Associated Press Kansas Daybook for Wednesday, Feb. 19. 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 MEG KINNARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Kelly Loeffler, a Georgia businesswoman and former senator, to lead the Small Business Administration, returning a stalwart supporter of President Donald Trump to Washington. At SBA, Loeffler will oversee the entity that describes itself as the only Cabinet-level federal agency “fully
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate confirms Kelly Loeffler to run Small Business Administration, placing a former Georgia senator in Trump’s Cabinet.
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By The Associated Press An Israeli official said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed a close confidant to lead negotiations for the second stage of the ceasefire with Hamas. The U.S.-born Ron Dermer is a Cabinet minister who’s widely seen as Netanyahu’s closest adviser. He previously served as Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. and is
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Continue Reading By BEN FINLEY and JOHN RABY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The latest in a long line of winter storms is taking direct aim at the East Coast, threatening to dump heavy snow and some ice in several states. A storm that dropped snow in the Midwest was spreading across the Tennessee and Ohio
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By HANNA ARHIROVA and JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Relations between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump deteriorated rapidly Wednesday as Zelenskyy said Trump was living in a Russian-made “disinformation space” and Trump called Zelenskyy “a dictator without elections” in comments that were sure to complicate efforts to end
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury’s acquittal of A$AP Rocky on Tuesday put to rest a case that has hung over the hip-hop star for years and threatened to derail his life and career. Rocky was charged with two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, filed after a November 2021 incident in which
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By The Associated Press President Donald Trump on Wednesday called Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator without elections,” lashing out after the Ukrainian president said Trump was being influenced by Russian disinformation as he moves to end the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine on terms that Kyiv says are too favorable to Moscow. Here’s the latest: Trump administration
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By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is falsely claiming that tens of millions of dead people over 100 years old are receiving Social Security payments. Over the past few days, President Donald Trump and billionaire adviser Elon Musk have said on social media and in press briefings that people who
Continue Reading By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is falsely claiming that tens of millions of dead people over 100 years old are receiving Social Security payments. Over the past few days, President Donald Trump and billionaire adviser Elon Musk have said on social media and in press briefings that people who
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD, ANDREA ROSA and PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni visited Pope Francis in the hospital Wednesday and reported he was “alert and responsive” and full of good humor, despite his diagnosis of pneumonia and a complicated bronchial infection that has sidelined the 88-year-old pontiff for six days.
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By RONALD BLUM Associated Press The Metropolitan Opera will double cast a portion of Verdi and Puccini revivals and shift some contemporary compositions away from Saturdays at the recommendation of a consultant trying to boost the company’s finances. The 2025-26 season announced Wednesday will be the third straight with 18 productions, down from 28 in
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By FARAI MUTSAKA and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Florence Makumene held a plastic container of HIV medication and wondered if it would be her last as fears swelled of a return to a time decades ago when millions across sub-Saharan Africa died of AIDS. As a young adult in Zimbabwe, Makumene
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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic-backed incumbent state schools leader will face a Republican-supported challenger after both advanced in Tuesday’s three-person primary. The winner in the April 1 general election will guide education policy in the battleground state during President Donald Trump’s second term. Jill Underly, currently serving her first
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By MEG KINNARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of federal government employees have been shown the door in the first month of President Donald Trump’s administration as the White House and its Department of Government Efficiency fire both new and career workers, tell agency leaders to plan for “large-scale reductions in force” and freeze
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Books on slavery, the justice system, poverty and gender identity are among this year’s finalists for J. Anthony Lukas prizes, named for the late investigative journalist. Presented by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, the prizes honor “excellence
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — If you love movies or comics, you’ve likely followed the adventures of Spider-Man,Iron Man and other superheroes. A new line of books will let you explore the back stories of their creation. On Wednesday, Bloomsbury and Marvel announced a multi-year, multi-volume licensing agreement for “Marvel
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Justice Department lawyers and New York City Mayor Eric Adams are set to face a federal judge who is signaling that he is unlikely to rubber-stamp their request to drop the mayor’s corruption charges weeks before an April trial. Judge Dale E.
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By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hosts of many popular true crime podcasts will headline a true crime-themed cruise next year that’s being billed as a first-of-its kind immersive mystery experience at sea. The cruise will feature “America’s Most Wanted” host John Walsh, Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala from “RedHanded,” Scaachi
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By CATHY BUSSEWITZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Union leaders have described President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Labor as a friend of organized labor. But as her confirmation hearing began Wednesday, advocates for workers’ rights question whether Lori Chavez-DeRemer will be able to uphold that reputation in an administration that
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By STEPHEN McGRATH and NICOLAE DUMITRACHE Associated Press SMARDAN, Romania (AP) — NATO members continued their largest combat exercises of 2025 on Wednesday, testing their ability to rapidly deploy large-scale forces on the 32-nation alliance’s eastern border as worries grow over its most powerful member, the United States. The drills in Romania, which borders Ukraine,
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By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — President Donald Trump’s media company sued a Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Wednesday, accusing him of violating U.S. free speech protections when he imposed a ban on a right-wing supporter of the country’s former President Jair Bolsonaro. The lawsuit in Tampa federal court was filed just hours
Continue Reading By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Thank y’all for saving my life,” A$AP Rocky shouted to jurors as they left his trial. It’s no ordinary life they sent him on to when they quickly returned not guilty verdicts Tuesday on two counts of felony assault with a semiautomatic handgun. The rapper
Continue Reading By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Thank y’all for saving my life,” A$AP Rocky shouted to jurors as they left his trial. It’s no ordinary life they sent him on to when they quickly returned not guilty verdicts Tuesday on two counts of felony assault with a semiautomatic handgun. The rapper
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ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Soprano Renée Fleming will make her directing debut in Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” at the Aspen Festival with three performances from July 21-26. While Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte set their opera about fiancee-swapping in 18th century Naples, Italy, Fleming is shifting the work to a contemporary setting, the company
Continue Reading Associated Press Nebraska Daybook for Wednesday, Feb. 19. 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
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