By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Two consultants hired to analyze new state legislative boundary lines in Wisconsin after the state’s high court tossed the current Republican-drawn maps will be paid up to $100,000 each in taxpayer money. Under the terms of the contracts made public Thursday, each consultant will be paid
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, Dakin Andone, Evan Perez and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — A 17-year-old gunman killed a sixth grade student and wounded five other people Thursday morning at Perry High School near Des Moines, Iowa, authorities said. The five people wounded include four students and one school administrator, officials said. The school’s principal, Dan
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The Chinese government and its state-controlled entities spent over $5.5 million at properties owned by Donald Trump while he was in office, the largest total of payments made by any single foreign country known to date, according to financial documents cited in a report from House Democrats released Thursday. Those
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A winter weather system moving through the U.S. is expected to wallop the East Coast this weekend with a mix of snow and freezing rain from the southern Appalachians to the Northeast — although it’s too early to say exactly which areas will get what kind of precipitation and how much.
Continue ReadingBy FADI TAWIL and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Beirut for the funeral of Saleh Arouri, top commander of militant Palestinian group Hamas, who was killed earlier this week in an apparent Israeli airstrike in the Lebanese capital. Draped in Palestinian and Hamas flags,
Continue ReadingBy TERRY TANG Associated Press In 2021, Sam Song Li was cast in an independent film as the ancestor of a character played by a pre-“Shang-Chi” Simu Liu. To the general public, the non-speaking cameo might seem insignificant. But for Li, it was a seminal moment. A producer told him she picked him after looking
Continue ReadingBy TERRY TANG Associated Press In 2021, Sam Song Li was cast in an independent film as the ancestor of a character played by a pre-“Shang-Chi” Simu Liu. To the general public, the non-speaking cameo might seem insignificant. But for Li, it was a seminal moment. A producer told him she picked him after looking
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is drifting Thursday following signals that the job market remains solid, though it may be a touch too strong. The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged in early trading and on track for its first losing week in the last 10. The Dow Jones
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press PERRY, Iowa (AP) — Police in Perry, Iowa, say multiple people were injured in a shooting at the city’s high school, on students’ first day back in classes after their annual winter break. An active shooter was reported at Perry High School at 7:37 a.m. Thursday morning and officers arrived
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Investigators believe suicide bombers likely carried out an attack on a commemoration for an Iranian general slain in a 2020 U.S. drone strike. That’s according to a state media report Thursday, which comes as Iran grapples with its worst mass-casualty attack in decades and as the wider Mideast remains
Continue ReadingBy Ayurella Horn-Muller, CNN (CNN) — Rammed earth portions of the Great Wall of China — built by compressing natural materials with soils — have been regarded as a weak point in its structure. But these swaths of the iconic landmark developed a natural line of defense against the looming risk of deterioration, a new
Continue ReadingPRAGUE (AP) — Hundreds of students and others have marched in silence in the Czech capital to honor the victims of the country’s worst mass killing two weeks ago that left 14 dead. They gathered at an impromptu memorial in front of Prague’s Charles University headquarters where thousands came to light candles after the Dec 21 shooting.
Continue ReadingBy Rikki Klaus, CNN (CNN) — More than 80 years have passed since a racist mob destroyed Opal Lee’s family home in Fort Worth, Texas, but the 97-year-old said she still remembers the White crowd that forced her family out of their home. “Our parents worked real hard … and then they bought this house on Annie Street,”
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German government is watering down cost-saving plans that have infuriated farmers. It announced on Thursday that it will give up a proposal to scrap an exemption from car tax for farming vehicles and will stagger cuts to tax breaks for diesel used in agriculture. The cuts
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The race for the White House officially begins in less than two weeks. And despite some prolonged jockeying over the election calendar, the long primary season will once again begin in Iowa with a caucus process that has served as the lead-off presidential voting since the 1970s.
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann, Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The US targeted a member of an Iranian proxy group with “US blood on his hands” in a strike in Iraq, a US official told CNN. The target was a member of Harakat al-Nujaba, the official said, an Iranian proxy operating in Iraq and
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The politician favored to become Britain’s next prime minister has kicked off an election year by accusing the governing Conservatives of leading the country into decline and despair. Labour Party leader Keir Starmer said Thursday that a Labour government would deliver “Project Hope” after 14 years of
Continue ReadingBy GIADA ZAMPANO and PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has told her European Union partners that curbing migration flows from African countries has less to do with offers of charity than strong partnerships coupled with strategic investments in those nations. Meloni told reporters at a year-end news conference that
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) — The new year on the PGA Tour feels a lot like the old one. There are questions about a fractured landscape and more money than ever. LIV Golf is gearing up for another season while fans wonder who will be the next player to get
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With the cooperation of the Anne Frank House, a novel based on Frank’s life immediately before she began keeping a diary will be released in September by the children’s publisher Scholastic. “When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank, Before the Diary” is written
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