By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets rose Monday after Wall Street slipped and China tightened travel controls in some areas in response to coronavirus infections. Shanghai and Hong Kong advanced while London and Frankfurt opened higher. Tokyo declined. On Wall Street, futures for the S&P 500 index and the
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By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge may decide at a hearing whether use-of-force experts can testify at Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial for shooting three people during a protest against police brutality in Kenosha last year. Monday’s hearing is likely the last before Rittenhouse goes on trial Nov. 1 . He
Continue Reading By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese officials say military forces have detained at least five senior government officials, and the main pro-democratic political group called on people to take to the streets to counter an apparent military coup. The Sudanese Professionals’ Association also said there were internet and phone signal outages in
Continue Reading By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president says he’ll keep striving to promote peace with North Korea through dialogue until the end of his term next May, after Pyongyang raised animosities with a resumption of provocative weapons tests. In his final policy speech at parliament, President Moon Jae-in said
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ST. LOUIS (KMIZ) The St. Louis Cardinals are expected to hire Oliver Marmol as their new manager on Monday morning, according to The Athletic. St. Louis announced it will hold a news conference on Monday at 10 a.m., but the team would not specify what it is about. Marmol has been the Cardinals bench coach
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By BEN WALKER AP Baseball Writer The St. Louis Cardinals plan to announce Monday that bench coach Oliver Marmol will be promoted to replace fired manager Mike Shildt, according to a person familiar with the decision. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Sunday night because the team hadn’t revealed the
Continue Reading ST. LOUIS (AP) — AP source: St. Louis Cardinals promoting bench coach Oliver Marmol to replace fired manager Mike Shildt.
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Rick has strengthened a bit while heading for Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, where it is expected to make landfall Monday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Rick had winds as high as 90 miles per hour (150 kph) and was expected to hit somewhere in the area from the seaport
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Congratulations to our Week 9 SportsZone Football Friday Play of the Week Nominees! You can watch the plays in the video player above. You can vote for your favorite play here. Nominee No. 1: Centralia QB Beau Gordon throws it up to WR Mason Barr, who makes a diving touchdown catch. Nominee No. 2: Marceline’s
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — A northwestern Chinese province heavily dependent on tourism has closed all tourist sites after finding new COVID-19 cases. Gansu lies along the ancient Silk Road and is famed for the Dunhuang grottoes filled with Buddhist images and other religious sites. China counted 35 new cases Monday, four of them in Gansu. China
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — A northwestern Chinese province heavily dependent on tourism has closed all tourist sites after finding new COVID-19 cases. Gansu lies along the ancient Silk Road and is famed for the Dunhuang grottoes filled with Buddhist images and other religious sites. China counted 35 new cases Monday, four of them in Gansu. China
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By Fernando Alfonso III, CNN The body of a boy murdered during a series of killings that menaced Atlanta has rested in an unmarked grave on a grassy knoll roughly 56 miles southwest of the city for more than 40 years. It changed Sunday when a group of activists, family members, and local business owners
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Boxers, janitors, fishermen, the heroes of Keisuke Yoshida’s movies are Japanese society’s angst-filled losers, struggling in an imperfect world. The director and his three latest works are featured at the Tokyo International Film Festival opening Oct. 30. Yoshida told The Associated Press that what’s lacking in the
Continue Reading By LISA MASCARO and HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin appears to be on board with White House proposals for new taxes on billionaires and certain corporations to help pay for President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill. A person who requested anonymity to discuss Manchin’s position tells The Associated
Continue Reading By LISA MASCARO and HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin appears to be on board with White House proposals for new taxes on billionaires and certain corporations to help pay for President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill. A person who requested anonymity to discuss Manchin’s position tells The Associated
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Un miembro de una coalición científica que asesora al gobierno de Puerto Rico sobre la pandemia de coronavirus bromeó recientemente sobre la alta tasa de vacunación de covid-19 en la isla, atribuyéndola a la proliferación de cadenas de farmacias en el territorio. “Hay un Walgreens como en cada esquina”, dijo Rafael Irizzary,
Continue Reading By EILEEN NG and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Southeast Asian leaders are holding their annual summit with world leaders this week but without Myanmar’s top general. He has been shut out for refusing to take steps to end the deadly violence sparked by his seizure of power in February. Myanmar
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN Eric Robison will never run out of words to describe his wife. Her smile, her laughter, her constant goofiness, the faces she made when she was grumpy, the kindness she bought out of him, the way she felt like home. Losing her made the world stop in its tracks, he says,
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar and Keith Allen, CNN James Michael Tyler, best known as the coffee shop manager Gunther on the hit show “Friends,” died peacefully at his home on Sunday, according to his representative Toni Benson. He was 59. “The world knew him as Gunther (the seventh “Friend”), from the hit series Friends, but Michael’s
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Rick has strengthened a bit while heading for Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, where it is expected to make landfall Monday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Rick had winds as high as 90 miles per hour (150 kph) and was expected to hit somewhere around the seaport of Lazaro Cardenas
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