Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Texas Kadiri Moro is an unusual figure amid the LGBTQ+ rights activists in the coastal West African nation of Ghana. He is heterosexual, married to a woman and a father of six. He is a teacher. And he is a practicing Muslim. Yet, for months he has been conducting
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WAUPUN, Wis. (AP) — A former employee at a troubled Wisconsin prison has pleaded guilty to smuggling contraband into the maximum-security prison. Forty-seven-year-old William Lee Homan pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to a charge of conspiracy to commit bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds. The Appleton Post Crescent reports Homan was working as a
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Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Todo comenzó con un glaciar en deshielo que provocó un enorme deslizamiento de tierra, el cual desencadenó un megatsunami de 200 metros de altura en Groenlandia el pasado septiembre. Luego ocurrió algo inexplicable: una vibración misteriosa que sacudió el planeta durante nueve días. Durante el último año, decenas de científicos de
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By Matthew Nuttle Click here for updates on this story MILILANI, Hawaii (KITV) — A 12-year-old Oahu girl was arrested after she allegedly made an online threat to shoot up her school. Honolulu Police (HPD) investigators first learned of the online threat made against a school in Mililani on Wednesday afternoon. The 12-year-old girl was
Continue Reading By Stephanie Rodriguez Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — Three teenagers are in custody after videos of men being attacked by a group of people circulate on social media. “There was no physical threat from the elderly gentlemen, my uncle, and my dad,” Felipe Martinez said. Martinez tells CBS 58
Continue Reading By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — When you’re a predatory fish, sometimes the lunch you gobbled up doesn’t agree with you. Rather than accepting its fate, the still-living meal escapes your stomach and flees through the nearest orifice. Dark sleeper fish (Odontobutis obscura) can gulp down young Japanese eels (Anguilla japonica) whole, but the swallowed
Continue Reading By Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of tips have poured in from several states. But the man accused of raining bullets onto Interstate 75 in Kentucky keeps evading capture – prompting more school closures and a plea for nearby residents to avoid the wilderness. The manhunt for Joseph Couch, 32, enters a seventh day
Continue Reading By Michele Fiore Click here for updates on this story FRANKLIN, Wisconsin (WDJT) — Franklin police say they don’t know how a pig showed up on the side of the road in a neighborhood under construction this week, but days later, that pig is now being cared for by MADACC. “Did you give her a
Continue Reading By Web staff Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WWJ) — The Internet lit up this week with news that a Chicago restaurant is offering a luxe cocktail for $13,000, purportedly the most expensive martini in the United States. And at least one customer decided it was worth it. The $13,000 Marrow Martini
Continue Reading Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Germany has sailed two warships through the Taiwan Strait in its first transit of the disputed waters in more than two decades, as Berlin seeks to increase its defense engagement in the Asia-Pacific region. China claims the self-governing democratic island of Taiwan as its own, and views such transits as
Continue Reading By Abbas Al Lawati, CNN (CNN) — Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has written a rare letter to Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, according to the Lebanese militant group, in which he reaffirms his commitment to fighting Israel and supporting the Iran-backed alliance of regional militants known as the “Axis of Resistance.” Sinwar, Hamas’ political leader who
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By Brynn Gingras and Carolyn Sung, CNN (CNN) — Justin Timberlake pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of driving while impaired in a deal with Suffolk County, New York prosecutors on Friday in connection with an incident from earlier this year. Sag Harbor Village Justice Carl Irace sentenced Timberlake to 25 hours of community service
Continue Reading Associated Press SAG HARBOR, N.Y. (AP) — Justin Timberlake urged drivers not to get behind the wheel of a car after even a single alcoholic drink on Friday, shortly after pleading guilty to driving while impaired in New York’s Hamptons earlier this year. The public safety announcement in front of the Sag Harbor police department
Continue Reading Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia has decried newly imposed U.S. sanctions on one of its tycoons who has been implicated in forced labor, human trafficking and lucrative online scams. Cambodia’s foreign ministry expressed “deep regret over the unjust decision” to sanction Ly Yong Phat and suggested that the action could hurt bilateral
Continue Reading Victoria Fernandez (CNN Español) — El pugilista Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez es uno de los mejores en el mundo del boxeo. El mexicano es el actual campeón mundial de la Asociación Mundial de Boxeo (AMB), Consejo Mundial de Boxeo (CMB), Organización Mundial de Boxeo (OMB), Federación Internacional de Boxeo (FIB) y The Ring de peso supermediano,
