AP Business Writer Former President Bill Clinton talks about how philanthropy has allowed him to continue making changes in the world to help others in his new book, “Citizen: My Life After the White House,” published Tuesday by Knopf. He also recounts his experiences from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns in 2008 and
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YEMASSEE, S.C. (AP) — Four monkeys remain free nearly two weeks after a group of 43 escaped from a South Carolina compound that breeds them for medical research, authorities said. Two more rhesus macaques were trapped Monday outside the Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee, bringing the total of recovered monkeys to 39, chief executive Greg
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CNN By Morgan Rimmer, Manu Raju and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — A House Republican is pushing to ban transgender women from women’s restrooms at the US Capitol, two weeks after history was made with the election of America’s first out transgender person to Congress. South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace on Monday introduced a resolution
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Jersey Mike’s Subs is selling a significant stake to private equity giant Blackstone, ending its nearly seven-decade run as an independently owned business that transformed into a major competitor against well-entrenched brands like Subway. Blackstone announced Tuesday that it has acquired a “majority ownership position” in Jersey
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Dozens of schools closed and road and train travel ground to a halt in many parts of the U.K. on Tuesday as a cold snap brought snow, ice and sleet across the country. Britain’s weather forecasters, the Met Office, issued snow and ice warnings and said an Arctic maritime air mass was
Continue Reading Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police in Pakistan have arrested a man accused of insulting Islam’s holy book after being alerted that a mob wanted to lynch him. They say the man was arrested Tuesday on the outskirts of Peshawar, the capital of deeply conservative Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Video posted on social media showed
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By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — A dance popularized by President-elect Donald Trump appears to have taken the sporting world by storm, after multiple US athletes across the country brought it out to celebrate plays this weekend. The dance was first seen years ago during Trump’s rallies, during which he would play up to his
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A shiny metal likeness of England soccer captain Harry Kane has become the latest statue of a sports star to face criticism for failing to capture the essence of its subject. Kane’s statue was unveiled in the London borough of Waltham Forest, where he was born, on Monday, and
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards, Kostyantyn Gak and Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine hit a Russian weapons arsenal with US-made ATACMS missiles that it fired across the border for the first time, according to two US officials, in a major escalation on the 1,000th day of war. The attack comes just two days after the Biden
Continue Reading By Hannah Rabinowitz and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Attorney General Merrick Garland, nearing the end of his tenure leading the Justice Department, told career prosecutors Monday that they are the “backbone” of the Justice Department and urged them to continue to “uphold the rule of law.” In his first public comments since President-elect Donald
Continue Reading BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian opposition protesters have blocked a court house over a deadly roof collapse at a railway station in the country’s north earlier this month, setting off a standoff with riot police. It’s a sign of persistent tensions over the crash that killed 15 people and injured two. A group of opposition
Continue Reading By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Summerlike warmth has been eating away at fall in the United States this year as the season continues to wither in a warming world. If you feel cheated out of crisp autumn weather this year, know you’re not alone. This fall is on pace to be one of,
Continue Reading Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — While Chancellor Olaf Scholz meets world leaders in Brazil, a discussion is swirling in his party at home about whether he should seek a second term as German leader in an early election expected in February. Unlike their rivals, Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats haven’t yet formally nominated their candidate for
Continue Reading AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart ratcheted up sales and profits again in the third quarter with its comparatively low prices proving a powerful draw for shoppers seeking to cut spending where they could. The nation’s largest retailer raised its outlook for the year as well. Walmart, based in Bentonville, Arkansas, reported net
