DETROIT (AP) — Five people are wounded in Detroit after what police say was a dispute over a parking space outside a blues club and bar. Assistant Police Chief Charles Fitzgerald says the argument started about 2:45 a.m. on Friday and became physical. One man involved then got a gun from a vehicle and fired
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The president of U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia says its Hong Kong bureau has been closed because of safety concerns under a new national security law, deepening worries about the city’s media freedoms. Bay Fang, the president of RFA, said in a statement on Friday that the
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Northern Ireland’s finely balanced power-sharing arrangements have been thrown into disarray as the leader of the region’s largest unionist party stepped down after being charged with historical sexual offenses. Jeffrey Donaldson informed the Democratic Unionist Party that was leaving his post due to the investigation. He has
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By Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Max Foster, CNN London (CNN) — Britain’s King Charles III will lead members of the royal family at the Easter Sunday church service this weekend, marking his most significant appearance since his cancer diagnosis last month. Charles and his wife, Queen Camilla, will be joined by several other Windsors for the
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By Ben Morse and Jill Martin, CNN (CNN) — Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said on Thursday that he hopes the league’s investigation into superstar Shohei Ohtani is short, “but I just don’t know” how long it will take. The build-up to the new MLB season was overshadowed following the recent gambling scandal involving
Continue ReadingBy JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of Christians participated in a customary Good Friday procession through the limestone walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, commemorating one of the faith’s most sacred days with noticeably thinner crowds amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The procession, which normally draws thousands of foreign visitors, was unusually local
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden says the U.S. is working every day to secure the release of a Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia. The Democratic president said on the one-year anniversary of Evan Gershkovich’s detention that he “went to Russia to do his job as a
Continue Reading By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain both reached the semifinals of the Women’s Champions League with dominant performances to set up two thrilling clashes in the last four. Goals from Ballon d’Or winner Aitana Bonmatí, Fridolina Rolfö and Patricia Guijarro earned defending champion Barça a 3-1 win over Norwegian side Brann,
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Giancarlo Esposito’s move to starring roles is a welcome development, but after the gimmicky “Kaleidoscope,” add “Parish” to the list of vehicles – almost literally in this case, since he plays a getaway driver – that don’t do him justice. Relying on the familiar hook of a retired
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY and TOM KRISHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has set strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks, buses and other large vehicles. EPA officials say Friday’s action will help clean up some of the nation’s largest sources of planet-warming greenhouse gases. The EPA says the new rules will take
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — One week after rolling out the country’s strongest-ever federal tailpipe standards for the cars most Americans drive, the Biden administration is doing the same with the biggest, most polluting vehicles on the roads: buses, commercial vans and freight trucks. The new rules for heavy-duty vehicles bear many similarities to
Continue ReadingBy BETH HARRIS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 87. Gossett’s first cousin Neal L. Gossett told The Associated Press that the actor died in
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say a team of Chinese investigators has arrived in Pakistan to join a probe into a suicide attack that killed five of its nationals earlier this week. Pakistani authorities are carrying out their own investigations into one of the deadliest attacks on Chinese in the country. The Chinese engineers and workers were heading
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure of inflation that is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve slipped last month in a sign that price pressures continue to ease. Prices rose 0.3% from January to February, decelerating from a 0.4% increase the previous month in a potentially encouraging trend for President
Continue ReadingPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Forty-five people have been injured, five critically, when a train crashed into the side of a bus at a rail crossing in northwestern Cambodia. Police in Pursat province said the crash in Krakor district occurred around 11 a.m. Friday when the bus attempted to cross the tracks even though the
Continue ReadingBy KEN MILLER Associated Press A Texas appeals court has overturned a woman’s voter fraud conviction and five-year sentence for casting an illegal provisional ballot. The court ruled that Crystal Mason of Fort Worth did not know that being on probation after serving in prison still made her ineligible in 2016. The appeals court found
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By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — The latest US inflation report showed that rising prices continue to weigh on American consumers. The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index, was up 2.5% for the 12 months that ended in February, a faster pace than January’s 2.4% rise in prices.
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) Four adults and three juveniles were detained after a fight-turned-shooting in Moberly, Thursday evening. Around 7:45 p.m. Moberly police were responding to a gunfire call in the 700 block of Franklin St. While heading to the area, officers learned there was also a fight at the same location with a man who
Continue Reading By Radina Gigova, Anna Chernova and Olesya Dmitracova, CNN London (CNN) — Six journalists working for independent media outlets in Russia were arrested in a span of just a few hours this week on the eve of the anniversary of American reporter Evan Gershkovich’s detention in the city of Yekaterinburg. The journalists include Antonina Favorskaya,
Continue ReadingPaulina Nares (CNN) — Decenas de fieles murieron luego de que un autobús que se dirigía a una conferencia de Pascua se estrellara este jueves en la provincia sudafricana de Limpopo, la última tragedia en un país donde los recientes accidentes de tráfico han provocado múltiples víctimas. El accidente dejó 45 personas muertas y la
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