By DAVID PITT Associated Press WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s population grew in pockets around the state’s largest cities over the past decade while 68 counties in rural areas lost population, according to U.S. Census data released Thursday. The biggest population gainers were the counties around Des Moines in central Iowa, Cedar Rapids
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By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as President Joe Biden becomes more aggressive in pressuring Americans to get vaccinated, he has refrained from using all his powers. He’s held off, for instance, on proposals to require vaccinations for all air travelers or, for that matter, the federal workforce. The result is a
Continue Reading By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The conservative activist lawyer that sued China for $20 trillion over the coronavirus pandemic has now filed a defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump ally Roger Stone. The lawsuit Larry Klayman filed in Palm Beach County, Florida, is over comments Stone posted on Gab, a social media
Continue Reading By JOHN HANNA and ANDY TSUBASA FIELD Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Most Kansas counties lost residents over the past 10 years as the state’s population concentrated in more populous places, including the Kansas City area, new census figures released Thursday showed. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s once-a-decade count of the nation’s population
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By Samantha Tapfumaneyi, Lauren Kent and Tim Lister, CNN Social media and messaging apps, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Twitter, appeared to be shutdown in Zambia on Thursday as the country voted in presidential and parliamentary elections, according to a Facebook spokesperson. “We’ve looked into this and can confirm that there seems to be a
Continue Reading By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Oakland filmmaker Peter Nicks had already made two well-regarded documentaries capturing the institutions of his city and how they shape local lives in 2012’s “The Waiting Room,” about a public hospital, and 2017’s “The Force,” about the Oakland Police Department. Nicks turned to Oakland
Continue Reading MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Another Kansas school district is reinstating masking requirements to combat COVID-19 outbreaks and vaccination efforts are increasing as younger patients and staffing shortages increasingly strain Kansas hospitals. The seven-day rolling average of daily new cases in Kansas has risen over the past two weeks from 667.57 new cases per day on
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A Virginia school board whose heated meeting in June gained national attention has voted to expand the rights of its transgender and gender-expansive students. The Loudoun County School Board voted Wednesday on a policy that allows transgender student athletes to play on teams based on their gender identity; allows transgender students
Continue Reading By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge has once again rejected one of 11 sexual assault counts in an indictment of Harvey Weinstein. Judge Lisa Lench first dismissed the count of sexual battery by restraint two weeks ago, saying it was too old and outside the statute of
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By Meg Dunn, CNN In 2005, Michele Neff Hernandez and her husband, Phillip, were enjoying the active life they built as a couple. “We hiked. We biked. We ran. We just had such a good time together,” Neff Hernandez said. But everything changed on a late August evening when Phillip went for a bike ride
Continue Reading By Meg Dunn, CNN In 2005, Michele Neff Hernandez and her husband, Phillip, were enjoying the active life they built as a couple. “We hiked. We biked. We ran. We just had such a good time together,” Neff Hernandez said. But everything changed on a late August evening when Phillip went for a bike ride
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Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s governing parties made an unusual show of solidarity with their main challengers Thursday by denouncing an advertising campaign targeting the environmentalist Greens. The ads that appeared in dozens of cities less than two months before the country’s national election feature a wilted version of the Green party’s sunflower symbol, phrases such
Continue Reading TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel says it has downed an unarmed Hezbollah drone that crossed the border from Lebanon. The army said in a statement on Thursday that it downed the drone when it crossed the border into Israeli airspace a day earlier. The incident was the latest uptick in activity along Israel’s northern
Continue Reading ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a 2-year-old child who died in southeastern Kansas had woken up from a nap, unlocked the home’s front door and gotten into the family vehicle. Investigators say the mother found the child unconscious Tuesday. The child was transported to a hospital where he died. KSNW-TV reports that Cowley
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN Since rising to fame with her inauguration poem, Amanda Gorman has stayed busy — appearing on the cover of magazines and preparing to drop her debut poetry collection. Now, the former National Youth Poet Laureate is giving back, with a new creative writing award for public high school students boasting a
Continue Reading By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals says a U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting state jurisdiction for crimes committed on tribal reservations by or against tribal citizens does not apply retroactively. The ruling could affect hundreds of state convictions that have been overturned and Oklahoma inmates who
Continue Reading By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press The COVID-19 surge that is sending hospitalizations to all-time highs in parts of the South is also clobbering states like Hawaii and Oregon that were once seen as pandemic success stories. After months in which they kept cases and hospitalizations at manageable rates, they are watching
Continue Reading By AMANDA LEE MYERS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kit Harington has turned in his bulky black fur coat and brooding “Game of Thrones” character, Jon Snow, for a lighter role in the new season of “Modern Love.” In it, the 34-year-old plays a tech worker and a hopeful romantic dazzled by a woman
Continue Reading NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Seton Hall University has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by former basketball player Myles Powell over a knee injury that Powell claims was misdiagnosed. In its brief, the school argues that it is shielded from Powell’s negligence claims under state law governing schools and other institutions. It also
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