By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— IOWA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— FBC–AP ALL-BIG 12 DESCRIPTION: The AP releases it All-Big 12 team. By Stephen Hawkins. 450 words, photos.
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— IOWA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— FBC–AP ALL-BIG 12 DESCRIPTION: The AP releases it All-Big 12 team. By Stephen Hawkins. 450 words, photos.
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— IOWA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— FBC–AP ALL-BIG 12 DESCRIPTION: The AP releases it All-Big 12 team. By Stephen Hawkins. 450 words, photos.
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— IOWA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— FBC–AP ALL-BIG 12 DESCRIPTION: The AP releases it All-Big 12 team. By Stephen Hawkins. 450 words, photos.
Continue ReadingTo see stories that have already moved, please visit AP Newsroom. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan ——————————-— MINNESOTA ————-——————— US–Federal Enforcement-Minnesota Federal agents use pepper spray on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown SUMMARY: Federal agents have used pepper spray
Continue ReadingTo see stories that have already moved, please visit AP Newsroom. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan ——————————-— MINNESOTA ————-——————— US–Federal Enforcement-Minnesota Federal agents use pepper spray on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown SUMMARY: Federal agents have used pepper spray
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) — The USDA said Wednesday that it had approved Missouri’s waiver seeking to exclude candy, soda and other junk food from purchase with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding.
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By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomatic correspondence to stop using the Calibri font and return to the more traditional Times New Roman effective Wednesday, reversing a Biden administration shift to the less formal typeface that he called wasteful, confusing and unbefitting the dignity of
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By Antonia Mortensen, Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Denmark has labeled the United States as a potential security concern for the first time in an annual report released by one of its intelligence agencies, offering more evidence of the increasingly fraught transatlantic alliance between Europe and the US. The report, compiled by the Danish Defense
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Online grocery delivery service Instacart used AI to charge different prices for the same item, up to 20% more for different shoppers, a new report says. An investigation from Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative revealed Tuesday that Instacart displayed different prices on the same household staples sold
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(AP) — Students applying to college know they can’t — or at least shouldn’t — use AI chatbots to write their essays and personal statements. So it might come as a surprise that some schools are now using artificial intelligence to read them.
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — Community members are invited to join in the holiday festivities with a special visitor from the North Pole this weekend in St. Joseph.
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By Joseph Ataman, CNN Paris (CNN) — Twenty days, 213 pages. For every 24 hours behind bars, Nicolas Sarkozy wrote more than 10 pages of his new book recounting his stint in Paris’ La Santé Prison. “It could have been a budget hotel, if you ignored the armored door with its eyehole,” the former French
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By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro condemned the rise of political violence during a joint interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, calling on politicians, including President Donald Trump, to help lower the temperature in the country. The two responded on Tuesday to the president’s comments
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Jennifer Shah, a former star on “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” has been moved from a federal prison into a community confinement program after serving less than half of her sentence for defrauding thousands of people. A Bureau of Prisons spokesperson confirmed that Shah was transferred Wednesday morning from
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Melanie Moore, who runs the Ohio-based Cincy Book Bus, is one of hundreds of booksellers who received a pleasant surprise for the holidays: a check for $500 from author James Patterson. “I’ve never taken a salary. All profits from the bookstore go to buy books
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LONDON (AP) — Iceland’s national broadcaster said Wednesday it will boycott next year’s Eurovision Song Contest because of the participation of Israel, joining four other countries in a walkout of the pan-continental music competition. Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland and Slovenia told the European Broadcasting Union last week that they will not take part in the
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By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — It was an international controversy during President Donald Trump’s first term. Media outlets including CNN reported that, at a closed-door January 2018 meeting with senators about immigration policy, Trump had asked why the US should accept immigrants from “shithole countries” such as some in Africa. Trump’s White House spokesperson
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By Sarah Ferris, Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — A number of endangered GOP lawmakers on Wednesday privately pressed Republican leaders to address expiring Covid-era health care subsidies — but faced sharp pushback from the right flank of their party. And House Republican leaders remained adamant that they did not support a short-term fix, making it
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By DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Compas, a beloved Haitian music and dance genre inspired by merengue and infused with percussion, made UNESCO’s cultural heritage list on Wednesday. The syncopated rhythm, created in the 1950s, wafts from bars, bedrooms and businesses across Haiti, lifting spirits and providing solace from
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer Sophie Kinsella, who has died at age 55, had a special talent for characters who persevered through the most embarrassing mishaps — often of their own making. Here are five novels that helped keep readers laughing, and relating, over the past 30 years. “The Tennis Party” (1995) Fellow writers
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By Cecilia Laurent-Monpetit, Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — France’s first lady Brigitte Macron has sparked outrage among French celebrities and feminists over the use of sexist and derogatory language to describe protesters at a comedian’s show. Brigitte Macron was attending a performance Sunday by Ary Abittan, a stand-up comedian who was accused of rape by
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Wednesday approved the unsealing of documents from the investigation and criminal prosecution of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The decision from Manhattan judge Richard M. Berman comes one day after a different New York judge approved the release of records in the case against Epstein’s
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By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — Paramount and Netflix are in a vicious tug-of-war over Warner Bros. Discovery. On one side of the rope: the suitor WBD’s board signed off on, Netflix, which announced a $72 billion deal last week. On the other side, the suitor the board turned down, Paramount, which is resorting to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) — A Columbia green card holder who has been ordered deported from the United States, with a lifetime ban to keep him from reentering the country, says the outcome of his immigration case was predetermined.
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By The Associated Press (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Thursday, Dec. 11 COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 8 p.m. FS1 — Iowa at Iowa St. 9 p.m. ACCN — Saint Joseph’s at Syracuse COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN’S) 1 p.m. ESPN2 — NCAA Tournament: Creighton vs. Arizona St., Third Round, Lexington, Ky. 3:30 p.m. ESPN2
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