By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has named Democratic strategist and Kamala Harris 2020 presidential campaign adviser Laphonza Butler to fill the U.S. Senate seat made vacant by Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s death. Newsom is fulfilling his pledge to appoint a Black woman if Feinstein’s seat became
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Kansas City Royals ended their 2023 season by clinching a series win over the New York Yankees with a 5-2 win on Sunday. Kansas City’s final record was 56-106. The Royals scored five unanswered runs in the game and never lost the lead. MJ Melendez, Edward Olivares and Dairon Blanco
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Congratulations to our Week 6 SportsZone Football Friday Play of the Week Nominees! You can watch the nominees in the video player above and then vote for your favorite play here. Nominee No. 1: Blair Oaks’ Joey Wilde brings back a big kick six. Nominee No. 2: Hickman’s Lucas Murray makes nice
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMIZ) The 2023 season did not go the way that anyone in the Cardinals clubhouse intended, but the team did manage to close out the year with a 4-3 win against the Cincinnati Reds, on Sunday. However, Sunday’s season finale at Busch Stadium really wasn’t about a win or a loss. It
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Aggrieved and defiant, former President Donald Trump spent a day in court Monday for the sometimes testy start of a trial in a fraud lawsuit that could cost him control of Trump Tower and other prized properties. “Disgraceful trial,” he
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By Annie Grayer, Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s allies are scrambling to head off a right-wing revolt to oust the California Republican from his job and turning to the constituency that now suddenly holds the cards: House Democrats. One idea moderate Republicans are proposing to get
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By Olga Voitovych and Jessie Yeung, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — The United States may have avoided a government shutdown on Saturday – but the lack of additional funding for Ukraine in the spending bill has left some residents in the war-torn nation nervous. Though US President Joe Biden lauded the deal reached by lawmakers,
Continue ReadingCNN By Isabel Rosales and Jaide Garcia, CNN (CNN) — A former federal prosecutor involved in the early prosecution of a January 6 defendant was arrested in the stabbing of a driver on a Florida highway after a crash last week, authorities say, and new video shows a confrontation with a Good Samaritan who tried
Continue ReadingBy Isabel Rosales and Jaide Garcia, CNN (CNN) — A former federal prosecutor involved in the early prosecution of a January 6 defendant was arrested in the stabbing of a driver on a Florida highway after a crash last week, authorities say, and new video shows a confrontation with a Good Samaritan who tried to
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Homero De La Fuente and Megan Thomas, CNN (CNN) — Taylor Swift was clearly ready for some more football on Sunday, as were Deadpool, Wolverine and Ant-Man. More on the Marvel stars in a moment. As was highly expected/speculated, Swift was in the crowd at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on Sunday night to cheer
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Business sentiment among big Japanese manufacturers improved in July-September for the second straight quarter, according to a central bank survey. The Bank of Japan’s “tankan” quarterly survey measured business sentiment among major manufacturers at plus 9, up from plus 5 in June. Sentiment among major non-manufacturers
Continue ReadingBy VICTORIA MILKO and DITA ALANGKARA Associated Press SOROWAKO, Indonesia (AP) — Demand for critical minerals like nickel and cobalt is surging as climate change hastens a transition to renewable energy, boosting carbon emissions by miners and processors of such materials. Some mining companies are moving to phase out use of fossil fuels in extracting
Continue ReadingEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes threw the 200th touchdown pass of his career, reaching the milestone in his 84th game to break Dan Marino’s NFL record. Mahomes connected with Noah Gray on a 34-yard touchdown that gave the Chiefs a 17-0 lead with 3:24 left in the first quarter against the
Continue Reading By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — California Sen. Dianne Feinstein will lie in state at San Francisco City Hall on Wednesday ahead of funeral services Thursday. The public can pay their respects at City Hall from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. PT Wednesday, the late Democratic senator’s office said. The Thursday funeral service will now
Continue ReadingBy Jessica Xing and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A Michigan man who claimed to expose alleged child predators online for his thousands of social media followers was shot and killed after confronting two teenagers late Friday night, according to police. Robert Wayne Lee, 40, would pose as a 15-year-old girl online to lure out
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CNN Opinion by Dean Obeidallah (CNN) — Editor’s note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show.” Follow him on Threads at www.threads.net/@deanobeidallah. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN. House Democrats prevented a federal government shutdown this weekend, with 209 voting in favor of
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland said in an interview that aired Sunday that he would resign if asked by President Joe Biden to take action against Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. But he doesn’t think he’ll be put in that position. “I am sure that that will not
Continue Reading By Daniel Strauss (CNN) — Even as he faces increasing legal jeopardy, former President Donald Trump is reverting to a familiar pattern of taunting other candidates – a tactic he used in 2016 when he was feeling comfortable with his lead in the Republican primary. His latest target has been former South Carolina Gov. Nikki
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Algunas de las mentes más brillantes de la ciencia saldrán del anonimato académico la próxima semana, cuando se anuncien los Premios Nobel de Física, Química y Medicina o Fisiología. Estos galardones, creados por el químico sueco Alfred Nobel hace más de un siglo, representan la cumbre de los logros científicos y celebran
Continue ReadingOpinion by Dean Obeidallah (CNN) — Editor’s note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show.” Follow him on Threads at www.threads.net/@deanobeidallah. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN. House Democrats prevented a federal government shutdown this weekend, with 209 voting in favor of the
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