By PAUL WISEMAN and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Economics Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s employers slowed their hiring in October, adding a modest but still decent 150,000 jobs, a sign that the labor market may be cooling but remains resilient despite high interest rates that have made borrowing much costlier for companies and consumers. Last
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sheryl Crow and Olivia Rodrigo kicked off the 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony Friday night and Missy Elliott closed the show more than four hours later with a roof-shaking set, as the hall celebrated a strong representation of women and Black
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CNN By John King, CNN Milwaukee (CNN) — There was a Halloween haunted house to plan. Finding days on the fall calendar for neighborhood cleanup projects. A big report on criminal justice issues to finish. Veteran organizer Angela Lang was more than busy. But as she gave her neighborhood canvassing teams a morning pep talk
Continue Reading By John King, CNN Milwaukee (CNN) — There was a Halloween haunted house to plan. Finding days on the fall calendar for neighborhood cleanup projects. A big report on criminal justice issues to finish. Veteran organizer Angela Lang was more than busy. But as she gave her neighborhood canvassing teams a morning pep talk recently,
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — It was a rough day in court for the Trump boys. But even before Donald Jr. and Eric had wrapped up an unconvincing day of testimony in a New York civil fraud trial, their father erupted. “So sad to see my sons being PERSECUTED in a political Witch
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — A California jury has awarded $332 million to a man who sued chemical giant Monsanto, claiming his cancer was related to decades of using its Roundup weedkiller. A San Diego Superior Court jury awarded damages Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by Mike Dennis. The 57-year-old Carlsbad man was diagnosed in 2020
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS SOCCER Blue Springs South (0) Rock Bridge (3) FINAL – district championship Fulton (2) Osage (0) FINAL – district championship Tolton (8) Calvary Lutheran (0) FINAL – district semifinal Missouri Military
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CNN, POOL, WABC, GETTY IMAGES, CHRISTINE CORNELL, THE WHITE HOUSE By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — A higher court on Thursday denied Ivanka Trump’s request to postpone her upcoming testimony in her father’s civil fraud trial, shortly after she claimed she’d suffer “undue hardship” if forced to appear during a school week. “Ms. Trump, who
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Estados Unidos tiene información de inteligencia de que el presidente de Siria, Bashar al-Assad, acordó proporcionar al grupo libanés Hezbollah un sistema de defensa antimisiles de fabricación rusa, según dos personas familiarizadas con la inteligencia. Al grupo mercanario Wagner, que opera en Siria, se le encargó la tarea de realizar la
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who was Robert De Niro’s chief personal assistant for over a decade has cited his angry outburst at her during his testimony in a New York courtroom as an example of his mistreatment of her. Graham Chase Robinson began testifying on Thursday in Manhattan
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team released its week nine injury report for the Top-15 clash against Georgia in Athens on Saturday afternoon. Notably, both cornerback Ennis Rakestraw and running back Cody Schrader were listed as probable to play against the Bulldogs. Head coach Eli Drinkwitz said in his weekly press conference, on Tuesday,
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Rob Picheta, CNN London (CNN) — Britain’s haphazard response to the coronavirus pandemic has been thrown under further scrutiny at an inquiry this week, after a series of senior figures described disorganization, chaos and vitriol at the heart of Boris Johnson’s government. Johnson’s leadership was eviscerated by a number of his most important
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By Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — The Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local 165 will strike on November 10 at 5 am PT if a contract is not agreed by then, they said in a news release Thursday. Thirty-five thousand workers would strike across 18 casino resorts on the Las Vegas Strip if a five-year
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WHYNO and PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writers It took the NHL until 1979 to mandate helmets and goalie masks for new players. It wasn’t until 2013 that eye-protecting visors became mandatory — grandfathered in for veterans, of course. A handful of players still don’t wear them. Broken jaws, smashed noses and concussions haven’t
Continue ReadingHONOLULU (AP) — Authorities in Hawaii say a wildfire that has burned forestlands in a remote mountainous area of Central Oahu has moved eastward and away from population centers as firefighters continue to battle it. The flames aren’t threatening homes or property, and no evacuations have been ordered. But they have scorched some native koa
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press IWAKI, Japan (AP) — Fishing communities in Fukushima feared devastating damage to their businesses from the tsunami-wrecked nuclear power plant’s ongoing discharge of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea. Instead, they’re seeing increased consumer support as people eat more fish, a movement in part helped by China’s ban on Japanese
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CNN By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — It used to be called manic depression in an effort to capture the swing of emotions from intense manic highs to the lowest of lows. Today it’s called bipolar disorder, another way to describe a mental illness that has two completely different presentations. Comedian Taylor Tomlinson, host of
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A final vote count following a general election in New Zealand three weeks ago has changed the political equation for winner Christopher Luxon, whose conservative National Party will now need broader support to govern. An election night count had given the National Party and the
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — Un supuesto integrante de la banda delictiva de origen venezolano del Tren de Aragua ―la mayor de Venezuela, según informes del gobierno de Estados Unidos― fue detenido este jueves en Ecuador, informó la Policía Nacional de ese país. El director de la Dirección Nacional de Investigación de Delitos contra la
Continue ReadingBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia will try to control its population of more than 100 hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, through surgical sterilization, the transfer of hippos to other countries and possibly euthanasia. The hippos, which spread from Escobar’s estate into nearby
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