By GRAHAM LEE BREWER Associated Press Hard-line Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia wore a T-shirt to Thursday night’s State of the Union address that carried a seemingly simple message: Say Her Name. She borrowed the phrase from Black racial justice activists who have been calling attention to the extrajudicial deaths of Black women
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Centralia girls basketball made history, on Friday evening, by playing the program’s first-ever state final four, however, El Dorado Springs played spoiler. The Bulldogs came back in the fourth quarter for a 52-41. Centralia led 32-26 heading into the final quarter of action, but El Dorado Springs turned on the afterburners and
Continue ReadingBy FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Microsoft says it is still trying to evict the elite Russian government hackers who broke into the email of senior company executives in November and have since been trying to breach customer networks with stolen access data. In a blog and a regulatory filing Friday, Microsoft
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A federal agency in charge of cybersecurity discovered it was hacked last month and was forced to take two key computer systems offline, an agency spokesperson and US officials familiar with the incident told CNN. One of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s affected systems runs a program
Continue ReadingBy Justin Gamble, CNN (CNN) — The Rainbow Youth Project USA, a national organization devoted to LGBTQ youth suicide prevention, saw a 238% increase in crisis calls from Oklahoma in the weeks since 16-year-old Nex Benedict died. Nex, who identified as nonbinary according to family, died on February 8, one day after they told their family that they and a transgender
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge on Friday rejected a challenge to a Washington state law that cleared the way for lawsuits against the gun industry in certain cases. The measure requires the industry to exercise reasonable controls in making, selling and marketing weapons, including steps to keep guns from
Continue ReadingBy NICK INGRAM and SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Celebrities, artists and tens of thousands of fans proud to call themselves nerds are converging in Kansas City for the Missouri city’s 25th annual Planet Comicon. Devotees ranging from Harry Potter lovers to furries can test niche trivia skills, compete in Pokémon
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By Priscilla Alvarez and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in a surprising ruling has dismissed a Texas lawsuit against a Biden administration policy that allows migrants of certain nationalities to fly to the United States if they have US sponsors. The lawsuit focused on a parole program that permits migrants from Cuba,
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A school district in Southern California has approved changes to a policy that required school staff to notify parents if their child asks to change pronouns at school. The updated policy passed by the Chino Valley Unified School District board removes mentions of student
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By Jessie Yeung and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Chae-ran sets the plate of sliced oranges and dragon fruit on the floor, a few feet from the pile of bedding where she sleeps. At 35 years old she is starting over again, alone in a foreign country, without so much as a
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Springtime brings warmer and wetter conditions but it also means a higher chance for severe weather. Of all severe weather and disasters flooding is by far the most common threat. Flooding is associated with 90% of weather disasters throughout the year so it’s important to stay prepared. The spring in particular is the most worrisome
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Henderson, CNN (CNN) — Jackson Mahomes, the younger brother of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, was sentenced to six months of unsupervised probation on Thursday after pleading no contest to a simple battery charge, according to court records. “Jackson is thankful for the support of his family and friends during the last
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press The former mayor of Uvalde, Texas, says he’s surprised a new investigative report cleared all city officers of wrongdoing in one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history. Former Mayor Don McLaughlin acknowledged Friday he hadn’t read the entire 180-page report. But he’s surprised the acting police chief on
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Tytan Anderson had 19 points and 19 rebounds, and Northern Iowa beat Belmont 67-62 on Friday night in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament. Fourth-seeded Northern Iowa (20-13) advances to play top-seeded Indiana State in the semifinals on Saturday. Anderson also had three steals for the Panthers. Jacob
Continue ReadingLIMA, Peru (AP) — Police in Peru announced the arrest Friday of an Iranian citizen who was purportedly a member of Iran’s Quds Force and allegedly planned to kill an Israeli citizen in the South American country. Gen. Óscar Arriola, Peru’s police chief, said in a press conference that Majid Azizi, 56, was arrested Thursday
Continue Reading By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Often called the father of mathematics, Archimedes was one of the most famous inventors in ancient Greece, with some of his ideas and principles still in use today. But one fabled device has left scientists speculating on its existence for hundreds of years — the death ray. Now, a
Continue ReadingBy Brammhi Balarajan and Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN (CNN) — Two men were arrested Thursday and charged with causing the deaths of two people after the boat they were operating capsized in New York City’s Hudson River in July 2022, federal prosecutors said. Richard Cruz, 32, and Jaime Pinilla Gomez, 25, were charged with one
Continue ReadingBy BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida lawmakers are heading home after raising the the minimum age for strippers from 18 to 21 and passing a $117 billion state budget on the final day of their 60-day annual session. Unlike the previous two years when Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis was gearing up
Continue ReadingBy Dalia Faheid, Cheri Mossburg, Zoë Howes, Rebekah Riess and Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — The source of an oil sheen spotted in the Southern California waters of Huntington Beach late last week appeared to be “lightly weathered crude oil” and not gasoline or diesel, the US Coast Guard said Monday. The US Coast
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By David Goldman and Poppy Harlow, CNN New York (CNN) — What an absolute roller coaster ride. OpenAI, the ChatGPT maker that has been in management upheaval for more than four months, announced that its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman would return to its board of directors as part of a reshaped oversight team. Altman’s return
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