By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Tropicana Las Vegas hotel-casino is set to shut its doors April 2 to make room for a $1.5 billion Major League Baseball stadium. Tropicana’s owner Bally’s Corp. says the closure marks the beginning of preparations for demolition of the landmark hotel-casino on the Las Vegas
Continue ReadingSAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors have filed murder charges against five suspects in the fatal shootings of six men at a remote dirt crossroads in the Southern California desert. Investigators say the killings were the result of a dispute over marijuana. The district attorney’s office said Tuesday that the suspects also face robbery charges.
Continue ReadingBy JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Farmers have captured France’s attention by showering government offices with manure and snarling Parisian traffic with barricades of tractors and hay bales. The farmers say their protests aren’t a moment too soon. Grievances have long been brewing in the European Union’s leading agricultural power. The war between
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Preliminary figures show Mexico’s economy barely eked out a 0.1% increase in the fourth quarter, bringing estimated growth for 2023 to 3.1%. The National Statistics Institute says services advanced 0.1% in the fourth quarter while agricultural output declined by the same amount. Manufacturing remained unchanged. Inflation declined to 4.66% by the
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Mid-Missouri is looking sunny and warm currently, and atmospheric blocking looks to hold a lock on this pattern throughout the second half of the week. Atmospheric blocking occurs whenever a high pressure system stalls over a region shielding the passage of low pressure systems. This leads to persistent weather patterns. The people who live underneath
Continue ReadingRocÃo Muñoz-Ledo Nueva York (CNN) — UPS anunció este martes que eliminará 12.000 puestos de trabajo como parte de un intento por ahorrar US$ 1.000 millones en costos. La mayorÃa de los despidos afectarán a directivos y contratistas. Los recortes en el personal ocurren al mismo tiempo que UPS emitió unas perspectivas de ventas decepcionantes
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press Former U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan, who became the first female senator to represent Missouri when she was appointed to replace her husband following his death, has died at age 90. Carnahan was appointed to the Senate in 2001 after the posthumous election of her husband, Gov. Mel Carnahan, and she
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press Former U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan, who became the first female senator to represent Missouri when she was appointed to replace her husband following his death, has died at age 90. Carnahan was appointed to the Senate in 2001 after the posthumous election of her husband, Gov. Mel Carnahan, and she
Continue ReadingBy Julia Avery Click here for updates on this story INDEPENDENCE, Missouri (KCTV) — To walk a mile in this 16-year-old’s shoes would be pretty difficult. Jor’el Bolden wears a size 23 wide. His mother, Tamika Neal, calls him a gentle giant. Jor’el is 6′5″. He is a sophomore living in Independence, Missouri. Right now,
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KCTV, GOFUNDME, CNN By Julia Avery Click here for updates on this story INDEPENDENCE, Missouri (KCTV) — To walk a mile in this 16-year-old’s shoes would be pretty difficult. Jor’el Bolden wears a size 23 wide. His mother, Tamika Neal, calls him a gentle giant. Jor’el is 6′5″. He is a sophomore living in Independence,
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN) — En una medida sorpresiva, Kataib Hezbollah, el grupo más poderoso respaldado por Irán en Iraq, anunció este martes la suspensión de sus operaciones militares contra las fuerzas de Estados Unidos en la región, dos dÃas después de que un ataque con drones matara a tres miembros del servicio estadounidense e
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan, the first woman to represent Missouri in the Senate, has died at 90.
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By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink implanted a computer chip in a person’s brain on Sunday, he said in a post on his X platform Monday, although he offered few details. Other companies doing similar work are farther along in the research process – for example, Synchron has been enrolling and implanting people
Continue ReadingOpinion by Danielle Campoamor (CNN) — From joyful images of Taylor Swift lovingly embracing her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs’ tight end Travis Kelce, after his team secured another AFC Championship win, to heartwarming interactions with Head Coach Andy Reid and CBS Sports’ NFL analyst Tony Romo — who has mistakenly referred to Swift as Kelce’s wife not once but twice
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine’s governor is calling for strengthening the state’s yellow flag law, boosting background checks for private gun sales and bolstering mental health crisis care following the deadliest mass shooting in state history. An army reservist killed 18 people and wounded 13 others in Lewiston in October.
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden has again asked a judge to dismiss the federal gun case against him, arguing it is politically motivated and key evidence was tested after charges were filed. Hunter Biden’s defense attorney says in court documents that cocaine residue found on the pouch the president’s son
Continue ReadingBy ADRIAN SAINZ and ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press HELENA-WEST HELENA, Ark. (AP) — Residents of an east Arkansas town have been without running water for the past two weeks after the state was hit by below-freezing temperatures, and the outage has forced them to line up for bottled water, fill up jugs or take showers
Continue Reading By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration receives about 5,000 reports each year about health problems related to the use of cosmetic products, and under a new law, the agency has issued updated instructions for reporting these types of serious adverse events. The FDA’s authority to regulate cosmetics has expanded
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Drought-stricken New Mexico is teaming up with Google to hunt for leaky water pipes using satellites. State officials made the announcement as they rolled out a 50-year plan for addressing dwindling drinking water supplies. They said New Mexico is the first state to ink such
Continue ReadingRocÃo Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Millones de venezolanos más podrÃan estar obligados a huir del paÃs si el presidente Nicolás Maduro no cumple con los compromisos de llevar a cabo elecciones libres, advirtió este martes MarÃa Corina Machado, la principal candidata presidencial de la oposición, en conversación con Isa Soares de CNN. “Si Maduro no permite
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