Continue Reading By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — The 27-year-old son of Norway’s Crown Princess has been arrested on suspicion of rape, Norwegian police said Tuesday. Marius Borg Høiby was born before his mother Mette-Marit married Crown Prince Haakon and became a princess in 2001. He was arrested for violating the criminal code which concerns “sexual intercourse
Continue Reading By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Walmart’s business is surging. Customers making more than $100,000 a year are fueling the growth. Walmart’s US sales at stores open for at least a year grew 5.3% last quarter compared with the year prior, the company said Tuesday, and its profit grew 8.2% last quarter. Walmart
Continue Reading Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in 2011, has made another application for parole after spending more than a decade behind bars. Breivik, 45, who is serving Norway’s maximum 21-year sentence, is eligible for a parole hearing after 10 years in prison. He has been held in isolation
Continue Reading By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — LIV Golf’s Sergio Garcia is set to return to the DP World Tour next year, opening up the possibility of him making a record-equaling 11th appearance at the Ryder Cup. The 44-year-old, who won the 2017 Masters, resigned his DP World Tour membership in 2023 after being sanctioned for
Continue Reading Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa-based group that strives to alleviate world hunger is announcing a leadership change as it works to expand its international focus. The World Food Prize Foundation announced on Tuesday that chief operating officer Mashal Husain will become its president, replacing former U.S. Ambassador to China and Iowa
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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — Derek Pfaff remembers being under a lot of stress throughout college. He remembers coming home from school during spring break in March 2014. But he does not remember the night that forever changed his life. “I don’t remember anything,” said Pfaff, from Harbor Beach, Michigan. “I don’t remember getting
Continue Reading BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s royal couple has returned to the area devastated by last month’s catastrophic flooding for the first time since enraged survivors pelted them and top elected officials with mud on their first visit to the disaster zone. King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia visited the town of Chiva, along with a
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — Eight workers have been injured, two seriously, in a cable car accident at the French ski resort of Val Thorens, local authorities said. The accident on Tuesday occurred in challenging weather conditions in the Alps above 3,000 meters (9,800 feet). A cable car cabin, used for construction work, struck the arrival station
Continue Reading Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine fired several American-supplied longer-range missiles into Russia, officials said Tuesday, marking the first time Kyiv used the weapons that way in 1,000 days of war. The use of the Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS, came as Russian President Vladimir Putin formally lowered the threshold for using
Continue Reading By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — A rare sea creature known as the “doomsday fish” was spotted yet again on Southern California shores for the third time this year. The oarfish is considered to be a harbinger of bad news and is only the 22nd to have washed ashore in California over the past century.
Continue Reading By Samantha Delouya and Julia Vargas Jones, CNN (CNN) — Duewight Garcia overstayed his tourist visa to the US in 2019 after he said run-ins with gangs and his student activism in Honduras made him feel it was unsafe to return. Since then, Garcia, who is in his mid-30s, has worked in sheet rock and
Continue Reading By Auzinea Bacon and John Towfighi, CNN New York (CNN) — A banana duct-taped to a wall first sold in 2019 for $120,000. It could fetch up to $1.5 million this week during a Sotheby’s auction. More than 1,600 auction lots this week are estimated to fetch more than $1 billion — including Maurizio Cattelan’s
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — European officials are looking toward Russia after two submarine internet cables in the Baltic Sea were suddenly disrupted in an apparent sabotage operation, just weeks after the United States warned that Moscow was likely to target critical undersea infrastructure. A cable between Lithuania and Sweden was cut on Sunday,
Continue Reading CNN By Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN (CNN) — The former Federal Emergency Management Agency employee who was fired earlier this month after being accused of skipping homes of Donald Trump supporters while providing relief in Florida after Hurricane Milton told CNN on Monday night that she was simply following FEMA protocol. “What I’d like for
