By Ella Nilsen, CNN Orono, Maine (CNN) — The first, full-sized floating offshore wind turbine in the United States will tower 850 feet above the waves in the Gulf of Maine – roughly as tall as New York City’s famed 30 Rockefeller Plaza. The gigantic machine, with 774-foot diameter blades and tethered to the seabed
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CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s top army general has fired the country’s paramilitary leader, his former ally turned rival, as the deputy of the Sudanese governing body. Friday’s dismissal by Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan of Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the commander of the Rapid Support Forces, from the Sovereignty Council comes as the two warring generals continue
Continue Reading By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Andy Rourke, bass guitarist of The Smiths, one of the most influential British bands of the 1980s, has died after a lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer, his former bandmate Johnny Marr said Friday. He was 59. In a lengthy post on Instagram, guitarist and songwriter Marr paid
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China says Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will visit Beijing next week for talks, marking the latest exchange in a relationship in which Russia is becoming increasingly reliant on China for economic and diplomatic support. Meanwhile, one of Beijing’s top diplomats at the U.N. again criticized Western arms sales to Ukraine, saying
Continue Reading By ZEKE MILLER, FOSTER KLUG and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies vowed Friday to tighten punishments on Russia for its 15-month invasion of Ukraine, days before President Volodymyr Zelenskyy joins the Group of Seven summit in person on Sunday. “Our support for Ukraine will not
Continue Reading By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon has received an Interpol notice for the country’s embattled central bank governor who failed to answer summons and show up in Paris earlier in the week for questioning in a graft case, officials said. France, Germany, and Luxembourg are investigating the governor, Riad Salameh, and his
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — Brad Cox-trained First Mission has been scratched from the Preakness on the advice of veterinarians, taking one of the top contenders out of the Triple Crown race 36 hours before post time. Owner Godolphin and the Maryland Jockey Club announced the scratch early Friday, saying vets
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration has an ambitious goal to reduce the country’s homelessness by 25% before 2025. In a move to accelerate those efforts, federal officials this week launched a new initiative to swiftly house unsheltered people in some of the nation’s hardest-hit cities. Here’s what else you need to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Police are investigating a shots-fired incident Thursday evening on Claudell Lane at the Columbia Square apartments. Just last Thursday, another shots-fired call was reported on the same street. With the latest incidents included, the Columbia Police Department six-hour dispatch log shows police have responded to 148 calls on Claudell Lane so far
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By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — A judge soon could decide if the writings of a shooter who killed three 9-year-olds and three adults in March at a Christian school in Nashville become public as parties with competing interests in the case – and the broader battle over US firearms access – have sparred in
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — One person was fatally wounded and another hurt in a shooting at an Ohio automotive manufacturing plant Thursday, the same day two people were injured in a shooting at a Mississippi solar farm. Neither community appears to still be under threat, authorities said, with the suspect
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TODAY: Light scattered rainfall will pass through the region along a cold front today. For most of us, the front brings minimal rainfall. Widespread totals are expected at less than a quarter of an inch. Some from Warsaw to Owensville will have a chance at more, with the development of thunderstorms that are capable of
Continue Reading By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The official death toll from the powerful cyclone that struck Myanmar has burgeoned to at least 145, including 117 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority, state television reported Friday. It said the figure applied to the western state of Rakhine, where Cyclone Mocha did the most damage,
Continue Reading By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Police shocked a 95-year-old woman with a stun gun as she approached them using a walker and carrying a steak knife in an Australian nursing home, sending her to the hospital in critical condition after her head hit the floor. The extraordinary police takedown of Clare
Continue Reading By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Arab leaders, joined by Syrian President Bashar Assad for the first time in more than a decade, were holding an annual summit Friday in Saudi Arabia, with a focus on Sudan and other conflicts. The meeting comes as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pursues
Continue Reading By PAOLO SANTALUCIA, SETH BORENSTEIN and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The floods that sent rivers of mud tearing through towns in Italy’s northeast are another drenching dose of climate change’s all-or-nothing weather extremes, something that has been happening around the globe, scientists say. The coastal region of Emilia-Romagna was twice struck, first
Continue Reading By ZEKE MILLER, FOSTER KLUG and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies huddled Friday to discuss new ways to punish Russia for its 15-month invasion of Ukraine, days before President Volodymyr Zelenskyy joins the Group of Seven summit in person on Sunday. Zelenskyy will be making
Continue Reading By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina plans to begin airing TV ads in Iowa and New Hampshire early next week as he prepares for an expected 2024 Republican presidential campaign. The ad buy, valued at about $5.5 million, is scheduled to run through the first
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The University of Missouri Board of Curators approved new tuition rates Thursday, including a plan that creates “plateaus,” or flat rates per hour, for full-time undergraduates.
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By Melissa Alonso and Jackson Grigsby, CNN (CNN) — Less than a year after an attempt on his life, author Salman Rushdie made a rare public appearance at an awards ceremony Thursday to warn of the dangers of banning books and of related movements in the US to roll back freedoms of expression. “The attack
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