By R.J. RICO Associated Press Housing advocates are raising the alarm about House Republicans’ plan to dramatically cut the federal deficit to raise the debt ceiling. They warn that rental aid would be stripped from hundreds of thousands of struggling families who could face eviction and possible homelessness at a time when rents remain high.
Continue Reading By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — From just the right book to just the right wheels, there are lots of ways to please all the mothers in your life when their special holiday rolls around. Some ideas: TECHNOLOGY Give the gift of a heartbeat. Bond Heart is a smart necklace in the
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COLE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Cole County Fire Protection District is investigating a fire that broke out in the 5400 block of Bangnell Drive in Cole County Saturday. Cole County Fire says crews were dispatched to a home around 4:30 a.m. Saturday. When crews arrived, they found the outside of the home above the front door
Continue Reading By MAE ANDERSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, a giant, inflatable rat with beady eyes, sharp teeth and a pustule-covered belly has loomed over union protests, drawing attention to various labor disputes. As New York City deals with an influx of actual rats, Scabby the Rat has become that rare thing, like
Continue Reading By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in Rome before talks on Saturday with Pope Francis at the Vatican, received assurances from Italian leaders of continued military and other aid as his country fights to liberate itself from Russia’s military invasion launched last year. Francis recently said that the Vatican
Continue Reading By DAVID HAMILTON AP Business Reporter SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — On Friday, Elon Musk announced that NBC Universal’s Linda Yaccarino will serve as the new CEO of Twitter. Yaccarino is a longtime advertising executive credited with integrating and digitizing ad sales at NBCU. Her challenge now will be to woo back advertisers that have fled
Continue Reading By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in Rome ahead of talks on Saturday with Pope Francis at the Vatican, received assurances from Italian leaders of continued military and other aid as his country fights to liberate itself from Russia’s military invasion launched last year. Francis recently said that the
Continue Reading By HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press For four hours, Raymond V. Buelna, a cultural leader for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, sat on a metal bench in a concrete holding space at the U.S.-Mexico border, separated from the two people he was taking to an Easter ceremony on tribal land in Arizona and wondering when they might
Continue Reading By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Some of the largest U.S. cities challenging their 2020 census numbers aren’t getting the results they hoped for from the U.S. Census Bureau — an effort by Memphis to increase its official population resulted in three people being subtracted from its count during an initial appeal. Some successes have come
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By Melissa Alonso CNN A man is suspected of shooting and killing his girlfriend after she reportedly went to another state for an abortion, Dallas police say. Officers were called to a parking lot Wednesday after Gabriella Gonzalez, 26, was killed, according to a Dallas County arrest warrant. Surveillance video shows Harold Lavance Thompson walking
Continue Reading By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s main opposition Congress party wrested control of the crucial southern Karnataka state from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party, according to a near complete vote count Saturday that boosted its prospects ahead of national elections due next year. The poll results are expected to
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By Randi Kaye and Stephen Samaniego, CNN The state of Idaho is in the beginning stages of a grand exodus. Doctors — specifically, those who care for pregnant women and perform abortions — are fleeing the state due to new abortion restrictions. Doctors like Lauren Miller, who has been treating women and performing abortions in
Continue Reading By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — One outcome is clear as Washington reaches for a budget deal to end the debt ceiling standoff: The ambitious COVID-19 era of government spending to cope with the pandemic and rebuild in its aftermath is giving way to a new fiscal focus on tailored investments and
Continue Reading By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Defense Ministry says it has detected an object in its airspace that flew in from the direction of Belarus and that it was probably an observation balloon. The ministry said Saturday that radar contact with the object was lost near the town of Rypin in
Continue Reading RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — The Pakistani army says a raid on militants in the southwest in response to an earlier attack on soldiers left seven troops, six militants and a civilian dead. The operation continued for two days after a group of militants attacked a camp of soldiers in the Qila Saifullah district of of
Continue Reading By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Rome on Saturday for talks with Italian officials and Pope Francis, who has said the Vatican has launched a behind-the-scenes initiative to try to end the war launched last year by Russia. “Today in Rome,″ Zelenskyy tweeted. ”I’m meeting with President
Continue Reading By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany says it’s providing Ukraine with additional military aid worth more than 2.7 billion euros ($3 billion) including tanks, anti-aircraft systems and ammunition. The announcement Saturday came as preparations were underway in Berlin for a possible first visit to Germany by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy since Russia
Continue Reading ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish politicians are holding final rallies on the last hours of campaigning before Sunday’s pivotal presidential and parliamentary elections that would significantly shape the NATO member’s future. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is facing the toughest challenge ever in his two decades of power in Saturday’s election. He was speaking at neighborhood rallies
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By Ray Sanchez, CNN The four University of Idaho students who were fatally stabbed in their off-campus home were remembered for their “strength and inspiration” Saturday on graduation day, exactly six months after they were killed. Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Ethan Chapin, 20, are being awarded posthumous degrees. After
Continue Reading By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Volunteers in Bangladesh’s coastal districts were using loudspeakers to urge people to seek shelter on Saturday as the delta nation braced for an extremely severe cyclone, which is expected to slam ashore in Bangladesh and Myanmar in the next 24 hours. U.N. agencies and aid workers
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