By MARK N. MENGONFIA and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia’s new President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has been sworn into office after a narrow win in the November elections to become the country’s oldest-ever president. The 79-year-old Boakai has promised to unite and rescue Africa’s oldest republic from its economic woes, ranging
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — Testing a person’s blood for a type of protein called phosphorylated tau, or p-tau, could be used to screen for Alzheimer’s disease with “high accuracy,” even before symptoms begin to show, a new study suggests. The study involved testing blood for a key biomarker of Alzheimer’s called p-tau217, which
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN) — Los dos comandos de las fuerzas especiales Navy SEALs estadounidenses que desaparecieron frente a las costas de Somalia el 11 de enero están muertos, dijo el Mando Central de Estados Unidos (Centcom) después de buscarlos durante 10 días. “Lamentamos anunciar que después de una búsqueda exhaustiva de 10 días, nuestros dos
Continue ReadingBy Eric Naktin Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — Roughly 600 nurses at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children walked off the job and launched a week-long strike on Sunday. Family Birth Center RN Paulette Vasu with Kapiolani Medical Center told Island News, “It’s very hard because we’re caring and
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A government inquiry into the deaths of four divers in Trinidad who became trapped in a pipe while doing maintenance for a state-owned fuel supplier recommends that prosecutors consider filing corporate manslaughter charges against the company. The report says the company made “little or no attempt to rescue” them.
Continue ReadingBy Jason Lee Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — A Milwaukee teenager has made a groundbreaking move in the world of chess, setting a new standard for young female players in Wisconsin. 16-year-old Aradh Kaur, a sophomore at University School of Milwaukee, has become the first woman in Wisconsin to be
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dave Eggers’ “The Eyes & the Impossible,” the great adventure of a very fast dog, has received the John Newbery Medal for the year’s best children’s book. Eggers is otherwise known for such acclaimed adult books as “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” “What Is
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum says he will not seek a third term as governor. Monday’s announcement comes more than a month after he ended his bid for the GOP presidential nomination. His recent endorsement of former President Donald Trump, and Trump’s praise of the
Continue ReadingBy Shoshana Stahl Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — The St. Louis County Library is offering a new opportunity for people hoping to get their lives back on track. It’s through a new program called the Small Business Launchpad which is helping former convicts start their own business. Matthew Palmer
Continue ReadingBy Heidi Schmidt Click here for updates on this story OVERLAND PARK, Kansas (KCTV) — Federal prosecutors charged an Overland Park couple 10 months after investigators found a body in their home. Prosecutors said Lynn Ritter and Kirk Ritter, both 61, fraudulently collected more than $215,000 in retirement benefits. The benefits belonged to Lynn’s father,
Continue ReadingBy Joel Seymour Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — A small business owner is speaking out after she said her downtown Asheville store was shot at. Jen White, owner of Lost and Found on College Street, said the shooting happened early Saturday morning, Jan. 20, and that no one
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Iraqi airline Fly Baghdad is denying U.S. allegations that have resulted in it being hit with sanctions from the Treasury Department. The U.S. on Monday said it was sanctioning Fly Baghdad and its CEO for allegedly providing assistance to Iran’s military wing and was
Continue ReadingBy Tony Garcia Click here for updates on this story WILLIAMSPORT, Tennessee (WSMV) — A man is alive after his truck nearly fell over a 200-foot cliff overlooking the Duck River in Maury County. According to the Maury County Fire Department, a detective with the Maury County Sheriff’s Office happened to drive past an elderly
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN) — La CEO de la empresa de ropa para bebés Kyte Baby, con sede en Texas, se disculpó dos veces después de negar una solicitud de trabajo remoto de una empleada cuyo bebé fue admitido en una unidad de cuidados intensivos neonatales (UCIN). A finales de diciembre, Marissa Hughes, empleada de Kyte
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a former business partner of presidential son Hunter Biden who was seeking to overturn his criminal conviction for securities fraud. The justices did not comment Monday in leaving in place a federal appeals court ruling that reinstated the fraud conviction of Devon Archer. A
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has convicted a former high-ranking member of a pro-Syrian government militia of illegal detention and complicity in torture, sentencing him to 12 years in prison. The defendant was found guilty Monday in the 2013 arrest and inhumane treatment of a civilian while
Continue ReadingBy FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — A little-known federal agency, The National Institute of Standards and Technology, was tapped by the Biden administration to set testing parameters for ensuring generative AI systems are safe, secure, trustworthy and socially responsible. The agency official leading those efforts, Iranian-born Elham Tabassi, has a small team
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up the extraordinary appeal of an Oklahoma death row inmate named Richard Glossip, a man who even the state attorney general said should not be executed. Last May the justices halted the pending execution while legal challenges played out. Glossip has
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear an appeal from Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, who has steadfastly maintained his innocence and averted multiple attempts by the state to execute him. Glossip was sentenced in a 1997 murder-for-hire of the owner of the motel where he worked. The
Continue ReadingCNN By Amir Tal, Mitchell McCluskey, Hagi Cohen-Boland and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Israel has offered a two-month ceasefire to Hamas as part of a prospective hostage deal, Axios reported Monday, citing two unnamed Israeli officials. It would be “the longest period of ceasefire that Israel has offered Hamas since the start of the
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