By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press was able to call almost every Republican Super Tuesday contest for former President Donald Trump after initial results revealed no path for former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley to overtake him. The AP declared Trump the winner across a dozen states shortly after polls
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Oregon (AP) — A jury in Oregon has ordered PacifiCorp to pay more than $42 million to 10 victims of devastating wildfires on Labor Day 2020 — the latest verdict in litigation that is expected to see the electric utility on the hook for billions in damages. Last June a jury found PacifiCorp liable
Continue ReadingBy ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A leading South Sudanese academic and activist living in exile in the United States has been charged in Arizona along with a Utah man born in the African nation on charges of conspiring to buy and illegally export millions of dollars’ worth of weapons to overthrow the
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — A man has been found guilty of shooting and killing a Chicago police officer, wounding her partner and firing at a third officer in August 2021. Emonte Morgan, 23, of Chicago was found guilty Tuesday of killing Officer Ella French, seriously injuring Officer Carlos Yanez Jr. and shooting at a third police
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Baseball worked around a bases loaded jam in the ninth inning on Wednesday evening at Taylor Stadium to secure a 5-4 win over Lindenwood. The Tigers entered the final frame with a two-run lead, and although they surrendered one run to the Lions in that inning, Mizzou held on to capture
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Han pasado ya 20 años desde que se publicó la última novela de Gabriel García Márquez, “Memoria de mis putas tristes”. Sin embargo, el legado del autor original de Aracataca, Colombia, no terminó ahí. Existía otro trabajo del que poco se sabía y que tan solo figuraba en los
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — El gobernador Ron DeSantis enviará 140 policías estatales en toda la Florida, incluyendo Miami Beach, en un esfuerzo por frenar los brotes de violencia durante “spring break”. La medida se produce después de dos tiroteos mortales en Miami Beach durante el “spring break” del 2023, que llevaron que se declarara el
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers said Tuesday that the ex-president deserves a new trial and a fresh chance to tell a jury why he berated writer E. Jean Carroll for her sex abuse claims against him after she revealed them five years ago. The lawyers made the assertion
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Paul Whelan, estadounidense detenido en Rusia desde hace más de cinco años, dijo este martes a CNN que la muerte del opositor ruso Alexey Navalny en una prisión el mes pasado resulta “extremadamente preocupante” para él. “No puedo hablar demasiado por razones obvias, pero una cosa que sí diré es que
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI, TRISHA AHMED and MARK VANCLEAVE Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Joe Biden has dealt challenger Dean Phillips a Super Tuesday defeat in the Minnesota congressman’s own home state, while former President Donald Trump has beaten Nikki Haley in the state’s Republican primary. Minnesota has 75 Democratic and 39 Republican national convention
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The MU softball team will pay at home for the first time in 2024, when the Auburn Tigers come to town over the weekend. Head coach Larissa Anderson and company will open up the gates to the Mizzou Softball Stadium as the No. 12 team in the land, sitting at 17-2 overall.
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By Nick Paton Walsh, Anna-Maja Rappard and Brice Laine, CNN Ocheretyne, Ukraine (CNN) — A T-64 tank sits hidden in a trench just outside of Chasiv Yar, surrounded by the cacophony of Russian forces trying to take Ivanivske, a tiny village on the outskirts of Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine. Yet its gun was not fired once during a 72-hour period, an hour of which
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Super Tuesday is traditionally the biggest day nationwide for primary elections and caucuses before the actual Election Day in November. Until now, only one or two primaries or caucuses have been on the same day. On Tuesday, voters in 16 different states are choosing who they want to run
Continue ReadingBy Chandelis Duster and Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is exploring options for his office to appeal a federal court’s decision to block part of the state’s Individual Freedom Act, also known as the “Stop WOKE Act.” In a ruling filed Monday, the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he is concerned by “unsafe and destabilizing behavior” in the South China Sea such as the latest collision between Chinese and Philippine ships. He spoke on Wednesday after wrapping up a Southeast Asian leaders’ summit that called for disputes to
Continue ReadingCLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A large fire followed by multiple explosions at a building in suburban Detroit killed one person and injured a firefighter. Authorities believe canisters containing gas chemicals may have been responsible for the explosions during Monday night’s fire. They haven’t yet determined the cause of the blaze. The federal Bureau of
Continue ReadingMauricio Torres (CNN) — El expresidente de Perú, Martín Vizcarra, negó “rotundamente” que él o su partido político, Perú Primero, hayan organizado un complot contra el presidente del Consejo de Ministros, Alberto Otárola. “No conozco y menos he hablado con Nicanor Boluarte ni nadie de este gobierno”, dijo en X, antes Twitter. El exmandatario respondió
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After many years of debate, roll carts were used in Columbia this week for trash collection.
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Momentum is building in a case regarding homeless encampments that will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court next month and could have major implications for cities as homelessness nationwide has reached record highs. Dozens of briefs have been filed in recent days, including from the
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By Jennifer Hansler, Jeremy Diamond and MJ Lee, CNN (CNN) — When top Biden administration officials conveyed their frustrations over the “unacceptable and unsustainable” situation in Gaza to Benny Gantz, they were delivering their message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin’s Netanyahu’s chief political foe. Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken met
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