Continue Reading By Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN (CNN) — The former Federal Emergency Management Agency employee who was fired earlier this month after being accused of skipping homes of Donald Trump supporters while providing relief in Florida after Hurricane Milton told CNN on Monday night that she was simply following FEMA protocol. “What I’d like for the
Continue Reading Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has condemned China’s dangerous actions against the Philippines and renewed a warning that the United States would defend its treaty ally if Filipino forces come under an armed attack in the disputed South China Sea. Asked if the strong U.S. military support to the
Continue Reading ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Journalist unions in Greece have launched a 24-hour strike, joining broader labor unrest on the eve of a nationwide general strike. Public and many private media outlets across the country halted operations on Tuesday in solidarity with demands for better wages. Unions are demanding that the conservative government fully restore collective
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Opponents of the death penalty are bracing for Donald Trump’s return to the White House, fearing it will herald a new round of federal executions in an echo of the final months of the president-elect’s first administration. Many of those advocates – who say the death penalty is applied
Continue Reading Estate planning is one of those tasks that makes almost any other job look appealing, no matter how lowly. The good news is that you’ve probably already done a little bit of estate planning—you just may not be aware of it. It’s helpful to think of estate planning as a process rather than something that’s
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — German police have broken up a protest camp housing environmental activists in a forest near the Tesla electric car factory in Grünheide outside Berlin, citing violations of public safety and order. The protesters, who were removed Tuesday, had occupied the forest near the Tesla plant since the end of February over concerns
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By Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — While many communities around the world have been wondering what to make of Donald Trump’s presidential re-election, a village on the Italian island of Sardinia has sniffed a potential opportunity. Like many other places in rural Italy, Ollolai has long been trying to persuade outsiders to move in to
Continue Reading Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British farmers have descended on Parliament to protest a tax hike they say will deal a “hammer blow” to struggling family farms. An estimated 13,000 people packed the streets around Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office on Tuesday, demonstrating against the government’s decision to impose inheritance tax on agricultural property. The
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister has vowed that her country will not be intimidated by Russia’s new nuclear deterrent policy as it had in the past. Annalena Baerbock told a news conference in Poland that Berlin will now heed the warnings of partners that border Ukraine. She was speaking while attending a meeting
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s defense minister says officials have to assume that damage to two data cables under the Baltic Sea was caused by sabotage. But he says they have no proof at present. Damage was detected Monday to the C-Lion1 cable that runs nearly 1,200 kilometers or 750 miles from Finnish capital Helsinki to
Continue Reading Julia Hernández (CNN) — Donald Trump está a punto de entrar en la Casa Blanca por segunda vez. Su agenda incluirá supervisar el desarrollo de la inteligencia artificial, potencialmente la tecnología más poderosa de nuestro tiempo. El presidente electo prometió “recortar el exceso de regulaciones” y recurrió al multimillonario tecnológico Elon Musk, otro crítico de
Continue Reading Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The eldest son of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been arrested again, this time on suspicion of rape. Marius Borg Høiby is the stepson of the heir to the Norwegian throne, Crown Prince Haakon, and the son of the crown princess from a previous relationship. He has no royal
Continue Reading By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — The US men’s national soccer team (USMNT) booked its place in the CONCACAF Nations League semifinals next year with a thrilling 4-2 win over Jamaica in St. Louis, Missouri, on Monday night. The victory secured a 5-2 aggregate win over the Reggae Boyz after a hard fought first leg
Continue Reading By Sarah Ferris and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Hakeem Jeffries nearly became House speaker. Instead, he’s steering the Democratic Party through an identity crisis and hoping to avoid an ugly intraparty civil war. Even without the gavel, many Democrats across Washington say House Minority Leader Jeffries — a 54-year-old New Yorker with centrist roots
Continue Reading By Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — Despite usually lasting less than 15 minutes, the modern runway show often demands months of preparation, hundreds of thousands of dollars and an army of highly skilled technicians, set builders and tailors. Yet these fleeting displays have the power to cement a designer’s legacy. Even if you’re not
