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Former President Donald Trump will have to answer questions under oath next week in a defamation lawsuit lodged by a writer who says he raped her in the mid-1990s, a judge ruled Wednesday. U.S.

Unbowed Western powers pledged to supply Ukraine with more powerful air defense systems following a furious barrage of retaliatory Russian missile strikes, including one that temporarily knocked Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant off the invaded country’s power grid Wednesday.

Hurricane Ian might have come and gone but it could deliver prolonged blows to the local economy, walloping small businesses heavily dependent on tourists and seasonal residents. The scenes of destruction in southwestern Florida will keep many winter tourists and snowbirds away as well as tasking local residents with rebuilding for months or more, said Michael Maguire, a manager for a group of family-owned restaurants, including a couple on hard-hit Fort Myers Beach.

The Captain Jesse Leavenworth Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is hosting a community reception from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Riverfront Community Center.

“We the People of Leavenworth County,” a grassroots organization, will host a candidate forum Saturday for people running for the Kansas State Board of Education and District 41 of the Kansas House of Representatives.

Wire reports Police: Woman held captive for a month, repeatedly raped A Missouri woman was held captive in a basement room for about a month and was raped repeatedly before she was able to escape, according to charging documents filed Tuesday. The suspect, 39-year-old Timothy M.

Whenever the president travels, a special bullet-resistant lectern called the “blue goose,” or its smaller cousin “the falcon,” is in tow. Lately, President Joe Biden is rendering them all but obsolete as he increasingly reaches for a hand-held microphone instead.

The prosecutor and defense attorney for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz agreed Tuesday that his 2018 attack that killed 17 people was horrible, but disagreed in their closing arguments on whether it was an act of evil worthy of execution or one of a broken person who should be imprisoned for life.

The city of Leavenworth will be hosting a free symposium next week for business owners and people who may be looking to start a business in the community. The city’s 2022 Business Symposium is scheduled for 8:30 a.m.