By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Several Catholic priests have held a ceremony blessing same-sex couples outside Cologne cathedral in a protest against the city’s conservative archbishop Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki. Their protest service on Wednesday night was triggered by Cologne church officials’ criticism of a priest from the town of Mettmann near
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By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan made false claims in his opening remarks at a Wednesday hearing at which Jordan and other Republicans pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland about the Justice Department’s handling of investigations into former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. Here
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A man wrongly convicted of two separate violent crimes will be compensated by the state of Maryland after spending years behind bars, including over a year after he had been proven innocent. A Maryland board approved more than $340,000 for a settlement on Wednesday in compensation
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press The influential abortion-rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America has changed its name to Reproductive Freedom for All. The group says the rebrand better reflects how people think about abortion access since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to the procedure last year. The group said Wednesday that Reproductive Freedom
Continue ReadingBy ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A venture capital firm that has backed buzzy new companies has become symbolic of the fight over corporate diversity policies. Fearless Fund has become a target of a lawsuit over a grant program for Black women. But it is a tiny player in the approximately
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Cuando el club saudita Al-Hilal supuestamente planeó una oferta de US$ 1.100 millones para fichar a la superestrella del fútbol francés, Kylian Mbappé, –incluyendo US$ 332 millones para su club, el PSG, y un exorbitante paquete salarial de US$ 775 millones para el ganador del Mundial por solo un año– fue tachado
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — It was a moment the diplomatic world was watching for — but didn’t get. In the end, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov avoided staring each other down at the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday. Zelenskyy left before Lavrov arrived. The near-miss
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose and Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday called the actions of 10 people arrested for blocking and “spewing hateful words” at a bus carrying migrants on Staten Island an “ugly” response to the ongoing crisis. The arrests came as the southern border region has seen
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The family of a North Carolina man who died after driving his car off a collapsed bridge while following Google Maps directions is suing the technology giant for negligence. A lawsuit filed Tuesday in Wake County Superior Court claims Google had been informed of
Continue ReadingBy THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $200 million to help save the lives of mothers and children during childbirth. The largest American philanthropic donor its throwing its weight behind the issue during its annual Goalkeepers conference on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. The
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s debate over abortion access intensified Wednesday as the Democratic governor pounded away at his rival’s longstanding support for the state’s existing abortion ban shortly after Republican challenger Daniel Cameron had signaled new willingness to accept exceptions for rape and incest. Gov. Andy Beshear’s campaign tried
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Viajar por uno de los mejores aeropuertos del mundo será aún más fácil el año que viene. A partir de 2024, el aeropuerto Changi de Singapur introducirá un sistema automatizado de control de inmigración que permitirá a los pasajeros salir de la capital sin pasaporte, utilizando únicamente datos biométricos. “Singapur será
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Nostalgia only goes so far with “The Super Models,” a four-part Apple TV+ docuseries as glossy as a high-end fashion magazine of yore, and often as slim as one from the Internet age. Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington Burns lead this strut down memory
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — A white 84-year-old homeowner who is accused of shooting a Black teenager after the high-schooler mistakenly came to his Kansas City home entered a not guilty plea Wednesday. Andrew Lester is charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the April 13 shooting of Ralph
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — New court documents show Oscar Pistorius was eligible for parole in March under South African law. The double-amputee Olympic and Paralympic runner may have been wrongly denied early release from prison due to a miscalculation over when he began serving his sentence for murder.
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By Clare Sebastian, Anna Chernova, Katharina Krebs, Tim Lister and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — The crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh has come amid a sharp deterioration in the relationship between historic allies Armenia and Russia, and has been amplified by sometimes incendiary commentary from prominent individuals in Moscow. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and other officials
Continue Reading By Annie Grayer, CNN Washington (CNN) — A high-ranking Internal Revenue Service official has disputed claims by a whistleblower whose allegations about political interference into the Hunter Biden tax investigation are central to House Republican impeachment inquiries against President Joe Biden. In closed-door testimony obtained by CNN, IRS Director of Field Operations Michael Batdorf told
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George R.R. Martin are among 17 authors suing OpenAI for “systematic theft on a mass scale.” Their suit was filed Tuesday in New York and is the latest in a wave of legal action by writers concerned that AI programs
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou softball has released its conference schedule for the upcoming 2024 season, featuring eight three-game sets. The Tigers begin SEC play with a three-game series against Auburn at Mizzou Softball Stadium from March 8-10. Then, Mizzou’s first conference series away from Columbia will be in Knoxville against Tennessee from March 15-17. Larissa
Continue ReadingBAGLEY TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A woman was rescued Tuesday from an outhouse toilet in northern Michigan after she climbed in to retrieve her Apple Watch and became trapped. State police say Wednesday that the woman lowered herself inside the toilet after dropping the watch at the Department of Natural Resources boat launch at Dixon
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