By TOUSSAINT N’GOTTA Associated Press ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has removed the country’s prime minister and dissolved the government, according to a senior public official. The presidency’s secretary general Abdourahmane Cissé said in a statement Friday that Prime Minister Patrick Achi was removed alongside the members of the government
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — House speaker candidates have pulled out of a planned joint interview on Fox News next week just hours after it was announced amid fierce blowback from GOP lawmakers, the latest sign of how simmering tensions within the conference are boiling over as Republicans scramble to find
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Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge has denied a request to stop the execution of a Texas inmate who had alleged in a lawsuit the drugs he’s to be injected with next week were exposed to extreme heat and smoke during a recent fire, making them unsafe. Jedidiah Murphy’s
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say Friday that they have issued an arrest warrant for a 19-year-old acquaintance in the death of a Philadelphia journalist. Authorities say 39-year-old Josh Kruger was shot and killed at his Philadelphia home early Monday. Police say Robert Edmond Davis killed Kruger, and video shows the suspect in the area before
Continue ReadingBy Mitchell McCluskey, Andy Rose and Andi Babineau, CNN (CNN) — Investigators removed 189 sets of human remains from a Colorado funeral home offering “green burials” where law enforcement officials said bodies had been “improperly stored,” according to the local sheriff’s department. The remains were found in the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose,
Continue ReadingKKTV By Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — An investigation into more than 115 bodies found “improperly stored” in a Colorado funeral home offering “green burials” could take months, officials say. The remains were found in the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, about 30 miles south of Colorado Springs. “This is going to be
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A New York appeals court judge on Friday rejected Donald Trump’s attempt to stop the ongoing $250 million civil fraud trial, but temporarily halted the process of breaking up the former president’s businesses. Associate Justice Peter Moulton issued the ruling after a brief hearing Friday
Continue ReadingBy Eve Brennan, Chris Liakos and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN (CNN) — Morocco and Algeria have introduced measures to limit the risk of bedbug infestation, as France reportedly grapples with a surge in numbers of the blood-sucking insect. The Moroccan health ministry “has taken all appropriate measures to limit the risk of introduction and spread of
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Fly anglers report excellent autumn fishing in the Fall River, Noah Chast reports, along with a look at some recently stocked lakes and where the coho are biting.
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — At $1.4 billion, the Powerball jackpot on the line Saturday night is the world’s fifth-largest lottery prize, due to higher interest rates, long odds, fewer ticket sales per drawing and, of course, luck. A combination of all those factors means that unless there is a
Continue ReadingWCCO, HANNAH WAGGONER, RUFF START RESCUE, CNN By DAVID SCHUMAN Click here for updates on this story ISANTI COUNTY, Minnesota (WCCO) — A cat in Isanti County is recovering after surviving a house explosion, and then keeping itself alive for more than a week in the wilderness. Miss Piggy, a 4-month-old kitten, was lost for
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SCHUMAN Click here for updates on this story ISANTI COUNTY, Minnesota (WCCO) — A cat in Isanti County is recovering after surviving a house explosion, and then keeping itself alive for more than a week in the wilderness. Miss Piggy, a 4-month-old kitten, was lost for eight days last month. When the homeowner’s
Continue ReadingBy GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — R&B icon Maxwell says he’s preparing a future album that will include teenage songs before his professional music career began, as well as songs he loved that weren’t included on early albums. But before that project drops, his long-awaited “blacksummers’NIGHT” album will arrive, marking his
Continue ReadingBy JONAH KAPLAN Click here for updates on this story MAPLE GROVE, Minnesota (WCCO) — A 7th grader in Maple Grove is on a mission to make a big change that could affect millions of Americans. Twelve-year-old Adina Togal has celiac disease, a condition where consuming any gluten can get her really sick. “I got
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — At least 16 migrants from Venezuela and Haiti died early Friday in a bus crash in southern Mexico, authorities said. Mexico’s National Immigration Institute originally reported 18 dead, but later lowered that figure. Prosecutors in the southern state of Oaxaca later said there had been an overcount due to some of
Continue ReadingGUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Activists in Guatemala are blocking roads in surging demonstrations to support President-elect Bernardo Arévalo. That comes after Guatemala’s highest court upheld a move by prosecutors to suspend his political party over alleged voter registration fraud. Arévalo has denounced the suspension as a “coup” aimed neutralizing him before he takes office in
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Capitol building is one of the most open in the country, which made it easy for a man to walk inside with a loaded handgun this week in search of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. The man was arrested for illegally openly carrying a weapon, but
Continue ReadingBy MADELINE BARTOS Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — Two teenagers were arrested in the shooting deaths of a mother and her 4-year-old daughter in Pittsburgh’s Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar neighborhood last year. Police said Marquise Givner and Tarrell Jennings, both 19, were arrested on Friday morning on homicide charges in 21-year-old Temani
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT and JOHN ANTCZAK LAS VEGAS (AP) — The man charged with murder in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur knew the gravity of his arrest last week near his home on the outskirts of Las Vegas, according to police body camera footage released Friday. “So what they got you for, man?” an
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