By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Next week’s World Cup draw will have some of its seedings skewed because of Russia’s war with Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic. FIFA outlined the procedure for the draw in Qatar on April 1. Only 29 of the 32 teams in the draw will be known
Continue ReadingBy COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A judge has granted a prosecutor’s request that a Michigan teen charged in a fatal school shooting not be named in court during his parents’ separate criminal trial. Oakland County Circuit Judge Cheryl Matthews in her ruling Monday ordered that Ethan Crumbley’s name not be spoken openly in court or
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) — Grandes tornados, vientos dañinos y granizo amenazan este martes a millones de personas en todo el sur de Estados Unidos, mientras habitantes de Texas revisan con cuidado decenas de casas y edificios que sufrieron graves daños el lunes debido a las tormentas severas y posibles tornados que azotaron el estado. Una fuerte
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer Dennis Gates was a young standout at Chicago’s Whitney Young High School and mulling college scholarship opportunities when Norm Stewart, late in his coaching career, tried to persuade him to play point guard for Missouri. Gates was impressed by Stewart’s pitch that day but ultimately signed with California. More
Continue ReadingEVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A Snohomish County Superior Court judge has dismissed murder charges for the second time in the killing of a Bothell teenager. The judge concluded Alan Edward Dean may never be mentally competent to stand trial. Breakthroughs in forensic genealogy led to Dean’s arrest in 2020 for the killing of Melissa Lee
Continue ReadingTEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) — Authorities say an inmate who escaped from a northeast Texas jail was fatally shot by an Arkansas police officer after the inmate tussled with another officer over a gun. The Michael Olson was one of two inmates who were found to be missing early Monday from the Bowie County jail annex
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza Dnipro, Ucrania (CNN) — Dmytro y Tania Shvets pasaron los primeros 23 días de la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania escondidos en su sótano en Mariúpol con su hija de 7 años, Vlada, y sus padres. La familia logró escapar el último jueves de la ciudad ucraniana sitiada, pero sus padres se
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — A former Paris-based Europe correspondent for Russian state-controlled broadcaster Channel One says she resigned this month due to Russia’s war against Ukraine and has voiced fears she’ll be accused of being “a highly paid spy.” Zhanna Agalakova quit as the war broke out in Ukraine, joining a string of colleagues from Russia’s
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A picture-book edition of a bestseller that was co-authored by two Nobel Peace Prize winners will be published this fall. Random House Children’s Books announced Tuesday that “The Little Book of Joy” will come out Sept. 27. The authors are the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Rachel Neumann and Douglas
Continue ReadingCNN By Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen, CNN The US has been unable to determine if Russia has designated a military commander responsible for leading the country’s war in Ukraine, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter — something that current and former defense officials say is likely a key contributor to the
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is recalling more than 740,000 small SUVs in the U.S. because the headlight beams can be too bright and cause glare for oncoming drivers. The recall announced Tuesday comes after U.S. safety regulators turned down a request from the Detroit automaker to avoid the recall. The company
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Officials say Norway’s 85-year-old King Harald V has tested positive for the coronavirus on Tuesday and has mild symptoms. The royal household said in a brief statement Tuesday that Harald will take a break from his duties for a few days and that his son and heir Crown Prince Haakon would
Continue ReadingBy JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Federal officials plan to designate the northern long-eared bat as an endangered species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday the once-common bat is in danger of extinction because of a deadly fungal infection called “white-nose syndrome.” It attacks bats as they hibernate
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Approximately 3,000 Canadian Pacific Railway conductors, engineers, train and yard workers represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference will be returning to work after an agreement was reached between the railroad operator and union. A work stoppage that began Sunday brought trains to a halt across Canada and interrupted fertilizer and other
Continue ReadingCOLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — A young man has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2020 shooting death of a Lincoln, Nebraska, police investigator. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that a jury returned guilty verdicts Monday on the murder count as well as assault, escape and weapons counts against 19-year-old Felipe Vazquez. He now
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister has urged foreign ministers from Muslim-majority nations to help end Russia’s war in Ukraine, appealing also to China’s top diplomat to join the effort. Imran Khan spoke on Tuesday, at the start of a two-day gathering in Islamabad of the 57-member Organization of Islamic
Continue ReadingBy STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Sweden is heading into the World Cup qualifying playoffs against the Czech Republic on Thursday without the enigmatic brilliance of Zlatan Ibrahimovic because he is suspended. But that’s not the daunting task it once would have been for Sweden. The country’s reliance on its all-time leading scorer and possibly
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA and SRDJAN NEDELJKOVIC Associated Press MEDYKA, Poland (AP) — The president of Poland has compared Russia’s attacks on Ukraine to Nazi forces during World War II. He said that besieged Mariupol looks like Warsaw did in 1944 after the Germans bombed houses and killed civilians “with no mercy at all.” President Andrzej
Continue ReadingBy Solarina Ho Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — COVID-19 transmission to a newborn from the birthing parent is fewer than two per cent, according to a new systematic review study that analyzed data from more than 470 studies. The study, led by researchers from the University of Birmingham, found
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Otis Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — A South African radio telescope has captured the clearest image yet of a massive and mysterious space object. Sixteen times larger than our Milky Way galaxy, or about a million light years across, the so-called “odd radio circle” has fascinated astronomers
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