By WILSON RING Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — An expected decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the coming year to severely restrict abortion rights or overturn Roe v. Wade entirely is setting off a renewed round of abortion battles in state legislatures across the U.S. Republican-led legislatures are likely to press for full
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By WILSON RING Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — An expected decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the coming year to severely restrict abortion rights or overturn Roe v. Wade entirely is setting off a renewed round of abortion battles in state legislatures across the U.S. Republican-led legislatures are likely to press for full
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By Lauren del Valle and Eric Levenson, CNN The judge overseeing Ghislaine Maxwell‘s federal sex trafficking trial expressed her concern that Covid-19 could upend deliberations and requested the panel to stay later each day, but the jury Tuesday asked to go home at its regular time. The 12-member panel has now deliberated for parts of
Continue Reading COLUMBUS, Kan. (AP) — A southeastern Kansas man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing two people in 2020. The office of Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt on Monday announced the sentence for 30-year-old Mark Hopkins II of Columbus. He won’t be eligible for parole for 50 years. Hopkins pleaded guilty last month
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By Anna Chernova, Jack Guy and Niamh Kennedy, CNN A court in Moscow ordered the closure of the Memorial Human Rights Center on Wednesday, in the latest blow to Russian civil society groups. The center was charged with multiple violations of Russia’s “foreign agent” law and “justifying terrorism and extremism” in its publications, a lawyer
Continue Reading ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Federal Transit Administration is giving St. Louis area officials until Feb. 1 to submit a plan to restart service of the Loop Trolley, or else the region may be required to pay back millions of dollars in federal grants. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that in a letter sent Monday
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) –El exfutbolista Hugo Maradona, uno de los hermanos de Diego Armando Maradona, falleció este martes a los 52 años en la provincia de Nápoles, Italia, según informó a CNN su sobrino Diego López Maradona. En un comunicado, el presidente del club Nápoli, Aurelio de Laurentiis, demás autoridades y equipo expresaron
Continue Reading DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Despite a concerted effort to reduce traffic fatalities in Iowa, the number this year has just about matched last year’s total, with a few days to go before 2022. KCCI-TV reports that 341 people have died on Iowa roadways this year, two shy of the 343 in 2020. Last year,
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Tres hombres y dos mujeres, presuntamente involucradas con el ataque cerca del aeropuerto de Cúcuta, fueron capturadas en la noche de este martes tras cinco allanamientos simultáneos en Medellín, informó la Dirección de Investigación Criminal e Interpol (Dijin) de la Policía Nacional de Colombia. El hecho ocurrió en la
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By Kaitlan Collins and Natasha Bertrand, CNN US and Russian officials have agreed to sit down for security talks on January 10, a spokesman for the US National Security Council confirmed Tuesday, amid tensions over Ukraine. Russia had amassed troops near the Ukraine border over the last few months, which US intelligence has assessed as
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Twenty-three years after a Kansas City, Kansas, woman was killed, her family is still hoping for justice. WDAF-TV reports that relatives of Christina Ranae King gathered Monday evening to pray and release balloons in her memory. King was fatally beaten on Christmas Day in 1998, leaving behind a daughter who
Continue Reading By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business When Patrick Kennedy, a nightlife performer in New York City, recently was exposed to Covid-19, he was desperate to find more rapid tests to not only monitor his health but track when he’d be able to return to work. “It’s impossible to find Covid tests because of the shortage
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Apple has closed all of its New York store locations to browsing because of a surge in Covid-19 cases. The roughly one dozen locations in the city will be limited to picking up online orders and walk-in services such as Genius Bar support. “We regularly monitor conditions and we will
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri State Highway Patrol has completed an investigation of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that began after a journalist exposed a state database flaw. Patrol Capt. John Hotz told the Post-Dispatch Monday that results of the investigation were turned over to Cole County Prosecuting Attorney Locke Thompson. It remains unclear
Continue Reading ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish media reports say police have detained a man who wounded one person during a knife attack on a branch of a pro-Kurdish party in Istanbul. A Turkish newspaper reported that the assailant entered the People’s Democratic Party office in Istanbul’s Bahcelievler district on Tuesday and threatened to kill everyone inside
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COOPER COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Three men were hurt following a crash on Interstate 70 in Cooper County early Tuesday morning. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash happened around 12:10 a.m. in the westbound lanes at the 91-mile marker. Troopers said a van driven by Jerry D. Weller, 64, of Overland Park, Kansas,
Continue Reading By KELSEY SHEEHY of NerdWallet Some cities and states are targeting remote workers as a way to boost the local tax base and combat decades of brain drain. To get out-of-staters to relocate and live and work from a new city, these locales are shelling out $10,000 or more — or other benefits. For instance,
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By KELSEY SHEEHY of NerdWallet Some cities and states are targeting remote workers as a way to boost the local tax base and combat decades of brain drain. To get out-of-staters to relocate and live and work from a new city, these locales are shelling out $10,000 or more — or other benefits. For instance,
Continue Reading By Christy Somos Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — A systematic review of dozens of research papers has found that ketamine therapy has a quick, short-term effect of reducing depression symptoms and suicidal thoughts, making it a promising mental health treatment alternative. The U.K’s University of Exeter, in collaboration with
Continue Reading By Alexandra Mae Jones Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Meat-eaters are more likely to select a vegetarian option over a meal containing meat when eating at a restaurant if the majority of choices on the menu are vegetarian, but not if the menu is half and half, according to
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