By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer U.S. national soccer team star Megan Rapinoe expressed her anger Friday over the Supreme Court’s decision to strip the nation’s constitutional protections for abortion, decrying an erosion of rights that women have had for a generation. “I think the cruelty is the point because this is not pro
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Toronto Blue Jays hitting coach Guillermo Martínez was suspended for five games and fined by Major League Baseball for a confrontation with umpire Doug Eddings. Martínez was discplined by MLB senior vice president Michael Hill for making contact with Eddings and what MLB termed unsportmanlike conduct during the lineup cards exchange
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By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer The five-justice Supreme Court bloc that overturned a half century of women’s abortion rights on Friday had coalesced less than two years. But they had found their moment and they seized it. This is America’s new Supreme Court, moving swiftly, rejecting the incrementalism of Chief
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Tonight: Skies look to remain partly cloudy tonight as winds out of the southeast pull through at 8-12 mph. Overnight lows creep to the lower 70’s. Tomorrow: : Scattered chances of showers and storms pull through Mid-Missouri for Saturday as highs soar into the mid to upper 90’s with the heat index surpassing 100 degrees.
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes (CNN Español) — Roy Leonardo Barreras, médico y sociólogo con una larga trayectoria en el Congreso de Colombia por el Valle del Cauca, sería el nuevo presidente del Senado. Un recorrido en el Congreso En el año 2006 Roy Barreras resultó elegido para la Cámara de Representantes por el departamento del oeste colombiano
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By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business The criminal fraud trial of Elizabeth Holmes’ ex-boyfriend and former second-in-command at Theranos is heading to the jury, roughly three months after it kicked off in the same San Jose, California, courthouse where she was found guilty on four charges of defrauding investors. In closing arguments, which began Tuesday
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A truck driver was seriously injured after a wreck on Interstate 70 in Montgomery County at mile marker 180 Thursday at 6:12 p.m.
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Racing Association has increased purses by $1.6 million for the upcoming summer meet at Saratoga Race Course. The NYRA announced the increases on Friday for the meet that runs from July 14-Sept. 5. Thoroughbred horses are currently racing at Belmont Park. The increases will range from $3,000 per
Continue ReadingBy Audrina Bigos Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Some businesses are about more than making money — they’re about giving back to the communities. That’s the case with the first-ever Black-owned slice bread company that was started by a group of friends from right here in Chicago. The greatest thing
Continue Reading By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — Former Brazil and Sao Paulo midfielder Richarlyson says in a podcast he is bisexual. He is the first player from a Brazilian top-flight team to say he’s bisexual. The 39-year-old Richarlyson played two matches for Brazil in 2008. He was part of Sao Paulo’s squad
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN NASA’s first spacecraft designed to study a metallic asteroid won’t be launching this year as planned, according to an announcement made by the agency on Friday. The Psyche mission’s 2022 launch window, which opened on August 1 and closes on October 11, will come to an end before the spacecraft’s flight
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By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Department of Homeland Security intelligence branch is warning law enforcement, first responders and private sector partners nationwide Friday of potential domestic violence extremist activity in response to the Supreme Court’s decision on abortion, according to a memo obtained by CNN. The memo from the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis
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A federal jury has convicted a Jefferson City tax preparer for filing false federal income tax returns for himself and others.
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A Eugene Field Elementary PE Teacher in Mexico was charged after an April 27 incident involving a student.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – Prosecutors plan to drop charges against a downtown Columbia shooting suspect in exchange for a guilty plea on a different case. Todd D. Nesbitt pleaded guilty on Friday in Boone County court to felony resisting arrest. Prosecutors and defense attorney Gerald Mueller said Nesbitt would get sentenced to that on July
Continue Reading By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Canelo Álvarez is hurting after his first loss in nearly a decade, and he’s still angry about everything that’s happened during a half-decade of fighting and arguing with Gennady Golovkin. Álvarez says he is determined to channel all of those bad feelings into a spectacular
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YARMOUTH, Iowa (AP) — The Des Moines County Sheriff’s Office on Friday identified a man killed in a grain silo collapse as a 30-year-old resident of the small southeast Iowa city of Winfield. Rickey Ryan Kammerer was killed in the collapse of a silo Tuesday morning at the Agri-way Grain Elevators in Yarmouth. His body
Continue ReadingMarysabel E. Huston-Crespo (CNN Español) — Si eres seguidor del famoso streamer español Ibai Llanos ya debes conocer a la perfección que además de jugar en Twitch, de entrevistar a futbolistas y artistas por igual, también organiza eventos que han llegado a ser tendencia en redes sociales. Un ejemplo perfecto fue el Mundial de Globos que
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By Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju, CNN Some House Republicans who oppose abortion rights are pushing legislation to implement a nationwide abortion ban at 15 weeks, coming just hours after the Supreme Court released its opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. The push for such a ban is a notable effort given that Republicans have a
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