By LISA MASCARO and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are working frantically to shore up the revenue side of President Joe Biden’s domestic package. They are preparing to unveil a new tax on billionaires and some companies after earlier ideas fizzled. Biden said Monday he’s hopeful the talks with Congress can wrap
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Both of the tornadoes were EF-0, the weakest on the tornado scale, with max winds of about 80 mph, the weather service said in a tweet. No injuries were reported with either tornado. One happened south-southeast of Sedalia and the other was east of the city on Highway 50.
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RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — A truck driver whose semitrailer crashed into a car along an eastern Indiana highway construction zone last year, killing four young siblings, has filed notice that he intends to plead guilty in the case. Thirty-two-year-old Corey Robert Withrow of Camden, Ohio, was scheduled for trial Nov. 1 in Wayne County, but
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By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The founder of a far-right anti-government group says a report estimating the organization’s fast growth over the past year undercounted by half. Ammon Bundy took issue with the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights report, saying the group People’s Rights is actually much larger
Continue Reading SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Springfield police are investigating the shooting death of a 43-year-old man. Police say officers responded to a call early Sunday about a person possibly being stabbed at a home in north Springfield. Police found Robert Eagleburger, of Springfield, was instead suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to an area
Continue Reading By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Hertz has announced that it will buy 100,000 electric vehicles from Tesla. It’s one of the largest purchases of battery-powered cars in history and the latest evidence of increasing commitments to EV technology. The purchase by one of the world’s leading rental car companies reflects its
Continue Reading By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press Tumbling COVID-19 case counts have some schools around the U.S. considering relaxing their mask rules, but deaths nationally have been ticking up over the past few weeks. Some rural hospitals are also showing signs of strain and cold weather is setting in. The cold sends people indoors, where the virus
Continue Reading FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. (AP) — The National Weather Service has confirmed a strong tornado hit the southeastern Missouri city of Fredericktown as strong storms that swept the state and moved into Illinois. No serious injuries were reported. The National Weather Service says an EF-3 tornado hit Fredericktown Sunday night, damaging homes, businesses and the main electrical
Continue Reading FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. (AP) — The National Weather Service has confirmed a strong tornado hit the southeastern Missouri city of Fredericktown as strong storms that swept the state and moved into Illinois. No serious injuries were reported. The National Weather Service says an EF-3 tornado hit Fredericktown Sunday night, damaging homes, businesses and the main electrical
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Dairo Antonio Úsuga era uno de los hombres más buscados en Colombia hasta su captura en octubre de 2021. Conocido como alias Otoniel, este presunto narcotraficante empezó a delinquir desde muy temprana edad, y el presidente Iván Duque llegó incluso a compararlo con el capo de narcotráfico Pablo Escobar. Tras
Continue Reading By RYAN PEARSON and GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Production of the movie that Alec Baldwin was making when he shot and killed a cinematographer last week has been officially halted. But producers of the Western described the move as “a pause rather than an end.” In an email to crew members,
Continue Reading By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Facebook and Instagram have removed from their platforms a live broadcast that Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro delivered in which he said people in the U.K. who have received two coronavirus vaccine doses are developing AIDS faster than expected. Facebook’s press office confirmed the content was
Continue Reading By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Facebook and Instagram have removed from their platforms a live broadcast that Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro delivered in which he said people in the U.K. who have received two coronavirus vaccine doses are developing AIDS faster than expected. Facebook’s press office confirmed the content was
Continue ReadingPaula Andrea Daza (CNN) — Desde Stonehenge y palacios reales hasta los rascacielos que definen el horizonte de una ciudad moderna, los grandes edificios pueden encapsular sus épocas. “Cada uno de los grandes arquitectos es —necesariamente— un gran poeta”, dijo el legendario arquitecto Frank Lloyd Wright. “Debe ser un gran intérprete original de su tiempo,
Continue ReadingMarysabel E. Huston-Crespo (CNN) – La luz es mi medio… quiero doblarla, torcerla, darle forma, materializarla y transformarla”, dice la fotógrafa mexicana Fabiola Menchelli. Las fotografías abstractas experimentales de Menchelli crean, a través de composiciones dramáticas de luz y sombra, la impresión de una imagen tridimensional. Para lograr esta ilusión de tres dimensiones en un
Continue Reading By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Union organizers have delivered more than 2,000 signatures to federal labor officials in a bid to unionize workers at Amazon’s distribution center in Staten Island, New York. The National Labor Relations Board will now have to verify those signatures and confirm that organizers collected signatures
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Hilaria Baldwin has addressed the “Rust” set shooting for the first time publicly. The wife of Alec Baldwin posted a statement on her verified Instagram account Monday. “My heart is with Halyna,” Hilaria Baldwin wrote in her post, referring to filmmaker Halyna Hutchins, who died after Alec Baldwin discharged a
Continue ReadingCNNEE Nota del editor: Roberto Izurieta es director de Proyectos Latinoamericanos en la Universidad George Washington. Ha trabajado en campañas políticas en varios países de América Latina y España, y fue asesor de los presidentes Alejandro Toledo, de Perú; Vicente Fox, de México, y Álvaro Colom, de Guatemala. El autor también es colaborador de CNN
Continue Reading By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A family lawyer says the initial autopsy on the remains of Brian Laundrie did not uncover a cause of his death and a more intensive examination will be done. Laundrie’s skeletal remains found in a Florida nature preserve were positively identified last week using dental
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Días previos a que Alec Baldwin disparara y matara a su directora de fotografía en el set de “Rust”, hubo al menos dos descargas accidentales de armas de utilería en el set de la película, según múltiples informes de noticias. Las descargas ocurrieron el 16 de octubre, cuando los miembros
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