By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Northern Ireland’s largest unionist party has refused to return to a power-sharing government, saying it will not do so until its demands over post-Brexit customs arrangements are met. Democratic Unionist Party leader Jeffrey Donaldson was among political leaders meeting Monday with Britain’s Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis.
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Fifteen trees more than 70 years old will be removed and replaced from the Francis Quadrangle at the University of Missouri starting this month.
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Stacker investigated how many historic sites are at risk of flooding in Missouri using data from Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Risk Index and the National Register of Historic Places.
Continue Reading By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ foreign minister has pitched to his Greek and Israeli counterparts the creation of an east Mediterranean firefighting hub aimed at quickly responding to huge blazes potentially overwhelming any single country. Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides made the proposal during a conference Monday between the top
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By Eric Levenson, CNN The murder defendant who escaped from an Alabama detention center with a corrections official on April 29 had previous experience trying to escape prison and winning the trust of his captors. Casey White, 38, was seen on surveillance camera in an orange jumpsuit and shackles being led into a patrol car
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By Marianne Garvey Anthony Anderson is a proud graduate of Howard University. The “Black-ish” actor, who is 51, showed off his new diploma in an Instagram post, thanking his professors and calling it “30 years in the making.” “To quote Biggie, ‘IT WAS ALL A DREAM!’” Anderson wrote. “Words can’t begin to describe the emotional
Continue ReadingBy KCAL/KCBS Staff Click here for updates on this story WEST HILLS, California (KCAL, KCBS) — A mother and a teenage boy have been arrested in the deaths of three children found unresponsive in their West Hills home. Angela Dawn Flores, 38, was arrested on three counts of murder and is being held Monday morning
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By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer The Sacramento Kings have officially announced the hiring of Mike Brown as their new head coach with hopes he can end the NBA’s longest playoff drought ever. General manager Monte McNair says Brown was picked to replace interim coach Alvin Gentry. The Kings fired Gentry after a season during
Continue Reading NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Colorado goaltender Darcy Kuemper will sit out Game 4 against Nashville on Monday night due to a right eye that’s still swollen from being poked by a stick through his mask. Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said Pavel Francouz will start against the Predators after playing nearly 41 minutes in a 7-3
Continue ReadingBy Joylyn Bukovac Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — We’re celebrating all the moms, including the moms-to-be. Fabi Powell is doing in vitro fertilization (IVF), a type of fertility treatment where eggs are fertilized in a lab. Powell is doing IVF to have her late husband’s child. Josh Powell passed
Continue Reading EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The New York Giants have released veteran cornerback James Bradberry. A starter for the team the past two seasons, including making the Pro Bowl in 2020, Bradberry is a salary cap casualty. He would have been a $21.9 million cap hit, so cutting him Monday will save about $10 million.
Continue Reading ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Katie Volynets and Michael Mmoh have earned the U.S. Tennis Association’s wild-card entries for the main draw of the French Open. Play begins at Roland Garros on May 22. Volynets is a 20-year-old Californian currently ranked a career-best 112th. Mmoh is a 24-year-old who was born in Saudi Arabia and is
Continue Reading By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times moved swiftly to change Monday’s answer to its daily Wordle puzzle out of fear that it would be seen as some sort of commentary on the debate over abortion rights. The game, which became a sensation late last year and was
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By Betsy Klein and Kate Sullivan, CNN White House domestic policy adviser Susan Rice has tested positive for Covid-19, she announced Monday, becoming the latest high-ranking Biden administration official to contract the coronavirus. Rice said she last saw President Joe Biden five days before her diagnosis but was masked and is not considered a close
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By David Wilkinson, Max Foster and Jack Guy, CNN Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will not attend the opening of Parliament on Tuesday due to mobility problems, Buckingham Palace said in a Monday statement. “The Queen continues to experience episodic mobility problems, and in consultation with her doctors has reluctantly decided that she will not attend
Continue Reading By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — It’s an idea that almost seems as compatible as Mickey and Minnie. Take the tens of millions of tourists who are thinking about visiting the Orlando area’s theme parks each year and sell them on the virtues of moving their companies or businesses to the region.
Continue ReadingToday: Temperatures soar to near 90 degrees with the heat index around the mid-90s. Skies remain mostly clear with gusts of up to 32 mph possible. Tonight: The overnight low bottoms out into the mid-60s putting Central Missouri nearly 15 degrees above normal for the start of May. Skies remain mostly clear with winds remaining
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The stock market is a mess right now, but here’s some Wall Street wisdom for these tough times: Eat, drink and be merry. Emphasis on the merry if you’ve been buying food and beverage stocks. Stodgy consumer staples companies like food and drink makers tend to do well
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By Jasmine Wright and Kate Sullivan, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris has hired White House staffer Erin Wilson to become her new deputy chief of staff, a White House official told CNN on Monday, amid the latest personnel shakeup in the vice president’s office. Wilson is slated to start May 31 and will replace Michael
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Tim Lister, CNN | Olga Voitovych and Kostan Nechyporenko Last Friday, the historic home of Ukraine’s treasured poet and philosopher Hryhorii Skovoroda was destroyed by a Russian artillery strike, along with a museum of his work. Skovoroda’s home was in a tiny village not far from Kharkiv — nowhere near any obvious military targets such
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