Associated Press Missouri Daybook for Friday, Apr. 11. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Missouri bureau is reachable at 816-421-4844. Send daybook items to Missouri@applanner.com. To see
Continue Reading Associated Press Iowa Daybook for Friday, Apr. 11. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Des Moines bureau is reachable at 515-243-3281. Send daybook items to iowa@applanner.com. To
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By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and SIBI ARASU Associated Press Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum fee of $100 for every ton of greenhouse gases emitted by ships above certain thresholds, in what is effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions. The International Maritime Organization estimates $11
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — It can be unlucky when a plane has to divert due to a sick passenger or a security incident mid-air. But a recent flight from the Cayman Islands to the United Kingdom was particularly unlucky as it had to be diverted twice. Passengers on board BA252 left George Town,
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By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — The ancient game of chess is one steeped in tradition, with a history dating back centuries. It was once a game purely of endurance, a test of patience with titanic battles often taking days to find a winner. Much of that is true today, with the classical form of
Continue Reading TODAY’S SPORTS SCHEDULE ___ INTERLEAGUE Final Tampa Bay 6 Atlanta 3 Final San Francisco 9 N.Y. Yankees 1 Final N.Y. Mets 7 Athletics 6 ___ AMERICAN LEAGUE Toronto at Baltimore 12:35 p.m. (Postponed) Final Cleveland 7 Kansas City 0 Final Chicago White Sox 11 Boston 1 Final Houston 14 L.A. Angels 3 Final Detroit 7
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — While the White House wages a trade war on behalf of US manufacturing, the largest and most important part of the American economy — one that has a trade surplus, not a gap — is under threat. The US trade gap, caused by American consumers and businesses importing more
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By Gloria Pazmino, Lauren Mascarenhas and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — A Louisiana immigration judge said Friday that Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident, is deportable. The judge’s decision comes after the federal government submitted a memo Wednesday from Secretary of State Marco Rubio alleging Khalil can be deported because of his
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny and Phil Mattingly, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is happy to talk about the financial markets when they’re rising, as they were on Wednesday, but when markets were falling Thursday in the aftermath of his remarkable turnabout on tariffs, he punted to the closest adviser around. This time, Treasury
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Mohamed Salah has signed a new contract with Liverpool to keep him at the club beyond the current season, the team announced on Friday. The two-year deal puts an end to the long-running debate around Salah’s future at Liverpool, with the Egyptian forward’s previous contract set to expire in
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Park, John Miller, Taylor Romine, Aaron Cooper, Jeff Winter and Bob Ortega, CNN (CNN) — A sightseeing helicopter plunged from the sky into the Hudson River on Thursday, turning a family outing above Manhattan’s misty skyline into a tragedy. The helicopter carried six people, including three children and an executive from Siemens —
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By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol left the presidential residence in Seoul on Friday for his private home, a week after the Constitutional Court removed him from office over his ill-fated imposition of martial law in December. In recent days, moving trucks were seen
Continue ReadingPor Nectar Gan, CNN El líder chino, Xi Jinping, dijo que su nación “no tiene miedo”, en su primera declaración pública sobre la creciente guerra comercial con Estados Unidos, tras el aumento de los aranceles sobre los productos estadounidenses al 125 %. Esta subida de aranceles es la última de una guerra de ojo por
Continue ReadingBy Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — The vast Trump litigation, sure to define the Supreme Court over the next four years, has already exposed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s resistance. She speaks up, wields her pen as a dagger, and doesn’t care if she goes it alone. In a case this week, she
Continue ReadingBy Lamide Akintobi, CNN (CNN) — Alma Asinobi’s mission to break the world record for the fastest time to visit every continent came to an unsuccessful conclusion at the end of March. But she succeeded in calling attention to the issue she aimed to highlight through the trip: just how hard it is to travel
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By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton confirmed on Friday that his family home had been the target of an alleged bomb plot, but said concerns for his personal safety did not restrict his election campaigning. Dutton is campaigning to replace Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at elections on
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has said his nation is “not afraid,” in his first public comments on the escalating trade war with the United States, as Beijing raised tariffs on US goods to 125%. The tariff hike is the latest in a tit-for-tat battle between the world’s
Continue ReadingBy Junko Ogura and Helen Regan, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Japan’s largest yakuza crime syndicate has pledged to end its longstanding war with a rival faction and refrain from causing “trouble,” authorities said, as the mafia-like groups contend with falling membership and increased police crackdowns. Three senior members of the Yamaguchi-gumi visited the Hyogo Prefectural
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By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, filling the position almost two months after President Donald Trump fired his predecessor. Trump nominated Caine to become the top U.S. military
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — A major Australian IVF clinic has apologized for giving the wrong embryo to a woman who then gave birth to another couple’s baby, blaming the mix-up on “human error.” Monash IVF, which operates more than 100 clinics across Australia, said in a statement staff were “devastated” by
Continue ReadingPor Meg Tirrell, Sarah Owermohle y Neha Mukherjee, CNN El Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos (HHS, por sus siglas en inglés) de EE.UU. ha lanzado un “esfuerzo masivo de pruebas e investigación” que involucra a cientos de científicos en todo el mundo y que determinará “qué ha causado la epidemia de autismo” para septiembre,
Continue Reading By PIETRO DE CRISTOFARO and KERSTIN SOPKE Associated Press BAD SCHANDAU, Germany (AP) — Germany’s reputation for efficiency is taking a hit from crumbling concrete. Cracks and collapses are also a risk to its economy, Europe’s biggest. The European Union’s most populous member is trying to turn around a problem with worn-out infrastructure — including
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By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press NAHAL OZ, Israel (AP) — Relatives of hostages in Gaza say they feel the absence of their loved ones acutely during Passover, which commemorates the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and their liberation from slavery. Jews around the world will mark the beginning of the weeklong holiday Saturday night,
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By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is visiting China on Friday, his third trip to the country in two years as his government seeks to boost investment from the Asian giant amid global economic uncertainty caused by a chaotic U.S. tariff policy. Sánchez met with Chinese President Xi
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By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European countries vowed Friday to sends billions of dollars in further funding to help Ukraine keep fighting Russia’s invasion, as a U.S. envoy pursued peace efforts in a trip to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid growing questions about the Kremlin’s willingness to stop the more
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CNN By Ivana Kottasová, Anna Chernova, Kylie Atwood, Zeena Saifi, Jennifer Hansler, Matthew Chance and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Russian-American woman Ksenia Karelina, who was serving a 12-year prison sentence for treason in Russia, has arrived in the United States after being released as part of a prisoner exchange. Karelina, who was exchanged for
Continue ReadingPor Kylie Atwood, Kayla Tausche, Kevin Liptak, Jeremy Herb y Alayna Treene, CNN Un alivio arancelario del presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump, hizo que los mercados globales se dispararan el miércoles. La Casa Blanca informaba que había estado en contacto con decenas de países para cerrar acuerdos, organizando llamadas y reuniones en las próximas semanas.
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Model Lucy Markovic, who rose to fame on “Australia’s Next Top Model” and later walked runways for the likes of Armani and Versace, has died age 27. Her agency, Elite Model Management, announced her death via social media on Thursday, saying she had been battling a rare brain condition.
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — Generally speaking, Abraham Lincoln had a big problem during the Civil War … many of his top generals didn’t get along. Between some of them it was so contemptuous they sabotaged each other’s strategies and actions, costing soldiers lives. Fact is, to become a general you had to be
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