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Public schools across Mid-Missouri have resumed classes or plan to do so next week.
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Zimbabweans hit by soaring inflation: Will gold coins help?
By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Rising prices and a fast depreciating currency have pushed many in Zimbabwe to the brink, reminding people of when the southern African country faced world-record inflation of 5 billion% in 2008. With inflation jumping from 191% in June to 257% in July, many Zimbabweans fear the
Continue Reading No Tube: London subway hit by strike, day after rail walkout
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A strike by London Underground workers brought the British capital’s transit network to a grinding halt. The action on Friday came a day after a nationwide walkout by railway staff. No subway trains were running on most of London’s Tube lines because of the strike over jobs,
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These Copenhagen designers are dressing A-list influencers, but you’ve probably never heard of them
Leah Dolan, CNN In March 2022, celebrity fashion counterculturalist Julia Fox arrived at the Vanity Fair Oscar After-Party dressed in a head-turning black leather gown with a halter-neck-turned-hand wrapped around her neck. The “grip dress” made headlines across the fashion press. Fox’s look had “won the blue carpet,” wrote Vanity Fair, while Grazia called it
Continue ReadingWisconsin public school district affirms ban on teachers displaying Pride materials or identifying their pronouns in emails
By Andy Rose and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A ban on teachers displaying Pride materials in classrooms or writing their pronouns in email signatures will remain in place in a Wisconsin public school district following a contentious board meeting during which parents and students criticized the policy. The prohibition is based on Kettle Moraine School District’s
Continue Reading Berlin police investigate Abbas’ Holocaust comments
BERLIN (AP) — Berlin police have opened a preliminary investigation against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over his comments that Israel had committed “50 Holocausts” against Palestinians. The remarks, during a news conference Tuesday in Berlin alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, sparked outrage in Germany and beyond. Police confirmed a report Friday by German daily Bild
Continue ReadingOff-duty Chicago police officer charged after video shows him kneeling on teen’s back
By Hannah Sarisohn and Omar Jimenez, CNN A Chicago police sergeant was charged Thursday with felony official misconduct and aggravated battery six weeks after video surfaced showing him holding a 14-year-old boy in the prone position with his knee while he was off-duty in Park Ridge, Illinois, according to Park Ridge police. Michael Vitellaro, 49,
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Chinese city swabs freshly caught seafood for Covid-19
By Tara Subramaniam The Chinese coastal city of Xiamen is testing freshly caught fish, crabs and even shrimp for Covid-19 as it goes all out to contain a spiraling outbreak — a policy drawing ridicule online and criticism from experts who say it’s a “waste of resources.” This week, videos of hazmat-suited health workers sticking
Continue Reading Prince William charity invests in bank tied to fossil fuels
By ED DAVEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The conservation charity founded by Prince William, second in line to the British throne and who launched the Earthshot Prize, keeps its investments in a bank that is one of the world’s biggest backers of fossil fuels, The Associated Press has learned. The Royal Foundation also places
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Unsealed document in Mar-a-Lago search sharpens focus on Trump as possible subject of criminal probe
By Evan Perez and Katelyn Polantz, CNN A document unsealed Thursday, which offered specifics about the crimes the Justice Department is investigating, including “willful retention of national defense information,” sharpens the focus on former President Donald Trump as a possible subject of the criminal probe, several legal experts told CNN. US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart
Continue Reading Mahathir expects early polls, ruling party gains in Malaysia
By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad expects Malaysia’s graft-tainted ruling party will hold general elections in coming months — and could win big. But the 97-year-old former leader told The Associated Press in an interview that if he was strong enough he would contest the polls
Continue ReadingDetienen en EE.UU. a Luis Fernando Vuteff por presunto lavado de dinero de fondos de PDVSA
olivertapia (CNN en Español) — Luis Fernando Vuteff, un empresario argentino que está acusado de participar en un esquema internacional de lavado de dinero de US$ 1.200 millones que involucra a la compañía energética estatal de Venezuela, fue arrestado el jueves, anunció el departamento de investigación del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de
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Small but mighty, Curacao poised for Little League run
By MATTHEW GELHARD Associated Press SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Curacao is back in the Little League World Series this year for the country’s 14th visit to South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The country took the championship in 2004 with a team that featured future notable big leaguers such as Jonathan Schoop and Jurickson Profar in a
Continue Reading Mora trying to make an independent UConn competitive
By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Jim Mora is taking over UConn’s football team during a time of conference mega-mergers. He is trying to figure out where his independent Huskies might fit. The former NFL and UCLA coach has been charged with rebuilding a program that left the American Athletic Conference
Continue Reading Pick Six: Cowing, Grubbs are among elite on struggling teams
By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer Great players are spread around college football. You just don’t hear as much about some because they are on losing teams. Eight of the players on the 2021 Associated Press All-America first and second teams were on teams with losing records. Among the six AP preseason under-the-radar players
Continue ReadingPick Six: Cowing, Grubbs are among elite on struggling teams
By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer Great players are spread around college football. You just don’t hear as much about some because they are on losing teams. Eight of the players on the 2021 Associated Press All-America first and second teams were on teams with losing records. Among the six AP preseason under-the-radar players
Continue Reading Europe weather: 5 dead, including 2 girls, in Austria storms
BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Austria say five people including two children have died in heavy storms that hit the Alpine country. Two girls ages 4 and 8 were killed when sudden strong winds late Thursday toppled trees at a lake in Lavant Valley near the southern city of Graz. Officials said 13 people were
Continue ReadingSome LA County residents are asked to suspend outdoor watering for 15 days as utility seeks to fix leaky pipeline from Colorado River
By Stephanie Elam and Mike Valerio, CNN More than 4 million people facing Southern California’s prolonged drought have been asked to suspend outdoor watering for 15 days next month as officials work to fix a leak in a 36-mile “critical imported water pipeline” from the Colorado River. The restriction is set to start September 6
Continue Reading Doctors stay in Ukraine’s war-hit towns: ‘People need us’
By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ZOLOCHIV, Ukraine (AP) — Dr. Ilona Butova almost looks out of place in her neatly pressed lavender scrubs as she walks through a door frame that hangs from a crumbled wall into what used to be an administrative office of her hospital in Zolochiv. Not one building
Continue Reading Bomb threats put tiny Moldova, Ukraine’s neighbor, on edge
By CRISTIAN JARDAN and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — For tiny Moldova, an impoverished, landlocked nation that borders war-torn Ukraine but isn’t in the European Union or NATO, it’s been another week plagued by bomb threats. On an overcast day outside the international airport serving Moldova’s capital of Chisinau, hundreds of people
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