By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A top British government official is backing a phone company’s proposal for a new tracking service to help protect girls and women walking alone. A phone company executive pitched the idea amid ongoing outrage over the slayings of two women who were targeted near their homes in
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By SARAH EL DEEB and ANGELA CHARLTON BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian pro-government newspaper says that President Bashar Assad has allowed his exiled uncle back into Syria to avoid a four-year prison term in France, where he spent more than 30 years. The 84-year-old Rifaat Assad was sentenced last year for illegally using Syrian state
Continue Reading By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A peeling portrait of Polish piano composer Frederic Chopin purchased at a flea market hung modestly in a private house in Poland for almost three decades before an expert dated the painting to the 19th century. The small painting now resides in a bank vault somewhere
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By Rebekah Riess, CNN A teacher at a North Carolina charter school has resigned after parents brought to light a number of alleged racist incidents, including a “racially insensitive lesson” to Black students in September, the school said. In an eighth-grade class at Winterville Charter Academy during a lesson regarding the importance of the US
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ISTANBUL (AP) — French driver Pierre Gasly posted the fastest time in a rainy third and final practice session for the Turkish Grand Prix ahead of qualifying. The AlphaTauri driver was .24 seconds quicker than Red Bull driver Sergio Perez and .6 clear of Perez’s teammate Max Verstappen. Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton was way
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — A former Israeli soldier has been assaulted in Germany’s capital in what police describe as an antisemitic incident. The assault took place Friday evening outside the Noeldnerplatz commuter train station in an eastern district of Berlin. Police said Saturday that the 29-year-old former soldier who lives in Berlin had a pullover on
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By Katia Hetter, CNN The pandemic is making me think about Halloween costumes and candy earlier than ever. I am also wondering what my busy block will be doing. Will the couple at the end of my street have the player piano going as they hand out treats? Or will they go dark, as they
Continue Reading By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer Facebook has recently taken a harsher tone toward whistleblower Frances Haugen, suggesting that the social network could be considering legal retaliation after Haugen went public with internal research that she copied before leaving her job earlier this year. U.S. law protects whistleblowers who disclose information about potential misconduct to
Continue Reading By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer Facebook has recently taken a harsher tone toward whistleblower Frances Haugen, suggesting that the social network could be considering legal retaliation after Haugen went public with internal research that she copied before leaving her job earlier this year. U.S. law protects whistleblowers who disclose information about potential misconduct to
Continue Reading By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer A spotlight that has been thrown on how many of the rich and powerful shield their wealth is also intensifying a fear among philanthropy experts: That the tax havens being used by the wealthy will increasingly siphon money away from charitable causes. Wealthy Americans have long sought to use
Continue Reading By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer A spotlight that has been thrown on how many of the rich and powerful shield their wealth is also intensifying a fear among philanthropy experts: That the tax havens being used by the wealthy will increasingly siphon money away from charitable causes. Wealthy Americans have long sought to use
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN Español) — “Squid Game”, la popular serie dramática surcoreana conocida como “El juego del calamar” en Latinoamérica, ha cautivado al público de todo el mundo, por lo que las teorías no tardaron en llegar a las redes sociales. Lanzada en septiembre, “El juego del calamar” se trata sobre un grupo de
Continue Reading By KATHY GANNON Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban have ruled out cooperation with the U.S. to contain extremist groups in Afghanistan. A senior spokesman staked out the position ahead of the first direct talks between the former foes since America completed its chaotic withdrawal from the country. Senior Taliban officials and U.S. representatives
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN) — El viernes, el presidente Joe Biden emitió una proclamación para conmemorar el Día de los Pueblos Indígenas, y es el primer presidente de Estados Unidos en hacerlo, dijo la Casa Blanca. “Las contribuciones que los pueblos indígenas han hecho a lo largo de la historia, en el servicio público, el
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The German and French foreign ministers have issued a joint statement saying that Poland has both a moral and legal obligation to respect the common rules of the European Union. The ministers published their statement late Friday in reaction to a Polish constitutional court ruling this week that challenged the supremacy
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The University of Missouri is set to bring back its homecoming parade in full swing, after being canceled in 2020 due to the ongoing pandemic.
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By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist In a year of extreme heat, Antarctica’s last six months were the coldest on record. “For the polar darkness period, from April through September, the average temperature was -60.9 degrees Celsius (-77.6 degrees Fahrenheit), a record for those months,” the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) said. The last
Continue Reading PRAGUE (AP) — Czechs are voting in a parliamentary election for a final day as polls suggest Prime Minister Andrej Babis has a good chance of retaining power despite a turbulent first term. Two days of balloting to fill 200 seats in the lower house of the Czech Republic’s parliament took place in the immediate
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HOMECOMING: We’ll start off comfortable this morning but pretty quickly start to warm up. Temperatures will be in the 70’s during the parade, warming into the middle 80’s by midday. Those temperatures this afternoon will threaten the record high of 91 in Columbia. A slight southerly breeze will keep things stirred up a bit more
Continue Reading By AMIR VAHDAT and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran’s first president after the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution who fled Tehran after being impeached for challenging the growing power of clerics as the nation became a theocracy, has died. He was 88. His family and Iranian state television made the
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