By Kalie Strain and Justin Andrews Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, Missouri (KMOV) — St. Louis City officials began decommissioning the homeless encampment in front of St. Louis City Hall Monday night, but the encampment remains on Tuesday morning. Initially, the mayor’s office said they clear out the encampment starting at
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Meta plans to give Facebook and Instagram users in Europe the option of paying for ad-free versions of the social media platforms as a way to comply with the continent’s strict data privacy rules. That’s according to the Wall Street Journal. It reported Tuesday that the company wants to charge users about
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — La Champions League 2023-2024 sigue su curso esta semana con la jornada 2 de la fase de grupos de la competencia. La segunda fecha del torneo comenzó este martes con ocho partidos, donde uno de los que más destacó fue el Napoli vs. Real Madrid, cuyo resultado final fue un entretenido
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By Mostafa Salem, CNN Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN) — A Saudi soccer team made a last-minute withdrawal from an Asian Champions League match in Iran due to controversy over a divisive Iranian general who was assassinated by the United States in 2020. The Saudi team, Al-Ittihad, which was due to play Sepahan FC at Naghsh-e
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Get in losers, we’re celebrating. Tuesday is, of course, “Mean Girls Day.” How did that day come to be, you might ask? Well, in the popular 2004 film there’s a scene where Aaron Samuels (played by Jonathan Bennett) turns to Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) in class and asks
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By Kari Barrows Click here for updates on this story BUNCOMBE COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — A Canton resident is facing charges after officials say a gunshot was fired during a recent road rage incident. A spokesperson for the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office says the department has charged 27-year-old Zachary Desmond Stewart following an incident
Continue ReadingBy BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and SAM METZ Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia has announced it would reject an installment of funds sent by Europe to help the debt-ridden country patrol the Mediterranean Sea as migrant boat crossings spike to levels not seen in several years. President Kais Saied on Monday accused the European
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By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN New York (CNN) — Coffee is a finicky crop — arabica coffee, the most popular variety, in particular. And climate change poses a huge threat to the coffee business and to farmers. “To grow properly, coffee crops require specific temperature, light and humidity levels,” according to the Inter-American Development Bank, a
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s King Felipe VI has called on acting Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to try to form a new government following talks with political party leaders to see which party has the best chance of gathering majority support in Parliament. Speaker of the House Francina Armengol made
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — This one is for those among us who are already itching to put up winter holiday decorations. The proclaimed “Queen of Christmas” is in the spirit as well. Mariah Carey has announced her “Merry Christmas One And All Tour.” “Yes, the actual defrosting has begun!,” Carey shared on
Continue ReadingGENEVA (AP) — LGBTQ+ groups are hailing the 60-day jail sentence a court in Switzerland gave to a writer and commentator for deriding a journalist as a “fat lesbian” and other critical remarks. The Lausanne court sentenced French-Swiss polemicist Alain Bonnet, who goes by Alain Soral, for defamation, discrimination and incitement to hatred on Monday.
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CNN By Jake Tapper, Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent (CNN) — John Kelly, the longest-serving White House chief of staff for Donald Trump, offered his harshest criticism yet of the former president in an exclusive statement to CNN. Kelly set the record straight with on-the-record confirmation of a number of damning stories about statements Trump
Continue Reading Mary Novakovich, CNN (CNN) — To many, the southern Dalmatian coast is Croatia. Between Split and Dubrovnik lie some of the most visited places in the country. At times it can feel as if this entire part of the Dalmatian coast is just a bit too popular for its own good, with more and more
Continue ReadingBy ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Officials say Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania have agreed on a plan they hope will help expedite Ukrainian grain exports. Needy countries beyond Europe will potentially benefit from speedier procedures. The Ukrainian farm ministry said Tuesday that the deal means that grain inspections would shift from the
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — El mapa de investigaciones contra Donald Trump es enredado como una telaraña: hay investigaciones penales y civiles en marcha, así como contrademandas presentadas por el propio exmandatario. Pero esto, según un abogado constitucionalista, no le impide —ni a él ni a cualquiera que estuviera en su muy singular posición—
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The parents of a teenager who killed four students at Michigan’s Oxford High School lost an appeal Tuesday and will face trial on involuntary manslaughter charges, a rare case of prosecutors attempting to pin some responsibility for a school shooting on the perpetrator’s family. James and Jennifer
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Una nota de rescate depositada en el buzón de la casa de la niña desaparecida Charlotte Sena, de 9 años, antes del amanecer de este lunes, proporcionó a los investigadores una valiosa pista en el caso que finalmente llevó a las autoridades de Nueva York a arrestar a un sospechoso
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — The matriarch of the Kelce family has jokes when it comes to her son’s “seemingly” girlfriend. Donna Kelce had a bit of fun with all the speculation that her son, Kansas City Chiefs player Travis Kelce, is dating pop superstar Taylor Swift. Swift was in the house Sunday
Continue ReadingAnalysis by John Blake, CNN (CNN) — Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont, was in the thick of his campaign for the presidency in 2004 when he committed a verbal gaffe that was literally biblical in proportion. No, not his infamous “Dean Scream.” Dean was courting “values voters” and was boasting about his knowledge
Continue ReadingAPOPKA, Fla. (AP) — Police say an 11-year-old boy retrieved a gun from an unlocked box in his mother’s vehicle and shot two 13-year-olds following an altercation that began during a Pop Warner football practice in central Florida. Apopka police Chief Mike McKinley says the child fired one shot on Monday night, hitting one teen
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