By STEPHANY MATAT Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday defended a state agency’s involvement with a $10 million donation to a charity founded by his wife as a “cherry on top” deal using funds from a settlement between the agency and the state’s largest Medicaid contractor. DeSantis
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By Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Social media influencer and self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate has been accused of holding a gun to a woman’s head and threatening “there’ll be hell to pay,” according to UK court documents , Britain’s PA Media news agency reported. Four women have accused the professional kickboxer-turned-internet demagogue of rape,
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — A scary activity for some, downhill mountain bike racing has become not only a hobby, but a career for 18-year-old Carson Brooks. “So, downhill is the discipline, and so like, cross-country is the same as cross-country running, but on a bike you’re only times on the downhills,” Brooks said.
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By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Four House lawmakers from battleground districts will field questions from American voters Thursday. Republicans Mike Lawler and Ryan Mackenzie and Democrats Jahana Hayes and Derek Tran will address a live studio audience made up of Republicans, Democrats and independents that includes constituents from each member’s district. Lawler and Mackenzie
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By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer After many years of impassioned calls for an Oscar recognizing the art of the stunt, the film academy has decided to give it an official award. An achievement in stunt design prize will be added starting with the 100th Academy Awards, which will recognize films released in 2027, the
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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Democratic leader who revitalized the party in the presidential swing state announced Thursday he will be leaving his position in June after a six-year run that included a string of victories and “agonizingly close” losses. The move by Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Ben Wikler
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WCBS, CNN By John Miller, Mark Morales and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — Six people – including three children – are dead after a passenger helicopter crashed into the Hudson River, said New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The passengers included a pilot and a family visiting from Spain, he said. At 3:17 p.m., multiple
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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Documents related to the 1968 assassinations of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy will soon be made public as more than 100 people have been working “around the clock” to scan them, U.S. Director of National Intelligence
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By Niamh Kennedy, Nadeen Ebrahim, Zeena Saifi and Avery Schmitz, CNN London and Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN) — Sudan has accused the United Arab Emirates at the United Nations’ top court of violating the Genocide Convention by supporting paramilitary forces in its Darfur region. “A genocide is being committed against the ethnic group of the
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — A jury on Thursday found that rapper Soulja Boy was liable for sexually assaulting and physically and emotionally abusing a former assistant, awarding the woman more than $4 million in damages. The decision from the Los Angeles County jurors came after a three-week trial in Santa Monica, California. The 34-year-old
Continue ReadingWFTV, CNN By Daniel Wine and Morgan Severson, CNN Editor’s Note: CNN’s 5 Things newsletter is your one-stop shop for the latest headlines and fascinating stories to start and end your busy day. Sign up here. 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Some fitness coaches use mantras or mottos to help motivate their clients. Experts suggest
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Wine and Morgan Severson, CNN Editor’s Note: CNN’s 5 Things newsletter is your one-stop shop for the latest headlines and fascinating stories to start and end your busy day. Sign up here. 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Some fitness coaches use mantras or mottos to help motivate their clients. Experts suggest finding a
Continue Reading By John Miller, Taylor Romine, Aaron Cooper and Jeff Winter, CNN (CNN) — A family’s afternoon sightseeing excursion above the misty shoreline of Manhattan ended in tragedy Thursday after the helicopter carrying them crashed off the New Jersey shoreline, killing them and the pilot. Spectators watched the helicopter as it dropped from the sky and
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By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top health agency will undertake a “massive testing and research effort” to determine the cause of autism, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine critic who has pushed a discredited theory that routine childhood shots cause the developmental
Continue Reading By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top health agency will undertake a “massive testing and research effort” to determine the cause of autism, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine critic who has pushed a discredited theory that routine childhood shots cause the
Continue ReadingBy Rebecca Wright and Will Ripley, CNN (CNN) — As civil war-torn Myanmar struggles to recover from a devastating earthquake, the United States is facing criticism that it has abandoned the country in its hour of need – and is ceding global leadership on disaster response to its rivals. The 7.7-magnitude quake, which struck on
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Partly cloudy, mild, and breezy conditions will continue across Northwest Missouri and Northeast Kansas Thursday afternoon and evening. Most will remain dry aside from a 10% – 20% chance of stray showers through sunset. Temperatures will fall out of the 60s and into the low 40s late tonight, as gusty northwest winds slack off from
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Mascarenhas and Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — The federal government outlined evidence to support Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation order in a newly-released, two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The memo says the Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate is deportable because of his “beliefs, statements or associations” that would compromise US foreign
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By MATTHEW BROWN and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s nominee to oversee an agency that manages a quarter-billion acres of public land has withdrawn her nomination following revelations that she criticized the Republican president in 2021 for inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The withdrawal of
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By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to move forward with a requirement that everyone in the U.S. illegally must register with the federal government and carry documentation, in a move that could have far-reaching repercussions for immigrants across the country. Judge Trevor Neil McFadden
Continue ReadingPor Lauren Mascarenhas y Gloria Pazmino, CNN El Gobierno de Donald Trump expuso su argumento legal para la deportación de Mahmoud Khalil, un graduado de la Universidad de Columbia y destacado activista propalestino. El nuevo memo de dos páginas del secretario de Estado, Marco Rubio, no contiene acusaciones de actividad criminal. En su lugar, argumenta
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By LEKAN OYEKANMI and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press PALACIOS, Texas (AP) — While American consumers and markets wonder and worry about President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs, there’s one group cheering him as they hope he’ll prop up their sinking business: Gulf coast shrimpers. American shrimpers have been hammered in recent years by cheap imports
Continue ReadingBy WRCB News Staff Click here for updates on this story Tennessee (WRCB) — The couple who owns the home where a suspect “hid in the floor that was cut out,” prompting an 8-hour SWAT standoff in Sale Creek, were arrested and charged with 11 felonies in court on Monday, March 3. Robert Drayton Bowen
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By BERNARD CONDON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As stocks tanked on tariff fears, Marjorie Taylor Greene showed her faith in the president not just with words but dollar bills. The Republican congresswoman, an avid supporter of the Trump administration’s trade policies, not only bought stocks last week as others dumped them in
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By Eugenia Yosef and Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military has fired Air Force reservists who publicly called for an immediate return of the remaining hostages in Gaza even if it requires an immediate ceasefire, according to a statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). In a letter published in Israel’s major newspapers,
Continue ReadingBy WRCB News Staff Click here for updates on this story Tennessee (WRCB) — The family of a woman who drowned alongside a Meigs County deputy is suing a GPS navigation company, saying it led the officer into the Tennessee River where they drowned in February of 2024. The lawsuit claims that Meigs County Deputy
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Second Harvest asked St. Joseph residents to donate nonperishables, vegetables, canned goods and more Thursday’s Fill the Van food drive.
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By Max Saltman and Angélica Franganillo-Díaz, CNN (CNN) — More than 200 people died after the roof of the popular Jet Set nightclub collapsed in the Dominican Republic’s capital, Santo Domingo, this week in one of the Caribbean country’s deadliest tragedies. Footage from the scene early Tuesday morning showed how a celebratory event turned into
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By Alex Marquardt and Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — When discussions began over releasing Israeli hostages shortly after the October 7 attack by Hamas, the negotiators tasked to strike a deal were mostly intelligence and security professionals. But in February, Israel made an important change that those now involved say has had a profound slowing
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