ST. LOUIS (AP) — Harris-Stowe State University in St. Louis closed for several hours Tuesday after the historically Black school received a bomb threat. The university said in a news release that the campus reopened Tuesday afternoon after an investigation by St. Louis police and the FBI. A search of the campus turned up nothing
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By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Javon Frazier and other HBCU players have something to prove in 2022, and more opportunity to prove it. Nearly a year after none of their peers were selected in the NFL draft, Frazier and others from Historically Black Colleges and Universities participated in the first
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks wavered in afternoon trading on Wall Street Tuesday as the market comes off its worst month since early in the pandemic nearly two years ago. The S&P 500 rose less than 0.1%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.2% and the Nasdaq slipped 0.1%.
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s central bank says the money migrants send home to their relatives grew 27.1% in 2021, totaling $51.6 billion. That is a record for migrant remittances to Mexico and would surpass almost all other sources of its foreign income. The bank said Tuesday that the phenomenon doesn’t appear to be tailing
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By Allison Morrow, CNN Business If Joe Rogan wasn’t already a household name before last week, he almost certainly is now. His Spotify-based podcast’s Covid commentary created a backlash that led several musicians and customers to boycott the platform. So, who is Rogan? He’s someone who requires a lot of slashes: Comedian/commentator/podcast host/media personality. Rogan,
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — The Champignons League pizza is fine with UEFA after all. European soccer’s governing body says it does not mind that a German frozen pizza manufacturer is referencing the Champions League with one of its cheesy offerings. Pizza Wolke had said Sunday that it had received a letter from a lawyer acting on
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By Mirna Alsharif, CNN A New York City police officer is facing hate crime charges after he allegedly punched a motorist until he was unconscious while using anti-Muslim slurs, according to the district attorney’s office. Riggs Kwong, 50, was off-duty when the incident occurred on January 16, according to a news release from the office
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Thirty-five years after “Dirty Dancing,” Fox takes Baby out of the corner (or more accurately, storage) as the basis for an unscripted/celebrity/competition/dancing show, called (what else?) “The Real Dirty Dancing.” It’s unlikely you’ll have the time of your life watching, except perhaps for those who choose to laugh at it
Continue Reading By BRUCE LOWITT AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The only full season of NFL perfection in the Super Bowl era including winning the championship occurred in 1972. When the Dolphins took the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum field against Washington on Jan. 14, 1973, they were 16-0. But they were underdogs to the veteran
Continue Reading By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer It can be argued — and has been for decades — that a perfect record including winning a championship makes that team the best in its sport. Maybe. And maybe the 1972 Miami Dolphins wouldn’t have matched up with, say, the great Steelers dynasty of the later 1970s.
Continue Reading LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Ralph Gage, a longtime official with The World Company and the Lawrence Journal-World, has died. The newspaper reported that Gage died Saturday of natural causes. He was 80. Gage worked in a variety of roles for The World Company, which was the parent company of the Journal-World until the newspaper was
Continue Reading By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer A once-ambitious but now faltering Facebook-backed digital currency project known as Diem is dead, its assets sold to bank holding company Silvergate Capital. Silvergate and the Diem Association announced the sale on Tuesday. Diem said it became clear from its talks federal regulators that the project could not move
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — Hoy se cerró la doble fecha en la Conmebol con una jornada clave para varias selecciones en las eliminatorias sudamericanas a Qatar 2022. Bolivia 2-3 Chile Chile derrotó a Bolivia en La Paz con doblete de Alexis Sánchez y mantuvo su sueño mundialista, apuntando hasta ahora al repechaje. Tiene 19
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By Nathan Hodge, Uliana Pavlova and Darya Tarasova, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that his government was studying the responses from the United States and NATO to his security demands related to Ukraine but that it was clear the Kremlin’s main complaints “had been ignored.” For weeks Putin had said little publicly about
Continue Reading SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Police in Springfield are investigating the deaths of two men whose bodies were found in a cemetery. Officers were called to the National Cemetery Monday afternoon and found two men dead with gunshot wounds. They were identified as 38-year-old Mark D. Young and 46-year-old Justin S. Baker. Detectives determined the two
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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice The National Archives decided on Tuesday that it will turn over former Vice President Mike Pence’s records to the House Select Committee early next month, after former President Donald Trump said he wanted to keep secret more than 100 documents. This is the first set of records
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The Boone County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has filed charges against a Columbia man accused of firing a gun inside of an apartment.
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By Wayne Sterling, CNN Mickey Guyton, a multi-Grammy-nominated artist, will sing the National Anthem at Super Bowl LVI in Inglewood, California, the National Football League (NFL) announced Tuesday. Guyton’s 2021 debut album, “Remember Her Name,” earned her a Grammy nomination for best country album, the first-ever for a Black artist. “👏🏾Look👏🏾at👏🏾God,” Guyton wrote on Twitter.
Continue Reading OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says companies in Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri will pay fines for tampering with emission controls in vehicles. The EPA on Tuesday named the companies as Banghart Diesel Performance of Wahoo, Nebraska, and Black Widow Diesel of Center Point, Iowa, both diesel repair shops; and Voodoo Diesel,
Continue Reading OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says companies in Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri will pay fines for tampering with emission controls in vehicles. The EPA on Tuesday named the companies as Banghart Diesel Performance of Wahoo, Nebraska, and Black Widow Diesel of Center Point, Iowa, both diesel repair shops; and Voodoo Diesel,
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