By Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju, CNN Republican lawmakers are starting to choose sides in the fight to defeat Rep. Liz Cheney in Wyoming, placing high-stakes bets in a divisive primary that is widely seen as a referendum on Donald Trump and cementing deep rifts in the GOP over the direction of the party. In
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SEATTLE (AP) — Sue Bird officially re-signed with the Seattle Storm, her only WNBA team, in what is expected to be her final season. Bird, the WNBA assist leader and oldest player in the league at 41, previously announced she would return for one more season. She waited until Seattle finished the rest of its
Continue Reading By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball has canceled the first week of spring training games through March 4 in the first public acknowledgement of the disruption caused by the lockout. The work stoppage was in its 79th day Friday, a day after economic talks between the management and
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By Karol Suarez and Abel Alvarado The United States is resuming its avocado inspection program in Mexico’s Michoacán state a week after imposing a temporary ban in response to a US inspector receiving a death threat. The Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said Friday that it was working closely with Mexican
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By Travis Caldwell, CNN Authorities had been searching more than two years for Paislee Shultis, a 4-year-old reported missing from her legal guardian in Cayuga Heights in upstate New York, without any luck. But a new piece of information turned the entire investigation around, police said, leading them straight to a place they long suspected
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Continue ReadingBy Chuck Morris, Mary Alice Royse Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Titans linebacker, Bud Dupree, turned himself in to Metro Police Friday on the assault charges from Jan. Metro Police charged the Tennessee Titans linebacker with misdemeanor assault in connection with a physical altercation with an employee at a Walgreen’s
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business The labor shortage has been a defining feature of the pandemic job market and it’s not getting better any time soon. But there is a whole group of workers who are being overlooked even though they could be part of the solution. Criminal records are keeping certain workers from finding
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By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Measures to protect patients hospitalized with Covid-19 from financial liability have been rolled back by most insurers in the United States, leaving the vast majority of patients with an average out-of-pocket bill of about $4,000 for each hospital stay, according to research published this week in the journal JAMA Network Open.
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Anguila (CNN) — No hay servicio a bordo. No hay cabina de clase ejecutiva. No hay champán, ni elección de carne o pollo, ni entretenimiento. Con solo ocho minutos desde el despegue hasta el aterrizaje, no hay tiempo para nada de eso. Hay vuelos más cortos como el salto de Westray a Papa
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By Allegra Goodwin, CNN Photographs of the British royal family captured by members of the public will go on display alongside the work of world-renowned photographers in London next month, at a new exhibition that promises to examine the evolution of the family’s “image across three centuries.” The Life Through A Royal Lens exhibition will
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By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri will get $458 million to help victims of the opioid epidemic as part settlement with the three biggest U.S. drug distribution companies and the drugmaker Johnson & Johnson. Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced the final settlement Friday. Schmitt says it’s the biggest “victim-centric” settlement
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By Geneva Sands, CNN The Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence chief is defending the department’s recently released national terrorism bulletin in public comments and memos this week in an attempt to push back against Republican criticism that the Biden administration is attempting to police political thought. The bulletin, released earlier this month, includes concerns about
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By Michelle Watson and Rachel Janfaza, CNN An Illinois appellate court on Thursday dismissed an effort by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker to keep an emergency school mask mandate in effect for the entire state. The court, however, said the ruling does not apply to local mandates, and the Chicago Public Schools district — which was
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Expect to see more bright-red “Rollback” signs at Walmart stores as inflation bites, the company said Thursday. Rollbacks, or temporary price reductions on an item, are Walmart’s version of a sale. Walmart decides which products to drop prices on based on factors like discounts it receives from suppliers or excess
Continue Reading By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Finland has never won an Olympic gold medal in hockey. To break that drought, the Finns will have to beat the defending champion Russians — the team that, if you include all its various designations, has won as many Olympic titles in men’s hockey as anyone.
Continue Reading MIAMI (AP) — Mexico will play its March 24 World Cup qualifier against the United States at Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca, where the Americans have 12 losses and four draws in qualifying. The match will start at 8 p.m. local time, 10 p.m. Eastern. The United States hosts Panama three days later at Orlando, Florida,
Continue Reading LARNED, Kan. (AP) — A 45-year-old Garden City woman has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for helping a sex offender escape from Larned State Hospital. Liliana Guadalupe Houser pleaded no contest in January to three felonies related to the June 2021 escape of John Freeman Colt. He was captured in Utah in September
Continue Reading By ROB HARRIS AP Sports Writer LONDON (AP) — Britain’s 4×100-meter relay team has been stripped of its silver medal from the Tokyo Olympics after C.J. Ujah’s doping violation was confirmed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Ujah’s sample taken in Japan in August contained the prohibited substances ostarine and S-23, which are selective
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By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Mexico says that Washington is lifting a ban on inspections of Mexican avocados, freeing the way for exports to resume. Ambassador Ken Salazar said in a statement Friday that the decision came after Mexico and the United States agreed “to enact the
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