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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s foreign ministry has summoned the German ambassador to Tehran in protest against a ruling that implicated the Islamic Republic in a plan to attack a synagogue in Germany last year. The state-run IRNA news agency reported that the foreign ministry summoned German Ambassador Hans-Udo Muzel on Wednesday to deliver the
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in November, ending a five-month skid, as easing mortgage rates encouraged homebuyers. Existing home sales rose 0.8% last month from October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.82 million, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday. That
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has imposed new sanctions on alleged violators of its price cap on Russian oil and tightened compliance rules for insurance firms and shippers that move it. Firms from the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong have been identified for economic sanctions. Last year the United
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A driver was killed Tuesday night and another driver was arrested in Indio following a traffic collision police said was possibly alcohol or drug-related. First responders responded to Indio Springs Parkway at 9:45 p.m. just east of Golf Center Parkway and near the Fantasy Springs Resort and Casino. That’s where police said two vehicles, a white GMC pick-up
Continue ReadingBy COLE PREMO Click here for updates on this story FARGO, North Dakota (WCCO) — A community will honor several North Dakota police officers as heroes Wednesday morning. Fargo officer Jake Wallin died during an ambush back in July. Officers Andrew Dotas and Tyler Hawes were badly hurt. Hawes, who needed more than a dozen
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN-ELIZABETH LITTLEFIELD Click here for updates on this story CARVER, Minnesota (WCCO) — A Carver family you may recognize is enjoying a little Christmas magic after a brutal few weeks. We first introduced you to the Block family back in June. Mother and wife Lindsay was fighting an aggressive form of breast cancer. To
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — An Italian prosecutor has acknowledged that a stalking threat to a 26-year-old pregnant woman found stabbed to death in her home may have been underestimated by authorities who failed to take action against the man now suspected of killing her. Prosecutor Marco Martani said Vanessa Ballan had
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy and Claudia Colliva, CNN (CNN) — A French court has rejected an appeal by an elderly couple who were paid €150 ($165) for a rare Gabonese mask that later sold for more than €4 million ($4.4 million) at auction. The couple claimed that the art dealer who bought the mask from them
Continue ReadingBy Justin Andrews Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, Missouri (KMOV) — The holiday season isn’t so bright right now for Jessica Sagar, who had two wheels swiped off her car in Benton Park. “I can’t keep shelling out money,” Sagar said. “The money that I do have, I was planning for
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Home sales inched slightly higher in November even as prices continued to climb and buyers paid mortgage rates that were at their highest levels of the year, according to a monthly report released Wednesday by the National Association of Realtors. But sales were still weak, even though closed
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street’s monster-sized rally since Halloween is easing off the accelerator Wednesday following mixed reports showing disappointing profits at companies but unexpected strength for the economy. The S&P 500 was 0.1% higher in midday trading and within 0.5% of its record set nearly two years
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A conservative law firm has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the State Bar of Wisconsin’s “diversity clerkship program” unconstitutionally discriminates based on race. The program offers summer internships for first-year law school students at top law firms, private companies and government offices. Past participants have
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Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN) — El telescopio espacial James Webb captó una nueva y brillante imagen de Urano que muestra los anillos, las lunas, el clima y la atmósfera generalmente ocultos del gigante de hielo, características que no eran visibles en el primer retrato en primer plano del planeta, tomado hace más de tres décadas.
Continue ReadingBy ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana agencies say previous estimates of Medicaid expenses fell nearly $1 billion short of its now-predicted need. Word of the shortfall came Tuesday in a report presented to the Indiana state budget committee. Agency officials say unexpected demand of services in some categories including elderly care caused
Continue ReadingBy Joe Hennessy Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — Operation Homefront, based out of San Antonio, Texas, partnered with U.S. Bank to gift Oscar Perez III and his family a home as part of its Permanent Veterans Program. “I still don’t understand why we were picked,” he said. He’s
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, JOSEF FEDERMAN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas’ top leader traveled to Cairo on Wednesday for talks on the war in Gaza, part of a flurry of diplomacy aimed at securing another cease-fire and swap of hostages for Palestinian prisoners at a moment when Israel’s offensive
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese tech giant ByteDance says it is using OpenAI’s technology “to a very limited extent” to help develop its own AI models. The admission comes after the San Francisco-firm said it had suspended ByteDance’s account over questions about how its GPT data was being used. A ByteDance
Continue ReadingBy Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — For Christy Nguyen, menopause hit just as the Covid-19 pandemic did. With both, she said, came unwanted weight gain. “I had gained 30 pounds in about two years, and so I was sort of desperate to find something” to help with weight loss, the 56-year-old mother of two said.
Continue ReadingCNN By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — For Christy Nguyen, menopause hit just as the Covid-19 pandemic did. With both, she said, came unwanted weight gain. “I had gained 30 pounds in about two years, and so I was sort of desperate to find something” to help with weight loss, the 56-year-old mother of two
Continue ReadingBy DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer When Idaho had a rare measles outbreak a few months ago, health officials scrambled to keep it from spreading. In the end, 10 people, all in one family, were infected, all unvaccinated. This time, the state was lucky, said the region’s medical director Dr. Perry Jansen. The family quickly
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