By ANTON L. DELGADO Associated Press BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Fans of K-pop have an intensity that’s turned the music into a global phenomenon. Some are determined to channel that energy into action on climate change. Their push has been on display at United Nations climate talks in the city of Belem on the edge
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By THOMAS ADAMSON and OLEG CETINIC Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Princess Diana returned to Paris in wax Thursday as one of Europe’s oldest wax museums unveiled a new figure of the British royal in the so-called “revenge dress,” decades after her tragic death in the city. The statue was ordered in Paris after the
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey has said he’s got “no home,” citing the costs he’s incurred following allegations of sexual assault. Speaking to UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph in an interview published Wednesday, Spacey revealed that the financial fallout of the allegations, which came to light in 2017, resulted in
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By Jennifer Hansler, Kevin Liptak, Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — A new Trump administration plan for the end of the war in Ukraine would see Kyiv cede territory to Russia, US “de facto” recognition of Crimea and other Ukrainian territory forcibly seized by the Kremlin as Russian, and limits to the size of Ukraine’s military,
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By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — It’s enough to give anyone already on edge about how to handle possible flight delays and cancellations yet another reason to pop an antacid or two: the prospect of delayed, lost, stolen or damaged baggage. The concern is valid, especially during peak winter holiday travel and situations such as
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The world’s biggest music labels have struck AI licensing deals with a little-known startup named Klay Vision, the companies said Thursday, the latest in a series of deals that underlines how the technology is shaking up the music industry ’s business model. Warner Music Group, Universal
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Walmart is proving to be America’s antidote to the cost of living crisis. A growing number of Americans are heading to Walmart for groceries and clothing as inflation and high prices squeeze their budgets: Walmart’s business in the United States is surging and it’s gaining market share
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — The Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg opened Thursday, nearly a year after it was the scene of a horrific car-ramming attack that left six people dead. Five women and a boy died, and many more people were injured in the Dec. 20 attack that lasted just over a minute.
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By DAVID CRARY and HOLLY MEYER Associated Press The U.S. feminist movement’s perpetual quest for gender equality has suffered notable setbacks during President Donald Trump’s second term — including the dismantling of various nondiscrimination programs and the ouster of several high-ranking women in the military. Yet strikingly, outspoken women from the Catholic Church and the
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By MIKE PESOLI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When former Vice President Dick Cheney ‘s funeral is held Thursday at the Washington National Cathedral in the nation’s capital, he will join a bipartisan but exclusive list of towering figures memorialized there, in a church that tells the story of America on hallowed ground. Presidents from
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A passenger bus in Cambodia crashed off a bridge into a river on Thursday, killing at least 13 passengers and injuring two dozen others, police said. The bus was traveling from Siem Reap, home to the country’s fabled Angkor Wat temple complex, to the capital Phnom Penh, when it crashed
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By Angus Watson, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has identified a Russian commander it accuses of “systematic and coordinated war crimes” in Bucha, near Kyiv, where hundreds of civilians were murdered during its brief occupation by Russian troops in 2022. Yurii Vladimirovich Kim, the commander of a platoon in Russia’s 76th Air Assault Division, is accused
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By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — Joseph DeAngelo moved through California neighborhoods like a shadow. He stalked his victims for days, learning their routines before slipping into their homes in a mask to torture, rape and kill. At first, he preyed on women who lived alone but later expanded his attacks to include couples. He
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Hitting the streets is a great way to catch a city’s real pulse — drifting through indie stores, ducking into coffee shops or grabbing a barstool somewhere lively. As global listing guide Time Out puts it, a city’s streets are where you’ll find “local life at its most authentic.”
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By WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — Israeli strikes in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis early Thursday killed five people, hospital officials said, bringing the death toll from airstrikes in the Palestinian territory over a roughly 12-hour period to 33, mostly women and children. The strikes have been some of the
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By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. atomic watchdog on Thursday demanded that Iran fully cooperate with the agency and provide “precise information” about its stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium, as well as grant its inspectors access to Iranian nuclear sites. The development sets the stage for a likely further escalation between
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By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine court on Thursday convicted a former mayor, who officials say is a Chinese national, of human trafficking charges for helping establish an illegal online gaming complex in a northern province where hundreds of Chinese and other foreign nationals were forced to conduct scams. The
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Kansas Daybook for Thursday, Nov. 20. 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 Kansas City bureau is reachable at 816-421-4844. Send daybook items to Kansas@applanner.com. To
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By SAM McNEIL Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — More than 60 delegations were meeting in Brussels on Thursday to discuss reconstruction, governance and security in the Gaza Strip and reforming the Palestinian Authority. France and Saudi Arabia are chairing a meeting of the Palestine Donor Group, focusing on reforms of the Palestinian Authority called for
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By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel plans to seize parts of a major West Bank historic site, according to a government document, and settlers put up a new outpost overnight, even as the country faces pressure to crack down on settler violence in the Palestinian territory. Israel’s Civil Administration announced its intention
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TODAY’S SPORTS SCHEDULE ___ NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Final Orlando 129 L.A. Clippers 101 Final Memphis 137 Sacramento 96 Final San Antonio 135 Atlanta 126 Final OT Philadelphia 123 Milwaukee 114 ___ NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Final Florida 1 New Jersey 0 Final OT Philadelphia 3 St. Louis 2 Final OT Columbus 3 Toronto 2 Final Washington
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CNN, POOL By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — A long-awaited jobs report offered a mixed picture of the US labor market. The economy added 119,000 jobs in September, an unexpected rebound for the labor market — but it comes as the overall economy shows signs of slowing. Economists were expecting 50,000 jobs to have been
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CNN, POOL, HOUSE TV, REP. RASHIDA TLAIB By Adam Cancryn, Evan Perez, Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins, Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday sought to bring a swift end to perhaps the most damaging saga of his term, signing a measure compelling the release of the Epstein files after losing a monthslong,
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By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Thursday restored a nonpartisan caretaker government system for national elections but said it won’t apply to the polls being held early next year. The caretaker system was introduced in 1996 and widely accepted by Bangladesh’s people and by international observers as a
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By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press A haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold Thursday for $54.7 million and became the top-selling work by any female artist at an auction. The painting of Kahlo asleep in a bed — titled “El sueño (La cama)” or in English, “The Dream (The Bed)” — surpassed
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Win-win solution A win-win solution to our school situation might be for the South End to withdraw from the city and form its own school board and keep Benton High School. The rest of the city could then build a modern, state-of-the-art high school that would be attractive to young families who are considering locating
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Backstage compiled a list of movies and TV shows casting in Kansas City.
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