By SUMMER BALLENTINE and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A decade-old cold case of a veteran who went missing without a trace in rural Missouri has a new start after an amateur sleuth and YouTube creator found the man’s car. Camden County deputies say they’re once again investigating the December 2013
Continue ReadingHILLBURN, N.Y. (AP) — New York state troopers have killed a person in a shootout on a major highway, after stopping a vehicle identified in a shooting investigation. State police say two troopers stopped the vehicle on the New York State Thruway in Hillburn near the New Jersey line just before 3 p.m. Wednesday. Authorities
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Lawmakers gaveled in for the 2024 legislative session Wednesday afternoon with hopes to continue working on many of the priorities that didn’t make it to the finish line last year.
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By Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — Ousted Harvard President Claudine Gay says she faced death threats and was called the N-word during a weeks-long attack on her character designed to end her presidency. In an op-ed published Wednesday evening by The New York Times, Gay described her decision to resign this week, after plagiarism allegations
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) — Documentos de una demanda relacionada a Jeffrey Epstein, acusado de tráfico sexual, se hicieron públicos este miércoles. Se espera que los documentos incluyan casi 200 nombres, entre ellos algunas de las personas que acusaron a Epstein, empresarios destacados, políticos y posiblemente más figuras. Las identidades de decenas de personas vinculadas a Jeffrey
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By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Texas over its controversial immigration law that gives local law enforcement in Texas the authority to arrest migrants, arguing the state “cannot run its own immigration system.” The move comes after the Justice Department threatened last week to sue Texas
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) The Westminster football program has found its next leader. The college announced on Wednesday that Luke Butts will take over for John Welty as Westminster’s new head football coach. Welty retired after the 2023 season, ending his 24-year career with the Westminster football program. Butts served as defensive coordinator at Lake Forest
Continue ReadingBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A court in Argentina has delivered a blow to labor rule changes announced by President Javier Milei as part of sweeping deregulation and austerity measures aimed at reviving the country’s struggling economy. The court on Wednesday ordered the suspension of a provision in a decree issued by Milei in December.
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The mother and American uncle of a U.S. service member were safe outside of Gaza after being rescued from the fighting in a secret operation coordinated by the U.S., Israel, Egypt and others, a U.S. official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. It is
Continue Reading By Samantha Delouya, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of pages of unsealed documents from a lawsuit connected to accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein were publicly released on Wednesday. This is the first set of documents to be unsealed under a December 18 court order, with more expected in the coming weeks.
Continue ReadingIván Pérez Sarmenti (CNN Español) — Entre los cientos de propuestas, desregulaciones y cambios que presentó el nuevo presidente de Argentina, Javier Milei, se encuentra una iniciativa de blanqueo de capitales y activos, que fue incluida en el voluminoso proyecto de ley que envió al Congreso y que resulta muy atractivo para quienes decidan declarar
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Your health resolutions for the new year may need to include getting checked for hearing aids. Wearing hearing aids if you need them may help protect you from early death, according to a new study published Wednesday in The Lancet Healthy Longevity journal. “What we found was that there
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER and COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Department of Education policy adviser appointed by the Biden administration quit Wednesday to protest the administration’s crucial military support of Israel’s war in Gaza and its handling of the conflict’s repercussions at home and abroad. Tariq Habash, a Biden administration appointee who had
Continue ReadingBy SUMMER BALLENTINE and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A decade-old cold case of a veteran who went missing without a trace in rural Missouri has a new start after an amateur sleuth and YouTube creator found the man’s car. Camden County deputies say they’re once again investigating the December 2013
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — With just over two weeks to go before the federal government partially shuts down if Congress doesn’t act, the House and Senate remain divided over how to fund federal agencies for the remainder of the fiscal year. House and Senate leaders are working to bridge the gap, but disagreements
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CNN By Lauren Fox, Priscilla Alvarez and Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — House Republicans will forge ahead with steps to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas over his handling of the border crisis, a GOP source tells CNN. In a statement provided to CNN, a committee spokesperson said “the House Committee on Homeland Security
Continue ReadingBy PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department is suing Texas over a new law that would allow police in the state to arrest migrants who enter the U.S. illegally. The lawsuit filed Wednesday accuses Texas of violating the U.S. government’s authority over immigration enforcement. Under the
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Flooding from a burst water main at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital has disrupted services for about 200 patients seeking to have children through in vitro fertilization. Alexis Goulette runs a private IVF support group on Facebook. She said Wednesday that a lot of the women
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Flooding from a burst water main at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital has disrupted services for about 200 patients seeking to have children through in vitro fertilization. Alexis Goulette runs a private IVF support group on Facebook. She said Wednesday that a lot of the women
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Legislature has returned to the Capitol in Lincoln to kick off the 2024 legislative session. If actions taken on the session’s first day Wednesday are any indication, it could end up as contentious as last year’s historically combative session. Conservative Omaha state Sen.
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