By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A proposal designed to thwart environmentally and socially conscious investing has cleared the Kansas Legislature but divisions within its GOP majorities kept the measure from being a strong as some conservatives wanted. Lawmakers on Thursday approved a bill that would prevent the state, its pension
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN The 13-year-old son of Rebekah Jones, who claimed she was fired for refusing to manipulate state Covid-19 data while working in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ state Health Department, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly threatening a shooting at a middle school. The boy, whom CNN is not naming because he is a
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By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A proposal designed to thwart environmentally and socially conscious investing has cleared the Kansas Legislature but divisions within its GOP majorities kept the measure from being a strong as some conservatives wanted. Lawmakers on Thursday approved a bill that would prevent the state, its pension
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — En México, la SecretarÃa de Gestión Integral de Riesgos informó a través de su cuenta de Twitter que los equipos de emergencia combaten un incendio en la Central de Abasto, ubicado en la alcaldÃa Iztapalapa de la capital del paÃs. En entrevista con Foro TV, afiliada de CNN, el director general
Continue Reading By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press SAN PEDRO CUTUD, Philippines (AP) — At least 12 Filipinos are to be nailed to crosses to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a gory Good Friday tradition that is rejected by the Catholic church but draws huge crowds of devotees and tourists to the Philippines, an Asian bastion of Christianity.
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher on Friday ahead of a U.S. job market update that traders hope might encourage the Federal Reserve to ease off plans for more interest rate hikes. Shanghai, Tokyo and Seoul gained. Hong Kong and Australian markets were closed for
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Some 200 firefighters battled a huge blaze in Mexico City’s sprawling wholesale market Thursday night without any reported injuries. The Central de Abasto supplies the capital’s other neighborhood markets, restaurants and other parts of the country. Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said the fire started in an area of the market
Continue Reading By AMANDA SEITZ and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Most U.S. adults are opposed to proposals that would cut into Medicare or Social Security benefits, and a majority support raising taxes on the nation’s highest earners to keep Medicare running as is. The new findings, revealed in a March poll by The Associated
Continue Reading By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China is imposing sanctions against the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and other U.S.- and Asian-based organizations in retaliation for the closely watched meeting this week between the U.S. House speaker and Taiwan’s president. The Reagan library in California was the site of the rare high-level, bipartisan
Continue ReadingBy David McKenzie, Ghazi Balkiz and Maria Avdeeva, CNN The sheared nose cone of the Antonov An-225 cargo plane towers over Yevhen Bashynsky. Affectionately known as the Mriya, or “Dream,” the leviathan plane was the pride of Ukraine and of 38-year-old Bashynsky, one of its pilots. This is the first time Bashynsky has come back
Continue ReadingBy David McKenzie, Ghazi Balkiz and Maria Avdeeva, CNN The sheared nose cone of the Antonov An-225 cargo plane towers over Yevhen Bashynsky. Affectionately known as the Mriya, or “Dream,” the leviathan plane was the pride of Ukraine and of 38-year-old Bashynsky, one of its pilots. This is the first time Bashynsky has come back
Continue ReadingBy Luke McGee, CNN US President Joe Biden will visit Belfast, Northern Ireland, this week to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA), a peace deal that brought an end to decades of sectarian violence on the island of Ireland known as “the Troubles.” A lot has changed since 1998, when the deal was reached, but the accord lives large in the imaginations of
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than a year, the Federal Reserve’s inflation fighters have been tightening their grip on the American economy with nine straight interest rate hikes. A key goal has been to slow the sizzling pace of hiring to help cool price pressures. So far, the job
Continue ReadingBy Emiko Jozuka and Brad Lendon, CNN Rescuers are scanning waters off southern Japan for 10 people on board a Japanese military helicopter that apparently crashed into the sea on Thursday, Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada said. “I will continue to do my best to collect information on the damage and search for human lives,” said
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung and Moeri Karasawa, CNN Across Japan, nearly 1.5 million people have withdrawn from society, leading reclusive lives largely confined within the walls of their home, according to a new government survey. These are Japan’s hikikomori, or shut-ins, defined by the government as people who have been isolated for at least six months.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County prosecutors have charged a Columbia woman with a felony after her infant allegedly overdosed. Jessina Pedroza, 29, is charged with first-degree endangering the welfare of a child. She is being held without bond at the Boone County Jail. An arraignment was held Thursday at the Boone County Courthouse. Boone County Jail
Continue ReadingBy Camila Bernal and Sarah Moon, CNN A California dermatologist was indicted by a grand jury for allegedly poisoning her husband with liquid drain cleaner, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. Yue “Emily” Yu, 46, has been indicted on three felony counts of poisoning and one felony count of domestic battery with corporal
Continue ReadingBy Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN Indiana Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed a bill Wednesday to ban gender affirming care for minors in the state, following a growing trend of GOP-led states restricting transgender youth’s access to such treatments after Idaho enacted similar legislation earlier in the week. “Permanent gender-changing surgeries with lifelong impacts and medically prescribed
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — An unused lifeboat, a door and other fragments believed to be from a Japanese army helicopter have been found after the Black Hawk carrying 10 crew members was presumed to have crashed at sea. Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada told reporters none of the missing crew members has
Continue Reading By DAVID SOLOMON Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Kasperi Kapanen scored 1:16 into overtime to help the St. Louis Blues beat the New York Rangers 3-2. Kapanen took a pass from Brayden Schenn to score his 15th goal of the season for St. Louis, which has won two in a row. Tyler Pitlick and
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