By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An emotional former opinion page editor for The New York Times delivered a tearful apology Thursday to Sarah Palin as he testified about a 2017 editorial that she says damaged her reputation. James Bennet testified that he “blew it” when he erroneously wrote that the former
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By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Crews scrambled to restore power to Puerto Rico on Thursday after a blackout hit the entire island the previous day, affecting the main international airport, hospitals and hotels filled with Easter vacationers. The outage that began around midday Wednesday left 1.4 million customers without
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By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s claim that it can’t do anything to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison and return him to the U.S. “should be shocking,” a federal appeals court said Thursday in a blistering order that ratchets up
Continue Reading By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s claim that it can’t do anything to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison and return him to the U.S. “should be shocking,” a federal appeals court said Thursday in a blistering order that ratchets up
Continue Reading By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s claim that it can’t do anything to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison and return him to the U.S. “should be shocking,” a federal appeals court said Thursday in a blistering order that ratchets up
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AMES, Iowa (AP) — AMES, Iowa (AP) — Ames National Corp. (ATLO) on Thursday reported first-quarter net income of $3.4 million. The Ames, Iowa-based bank said it had earnings of 39 cents per share. The bank posted revenue of $23.7 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $15.5 million, exceeding Street
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By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is drastically shrinking the workforce and mission of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, eviscerating an agency created after the Great Recession with the goal of protecting Americans from fraud, abuse and deceptive practices. The plan, which is being challenged by an employee union, is
Continue ReadingBy Felicia Jordan Click here for updates on this story CLEVES, Ohio (WCPO) — A man is facing child endangerment charges after prosecutors say he locked a 2-year-old child with special needs in a bedroom for hours while he went to work. According to court documents, Joshua Merz is accused of leaving his child “unattended
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By Marlena Lang Click here for updates on this story CINCINNATI (WCPO) — For many, sports teams are about having fun, finding community, and of course, winning. And it’s no different for the Cincinnati Dragons, but they aren’t your typical sports team. Jacob Counts, a Cincinnati-area native, has always been an athlete. “Like a lot
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Dry, warm, and breezy conditions will prevail across Northwest Missouri and Northeast Kansas Thursday evening, as a low pressure system tracks well north of the area keeping any risk for strong to severe thunderstorms along and north of the Iowa border. Overnight lows will only fall into mid to low 60s late, with south winds
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By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — More than half of Haiti’s population is expected to experience severe hunger through June, and another 8,400 people living in makeshift shelters are projected to starve, according to a new report released this week. Relentless gang violence and an ongoing economic collapse is
Continue ReadingBy Sandra Gonzalez, CNN (CNN) — Toddler parents: John Mulaney sees you. In the latest episode of his Netflix show “Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney,” the comedian, a father of two, recalled what it was like to attend his 3-year-old son’s first school performance over the weekend. “Every toddler at heart is the star of
Continue ReadingCNN Radio Argentina (CNN Radio Argentina) – Miguel Calvete, director del Instituto de Estudios de Consumo Masivo (INDECOM), habló este jueves con Regreso CNN, el programa de Mariana Arias y Pepe Gil Vidal, sobre los efectos de la salida del cepo cambiario y el impacto que tiene sobre los precios de los alimentos. “Estamos viendo
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By Dana Karni, Tamar Michaelis and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of Jewish worshippers visited a Jerusalem holy site during the holiday of Passover as far-right Israeli lawmaker Zvi Sukkot boasted, “Arabs aren’t allowed to come near us.” Sukkot, a member of the Religious Zionism party, visited the al-Aqsa compound in the Old City
Continue ReadingPor John Fritze, CNN La Corte Suprema acordó este jueves que escuchará argumentos orales sobre la solicitud del presidente Donald Trump para hacer cumplir un plan que terminaría con la ciudadanía por nacimiento para casi todas las personas, aunque pospuso un pedido de la administración que le habría permitido implementar su plan de inmediato. La
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By Tierney Sneed and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s request that it halt the next steps Judge Paula Xinis is seeking to take in the case concerning a migrant who was wrongly deported to El Salvador, with a strident warning about the rule of law and the
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Continue ReadingCNN Radio Argentina (CNN Radio Argentina) – Andrea Abbruzzese, propietaria de la chocolatería Bombonela, habló este jueves con Los Primeros de la Tarde de Pía Shaw sobre las ventas de huevos de Pascua y los aumentos en comparación con el año anterior. “La ventas vienen bien y estos son los días más fuertes de trabajo”,
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By Ashley Portillo Click here for updates on this story ARAPAHOE, Colorado (KCNC) — The first phase of a $46 million renovation and expansion was just completed at the Arapahoe County Detention Facility. The project just brought a newly designed kitchen and laundry facility to the jail and will soon also help with expanding mental
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen and Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Drake claims he was defamed by Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show, and at the Grammy Awards, where over 100 million combined television viewers heard Lamar’s notorious diss track “Not Like Us,” according to court filings. The Canadian rapper levied the new allegations Wednesday in an
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By WRTV Staff Click here for updates on this story INDIANAPOLIS (WRTV) — The Indiana State Police Cold Case Unit has identified the killer in the murder of the 1972 killing of 26-year-old Phyllis Bailer. According to the news release, Bailer was traveling from Indianapolis, Indiana to Bluffton, Indiana with her 3-year-old daughter to visit
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Researchers say they have uncovered evidence that early Earth was home to more hydrogen than previously thought, calling into question widely held beliefs about the origins of water and the evolution of our planet. Scientists from the University of Oxford analyzed a rare type of meteorite known as an
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By Kara Kenney Click here for updates on this story HENRY COUNTY, Indiana (WRTV) — An Anderson transportation company has filed a lawsuit alleging they’re owed hundreds of thousands of dollars for delivering donuts. Carter Logistics filed a lawsuit in Henry County on April 11 against Jack’s Donuts of Indiana Commissary. In October 2023, Jack’s
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — Four people were killed and one severely injured when their cable car plunged into a ravine in Italy on Thursday, local authorities said. The accident happened after a cable on the Monte Faito cableway near Sorrento snapped in severe weather, according to Vincenzo De Luca, the president of
Continue Reading EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS: A community service program that sends young adults across the U.S. to respond to natural disasters and help with community projects was the latest target of the Trump administration’s campaign to slash government spending. AmeriCorps’ National Civilian Community Corps informed volunteers Tuesday that they would exit the program early “due to programmatic circumstances
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — Spring tornado season started out with a bang for parts of the Midwest and deep South this year. From January to early April, the Storm Prediction Center has tallied at least 473 preliminary tornado reports across the United States. That’s well above the historical average of 266 twisters through
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WMTW, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE, CNN By Jacob Murphy Click here for updates on this story GORHAM, Maine (WMTW) — In 1806, the Academy Building on the University of Southern Maine’s Gorham campus was built. At the time, it was a kind of private high school. The building was eventually absorbed into USM’s campus and
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