By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French authorities and media reports say a female teacher has been stabbed to death in southwestern France by a high school student. The local prosecutor said the student has been arrested by police, and an investigation has been opened for suspected premeditated murder. He said investigators were
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are holding relatively steady on Wall Street Wednesday, a day after falling to their worst loss since December on worries about higher interest rates. The S&P 500 was little changed in morning trading after drifting between small gains and losses. The Dow Jones Industrial
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By RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Soccer hopes to pick a 30th team by the end of the year. MLS Commissioner Don Garber says San Diego and Las Vegas are the most likely candidates. He mentioned Detroit; Phoenix; Sacramento, California; and Tampa, Florida, as other possibilities. St. Louis, the
Continue Reading By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — U.S. first lady Jill Biden has opened a five-day, two-day visit to Africa, arriving in Namibia, which has not welcomed a high-level U.S. official since 1996. Jill Biden was greeted Wednesday by dancers representing Namibia’s different ethnic groups. She will focus during her trip on empowering
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A Columbia man accused of shooting another man at a south Columbia roundabout in October was in the Boone County Jail on Thursday morning.
Continue Reading By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Both houses of Russia’s parliament have quickly endorsed President Vladimir Putin’s move to suspend the last remaining nuclear arms treaty with the United States. Officials and lawmakers cast it as an eleventh-hour warning to Washington. Putin declared that Moscow was suspending its participation in the 2010 New
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN) — La tasa de fertilidad de Corea del Sur, que ya es la más baja del mundo, ha vuelto a caer batiendo su propio récord, lo que constituye el último revés a los esfuerzos del gobierno para impulsar una población en declive. El organismo nacional de estadística informó este miércoles de que
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By Ariane de Vogue and Devan Cole, CNN The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in favor of an Arizona death row inmate who argued he should be able to challenge his sentence in federal court but was stopped from doing so by a state procedural rule. Justice Sonia Sotomayor penned the 5-4 majority decision, which
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — In a story published February 21, 2023, about a soccer corruption trial, The Associated Press erroneously reported the amount bid by ESPN for rights to broadcast the World Cups in 2018 and 2022. That amount was $400 million, not $450 million.
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By Oren Liebermann and Natasha Bertrand, CNN Russia carried out a test of an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears to have failed around the time President Joe Biden was in Ukraine, according to two US officials familiar with the matter. Russia notified the United States in advance of the launch through deconfliction lines under its
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By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN At a major international defense exhibition in the United Arab Emirates this week, tucked away in a distant corner, a large purple structure featuring Russia’s name has been erected far from the sight of most visitors. The biennial International Defence Exhibition (IDEX) in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi is the largest
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN At a major international defense exhibition in the United Arab Emirates this week, tucked away in a distant corner, a large purple structure featuring Russia’s name has been erected far from the sight of most visitors. The biennial International Defence Exhibition (IDEX) in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi is the largest
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — El gobierno de Gustavo Petro ofreció la ciudadanía colombiana a quienes han “sido abusados por el poder intolerante de Nicaragua”, en referencia a los 222 opositores que el pasado 9 de febrero fueron expulsados del país por el régimen de Daniel Ortega y llegaron a Estados Unidos y a otros
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story LEAVENWORTH, Washington (KPTV) — On Sunday, an avalanche near Leavenworth, Washington, presumably killed at least three people. The avalanche happened on Colchuck Peak, southwest of Leavenworth, according to the Northwest Avalanche Center (NWAC). The group of backcountry travelers consisted of six people. Three of them
Continue ReadingBy Ciara Cummings Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WANF) — A new civil lawsuit will accuse a metro Atlanta school system and a charter school of being “indifferent” to the risk of hiring a teacher who is now serving a 10-year prison sentence for rape. Robert Vandel was convicted last year
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By Dakin Andone, Randi Kaye and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Alex Murdaugh “wants” to take the stand in his murder trial, but whether he actually will testify remains a “gametime” decision, a source with direct knowledge of the defense’s legal strategy told CNN on Wednesday. A second source told CNN “the final decision is only certain
Continue ReadingBy Patrick Quinn Click here for updates on this story COVINGTON, Georgia (WANF) — On Tuesday, some Covington families voiced outrage over a homework assignment distributed to all 1st-graders in Newton County Schools. “This absolutely promotes violence, it promotes divisiveness, it goes against everything this country is trying to heal and move away from,” said
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By Jen Christensen, CNN Most Americans feel “significant discomfort” about the idea of their doctors using artificial intelligence to help manage their health, a new survey finds, but they generally acknowledge AI’s potential to reduce medical mistakes and to eliminate some of the problems doctors may have with racial bias. Artificial intelligence is the theory
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Kevin Costner’s attorney is denying the actor has made things difficult on the set of his hit Paramount show, “Yellowstone.” In a story published by Puck on Tuesday, attorney Marty Singer pushed back on a report that Costner had shortened the amount of time he has been willing to shoot
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Leah Dolan, CNN Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN London Fashion Week began with an ending, or a goodbye, rather, to one of the most influential figures in British fashion, Vivienne Westwood. On the eve of the first day of Fall-Winter 2023 shows, the designer, who died in December, was celebrated at London’s at Southwark Cathedral in
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