FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek has grabbed nine of the last 11 games for a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Caroline Garcia in round-robin action at the WTA Finals. Swiatek improved to 2-0 this week at the season-closing tournament for the top eight women in tennis. She’s won all four sets she’s played
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By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal appellate court says a national beauty pageant has a First Amendment right to exclude a transgender woman from competing, because including her could interfere with the message the pageant wants to send about what characteristics make an ideal woman.  Wednesday’s 9th U.S. Circuit Court
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Every 20 years, the same question appears on the Missouri ballots: “Shall there be a convention to revise and amend the constitution?”
Continue Reading By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Saints coach Dennis Allen says the club has decided to place receiver Michael Thomas on injured reserve because of a dislocated toe that has not responded well to rehab. Allen says he doesn’t anticipate that Thomas will be able to return this year. The decision
Continue Reading By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s attorney general will not seek criminal charges against Los Angeles police officers who fatally shot a man on Hollywood Boulevard last year, even though it turned out the gun he carried was fake. Thursday’s announcement by Attorney General Rob Bonta ends his first such review
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By Allison Morrow, CNN Business A little over a decade ago, the dominant narrative about the housing market was that Millennials simply weren’t buying. They were either too cheap, lazy, or itinerant to commit to something as weighty as a mortgage. Cut to 2020 and that narrative got flipped on its head. It wasn’t that
Continue Reading By Allison Morrow, CNN Business A little over a decade ago, the dominant narrative about the housing market was that Millennials simply weren’t buying. They were either too cheap, lazy, or itinerant to commit to something as weighty as a mortgage. Cut to 2020 and that narrative got flipped on its head. It wasn’t that
Continue Reading By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A former housekeeper for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says she and other employees suffered unsafe working conditions that included being forced to climb out a laundry room window to get to a bathroom. In a lawsuit filed in King County Superior Court in Seattle this week, Mercedes
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After several shots fired incidents were reported the past few weeks, Columbia police and residents are concerned about the gun violence in the community. Residents have told ABC 17 News they are tired of all the gun violence, and a police official said after a Wednesday shooting in broad daylight people should
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The NFC-West leading Seattle Seahawks travel to face division rival Arizona on Sunday. The Seahawks are the surprise leader of the division thanks to a breakout season from quarterback Geno Smith. The Cardinals have mostly underachieved after signing quarterback Kyler Murray to a $230.5 million long-term deal during the offseason. Arizona
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By Evan Perez, Katelyn Polantz and Jeremy Herb, CNN As Donald Trump inches closer to launching another presidential run after the midterm election, Justice Department officials have discussed whether a Trump candidacy would create the need for a special counsel to oversee two sprawling federal investigations related to the former president, sources familiar with the
Continue Reading By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s clemency board has declined to recommend the governor commute a man’s death sentence to life in prison, keeping the inmate’s planned execution on track for his conviction in two 1980 killings. Thursday’s decision by the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency’s marks one of the last steps
Continue Reading By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are hitting the campaign trail in New York City for Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat facing an unexpectedly competitive election. That Democrats are playing defense and scrambling to shore up an incumbent even in
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN Business) — Una nueva encuesta de CNN muestra que tres cuartas partes de los probables votantes creen que la economÃa de Estados Unidos está en recesión. Probablemente no sea asÃ, pero esa no es la cuestión. Técnicamente, se declara una recesión cuando se registran dos trimestres consecutivos de contracción económica, situación
Continue ReadingBy Stefano Pozzebon, Ana Maria Canizares, Aliza Kassim Khalidi and Hande Atay Alam, CNN Ecuador is on heightened security amid an intensifying wave of violence that has left multiple police officers dead and forced president Guillermo Lasso to declare a 45-day state of emergency in provinces Guayas and Esmeraldas. National Security Secretary Diego Ordoñez vowed
Continue Reading PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP) — Will Gordon was frustrated by his rough finish last week in Bermuda. He has no complaints about his great start in Mexico. Gordon had a 62 in the first round and leads the World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba. Russell Henley had a 63. Gordon played his last four
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By Raenu Charles, CNN Parents and caregivers should not use infant head-shaping pillows meant to change an infant’s head shape or that claim to treat a medical condition, the US Food and Drug Administration said Thursday. “The use of head shaping pillows can create an unsafe sleep environment for infants and may contribute to the
Continue Reading SAN JOSE A special civil jury in Northern California has found a former longtime sheriff guilty on all six counts of corruption and willful misconduct in a case involving the issuing of concealed-carry weapons permits in exchange for campaign donations. The Mercury News reports Laurie Smith resigned from her post as sheriff of the Santa
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By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Kyrie Irving will miss the first of several Brooklyn Nets games Friday after he was suspended for comments regarding his tweet linking to an antisemitic documentary. The Nets suspended Irving Thursday after he initially doubled down on his decision to share the content on his Twitter account. The star point guard
Continue Reading By CARLA BRIDI Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — President Jair Bolsonaro met briefly on Thursday with the envoy coordinating the transfer of power to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, four days after Bolsonaro’s tight election loss that sparked protests by his supporters amid his refusal to publicly concede. The meeting between Brazil’s far-right outgoing
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