By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — After parents in a rural and staunchly conservative Wyoming county joined nationwide pressure on librarians to pull books they considered harmful to youngsters, the local library board obliged with new policies making such books a higher priority for removal — and keeping out of collections. But
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — After parents in a rural and staunchly conservative Wyoming county joined nationwide pressure on librarians to pull books they considered harmful to youngsters, the local library board obliged with new policies making such books a higher priority for removal — and keeping out of collections. But
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A leading member of Poland’s conservative government has sharply criticized a film that explores the humanitarian disaster affecting migrants along the Poland-Belarus border. “Green Border,” which premiered Tuesday at the Venice Film Festival, is by Polish director Agnieszka Holland and plays in competition at the festival.
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By Melissa Bell, Daria Tarasova-Markina and Pierre Bairin, CNN Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine (CNN) — The T0408 was once a country lane that led peacefully southward through the open fields of Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region, from Orikhiv through Robotyne and on to Tokmak. Now, the men of Ukraine’s 47th Mechanized Brigade have renamed it “the road
Continue ReadingBy CARA ANNA and EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The host of the first Africa Climate Summit says climate change is “relentlessly eating away” at Africa’s economic progress and it’s time to have a global conversation about a carbon tax on polluters. Kenya’s president says the continent of more than 1.3 billion
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By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — It wasn’t until after Army Capt. Larry Taylor had picked up four of his fellow soldiers during a raging firefight in Vietnam – the men clinging onto the outside of his helicopter, as there wasn’t room inside – that he realized he had to figure out where to take
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv Un tártaro de Crimea será ministro de Defensa de Ucrania. Consejos del viajero más frecuente del mundo para evitar retrasos. Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad. 1. El caótico diluvio en Burning Man Alrededor de 70.000 personas quedaron atrapadas en el recinto del festival Burning Man
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Hay dos primarias republicanas mientras una temporada electoral que desafía las métricas convencionales y las tradiciones de campaña electoral chocan en su tramo de otoño. Está la carrera unipersonal que involucra a Donald Trump, un expresidente que obtuvo mejores resultados en las encuestas que todos sus rivales juntos, pero cuya
Continue ReadingSTOCKHOLM (AP) — Two executives of a Swedish oil exploration and production company have gone on trial in Stockholm for securing the company’s operations in Sudan through their alleged complicity in war crimes 20 years ago. Swedish prosecutors claim that former Lundin Oil Chairman Ian Lundin and the company’s former CEO, Alex Schneiter, supported the
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CNN By Kylie Atwood, Nectar Gan and Gawon Bae, CNN (CNN) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may travel to Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin for discussions on a potential deal to supply Moscow with weapons for its war on Ukraine, according to the US government. The National Security Council warned Monday that
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Austrian security officials say they have broken up a suspected terror cell linked to the Islamic State group that consisted of nine young men and one woman. One suspect has been detained. The suspects, who are aged between 15 and 23 and live near the city of Linz in northern Austria, allegedly
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By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — For quite some time, American men have been threatening to break through tennis’ elite and, at this year’s US Open, it appears that time has finally come. For the first time since 2005, three Americans progressed to the quarterfinals of the men’s draw. It also meant at least one
Continue ReadingBy SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Greek and Turkish foreign ministers agreed to revive high-level contacts and seek “new approaches” to problems as part of efforts to improve ties between the NATO allies that are at loggerheads over a string of decades-old disputes. Tuesday’s discussions between Greece’s Giorgos Gerapetritis and Turkey’s
Continue ReadingOpinion by Kara Alaimo (CNN) — Kids are back at school, and many of our social media feeds are full of pictures of children with #backtoschooloutfit inspo (inspiration) — but they don’t seem to have insisted on wearing mismatched outfits or run out of time to stand perfectly still and smile for the camera. That’s at least
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Police ordered vehicles off the streets of three regions in Greece Tuesday as a severe storm hammered the center of the country and some of its islands, turning streets into flooded torrents. Traffic was banned in the central town of Volos, the nearby mountain region of Pilion and on the island
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Miles de asistentes al Burning Man emprendieron finalmente el éxodo masivo después de que las intensas lluvias que cayeron el fin de semana inundaran los campings y los llenaran de un barro espeso que les llegaba hasta los tobillos, dejando varados a más de 70.000 asistentes de espíritu libre mientras
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Unions are active in Mid-Missouri, with public employees who work for the University of Missouri, Columbia Public Schools and the City of Columbia represented by unions.
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A jury was seated Tuesday in former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro’s criminal contempt of Congress trial, marking the start of what’s expected to be a speedy trial for the one-time aide to former President Donald Trump. Over the course of more than seven hours,
Continue Reading By Zachary Cohen and Paula Reid, CNN Washington (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith is still pursuing his investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election a month after indicting Donald Trump for orchestrating a broad conspiracy to remain in power, a widening of the probe that raises the possibility others could still face legal
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Today:: Afternoon highs climb into the lower 90s with the heat index potentially reaching up to 103 degrees. Two rounds of showers and storms will make their way through Mid-Missouri throughout Tuesday. The first will last from 7AM until 1PM. A few strong storms may become possible with this first round producing stronger winds and
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