CNN By CNN Staff (CNN) — Seven Republican presidential candidates participated in a debate Wednesday night in California, while the front-runner in the party primary, former President Donald Trump, skipped the debate and instead gave a speech in Michigan amid a strike by autoworkers. The candidates on the debate stage made false or misleading claims
Continue ReadingBy ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL, EVELYNE MUSAMBI and JOEAL CALUPITAN Associated Press How do you cook a meal when a staple ingredient is unaffordable? This question is playing out in households around the world as they face shortages of essential foods like rice, cooking oil and onions. That is because countries have imposed restrictions on the food
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, Sara Smart, Raja Razek, Omar Jimenez and Lauren Koenig, CNN (CNN) — The 26-year-old tech executive whose body was found on the rooftop of her Baltimore apartment building Monday died of strangulation and blunt force trauma, court documents say. Pava LaPere was killed Friday, but authorities didn’t discover her body for at
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press ALPINE, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. West Coast produces over 90% of America’s wine, but the region is also prone to wildfires — a combustible combination that spelled disaster for the industry in 2020 and one that scientists are scrambling to neutralize. Sample a good wine and you might get
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press Lawmakers probing the cause of last month’s deadly Maui wildfire did not get many answers during Thursday’s congressional hearing on the role the electrical grid played in the disaster. The president of Hawaiian Electric, Shelee Kimura, said she didn’t know specific details about when the power stopped flowing through downed
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A woman who says anxiety and nightmares led her to set fire to Wyoming’s only full-service abortion clinic is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday. Lorna Roxanne Green could be sentenced to 20 years in prison for burning the Wellspring Health Access facility in Casper. The fire
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Conlon and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — Three Baton Rouge Police Department officers have been placed on administrative leave as investigations continue into an alleged police “torture warehouse” in Louisiana dubbed the Brave Cave. Among the three now on leave is Deputy Chief Troy Lawrence, Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul announced Wednesday.
Continue ReadingBy JOHNSON LAI and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s president has launched the island’s first domestically made submarine for testing. The submarine, if successful in its tests, will be a major breakthrough for Taiwan in shipbuilding and design. President Tsai Ing-wen said a domestically made submarine had seemed impossible in the
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — From Sunday, workers at the main United States base in Antarctica will no longer be able to walk into a bar and order a beer, after the federal agency that oversees the research program decided to stop serving alcohol. McMurdo Station will not be going
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Republicans are about to deliver on the driving purpose of their House majority – enacting Donald Trump’s retribution. Trump’s lieutenants will on Thursday formally open an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden that his supporters, smarting from their leader’s own double impeachment, have been demanding since the current president
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By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — An Australian man who faked his own kidnapping to spend time with his mistress on New Year’s Eve has been ordered to pay back the cost of the police operation to find him. Paul Iera appeared at Wollongong Local Court in New South Wales on Tuesday and was told
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Letitia James fixated on Donald Trump as she campaigned for New York attorney general, branding the then-president a “con man” and ″carnival barker” and pledging to shine a “bright light into every dark corner of his real estate dealings.” Five years later, James is on the
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM, JONATHAN J. COOPER and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press TEMPE, Arizona (AP) — President Joe Biden issued one of his most dire warnings yet that Donald Trump and his allies are a menace to American democracy, declaring Thursday that the former president is more interested in personal power than upholding the nation’s
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI, LISA MASCARO and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans launched a formal impeachment hearing Thursday against President Joe Biden, promising to “provide accountability” as they probe the family finances and lucrative business dealings of his son Hunter and make their case to the public, colleagues and a skeptical Senate.
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, Gawon Bae and Larry Register, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korea has amended its constitution to bolster and expand its nuclear force, with leader Kim Jong Un pointing to the growing cooperation between the United States, South Korea and Japan as “the worst actual threat” facing the isolated nation. The
Continue Reading By Gawon Bae and Jessie Yeung, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — A South Korean man has been sentenced to jail for using artificial intelligence to generate exploitative images of children, the first case of its kind in the country as courts around the world encounter the use of new technologies in creating abusive sexual
Continue ReadingSYDNEY (AP) — Sri Lankan cricket international Danushka Gunathilaka has been found not guilty of raping a woman he met on a dating site during the south Asian team’s tour of Australia last November. Judge Sarah Huggett acquitted the 32-year-old player as he sat at Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court listening to the decision. Huggett
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — No shorts on the Senate floor. The Senate voted Wednesday evening to reverse an informal guidance issued by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer last week that senators could wear what they want when voting or speaking in the chamber. The resolution, passed by voice vote with
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Saturday, Sept. 27, 2023. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS SOFTBALL HELIAS (16) HICKMAN (1) FINAL BLAIR OAKS (0) FATIMA (9) FINAL HARRISBURG (5) NEW FRANKLIN (7) FINAL SMITH-COTTON (1) CALIFORNIA (3) FINAL HS SOCCER HANNIBAL (1) HICKMAN (3) FINAL TOLTON
Continue ReadingBy JOE TOTORAITIS Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Tyrone Taylor hit two run-scoring doubles and the NL Central champion Milwaukee Brewers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2. Taylor’s double in the seventh drove in Brian Anderson for the tiebreaking run. Anderson had doubled off Jacob Barnes (0-1). William Contreras doubled and scored on Taylor’s hit
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