PARIS (AP) — France’s prime minister proposed on Tuesday the elimination of two public holidays from the country’s annual calendar — possibly Easter Monday and the day marking the Allied victory over the Nazis — to save money in next year’s budget. That’s among a raft of spending cuts laid out by Prime Minister Francois
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By KEN SWEET AP Banking Reporter NEW YORK (AP) — The lights are on at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau across the street from the White House, and employees still get paid. But in practice, the bureau has been mostly inoperable for nearly six months. CFPB employees say they essentially spend the workday sitting on
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nominations for the Emmy Awards were revealed Tuesday in Los Angeles. Two categories were announced early on “CBS Mornings” —the nominees for talk series and reality competition series. Actors Harvey Guillen and Brenda Song later announced other nominees. “Severance” leads the nominees with 27, while “The Studio” tops the comedy nominations
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — The BBC said Tuesday that longtime “MasterChef” host John Torode has been sacked for allegedly using racist language on set, a day after the broadcaster confirmed it was severing ties with another of the cooking show’s presenters, Gregg Wallace, over separate allegations. The BBC said the allegation against Torode involved “an extremely
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By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer As expected, Emmy voters heaped love on the so-called “Big Four” of comedy — “Hacks,” “The Bear,” “Abbott Elementary” and “Only Murders in the Building.” Many of those competing in the drama categories were likely just happy the Emmy-gobbling “Shogun” is between seasons. Emmy voters are creatures of habit
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — St. Joseph residents will see the start of a new season and a new era for highway transportation when spring of 2028 rolls around.
Continue Reading By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Vandals who cut down England’s beloved Sycamore Gap tree were sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in prison for damaging the country’s natural heritage and for the outrage and distress they caused. Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers set out with a chainsaw on a dark and
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By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Voters hoping to open up Pennsylvania’s closed primary system to independents asked the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to declare the current system violates the state constitution’s right to free and fair elections. Four independent voters asked the justices to take up the case directly, arguing
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — After almost a week of being closed, St. Joseph Parks Director Jeff Atkins is providing an update on a project at the Noyes Complex.
Continue Reading 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. —————————— MINNESOTA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— BKL–MERCURY-LYNX DESCRIPTION: The Phoenix Mercury visit the Minnesota Lynx. 150 words, more on merit. UPCOMING: By 07/16/2025
Continue Reading 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. —————————— MINNESOTA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— BKL–MERCURY-LYNX DESCRIPTION: The Phoenix Mercury visit the Minnesota Lynx. 150 words, more on merit. UPCOMING: By 07/16/2025
Continue Reading 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. —————————— MINNESOTA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— BKL–MERCURY-LYNX DESCRIPTION: The Phoenix Mercury visit the Minnesota Lynx. 150 words, more on merit. UPCOMING: By 07/16/2025
Continue Reading 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. —————————— MINNESOTA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— BKL–MERCURY-LYNX DESCRIPTION: The Phoenix Mercury visit the Minnesota Lynx. 150 words, more on merit. UPCOMING: By 07/16/2025
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — Missouri Western State University has adopted MoWest as the primary way the university will be identified.
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By Elinda Labropoulou and Lauren Kent, CNN Athens (CNN) — Police in Greece are searching for the killer of a University of California Berkeley professor who was shot dead on July 4 while visiting Athens to see his children and attend a family custody hearing. Przemyslaw Jeziorski, 43, an economist and professor of marketing at
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By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans on Tuesday advanced President Donald Trump’s request to cancel some $9 billion in previously approved spending, overcoming concerns from some lawmakers about what the rescissions could mean for impoverished people around the globe and for public radio and television stations in their home states. The
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By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Patrick Surtain II became only the seventh cornerback to win the AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year award, doing so last season. His shutdown season also helped him earn the top cornerback spot in voting by a panel of eight AP Pro Football Writers who ranked the
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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette has kicked off her bid for governor in 2026, highlighting several years of what she considers pushing outgoing Gov. Henry McMaster’s agenda, and an already-formed connection with President Donald Trump. Evette, first elected as McMaster’s running mate in 2018, spoke to hundreds of supporters
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By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press A choreographer and a dancer traveling with Beyoncé for her concerts in Atlanta left their rental car in a parking garage for an hour while grabbing a bite, then returned to find a broken window and both of their suitcases stolen. They lost more than just clothing, sunglasses and headphones.
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By Aaron Cooper, Caroll Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — The FAA is investigating after a Sun Country Airlines Boeing 737 returned to Los Angeles International Airport with flames streaking from its right engine on Monday. “We weren’t even in the air 25 minutes and it sounded like lightning had struck the plane or something had exploded,”
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By Mostafa Salem, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — Israel has been carrying out strikes on Syria since the fall of the Assad regime last December. This week saw a major escalation, when Israel said it attacked Syria to protect the Druze, an Arab minority at the center of clashes with government loyalists.
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Nominations for the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards – television’s top honor – were revealed Tuesday. The Apple TV+ series “Severance” was the most-nominated series, notching 27 nominations, according to the Television Academy. HBO Max’s “The Penguin” followed with 24 nominations. “The Studio” and “The White Lotus” tied for
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By Pete Muntean, CNN Washington (CNN) — The top US senator overseeing aviation says he will introduce a bill that “will close the regulatory loophole” that allowed an Army Black Hawk helicopter to operate with key flight tracking technology, called ADS-B out, turned off the night it collided with an airliner near Washington, DC. Sen.
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By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MATT BROWN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Mike Waltz painted an image for lawmakers Tuesday of what the United Nations would look like as the U.S. — its largest donor — reviews its support, opting to go “back to basics” under a Trump administration push to “make the U.N. great again.”
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By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s prime minister announced his resignation Tuesday in the first formal step of what is expected to be a significant reshuffle of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government, which could also see the country’s ambassador to Washington replaced. “I am tendering my resignation from the post of the
Continue Reading By SAMUEL GETACHEW Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — International aid organization Doctors Without Borders on Tuesday released a report describing the gunning-down of three staffers in Ethiopia’s Tigray region four years ago as an “intentional and targeted killing” by members of Ethiopia’s military. Ethiopia’s government hasn’t commented on the new report and didn’t
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — The Mosaic Life Care Foundation’s emPowerU STEAM Camps are back in action this week, offering an exciting lineup of activities to spark kids’ interest in science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics.
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By WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Malnutrition rates among children in the Gaza Strip have doubled since Israel sharply restricted the entry of food in March, the U.N. said Tuesday. New Israeli strikes killed more than 90 Palestinians, including dozens of women and children, according to health officials. Hunger has
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — We have seen Elmo of “Sesame Street” in a variety of lights, but never as an alt-right supporter. After the beloved character’s X account was hacked, Jon Stewart decided to have some fun with a look-alike puppet of Elmo on the “The Daily Show” on Monday. The talk
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By Joan Murray Click here for updates on this story BROWARD COUNTY, Florida (WFOR) — Broward County Public Schools will no longer provide free lunch to all students, the district announced Monday, citing budget cuts and the expiration of federal pandemic-era funding. Instead, families must now apply for free or reduced-price meals based on household
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