By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Elon Musk’s social media platform X has removed hundreds of Hamas-linked accounts and taken down or labeled thousands of pieces of content since the militant group’s attack on Israel, according to the CEO of the company formerly known as Twitter. Linda Yaccarino on Thursday outlined efforts
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say a former member of communist East Germany’s secret police has been charged with murder over the killing of a Polish national at a border crossing in divided Berlin in 1974. The indictment against the 79-year-old man was filed at the state court in the German capital. It relates to an
Continue ReadingNYON, Switzerland (AP) — UEFA has postponed Israel’s European Championship qualifying game against host Kosovo on Sunday. The decision by European soccer’s governing body following Hamas’ surprise attack adds to a fixture backlog. UEFA said in a statement Thursday that the game in Pristina cannot be played “because the Israeli authorities currently do not allow
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By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Involving internet stars Olajide “KSI” Olatunji, Logan Paul, Tommy Fury and Dillon Danis, it’s an event that’s widely viewed as the most highly-anticipated bill ever involving non-traditional boxing stars. Each member of the quartet boasts a huge social media following and has used their personalities and profiles to market the event – dubbed “The Prime Card” – after both
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By Jeremy Herb, Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju, Haley Talbot and Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — House Majority Leader Steve Scalise announced he was dropping out of the speaker’s race Thursday after House Republicans failed to coalesce behind him in the aftermath of Kevin McCarthy’s historic ouster. “I just shared with my colleagues that I’m withdrawing
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CNN By Muhammad Darwish, Nic Robertson, Artemis Moshtaghian, Amir Tal, Ivana Kottasová and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Kfar Aza, Israel (CNN) — Bodies of Israeli residents and Hamas attackers lay outside burned-out homes in the Israeli kibbutz Kfar Aza on Tuesday, days after the Palestinian militant group launched a large-scale surprise assault on Israel. Hamas
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Un importante sistema de baja presión salió de las Montañas Rocosas este miércoles y se fortalecerá a medida que avance por Estados Unidos durante el resto de esta semana. Detrás de este sistema de baja presión, se producen fuertes nevadas en las montañas y lluvias en los valles debido a temperaturas
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The Malaysian government has questioned a move by Goldman Sachs to file for arbitration in a dispute connected with the multibillion-dollar looting of a sovereign wealth fund. Johari Abdul Ghani, head of a task force to recover assets lost from fund known as 1MDB, said it was too early for
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On Thursday, Congregation Beth Shalom will hold a vigil at 7 p.m. to pray for Israel as a war continues to rage throughout the country.
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The Boone County Commission announced Wednesday that it had released its revised Upward Mobility Action Plan.
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TODAY: Thursday is another warm day, with sunshine, and a high expected in the low 80s. Winds will be breezy from the south, gusting in the 20-30 mph range. TONIGHT: Skies stay clear until after midnight. It’s not until about 3 a.m. that we start to see showers and storms develop as our low level
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany is offering military help to Israel and promising to crack down on support for the militant Hamas group at home following the group’s attack on Israel. Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday underlined Germany’s historical responsibility for Israel’s security. The Defense Ministry said it agreed to an Israeli request to use up
Continue ReadingBy Raja Razek and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — A kindergarten teacher who gave melatonin gummies to special education students at an elementary school in Humble, Texas, has resigned, school officials said. The Pine Forest Elementary School teacher gave the gummies “to a few of her students,” and the district learned of it on September
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan is closely watching the war in the Middle East sparked by the unprecedented attack on Israel by Hamas militants from Gaza for lessons amid what the self-governing island says is a campaign of intimidation and threats by China. The latest Hamas-Israel conflict has claimed at least 2,400 lives on both
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Dozens of activists in Norway are blocking the entrance to one of the main operators of a wind farm they say hinders the rights of the Sami Indigenous people to raise reindeer. At the center of the dispute are the 151 turbines located in the central Fosen district. The activists say
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By Tara Subramaniam and Tanushree Pandey, CNN (CNN) — Booker Prize-winning Indian author Arundhati Roy could be prosecuted for allegedly seditious comments made over a decade ago, after a top official in Delhi said there was enough evidence to lay charges. Roy rose to international prominence for her novels, including 1997 Booker Prize winner “The
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s top automaker Toyota and Idemitsu, a major oil company, say they will cooperate on technology for mass production of solid-state batteries that promise to be a key component in future electric vehicles. The deal, announced Thursday, is an important step for Toyota, which has promised
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CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — The House Republican Party is sliding even deeper into disarray as it feuds over its next speaker, apparently oblivious to the picture of US government dysfunction it is sending at a moment of worsening global crises. GOP lawmakers did select Steve Scalise as their nominee for the
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Kyrgyzstan on a rare trip abroad for the Russian leader who was indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Ukraine. It’s the first time this year that Putin has traveled outside Russia and Russian-held territories of Ukraine. Earlier this year, he visited
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Former NFL player Sergio Brown, who had been missing since his mother was found dead last month, has been arrested and is expected to face a first-degree murder charge in the killing once he is extradited from California to Illinois, police say. Police in the Chicago suburb of Maywood,
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