By Lauren Lee, CNN People of color in the US face heightened risks of harm from climate-induced disasters. Now, non-profits are pushing to remedy that disparity with more equitable approaches to disaster preparedness, response and recovery. “Until we really address the root issues of climate injustice, we’re going to continue to see a disproportionate impact
Continue Reading By Dianne Gallagher, CNN The father of a former NFL player who killed six people, including two children, in a South Carolina mass shooting before killing himself, is suing the university where his son played football. Alonzo Adams filed the wrongful death lawsuit in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, against South Carolina State University. His son,
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By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday announced charges against more than two dozen members of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel, including sons of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, in a sprawling fentanyl-trafficking investigation. The three Guzman sons charged — Ovidio Guzmán López, Jesús Alfredo
Continue Reading By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The 38-year-old tech consultant charged with the murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee made his first appearance in a San Francisco courtroom Friday but did not enter a plea. Nima Momeni, who police say knew Lee, is now scheduled to be arraigned April 25.
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican pushed back hard Friday at “slanderous” insinuations against St. John Paul II that were aired following the reopening of an investigation into the 1983 disappearance of the teenage daughter of a Vatican employee. The kerfuffle erupted after Emanuela Orlandi’s brother, Pietro, spent eight hours meeting
Continue Reading By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s Democratic governor is scheduled to sign a set of health care bills Friday afternoon that enshrine protections for abortion and gender-affirming care procedures and medications. Gov. Jared Polis and fellow Democrats in the Legislature want to make Colorado a safe haven for people in
Continue Reading By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Connecticut man who used a stolen riot shield to crush a police officer in a doorframe during the U.S. Capitol insurrection has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for his role in one of the most violent episodes of the Jan. 6 attack.
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — Finland’s embassy in Moscow says it received an envelope containing white powder. It has turned the envelope and two other sealed envelopes to Russian authorities for investigation, said Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry. Zakharova said Friday that the embassy reported three identical envelopes addressed to the Finnish military
Continue Reading By ANDREW DeMILLO ASSOCIATED PRESS LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The push to restrict health care for transgender people has expanded beyond children, with Missouri’s new limits on gender-affirming care. The rules highlight how rapidly efforts targeting the rights of transgender people have grown this year. Those efforts have expanded even as they face new
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By ANDREW DeMILLO ASSOCIATED PRESS LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The push to restrict health care for transgender people has expanded beyond children, with Missouri’s new limits on gender-affirming care. The rules highlight how rapidly efforts targeting the rights of transgender people have grown this year. Those efforts have expanded even as they face new
Continue Reading By WILL WEISSERT and TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Last year it was Uvalde. Now it’s Nashville and Louisville. For the second year in a row, the National Rifle Association is holding its annual convention within days of mass shootings that shook the nation. The three-day gathering kicked off Friday with thousands of
Continue Reading By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press For California, New York and some other states trying to position themselves as safe havens for those seeking abortions, a federal court ruling this week could be a setback, adding barriers to obtaining one of the two drugs usually used in combination to end pregnancies with medication. A ruling from
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Officials are trying to determine what caused a fire that heavily damaged the concession stand and office building at the Ozarks Amphitheater in Camdenton.
Continue Reading ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis Blues are making changes to Craig Berube’s coaching staff after missing the playoffs. Assistants Craig MacTavish and Mike Van Ryn have been fired. General manager Doug Armstrong announced the moves the day after the end of the regular season. Berube figures to return for next season now four
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County judge took the jury’s recommendation Friday, sentencing a Columbia psychologist to seven years in state prison for child sex crimes. Kurt Bumby was convicted of two counts of second-degree sodomy connected to events in 2010 and 2011. A victim told authorities in 2019 that he and Bumby had a sexual relationship
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A Columbia teenager suffered moderate injuries after crashing into the back of a trailer Thursday on Highway 63, shutting down a lane of the highway.
Continue Reading Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The digital media conglomerate Starboard said Friday it purchased the conservative social media site Parler and will temporarily take down the app as it undergoes a “strategic assessment.” The deal came months after another acquisition agreement with rapper Kanye West, legally known as Ye, collapsed in November. The terms
Continue Reading By Sara Smart, Danny Freeman and Zoe Sottile, CNN Police are on the hunt for the people behind a “dime and dash” theft in northeast Philadelphia. At around 6 a.m. Thursday, thieves broke into an unmarked trailer left in a Walmart parking lot, the Philadelphia Police Department told CNN, and made off with about 2
Continue Reading By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday charged 28 members of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel, including sons of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, in a sprawling fentanyl-trafficking investigation. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the charges Friday alongside Drug Enforcement Administration chief Anne Milgram and
Continue Reading By PETER SMITH Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — More than 60 years ago, a historic Black church was forced to give up its sanctuary, compensated for what it says was a fraction of its value, to an urban renewal project that wiped out the heart of an African American neighborhood known as the Hill District.
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