By HUIZHONG WU and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — China’s leader Xi Jinping said no one wins in a trade war as he kicked off a diplomatic tour of Southeast Asia on Monday, presenting China as a force for stability in contrast with U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest moves on tariffs, Although
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Chester William Freeborn Jr. was born March 30, 1941, to Chester William and Minnie Ruth (Chapin) Freeborn, at home near Horton, Kansas. Chester graduated in 1959 at De Kalb, Missouri, R-IV High School. He lived with his mother and step-father, Bobby Clover, for many years while working in St. Joseph. He worked for the H.D.
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Beverly Ann Kowalczyk, 84, of Overland Park, Kansas, passed peacefully April 10, 2025. She was born to James and Catherine (Bennett) Halter May 26, 1940. After graduating from the Convent of the Sacred Heart, St. Joseph, and Fontbonne College, St. Louis, she earned a master’s degree in Education at the University
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James W. Mytton BROOMFIELD, Colo. – James Wilson Mytton passed away at home in Broomfield, Colorado, on April 2, 2025, at the age of 98. He was the son of James A. and Mary (Phillips) Mytton. Jim was preceded in death by his son, James Grammer Mytton, age 48, a Downs Syndrome child in 2019;
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Linda Joy (Seifert) Shell, 82, passed away Wednesday, April 9, 2025. She was born on Aug. 21, 1942, in St. Joseph, the daughter of Donald and Edna (Thompson) Seifert. Linda attended Savannah, Missouri, and Lafayette High School, and then took business classes at Missouri Western State University. In 1960, she married Vernon Colwell. They divorced
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Late Notices Stephen T. Engnes PLATTSBURG, Mo. -Stephen Terry Engnes, 78, Plattsburg, Missouri, died April 7, 2025. Farewell Services and Public Livestream at 1 p.m. May 3, Meierhoffer Funeral Home & Crematory. Inurnment Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery at a later date. Visitation 6 to 8 p.m. May 2, Meierhoffer Funeral Home & Crematory. As published
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By The Associated Press MLB Tuesday American League FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE at TAMPA BAY -126 Boston +108 at N.Y YANKEES -190 Kansas City +160 at BALTIMORE -142 Cleveland +120 Athletics -156 at CHICAGO WHITE SOX +132 LA Angels -118 at TEXAS +100 National League FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE Arizona -166 at MIAMI +140 at
Continue ReadingEFE Un puñetazo motivado por los celos quebró de un plumazo la sólida amistad que unía a Mario Vargas Llosa y Gabriel García Márquez y partió en dos el grupo de escritores que formaban el conocido como boom latinoamericano, del que el peruano ha sido su último representante. Todo ocurrió el 12 de febrero de
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By FATMA KHALED Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Inside Sudan’s biggest museum, the exhibition halls once filled with statues and relics from centuries of ancient civilizations are trashed, littered with debris. The display cases stand empty and shattered. A mummy lies exposed in an open storage box. All the gold artifacts have been looted. The
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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Suspected U.S. airstrikes around Yemen’s rebel-held capital killed at least seven people and wounded 29 overnight, the Houthis said Monday as they also claimed shooting down another American MQ-9 Reaper drone. Since its start nearly a month ago, the intense campaign of U.S. airstrikes
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By REGINA GARCIA CANO and GONZALO SOLANO Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Daniel Noboa stunned voters in 2023 when he won a snap election for a 16-month presidency after only a brief stint as a lawmaker and with no established political machinery. No longer a political neophyte, the conservative millionaire defeated the protegee of
Continue ReadingAnálisis de Sebastian Jimenez, CNN en Español Al contrario de los pronósticos y expectativas, Daniel Noboa ganó con una ventaja clara en Ecuador: no hubo el resultado estrecho que se anticipaba después de la primera vuelta. En la segunda vuelta, el actual mandatario aseguró la continuidad en el poder en un momento en que la
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By SEUNG MIN KIM and MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s top advisers and Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said Monday that they have no basis for the small Central American nation to return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month. Bukele called the idea “preposterous”
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By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A former Colorado sheriff’s deputy convicted of killing a 22-year-old man in distress who called 911 for help was sentenced Monday to three years in prison, the maximum sentence, by a judge who said the shooting was about power. Andrew Buen was convicted in February of criminally
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A jury was selected Monday to hear a retrial of Sarah Palin’s claims that The New York Times libeled her in an editorial eight years ago. Opening statements were scheduled for Tuesday as the onetime Republican vice presidential candidate and ex-governor of Alaska gets another chance
Continue Reading By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A jury was selected Monday to hear a retrial of Sarah Palin’s claims that The New York Times libeled her in an editorial eight years ago. Opening statements were scheduled for Tuesday as the onetime Republican vice presidential candidate and ex-governor of Alaska gets another chance
Continue Reading By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A jury was selected Monday to hear a retrial of Sarah Palin’s claims that The New York Times libeled her in an editorial eight years ago. Opening statements were scheduled for Tuesday as the onetime Republican vice presidential candidate and ex-governor of Alaska gets another chance
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Continue ReadingBy Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — The NBA’s Western Conference playoff picture is officially set following an action-packed Sunday that saw all 30 teams take the court for the regular season finale, with six teams vying for postseason berths. James Harden scored 12 of his 39 points in overtime as the Los Angeles
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Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Many travelers associate tourist information centers with maps and help finding a nearby public bathroom. But Tammy Mermelstein counts her visits to tourist info booths as some of the highlights of her recent holiday in Japan. The Houston-based mom of two spent more than a year planning
Continue ReadingBy John Liu, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — An annual global trade fair has kicked off in Hong Kong with no shortage of fanfare – featuring robots flexing, dazzling new products and excited crowds packing the convention halls. But uncertainty over how the US-China tariff war may pan out cast a shadow over what is
Continue ReadingBy José Álvarez and Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian-Spanish Nobel Prize-winning author whose work focused on the evils of totalitarianism and who once ran for president, has died at age 89, according to his family. “It is with deep sorrow that we announce that our father, Mario Vargas LLosa, passed
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — New satellite images show what could be North Korea’s biggest warship ever – possibly more than double the size of anything in leader Kim Jong Un’s naval fleet. Images taken by independent satellite providers Maxar Technologies and Planet Labs on April 6 show
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