By FATIMA HUSSEIN and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press GUANGZHOU, China (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Saturday that upcoming U.S.-China talks will tackle a top Biden administration complaint that Beijing’s economic model and trade practices put American companies and workers at an unfair competitive disadvantage. “I think the Chinese realize how concerned we
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Another fire broke out on Business Loop 70 in Columbia on Friday morning, this time leaving one fire fighter injured with non-life-threatening injuries. Fire marshals are investigating the cause and origin of Friday morning’s fire, according to a press release from the Columbia Fire Department. Friday’s fire was one of multiple fires
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — The top of the country music charts is filled with familiar names: Zach Bryan. Luke Combs. Morgan Wallen. These are country heavyweights — names any country fan would recognize. Then, sitting among them all, face obscured by the tip of a cowboy hat, is Beyoncé. On March 29, Beyoncé
Continue ReadingBy MARC BOWMAN Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — MJ Melendez broke an eighth-inning tie with a single to help the Kansas City Royals beat the Chicago White Sox 2-1 on Friday night. With one out, Melendez hit a soft liner to left off Michael Kopech (0-1) to score pinch-runner Dairon Blanco. Chris Stratton
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By Chris Lau, Sophie Jeong and Hassan Tayir, CNN (CNN) — Three people died after typhoon-like winds pulled them out through their apartment windows in southern China, as extreme weather battered the region over the past week. A total of seven people had died in Jiangxi province since the exceptionally strong winds began on Sunday,
Continue ReadingAnabella González (CNN) –– El portavoz presidencial del Gobierno de Argentina, Manuel Adorni, anunció el jueves que el Poder Ejecutivo enviará un proyecto con reformas para dos artículos de la ley de Educación Nacional, con el objetivo de “penar el adoctrinamiento en las escuelas”. Y adelantó que se dispondrá de “un canal” para que padres
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Two weeks after Hong Kong introduced a new national security law, life in the city appears unchanged. A 2020 security law drew thousands of protesters to the streets when it was enacted. Now, that’s seen as too risky. This time, there’s a deeper, quieter wave of
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) –– Una sala de apelación de Ecuador declaró culpable este viernes al programador sueco Ola Bini, amigo del cofundador de Wikileaks Julian Assange, del delito de acceso no consentido a un sistema informático, y revocó la sentencia anterior que decidió que era inocente, informó la Fiscalía del país en un comunicado. Con
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KMIZ) The No. 11 Mizzou softball team couldn’t get back into the win column on Friday night. The No. 19 Arkansas Razorbacks topped the Tigers 5-2 to take a one-game advantage in the weekend series. The loss dropped MU to 29-9 overall and 4-6 in SEC action. The Tigers have lost two-straight after
Continue ReadingBy TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Perfectly dominant. Nothing new for South Carolina. With All-America center Kamilla Cardoso scoring 22 points, the Gamecocks emphatically kept their unbeaten season going, advancing to the championship game of the women’s NCAA Tournament with a 78-59 victory over North Carolina State on Friday night. The talented
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is suggesting that the prosecution of rioters who violently attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, may be politically motivated. Kennedy’s statement, issued by his campaign on Friday, further aligns him with former President Donald Trump’s narrative
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is set to consider a bill next week that would reauthorize a surveillance program that U.S. officials consider vital to national security but that critics say raises privacy concerns. The action comes shortly before the program known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A person familiar with the contract says Chiefs defensive end Mike Danna has agreed on a three-year, $24 million deal to remain in Kansas City. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the deal is pending a physical. Danna had
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) –– La presidenta de Perú, Dina Boluarte, reconoció este viernes que cometió una “equivocación” al aceptar “en calidad de préstamos” los relojes Rolex que ha portado y por los cuales la Fiscalía abrió una investigación en su contra por supuesto enriquecimiento ilícito, delito del que se volvió a desmarcar. La presidenta de
Continue ReadingOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A special master has been appointed for a federal women’s prison in California known for rampant sexual abuse against inmates. A judge on Friday named Wendy Still to oversee the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin. The prison is about 21 miles east of Oakland. It marks the first time a facility
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By Daniel Dale and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — In a formal written statement on Friday, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeated the wildly inaccurate claim that the participants in the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol “carried no weapons” – and then, three hours later, said he was retracting the claim because
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A lawsuit that names Sean “Diddy” Combs as a co-defendant alleges that his son Christian “King” Combs sexually assaulted a woman working on a yacht chartered by his father. The suit filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court says Sean Combs created the circumstances that
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The city of Poplar Bluff is expecting 40,000 extra people to gather in the city to view Monday’s solar eclipse, according to the president of the Poplar Bluff Chamber of Commerce. Poplar Bluff — with a population of around 16,000 people — is one of the southeastern Missouri cities that will be
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– Una de las parejas más divertidas de Hollywood decidió separarse. En una declaración conjunta, que publicaron en sus respectivas cuentas de Instagram este viernes, Isla Fisher y Sacha Baron Cohen anunciaron que el año pasado presentaron la solicitud para terminar su matrimonio. Sobre una foto de la pareja vestida con ropa de
Continue ReadingPORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) — A jury has found three people guilty in the killings of a Washington state family in 2017. KING-TV reports Danie Kelly, Jr., Robert Watson III, and Watson’s younger brother, Johnny Watson, were each found guilty Friday of four counts of premeditated first-degree murder and other charges. Christale Careaga and teenagers
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