By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — After a sharp rise in women dying in pregnancy, childbirth or postpartum earlier in the Covid-19 pandemic, rates decreased significantly in 2022, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, Black women still had higher rates of maternal deaths than other women.
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump used his day off from a criminal trial related to a past election to cast a dark, familiar shadow over the next one. The presumptive GOP nominee declined to say if he’d accept the result of his White House race with President Joe Biden in November,
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — WNBA star Brittney Griner said she thought about killing herself during her first few weeks in a Russian jail after her 2022 arrest on drug-related charges. Griner spoke for the first time about her monthslong detention in Russia during an hourlong interview that aired Wednesday night on ABC. Her memoir, “Coming Home,”
Continue ReadingBy CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — African climate-tech startups are increasingly raising money from private sources, but while those funds for climate solutions are growing, a huge gap remains in meeting the actual financial needs for climate action in Africa. Africa requires an estimated $277 billion annually to implement its climate goals.
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By Rafael Romo, Shawn Nottingham and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp on Wednesday signed immigration enforcement legislation pushed in the wake of nursing student Laken Riley’s death. Kemp said at the signing that the legislation, which was sent to his desk in late March, “became one of our top priorities
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Nickelodeon producer and writer Dan Schneider sued the makers of “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” on Wednesday, alleging the makers of the documentary series wrongly implied that he sexually abused the child actors he worked with. Schneider filed the defamation
Continue ReadingBy SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Longtime Missouri basketball coach Norm Stewart has been inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians. Stewart unveiled a bust of himself Wednesday during a ceremony in the Missouri House. The bust will be displayed in the Hall of Famous Missourians in the Jefferson City Capitol
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — Los restos óseos encontrados en el lugar, señalado por activistas buscadoras de familiares desaparecidos en México como presunto crematorio clandestino, son de origen animal y no de seres humanos, informó este miércoles la Fiscalía General de Justicia de la Ciudad de México. Tras el reporte, la Fiscalía capitalina abrió una carpeta de investigación y envió a
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — Police officers in a Wisconsin village shot and killed a student who brought a gun near a middle school Wednesday morning, according to Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul. The student from the Mount Horeb Area School District, who was a minor and not identified, never made
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN) — Este mes, se han llevado a cabo protestas propalestina en campus universitarios de todo Estados Unidos. Si bien las demandas de los manifestantes varían en cada universidad, casi todas las protestas piden a las universidades que “desinviertan” en Israel de alguna forma. Pero desinvertir puede no ser tan sencillo para
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Solomon Islands lawmakers have elected former Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele as prime minister in a development that suggests the South Pacific island nation will maintain close ties with China. Manele used his first speech as leader to promise to govern with integrity and to put his
Continue ReadingBy ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has rejected a bid to release from jail a former FBI informant who is charged with fabricating a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden’s family. Alexander Smirnov’s lawyers had urged the California-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday rejected a long-running lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists who argued that the U.S. government’s role in climate change violated their constitutional rights. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals previously ordered the case dismissed in 2020, saying that
Continue Reading By Sam Fossum, Kaanita Iyer and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Thursday met with the families of four law enforcement officers who were killed in a shooting in Charlotte, North Carolina, earlier this week. The four officers, including one deputy US marshal, were killed Monday while attempting to serve a warrant
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Transportation is planning to begin making improvements to I-70 from Columbia to Kingdom City in July, according to a project director. On Wednesday night, the department held the first of two open houses this week to gain feedback from the public, as well as display design changes coming
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By Tareq Elhelou, Zeena Saifi and Kareem Khadder, CNN Rafah (CNN) — An Israeli airstrike on Al-Shaboura refugee camp in southern Gaza’s Rafah city late Tuesday killed two young children and injured several other people, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza and the Kuwait Hospital in Rafah. Several people injured in the strike
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) This past weekend, both Morgan and Moniteau counties saw confirmed tornadoes. This lead to damage across some portions of Mid-Missouri. Thankfully, nobody was injured or killed. But this isn’t always the case with severe storms and the effects could range from loss of property to large mass casualty events like that seen
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Student journalists on the Columbia University campus knew what was coming long before police with riots shields arrived to begin arresting the pro-Palestinian protesters who had occupied a building. They had watched the situation spiral as the protesters stood their ground, refusing to abandon Hamilton Hall. Several began sleeping on
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN Español) — La pandemia de covid-19 causó más de 800.000 muertes en exceso, de las cuales unas 300.000 se atribuyen a la “gestión deficiente” del Gobierno mexicano durante la crisis sanitaria, concluye un nuevo informe presentado este martes por un comité independiente de expertos. En su reporte final, la Comisión Independiente de
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN) — Chris Hemsworth comentó que sintió que había creado una parodia de sí mismo en su aparición más reciente como Thor. El actor australiano fue elegido por primera vez como el superhéroe de Marvel a los 25 años. Quince años después, Hemsworth ya lleva 29 películas, nueve de ellas de la franquicia
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