By Bill Weir, CNN One hundred years ago, colorful canaries warned humans of the hidden hazards of digging for coal by riding shotgun down the mine and dropping dead. Now, penguin experts say these birds that move like tuxedoed toddlers are showing us the hidden hazards of burning coal and other fossil fuels by the
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By MICHAEL TARM and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Rejon Taylor hoped the election of Joe Biden, the first U.S. president to campaign on a pledge to end the death penalty, would mean a more sympathetic look at his claims that racial bias and other trial errors landed him on federal death
Continue Reading By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris was greeted by schoolchildren, dancers and drummers as she arrived Sunday in Ghana for the start of a weeklong visit to Africa intended to deepen U.S. relationships amid global competition over the continent’s future. “We are looking forward to this trip as
Continue Reading By KARL RITTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s government on Sunday called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to “counter the Kremlin’s nuclear blackmail” after Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed plans to station tactical atomic weapons in Belarus. One Ukrainian official said Russia “took Belarus as a nuclear hostage.” Further
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Honduras estableció formalmente lazos diplomáticos con China y se desligó de Taiwán, poniendo fin a una relación de décadas y asestando un golpe a la democracia insular autónoma en su lucha por el reconocimiento. “El gobierno de la República de Honduras reconoce la existencia de una sola China en
Continue ReadingBy Spencer Van Dyk Click here for updates on this story Ottawa (CTV Network) — Former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz says Canada’s economy is at a greater risk of a “hard landing” — a rapid economic slowdown following a period of growth and approaching a recession. Amid the central bank’s interest rate hikes
Continue ReadingBy Michael Lee Click here for updates on this story Toronto (CTV Network) — A recent study by the Angus Reid Institute found Canadians view their country more positively than Americans do — but only a slight majority of people in Canada believe their system of government is good. The results of the online survey,
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — El presidente de Rusia Vladimir Putin dice que planea desplegar armas nucleares tácticas en Belarús, el aliado vecino donde ha organizado parte de su invasión de Ucrania desde febrero de 2022. Cuando el mandatario ruso usa la palabra “nuclear”, el mundo presta atención y esa parece ser una de las principales
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Millman and Kaanita Iyer, CNN Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California announced Sunday that he won’t enter the competitive Democratic primary to fill retiring Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s senate seat in the Golden State, electing to endorse Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee instead. “I have concluded that despite a lot of enthusiasm from Bernie [Sanders’]
Continue Reading By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A group of Tennessee Republicans began this year’s legislative session hoping to add narrow exceptions to one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, armed with the belief that most people — even in conservative Tennessee — reject extremes on the issue.
Continue Reading By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of a bill aimed at transgender health care puts the state in the middle of a national fight, but with more immediate consequences as the state’s looming election offers an early test on the state-by-state assault on gender-affirming care for minors.
Continue Reading By HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — On the one side are dozens of lawmakers on Capitol Hill issuing dire warnings about security breaches and possible Chinese surveillance. On the other are some 150 million TikTok users in the U.S. who just want to be able to keep making and watching short, fun
Continue Reading By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Keep an eye to the sky this week for a chance to see a planetary hangout. Five planets — Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Mars — will line up near the moon. WHERE AND WHEN CAN YOU SEE THEM? The best day to catch the
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, CNN Americans have heard the story before: A lurid tale of a presidential candidate accused of arranging hush-money payments to conceal an alleged affair. But if former President Donald Trump is indicted by a Manhattan grand jury in connection with a pre-election payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, the case of another
Continue ReadingBy Parija Kavilanz, CNN Check the aisles at Walmart, Target or your neighborhood drug store and you’ll find them chock full of scented, lathering, moisturizing, bubbling — even glittering — face and body cleansers for kids and adults. But, until recently, there’s been a glaring shortage of products targeting the skin-care needs of one key
Continue Reading LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan says the government has no plan to bring the country out of crisis. The International Monetary Fund has delayed a $6 billion bailout over Pakistan’s failure to meet the terms of a 2019 deal. The government blames that failure on Khan. He addressed thousands of
Continue ReadingBy Allison Morrow, CNN Two weeks ago, few people outside the tech industry had even heard of Silicon Valley Bank, the midsize California lender whose rapid implosion would end up shaking the foundations of the entire global financial system. But on the morning of Friday, March 10, after clients withdrew $42 billion in the span
Continue Reading By KARL RITTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s top security official on Sunday denounced the Kremlin’s plans to station tactical atomic weapons in Belarus, saying that Russia was taking its ally as a “nuclear hostage.” But Moscow said it was making the move in response to the West’s increasing military support for Ukraine.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A group of local law enforcement officers were responding to a scene in central Columbia early Sunday morning. ABC 17 News crews went to the area of North Boulevard and Coats Street just off Business Loop 70 around 2 a.m. When crews got to the scene they saw crime scene tape and
Continue Reading By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — At the start of 2022, Thomas Marshall weighed 311 pounds. He had been hospitalized 10 times in five years, including six surgeries. He had an open wound on his left leg that refused to heal — made worse by living in a dirty, moldy house with
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