Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Missouri planea ejecutar esta semana a Brian Dorsey, condenado a muerte por los homicidios de su prima y su marido en 2006, pero una petición de clemencia muestra que decenas de personas han pedido al gobernador Mike Parsons que le perdone la vida, citando la rehabilitación de Dorsey y lo que
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Monday revived the Palestinian Authority’s hopes of joining the United Nations as a full member. But the United States said relations between Israel and the Palestinians are far from ripe. That all but quashes the Palestinian Authority’s U.N. membership hopes for
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TONIGHT: A weak cold front passing through tonight will settle just southeast of mid-MO. Temperatures fall into the upper 40s under partly to mostly cloudy skies near the boundary. This will all help keep temperatures warm overnight. TOMORROW: Mostly dry weather is in store for Columbia and possibly Jefferson City on Tuesday. Rain will be
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By Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Religious authorities in Malaysia have stepped up moral policing efforts during the holy month of Ramadan in what critics warn has been part of a wider recent shift toward a more conservative form of Islam in the multi-racial and culturally diverse nation. Ramadan, regarded as the holiest month in the
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By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Using less salt in your food may seem boring, but the payoffs could be as big as a lowered risk of death, new research has found. Using a salt substitute when cooking was linked with a lower risk of dying early from any cause or from cardiovascular disease in
Continue ReadingBy WILL GRAVES AP National Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — It isn’t just Caitlin Clark. And no one knows that better than the Iowa superstar. While the two-time Associated Press Player of the Year understands her impact on the women’s NCAA Tournament during the Hawkeyes’ run to a second straight title game — with the sellouts
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) –– La secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores de México, Alicia Bárcena, explicó este lunes lo que sigue tras la ruptura de relaciones con Ecuador, al recapitular cómo sucedió la entrada de la Policía ecuatoriana a la embajada mexicana en Quito, lo cual el país consideró una violación al derecho internacional. Gobierno de México
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY MEYER and TIFFANY STANLEY Associated Press For conservative, anti-abortion Christians, former President Donald Trump delivered in four years what no other Republican before him had been able to do: A conservative majority U.S. Supreme Court that would go on to overturn Roe v. Wade, a Holy Grail of the movement. With abortion rights
Continue ReadingBy LISA RATHKE Associated Press Court documents say a man charged with setting a fire outside the Vermont office of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders had been staying at an area hotel for nearly two months. Shant Michael Soghomonian was spotted outside Sanders’ office the day before and the day of the fire. Federal agents say
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A retired three-star Venezuelan army general who twice tried to mount coups against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been sentenced to over 21 years in prison after he admitted providing weapons to drug-funded rebels. Cliver Alcalá was sentenced Monday by federal Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein in Manhattan. Alcalá pleaded guilty last
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View a replay of the ABC 17 News Eclipse Special in the web player above. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) People around the country were able to see a solar eclipse on Monday. View photos of some of the scenes from Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and Carbondale, Illinois, which were both in the path of totality. Photos of
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Politicians and news outlets have expressed outrage over the expulsion of a Colorado politics reporter from a Republican gathering over the weekend. Sandra Fish, a reporter for The Colorado Sun, was told Saturday that the state party chairman believed her reporting was “very unfair.” Journalists
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court judge on Monday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial while he mounts a last-minute fight to move the case out of Manhattan, foiling the former president’s latest attempt
Continue ReadingBy ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Jurors in the case of an Arizona rancher charged with fatally shooting a migrant on his border property will be allowed to visit the scene of the killing. Judge Thomas Fink issued his decision to allow the visit as the trial neared its halfway point last week.
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By Melanie Hicken and Blake Ellis, CNN (CNN) — US Coast Guard leaders illegally used nondisclosure agreements to prevent sexual assault victims from speaking out about their alleged attacks, according to a congressional inquiry sparked by a CNN report into sexual misconduct at the prestigious Coast Guard Academy. The use of the agreements appeared to
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Billie Eilish announced that her highly anticipated third studio album, “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” will be released on May 17. The news arrived Monday via Instagram, where Eilish shared the album artwork. It features the pop singer floating in a body of water after
Continue ReadingNEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans R&B singer Clarence “Frogman” Henry has died at age 87. In 1956, he recorded “Ain’t Got No Home,” finding almost instant stardom with the song in which he imitated a frog’s voice. The song raced up the national charts. He scored another hit in 1960 with “I Don’t Know
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City’s casinos were less profitable in 2023 than they were a year earlier, even with help from the state’s booming online gambling market. Figures released Monday by New Jersey gambling regulators show the nine casinos collectively reported a gross operating profit of $744 million
Continue ReadingBy Christina Maxouris, Amanda Musa and Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — A man fired a gun inside a law office in the Summerlin area near Las Vegas during a child custody deposition hearing Monday morning, killing two people, Las Vegas police said. The shooter also is dead, and police believe he took his own life,
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– Dos personas murieron tras un tiroteo en una oficina de abogados en el área de Summerlin de Las Vegas, Nevada, este lunes, dijo el Departamento de Policía Metropolitana de Las Vegas. El sospechoso también falleció después de quitarse la vida, indicó el sheriff Kevin McMahill durante una conferencia de prensa. Las víctimas
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