ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police have identified two people killed when a motorcycle crashed into a pedestrian on a St. Louis street. The crash happened Monday night near the city’s Forest Park, when a motorcycle hit a parked car and a man standing by the car. Police say the motorcyclist, later identified as 50-year-old Eric
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Three of the nation’s largest food delivery companies are suing New York City over a limit on fees it put in place during the pandemic to protect restaurants devastated by the forced closure of their dining rooms. The city has continued to extend those caps even as vaccinations allow
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Three of the nation’s largest food delivery companies are suing New York City over a limit on fees it put in place during the pandemic to protect restaurants devastated by the forced closure of their dining rooms. The city has continued to extend those caps even as vaccinations allow
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — The struggling center-right candidate to succeed German Chancellor Angela Merkel is touting his party’s law-and-order and security credentials as he tries to turn around disappointing polls, questioning his left-leaning rival’s stance toward the police and the military. Armin Laschet has been tapped by Merkel’s center-right Union bloc to succeed her after 16
Continue Reading Associated Press CHENNA TEKLEHAYMANOT, Ethiopia (AP) — At the scene of one of the deadliest battles of Ethiopia’s 10-month Tigray conflict, witness accounts reflect the increasingly blurred line between combatant and civilian after the federal government urged all capable citizens to stop the Tigray forces “once and for all.” Survivors in the village of Chenna
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) As the 20 year anniversary of 9/11 approaches, many people are preparing to honor those that lost their lives on that tragic day. Here in Mid-Missouri the two-day Patriot Day event starts Friday with events lasting through Saturday. The motorcade, which consisted of patriot motorcycle riders and first responders escorting the
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associatd Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s outspoken vaccinations minister, Taro Kono, has announced that he is running to become the head of the governing party, who usually is chosen prime minister, and pledged to be reform-minded and gets things done. Kono, a Georgetown University graduate who is fluent in English, has many
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By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Chinese regulators have summoned companies to demand they play down profits and further clamp down on how minors can play video games, just days after children in the country were banned from access during the week. State-run news agency Xinhua reported Wednesday that authorities had called in firms, including industry
Continue Reading By MEG KINNARD and EMILY SWANSON Associated Press A decade after the 9/11 attacks, Americans were reasonably positive about the state of their rights and liberties. Today, 20 years since Sept. 11, not as much. That’s according to a poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The survey builds on work conducted
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MUNICH (AP) — In a story published on Sept. 9, 2021, about the domestic violence trial of former Germany and Bayern Munich player Jérôme Boateng, The Associated Press erroneously reported he was ordered to pay 1.8 million euros ($21.2 million) in damages to the victim. The money was actually a fine to the German state
Continue Reading MIAMI (AP) — Authorities say a fourth person has been accused of stealing the identities of victims in the South Florida condominium collapse that killed 98 people. Twenty-year-old Nelson Ronaldo Garcia-Medina was arrested on Wednesday. But his name was not included when the Miami-Dade state attorney announced three arrests in the case. He’s accused of
Continue Reading By ZEINA KARAM and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s new prime minister has pledged to try and gain control of one of the world’s worst economic meltdowns, after forming a government following a year of political stalemate. Lebanon has been without a fully empowered government since the catastrophic Aug. 4, 2020
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — The head of Britain’s domestic intelligence agency says the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan has “heartened and emboldened” extremists and could lead to the return of major “al-Qaida-style” attack plots against the West. MI5 Director General Ken McCallum says the U.K. could face “more risk” because of the withdrawal of NATO troops and
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — La situación del covid-19 en EE.UU. sigue siendo terrible, con 1.500 personas que mueren cada día y un promedio de 150.000 casos nuevos cada día. Con más de 100.000 estadounidenses hospitalizados, el número de muertes –casi con certeza subestimado– seguirá aumentando por encima del total actual de 653.000. Parece seguro que
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By Jason Hanna, Artemis Moshtaghian and Amir Vera, CNN Days before the nation marks 20 years since the September 11 terror attacks, New York officials say the remains of two more victims have been identified through DNA testing. Dorothy Morgan, of Hempstead, New York, and a man whose name is being withheld at his family’s
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna, Artemis Moshtaghian and Amir Vera, CNN Days before the nation marks 20 years since the September 11 terror attacks, New York officials say the remains of two more victims have been identified through DNA testing. Dorothy Morgan, of Hempstead, New York, and a man whose name is being withheld at his family’s
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By Jack Guy, CNN Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family support Black Lives Matter (BLM), a senior representative has told UK broadcaster Channel 4. Ken Olisa, the first black Lord-Lieutenant for London, said that the issue of race is a “hot conversation topic” in the royal household, in an interview which will be aired
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By Helen Regan, CNN The US Open women’s final will be a battle of the teens as Britain’s Emma Raducanu advances to her first major final by defeating No. 17 seed Maria Sakkari of Greece 6-1, 6-4 in the semifinals on Thursday night. Raducanu, 18, will face 19-year-old Canadian Leylah Fernandez in the final at
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, CNN The US Open women’s final will be a battle of the teens as Britain’s Emma Raducanu advances to her first major final by defeating No. 17 seed Maria Sakkari of Greece 6-1, 6-4 in the semifinals on Thursday night. Raducanu, 18, will face 19-year-old Canadian Leylah Fernandez in the final at
Continue Reading By Mostafa Salem, Laura Smith-Spark and Sam Kiley, CNN The first international passenger flight to take off from Afghanistan since the chaotic US military airlift last month landed in Qatar on Thursday, carrying more than 100 foreign nationals, including Americans, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. Passengers on board the chartered Qatar
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