By Jill Martin and Ben Church, CNN Australia’s Ashleigh Barty, who retired from professional tennis last year after winning the Australian Open, has announced on Instagram she is pregnant. “2023 set to be the best year yet. We are so excited for our new adventure,” she wrote on Friday, posting a picture of her dog
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By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former West Virginia lawmaker who served three months in prison for his participation in the Jan. 6th Capitol riot says he’s running for Congress. Derrick Evans announced his plans Friday, two years to the day after storming the U.S. Capitol. Evans pleaded guilty to a
Continue Reading By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas water experts are warning that farmers and ranchers in the state’s western half must stop pumping more water out of a vast aquifer than nature puts back each year or risk an economic collapse there. The warning is setting up a big and messy fight
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By Sophie Tanno, CNN For much of the Western world, Christmas is celebrated on December 25, according to the Gregorian calendar. Yet in a distinction that dates back centuries, Orthodox Christians follow the Julian calendar and mark the festival on January 7 instead. Orthodox Christmas — and the long-standing rift between the Russian Orthodox Church
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By Eli Higgins Click here for updates on this story WICHITA, Kansas (KAKE) — Thursday, a 7-year-old boy and his 10-year-old sister were walking to school when the unthinkable happened – a blue car, which the boy said seemed familiar at first, pulled up, and the driver offered them a ride the rest of the
Continue Reading By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and MORGAN LEE Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Police in New Mexico say the homes or offices of five elected Democratic officials in the Albuquerque area have been hit by gunfire over the past month. Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina says local and federal investigators are trying to determine if
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By Anna Cooban, CNN Natural gas prices in Europe and the United States have tumbled to levels last seen before Russia sparked a global energy crisis by invading Ukraine. Wholesale European gas prices, as measured by the benchmark Dutch futures contract, have dropped almost 48% since mid-December to trade at €71 ($74) per megawatt hour
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 39-year-old Kansas City man has been sentenced to life in prison after three people were killed and two others were injured in 2018. Issac Fisher was convicted in October of 17 counts in the shootings at three separate locations in south Kansas City and Raytown. The victims included Angenette
Continue Reading By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — It was uplifting enough for the Buffalo Bills staff and players to see Damar Hamlin appear on the video screen in the team’s meeting room Friday — “larger than life,” as coach Sean McDermott put it — for the first time since the safety
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Cristiano Ronaldo no debutará con el Al Nassr de Arabia Saudita durante al menos dos semanas. Su club confirmó a Reuters este viernes que la superestrella portuguesa deberá cumplir la sanción de dos partidos impuesta por la Asociación Inglesa de Fútbol en noviembre de 2022. Ronaldo recibió el castigo por arrojar
Continue Reading By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans dove in Friday for a fourth day of voting to try electing Republican Kevin McCarthy as their speaker. Contours of a deal with conservative holdouts blocking his rise emerged after thee grueling days and 11 failed votes in a political spectacle unseen
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DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Mavericks have waived veteran guard Kemba Walker, moving on before his guaranteed salary kicked in and possibly creating more chances for rookie Jaden Hardy. Walker signed in November after going the first six weeks without a team. The 32-year-old has been plagued by knee issues in recent years. He scored
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By Chris Isidore, CNN The NFL’s decision not to resume or replay Monday’s Bills-Bengals game, which was halted after Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest, won’t be particularly costly the world’s richest sports league. After the league announced late Thursday that the game will not be completed, the home-team Cincinnati Bengals notified fans who
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By Elizabeth Plaza, Kiarinna Parisi, Mitchell McCluskey and Tara John, CNN A Mexico City federal judge halted the extradition of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán’s son, alleged drug cartel leader Ovidio Guzmán, to the United States on Friday, a day after he was arrested in an intense operation in northern Mexico that led to the deaths
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The No. 20 Mizzou men’s basketball team is in the midst of preparation for Saturday’s game against Vanderbilt. The Tigers will return home after a close loss to No. 13 Arkansas on Wednesday night. Head coach Dennis Gates said there is a balancing act between learning from Wednesday night’s loss and moving
Continue Reading By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing tougher standards for a deadly air pollutant, saying that reducing soot from tailpipes, smokestacks and wildfires could prevent thousands of premature deaths a year. A proposal released Friday by the Environmental Protection Agency would set maximum levels of 9 to 10 micrograms
Continue Reading By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge sentenced a member of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” to 6 1/2 years in prison on Friday for defrauding thousands of people nationwide in a telemarketing scam, many of them vulnerable or older. U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein announced the sentence
Continue Reading By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The palm trees lining the desert roads leading out of Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport were wet with rain drops when Cristiano Ronaldo arrived this week in Saudi Arabia’s capital city. The surprising weather greeted the soccer great’s shocking move to the Middle East,
Continue Reading By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas water experts are warning that farmers and ranchers in the state’s western half must stop pumping more water out of a vast aquifer than nature puts back each year or risk an economic collapse there. The warning is setting up a big and messy fight
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By Ethan Cohen, CNN The co-chairs of the Democratic Party’s rule-making arm are recommending that New Hampshire and Georgia be given extra time to take steps toward changing their presidential primary dates. Last month, the Rules and Bylaws Committee of the Democratic National Committee approved a proposed calendar that would make South Carolina the first
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