By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — Democratic Senate candidate Charles Booker is bidding to stop Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky from winning a third term. And Booker has taken up abortion as a key campaign issue against Paul, a libertarian-leaning ex-presidential candidate. Abortion access is at the forefront of Kentucky’s vote Tuesday.
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Researchers say nearly 1 in 5 videos suggested by YouTube in response to a search for terms related to next week’s elections came from untrustworthy sources. But the percentage of videos from untrustworthy sources was much higher on Rumble, a video platform that’s popular with some conservatives and far-right groups.
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The punishment has been extreme so far this earnings reporting season when companies report profits and sales that fall short of expectations. Companies that disappoint Wall Street have seen their stocks perform 6.7 percentage points worse the next day than the overall market. That’s a
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nueva Delhi (CNN Business) — Foxconn, uno de los mayores proveedores de Apple, está lidiando con una importante disrupción en su mayor fábrica de ensamblaje de iPhone en China, a medida que los trabajadores huyen de las instalaciones en confinamiento por un brote de covid-19, según los videos publicados en redes sociales. La
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago White Sox say they have hired Kansas City Royals bench coach Pedro Grifol to replace Hall of Famer Tony La Russa as their manager. The White Sox announced the move Thursday after Grifol agreed to take the job earlier in the week. General manager
Continue ReadingBy Allison Morrow, CNN Business A new CNN poll shows that three-quarters of likely voters feel like the US economy is in a recession. It’s probably not, but that’s not the point. The technical definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of economic contraction, which the US economy recorded in the first half of
Continue ReadingLEIPZIG, Germany (AP) — Germany forward Timo Werner will miss the World Cup after tearing an ankle ligament. Werner went off in the first half of Leipzig’s 4-0 Champions League win over Shakhtar Donetsk on Wednesday after signaling to the bench and showing visible discomfort. The club says he has torn the syndesmosis ligament in
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado voters are set to decide whether to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms for those 21 and older and create state-regulated “healing centers” where participants can experience the drug. If the ballot initiative passes, the state will join Oregon in establishing a regulated system for substances like psilocybin and
Continue ReadingBy Marlee Ginter Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) — A singed sidewalk, blackened tree trunk and all the other burned leftovers in Sacramento’s Alkali Flat neighborhood have Francine Jackson worried and fired up. “It is very dangerous, of course. And I mean, I live in a wooden house,” she said.
Continue ReadingBy Angela Duckworth, CNN Decades before George Takei became Mr. Sulu on the original “Star Trek” series, he was imprisoned for a crime he never committed. When he was a small child, he and his family, along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans, were sent to World War II internment camps on US soil. Decades later,
Continue ReadingBy KCNC Staff Click here for updates on this story AURORA, Colorado (KCNC) — Months after the City of Aurora fired police chief Vanessa Wilson, she announced her intent to sue the city over it. In documents provided to CBS News Colorado’s Brian Maass by the City of Aurora, Williams had provided the city with
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — El Senado de Colombia aprobó este jueves por la madrugada la reforma tributaria propuesta por el gobierno de Gustavo Petro que busca recaudar 20 billones de pesos (unos US$ 4.000 millones) en 2023. Durante los debates se tomaron decisiones como la eliminación de un artículo que buscaba gravar ciertas actividades
Continue ReadingBy Julia Falcon Click here for updates on this story TARRANT COUNTY, Texas (KTVT) — Two parents and their two children have filed a lawsuit against a Southlake preschool after a teacher there was arrested for indecency with a child. The parents have filed the lawsuit against the Carpe Diem Private Preschool, where their children
Continue ReadingBy WBZ Staff Click here for updates on this story BROCKTON, Massachusetts (WBZ) — The man accused of stabbing 48-year-old Veronica Goncalves to death in her Brockton driveway Wednesday afternoon has died, authorities said. Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz said 56-year-old Joao Correia passed away Thursday. He was arrested Wednesday evening and taken to
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Leora Levy is the only statewide candidate running in blue Connecticut to be endorsed by former President Donald Trump. But the Republican has been cautious in mentioning his support during her race against Democratic U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal. Levy, a Republican National Committee member, thanked Trump
Continue ReadingBy ERIKA KINETZ, OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI, VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — The first man arrived at 7:27 a.m. Russian soldiers covered his head and marched him up the driveway toward a nondescript office building. Two minutes later, a pleading, gagged voice pierced the morning stillness. Then the merciless reply: “TALK!!! TALK f–ing mother-f–er!!!”
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN Selena Gomez says her new documentary, “Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me,” has shifted her view on her body image. Gomez called the documentary “healing.” “In a weird way, I feel like it is a time capsule of things — a period of my life where I look back, and I
Continue ReadingBy WFOR Staff Click here for updates on this story MARATHON, Florida (WFOR) — A group of Cuban migrants was taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents when they landed on Marathon on Thursday morning. The 22 migrants arrived in what was described as a “rustic sailing vessel.” One was taken to an area
Continue ReadingBy Mugo Odigwe Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Students at a south suburban high school are planning a walkout Thursday in protest of the school’s response after a student alleged she was sexually assaulted in class. Police were called to Homewood-Flossmoor High School after a female student told school leaders
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police documents obtained by The Associated Press show investigators believe they solved the 2018 killing of a gangland journalist known as “ZackTV” but that prosecutors declined to prosecute. Police never announced arrests in the downtown shooting of Zachary Stoner. But the documents say five
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