By Brian Stelter, CNN Business Julie Pace, the political reporter turned Washington bureau chief at The Associated Press, is the news agency’s new executive editor. Pace, 39, is succeeding Sally Buzbee, who departed the AP last spring for The Washington Post. She is starting in the new role immediately. “We have great opportunities ahead to
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s central bank says it has been inundated with more than 50 million euros’ ($59 million) worth of damaged bank notes after deadly floods that hit part of the country in July. The Bundesbank said Wednesday that individuals and banks have handed in notes that were soaked in the floods and often
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s central bank says it has been inundated with more than 50 million euros’ ($59 million) worth of damaged bank notes after deadly floods that hit part of the country in July. The Bundesbank said Wednesday that individuals and banks have handed in notes that were soaked in the floods and often
Continue ReadingBy Kendall Keys, Anna Muckenfuss Click here for updates on this story MIDLAND, Michigan (WNEM) — Death by overdose numbers across the US are continuing to add up. It happened to Terry Hanley’s 27-year-old son, Zachary in 2013. “It’s happening. It may not have to you or someone you know, but it will. Because unfortunately
Continue ReadingBy Trevor Sochocki, Anna Muckenfuss Click here for updates on this story MIDLAND, Michigan (WNEM) — For the past year and a half, Melissa Chevalier worked overtime, trying to keep her family safe from Covid. “You know my heart was just kind of a little crushed, I was really hoping to avoid having the virus
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Police in Kansas City, Kansas, are investigating the shooting death of a man whose body was found in a grassy area under a tree. Police say the body was discovered Tuesday evening by a person walking in the area about two hours after neighbors had reported hearing gunshots. Police have
Continue ReadingBy Rachel McCrary, Anna Muckenfuss Click here for updates on this story FLINT, Michigan (WNEM) — A local ear, nose and throat specialist is receiving hate mail for what he believes is related to his stance regarding coronavirus vaccines. “Somehow they think that this is an intrusion of the American way of life by somebody
Continue Reading By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge has struck down a Trump-era rule that eliminated federal protections for some wetlands and streams. The ruling Monday is giving hope to opponents of a proposed mine outside the Okefenokee Swamp’s vast wildlife refuge in southeast Georgia. The rule tossed out by a federal judge
Continue ReadingBy Leslie Aguilar Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — It’s been a roller coaster for public schools the last year and half due to the pandemic and many parents have had enough. Kansas City area private schools are seeing increased interest in enrollment from former public school families. “We
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Brown Click here for updates on this story OVERLAND PARK, Kansas (KCTV) — Overland Park Police Officer Freddie Castro, 23, has passed away following a battle with COVID-19. The diagnosis for Castro was not good, but officers and his family held out hope of a miracle recovery. Castro joined the police department at
Continue Reading By KATHY GANNON, RAHIM FAIEZ and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An official says the United Nations’ stockpiles of food could run out this month in Afghanistan. That is threatening to add a hunger crisis to the challenges facing the country’s new Taliban rulers as they try to restore stability after
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — The City of St. Louis will keep its front row seat in the lawsuit against the Los Angeles Rams and the National Football League. A judge threw out an attempt to move the trial out of the city on Tuesday. The
Continue Reading By ALEXANDER TURNBULL and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France has started administering booster shots of COVID-19 vaccine to people over 65 and those with underlying health conditions. People can get the shot on condition a minimum six-month period has passed since they got fully vaccinated with the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. France
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Las autoridades de Louisiana están investigando un supuesto ataque mortal de un caimán a un hombre de 71 años que caminaba en las aguas de una inundación tras el huracán Ida. El hombre fue atacado por el animal y aparentemente murió el lunes frente a su casa en Slidell, según informó su
Continue Reading By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Two human rights groups have accused both sides in the Yemen conflict of using starvation as a weapon of war. The Yemen-based Mwatana Organization for Human Rights and another group, Global Rights Compliance, say they documented airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition that hit farms, water facilities and
Continue Reading By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Nearly half of the money being spent on a Republican-ordered investigation into Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential election is earmarked for data analysis related to voting machines. That’s according to a contract released Wednesday to The Associated Press under Wisconsin’s open records law. It spells out how the
Continue Reading By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Senior European Union officials say the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan and the rushed airlift operation out of the country have highlighted the EU’s need for its own rapid-reaction military force. Officials said in interviews and public remarks on Wednesday that the EU’s dependence on U.S. troops
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Amy Woodyatt, CNN The skeleton of a 66-million-year-old giant Triceratops fossil could soon belong to a lucky dinosaur enthusiast — that is, if they have an estimated 1.2 million euros ($1.4 million) to spare. The specimen, dubbed Big John, has a skull 2.62 meters (8 feet 7 inches) long and 2 meters (6 feet 7
Continue Reading HOLYOKE, Mass. (AP) — Authorities in Massachusetts have arrested two men they allege were digging in an area of protected fossilized dinosaur footprints. Police say the men from New Jersey and Connecticut were seen by police on Saturday afternoon walking up the stairs at the site along the Connecticut River in Holyoke carrying out rocks
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By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny and Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden tried twice last month to get to his beach house on the Delaware coast. He never made it. Far from relaxing, the 31 days of August were the longest and most wrenching of Biden’s presidency. A month his aides once viewed as a
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