COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An anthropologist spoke this afternoon to jurors, explaining his review of Mengqi Ji’s remains found at Rock Bridge State Park. Doctor Mark Beary says Ji’s remains were missing several bones, including her right arm and the hyoid bone in her neck when they came to the Boone County Medical Examiner’s Office. Dr.
Continue Reading
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer says its experimental pill for COVID-19 cut rates of hospitalization and death by nearly 90% among patients with mild-to-moderate infections. The company announced Friday it will soon ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and international regulators to authorize its pill, which is taken twice
Continue Reading
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer says its experimental pill for COVID-19 cut rates of hospitalization and death by nearly 90% among patients with mild-to-moderate infections. The company announced Friday it will soon ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and international regulators to authorize its pill, which is taken twice
Continue Reading
By Maggie Fox, and Amanda Sealy, CNN Drugmaker Pfizer said Friday its experimental pill designed to fight coronavirus reduced the risk of hospitalization and death for high-risk patients taking part in a trial of the drug. The company hopes it can eventually offer the pill, given in combination with an older antiviral drug called ritonavir,
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — “Escuchen ahora el sonido que separa para siempre lo viejo de lo nuevo”. Así fue cómo la radio NBC presentó la señal del primer satélite en el espacio, el 4 de octubre de 1957. Pero no fue un triunfo de la ciencia estadounidense: el sonido procedía del Sputnik de la
Continue Reading By NICO GARRIGA and THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press GRANVILLE, France (AP) — French fisherman Hermann Outrequin gave up his fishing company job and went independent in 2019 to have more time for his newborn son. But he hadn’t reckoned with the post-Brexit spat about fishing rights between Paris and London. He has just been denied
Continue Reading By NICO GARRIGA and THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press GRANVILLE, France (AP) — French fisherman Hermann Outrequin gave up his fishing company job and went independent in 2019 to have more time for his newborn son. But he hadn’t reckoned with the post-Brexit spat about fishing rights between Paris and London. He has just been denied
Continue Reading
By Marshall Cohen CNN Illustration by Alberto Mier A full year after the 2020 presidential election, new details are still emerging about former President Donald Trump’s unprecedented effort to overturn the results. Many of Trump’s actions were done in public view, including dozens of ill-fated lawsuits and tweets that undermined the electoral process. But congressional
Continue Reading By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — China has criticized a press freedom survey from the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club that found nearly half its members are considering leaving the city. The survey says the members are concerned about a decline in press freedoms under a sweeping national security law imposed by
Continue Reading
By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Another Chinese real estate company appears to be at risk of default, escalating fears of further problems in the country’s embattled property sector. Shares of Kaisa Group, a Shenzhen-based developer, were suspended from trading on Friday in Hong Kong. The company’s subsidiaries, which were also halted from trading, cited a
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s defense minister, Nobuo Kishi, has said it will step up military cooperation with Germany in the Indo-Pacific region as he welcomed a port call by the first German warship to visit Japan in about 20 years. The frigate Bayern is visiting Tokyo after two days of
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say that hundreds of thousands of tons of junk have been removed from a valley in western Germany since it was devastated by flooding in mid-July, equivalent to four decades’ worth of garbage. More than 180 people died in Germany and hundreds more were injured in the July 14-15 floods, which
Continue Readingolivertapia Hong Kong (CNN) — Zhang Zhan, una periodista ciudadana encarcelada por informar sobre el brote inicial de covid-19 en Wuhan, China, a principios de 2020, necesita desesperadamente atención médica, según Human Rights Watch (HRW). El grupo de derechos humanos con sede en EE.UU. pidió a las autoridades de Beijing que liberen a Zhang, exabogada,
Continue Reading SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Heavy rain has caused flash flooding in Bosnia, prompting evacuations and submerging local roads in some parts of the country on Friday. Homes were flooded around Sarajevo while local roads were submerged in the southwest of the country, prompting some schools to cancel classes. Dozens of people had to be evacuated
Continue Reading By DALATOU MAMANE Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Officials in Niger say suspected Islamic extremists have killed 69 people in an attack on a self-defense group near the border with Mali. Niger’s Interior Ministry says the Tuesday ambush targeted civilians who are aiding the military in the fight against militants in the volatile border
Continue Reading
By Marshall Cohen CNN Illustration by Alberto Mier A full year after the 2020 presidential election, new details are still emerging about former President Donald Trump’s unprecedented effort to overturn the results. Many of Trump’s actions were done in public view, including dozens of ill-fated lawsuits and tweets that undermined the electoral process. But congressional
Continue Reading
Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN When Uruguayan fashion designer Gabriela Hearst was announced as the creative director of luxury fashion house Chloé in December last year, those familiar with her work knew it spelled change for the 70-year-old French brand — especially given the maison’s CEO, Riccardo Bellini, had already indicated he was looking to take
Continue Reading By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch Supreme Court has upheld part of a Russian appeal against a $50 billion arbitration award to former shareholders of bankrupted oil giant Yukos. The highest Dutch court ruled Friday that a lower Dutch appeal court wrongly dismissed, on procedural grounds, Russia’s claim that
Continue Reading
By Eric Bradner, CNN With his victory in the Virginia gubernatorial race, Glenn Youngkin wrote a new Republican playbook for keeping Donald Trump’s base engaged without alienating the voters who were repelled by the former President in recent elections. That’s despite running against a rival, Democratic former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, whose closing message — in
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — El Departamento de Justicia demandó a Texas por las nuevas restricciones al voto que, según el gobierno federal, privarán de este derecho a los votantes elegibles y violarán la ley federal de derecho al voto. La demanda presentada el jueves en un tribunal federal en San Antonio desafía la ley conocida como
Continue Reading