By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Mexico have restarted high-level economic talks after a four-year pause. Top advisers to presidents Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel López Obrador are expressing eagerness to make headway on issues important to both nations, including infrastructure, trade and migration. The talks were launched by
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By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Mexico have restarted high-level economic talks after a four-year pause. Top advisers to presidents Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel López Obrador are expressing eagerness to make headway on issues important to both nations, including infrastructure, trade and migration. The talks were launched by
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By Mallory Simon, CNN Forty-five percent of all Covid-19 clusters in North Carolina’s middle and high schools since July have been among sports teams, according to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS). The state’s department of health said it was seeing a “sharp increase” in clusters among sports teams. “Clusters among
Continue Reading By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer The number of movies, documentaries and other entertainment vehicles made about Muhammad Ali would make it seem that there’s not much left to offer. But documentary filmmaker Ken Burns knew there were more layers to reveal in Ali’s rise from his Louisville, Kentucky, roots into the source of Black
Continue Reading OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City man has been sentenced to more than 30 years in prison in the killing of his 75-year-old mother, who was emaciated and riddled with infected bed sores when she died in 2019. The Kansas City Star reports that 54-year-old Raymond McManness was sentenced Wednesday to 374 months.
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OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City man has been sentenced to more than 30 years in prison in the killing of his 75-year-old mother, who was emaciated and riddled with infected bed sores when she died in 2019. The Kansas City Star reports that 54-year-old Raymond McManness was sentenced Wednesday to 374 months.
Continue Reading By SOLVEJ SCHOU Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — His name is Kevin. And he’s a tabby cat. Writer Solvej Schou lived next door to Kevin and his owners for years in Southern California. But it was only when she was working from home during the pandemic that she got to know him. Kevin started
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The Chiefs begin pursuit of their third straight AFC championship on Sunday when the Browns visit Arrowhead Stadium for a rematch of last year’s divisional playoff game. Kansas City clinched the win in January when Chad Henne took over for injured quarterback Patrick Mahomes and converted a fourth down near midfield
Continue Reading By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The state of Alabama has asked to dismiss its lawsuit challenging a controversial statistical method used by the U.S. Census Bureau. The method is aimed at keeping people’s data private in numbers used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts. Alabama and three Alabama politicians had sued the Commerce Department, which
Continue Reading DETROIT (AP) — Attorneys for Detroit and the state of Michigan are seeking $204,000 in fees for successfully defending a post-election lawsuit filed by lawyers aligned with former President Donald Trump. The tally was filed two weeks after a judge said the lawyers would pay a penalty for pursuing the case. The final figure will
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business The number of first-time claims for jobless benefits dipped to a new pandemic-era low last week. That’s welcome news, and proof that the jobs recovery is still moving in the right direction. Last week, 310,000 Americans filed for jobless benefits, adjusted for seasonal swings, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Additionally,
Continue Reading ELK POINT, S.D. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials say a man accused of killing four people in Missouri has been found dead in South Dakota. According to the Union County Sheriff’s Office, 45-year-old J.T. McLean was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a car parked at a motel near Dakota Dunes early Thursday. McLean
Continue Reading ST. ANTHONY, Idaho (AP) — A judge has decided an Idaho woman charged with conspiring with her new husband to kill her two children is still not fit to participate in her own court proceedings. District Judge Steven Boyce made the decision Wednesday to extend Lori Vallow Daybell’s time in a state mental hospital by
Continue Reading By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Seven years after the ill-fated Google Glass, and five years after Snap launched its Spectacles, another tech giant is trying its hand at internet-connected smart glasses, hoping that this time around things might be different and loads of people will actually wear them. It’s Facebook. In a partnership with
Continue Reading WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Sedgwick County sheriff’s officials say two detention center officers suffered injuries to their hands when they were attacked by an inmate at the county jail. The department said in a news release that two corporals and a deputy were escorting a 56-year-old male inmate to his cell Wednesday evening when the
Continue Reading By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Small businesses from Louisiana to Connecticut are facing an uncertain recovery after being walloped by Hurricane Ida and its residual rains and flooding last week. Days after the destruction, they’re reaching out to clients and staff, assessing damage and trying to plan for the way
Continue Reading By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Small businesses from Louisiana to Connecticut are facing an uncertain recovery after being walloped by Hurricane Ida and its residual rains and flooding last week. Days after the destruction, they’re reaching out to clients and staff, assessing damage and trying to plan for the way
Continue Reading By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Money that victims of the 2015 Islamic State attacks in Paris are paying in legal fees is going not just to their own lawyers, but to defense lawyers too. It’s just one of the unusual things about the exceptional trial that opened this week into those attacks.
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By Chloe Melas, CNN The “Don’t Look Up” trailer is finally here. It’s full of celebrities from Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ariana Grande to Meryl Streep. The list doesn’t stop there, Cate Blanchett, Jonah Hill, Rob Morgan, Tyler Perry, Timothee Chalamet, Ron Perlman and many others also star in the movie. Even Chris Evans makes
Continue Reading CALLAHAN, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man won $1 million in a lottery game the same day he and his wife opened an auto repair shop. The Florida Lottery says in a news release that 46-year-old Brian Woodle bought the $5 Gold Rush Supreme scratch-off ticket from a Circle K in Callahan. He says he
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