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Inflation in Argentina leaves families struggling to feed themselves

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:58:46 GMT

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Gimena Páez could barely pay her bills.Then inflation in Argentina started rising even faster. The value of the country’s currency plunged, making most goods nearly unobtainable. Getting enough food for herself and her 11-year-old daughter became a daily struggle.Inflation has been a problem across the world but Argentina is second in a World Bank ranking of countries with the highest food inflation. On Friday, Argentina’s state-run INDEC statistics agency said that the inflation in food prices over the 12 months ending in April was 115%. That has been topped only by Lebanon, with a whopping 352%.Life was never easy for the neighbors of Nueva Pompeya, a lower-middle-class neighborhood where Páez lives at the southern end of Argentina’s capital. These days, for many in Argentina, paying bills and getting to the end of the month have taken a backseat to a more basic problem: getting enough to eat.Argentina’s annual inflation rate has already ...

Wisconsin middle-schooler killed by swerving pickup while waiting to board school bus

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:58:46 GMT

EXCELSIOR, Wis. (AP) — A middle-school student waiting to board a school bus in Wisconsin was struck and killed Friday by a pickup truck that failed to slow down in time, authorities said.The Sauk County Sheriff’s Office said the student at Webb Middle School in Reedsburg was fatally injured about 7:20 a.m. along Highway 23/33 in the Town of Excelsior, northwest of Madison.The sheriff’s office said a Reedsburg school bus had stopped to pick up the student on the highway’s north side when the pickup’s driver failed to slow down in time and sideswiped the bus, striking the student, who was pronounced dead at the scene.The sheriff’s office said the pickup ended up in a roadside ditch.No one on the school bus was hurt, while the pickup’s driver suffered minor injuries, authorities said.Authorities did not immediately release any information about the pickup’s driver or the student, whose family members were being notified. Superintendent Roger Rindo informed pare...

Doomsday plot: Idaho jury convicts Lori Vallow Daybell in murders of 2 children, romantic rival

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:58:46 GMT

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho jury on Friday convicted Lori Vallow Daybell in the murders of her two youngest children and a romantic rival, a verdict that marks the end of a three-year investigation that included bizarre claims of zombie children, apocalyptic prophesies and illicit affairs.Vallow Daybell, who wore a simple black dress, showed no expression as the verdict was read. Some in the courtroom gallery wiped tears from their eyes.Prosecutors in the case described Vallow Daybell as a power-hungry manipulator who would kill her two youngest children for money, while the defense team said she was normally protective mother who fell under the romantic sway of a wannabe cult leader.Jurors heard both stories Thursday during final arguments in the seven-week long trial, and deliberated for about four hours before breaking for the evening. They resumed deliberations Friday morning and reached a verdict, which was announced shortly after noon.Vallow Daybell was convicted of conspirin...

Djokovic tested by Etcheverry in opening Italian Open win; Swiatek cruises

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:58:46 GMT

ROME (AP) — Novak Djokovic was tested by 61st-ranked Tomas Martin Etcheverry in a 7-6 (5), 6-2 opening win at the Italian Open on Friday.Aiming for a seventh title on the red clay of the Foro Italico as he prepares for the French Open, Djokovic twice had to recover from deficits during a tight first set.Djokovic was returning after three weeks off due to a lingering issue with his surgically repaired right elbow.In his previous two tournaments on red clay, Djokovic had consecutive early exits.He lost in the round of 16 at Monte Carlo to Lorenzo Musetti. Then Dusan Lajovic beat him in the quarterfinals of the Srpska Open in Bosnia and Herzegovina, dealing him his first loss to a fellow Serbian in 11 years.After his serve was broken in the opening game of the match — after which he put a black sleeve on over his right elbow — Djokovic fell behind 3-1 before eventually getting back on serve.Djokovic had two set points on Etcheverry’s serve at 5-4 in the first but the Argentine produced...

