By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Members of the United Auto Workers union appeared on Thursday to favor replacing many of their current leaders in an election that stemmed from a federal bribery and embezzlement scandal involving former union officials. Reform-minded candidates, many part of the UAW Members United slate, are leading
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By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Members of the United Auto Workers union appeared on Thursday to favor replacing many of their current leaders in an election that stemmed from a federal bribery and embezzlement scandal involving former union officials. Reform-minded candidates, many part of the UAW Members United slate, are leading
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By Dan Heching, CNN After a very long wait, the closing chapter to the “Guardians of the Galaxy” trilogy is almost here. The first trailer for “GOTG Vol. 3” dropped Thursday on YouTube, after premiering at Brazil Comic Con, again revealing the group of unlikely heroes who have relatively esoteric origins in the Marvel comic
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN After a very long wait, the closing chapter to the “Guardians of the Galaxy” trilogy is almost here. The first trailer for “GOTG Vol. 3” dropped Thursday on YouTube, after premiering at Brazil Comic Con, again revealing the group of unlikely heroes who have relatively esoteric origins in the Marvel comic
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — When it comes to ensuring the security of their regime, China’s Communist Party rulers don’t skimp. The extent of that lavish spending was put on display when the boldest street protests in decades broke out in Beijing and other cities, driven by anger over rigid and seemingly unending restrictions to combat COVID-19.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A man accused of killing two people at a Jefferson City bar early Saturday was denied a public defender. Damien Davis, 35, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of armed criminal action, two counts of unlawful use of a weapon and illegal gun possession in the shooting death
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By Tierney Sneed In a major defeat for former President Donald Trump, a federal appeals court on Thursday halted a third-party review of documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate. The ruling removes a major obstacle to the Justice Department’s investigation into the mishandling of government records from Trump’s time in the White House. The three-judge
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By Mallika Kallingal, Jamiel Lynch and Melissa Alonso, CNN The Tampa Police Department has issued an arrest warrant for former NFL player Antonio Brown after a “domestic battery incident with a woman,” police said in a statement. Police say the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver was allegedly involved in a verbal altercation with the
Continue Reading By MARK PRATT and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The Prince and Princess of Wales on Thursday heard about solar-powered autonomous boats and low-carbon cement at a green technology startup incubator in suburban Boston before learning how a nonprofit gives young people the tools to stay out jail and away from violence. William
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — Ghana y Uruguay, protagonistas de un enfrentamiento de infarto en cuartos de final de Sudáfrica 2010, se vuelven a encontrar en el Mundial de Qatar 2022, esta vez en la última fecha de la fase del Grupo H que se disputa este 2 de diciembre. Uruguay, que hasta ahora
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — El informe preliminar del Grupo de Alto Nivel (GAN) de la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) que visitó Lima, Perú, entre el 20 y 23 de noviembre recomendó —entre otras cosas— “iniciar una tregua política”, mientras se convoca al diálogo entre los actores y “se logra un consenso mínimo
Continue Reading By JEFF AMY and BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Barack Obama is urging Georgia Democrats to keep pushing voting turnout for Sen. Raphael Warnock. The former president and the senator rallied Thursday in Atlanta ahead of Warnock’s Tuesday runoff with Republican challenger Herschel Walker. Voters have already cast more than 1.4 million ballots
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By Nick Valencia, CNN The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched an investigation into an Atlanta public elementary school after allegations the principal was assigning Black students to certain classes. In the letter provided to CNN, the Office for Civil Rights said it will investigate allegations of discrimination based on race and
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Thursday evening, the City of Columbia Planning and Zoning Commission met to discuss a topic that’s been on the table for four years now: Short-term rental regulations. City leaders began discussing the issue in 2018. A revised version of those regulations has been in the works since a proposition was shot down in 2020. The
Continue Reading By ZEKE MILLER, MEG KINNARD and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that Democrats should give up “restrictive” caucuses and move to champion diversity in the order of their presidential primary calendar, dealing a major blow to Iowa’s decadeslong status as the first voting state. In a letter to
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By Issy Ronald, CNN A Helena’s tree frog, camouflaged against bark except for its glowing golden eyes, has been named as the overall winner of this year’s British Ecological Society photography competition, organizers have announced. A close-up of pink-tipped daisy petals, a terrestrial hermit crab using a plastic bottle cap as its new home and
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By Nick Watt, CNN Ann Johnson gave birth in the spring of 1984 in the hospital at Camp Lejeune, the sprawling Marine base on the North Carolina coast. But doctors did not bring baby Jacquetta straight to her mom. “I guess they were trying to prepare me for what she looked like,” Johnson told CNN.
Continue Reading By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — An ex-convict who led police on a chase around Las Vegas before officers found the severed head and dismembered body of his friend in a stolen vehicle he was driving was sentenced Thursday to at least 18 years in prison. Eric John Holland said he was
Continue Reading By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Democrats who control the Illinois General Assembly have approved followup clarifications to their watershed criminal justice overhaul. The proposal passed Thursday appeases critics by adding numerous offenses to a list of crimes that qualify a defendant to remain jailed while awaiting trial. The House approved
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By Tierney Sneed, CNN The appeals court ruling throwing out the special master process that had been put in place for the Mar-a-Lago search was a major rebuke of former President Donald Trump‘s arguments for why the materials seized from his home should be subject to outside review. The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals
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