By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican California congressman Kevin McCarthy’s ouster from the speaker role has left the House of Representatives roiling. An essential body of American democracy no longer has an elected leader. Lawmakers were stunned Tuesday when a House speaker was voted out of leadership for the first time. The
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By Jack Forrest and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Following Kevin McCarthy’s historic ouster as House speaker, names have started to emerge as possible successors to take over the gavel. With McCarthy announcing Tuesday night he will not be running for the speakership, the race is already underway. There is no clear alternative to
Continue ReadingSANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A nanny who worked for families across Southern California was convicted of sexually assaulting 16 young boys in his care and showing another boy child pornography. Matthew Antonio Zakrzewski was arrested in May 2019 after a couple told Laguna Beach police he touched their son inappropriately. More alleged victims were
Continue Reading By Annie Grayer, Jamie Gangel and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — Kevin McCarthy was behind interim Speaker Patrick McHenry’s move to kick former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Majority Leader Steny Hoyer out of their office spaces, two Republican sources told CNN. GOP Rep. Garret Graves told reporters on Wednesday that McCarthy is getting
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By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — The Philippines is investigating the deaths of three Filipino fishermen after they were killed in a collision with a “foreign” vessel in the South China Sea, authorities in the country said on Wednesday. Philippine fishing boat FFB Dearyn was struck at around 4:20 a.m. on Monday near Scarborough Shoal,
Continue ReadingSYDNEY (AP) — A lawyer for a former U.S. military pilot accused of illegally training Chinese aviators has told a Sydney court that an extradition hearing scheduled for next month should be postponed due to delays in government agencies handing over crucial material. Boston-born Dan Duggan was arrested by Australian police a year ago near
Continue ReadingBy LEA SKENE and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A shooting interrupted a homecoming week celebration at Baltimore’s Morgan State University on Tuesday, wounding five people and prompting an hourslong lockdown of the historically Black college. Students hunkered down for several hours, as police went room to room looking for suspects. No arrests
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez (CNN) — Esta nota es para todos los que están ansiosos por sacar las decoraciones navideñas. La proclamada “Reina de la Navidad” también tiene el espíritu navideño. Mariah Carey anunció su gira “Merry Christmas One And All Tour”. ¿Cuánto gana Mariah Carey con”All I Want for Christmas Is You”? “¡Sí, la descongelación ha comenzado!”,
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez (CNN Español) — Argentina venderá a Chile 400.000 metros cúbicos de gas en los próximos seis meses, informó este martes en un comunicado el gobierno de Alberto Fernández. Es la primera vez en 13 años que Argentina exportará gas natural desde Salta. El hidrocarburo, producido en la Cuenca Austral del país, en las
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh, Joe Sutton, Sara Smart and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Four students and another person were wounded when gunfire erupted outside a crowded homecoming event at Morgan State University in Baltimore, police said, sending students on a dash for cover and a SWAT team into a dorm to hunt for suspects. Hours
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — De acuerdo a un nuevo estudio, gritar, denigrar o amenazar verbalmente a los menores puede ser tan perjudicial para su desarrollo como los abusos sexuales o físicos. El estudio, publicado en la revista académica Child Abuse & Neglect, revisó 166 trabajos anteriores para elaborar un análisis detallado a partir de la
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Residents from fire-stricken Lahaina on Tuesday delivered a petition asking Hawaii Gov. Josh Green to delay plans to reopen a portion of West Maui to tourism starting this weekend, saying the grieving community is not ready to welcome back visitors. The petition signed by 3,517 people from
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Hickman’s Lucas Murray is our Week 6 SportsZone Football Friday player of the week winner! You can watch the play in the video player above. Up next – the Kewpies will host Grain Valley on Friday at 7 p.m.
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BEVIER, Mo. (KMIZ) A Macon County couple who run a daycare in Bevier have been charged with child abuse after authorities say one of them fractured a toddler’s femur. Joshuea Leodon Teter, 28, of Bevier, was charged with child abuse in two separate cases – one stemming from last week and another from November 2022.
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has slammed the United States over a Pentagon report that labeled it a “persistent” threat because of weapons of mass destruction, saying it will strongly counter what it called U.S. plans for aggression. Last week, the Pentagon released the unclassified version of its
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez (CNN) — Giles Clarke nunca había visto la violencia de pandillas en una situación tan grave en Puerto Príncipe, la capital y principal puerto de Haití. “Las pandillas controlan ahora alrededor del 75% de la ciudad”, dijo Clarke, un fotoperiodista que reside en Nueva York y que ha visitado el país caribeño de forma
Continue Reading CNN By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — A group of eight House Republicans joined with Democrats Tuesday in a historic vote to remove Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker. The House will now have to elect a new speaker. The vote in the House of Representatives on the motion to vacate was 216-210, with
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — A Minnesota grand jury has indicted the father of Madeline Kingsbury’s two children with first-degree murder in her death and accused him of engaging in a pattern of domestic abuse, roughly four months after her remains were found near a highway. Adam Fravel, 29, was charged
Continue ReadingBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s government has issued a long awaited public apology for the extrajudicial killings of 19 civilians who were slain by the military and registered as rebel fighters during one of the most violent periods of the nation’s civil war. The apology comes as Colombia’s government attempts to make amends with communities
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — As Kevin McCarthy got pushed out of his job as House speaker, in part by colleagues who helped put him on the dais nine months ago, one of his top lieutenants stepped in to preside — at least temporarily. North Carolina GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry
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