By JULIE CARR SMYTH and ALI SWENSON Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The fraught politics of abortion have helped turn an August ballot question in Ohio that would make it harder to change the state constitution into a cauldron of misinformation and fear-mongering. State Issue 1, the sole question on the ballot, calls for
Continue ReadingMASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Investigators have been digging in the yard at the Long Island home of Rex Heuermann, who was charged earlier this month with killing at least three women and burying their remains on a remote stretch of beach highway. A yellow excavator that had been seen scooping dirt in the backyard
Continue ReadingBy Matt Evans Click here for updates on this story CLINTON, Missouri (KMBC) — “He’s always been an artist and musician,” Shy’rell Wynes says about her husband, Addison. “He’s always loved art.” Which is why he fell in love with tattooing. That led him to start his own shop, the Stay Cold Tattoo company in
Continue ReadingBy KCCI Staff Click here for updates on this story DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) — A Des Moines man will be riding in a portion of RAGBRAI on Wednesday thanks to a special set of wheels. Quincy Hostager was diagnosed with Dravet syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy that has left him non-verbal and unable
Continue ReadingCAIRO (AP) — One of Libya’s rival prime ministers has returned to the capital of Tripoli from Italy on a charter flight with a commercial airline, the first direct flight between the two countries in a decade. Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah, who heads the Tripoli-based government, boarded the flight from Fiumicino airport in Rome. Flight AZ894 is
Continue ReadingBy Izzy Fonfara-Drewel Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (KETV) — The president of Advance Benin, a nonprofit in Omaha, moved to the United States 10 years ago after graduating from college. Cephas Catraye now has a wife and two kids, but he still loves his country across the ocean. Cephas grew
Continue ReadingBy Meghan Mosley Click here for updates on this story PONCA CITY, Oklahoma (KOCO) — The wife of a man shot and killed in Ponca City hopes to turn her heartbreak into hope. KOCO 5 sat down with the victim’s widow and discussed how she hopes his death will change and save lives. “Completely in
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — When Chair Jerome Powell and other Federal Reserve officials gather this week for their latest decision on interest rates, they will do so on the cusp of achieving an elusive “soft landing” — the feat of curbing inflation without causing a deep recession. After the Fed
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Renowned Japanese mystery writer Seiichi Morimura, whose nonfiction trilogy “The Devil’s Gluttony” exposed human medical experiments conducted by a secret Japanese army unit during World War II, died Monday. He was 90. His official website and publisher, Kadokawa, said Morimura died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital.
Continue ReadingFRISCO, Texas (AP) — Dallas Stars general manager Jim Nill has signed a two-year contract extension. The deal comes less than a month after he was named GM of the year following the team’s run to the Western Conference Final. Nill is now signed through the 2025-26 season. The 65-year-old has said he hopes to
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland prosecutors have filed hate crime charges against a man accused of killing three people and wounding three more in a dispute over parking. The three people shot to death were Latino; the man accused of shooting them is white. Their families are neighbors with a
Continue ReadingMostafa Salem, CNN Cairo (CNN) — Iranian authorities have banned a film festival after a promotional poster showed an actress not wearing the hijab, a headcover worn by many Muslim women, the country’s state-run media outlet IRNA reported Saturday. The 13th edition of the Iranian Short Film Association (ISFA) festival was banned after Iran’s Ministry
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban and Tim Lister, CNN London (CNN) — Wheat prices rose sharply Monday following a strike by a Russian drone on a Ukrainian port on the Danube river. Moscow’s drones attacked Ukraine’s port infrastructure overnight, targeting the country’s grain stocks, the Ukrainian Army said. One grain silo at the Reni port was hit
Continue ReadingCNN By Josh Pennington, Simone McCarthy, Sophie Jeong and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian forces carried out the drone strikes in Moscow early on Monday, a Kyiv official has told CNN. The official from Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence, an arm of its Ministry of Defense, said the agency was responsible for the operation that Russia
Continue ReadingBy Matt Leighton & Arielle Mitropoulos Click here for updates on this story HAMPTON, New Hampshire (WMUR) — Two people were taken to the hospital after being rescued from a rip current off Hampton Beach. Hampton Fire Rescue said multiple reports of swimmers in distress caught in a rip current were received Saturday evening. It
Continue ReadingBy Chris Hagel Click here for updates on this story MONTEREY COUNTY, California (KSBW) — A bird known as the Nazca Booby (Sula granti) was found injured and emaciated at Pebble Beach on Friday and is now being cared for by the SPCA of Monterey County. The bird is rarely seen this far north and,
Continue ReadingBy KCRA Staff Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KCRA) — A cow hauler overturned on the Highway 50 transition to Interstate 5 and caused traffic delays on Sunday, according to the California Highway Patrol. CHP South Sacramento said that there was previously a hard closure in place and Caltrans District 3
Continue ReadingBy WLKY Digital Team Click here for updates on this story LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (WLKY) — A WWII veteran was celebrating his 100th birthday in a special way on Sunday. Paul Jones had the opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes tour at the Louisville Slugger Museum. Jones was a young baseball player in Corbin, Kentucky when he
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El club de fútbol de Arabia Saudita Al Hilal ha presentado este lunes una oferta récord mundial de más de US$ 330 millones (300 millones de euros) por el delantero del París Saint Germain (PSG) Kylian Mbappé, según varias informaciones. El jugador de 24 años se quedó fuera de la
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky New York (CNN) — In a radical rebranding, Twitter owner Elon Musk has replaced Twitter’s iconic bird logo with X. Musk made the shock announcement of his plans early Sunday. By Monday morning US time, he tweeted that X.com now points to Twitter.com. “Interim X logo goes live later today,” he wrote,
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