NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A government spokesperson says Cyprus has stripped 222 wealthy investors and their family members of citizenship. The revocations are part of efforts to mend a reputation sullied by an investment-for-passports program that an inquiry found had unlawfully granted citizenships in hundreds of instances. The government spokesperson said Wednesday that the 222
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Una mujer y un niño murieron por el ataque de un oso polar que perseguía a los habitantes de una pequeña y remota comunidad de Alaska, informó este martes la policía estatal. El oso había perseguido a los residentes tras entrar en el pueblo de Wales, en el oeste de Alaska, antes
Continue ReadingBy JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Legal challenges to Illinois’ semiautomatic weapons ban have begun. A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday contends that the 8-day-old law prohibits “commonly possessed” and constitutionally protected guns. A state court pleading also filed Wednesday questions the law’s exemptions based on a person’s employment. The law was
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By Phillip Palmer Click here for updates on this story PASADENA, California (KABC) — Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest on Monday Night Football nearly ended in tragedy. The quick actions of trained medical personnel restarted his heart as millions of people watched and worried, but for one local family, the images from the field were deeply
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Watts, CNN The Oklahoma Attorney General has filed a motion to space out seven upcoming executions to allow the state Department of Corrections (DOC) more time between each event. In a filing dated Tuesday, Attorney General Gentner Drummond said that the current pace of executions is unsustainable in the long run. According to
Continue ReadingBy Cam Medrano Click here for updates on this story MONITEAU COUNTY, Missouri (KOMU) — A 57-year-old Chesterfield man was sentenced Friday to 34 years in prison after attempting to murder his ex-wife at a funeral home in Eldon. This is the maximum allowable sentence in connection with his charges. A Moniteau County jury found
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Brian Walshe mató y desmembró a su esposa Ana Walshe y se deshizo de su cuerpo en contenedores de basura, dijo la Fiscalía del Distrito de Norfolk en su comparecencia este miércoles. “En lugar de divorciarse, se cree que Brian Walshe desmembró a Ana Walshe y se deshizo de su cuerpo”,
Continue ReadingAndi Babineau and Kara Devlin, CNN Hundreds of flights were canceled Wednesday at Denver International Airport (DIA) as a winter storm sweeps across the Rocky Mountain region, according to data from FlightAware. According to the flight tracking site, almost 320 flights bound for or departing from DIA had been canceled as of 7:45 p.m. ET,
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WLS) — Lawyers for R&B singer R. Kelly will be back in a Chicago courtroom on Wednesday. They will argue to dismiss sexual abuse charges against the singer by several women. Kelly was charged in 2019 for allegedly assaulting three underage girls and one
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Wade Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WLS) — Video captured a suspected car theft crew at work, and a suspect holding onto the hood of a moving car as they try to run from police. The incident happened on the Near North Side at about 2:20 p.m. and was captured
Continue ReadingBy Sammy Mngqosini, CNN Iceland captain Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir on Tuesday revealed details of a maternity pay victory in a landmark ruling against her former club, Olympique Lyonnais. In a first-person account published in The Player’s Tribune, Gunnarsdóttir detailed publicly for the first time how she had taken Olympique Lyonnais to the FIFA Tribunal and
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By Amanda del Castillo Click here for updates on this story SAN JOSE, California (KGO) — Tuesday brought clear skies across the Bay Area, but it doesn’t mean we’re in the clear. Many around the region have witnessed widespread damage even on recent dry days. However, little thought of is the local wildlife, having their
Continue ReadingBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sales growth for the holiday 2022 season slowed more than expected from its blistering pace a year ago as higher borrowing costs and higher inflation made shoppers pull back, according to the nation’s largest retail trade group. The National Retail Federation said Wednesday that holiday
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is pushing ahead with a contentious plan to remove all remaining European Union laws from Britain’s statute book by the end of the year. Critics say the move is rash and unworkable. Thousands of pieces of EU law were cut-and-pasted into U.K.
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Australia’s echidna has developed a curious way to cool off — blowing bubbles out of its beaklike snout. The short-beaked echidna is common across Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea and along with the platypus, it’s one of Earth’s few monotremes — mammals who lay eggs — and has been around for
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian national who founded a cryptocurrency exchange the Justice Department says evaded U.S. regulations and became a haven for proceeds of criminal activity has been arrested. Federal officials say Anatoly Legkodymov was arrested Tuesday in Miami and was due in court Wednesday on
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian national who founded a cryptocurrency exchange the Justice Department says evaded U.S. regulations and became a haven for proceeds of criminal activity has been arrested. Federal officials say Anatoly Legkodymov was arrested Tuesday in Miami and was due in court Wednesday on
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By Web staff Click here for updates on this story WENDELL, North Carolina (WRAL) — An arson investigation is underway after a fire broke out at ABC Land day care in Wendell Tuesday night. The center is already under investigation after multiple families complained their 3-year-olds were sexually assaulted by the same employee. Wendell police
Continue ReadingThe latest survey by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources shows gray wolves are holding their own in the state. An analysis of data collected last year produced an estimate of about 630 wolves in the state’s Upper Peninsula. That’s down from nearly 700 two years ago. But biologists say that the difference is insignificant
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When Joe Biden stepped to the lectern in the shadow of the Brent Spence Bridge in northern Kentucky this month, he couldn’t stop showering praise on the state’s senior Republican senator, who had fought to repair the ramshackle span for decades. It was quite a contrast
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