By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon election officials ruled that former New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is not eligible to run for governor because he does not meet the state’s residency requirement. Secretary of State Shemia Fagan said it was obvious Kristof had been a New Yorker until recently, citing
Continue Reading By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — While tortillas come to mind when Mexico is mentioned, every Jan. 6, Mexicans’ love of bread comes to the fore with the cutting of oval brioche decorated with candied fruit known as king cakes to celebrate Epiphany. Just hours before Mexicans took their first slices, hundreds
Continue Reading By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson has apologized after a government ethics investigator criticized the U.K. leader and his staff for failing to disclose messages he exchanged with a donor about financing the redecoration of his official residence. Christopher Geidt, the independent adviser on minister’s interests, wasn’t informed of
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By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Amnesty International says it has independently confirmed that an Israeli company’s powerful spyware was used to hack a Polish senator when he was running the opposition’s 2019 parliamentary election campaign. The Associated Press reported last month that an internet watchdog group at the University of Toronto
Continue Reading By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two former investment executives from Japan have pleaded guilty in Las Vegas in what prosecutors have called a $1.5 billion international Ponzi scheme with 10,000 victims in the U.S. and abroad. Junzo Suzuki and his son, Paul Suzuki, entered their pleas Wednesday in U.S. District Court.
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Miembros de un grupo de viajeros juerguistas, que aparecen en un video bailando, bebiendo y vapeando sin mascarillas a bordo de un vuelo a Cancún, están varados en México después de que su vuelo de regreso a Canadá fuera cancelado y otras aerolíneas se negaran a llevarlos a casa. El
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By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Mortgage rates started off 2022 with a bang, as the average rate moved higher than at any point last year. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 3.22% in the week ending on January 6, up from an average 3.11% last week. A year ago the 30-year rate was 2.65%, the lowest
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose in the past week to start the new year. They reached their highest level since May 2020, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, yet remained historically low. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported that the average rate on the benchmark 30-year home loan increased to 3.22%
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose in the past week to start the new year. They reached their highest level since May 2020, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, yet remained historically low. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported that the average rate on the benchmark 30-year home loan increased to 3.22%
Continue Reading By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire attorney general’s office says the stepmother of a girl who disappeared in 2019 at age 5 has been charged with welfare fraud for collecting food stamps in her name. The agency said Thursday that Kayla Montgomery has been charged one with one count
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UNION, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a Missouri woman who is charged with participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol is facing charges in a fatal accident in Franklin County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says 22-year-old Emily Hernandez was drunk and driving a car the wrong way on Interstate 44
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — A Novak Djokovic lo están “tratando como un prisionero” las autoridades de Australia, dijo su madre, Dijana Djokovic, a periodistas este jueves durante una conferencia de prensa en Belgrado. Se cree que a Djokovic, tenista número 1 del mundo, lo transfirieron al Park Hotel en Melbourne, después de que se
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Officers arrested Brandon L. Welty, 25, of Columbia, after a fight among three people near the intersection of Ninth and Cherry streets, University of Missouri police said.
Continue Reading RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Richmond has awarded a contract for removing the city’s last major Confederate statue, along with nine other pedestals whose monuments have already been taken down. The winning bidder is the same company that recently took down the city’s Robert E. Lee memorial. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that the contract will be
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN Business) — Montclair Bread Co. cerró el pasado fin de semana después de que una cuarta parte de sus empleados diera positivo al covid-19. La panadería perdió el 25% de sus ventas mensuales. “Básicamente abrimos durante la semana para prepararnos para el fin de semana”, dijo Rachel Wyman, propietaria de
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President Joe Biden spoke from the US Capitol on the one-year anniversary of the January 6 insurrection and condemned former President Donald Trump as a threat to democracy. Read his remarks as released below: Madam Vice President, my fellow Americans: To state the obvious, one year ago today, in this sacred place, democracy was attacked
Continue Reading By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice A federal judge in Washington, DC, is questioning 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
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By Pete Muntean, CNN Business Airlines continue to cancel and delay flights by the thousands as their operations struggle with an untold number of workers calling out sick with coronavirus. Carriers have canceled more than 1,620 flights as of Thursday afternoon and delayed more than 1,350 nationwide according to flight tracking site FlightAware. On Wednesday,
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By The Associated Press Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers remain in the running for the NFC’s No. 2 playoff seed, so the defending Super Bowl champions are planning to rest healthy starters for the team’s regular-season finale against NFC South rival Carolina. The Panthers have lost six straight and 11 of their past
Continue Reading NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The U.S. State Department says its special envoy to the Horn of Africa will end his appointment “in the coming days” after a year marked by deadly crises in Ethiopia and Sudan. Envoy Jeffrey Feltman plans to step down shortly after his current visit to Ethiopia, where more than a year
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