By Steve Almasy, CNN Some big names joined the Covid-19 protocol lists in the NBA, NFL and NHL on Tuesday and Wednesday. Two of the leagues have been forced to postpone games due to outbreaks and all three are losing key players due to the Covid-19 protocols. They include the man who dropped 50 points
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By Steve Almasy, CNN With winter almost upon us and people spending more time indoors, Covid-19 cases have been rising. Sports groups and their players have not been spared — and Monday saw several announcements connected to the protocols each league has set up for competitors and staff members. Here’s a look at the Covid
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By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has marked its deadliest day of the pandemic as an unrelenting, delta-driven spread stretched thin hospitals and left people dying while waiting for beds. Health experts warn that the country’s medical system is quickly approaching its limits and that fatalities could worsen if
Continue Reading By MATÍAS DELACROIX and PATRICIA LUNA Associated Press COLCHANE, Chile (AP) — A merciless sun sears the migrants as they walk through one of the driest places in the world, trying to illegally cross the border from Bolivia into Chile fearing it might soon be closed. It has become common in recent months to see
Continue Reading By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A court hearing continues Tuesday in San Diego for a sailor accused of setting a fire that destroyed a U.S. warship last year. Ryan Mays has denied he lit a blaze aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard in July 2020 at Naval Base San Diego. Navy prosecutors
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MISSOULA, Mont. — Josh Vazquez had 19 points off the bench to lead Montana to a 118-49 win over American Indian College, the Grizzlies’ seventh consecutive home victory. Kyle Owens had 15 points and seven rebounds for the Grizzlies. Montana posted season highs with 19 3-pointers, 62 total rebounds and 38 assists. Ryan Davis had
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Un nivel de devastación “como nunca antes he visto”. Así es como el gobernador de Kentucky, Andy Beshear, describió la serie de tornados que arrasaron varios estados del medio oeste y del sur este fin de semana, convirtiendo casas y negocios en montones de escombros. Se teme que más de 100
Continue Reading SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) — Voters in northwest Arkansas are deciding who to nominate for a vacant state Senate seat Tuesday in a special primary election where the candidates include “19 Kids and Counting” father Jim Bob Duggar. Duggar is among four Republicans seeking their party’s nomination for the state Senate seat, which opened up following
Continue Reading By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has marked its deadliest day of the pandemic as an unrelenting, delta-driven spread stretched thin hospitals and left people dying while waiting for beds. Health experts warn that the country’s medical system is quickly approaching its limits and that fatalities could worsen if
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes (CNN Español) — El embajador de Estados Unidos en Ecuador, Michael Fitzpatrick, calificó como “narcogenerales” a altos mandos de las fuerzas de seguridad del Estado ecuatoriano que estarían vinculados al narcotráfico y que se encontrarían bajo la lupa del gobierno estadounidense. Durante una entrevista con el medio digital ecuatoriano “Primicias”, el embajador Fitzpatrick
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority could come before the courts in Argentina at about the same time that the Winter Olympics open on Feb. 4 in Beijing. The case will be brought as a “universal jurisdiction criminal complaint” in Argentina by lawyers representing China’s ethnic Uyghur population. The
Continue Reading By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Matthew Stafford threw for 287 yards and three touchdowns, Cooper Kupp and Odell Beckham Jr. each caught a touchdown pass and the Los Angeles Rams held on for a 30-23 win over the Arizona Cardinals. The Cardinals will have to wait at least one more
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By Tierney Sneed and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday night ruled against the Biden administration’s bid to terminate the Trump-era “remain in Mexico” policy, which requires non-Mexican migrants to stay in Mexico until their US immigration court dates. The Biden administration relaunched the policy last week after a
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Here are the local scores from Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. HS GIRLS BASKETBALL Ozark 55 | Jefferson City 45 FINAL Linn 63 | St. Clair 53 FINAL HS BOYS BASKETBALL Tolton 58 | Fatima 46 FINAL Capital City 71 | Hickman 81 FINAL Blair Oaks 68 | Monroe City 50 FINAL Helias 70 | Lift
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By Nectar Gan, CNN China has detected its second case of the Omicron coronavirus variant in a traveler more than two weeks after he arrived in the country from overseas, posing a fresh challenge to the government’s zero-Covid strategy. The case, reported in the southern city of Guangzhou on Tuesday, came a day after health
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, CNN China has detected its second case of the Omicron coronavirus variant in a traveler more than two weeks after he arrived in the country from overseas, posing a fresh challenge to the government’s zero-Covid strategy. The case, reported in the southern city of Guangzhou on Tuesday, came a day after health
Continue Reading JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A magnitude 7.3 undersea earthquake has struck off Indonesia’s Flores Island, and the country’s meteorological agency is warning that tsunami waves are possible. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake on Tuesday hit at a depth of 11.5 miles under the sea, and was located 74 miles north of the
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks are mostly lower in Asia after Wall Street retreated from recent record levels on weakness in technology shares. Hong Kong’s benchmark slipped on persisting worries over property developers. Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai also declined. On Monday, the S&P 500 fell 0.9%, the Dow Jones Industrial
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By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Donald Trump Jr. said in a series of text messages to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that his father needed to “condemn” the US Capitol insurrection as it unfolded. The messages from Trump Jr. — which the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot revealed before voting to
Continue Reading By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian police killed at least 11 people during protests that broke out in September of last year, following the death of a taxi driver who was beaten to death while in police custody, a report backed by the United Nations found. The 182-page report published on
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