By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — The electric vehicle unit of troubled Chinese property developer China Evergrande says its vice chairman has been detained by police on “suspicion of illegal crimes.” China Evergrande New Energy Vehicle announced that Liu Yongzhuo had been detained in a notice Monday to the Hong Kong Stock
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By Michelle Toh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Another former top business leader in China has been kicked out of the Chinese Communist Party, showing how a crackdown on the country’s financial sector is continuing into the new year. Tang Shuangning, the ex-chairman and party chief of the China Everbright Group, has been expelled over “serious violations
Continue ReadingBy BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Republican Party of Florida ousted Chairman Christian Ziegler and elected his replacement in a special vote on Monday as police investigate a rape accusation against him. The turmoil was an unwelcome distraction for the state’s top Republican, Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has been in Iowa
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa (AP) — When Donald Trump launched his 2024 presidential campaign after a disappointing midterm election for Republicans, his trajectory was something of a mystery. But seven days before Iowa’s kick-off caucuses, his standing among the GOP faithful is hardly in doubt. Voters, campaign operatives
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press South Dakota’s Republican-controlled Legislature convenes Tuesday in Pierre for its annual session, expected to last into early March. Second-term GOP Gov. Kristi Noem gave her budget address in December. She pitched a nearly $7.3 billion budget for fiscal year 2025 and advocated tighter spending to lawmakers, with 4% increases for
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Advocates for gun rights are urging the New Mexico Supreme Court to block emergency orders by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham that temporarily ban firearms at public parks and playgrounds by treating gun violence as a public health crisis. The state Supreme Court on Monday heard
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — El primer robot de compañía con ChatGPT, un “cinturón inteligente” con inteligencia artificial (IA) que ayuda a guiar a las personas con discapacidad visual, y aspiradoras, trapeadores y otros electrodomésticos con IA. Tras un año en el que la inteligencia artificial acaparó los titulares y la atención del sector tecnológico, no es
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A defendant who was captured in courtroom video leaping over a judge’s bench and attacking her, touching off a bloody brawl, is scheduled to appear before her again Monday morning. In his Jan. 3 appearance before Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus, Deobra Redden, who was facing
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — England’s 1,000-year-old legal system — still steeped in traditions that include wearing wigs and robes — has taken a cautious step into the future by giving judges permission to use artificial intelligence to help produce rulings. The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary last month said AI could help
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is turning the last dash to the Iowa caucuses into a showcase for his claims of political persecution as he seeks to suck oxygen from his trailing Republican opponents. Trump’s expected juggle of courtroom appearances and campaign events this week will stand as an metaphor for
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your scores from the Sophie Cunningham Classic on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS GIRLS BASKETBALL Vashon (37) Hickman (68) FINAL Quincy (38) Battle (42) FINAL/OT Cairo (42) Tipton (69) FINAL Rock Bridge (50) Link Academy (51) FINAL
Continue ReadingBy ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Josh Allen walked toward the thousands of Bills fans who made their way to South Florida for the weekend, waving his arms as they showered him with postgame cheers. It felt like home. And that’s where surging Buffalo will be next weekend. The Bills
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — When Lily Gladstone took the stage Sunday night to accept her first Golden Globe, she spoke to the live TV audience in the Blackfeet language. “This is a historic win,” she said, becoming the Globes’ first Indigenous winner of best actress in a
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — There’s a snowstorm that forecasters say might bring several inches of snow to Kansas City later this week and the low temperature there on Saturday night is expected to be somewhere around zero. It’s a cold reality for the Miami Dolphins. They lost to
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Lily Gladstone made history at the Golden Globes on Sunday when she became the first person who identifies as indigenous to win the best performance by a female actor in a dramatic motion picture during Sunday’s ceremony. Gladstone won for her performance in the Martin Scorsese-directed drama “Killers of
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Beyond the practical aspect of the Golden Globes, which advanced “Oppenheimer” (especially) and “Poor Things” in their Oscar campaigns and began the “Succession” farewell tour, Sunday’s televised ceremony reinforced the notion that Hollywood has a hard time quitting those who lavish honors upon it. Although this marked the
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares advanced Tuesday after Wall Street rallied to claw back almost all the losses from its slow start to the year. U.S. futures fell while oil prices saw modest gains. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index gained 1.4%, to 33,858.63, as the market reopened from a holiday
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — La edición 81 de los Globos de Oro se entregó el domingo por la noche en Los Ángeles. Esta es la lista completa de los nominados con los ganadores indicados en negrita. Así fueron los premios Globo de Oro 2024, ganadores, discursos y más Televisión Mejor actuación de un actor
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team is looking for a new defensive coordinator, after former DC Blake Baker left his post for the same job at LSU, on Friday. That news came just 15 days after he had signed a contract extension with MU. On social media, head coach Eli Drinkwitz said to Baker,
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Flights have resumed on a repaired runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport a week after a collision between a Japan Airlines plane and a coast guard aircraft. The coastal runway is one of four at Haneda and its reopening Monday means the airport is near returning to normal
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