By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Two new laws restricting transgender Missourians’ access to gender-affirming health care and school sports are now in effect. Both laws took effect Monday and expire in 2027. One law bans minors from beginning puberty blocks and hormones and outlaws gender-affirming surgeries for youths. The other law
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A local news outlet that helped expose a wide-reaching public corruption scandal has filed its first defense against a defamation lawsuit brought by former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, with the news outlet arguing it engaged in constitutionally protected speech. In Mississippi Today’s first legal
Continue ReadingBy RUSS BYNUM and VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A campus security officer tipped off by observant students likely stopped the killer who fatally shot three people at a nearby Dollar General Store from carrying out his racist attack at Edward Waters University, the president of the historically Black institution said Monday.
Continue ReadingDENVER (AP) — Denver will pay $4.7 million to settle a class action lawsuit that alleged that protesters were unjustly targeted for violating the city’s curfew during demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd in 2020. City councilors unanimously agreed to the deal Monday without any debate. The lawsuit alleged that the city directed police
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Police say a family of four has been found stabbed to death inside a New York City apartment. The dead were a mother, father and their two young children, ages 1 and 3. Police say the bodies were found just before 3 p.m. Monday on Manhattan’s Upper West Side by officers
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By Aaron Pellish and Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN (CNN) — After performing his rendition of Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” at the Iowa State Fair, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has been asked by the Real Slim Shady to stand down. BMI, a performing rights organization, has informed Ramaswamy’s campaign at Eminem’s request that it will no longer
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican lawmakers voted Monday to temporarily silence a Democratic member of the so-called Tennessee Three during an already tense House floor session after determining the young Black member violated newly enacted rules designed to punish disruptive members. The move directed at Rep. Justin
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Voice assistants like Google Assistant, Siri and Alexa can help with things like the weather and recipes, but what about CPR? Perhaps not so much, a new report showed. Only 59% of voice assistant responses actually included information related to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), according to a study published Monday.
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CNN, WPLG By Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — A Broward County, Florida, sheriff’s fire rescue helicopter crashed into an apartment complex Monday morning, leaving two people dead and two others injured. Authorities identified the dead as Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue Capt. Terryson Jackson, who was in the helicopter, and an unnamed adult woman who
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Chadwick Boseman may be gone, but he is not forgotten. Monday marked three years since the “Black Panther” star died, and some of his Marvel co-stars took to social media to remember their friend. Lupita Nyong’o, who starred alongside Boseman in the 2018 “Black Panther” movie, on Monday posted
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CNN, WJXT By Nouran Salahieh, Sara Smart and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — A federal hate crime investigation is underway after a White gunman with a swastika-emblazoned assault-style rifle killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, authorities said. The shooting claimed the lives of Angela Michelle Carr, 52, Anolt Joseph
Continue ReadingDENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — A powerful earthquake and two strong aftershocks have rocked Indonesia’s resort island of Bali and other parts of the country, causing panic but no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck early Tuesday in the Bali Sea was centered about 181
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El pronóstico para Idalia es alarmante: se anticipa una rápida intensificación a medida que avanza por el Golfo de México y se adentra en unas de las aguas más cálidas del planeta antes de tocar tierra, esta misma semana, en Florida. De ser así, se uniría a una creciente lista de
Continue ReadingALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has announced changes to its wildfire compensation rules after last year’s planned burn by the U.S. Forest Service exploded into the largest and most destructive blaze in New Mexico’s recorded history. FEMA officials say they are expanding coverage for those affected for mental health treatment and
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The conservative chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court told the new liberal majority in a scathing email that they had staged a “coup” when they voted recently to weaken her powers and hire a new director of state courts. Chief Justice Annette Ziegler said in
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By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed Monday that he “never” faced an impeachment inquiry. Trump made the claim in a social media post the day after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said in a television interview that launching an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is a “natural step forward”
Continue ReadingWHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — Newspaper publisher G. Ogden Nutting has died. He was 87. The newspaper in Wheeling, West Virginia, where Nutting’s family business was based says he died Friday. The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register published Nutting’s obituary and a separate story on his death Monday. Nutting once held a stake in the Pirates before
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One person drowned at the Lake of the Ozarks on Monday afternoon, a Missouri State Highway Patrol spokesman said.
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Casi nueve meses después de la conquista de la Copa del Mundo Qatar 2022, la selección argentina vuelve a jugar por los puntos tras cuatro partidos amistosos. El equipo de Lionel Scaloni disputará seis partidos por las Eliminatorias Sudamericanas en lo que resta de 2023. Las primeras 6 fechas para
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and the 18 people indicted along with him in Georgia are scheduled to be arraigned next week on charges they participated in a wide-ranging illegal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Fulton County court records show all 19 defendants have been scheduled for arraignment on
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