By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has at least one thing in common with thousands of parents and grandparents this winter: He’s picked up a cold from his young grandson. The president has had an unusually low, scratchy voice and an occasional cough all week, prompting questions from the press
Continue ReadingFAR HILLS, N.J. (AP) — The USGA is adding another national championship, this one for golfers with disabilities. The U.S. Adaptive Open will start in July on the No. 6 course at Pinehurst. It’s for men and women who are either pros or amateurs. Players are eligible if they have physical, sensory or intellectual disabilities.
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey Three 6 Mafia and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s “Verzuz” battle turned real on Thursday night. The event, held at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Palladium in front of a live audience, featured the two groups, who got into a physical altercation during the show. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony’s Bizzy Bone said that Three 6 was “mocking” him and
Continue ReadingBy EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Over the past 100 years around 110 people have owned controlling portions of NFL teams. Of that select group, all but two have been white. This head count might offer the simplest explanation for how, even with rules in place for nearly two decades that are designed to improve
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that war-crimes lawsuits against a Libyan military commander who used to live in the U.S. must stay on hold for now to avoid interfering with upcoming presidential elections there. At a hearing Friday in Alexandria, Judge Leonie Brinkema rejected
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden has a cold, he told reporters Friday, after sounding gravelly and congested during remarks about the economy. “I’m OK,” Biden said when questioned about his voice at the end of his speech, which he interrupted a few times to clear his throat. “I’m tested every day, a Covid
Continue ReadingNEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — Prosecutors say DNA recovered from the interior of a conch shell thought to have been used as a weapon in the 2001 killing of a Massachusetts woman has led to the indictment on a murder charge of the victim’s half-brother. The Bristol district attorney says 53-year-old David Reed was indicted
Continue ReadingBy OKLAHOMA CITY Click here for updates on this story Jason Hackett (KOCO) — Oklahoma Natural Gas customers should be prepared to pay a little more after a recent Oklahoma Corporation Commission decision. “For the average residential ONG customer, you’ll immediately see in the next billing cycle an increase of a $1.27 in your rates,
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer Gregg Berhalter thinks American players will adjust to a freeze with ease. The U.S. picked Columbus, Ohio, for its World Cup qualifier against El Salvador on Jan. 27 and St. Paul, Minnesota, for its Feb. 2 match against Honduras, games wrapped around a Jan. 30 meeting with Canada in
Continue ReadingBy Daniella Diaz and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Democrats in the Senate have for the third time tried to use a technical procedure to try to include immigration provisions in President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act, putting everything on the line for what could be the last attempt to try to pass some sort of
Continue ReadingBy T.J. Wilham Click here for updates on this story ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (KOAT) — Nan Zhang came to America 15 years ago, became a citizen and decided she wanted to serve her new country. “So my ultimate goal (was to) become APD police officer,” said Zhang who was originally from China. “It’s (to) protect
Continue ReadingCNN, CNNBUSINESS By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The era of big Chinese companies heading to the United States to raise money may have just come to an end. What’s happening: China’s Didi announced Friday that it will “immediately” start the process of delisting from the New York Stock Exchange and pivot to Hong Kong. Coming
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s state statistics agency says that 74,893 people with COVID-19 died in October — the highest monthly tally in the pandemic that comes as Russia is grappling with a major surge of coronavirus infections and deaths. A report released by Rosstat on Friday brought the overall number
Continue ReadingBy KMBC Staff Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KMBC) — The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department is investigating an early morning suspicious death as a homicide. Police said officers were called to 60th Street and Prospect Avenue right before 3:30 a.m. Friday after someone called 911 concerned about a man
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — A civil rights attorney has joined Jelani Day’s mother to demand the FBI take charge of an investigation into why the Illinois State University graduate student disappeared in August and was later found dead in a river. Ben Crump gained prominence by representing the family of George Floyd and others who were
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Continue ReadingMUNICH (AP) — No spectators will be allowed in the stadium next week when Bayern Munich hosts Barcelona in the Champions League because of stricter coronavirus measures. Bavaria governor Markus Söder says his state will bar fans from sports events starting Saturday. German federal and state leaders agreed on a maximum attendance of 15,000 on
Continue ReadingZURICH (AP) — FIFA has dismissed protests by South Africa and Benin regarding incidents during last month’s World Cup qualifying games. The disciplinary rulings confirm that Ghana and Congo have advanced to the playoff round. FIFA says both protests were ”declared inadmissible” by its disciplinary committee. South Africa and Benin both lost decisive matches in
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The new omicron variant appears to be driving a dramatic surge in South Africa, providing the world a glimpse of where the pandemic might be headed. New cases in South Africa have burgeoned from about 200 a day in mid-November to more than 16,000 on Friday. That
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GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, EVERYONE… A very fair air flow will deliver another very pleasant day to the High Desert today. Under mostly sunny skies, our daytime highs will reach the low to mid 50’s. Breezes will remain light and variable through the day. Skies will become partly cloudy tonight, but there is no threat of
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