By Beau Bowman Click here for updates on this story DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) — Hundreds of cars lined up around the block and on Keosauqua Way Saturday morning waiting to celebrate the Rev. Rob Johnson’s 35th birthday with free gas and a slice of Kum & Go breakfast pizza. It’s a tradition the community
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and MORGAN LEE Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s attorney general is asking the state Supreme Court to nullify abortion ordinances that local elected officials passed in recent months in some communities. Democrat Raúl Torrez claims in a writ filed with the court Monday that the ordinances exceed local
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An anonymous jury has gotten its first look at a rare U.S. trial of a former cabinet-level Mexican official charged with taking bribes to aid drug traffickers he was supposed to be neutralizing. Opening statements were delivered Monday for Genaro García Luna’s trial in a Brooklyn
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — La noche de este sábado 21 de enero ocurrió uno de los tiroteos más mortíferos en la historia de California, luego de que un hombre de 72 años disparara en repetidas ocasiones en un estudio de baile ubicado en Monterey Park. El atacante, identificado como Huu Can Tran, provocó la muerte
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Over the past year, M&M’s has been the subject of Fox News tirades and criticism from a small segment of fans — first for changing the Green M&M’s footwear and more recently featuring female M&M characters on its packaging for International Women’s Day. So this week it announced
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope peered inside a wispy molecular cloud located 630 light-years away and spied ices made of different elements. Molecular clouds are interstellar groupings of gas and dust where hydrogen and carbon monoxide molecules can form. Dense clumps within these clouds can collapse to form young stars called
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — El cuestionado presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, no asistirá a la cumbre de la Celac que se realiza en Argentina, informó en un comunicado el gobierno de Venezuela este lunes. De acuerdo a la información del Ministerio de Comunicaciones de Venezuela, el motivo de que se suspenda el viaje
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By Jennifer Franciotti Click here for updates on this story WESTMINSTER, Maryland (WBAL) — The troop commander of the Maryland State Police Westminster barracks is taking on a new challenge at this year’s Polar Bear Plunge. Before the main plunge on Feb. 4, the Super Plungers will go into the icy water of the Chesapeake
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A T-bone crash at an intersection east of Bend Monday morning killed a 74-year-old Bend man and injured two others, one critically, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said.
Continue ReadingBarbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Italy celebrated the return of 60 ancient artifacts worth more than $20 million from the United States with a display in Rome’s Spadolini Hall on Monday. Most of the items — which include a fresco of Hercules as a child fighting a serpent, which was stolen from Herculaneum, and a bronze
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — A su regreso a Ecuador luego de cumplir una agenda oficial en Europa, el presidente Guillermo Lasso rechazó en la noche de este domingo, durante una entrevista difundida por medios estatales, la existencia de una trama de corrupción en su Gobierno y advirtió que quienes hayan incurrido en actos
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s PEN America Literary Gala will be notable for the presence of “Saturday Night Live.” PEN, the literary and free expression organization, is giving “SNL” creator-executive Lorne Michaels its PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, which in previous years has gone to Toni Morrison, Stephen Sondheim
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s PEN America Literary Gala will be notable for the presence of “Saturday Night Live.” PEN, the literary and free expression organization, is giving “SNL” creator-executive Lorne Michaels its PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, which in previous years has gone to Toni Morrison, Stephen Sondheim
Continue ReadingIssy Ronald, CNN They are among the most popular exhibits in museums worldwide, with a name so resonant, blockbuster films have been built on it. But some museums in Britain are now using words other than “mummy” to describe their displays of ancient Egyptian human remains. Instead, they are starting to adopt terms such as
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN An Arkansas man who was infamously photographed putting his feet on a desk inside then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the January 6, 2021, insurrection was found guilty on eight counts by a Washington, DC, jury Monday. Richard Barnett, 62, also known as “Bigo,” was charged with eight
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Associated Press video journalist Mstyslav Chernov had just broken out of Mariupol after covering the first 20 days of the Russian invasion of the Ukrainian city and was feeling guilty about leaving. He and his colleagues, photographer Evgeniy Maloletka and producer Vasilisa Stepanenko, had
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — No hay nada más feroz que usar un depredador como adorno. Este lunes, Kylie Jenner robó todas las miradas en la pasarela de alta costura de Schiaparelli en París cuando llegó con un vestido sin tirantes de terciopelo negro adornado con la cabeza de tamaño real de un león, un adelanto
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — A fresco from Herculaneum, a city which was destroyed along with Pompeii by the 79 A.D. eruption of Mount Vesuvius is now back in Italy, along with 59 other ancient pieces which were illegally trafficked to the United States. Italian and U.S. officials displayed the works in Rome on Monday to journalists.
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials want to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like the annual flu shot. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday proposed a simplified approach for future vaccination efforts, allowing most adults and children to get a once-a-year shot to protect against the mutating virus. This
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors say the daughter of U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark struck a police officer trying to arrest her for defacing a bandstand in Boston with anti-police slogans. Riley Dowell was arraigned in Boston Municipal Court on Monday. She had been charged with assault and battery on a police officer and vandalizing a historic
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