators on Wednesday worked to extend the truce in Gaza, encouraging Hamas militants to keep freeing hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners and further relief from Israel’s air and ground offensive. The cease-fire will otherwise
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN Washington (CNN) — In her new book, former Rep. Liz Cheney paints a scathing portrait of the Republican Party, condemning her former colleagues and party leaders as “enablers and collaborators,” who after the 2020 election were “willing to violate their oath to the Constitution out of political expediency and loyalty to Donald Trump.” The book,
Continue ReadingWAYNESBURG, Pa. (AP) — A judge has dismissed all charges against three western Pennsylvania emergency management supervisors accused of obstructing an investigation. The investigation was into an emergency dispatcher accused of failing to send an ambulance to the rural home of a woman who died of internal bleeding about a day later. The (Washington) Observer-Reporter
Continue ReadingBy ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The irreverent feminist website Jezebel is making a comeback less than a month after it was shut down. Paste Magazine, a digital pop culture publication, announced Wednesday that it was buying Jezebel.com from G/O Media, which closed Jezebel and laid off its staff earlier this
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Colonial settlers of the Victorian era were often complicit in atrocities committed against native populations — and new research is unveiling just how those stories intertwine with the lineage of museum specimens still on display today. New details about the misdeeds of one prolific collector of human and animal
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — When there were few other Indigenous celebrities in the spotlight, there was Buffy Sainte-Marie. The celebrated singer-songwriter rose to prominence during the folk revival of the 1960s, building a name as a Cree artist. She sang about the injustices experienced by Indigenous peoples in songs such as “Now That
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Amazon Prime’s upcoming series “Fallout” has unveiled a first look. The show, based on the video game franchise of the same name, stars Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, Kyle MacLachlan, Xelia Mendes-Jones and Aaron Moten. “Fallout” centers around a nuclear war on Earth in the year 2077 and was created
Continue ReadingBy BILL BARROW Associated Press PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Her frail husband a silent witness, Rosalynn Carter was celebrated by her family and closest friends Wednesday in the same tiny town where she and Jimmy Carter were born, forever their home base as they climbed to the White House and traveled the world for humanitarian
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A 46-year-old Thousand Palms man arrested in connection with a Holocaust survivor sculpture being toppled at the Tolerance Education Center in Rancho Mirage pleaded guilty to attempted grand theft. Caleb William Wilcox was arrested on Nov. 24 in connection with the incident. He remained in custody at the John Benoit Detention Center in Indio on
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is warning that antisemitism in the United States has reached levels unseen in generations and called on his fellow Democrats to clearly condemn it. Schumer is the highest-ranked Jewish elected official in the U.S. His remarks during a nearly-45 minute speech on
Continue ReadingBy ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The irreverent feminist website Jezebel is making a comeback less than a month after it was shut down. Paste Magazine, a digital pop culture publication, announced Wednesday that it was buying Jezebel.com from G/O Media, which closed Jezebel and laid off its staff earlier this
Continue ReadingBy Jaymes Langrehr, Kyle Pozorski Click here for updates on this story McFARLAND, Wis. (WISC) — Officials with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources confirmed to News 3 Now on Monday that an elk was spotted wandering the streets of McFarland late Friday night. The elk was spotted near the Maple Tree restaurant just before
Continue ReadingBy KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Top diplomats from more than 50 countries are arriving in North Macedonia while others are boycotting the expected presence of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have said they would not attend the Organization for Security and
Continue ReadingBy Maddie Heimsch Click here for updates on this story MADISON, Wis. (WISC) — A new iOS update caused privacy concerns among some iPhone users and authorities nationwide, but a local expert said there’s not much to worry about. NameDrop is another version of AirDrop, which has allowed iPhone users to exchange photos instantly since
Continue ReadingBy Kyle Pozorski Click here for updates on this story MADISON, Wis. (WISC) — Brothers Randy and LaVerne Theis are calling it a career. The two have been farming together on Madison’s far west side for close to 50 years. The Theis Brothers Farm, 8901 W. Mineral Point Rd., has been in the family since
Continue ReadingBy BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Alabama linebacker Dallas Turner and actress/producer Issa Rae are part of a diverse group of investors joining founding Uber engineer Ryan McKillen and professional sailor Mike Buckley in buying the United States SailGP Team in tech titan Larry Ellison’s global sailing league. Turner said he
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — General Motors announced Wednesday that it’s cutting spending at its self-driving car unit, Cruise. “We expect the pace of Cruise expansion to be more deliberate when operations resume and spending will be substantially lower in 2024 than it was in 2023,” GM chief executive Mary Barra said during an
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, JACK JEFFERY and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — International mediators on Wednesday worked to extend the truce in Gaza, encouraging Hamas militants to keep freeing hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners and further relief from Israel’s air and ground offensive. The cease-fire will otherwise
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By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis is stable but is still having trouble breathing as a result of a lung inflammation that forced him to cancel a weekend trip to Dubai. Francis told his general audience Wednesday morning that he still didn’t feel well and that his voice
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