By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Some cities are urging President Joe Biden’s administration to loosen its rules for spending $350 billion of coronavirus relief money directed toward state and local governments. The American Rescue Plan already provides significant leeway on spending decisions. But local governments that can show revenue losses have even greater flexibility
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By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Some cities are urging President Joe Biden’s administration to loosen its rules for spending $350 billion of coronavirus relief money directed toward state and local governments. The American Rescue Plan already provides significant leeway on spending decisions. But local governments that can show revenue losses have even greater flexibility
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By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Once-endangered alligators are thriving in the wild, so Louisiana authorities are proposing another cut in the percentage that farmers must return to marshes where their eggs were laid. The big armored reptiles don’t breed well in captivity, so farmers are allowed to collect eggs from wild
Continue Reading By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Once-endangered alligators are thriving in the wild, so Louisiana authorities are proposing another cut in the percentage that farmers must return to marshes where their eggs were laid. The big armored reptiles don’t breed well in captivity, so farmers are allowed to collect eggs from wild
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By Vasco Cotovio and Holly Yan, CNN, and Marlon Sorto, CNN en Español An alleged financier to embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been extradited from Cape Verde to the US and is scheduled to appear in court Monday, the US Department of Justice said Sunday. Colombian businessman Alex Saab is expected to make his
Continue Reading DETROIT (AP) — Dan Benishek, a Michigan surgeon who served three terms in Congress, has died at age 69. In a statement, his family says he died Friday. Details about how he died were not released. The Republican from Crystal Falls represented northern Michigan, including the Upper Peninsula, from 2011 to 2017. In Congress, Benishek
Continue Reading HAVEN DALEY ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — Bill Clinton spent a fifth night at a Southern California hospital where he is recovering from an infection but is expected to be released Sunday after making great progress. Clinton’s spokesman Angel Ureña said in a statement Saturday that the former president would remain one more night at the
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Diecisiete misioneros de Estados Unidos y Canadá, algunos de ellos menores de edad, fueron secuestrados en Haití el sábado, según la organización Christian Aid Ministries. “El grupo de dieciséis ciudadanos estadounidenses y uno canadiense incluye a cinco hombres, siete mujeres y cinco niños”, dice un comunicado emitido por la
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As temperatures continue to drop across the Show Me State, many are reaching for the thermostat and one national association is reminding homeowners of the dangers of heating equipment.
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Green party has given its blessing to opening formal coalition talks on a new government that would speed up the country’s exit from coal-fueled power and the expansion of renewable energy. A congress of the environmentalist party signed off Sunday on negotiators’ recommendation to open full-fledged talks on a government led
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Police say three people have been killed in the crash of a helicopter in southwestern Germany. The aircraft crash in a forested area near the small town of Buchen on Sunday afternoon. The crash left wreckage strewn over several hundred meters (yards). Police in nearby Heilbronn couldn’t immediately give any information on
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By Faith Karimi, CNN Call it a lucky streak! A 47-year-old man recently won $100,000 on a scratch-off ticket in Maryland — and it’s not his first time. Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart. Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart. The weekend that was
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By Hannah Ryan, CNN Spain‘s literary world has been thrown into chaos after a coveted book prize was awarded to “Carmen Mola” — an acclaimed female thriller writer who turned out to be the pseudonym of three men. Television scriptwriters Agustín Martínez, Jorge Díaz and Antonio Mercero shocked guests, who included Spain’s King Felipe and
Continue Reading The Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — At least 18 people have died a day after torrential rains swept through villages and flooded roads in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Local officials said rescuers recovered the bodies in two of the worst-hit districts, where the heavy downpours triggered massive landslides, according to the Press
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Alex Saab, el presunto financista del asediado presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro, comparecerá ante un tribunal en Florida el lunes 18 de octubre, informó el domingo el comunicado del Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos. “Se espera que él [Alex Saab] haga su primera comparecencia ante el tribunal el lunes
Continue Reading By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Persistent concerns about the first new Alzheimer’s treatment in more than 20 years are curbing access more than four months after regulators approved it. Several major medical centers remain undecided on whether to use Biogen’s Aduhelm. Big names like the Cleveland Clinic and Mass General Brigham in Boston say
Continue Reading By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Persistent concerns about the first new Alzheimer’s treatment in more than 20 years are curbing access more than four months after regulators approved it. Several major medical centers remain undecided on whether to use Biogen’s Aduhelm. Big names like the Cleveland Clinic and Mass General Brigham in Boston say
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI The Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has donated religious offerings to a Tokyo shrine viewed by Chinese and Koreans as a symbol of Japanese wartime aggression. Kishida did not visit Yasukuni Shrine, but donated “masakaki” religious ornaments to mark the shrine’s autumn festival. It was the
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By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Much of the US Supreme Court’s business occurs in private, as the nine justices meet alone around a rectangular table in a small oak-paneled room. The results of some of those internal deliberations become public when rulings in cases, fully briefed and openly argued, are
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Celebrities will join Prince William in London for the inaugural awards ceremony of his Earthshot Prize. The ambitious environmental program aims to find new ideas and technologies around the world to tackle climate change and Earth’s most pressing challenges. Judges including naturalist and veteran broadcaster David Attenborough, actor Cate Blanchett and singer
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