By Hayley Mason Click here for updates on this story BRUNSWICK, Georgia (WGCL) — One-by-one, potential jurors are being questioned in Brunswick, Georgia, about a case that has been in the headlines for more than a year. But, it may take weeks to seat the jury for the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial. Arbery’s father spoke
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El presidente de Colombia, Iván Duque, respondió este miércoles a la iniciativa del Senado de formar una comisión bilateral entre el Congreso de Colombia y la Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela. “En una cosa en la que no nos podemos equivocar es que lo que Colombia no va a hacer
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police arrested a Des Moines man on murder charges in the shooting death of an Omaha woman at a Des Moines bar. Police on Wednesday charged 33-year-old Wichang Gach Chawech with first-degree murder and attempted murder in connection with the Oct. 10 shooting at the High Dive Bar. Two people
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By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific hauled in 23% more profit in the third quarter even though the total number of shipments it delivered remained flat overall. The Omaha, Nebraska-based railroad said Thursday that it made $1.67 billion, or $2.57 per share in the quarter. That’s up from $1.36
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By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s president has nominated a former army general to be prime minister in the latest attempt to end a political crisis amid a coronavirus surge that is stretching the country’s health care system to capacity. After holding consultations with Romania’s parliamentary parties, President Klaus Iohannis nominated
Continue Reading By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mortgage rates are hovering near all-time lows, but that could begin to change. The Federal Reserve is poised to start dialing back monthly bond purchases that have helped keep mortgage rates at ultra-low levels for much of the last 18 months. Economists expect the average
Continue Reading ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish lira has plunged to a record low against the U.S. dollar after a harsher-than-expected cut in interest rates. The decision Thursday by the Central Bank’s monetary committee to cut the rate from 18% to 16% surprised analysts. The lira dropped to 9.45 to the dollar, compounding a long run of
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Rosamund Pike is already starring in the Amazon Prime Video based on Robert Jordan’s “The Wheel of Time” books. She’s also taken on the epic task of narrating the first of the “Wheel of Time” novels, “The Eye of the World.” Macmillan Audio announced Thursday that the audiobook comes out Nov.
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By Nikki Carvajal A series of new reports from the Biden administration will issue a stark warning on Thursday: The effects of climate change will be wide-reaching and will pose problems for every government. “No country will be spared from the challenges directly related to climate change,” a senior administration official told reporters in a
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week to a new low point since the pandemic erupted, evidence that layoffs are declining as companies hold onto workers. Unemployment claims dropped 6,000 to 290,000 last week, the third straight drop, the Labor Department said
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week to a new low point since the pandemic erupted, evidence that layoffs are declining as companies hold onto workers. Unemployment claims dropped 6,000 to 290,000 last week, the third straight drop, the Labor Department said
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jurors were unable to reach a verdict in a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by a Black man who was wrongly arrested when he was 15 and held for three weeks without charge. Arthur Benson, an attorney for Tyree Bell, told The Kansas City Star on Wednesday that they are
Continue Reading By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The two men running to become New York City’s next mayor offered starkly different visions at their first debate about how to lead the nation’s largest city out of the pandemic, improve public safety and gird the city of 8.8 million people for more powerful
Continue Reading DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s Justice Ministry says authorities have executed 24 people after charging them with igniting deadly wildfires last year. The blazes left three people dead and burnt thousands of hectares (acres) of forests. Executions are common in war-torn Syria, where the decade-old conflict has left hundreds of thousands dead and displaced half
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By Amy Simonson, CNN The parents of a 6-year-old who died on a free-fall ride at a Colorado amusement park in September have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the park, according to their attorney. Wongel Estifanos died at the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park on September 5 after “operators did not notice she was sitting
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — Una dosis de refuerzo de la vacuna contra el covid-19 de Pfizer / BioNTech tiene una alta eficacia (95,6%) en un ensayo de fase 3, anunciaron las compañías este jueves. Señalaron que “la eficacia fue constante independientemente de la edad, el sexo, la raza, la etnia o las condiciones comórbidas”. El
Continue Reading By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO defense ministers are weighing what lessons to draw from the military mission in Afghanistan, including whether to even undertake major operations outside Europe and North America. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Afghanistan “highlights the challenges and the risks to engage in big missions and operations outside
Continue Reading By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities in Moscow have announced plans to shut restaurants and non-food stores and introduce other restrictions later this month as Russia registered the highest daily numbers of new coronavirus infections and deaths since the start of the pandemic. The government coronavirus task force reported 36,339 new confirmed
Continue Reading By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian separatist leader accused of instigating violence in country’s southeast has pleaded not guilty to terrorism and treason charges in a court in the capital, Abuja. Amid heavy security presence, Nnamdi Kanu, who also holds British citizenship, was brought into the court for his trial.
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — Facebook says it’s struck a deal with a group of French publishers to pay for links to their news stories that are shared by people on the social network. The company said Thursday that it inked the licensing agreement with a group representing 300 French publishers to “improve the quality of online
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