By NOHA ELEHNNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The Sudanese general who seized power in a coup this week says the military he heads will soon appoint a technocrat prime minister to rule alongside it. Abdel-Fattah Burhan said in an interview with Russia’s state-owned Sputnik news agency published Friday that the new premier will form
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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Council Bluffs police have announced the arrest of a man who was being sought as a person of interest in the shooting death of a woman in her home last week. Police say 28-year-old Vaughn White was arrested in Omaha, Nebraska, on Thursday on a warrant charging him with being
Continue Reading GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — A former longshot Idaho gubernatorial candidate on trial in the 1984 killing of a 12-year-old Colorado girl says he didn’t know her or her family before she vanished and denied any involvement in her disappearance. Steve Pankey was a neighbor of Jonelle Matthew and her family at the time. Pankey was
Continue Reading By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration has launched a second bid to end a Trump-era policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court. It is also reaffirming a commitment to reinstate the policy under court order. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Friday that
Continue Reading By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include the first ABBA album in a whopping 39 years and a stylish and kinetic update to the Western in Jeymes Samuel’s “The Harder They Fall” starring Idris Elba and Regina King. Benedict Cumberbatch stars in “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain,” a biopic of the
Continue Reading WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 44-year-old man was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for a crash that killed longtime Wichita radio host Don Hall. Ray Watkins was sentenced Friday for involuntary manslaughter. Police said Watkins ran a red light and hit Hall’s car in April 2020. Evidence during Watkins’ trial showed he
Continue Reading DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — An Illinois man has been arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting a man outside a Davenport strip club earlier this month. The Quad-City Times reports that 28-year-old Lance Johnson, of Rock Island, Illinois, was arrested late Thursday by Rock Island police in the shooting death of 35-year-old Samuel Wires, of Davenport.
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By Ivana Kottasová, David Wilkinson, Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has been told by doctors to rest for at least the next two weeks and not undertake any official visits, Buckingham Palace said in a statement Friday. The announcement comes more than a week after the monarch, 95, spent a
Continue Reading JEFF AMY Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi judge will decide whether a death row inmate is competent to waive all his appeals and request execution. The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a circuit judge must conduct the examination in the case of David Cox. Cox wrote to the state’s chief justice
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Transportation is asking drivers to avoid part of Interstate 70 west of Columbia next weekend. Crews plan to start the demolition of the Sorrels Overpass Drive bridge over the interstate next Friday night. MoDOT sped up the demolition project after a truck crashed into the bridge on
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Un tiroteo en una discoteca de la ciudad de Panamá dejó al menos cinco muertos, informó este viernes Rafael Baloyes, fiscal Superior de Homicidios y Femicidios. En declaraciones a medios locales desde el establecimiento nocturno, indicó que, según información preliminar, un desconocido disparó en contra de un grupo y
Continue Reading By JOSH BOAK, ZEKE MILLER and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — President Joe Biden says Pope Francis told him he’s a “good Catholic” and should keep taking Communion when the world’s two most prominent Roman Catholics met at the Vatican on Friday. Some conservatives have called for Biden to be denied the sacrament
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Las tasas de casos, hospitalizaciones y muertes por covid-19 se han reducido significativamente en Estados Unidos desde que la oleada impulsada por la variante delta, altamente contagiosa, alcanzó su punto máximo en septiembre. Sin embargo, dado que los casos siguen siendo relativamente elevados, que muchos niños siguen sin poder ser vacunados
Continue Reading By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A growing number of state prison systems are outfitting guards with body-worn cameras. That’s even in environments already covered by thousands of stationary cameras. The Georgia Bureau of Prisons piloted the concept last year. It plans to outfit guards in two prisons this year and another
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Business) — No dejes que el giro que dio Facebook hacia el “metaverso” te engañe, no importa cómo se llame y cuántas veces cambie de nombre, todavía está en serios problemas. Miremos. Con que “Meta”, ¿eh? Érase una vez, The Facebook. Luego, el artículo pasó de moda y el mundo lo
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By Faith Karimi and Gregory Lemos, CNN A violent week of fistfights at a Louisiana high school led to the arrests of at least 22 students last month. So a group of concerned fathers decided enough was enough. They formed a volunteer group, Dads on Duty, and began roaming the halls of Southwood High School
Continue Reading By Faith Karimi and Gregory Lemos, CNN A violent week of fistfights at a Louisiana high school led to the arrests of at least 22 students last month. So a group of concerned fathers decided enough was enough. They formed a volunteer group, Dads on Duty, and began roaming the halls of Southwood High School
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By Melissa Alonso and Devon M. Sayers, CNN Longtime TV news anchor Jovita Moore died Thursday night at 53 after a monthslong battle with cancer, WSB announced Friday morning. “Jovita died overnight, seven months after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer,” the station’s statement said. “Back in April doctors discovered two masses
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II has been advised to rest for at least the next two weeks. The palace says in statement Friday that the 95-year-old monarch can continue to undertake light, desk-based duties during this time — including some virtual audiences. But she will be unable to travel to the
Continue Reading MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man found not guilty of attempted murder after firing at Minneapolis police during the unrest that followed George Floyd’s death has sued the city and numerous officers, alleging excessive force was used in his arrest. Jaleel Stallings also alleges in the federal lawsuit filed Thursday that several of his constitutional rights
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