Grains mixed and Livestock higher

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:58:46 GMT

Wheat for May rose 10.25 cents at $6.2450 a bushel; May corn was up .75 cent at $6.3325 a bushel, May oats was unchanged at 3.2825 a bushel; while May soybeans fell 8.25 cents at $14.35 a bushel.Beef and pork were higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Jun. live cattle gained 1.45 cents at $1.6440 a pound; May. feeder cattle rose 1.35 cents at $2.0547 a pound; while Jun. lean hogs was up .02 cent at $.7662 a pound.Source

Don’t miss next week: Jack Harlow on screen, Kesha, Anna Nicole Smith doc and Scott brothers on HGTV

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:58:46 GMT

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music and video game platforms this week.NEW MOVIES TO STREAM— Three decades after Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson mixed it up on the black top, a new “White Men Can’t Jump” has next. A remake of that 1992 film teams Sinqua Walls and rapper Jack Harlow as a pair of basketball players who hustle hoops for money and compete in a lucrative three-on-three tournament. The film, which debuts Friday, May 19, on Hulu, is directed by Calmatic and co-written by Kenya Barris (“black-ish”). In it, Harlow makes his acting debut.— Anna Nicole Smith gets the Netflix documentary treatment in “Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me.” The film, debuting Tuesday, chronicles Smith’s life as a model, Playboy playmate and reality star. Smith died in 2007 at the age of 39 from an accidental overdose. “You Don’t Know Me” includes home video of Smith, whose birth name was Vickie Ly...

Police: 4 shot across DC within an hour Friday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:58:46 GMT

Police in D.C. said four people were shot in the span of an hour Friday afternoon.Officers responded to the first shooting around 11:30 a.m. in the 600 block of 46th Place Southeast, where they found a man with a gunshot wound. Police said they’re looking for a Black Jeep Compass last seen traveling toward Benning Road Southeast.Fifteen minutes later, police responded to another shooting in the 3700 block of Jay Street Northeast, where they found another man shot. Police said they’re looking for two men who were last seen running southbound from near the scene. One of the men had a slim build and was wearing an all-white jacket.D.C. police said they responded to the third shooting, shortly after noon, near 15th Street and Good Hope Road Southeast and found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. Officers are looking for a black vehicle occupied by four men wearing ski masks that was last seen near Green and Galen streets in Southeast.The fourth shooting happened around 12:...

Biden commends Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez for collaboration on migration

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:58:46 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden commended Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez for his country’s collaboration with the United States and Canada to establish migration hubs in Latin America where asylum seekers fleeing poverty and violence in their home countries can apply for protection.The two leaders sat down at the White House on Friday for wide-ranging talks on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, climate change and other issues. But efforts by the U.S. and Spain to cooperate on asylum processing loomed large over the discussion as the Biden administration rolls out new immigration measures now that COVID-19 immigration restrictions have ended. The new efforts are designed to crack down on illegal border crossings while opening legal pathways to give migrants incentives to apply for asylum online where they are, instead of making the dangerous journey to the border.Migrants caught illegally crossing the southern U.S. border cannot return for five years, and they face crimi...

More than 100K fentanyl pills confiscated in traffic stop

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:58:46 GMT

MESA COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) -- A traffic stop turned into a drug bust and arrest on Wednesday, the Grand Junction Police Department said in a release. The Western Colorado Drug Task Force and Colorado State Patrol pulled over 25-year-old Ramon Cesena-Valdez, of Grand Junction, on Interstate 70 west of Debeque. The stop resulted in the confiscation of more than 100,000 fentanyl pills and about 75 pounds of methamphetamine, the release said. UCHealth doctors find marijuana users require more anesthesia  Cesena-Valdez is facing these charges:Special circumstances pattern of manufacture/sale/dispense/distributeSpecial circumstances conspiracy to distribute/manufacture/sellDistribute/manufacture/possession with intent - methControlled sub-distribute fentanylChild abuse knowingly or recklessly without injuryHe is being held at the Mesa County Detention Facility.   

Police investigating deadly shooting and fire in Fort Lauderdale home involving barricaded subject

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:58:46 GMT

Fort Lauderdale Police are investigating a shooting and fire at a home that involved a barricaded subject. The incident occurred in the area of Northwest 27th Terrace and 18th Court, just before 8:25 p.m. on Thursday.According to police, they initially responded to a call about a shooting.“The suspect is still inside the building,” said an officer over Broadcastify police scanner.The caller at the end of the that 911 call told dispatchers that his mom was shot and lying in a pool of blood. Police identified the suspect as 71-year-old Richard Kenneth McDonald.The woman has been identified as 71-year-old Gwendolyn Bass-Kemp. She was a long-time employee of the City of Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, where she worked in the billing department. She is also related to Dr. James Bass, the city’s first Black dentist. “She was nice, she come home and ain’t bother nobody, just like me, just to come and hang out, nah,” said a friend of the victim.Negotiators f...