At the Columbia Public Schools Board of Education meeting Monday night, the board members plan to vote on adding an $80 million bond issue to the City of Columbia’s April ballot.
Continue Readingolivertapia Diálogo entre funcionarios de EE.UU. y Rusia. El covid-19 diezma hospitales y no estrictamente con pacientes. Se resuelve el caso Djokovic en Australia. La oposición gana en Barinas. Tragedias en Brasil y Nueva York. Además, los ganadores de los Globo de Oro. Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la
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LONDON (AP) — Eight men have lost a court case against Manchester City after claiming that abuse they suffered from a former youth soccer coach took place while he was employed by the club. The men claimed they were abused by Barry Bennell when they were playing youth soccer for teams he coached in northwest
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN In a troublesome sign for President Joe Biden’s climate goals, US greenhouse emissions surged back from a pandemic slump faster in 2021 than the overall economy, according to a preliminary analysis by the nonpartisan Rhodium Group. Energy analysts had expected to see a rebound of planet-warming emissions in 2021. But even
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By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s schools reopened their gates to students on Monday, ending the longest school disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic anywhere in the world. There’s traffic congestion in some areas of the capital, Kampala, and students can be seen carrying their mattresses in the streets, a back-to-school
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By Yoonjung Seo and Toyin Owoseje, CNN “Squid Game” star O Yeong-su has made history after becoming the first Korean actor to win a Golden Globe. The 77-year-old South Korean star, who plays Oh II-nam, also known as Player 001, in the hit Netflix series, beat the likes of Billy Crudup (“The Morning Show”), Kieran
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — Beijing has accused Washington of inciting Lithuania to “contain China” in a feud over the status of self-ruled Taiwan after U.S. officials expressed support for the European Union-member country in the face of Chinese economic pressure. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman on Monday complained Washington “instigated the Lithuanian authorities.” Lithuania is the
Continue Reading By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has embarked on a fourth term. He leads a coalition that took office Monday amid a nationwide coronavirus lockdown and policy challenges ranging from climate change and housing shortages to the future of agriculture. King Willem-Alexander formally swore in the
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By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has embarked on a fourth term. He leads a coalition that took office Monday amid a nationwide coronavirus lockdown and policy challenges ranging from climate change and housing shortages to the future of agriculture. King Willem-Alexander formally swore in the
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is now speaking about getting the coronavirus vaccination as a “moral obligation.” Francis used some of his strongest words yet calling for people to get vaccinated in a speech to ambassadors accredited to the Holy See on Monday. He denounced how people had been swayed by
Continue Reading By BARBARA SURK Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is traveling to the French Mediterranean coast to talk about internal security. Macron has yet to officially confirm he is running for a second term in the election this spring, but his visit to the French Rivera city of Nice had campaign
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — Foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern states are visiting Beijing for meetings with officials from the world’s second largest economy. The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday gave no details of the agendas for the visits, but said they were expected to “deepen relations between the two sides.” The meetings
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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice A federal judge in Washington, DC, questioned former President Donald Trump‘s actions during his speech on January 6, 2021, as he considers for the first time whether Trump is immune from liability related to his supporters attacking the US Capitol. During a court hearing Monday, Judge Amit
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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice A federal judge in Washington, DC, questioned former President Donald Trump‘s actions during his speech on January 6, 2021, as he considers for the first time whether Trump is immune from liability related to his supporters attacking the US Capitol. During a court hearing Monday, Judge Amit
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By Theresa Waldrop, CNN New York City and Philadelphia are mourning the loss of dozens of lives, including many children, in horrific apartment housing fires over the past few days. Together, the fires killed 29 people, 17 of them reportedly children. Adding to the tragedy are the winter temperatures in the region and the raging
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Mid-table Bologna has had virtually no training ahead of a Serie A game at relegation-threatened Cagliari after being placed in quarantine by local health authorities. The match was originally scheduled for Sunday then pushed back by two days due to give Bologna’s seven players who are positive with COVID-19 more time
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish diplomat appointed to improve contacts with Jews worldwide has been fired after he criticized his own government’s approach to regulating Holocaust speech. Jaroslaw Nowak, the plenipotentiary for contacts with the Jewish diaspora, described a Holocaust speech law passed by his country’s ruling party as “stupid.” The Foreign Ministry said
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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Exercise is good for you. Breaking a sweat has been shown to improve nearly every organ in the body, fight nearly every disease doctors diagnose and improve nearly every health condition that you might live with on a daily basis. It gets even better. A new study finds exercise boosts levels
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By Lisa Drayer, CNN The new year brings with it some old circumstances: working from home, self- isolating again, and having close access to food almost all of the time. Some of us may enjoy more home-cooked meals and not having to walk too far for a snack, but working close to the refrigerator poses
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Some states, including Missouri, and business groups argued Friday before the U.S. Supreme Court that a vaccine-or-test requirement for large workplaces and another for many health care workers should be put on hold.
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