By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has struck down California’s ballot measure that exempted Uber and other companies from a state law requiring their drivers to be classified as employees eligible for benefits and job protections. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch ruled Friday that Proposition 22, which allowed
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By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has struck down California’s ballot measure that exempted Uber and other companies from a state law requiring their drivers to be classified as employees eligible for benefits and job protections. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch ruled Friday that Proposition 22, which allowed
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By Liam Reilly, CNN The University of Virginia has disenrolled 238 students for its fall semester on Friday for not complying with the university’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate, according to a university spokesperson. UVA requires “all students who live, learn, or work in person at the university” to be fully vaccinated for the upcoming 2021-2022 academic
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EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A Missouri man has been charged with first-degree murder and other counts in the death of an Illinois officer who was killed while trying to stop a car fleeing police. Twenty-two-year-old Caleb Campbell of Florissant, Missouri, also was charged Friday with reckless homicide, aggravated fleeing and attempt to elude a police
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Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess and Christina Maxouris, CNN Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer is asking residents to conserve water because liquid oxygen, used to treat the community’s water supply, is needed to treat the surge of Covid-19 patients in the community. “Nationally, the demand for liquid oxygen is extremely high as the priority for its use is
Continue Reading By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Taliban websites that delivered the victorious insurgents’ official messages to Afghans and the world at large in five languages have gone abruptly offline, indicating an effort to try to squelch them. It was not immediately clear, though, why the sites in the Pashto, Urdu, Arabic, English
Continue Reading By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Taliban websites that delivered the victorious insurgents’ official messages to Afghans and the world at large in five languages have gone abruptly offline, indicating an effort to try to squelch them. It was not immediately clear, though, why the sites in the Pashto, Urdu, Arabic, English
Continue Reading By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tom T. Hall, the singer-songwriter who composed “Harper Valley P.T.A.” and sang about life’s simple joys as country music’s consummate blue collar bard, has died. He was 85. His son, Dean Hall, confirmed the musician’s death on Friday at his home in Franklin, Tennessee.
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By Christina Carrega and Douglas S. Wood, CNN An Iowa woman was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison on Thursday for trying to kill two children by running them over with her car because she believed they were Mexican or of Middle Eastern or African descent. Nicole Poole Franklin was sentenced Thursday to 304 months by a federal judge.
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By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Zahra shelters in her Kabul apartment, anxiously peering through the window at Taliban fighters in the parking lot below. She hasn’t dared to leave her house for days. Only two weeks ago, she and her friend Sara were drinking and laughing at a party in Kabul. The Taliban were approaching —
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NEW BLOOMFIELD, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri State Highway Patrol Troop F is reporting a 40-year-old man is dead after a Friday morning wreck on Highway 54 in Callaway County. According to the crash report, Gabriel Lloyd was driving a 2019 Ford F250 when it traveled off the side of the road. Officials say Lloyd overcorrected
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Helmets, pads, jerseys and masks: football is back in Columbia, but COVID-19 never went away.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A judge approved an out-of-state subpoena in court earlier Friday for the Joseph Elledge murder trial. An order for Gladys Bautista to appear in court was approved by Judge Jacobs in court. She is a former local reporter who interviewed Elledge before he was arrested. Prosecuting attorney Dan Knight says she is
Continue Reading HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A former Alabama police officer has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for the 2018 shooting death of a suicidal man who was holding a gun to his own head. The sentence was handed down Friday for former Huntsville police officer William “Ben” Darby. Darby was convicted in May of
Continue Reading By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) — A former Miami congressman who was once roommates with Sen. Marco Rubio has countersued a U.S. affiliate of Venezuela’s state oil company in a politically charged dispute over a $50 million consulting contract he had with Nicolas Maduro’s government. David Rivera’s Interamerican Consulting filed the counterclaim
Continue Reading By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) — A former Miami congressman who was once roommates with Sen. Marco Rubio has countersued a U.S. affiliate of Venezuela’s state oil company in a politically charged dispute over a $50 million consulting contract he had with Nicolas Maduro’s government. David Rivera’s Interamerican Consulting filed the counterclaim
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By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN A former senior official of Afghanistan’s ousted President Ashraf Ghani has detailed a vivid picture of the last weeks of Ghani’s government, including how the President and his advisers were stunned by the speed of the Taliban’s advance on the capital of Kabul. Ghani was far from prepared for the
Continue Reading By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A day after facing allegations that he emotionally mistreated a former fiancee, Republican Larry Elder scheduled two weekend rallies and showed no outward signs of altering the course of his campaign in the California recall election that could remove Democratic Gov. Gavin
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By Dan Simon and Christina Maxouris, CNN Vesuvio Cafe in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood has been asking customers to provide proof of Covid-19 vaccination for the last month. “For the most part, people have literally gone out of their way to thank us for enacting the policy,” bartender Zak Pavitt told CNN. Businesses across
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