By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Dutch journalist Eva Hartog says Russian authorities refused to renew the visa and gave her six days to leave the country after 10 years of living and reporting in Russia. Her effective expulsion is one of several in recent years and comes amid a monthslong crackdown
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — How do you top a five-time Grammy Award-winning album that had critics applauding its rich blend of R&B, hip-hop, swing, jazz and pop? If you’re Jon Batiste, you go even higher and wider. The singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist returns this month two years after his triumphant
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — En Guatemala el ganador de la primera vuelta electoral fue el voto nulo. Esta opción obtuvo más votos que cualquiera de las 20 fórmulas presidenciales que se presentaron, y obtuvo más votos que cualquier candidatura: poco menos de un millón de votos fueron nulos. La inconformidad con el sistema
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt treated guests at their lavish 2000 wedding like VIPs. Actor Michael Rapaport was a guest on “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen” earlier this week, where he revealed he was among the roughly 200 invited guests at the Malibu wedding. He had a
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM Associated Press Soprano Renata Scott has died at age 89, Scotto’s New York-based manager, Robert Lombardo, said she died Wednesday in her hometown of Savona, Italy. Scotto was a singer of uncommon intensity who became a successful director after her singing career. Scotto made 314 appearances at the Metropolitan Opera from her
Continue ReadingBy Jenna Rae , Jackson Danbeck Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WTMJ) — The former owner of the daycare Two Helping Hands was charged with four counts of physical abuse of a child, the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday. The allegations include slapping children, holding them by their limbs and
Continue ReadingBy WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Some Bank of Ireland customers were able to withdraw money they did not have Tuesday and early Wednesday after an hours-long technical glitch that also halted many of the bank’s online services. The outage allowed some customers to transfer and withdraw funds “above their normal
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistan Cricket Board has received severe backlash for leaving World Cup-winning captain and former prime minister Imran Khan out of a video showing the country’s cricketing achievements. Former captain Wasim Akram has urged the PCB to delete the video and apologize. The video shows Akram and others celebrating the 1992 World
Continue ReadingBy LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s worked normally — a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients. Scientists around the country are racing to learn how to
Continue ReadingBy Russell Shellberg Click here for updates on this story DEWITT, Michigan (WSYM) — The blue line runs from Dewitt to St. Johns and back. For most people, it’s just a daily routine, but for one woman, it is giving her a lot more independence in her life. DeWitt resident LeeAnn Buckingham rides the Clinton
Continue ReadingBy WRTV Staff Click here for updates on this story INDIANAPOLIS (WRTV) — Police are investigating the death of a man as a homicide after he died in the hospital following an assault. According to police, a homicide detective with Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department was dispatched to Eskenazi Hospital for an adult male who died
Continue ReadingBy Yoselin Person Click here for updates on this story BUFFALO, New York (WKBW) — On Saturday, August 12, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz announced that Erie County would stop accepting asylum seekers at this time. The decision was made after a second person seeking asylum in the county was accused of sexual abuse. That
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Porter Click here for updates on this story AMERICAN FORK, Utah (KSTU) — Multiple workshops were completely destroyed and a pair of homes sustained external damage after a massive fire broke out overnight in American Fork. The fire sparked at around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday morning in the area of 172 North 500 East.
Continue ReadingBy Ruba Alhenawi, Hamdi Alkhshali and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — More than one million people have fled Sudan to neighboring countries since April, according to the United Nations, as fighting between two warring factions plunges the country into civil war. The conflict in Sudan has displaced more than 3.4 million people inside the
Continue ReadingBy Jack Anstine Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KSHB) — The Missouri Division of Cannabis Regulation (DCR) is recalling 62,800 cannabis products that were not properly tracked through Missouri’s track and trace system. DCR, a division of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS), says products sold by
Continue ReadingBy MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Oetzi the Iceman has a new look. Decades after the famous glacier mummy was discovered in the Italian Alps, scientists have dug back into his DNA to paint a better picture of the ancient hunter. They determined that Oetzi was mostly descended from farmers from
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Ötzi the Iceman, whose frozen remains were found in a gully high in the Tyrolean Alps by hikers in 1991, is perhaps the world’s most closely studied corpse. The mystery over his violent death, who he was and how he ended up on a mountain pass has sparked fascination
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji and Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — A 6-year-old boy was fatally shot in the head this week by a 9-year-old boy who got a hold of a gun inside a Florida home, authorities said. The younger child was taken Monday to a hospital, where he died, Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Assistant Chief J.D.
Continue ReadingBy Jon Shainman Click here for updates on this story MARTIN COUNTY, Florida (WPTV) — Choppy waters out at Lake Okeechobee Monday are impacting the algae at the Port Mayaca Lock, which the Florida Department of Environmental Protection said covered as much space as a football field over the weekend. “Algae love this temperature, anything
Continue ReadingBy JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The death toll in this week’s clashes between rival militias in Libya’s capital rose to 45 on Wednesday as troops fanned out across Tripoli to restore calm after a 24-hour bout of fighting that was the city’s most intense violence this year. The clashes erupted late on
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