By GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer Former Chelsea and Newcastle forward Christian Atsu is missing and believed to be trapped under rubble following the powerful earthquake that struck Turkey on Monday and left more than 2,500 people dead. The Ghana international plays for Turkish club Hatayspor and a club spokesman says he is thought to
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER, LOLITA C. BALDOR and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say efforts ordered by President Joe Biden to strengthen defenses against Chinese espionage helped identify last week’s spy balloon — and determine that similar flights were conducted at multiple points during the Trump administration. White House national security adviser
Continue ReadingBy MEHMET GUZEL and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ADANA, Turkey (AP) — Rescuers called out, “Slowly, slowly,” as they lifted a man inch by inch from between slabs of collapsed concrete Monday in the Turkish province that was the epicenter of a devastating earthquake. His neck in a brace, the barefoot man was carried on
Continue ReadingBy Derrick Lewis Click here for updates on this story HUMBLE, Texas (KTRK) — A 6-year-old boy is safe after a Good Samaritan reunited them with their parent after he was found wandering in a store parking lot in Humble. According to the child’s aunt, the child, a student at Humble Rhodes School for Performing
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN Patients with failing kidneys who need regular dialysis treatments still have sky-high rates of dangerous staph infections in their blood compared with people who don’t need these treatments, according to a new Vital Signs report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Rates of infection are particularly high among
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s prime minister has formally appointed a transition council charged with ensuring that long-awaited general elections are held in a country with no democratically elected institutions. Many doubt the creation of the council will help the government hold elections this year as envisioned. But Prime Minister
Continue ReadingBy JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A federal appeals court has denied South Carolina Republicans’ motion for a stay in the ongoing challenge over the state’s congressional district map. Leading GOP lawmakers will now take their case to the U.S. Supreme Court in attempt to avoid redrawing the map that
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday. “Every day as a NORAD
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Varios sitios arqueológicos de Siria sufrieron daños tras el fuerte terremoto que sacudió la región este lunes por la mañana, según la Dirección General de Antigüedades y Museos de Siria (DGAM por sus siglas en inglés). Últimas noticias del terremoto en Turquía y Siria: más de 2.700 muertos y casi 10.000 heridos
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La gala de los Grammy 2023 del domingo por la noche fue un espectáculo histórico lleno de actuaciones dinámicas de artistas musicales icónicos. Hito en la música: mujer transgénero gana por primera vez un Grammy 0:46 Y durante todo ello, Ben Affleck parecía abatido. Ben Affleck, con Jennifer López, con cara
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By Ashley Moser Click here for updates on this story PLEASANT GROVE, Utah (KSL) — If he could have it his way, fifth grader James Cope would wear a baseball cap every single day. From his favorite teams to his favorite city, there is no shortage of decorated baseball caps in the 10-year-old’s closet. “I
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — ¡Atención, seguidores de la NFL! El Super Bowl LVII está cada vez más cerca y tendrá como protagonistas a los dos mejores equipos de la temporada. Por un lado tenemos al campeón de la Conferencia Americana (AFC), los Kansas City Chiefs, que además fueron los que más victorias tuvieron en la
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By Jay Kenney, Rob Polansky and Olivia Schueller Click here for updates on this story WEST HARTFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — A student was banned from the University of Hartford campus following concerning posts made to social media, the school confirmed on Monday morning. The student was identified as Tenuun Enkhbat, 18, of Virginia. Hartford police
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By Dean Mosima Click here for updates on this story MADISON, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — In a first for Madison and maybe the country, an investor group wants to create a new neighborhood centered on low-cost housing, farming, racial justice and wealth building. It’s being proposed for an area of mostly wetlands and open
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Bourbon tourism reached new heights last year in Kentucky. Attendance at distilleries along the Kentucky Bourbon Trail surpassed 2 million in 2022 for the first time. The Kentucky Distillers’ Association made the announcement Monday. It says visitors flocked to large and small distilleries as the attractions
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Bourbon tourism reached new heights last year in Kentucky. Attendance at distilleries along the Kentucky Bourbon Trail surpassed 2 million in 2022 for the first time. The Kentucky Distillers’ Association made the announcement Monday. It says visitors flocked to large and small distilleries as the attractions
Continue ReadingBy Alayna Treene and Pamela Brown, CNN House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has subpoenaed three former Twitter employees who will testify before the panel in relation to their investigation into Twitter’s decision to temporarily suppress a New York Post story regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop, three sources familiar with the documents tell CNN. Twitter’s former
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By Jared McNett Click here for updates on this story SIOUX CITY, Iowa (Sioux City Journal) — At his desk, in a corner of an office on the main level of the Woodbury County Courthouse, Ron Koch has history sitting out. Or, rather, straightening out. A geographic information systems analyst for more than 20 years,
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Wallace, CNN Airline regulators on Monday proposed slapping United Airlines with a $1.15 million fine for safety concerns about how it operated some 777 planes. United removed an important safety measure — checking the fire warning system — from its list of actions that crews must complete before each flight of the 777s,
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Middle seats at many U.S. movie theaters just got more expensive. AMC Theaters, the nation’s largest movie theater chain, on Monday unveiled a new pricing scheme in which seat location determines how much your movie ticket costs. Seats in the middle of the auditorium will
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