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MONTEZUMA, Kan. (AP) — Orville Williams has had a healthy wheat crop on his 2,600-acre farm in Montezuma, Kansas, every year since he was a teenager. It hasn’t always been easy. For instance, there were challenging economic times through the 1980s and various degrees of drought affecting his yield through the years. But this season …
LIMA, May 20 (Reuters) – Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori leads voter intentions in Peru’s June 7 presidential runoff election against leftist Roberto Sanchez, a new Ipsos Peru poll showed on Wednesday. Fujimori would secure 39% of the votes, while Sanchez is predicted to obtain 35% in the runoff vote, according to the opinion poll, which …
NEW YORK (AP) — George Soros ’ Open Society Foundations pledged $300 million Wednesday toward initiatives it says will defend democratic rights and advance economic security in the U.S. over the next five years. “We are continuing our work unabated. We will not be intimidated into silence,” said Laleh Ispahani, managing director for the U.S. …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The YOLO caucus is in session. In a Republican-led Congress defined by deference to President Donald Trump, there’s a small but steadily growing cohort who have found themselves more willing to break with the White House. Although the president maintains a firm grip on Republican voters, the expanding club could hinder his …
El Niño is likely to emerge late this spring or summer and is predicted to be historically strong, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. There is an 82% chance the El Niño will hit sometime between May and July and continue through the Northern Hemisphere winter and into 2027, NOAA said. NOAA will …
By Jennifer Rigby and Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, May 20 (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Wednesday there were 600 suspected cases of Ebola and 139 suspected deaths and numbers are expected to rise given the time the virus circulated before the outbreak in Congo and Uganda was detected. A WHO Emergency Committee met …
The assistant principal of a Virginia elementary school where a 6-year-old student shot his teacher in 2023 “did nothing” about the fact he had a gun, despite receiving repeated warnings from colleagues, a prosecutor said in court Tuesday. Before the January 2023 shooting at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, school employees told Ebony Parker …
NEW YORK (AP) — On his very first time hosting “The Late Show” back in 2015, Stephen Colbert ripped into Donald Trump while gorging on Oreos, likening his inability to resist the cookies to his inability to resist going after the then-presidential candidate. “Look, you don’t own me. I don’t need to play tape of …
Geneva — The World Health Organization on Wednesday said the risk of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s deadly Ebola outbreak was currently high at the national and regional levels but low worldwide. WHO experts said that while investigations into its origins were ongoing, given the scale of the situation in the eastern DRC, the outbreak …
U.S. Army soldier worries his wife could be deported despite release from ICE custody – CBS News Watch CBS News A U.S. Army soldier and Afghanistan war veteran says he’s worried that his newly-freed wife could still be targeted by ICE and deported. Camilo Montoya-Galvez reports.