FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police in suburban St. Louis have identified a man killed in a hit-and-run crash over the weekend. St. Louis County police say 45-year-old Michael Dukes, of Florissant, died in the early Saturday crash at an intersection in Ferguson. Investigators say Dukes had been involved in a crash at the intersection around
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Mientras los abogados en el juicio por homicidio de Kyle Rittenhouse se preparan para los argumentos finales este lunes, el gobernador de Wisconsin, Tony Evers, tiene 500 tropas de la Guardia Nacional en espera fuera de Kenosha, antes de un posible veredicto. Escenas dramáticas –como el llanto de Rittenhouse en
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By RISKA MUNAWARAH Associated Press BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Authorities say a baby elephant in the island of Sumatra has had half of her trunk almost severed off after being caught in what they say was a trap set by poachers who prey on the endangered species. The one-year-old female elephant is among the
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By Kara Fox, CNN Thousands of people have been stranded at the border between Poland and Belarus for months, trapped at the center of an intensifying geopolitical dispute. The migrants — most of whom are from the Middle East and Asia, and who are hoping to travel on from Poland deeper into Europe — have
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian doctor has asked Israel’s Supreme Court to order the military to issue an official apology and compensation for a 2009 Israeli strike on Gaza that killed three of his daughters and a niece. The physician, who now lives in Canada, has for years sought justice for his family for what
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By Allison Morrow, CNN Business Less than a month into her role as the chief executive of Citigroup, Jane Fraser made a decision that shook Wall Street. It was late March, and signs of burnout were everywhere after more than a year of remote work in the pandemic. Deal volume was at record highs and
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Chick-fil-A customers looking for their fix over Christmas weekend this year will be disappointed. The chicken chain will be closed on Christmas Day, which falls on a Saturday, in addition to the Sunday after. Traditionally, Chick-fil-A is closed on Christmas. But because of when the holiday falls this year, that
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CyrusOne is being acquired for $11.5 billion, the second big sale in recent months of a real estate investment trust focused on data centers. In August, Blackstone completed a $10 billion acquisition of QTS Realty Trust. On Monday CyrusOne said KKR and Global Infrastructure will pay $90.50 per share in a deal worth $15 billion
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By Ivana Kottasová, Sebastian Shukla, Antonia Mortensen, Zahra Ullah, Fred Pleitgen and Matthew Chance, CNN The European Union has said it will slap new sanctions on Belarus targeting “everyone involved” in facilitating a migrant crisis on the bloc’s eastern frontier, as military moves and accusations continue to test a fragile political order in the region.
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By Rachel Janfaza Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he believes the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6 was the result of former President Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. “I think everything that he was saying from Election Night forward incited people to that level of anger,”
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By Rachel Janfaza Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he believes the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6 was the result of former President Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. “I think everything that he was saying from Election Night forward incited people to that level of anger,”
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ZEIST, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands has an unexpected injury to contend with ahead of the team’s crucial World Cup qualifying match against Norway. Coach Louis van Gaal hurt his hip in a fall and had to be driven to training in a golf cart. The 70-year-old coach says he can still do his job
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Ferreira, CTVNews.ca Producer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — A significant number of patients are reporting symptoms of depression that worsened throughout the pandemic, placing them at higher risk for heart disease, a new study has found. Conducted by researchers at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City,
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By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Every year, Wall Street’s top banks publish lengthy reports laying out what the next year could hold for investors, making predictions for economic growth and the trajectories of stocks and bonds. Some years, the prognostication is more successful than others. The pandemic has made the exercise particularly difficult. Early estimates
Continue Reading By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned of a “blizzard” of new coronavirus infections coming into the U.K. from continental Europe this winter. His warning came as the independent body of scientists that makes vaccine recommendations to Johnson’s government said people aged 40 to 49 will also
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Mae Jones, CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — Since Canada opened up its borders to fully vaccinated individuals earlier this fall, there has been a spike in the number of international travellers arriving to the country — though still below pre-pandemic numbers. Statistics Canada released
Continue Reading By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The United Arab Emirates has banned travelers from several Middle Eastern countries from boarding flights to Belarus, cutting off one of the last major air routes for would-be migrants to a nation on the European Union’s eastern border. A travel agent in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad
Continue Reading By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The United Arab Emirates has banned travelers from several Middle Eastern countries from boarding flights to Belarus, cutting off one of the last major air routes for would-be migrants to a nation on the European Union’s eastern border. A travel agent in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad
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The Fulton Police Department is investigating after a man’s body was found in Stinson Creek early Monday morning.
Continue Reading By SCOTT BAUER, MICHAEL TARM and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Attorneys are set to make closing arguments at Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial in the shootings of three men during street unrest in Wisconsin. The arguments Monday will be the last word of some two weeks of courtroom drama before a jury begins
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