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By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top diplomat says he’s pressing ahead with a plan to use the profits generated from billions of euros of Russian assets frozen in Europe to help provide weapons for Ukraine. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Tuesday that he hopes the bloc’s leaders
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A sex offender who is the first person in England and Wales convicted under a new cyber-flashing law has been imprisoned for more than five years. Nicholas Hawkes was convicted of sending unsolicited photos of his genitals in February to a 15-year-old girl and a woman in violation of the Online Safety
Continue ReadingReuters Washington DC (CNN) — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday it has opened an investigation into a recent Ford Mustang Mach-E fatal crash in San Antonio, Texas, where authorities suspect an advanced driver assistance system was in use. Driver assistance features are being hailed by automakers as a way to reduce accidents,
Continue ReadingBy Tony Garcia Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — The Metro Nashville Police Department tracked down and arrested a man who has been allegedly lifting phones and credit cards from bar patrons in downtown Nashville. MNPD announced on March 13 that they were looking for 32-year-old Joshua Cloyd who had
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s lawmakers unanimously passed a new national security law that grants the government more power to quash dissent in the southern Chinese city. The legislation, passed Tuesday, is widely seen as the latest step in a sweeping political crackdown that followed pro-democracy protests in 2019
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Toby Keith will receive a posthumous honor. The late country music star, who died in February at age 62 from complications of stomach cancer, will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. “Election to the Country Music Hall of Fame is country music’s highest honor, and
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Authorities say that Iraq’s former defense minister, who holds dual Iraqi-Swedish citizenship, has been arrested in Sweden. He is suspected of illegally receiving benefits in the Scandinavian country. Prosecutor Jens Nilsson told Swedish broadcasters on Tuesday that Najah al-Shammari was arrested the day before at the Stockholm airport upon arrival in
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s ruling African National Congress is taking the independent electoral body and a rival political party fronted by the country’s former leader to court. It’s underscoring a fractious buildup to what could be the country’s most pivotal election in 30 years. The ANC
Continue ReadingBy Megan Thomas, CNN (CNN) — It’s been nearly 13 years since “The Oprah Winfrey Show” came to an end, but for viewers of her weight loss special on Monday night, it likely felt like Winfrey’s talk show was back. “An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution” featured Winfrey doing what she
Continue ReadingBy ‘A’ali’i Dukelow Click here for updates on this story WAILUKU, Hawaii (KITV) — A new organization is trying to help combat opioid overdoses across Hawai’i by providing free education and resources. End Overdose is a nationally recognized non-profit whose mission, by name, is self-explanatory. Kendra Bean, the lead of the recently established Hawai’i chapter,
Continue ReadingBy Mika Miyashima Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — Disappointed and angry. That’s how the family of a man found encased in concrete in his east O’ahu home two years ago feels after finding out his killer will not be going to trial. Juan Baron, the man accused of murdering 73-year-old
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Hollywood star Ewan McGregor has said it was “still necessary” to have an intimacy coordinator for the sex scenes in new drama series “A Gentleman in Moscow,” even though he was performing alongside his wife Mary Elizabeth Winstead. “It’s still necessary, because it’s also about the crew, and it’s
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press NOORDWIJKERHOUT, Netherlands (AP) — Theo works weekdays, weekends and nights and never complains about a sore spine despite performing hour upon hour of what, for a regular farm hand, would be backbreaking labor checking Dutch tulip fields for sick flowers. The boxy robot — named after a retired employee at
Continue ReadingBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Moldova said Tuesday it has expelled a Russian diplomat after Moscow opened polling stations for its presidential election in Moldova’s pro-Russia breakaway region of Transnistria. The sight of Moldova’s citizens voting for the president of another country was the latest in the increasingly fraught relations between Russia and Moldova, whose pro-Western
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macamilarincon (CNN) –– La Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos suspendió indefinidamente la implementación de la polémica ley de inmigración de Texas, la cual permite a las autoridades estatales arrestar y detener a personas sospechosas de haber ingresado de manera ilegal al país. ¿Cómo es la ley de Texas que penaliza la entrada irregular de migrantes
Continue ReadingBy EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Tracking the changes upending college sports can be as frenetic as keeping up during the first week of March Madness. Ultimately, those changes could impact what America’s favorite basketball tournament looks like in the future. News about athlete compensation, player unions and realignment dominate discussions. Everything in college sports
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice. It warned that the world’s efforts to reverse the trend have been inadequate.
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — The world’s biggest ice cream business is about to go it alone. Unilever announced Tuesday that it plans to spin off its ice cream unit as part of a drive to boost sales and profitability, which will also entail cutting around 6% of the workforce. After a century-long
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A cut-off low continues to impact the valley with showers and even the potential for more thunderstorms into today as it lingers just to our East. High pressure will gradual ease that low farther East, allowing us to clear out tonight into tomorrow. Showers are likely to linger, especially in our local mountains, but we
Continue ReadingBy Ed DiOrio Click here for updates on this story WAYNESVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS ) — It’s been days since a man in a vehicle damaged a gas station and crashed into a Waynesville home. The suspect has since been charged, but what has not been resolved is what happened to the family that used
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