Execution date set for Missouri man who shot police officer
By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press The Missouri Supreme Court has set a Nov. 29 execution date for a 36-year-old man who killed a suburban St.…
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Academy CEO Bill Kramer looks to future of the Oscars
By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Bill Kramer has been thinking about the future of the Oscars since the day he was named CEO of the Academy of Motion…
Continue Reading US: Strikes kill 4 Iranian-backed militia members in Syria
By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military says four Iranian-backed militia members have been killed in U.S. strikes…
Continue Reading Plan for iconic California park pits housing against history
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Berkeley, an eclectic California city renowned for tie-dyed hippies and high-brow…
Continue ReadingNASA watch parties for the Artemis 1 mission are popping up across the country
By Jackie Wattles, CNN NASA is gearing up for its most consequential launch in decades, launching a rocket built to carry humans on an uncrewed test…
Continue Reading Dutch agencies help migrants sleeping outside crowded camp
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press TER APEL, Netherlands (AP) — Aid agencies are tending to hundreds of migrants camped in sweltering heat outside an…
Continue Reading Congress wants to hear what Twitter whistleblower has to say
By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. lawmakers are anxious to hear from Twitter’s former security chief, who has alarmed…
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Inflation is driving Americans to bargain chain stores
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dollar Tree and Dollar General have reported higher second-quarter as four-decade high…
Continue ReadingMyanmar junta charges former UK ambassador with immigration offenses
By Angus Watson, Xiaofei Xu and Niamh Kennedy, CNN The United Kingdom’s former ambassador to Myanmar has been charged with immigration offenses…
Continue ReadingKickboxer Yora Tade, 24, dies after collapsing in ring
By Rishabh Pratap, CNN Indian kickboxer Yora Tade died at a government hospital in the southern Indian city of Chennai on Tuesday after collapsing in…
Continue Reading Oklahoma executes James Coddington for 1997 hammer killing
By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma has executed a man for a 1997 killing despite a recommendation from the state’s…
Continue Reading Rapid rainfall floods buildings and highways in Deep South
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press PEARL, Miss. (AP) — Large fans hummed noisily Thursday to try to dry out the carpet…
Continue ReadingUS and Israeli agencies use new agreement to defend against cyberattacks
By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The US and Israeli governments have shared key details of unrelated cyberattacks on their infrastructure — one from…
Continue Reading Testing finds illness sickening Michigan dogs is parvovirus
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An illness that has sickened dogs in northern Michigan, killing some of them, was found to be canine parvovirus, a common…
Continue Reading Latvia brings down Soviet-era monument’s obelisk in capital
By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A concrete obelisk topped by Soviet stars that was the centerpiece of a monument…
Continue Reading With no buyers, Citigroup to wind down operations in Russia
By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Citigroup will wind down its consumer banking and commercial lending operations in Russia after…
Continue Reading Russia frees ex-mayor but he still faces charges for remarks
A Russian court has ordered the release of a former mayor of the country’s fourth-largest city from custody pending an investigation and trial on…
Continue ReadingNovak Djokovic withdraws from the US Open. He is unvaccinated against Covid-19 and not allowed to receive a visa and enter the country
By Ben Morse and Matt Foster, CNN Twenty-one time grand slam champion Novak Djokovic has announced his absence from the upcoming US Open via a…
Continue Reading Reports: Iran allows women to attend Tehran soccer game
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian news agency says that in a rare move, authorities have allowed women to attend a soccer game at the Tehran Azadi…
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Gov. Polis, DPS announce opening of law enforcement workforce grant applications
DENVER, Colo. (KRDO) — Thursday morning, Gov. Polis and the Colorado Department of Public Safety announced that law enforcement workforce grant…
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