Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court has denied the latest appeal by a man who has been on death row for 30 years after he was convicted of killing two college students. The decision could clear the way for the state to set an execution date for Willie Jerome Manning, but
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Ghana’s biggest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress, has held nationwide protests. It demanded an audit of the voter roll for the upcoming December general election. Millions of supporters reportedly participated in Tuesday’s protests. That’s according to NDC member Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa on TV3. Protests took place in all
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three bills Tuesday to crack down on the use of artificial intelligence to create false images or videos in political ads ahead of the 2024 election. A new law, set to take effect immediately, makes it illegal to create and publish deepfakes related to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A federal court in Brazil has dismissed charges against one of three men arrested in the killings of an Indigenous peoples expert and a British journalist in the Amazon, ruling there wasn’t sufficient evidence to try him. The Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region also decided Tuesday that
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — An attack on a military base in eastern Colombia killed two soldiers and injured at least 21, Colombia’s military says, as tensions escalate between Colombia’s government and one of the nation’s largest remaining rebel groups. Colombia’s military blamed the National Liberation Army for the attack, with President Gustavo Petro
Continue ReadingAndrea Saint Martin (CNN) — Fiscales ucranianos iniciaron una investigación sobre la presunta ejecución por parte de Rusia de un soldado ucraniano, quien fue encontrado muerto con una espada inscrita con las palabras “por Kursk” en su cuerpo, en un aparente acto de venganza por la reciente incursión de Kyiv en la región fronteriza rusa.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Mandatory jail time and what juries get instructed to consider could guide the first uses of a new state law on car chases with police, according to legal experts. Prosecutors can now consider charging people with aggravated fleeing a stop, dubbed Valentine’s Law by state lawmakers this session. People who drive
Continue ReadingCésar López (CNN Español) — Campeón del mundo y bicampeón de América, sin duda alguna Rodrigo De Paul es uno de los referentes actuales del fútbol mundial. La tracción mediática del “motorcito”, como le apodan en Argentina, es tan grande como su influencia futbolística junto a Lionel Messi y las figuras de la selección de
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Rock Bridge’s Crew Norden is our Week 3 SportsZone Football Friday player of the week winner! You can watch the play in the video player above. Up next – the Bruins will host the Capital City Cavaliers in CMAC action on Friday, Sept. 21 at 7 p.m.
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By Kayla Tausche, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Biden administration submitted a special request to congressional committees in August asking for a boost to funding for the US Secret Service in the weeks leading up to and after the 2024 election, according to sources familiar with the matter, warning of “insufficient resources” for the agency
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By Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN New York (CNN) — United Auto Workers union President Shawn Fain said Tuesday the group plans to hold strike authorization votes against Stellantis because the automaker was failing to live up to guarantees it made during a labor deal struck last year. In a speech to members Tuesday
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — At least 30 people have been killed in the past two weeks in Mexico’s northern state of Sinaloa as two factions of the powerful Sinaloa cartel continue to clash. Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval said Tuesday that two military personnel were among those killed in the fighting that started Sept. 9,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. military has moved about 130 soldiers along with mobile rocket launchers to a desolate island in Alaska amid a recent increase in Russian military planes and vessels approaching the state. Eight Russian military planes and four navy vessels, including two submarines, have come close to Alaska in
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — In newly released audio from a 2011 interview with “60 Minutes,” a then-21-year-old Taylor Swift says she was, at the time, not inspired to sing about topics related to politics. It wasn’t until over a decade into Swift’s career, in 2018, that she decided to finally broach the topic
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — In a Costa Rican rainforest, a small, semiaquatic lizard called a diving anole leaps into a stream. Minutes pass, but the anole doesn’t surface for air, as these lizards typically do. Instead, the submerged lizard crouches on a river rock, a small air bubble atop its head expanding like a balloon
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea and Japan’s militaries say North Korea had test-fired multiple ballistic missiles. The launches Wednesday were made days after North Korea showcased a secretive uranium enrichment facility. Leader Kim Jong Un had been calling for a rapid expansion of his nuclear weapons program. Japan’s Defense Ministry didn’t
Continue ReadingAndrea Saint Martin (CNN Español) — Un cuarto estadounidense vinculado por el Gobierno del presidente Nicolás Maduro con un supuesto “plan contra Venezuela” fue detenido este martes, dijo el ministro del Interior, Diosdado Cabello. El funcionario agregó que este nuevo arrestado —cuyo nombre no reveló— estaba fotografiando instalaciones estratégicas. “Lo veníamos siguiendo, fue capturado aquí
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Londres (CNN) — ¿Es el preludio de un ataque más amplio o la totalidad del mensaje a Hezbollah? Esta es la pregunta clave para las próximas 48 horas en el Medio Oriente, mientras el grupo extremista libanés asimila la disrupción y violación masiva de sus comunicaciones más sagradas. La oleada de explosiones del
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A grand jury has returned a murder indictment against the mother and two grandparents of a 14-year-old West Virginia girl whose emaciated body was found in her home. The death of Kyneddi Miller prompted a state investigation into whether law enforcement and child protective services could have intervened to
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — A small airplane has landed safely at Logan International Airport in Boston despite having just one of its landing wheels deployed. The Cape Air Cessna 402 had two passengers and one crew member when it landed Tuesday afternoon. It had taken off from Logan and then returned, according to an official at
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