By Liz Stark, CNN The Treasury Department sent a warning to Arizona’s Republican governor Tuesday about the state’s use of federal Covid-19 relief funds for grant programs that circumvent school mask requirements. Gov. Doug Ducey announced over the summer that Arizona would use the federal money to increase the funding available to public school districts
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN Business) — El torbellino del bitcoin continúa. El precio de la criptomoneda más valiosa del mundo se disparó por encima de los US$ 50.000 este martes por la mañana, el nivel más alto en casi cuatro semanas. Aunque no hubo un catalizador específico que impulsara la reciente subida del bitcoin,
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By JIM SALTER Associated Press BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man has been put to death for killing three workers while robbing a convenience store nearly three decades ago. The execution was carried out over objections from racial justice activists, lawmakers and even the pope. Ernest Johnson died from an injection of pentobarbital
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By JIM SALTER Associated Press BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man has been put to death for killing three workers while robbing a convenience store nearly three decades ago. The execution was carried out over objections from racial justice activists, lawmakers and even the pope. Ernest Johnson died from an injection of pentobarbital
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By TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A federal agent shot and killed by an Amtrak train passenger in Arizona is being remembered as a revered leader with a career spanning almost two decades. The Drug Enforcement Administration formally identified Group Supervisor Michael Garbo in a statement Tuesday, calling him “universally loved and respected.”
Continue Reading BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — Missouri executes Ernest Johnson for killing three people while robbing a convenience store in 1994.
Continue Reading By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — In a reversal of Trump administration policy, the State Department has disclosed the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. stockpile. It said this will aid global efforts to control the spread of such weapons. The number of U.S. weapons, including those in active status
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Microscopic tardigrades have thrived on Earth for more than 500 million years, and may well outlive humans, but the tiny creatures don’t leave behind many fossils. Hiding in plain sight, the third-ever tardigrade fossil on record has been found suspended within a piece of 16-million-year-old Dominican amber. The find includes a
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN As climate change fuels more extreme weather events, and environmental disasters like last weekend’s oil spill threaten wildlife and human health, more people are banking on clean, carbon-free energy to speed the world’s transition away from fossil fuels and usher in a net-zero future. Ending the planet’s reliance on fossil fuels
Continue Reading DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A Navy jet fighter has crashed in Death Valley National Park and authorities say the pilot ejected and was treated for minor injuries. The Navy says the jet went down at about 3 p.m. Monday in the California park in the Mojave Desert west of Las Vegas. Nobody
Continue Reading By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little says he will rescind an executive order involving COVID-19 vaccines by Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin. Also on Tuesday, the commanding general of the Idaho National Guard told McGeachin she can’t activate troops to send to the U.S.-Mexico border. Little and Major General
Continue Reading By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials have approved a long-lasting fire retardant that could significantly aid in fighting increasingly destructive wildfires. The U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday approved Perimeter Solutions’ fire retardant that is intended to be used as a preventative measure and can last for months. It’s similar to
Continue Reading By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials have approved a long-lasting fire retardant that could significantly aid in fighting increasingly destructive wildfires. The U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday approved Perimeter Solutions’ fire retardant that is intended to be used as a preventative measure and can last for months. It’s similar to
Continue Reading By SUMMER BALLENITNE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri state lawmakers are seeking answers after a federal investigation found that nearly 1,000 foster children went missing in 2019, and at least one was sex-trafficked. A House committee on Tuesday grilled social services administrators. The report says Missouri doesn’t do enough to identify at-risk kids,
Continue Reading DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — A judge sentenced a man to life in prison for strangling a 74-year-old Davenport man to death in 2020. The Quad-City Times reports that Judge Mark Fowler sentenced 20-year-old Charlie Gary, of Davenport, to the life term for the January 2020 death of Robert Long. Gary was convicted in August of
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Opponents of a new Texas ban on most abortions have asked a federal judge in Illinois to declare the law unconstitutional. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday. Courts have for weeks thwarted abortion providers’ efforts to block the nation’s most restrictive abortion law. The latest legal challenge comes as the Biden administration waits
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — Former six-term Sheriff Joe Arpaio is attempting another comeback, this time running for mayor of the affluent Phoenix suburb where he has lived for the last two decades. The former lawman on Tuesday announced his entry in the 2022 mayor’s race in Fountain Hills. After getting crushed by a Democratic challenger in
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes (CNN Español) — Aves que mueren por hipotermia, tortugas envenenadas, peces asfixiados: los derrames de petróleo, con sus químicos tóxicos, pueden tener consecuencias mortales para la vida marina. Aves y peces ya comenzaron a aparecer muertos en la costa de California tras el derrame de petróleo sucedido el sábado. Hasta el momento se desconoce
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El sencillo “Peaches” de Justin Bieber encendió las listas de éxitos y ahora el músico quiere que la gente pueda encender sus propios cigarrillos de marihuana. El cantante se asoció con la empresa Palms para vender una línea de edición limitada de cannabis. “Esta línea de edición limitada de una sola
Continue Reading By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers say a potential plea deal that would have averted a criminal trial for an associate of Rudy Giuliani never materialized despite talks. A prosecutor told U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken on Tuesday that the talks with Lev Parnas never reached the stage where a
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