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District will choose a successor on Wednesday to the late Democratic U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Jr. In the race, Democratic Newark City Council President LaMonica McIver, Republican small business owner Carmen Bucco and two minor-party candidates are running to serve out the remaining 15
Continue Reading After Michael Brown Jr. was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, several nationally prominent Black religious leaders arrived, thinking they could help lead the protest movement that had surfaced. But the religion-focused ideas they were proposing didn’t mesh with the energy and the pent-up frustrations of the mostly youthful protesters. To
Continue Reading Associated Press As twilight descended on Ferguson, Missouri, for a third consecutive night after the killing of Michael Brown Jr. by a police officer, Gwendolyn DeLoach Packnett could no longer hold her peace. Each day since the killing on Aug. 9, 2014, she had watched her daughter, Brittany, leave the safety of home to protest
Continue Reading Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez regresará al ring durante el fin de semana de la Independencia de México para defender al menos uno de los cinturones de campeonato de peso supermediano. Ahora puedes seguirnos en WhatsApp Channel Se medirá el sábado 14 de septiembre ante Edgar Berlanga, boxeador estadounidense de 27
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KING, CNN By Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN New York (CNN) — About 33,000 union members at Boeing have started to walk off the job on Friday after they overwhelmingly rejected a proposed four-year contract with the troubled aircraft manufacturer. The strike, the first at the company in 16 years, will virtually stop commercial
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By Zayn Nabbi, CNN (CNN) — Former Manchester United coach Benni McCarthy says the Red Devils can finish in the top four this season, but are still behind the likes of Manchester City, Arsenal and Liverpool in the English Premier League (EPL) title race. McCarthy joined the coaching staff in 2022 and worked with the
Continue Reading COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Police in Denmark say a 29-year-old man faces a whopping 86 preliminary charges for reckless driving. Officers said Friday that the man had mounted a camera on his motorcycle helmet which provided investigators with several hours of footage of how he drove. The incriminating videos include driving on the rear wheel
Continue Reading By Larry Madowo and Lauren Lee, CNN (CNN) — Award-winning Nigerian singer Adekunle Gold rose to international fame when his debut album “Gold” reached number seven on the Billboard World Charts. Since then, the 37-year-old has released four more albums, amassing hundreds of millions of streams worldwide. Behind the scenes, however, he has been quietly
Continue Reading Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Central European nations are bracing for severe flooding forecast to hit the Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Germany, Slovakia and Hungary over the weekend. Czech authorities erected metal barriers or protective walls from sandbags, while water was released from dams to make space in reservoirs. Residents have been warned to get
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are traveling to Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama to highlight programs the administration is rolling out to improve the quality of life and early childhood education in the military. At Maxwell on Friday, the first lady and Austin will visit a pre-kindergarten
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The world still holds many unanswered questions. But thanks to the efforts of the research teams awarded the IG Nobel Prize on Thursday, some of these questions – which you might not even have thought existed – now have answers. We now know that many mammals can breathe through
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — We are still looking hot for your Friday. Otherwise looking to stay mostly calm with dry conditions. Temperatures are coming down from the warming trend we wrapped up yesterday. Thursday the high peaked at 98 meeting a standing heat records. Today El Paso is looking to reach 97 which will
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — While filming a scene for the 2004 slapstick comedy “White Chicks,” Terry Crews sat in a parked convertible and jubilantly sang along to famed pop-song-of-the-aughts “A Thousand Miles” by Vanessa Carlton. Smiling ear-to-ear, Crews animatedly belted out the lyrics in a now-classic scene that highlighted his knack for physical
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By Hadas Gold, CNN New York (CNN) — A Nevada judge has ruled that billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his family can hold a secret court battle over the future of his vast media empire behind closed doors. The judge rejected a petition by a coalition of media organizations, including CNN, The New York Times, NPR,
Continue Reading ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban say gunmen have killed 14 people in a Shiite-majority area in central Afghanistan, in one of the deadliest attacks in the country this year. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the assault, which took place Thursday and targeted people as they traveled between the Shiite-majority provinces of Ghor and
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