By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street climbed back to its best level in 20 months on Friday following a stronger-than-expected report on the U.S. job market. The S&P 500 rose 0.4%, enough to clinch a sixth straight winning week for the index, which is its longest such streak in
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press Derek Chauvin was stabbed nearly two dozen times in the law library at a federal prison in Arizona. Larry Nassar was knifed repeatedly in his cell at a federal penitentiary in Florida. The assaults of two notorious, high-profile federal prisoners by fellow inmates in recent months
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The U.S. Census Bureau wants to change how it asks people about disabilities, and some advocates are complaining that they were not consulted enough on what amounts to a major overhaul in how disabilities would be defined by the federal government. Disability advocates say the change would artificially reduce their
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says it has spotted a Chinese surveillance balloon in the Taiwan Strait along with a large-scale movement of military aircraft and ships. It says the balloon passed over the northern port city of Keelung on Thursday night, then continued east before disappearing. Taiwan has threatened to shoot down
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nicki Minaj’s highly anticipated fifth studio album, “Pink Friday 2,” is here. Out Friday, on her 41st birthday, the 22-track “Pink Friday 2” is Minaj’s first full-length release in five years. The road to “Pink Friday 2” has been long, with the album initially teased
Continue ReadingBy KRISTIN M. HALL Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — When country music star Brad Paisley and his wife, actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley, helped create a free grocery store in Nashville, Tennessee, their goal was to give families in need the ability to choose their own food in a place that felt like a normal store.
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — America’s paralyzing political estrangement may soon change the world for the worse. Nearly two years into the war in Ukraine, a US lifeline of arms and ammunition is for the first time in real danger of collapsing, 12 months after President Volodymyr Zelensky was hailed as a hero
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added a healthy 199,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate fell, fresh signs that the economy could achieve an elusive “soft landing,” in which inflation would return to the Federal Reserve’s 2% target without causing a steep recession. Friday’s report from the Labor
Continue ReadingBy MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials on Friday released the first nationally representative estimate of how many U.S. adults have chronic fatigue syndrome: 3.3 million. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s number is larger than previous studies have suggested, and is likely boosted by some of the patients
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A teenager has been sentenced to life in prison for killing four students, wounding more and terrorizing Michigan’s Oxford High School in 2021. A judge Friday rejected pleas for a shorter sentence and ensured that Ethan Crumbley, 17, will not get an opportunity
Continue ReadingBy CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — In Florida, this year has been a tale of two states as far as rainfall totals, with the southeast coast deluged by sometimes-record rainfall and much of the Gulf of Mexico coast facing a drought. Counties up and down Florida’s west side are under new
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN, DAVID KEYTON and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Teams of veteran negotiators fanned out Friday at the United Nations climate conference with orders to get the strongest, most ambitious agreements possible, especially on the central issue of the fading future of fossil fuels in a dangerously warming
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BOYS BASKETBALL CENTRAL (PARK HILLS) (59) BATTLE (72) FINAL DESMET (46) ROCK BRIDGE (45) FINAL HIGBEE (65) NORTH SHELBY (63) FINAL SOUTH IRON (62) HARRISBURG (51) FINAL CUBA (40) FATIMA (65)
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CNN By Ashley Killough, Ed Lavandera and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A Texas judge ruled Thursday that a pregnant woman who sued the state seeking a court-ordered abortion can legally terminate her pregnancy. The decision marks a significant development in the ongoing debate over the state’s medical exception to its controversial ban on abortions after
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez (CNN) — Un juez de Texas dictaminó que una mujer embarazada que demandó al estado solicitando un aborto ordenado por un tribunal puede interrumpir legalmente su embarazo. La decisión marca un avance significativo en el debate en curso sobre la excepción médica del estado a su controvertida prohibición de los abortos después de
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CNN By Evan Perez, Paula Reid, Marshall Cohen, Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Hunter Biden has been charged in connection with a long-running Justice Department investigation into his taxes – the second criminal case that special counsel David Weiss has brought against President Joe Biden’s son. The charges span nine counts, including failure to file
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ELDON, Mo. (KMIZ) Two men were injured – one seriously – in a Thursday crash in Eldon on East North Street at North Sandfort Street, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The crash occurred when a 1999 Toyota Camry – driven by Kenneth Baxter, 38, of Clarksburg – was heading westbound, crossed
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By Christy Choi, CNN (interview by Becky Anderson, CNN) (CNN) — Stella McCartney has called on world leaders to introduce new tariffs on leather goods, as well as fashion items made from polluting or environmentally unsustainable materials. Speaking to CNN’s Becky Anderson at the UN’s Climate Change Conference (COP28) in the United Arab Emirates this
Continue Reading CNN By Christy Choi, CNN (interview by Becky Anderson, CNN) (CNN) — Stella McCartney has called on world leaders to introduce new tariffs on leather goods, as well as fashion items made from polluting or environmentally unsustainable materials. Speaking to CNN’s Becky Anderson at the UN’s Climate Change Conference (COP28) in the United Arab Emirates
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Saudi Royal Air Force F-15SA fighter jet has crashed, killing its two crew members on board. The state-run Saudi Press Agency, quoting military spokesperson Brig. Gen. Turki al-Maliki, said the crash occurred Thursday during a training mission at King Abdulaziz Air Base in Dhahran in the kingdom’s east.
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