By BETSY WEBSTER Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Kansas (KCTV) — Exactly one week since a student at Schlagle High School stabbed another student with scissors at the start of the school day, leaders in education, law enforcement, mental health and more spilled into a KCK church at the invitation of
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CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court has sentenced a prominent human rights lawyer to five years in prison for his conviction on charges that rights advocates have decried as baseless and politically motivated. The court found former lawmaker Zyad el-Elaimy guilty of conspiring to commit crimes with an outlawed group. That’s a reference to the
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police in St. Louis are searching for a suspect or suspects after finding a 27-year-old woman shot to death in the city’s Vandeventer neighborhood. Police say the shooting happened Tuesday afternoon, when officers were called to the area just before 4 p.m. Arriving officers found the woman dead from a gunshot
Continue Reading ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban official says an explosion hit a minivan in a Shiite neighborhood in western Kabul, killing one civilian and wounding three others. Zabihullah Mujahid, deputy minister for culture and information in the Taliban-led government, told The Associated Press that an investigation is continuing. He did not elaborate. No one immediately claimed
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Ahead of the “Dancing With the Stars” live finale, judge Derek Hough has announced he has a breakthrough case of Covid-19. Hough posted a video on his verified Instagram account to share with his followers he had contracted the virus. “Hey everyone I have some news to share and I
Continue Reading WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A woman has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 2020 shooting death of a Wichita man. Television station KAKE reports that 42-year-old Amber Ahrens also pleaded guilty Tuesday to criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. Prosecutors had earlier charged Aherns with those counts, as well as possession
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By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Construction of new homes in the U.S. fell 0.7% in October, a sign that builders are still facing difficulties keeping up with demand as supply chain problems persist. The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that October’s decline put home construction at a seasonally adjusted annual
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Defense lawyers in the Vatican’s fraud and extortion trial have accused prosecutors of again withholding pieces of evidence, including an alleged interrogation of Pope Francis. The allegation brought the pontiff’s own role in a flawed London property investment back before a Vatican city-state tribunal. The court’s
Continue Reading Opinion by Mark Zandi for CNN Business Perspectives We can’t catch a break. Since the Covid-19 pandemic struck in the spring of 2020, the United States has suffered hundreds of thousands of deaths due to the virus and lost millions of jobs. There was much hope the pandemic would soon be behind us when the
Continue ReadingBy BRENDAN KIRBY Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — With inflation rising and the holidays approaching, hundreds of thousands of low-income Alabamians still have not received pandemic food assistance they expected in September. Mobile resident Catheryn Neese, a single mother of five, is one of them. “I really want to
Continue ReadingBy Emerson Lehmann Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul announced Tuesday, Nov. 16, that the state Department of Justice has filed civil enforcement action against Yousseff ‘Joe’ Berrada and Berrada Properties Management, Inc., following an investigation by the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. The
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By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Apple plans to give customers the ability to repair their own devices amid growing pressure from regulators and consumers around the world for manufacturers to ease restrictions on fixing products. The company on Wednesday announced a new program that will make spare parts for Apple products available to purchase starting
Continue Reading HUNTINGTON WOODS, Mich. (AP) — American journalist Danny Fenster, freed after nearly six months in jail in military-ruled Myanmar, says he feels “incredibly fortunate” to be back home in suburban Detroit. The 37-year-old Fenster was greeted by family and friends Tuesday night as he returned to Huntington Woods. He was sentenced last week to 11
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By Dan Merica, CNN Now that President Joe Biden has signed his highly sought-after infrastructure bill into law, it is time for Democrats to go out and sell the accomplishment. Building Back Together, the pro-Biden outside organization that formed earlier this year with the White House’s blessing, is starting that work with a $10 million
Continue Reading By FAY ABUELGASIM and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A pro-military minister in Sudan says time is running out for the country’s deposed prime minister to agree to take a post in a military-led government after top generals seized power last month. Gibreil Ibrahim, the finance minister of the deposed government, tells
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant says a data simulation of its planned release of treated radioactive water into the sea suggests it would have an extremely small impact on the environment, marine life and humans. The Japanese government and the plant’s operator, Tokyo
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Canelo Álvarez intentará convertirse en campeón de cinco divisiones luego de que el Consejo Mundial de Boxeo (WBC por sus siglas en inglés) confirmara una pelea con el boxeador congoleño Ilunga Makabu, en la categoría de peso semipesado. En la 59a Convención del WBC en la Ciudad de México, la
Continue Reading COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s national soccer team will wear “human rights messages” on their training clothes at next year’s World Cup in Qatar. Denmark earned a spot in the tournament last month. The Danish soccer federation says it has launched a series of “critical initiatives” in the wake of qualification. Qatar has faced criticism
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s national soccer team will wear “human rights messages” on their training clothes at next year’s World Cup in Qatar. Denmark earned a spot in the tournament last month. The Danish soccer federation says it has launched a series of “critical initiatives” in the wake of qualification. Qatar has faced criticism
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By Kaitlan Collins, Betsy Klein and Kate Sullivan, CNN The Biden administration is seeking to boost Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing to increase the global vaccine supply, particularly in developing nations, as the US continues its efforts to share more vaccines abroad. “We are prepared to offer vaccine manufacturers who have demonstrated the capability to make mRNA
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