By Zoe Sottile, CNN Putting his eggs in one basket proved fruitful for one Virginia man who purchased not one, but 20 winning lottery tickets with the same numbers. Alexandria resident Fekru Hirpo purchased 20 identical tickets, all with the four-digit combination of 2-5-2-7, from a gas station in Arlington, according to a Wednesday news
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By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Of his countless stories of his life as a hairdresser in Iraq, the one Qaiss al-Sharaa most enjoys retelling is about the day April 9, 2003, when he watched Iraqis and American Marines pull down the statue of Saddam Hussein in front of his
Continue ReadingBy Nick Paton Walsh, Kostyantin Gak, Natalie Gallón and Yulia Kesaieva, CNN A group of 31 Ukrainian children have been reunited with their families months after they were taken from their homes and moved to Russian-occupied territories. A CNN team on the ground in Kyiv watched as the last of the children climbed off a
Continue ReadingBy Nick Paton Walsh, Kostyantin Gak, Natalie Gallón and Yulia Kesaieva, CNN A group of 31 Ukrainian children have been reunited with their families months after they were taken from their homes and moved to Russian-occupied territories. A CNN team on the ground in Kyiv watched as the last of the children climbed off a
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SEATTLE (AP) — Joshua Atencio and Raúl Ruidíaz scored second-half goals to spark the Seattle Sounders to a 3-0 victory over St. Louis City. The Sounders (5-1-1) improved to 6-1-4 all-time against expansion teams at home. Seattle’s only loss against first-year teams came against LAFC in 2018. Seattle handed St. Louis City (5-2-0) its second
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Diego Rubio scored in the second half, William Yarbrough made it stand up and the Colorado Rapids earned their first win of the season with a 1-0 victory over Sporting Kansas City. Neither team scored until Rubio took a pass from Darren Yapi and found the net in the 68th
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess and Jennifer Feldman, CNN Two police officers and another person were killed in an exchange of gunfire during a traffic stop in northwestern Wisconsin on Saturday, authorities said. The gunfire erupted after an officer from the Chetek Police Department conducted a traffic stop in Cameron around 3:38 p.m. local time, according to
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Two Wisconsin police officers were killed in a shooting during a traffic stop on Saturday. The Wisconsin Department of Justice says it is investigating the shooting Saturday afternoon in Cameron, Wisconsin. The state justice department says in a statement that an officer from the Chetek Police Department conducted a traffic stop
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN A team of South Korean spies and American private investigators quietly gathered at the South Korean intelligence service in January, just days after North Korea fired three ballistic missiles into the sea. For months, they’d been tracking $100 million stolen from a California cryptocurrency firm named Harmony, waiting for North Korean
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SEDALIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A suspect reportedly attempted to stab a Sedalia Police officer Saturday afternoon. Officers responded to reports of a robbery in the 800 block of Ruth Ann Drive around 3:45 Saturday afternoon, according to a news release. The report came from an anonymous caller who said they were robbed at gunpoint. The call
Continue Reading By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said its forces attacked targets in Syria early Sunday after six rockets were launched from Syrian territory in two batches toward Israel in a rare attack from Israel’s northeastern neighbor. After the second barrage of three rockets, Israel initially said it responded with artillery
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut says he expects to undergo surgery to repair a broken leg he suffered Saturday during a victory parade for the University of Connecticut men’s basketball team. Blumenthal says in a tweet that a fellow parade goer tripped and fell on him during the event in Hartford,
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Tres personas resultaron heridas en un “incidente de tiroteo” en un centro comercial en las afueras de Wilmington el sábado por la noche, según la Policía Estatal de Delaware. Múltiples agencias de aplicación de la ley y otros servicios de emergencia acudieron a la escena en Christiana Mall, donde
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — En su batalla de un año con Disney, el gobernador de Florida, Ron DeSantis, se apoyó repetidamente en el elemento sorpresa en sus intentos de superar al gigante del entretenimiento y su ejército de ejecutivos, abogados de alto precio y cabilderos con conexiones políticas. “Nadie puede ver venir esto”,
Continue ReadingBy Mohammed Tawfeeq and Jo Shelley, CNN Jordan has warned of “catastrophic consequences” if Israeli forces were to storm the al-Aqsa mosque again. Should the Israeli police, “assault worshipers again, in an attempt to empty [the mosque] of worshipers, in preparation for major incursions into the mosque,” it would, “push the situation towards more tension
Continue Reading By MIKE COOK Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Ryan Hartman and Sam Steel scored short-handed goals 20 seconds apart in the first period and the Minnesota Wild earned two key late-season points by beating the St. Louis Blues 5-3. Freddy Gaudreau, Jared Spurgeon and Jonas Brodin also scored to help the Wild end
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar, CNN At least five people died in a head-on crash in Georgia on Saturday afternoon, authorities said. The vehicles collided on Highway 142 at Adams Circle in Newton County, about 40 miles east of Atlanta, according to Newton County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Jack Redlinger. All five people who died were riding in
Continue Reading By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — It was a celebratory atmosphere for officials gathered just hours away from several of India’s major tiger reserves in the southern city of Mysuru, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Sunday to much applause that the country’s tiger population has steadily grown to over 3,000 since
Continue Reading By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — Nolan Arenado hit his 300th career homer, Jordan Walker also went deep and the St. Louis Cardinals won 6-0 at Milwaukee on Saturday to end their four-game skid and snap the Brewers’ six-game winning streak. Arenado and Walker hit two-run shots off Eric Lauer (1-1) in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two people in Boone County died from COVID-19 last month, bringing the total county number of deaths since the start of the pandemic to 299. The information comes from the latest Columbia Boone County Health Department report. According to the report, 65 positive COVID-19 tests have been reported in the county since
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