By Jaya Sharma, Ken Olshansky, Ivana Kottasová and Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — Canada believes US President Donald Trump is no longer interested in turning it into the 51st state, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday. Asked by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on the sidelines of the NATO meeting in the Netherlands whether Trump is still
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LIBERTY, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — A St. Joseph man and former William Jewell College student is facing Terrorist Threat charges after threatening to shoot up the campus on Saturday, June 21.
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By The Associated Press Whit Merrifield is retiring after a nine-season career that included twice leading the MLB in hits and three trips to the All-Star Game. The 36-year-old posted on social media that the birth of his daughter last year played a role in the decision. Merrifield, a utilityman whose career began with Kansas
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By Dakin Andone, Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — The special prosecutor who led the retrial of Karen Read is “disappointed” in the jury’s decision last week acquitting Read of killing her police officer boyfriend – saying Monday in his first statement since the verdict that “the evidence led to one person, and only one person.”
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — June marks Gun Violence Awareness Month and a local gun shop is using this time to promote responsible firearm ownership and safe storage practices.
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By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Culture Writer PARIS (AP) — The birds scattered in every direction as the first drumbeat thundered across the plaza outside Paris’ Pompidou Center Tuesday, clearing the way for a different kind of flight: Beyoncé and Jay-Z swept into the front row. The star couple anchored a guest list at Pharrell Williams’
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LONDON (AP) — Efforts to vaccinate children globally have stalled since 2010, leaving millions vulnerable to tetanus, polio, tuberculosis and other diseases that can be easily prevented. Protection from measles in particular dropped in 100 countries between 2010 and 2019, unravelling decades of progress, including in rich countries that had previously eliminated the highly infectious
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By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Routine vaccines have prevented the deaths of about 154 million children around the world over the past 50 years, a new study shows, but efforts have been slowing recently, allowing for the growth of some vaccine-preventable diseases. This backslide could lead to many more unnecessary illnesses and deaths without
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A new U.S. intelligence report found that Iran’s nuclear program has been set back only a few months after a U.S. strike and was not “completely and fully obliterated” as President Donald Trump has said, according to two people familiar with the early assessment.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — A man convicted of the first-degree murder of a Missouri State Highway Patrol Trooper in 2005 is set to be executed.
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By KTBS Web Staff Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (KTBS) — There’s a happy ending for a cat named Katerina who made an unexpected stop in Shreveport three months ago. Katerina was accompanying her owner, Army soldier Yessi Sanchez Rivas, as she traveled from Florida to her new station in Las
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By AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a 48-hour whirlwind, President Donald Trump veered from elated to indignant to triumphant as his fragile Israel-Iran ceasefire agreement came together, teetered toward collapse and ultimately coalesced. Trump, as he worked to seal the deal, publicly harangued the Israelis and Iranians with a
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By AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a 48-hour whirlwind, President Donald Trump veered from elated to indignant to triumphant as his fragile Israel-Iran ceasefire agreement came together, teetered toward collapse and ultimately coalesced. Trump, as he worked to seal the deal, publicly harangued the Israelis and Iranians with a
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By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court in New York on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a man who was deported to El Salvador roughly 30 minutes after the court suspended an order to remove him from the U.S. The ruling in Jordin Alexander Melgar-Salmeron
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A coalition of immigrant rights, faith and pro-democracy organizations presented a letter with 12,000 signatures Tuesday to the National Sheriffs’ Association Conference in Florida, urging them to protect public safety rather than work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The letter urges sheriffs agencies to refrain from immigration-related issues, and
Continue Reading By MICHELLE L. PRICE, MARY CLARE JALONICK, STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN and SAM McNEIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. intelligence report suggests that Iran’s nuclear program has been set back only a few months after U.S. strikes and was not “completely and fully obliterated” as President Donald Trump has said, according to two people familiar
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By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Attorneys general from more than 20 states and Washington, D.C. filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging billions of dollars in funding cuts made by the Trump administration that would fund everything from crime prevention to food security to scientific research. The lawsuit filed in Boston is asking
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CNN By Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment that was described by
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By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Legislation much in line with President Donald Trump’s political agenda on transgender rights squeezed through the North Carolina Senate this week, as state lawmakers prepare for their anticipated summer recess by the week’s end. A measure approved Tuesday — despite heightened tensions in the Senate —
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By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — The US bombing mission that targeted three nuclear facilities in Iran over the weekend was a massive undertaking that required its B-2 bomber pilots to test the limits of human endurance during a 37-hour mission. Seven stealth bombers carrying two crew members each flew nonstop halfway across the world
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By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City on Tuesday closed the arrival center for migrants it had established at the Roosevelt Hotel, a once-grand Manhattan hotel that had become an emblem of the city’s fraught efforts to manage the flood of new migrants when it opened two years ago. The
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By Josh Campbell, Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — Daniel Jongyon Park — a man federal authorities said provided chemicals to make explosives used to bomb a California fertility clinic in May — has died, according to a statement from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. On Tuesday “at approximately 7:30 a.m., Daniel Park was found unresponsive
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — One popular coffee chain will open another location along the Belt Highway.
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By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likes to remind his country and the world that in the disorienting first days after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack, he predicted Israel would “change the Middle East.” Now, 20 months later, a regionwide war has all but crushed the
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By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and GARY ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina election officials will send mailers to about 200,000 voters asking them to provide information missing from their state registration records, seeking to address a Republican concern raised during a protracted legal fight over a state Supreme Court seat and a
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By Anabel Munoz Click here for updates on this story TORRANCE, California (KABC) — A woman is speaking out after she intervened during an immigration raid at a Torrance car wash and helped prevent one worker from being detained by federal agents. Bertha Alicia Guzman was washing her car Sunday afternoon when she says masked
Continue Reading By Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment that was described by three
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — Local residents will notice an increase in admission fees at two well known community facilities starting next week.
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By Jai Cunningham Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — As immigrant deportations across the U.S. continue some feel that non-dangerous immigrants are getting caught in the crossfire. “Thank you for your service! I’m sorry!” Sae Joon Park was one of those immigrants. He took farewell pictures with his loved ones at
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By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Culture Writer PARIS (AP) — It-designer Anthony Vaccarello on Tuesday sent out a Saint Laurent men’s collection that felt both sun-drenched and haunted, set not just in the heart of Paris, but drifting somewhere between the city and the legendary queer enclave of Fire Island in New York. Staged at the
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