By Julia Andersen, CNN (CNN) — Forty-eight regular-season games played and zero losses. While a championship eludes them, this team has their eyes on a much bigger prize: going pro. Minnesota Aurora FC is a community-owned women’s soccer team born from a parking lot meeting in the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, they consistently
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By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press A progressive group is targeting two Senate Democrats and an independent senator who voted to confirm some of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees, promising to spend more than $1 million in hopes of pushing congressional Democrats to take a stronger stand against the Republican president. In a weeklong advertising
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By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — For nearly 40 years, the identity of the person who sexually assaulted and killed a 30-year-old woman found along a quiet stretch of rural highway south of Denver eluded investigators. Now, small pieces of preserved evidence – a pair of paper bags placed over the victim’s hands – have
Continue Reading KUSA, DOUGLAS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, CNN By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — For nearly 40 years, the identity of the person who sexually assaulted and killed a 30-year-old woman found along a quiet stretch of rural highway south of Denver eluded investigators. Now, small pieces of preserved evidence – a pair of paper bags placed
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, which officially ended November 30, showcased the growing capabilities of artificial intelligence for storm forecasting. And experts say there is no turning back. This season, the National Hurricane Center supplemented its usual cadre of traditional models with AI-driven models, including one developed by Google
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By Michael Williams, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s latest immigration crackdown, prompted by the shooting of two National Guard members, means he has now halted or significantly tightened every legal and illegal form of foreign entry into the US, prompting widespread fear and confusion among immigrants who are unsure what will happen
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By LORNE COOK and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine and its European allies accused Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday of feigning interest in peace efforts after five hours of talks with U.S. envoys at the Kremlin produced no breakthrough. The Russian leader “should end the bluster and the bloodshed and
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Constellation Brands, the US owner of Modelo Especial and Corona, bet big on Latino customers for growth. But that strategy is unraveling under the Trump administration’s mass deportation push. Many Latino consumers, both legal and undocumented, are fearful of venturing out in public to stores, restaurants and
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TODAY’S SPORTS SCHEDULE ___ NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Final Portland 122 Cleveland 110 Final San Antonio 114 Orlando 112 Final Denver 135 Indiana 120 Final L.A. Clippers 115 Atlanta 92 Final New York 119 Charlotte 104 Final Houston 121 Sacramento 95 Final Brooklyn 113 Chicago 103 Final Milwaukee 113 Detroit 109 Final Dallas 118 Miami 108
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Kansas Daybook for Wednesday, Dec. 03. 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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Continue ReadingAssociated Press Nebraska Daybook for Wednesday, Dec. 03. 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 Omaha bureau is reachable at 402-391-0031. Send daybook items to Nebraska@applanner.com. To see
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Iowa Daybook for Wednesday, Dec. 03. 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 LORNE COOK and SAM MCNEIL Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Wednesday revealed details of its plan to use billions of euros in frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine’s needs over the next two years, but Belgium rejected the scheme and insisted that it poses major financial and legal risks. European
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By BINSAR BAKKARA and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press BATANG TORU, Indonesia (AP) — Rescue teams raced Wednesday to reach communities isolated by last week’s catastrophic floods and landslides in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand as over 900 people remained missing and the scope of economic damage became clearer. Over 1,400 were killed: at least 780
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By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Police in New Zealand are waiting for nature to take its course after a man allegedly tried to smuggle a 33,000 New Zealand dollar ($19,000) pendant out of a jewelry store by swallowing it. The 32-year-old man, who has not been publicly named, is accused
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By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and ANTON L. DELGADO Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Southeast Asia is being pummeled by unusually severe floods this year, as late-arriving storms and relentless rains wreak havoc that has caught many places off guard. Deaths have topped 1,400 across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, with more than 1,000 still missing
Continue ReadingBy JULIA FRANKEL and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said it launched an airstrike on a Hamas militant in southern Gaza late Wednesday in retaliation for an attack earlier in the day that wounded five Israeli soldiers. The strike was the latest test for a fragile ceasefire that has mostly held up
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Makes no sense You know, President Trump tells Maduro to get out of his own country and Venezuela. Tells him just to get out, threatens him, or he’s going to blow him up. But he won’t tell Putin to get out of Ukraine. It’s not his country. But he tells Maduro to get out of
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Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 24 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— IOWA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— BKC–T25-ALCORN ST-IOWA ST DESCRIPTION: AMES, Iowa — No. 10 Iowa State, 7-0 and out to its best
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 24 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— IOWA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— BKC–T25-ALCORN ST-IOWA ST DESCRIPTION: AMES, Iowa — No. 10 Iowa State, 7-0 and out to its best
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 24 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— IOWA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— BKC–T25-ALCORN ST-IOWA ST DESCRIPTION: AMES, Iowa — No. 10 Iowa State, 7-0 and out to its best
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 24 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— IOWA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— BKC–T25-ALCORN ST-IOWA ST DESCRIPTION: AMES, Iowa — No. 10 Iowa State, 7-0 and out to its best
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Donnie Ray Ellis Sr., aged 82, of St. Joseph, passed away peacefully at his home on Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025. Born on Jan.13, 1943, in Marana, Arizona, he was the beloved son of the late Wilma and Donald Ellis. Donnie attended Lafayette High School and proudly served his country by joining the United States Air
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Brenda L Moore-Estes, 81, St. Joseph, passed Nov. 20, 2025 at her residence surrounded by family. Home Going celebration Saturday, Dec. 6, 11 a.m. Holsey Chapel ICM, Visitation 10 a.m. at the church, interment Mount Olive Cemetery . Complete obituary at bullockffc.com. Services are under the direction of Bullock Family Funeral Chapel. As published in
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Gary Wilbert Smith 72, St. Joseph, died Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. Born Dec. 31, 1952, Batesville, Arkansas. Preceded in death by mother, Vera Rose Smith; father, Wilbert “WN” Nathanial Smith; son, Garrett Smith. Survivors include wife, Gemma Smith; children, Brooke (Randy) Sutterfield and Taylor Smith; step-children, Jeremy (Vanessa) Jagow and Laura (Zach) Jagow-Helton; granddaughters, Brittney
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Late Notices James L. Garner HIGHLAND, Kan. -James Lee Garner, 64, of Highland, Kansas died Nov. 28, 2025, at a St. Joseph hospital. www.chapeloaksfuneralhome.com Karl E. Sundell Karl E. Sundell, 87, St. Joseph, died Dec. 2, 2025. Arrangements pending Meierhoffer Funeral Home & Crematory. www.meierhoffer.com. Sally N. Taylor Sally Nadine Taylor 58, of St. Joseph,
Continue Reading By The Associated Press NFL Thursday FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at DETROIT 5½ 3 (54½) Dallas Sunday FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Miami 3 3 (41½) at NY JETS at BUFFALO 7 5½ (53½) Cincinnati at MINNESOTA 3 1½ (42½) Washington at CLEVELAND 3½ 3½ (33½) Tennessee Seattle 8½ 7 (44½) at ATLANTA at
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By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An international rights group on Wednesday accused the paramilitary group fighting against Sudan’s military of committing war crimes during its attack earlier this year on the country’s largest displacement camp in the Darfur region. The Rapid Support Forces, which is at war with the Sudanese military, rampaged
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