By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Proposed initiatives may face a new hurdle to qualifying for the Arkansas ballot. The state Senate has approved a measure that more than triples the number of counties where signatures supporting ballot measures must be gathered. The bill now heads to the governor’s desk. Supporters
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By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer RENTON, Wash. (AP) — The Seattle Seahawks have agreed to terms with quarterback Geno Smith on a three-year contract that keeps the AP comeback player of the year in the Pacific Northwest. The contract is the first big payday in Smith’s career. He will go into 2023 as the
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN In the coming weeks, Gov. Ron DeSantis is poised to show Floridians — and the country — just how much further he is willing to go than any other Republican leader to turn his state into a conservative vision where abortion is nearly outlawed, guns can be carried in public without
Continue Reading By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Thirty-four Tyson Foods employees, former employees and family members filed a lawsuit against the company Monday, saying it failed to take appropriate precautions at its meat-packing plants during the early days of the COVID pandemic. In the lawsuit, filed in Pulaski County Circuit Court in Tyson’s home state of
Continue Reading By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Three Republican-led states on Monday pulled out of a bipartisan effort among states to ensure accurate voter lists, undermining a system with a demonstrated record of combating voter fraud. The moves, encouraged by former President Donald Trump, are the latest indication of
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Chris Evans and Ana de Armas are back in action. Four years after co-starring in the 2019 murder mystery “Knives Out,” the actors have teamed back up in the Apple TV+ movie “Ghosted,” where they have to work their way out of a romantic gesture gone awry. The trailer for “Ghosted”
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By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans issued another series of subpoenas Monday as part of an ongoing investigation into what they contend is the mistreatment of parents who protested “woke” school board policies. Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, demanded documents and testimony from three individuals, including the
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Durante las últimas semanas, las altas temperaturas han batido récords. Es posible que muchos se hayan despedido ya del invierno y hayan dado paso a la primavera. Pero no te acostumbres demasiado a condiciones más cálidas. Podría llegar un gran cambio en las temperaturas la semana que viene, y no será
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — Después de la audiencia de formulación de cargos dentro del Caso Sinohydro este domingo, el juez de la Corte Nacional de Justicia de Ecuador Adrián Rojas ordenó el inicio de la instrucción fiscal que durará 90 días y dispuso medidas cautelares contra el expresidente Lenín Moreno, seis miembros de su
Continue Reading By JOSH BOAK and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With an eye on 2024, President Joe Biden will showcase his election-year budget plan this week in must-win Pennsylvania rather than the usual White House setting. Biden’s trip to Philadelphia on Thursday is a sign that the president’s budget proposal is part of
Continue Reading By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press A top oil company CEO who will lead international climate talks later this year told energy industry power players on Monday that the world must cut emissions 7% each year and eliminate all emissions of the greenhouse gas methane — strong comments from an oil executive. But speaking at Ceraweek
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The University of Missouri said Monday that an agricultural researcher received a $10 million grant that will double the area of cover crops used in the United States by 2030.
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City of Columbia staff has outlined what a move to roll carts for trash pickup might look like.
Continue Reading By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee is outsourcing testing of at least 550 rape kits to a private Florida lab under a $1.5 million federal grant. On Monday, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced the move that aims to cut down turnaround times that have drawn scrutiny. In a news release,
Continue Reading By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey utility regulators are seeking additional offshore wind farm projects to generate electricity. The Board of Public Utilities approved a third solicitation of offshore wind projects Monday. Three wind farms have already been approved. The move comes as opponents of offshore wind push a
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN Recognizing the inevitably hit-miss nature of sketch comedy, the main question for “History of the World, Part II” is whether the Hulu series yields enough good stuff to justify this extension of the 1981 movie from Mel Brooks, rightfully billed here as an “American treasure.” The show squeaks by, barely,
Continue Reading BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man tried to open an airliner’s emergency door on a cross-country flight from Los Angeles to Boston and then tried to stab a flight attendant in the neck with a broken metal spoon, federal prosecutors alleged Monday. Francisco Severo Torres, 33, of Leominster, was tackled and restrained with the aid
Continue Reading By JEFF MARTIN and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — More than 20 people from around the country faced domestic terrorism charges Monday after dozens in black masks attacked the site of a police training center under construction in a wooded area outside Atlanta where one protester was killed in January. The site has
Continue Reading By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Earthy scents pricked guests’ noses as they entered the venue for Stella McCartney: A manege. Shivers from the cold were quickly succeeded by gasps, when seven horses suddenly galloped in from a side door followed by an exuberant handler. The show Monday that incorporated equestrian themes
Continue Reading PEKIN, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois man has received an 18-month prison sentence after being convicted of illegally giving his son an assault-style rifle he later used in a 2018 shooting attack that killed four people at a Waffle House in Tennessee. A judge last May convicted Jeffrey Reinking of illegal delivery of a firearm
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