By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press One of the world’s largest bourbon producers has announced a tentative contract agreement with a union representing striking workers in Kentucky. About 420 striking workers will vote on the five-year contract offer Saturday. The walkout began about six weeks ago after they rejected a previous contract offer. The breakthrough comes
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By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press One of the world’s largest bourbon producers has announced a tentative contract agreement with a union representing striking workers in Kentucky. About 420 striking workers will vote on the five-year contract offer Saturday. The walkout began about six weeks ago after they rejected a previous contract offer. The breakthrough comes
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government’s scientific advisers have urged the government to ensure coronavirus restrictions can be introduced rapidly, as the rate of new infections continues to grow. Britain has recorded an average of 47,000 new cases of COVID-19 a day in the past week, up 18% from the
Continue Reading By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders have pledged to “keep up the pressure” on Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko to halt the flow of migrants entering the 27 member-nation bloc from his country. The leaders also raised the prospect on Friday of imposing new sanctions on Lukashenko amid calls from some
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By Jamie Gangel, Whitney Wild, Zachary Cohen, Ryan Nobles and Kristen Holmes, CNN The House select committee is setting its sights on the financing behind events and people associated with January 6, CNN has learned, including money that funded pro-Trump “Stop the Steal” rallies that preceded the attack on the Capitol that day, in an
Continue Reading By PETER SMITH Associated Press The spiritual leader of the world’s 200 million Eastern Orthodox Christians brings an agenda spanning religious, political and environmental concerns to a 12-day U.S. visit beginning Saturday. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is scheduled to meet with President Joe Biden and participate in various ceremonial and interfaith gatherings. He’s expected to raise
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — The Overland Park Police Department is expanding a team that responds to police calls involving mental health crises. The mental health unit will have more than a dozen members and six co-responders. The change comes after the Overland Park City Council voted in September to raise property taxes to fund
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By Katharina Krebs and Toyin Owoseje, CNN A deadly explosion at an ammunition disposal plant in Russia’s western Ryazan province on Friday killed at least 17 people, Russia’s official news agency TASS reported. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation said a criminal investigation had been launched into the blast. According to Reuters, an entire
Continue Reading By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Coronavirus infections and deaths in Russia have climbed to another pandemic record high, putting additional strain on the country’s health care system. The government coronavirus task force on Friday reported 37,141 new infections and 1,064 deaths in the past 24 hours. That brought Russia’s death toll to
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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN An African American historical museum in Virginia is throwing its hat in the mix to turn what was once a daunting reminder of the country’s Confederate past and in recent years, violence, into a public display of art. The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center in Charlottesville has submitted an offer
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CNNEE (CNN) — El objetivo de las películas y las series de televisión es hacer que las escenas parezcan realistas. Y cuando se trata de pistolas de apoyo, no solo se ven peligrosas. Pueden ser peligrosas. Tal fue el caso de la muerte este jueves de Halyna Hutchins en el set de la película “Rust”
Continue Reading BATES CITY, Mo. (AP) — A small town Missouri mayor has resigned ahead of a scheduled impeachment hearing called after the mayor was allegedly recorded uttering a racial slur. Television station WDAF reports that Shawn Fox offered his resignation Monday to the Bates City Board of Aldermen, ahead of an impeachment hearing scheduled Wednesday. Instead
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Los colmillos de un elefante están entre sus características distintivas: ayudan al animal a levantar ramas pesadas, derribar árboles, arrancar la corteza, luchar y cavar agujeros para obtener agua y minerales. Pero una proporción cada vez mayor de elefantes hembra del Parque Nacional de Gorongosa, en Mozambique, nacieron sin estas herramientas
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By Eleanor Pickston and Rob Picheta, CNN Luxembourg is set to become the first European nation to legalize the growing and use of cannabis, the government announced in a statement on Friday. Under the new legislation, adults over 18 in Luxembourg will be allowed to use cannabis, and to grow up to four plants per
Continue Reading CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations says it has resumed humanitarian evacuation flights for migrants stranded in Libya. The announcement comes after a massive crackdown on migrants inside the country and the suspension of the flights for several months. The U.N.’s International Organization for Migration said in a statement that it had evacuated 127 people
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By Sara Spary, CNN Hopes that mankind can save the northern white rhino from extinction appeared more remote than ever this week, after scientists announced they will retire one of the last two living northern white rhinos from a breeding program. Najin, a 32-year-old northern white rhino — who, along with her daughter Fatu is
Continue Reading OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a 58-year-old Florida man is accused of killing his neighbor in a dispute over a cat that wandered into his yard. The Marion County Sheriff’s Office says Clifford Anthony Bliss Jr. became angry when the cat went into his yard Wednesday. He went to his neighbor’s home in Umatilla
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The company planning to bring President Donald Trump’s new media venture to the stock market soared again on Friday amid another frenzy of trading. Digital World Acquisition Corp. nearly tripled in the first minute of trading before trading in it was temporarily halted. It then
Continue Reading By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The cinematographer who was fatally shot with a prop gun by Alec Baldwin on a movie set grew up on a Soviet military base in the Arctic Circle and worked as an investigative reporter in Europe before studying film in Los Angeles. Halyna Hutchins was
Continue Reading By MORGAN LEE and WALTER BERRY Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Alec Baldwin has tweeted about firing a prop gun on the set of a Western and killing the cinematographer. The actor on Friday called the shooting a “tragic accident.” The director of the movie was wounded, and authorities are investigating. Halyna Hutchins
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