Continue Reading ROME (AP) — Italy’s Premier Giorgia Meloni suffered election setbacks in two regions as the opposition Democratic party won a tight race in the central Umbria region and deepened its control of the traditional left-leaning stronghold of Emilia-Romagna. The results of the two-days of voting that ended Monday were a clear victory for Democratic leader
Continue Reading Sofía Barruti (CNN) — El presidente Vladimir Putin actualizó la doctrina nuclear de Rusia, dos días después de que su homólogo estadounidense, Joe Biden, concediera a Ucrania permiso para atacar objetivos en el interior de Rusia con armas de fabricación estadounidense. Según la doctrina actualizada publicada este martes, Moscú considerará la agresión de cualquier estado
Continue Reading Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A United States envoy said an agreement to end the Israel-Hezbollah war is “within our grasp” after talks in Lebanon on Tuesday. However, there was no such optimism in the Gaza Strip, where the looting of nearly 100 aid trucks by armed men worsened an already severe food crisis. Amos
Continue Reading By Anna Chernova, Nathan Hodge, Christian Edwards and Clare Sebastian, CNN (CNN) — President Vladimir Putin has updated Russia’s nuclear doctrine, two days after his US counterpart Joe Biden granted Ukraine permission to strike targets deep inside Russia with American-made weapons. Under the updated doctrine, Moscow will consider aggression from any non-nuclear state – but
Continue Reading Sofía Barruti (CNN) — La explosión de una fábrica que mató a dos trabajadores en Louisville, Kentucky, la semana pasada fue causada por un recipiente de cocina defectuoso, dijeron funcionarios este lunes. “Fue un accidente industrial y no hay indicios de que alguien haya hecho algo intencional para provocar la explosión”, dijo Shawn Morrow, agente
Continue Reading Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The clock on her wall stopped almost as soon as the day began, its hands frozen by the Russian bomb that hit the dormitory serving as home for Ukrainians displaced by war. It was 1:45 a.m. in an upstairs room in the eastern city of Zaporizhzhia, Natalia Panasenko’s home
Continue Reading President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday formally lowered the threshold for Russia’s use of its nuclear weapons, a move that follows U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russian territory with American-supplied longer-range missiles. The new doctrine allows for a potential nuclear response by Moscow even to a conventional attack on Russia
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — Dozens of people have been killed in China in the past three months in a series of mass attacks using vehicles or knives. The attacks take one of two forms — either drivers mowing down people on foot or knife-wielding assailants stabbing multiple victims. Guns are strictly restricted in China and gun
Continue Reading KARTARPUR, Pakistan (AP) — Thousands of Sikh pilgrims from India and around the world are thronging a shrine to the founder of the Sikh religion, Guru Nanak, in Pakistan to commemorate his birth. Many Sikh holy sites are in Pakistan after the British partitioned the subcontinent in 1947 following two centuries of colonial rule. Officials
Continue Reading TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The separatist leader of Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia resigned on Tuesday after days of unrest, in which the opposition and its supporters seized key government buildings and at least 14 people were injured in clashes with police. Demonstrators stormed the buildings on Friday to protest new measures allowing Russians to
Continue Reading Julia Hernández (CNN) — Donald Trump está creando una demostración de poder que definirá su nuevo mandato, mientras intenta asegurar la confirmación de Matt Gaetz como secretario de Justicia. El presidente electo estuvo llamando a senadores para presionarlos a confirmar su selección a principios del próximo año, informó CNN este lunes, incluso cuando crece la
Continue Reading Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Police and demonstrators have scuffled again in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. Officers moved before dawn to break up a camp protesting the results of last month’s parliamentary election and demanding a new vote. Thousands of people later returned and set up camp again. The round-the-clock protest follows the Oct. 26
Continue Reading Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has undergone a complex surgery in Iran that saw part of a bone in her right leg removed over cancer fears. She was immediately returned to prison, which rights groups warned in a letter Monday raises the risks to her
Continue Reading Sofía Barruti (CNN) — Dos semanas después de que se hiciera historia con la elección de la primera persona transgénero en el Congreso de Estados Unidos, una republicana de la Cámara de Representantes está presionando para prohibir el acceso de las mujeres transgénero a los baños de mujeres del Capitolio. La representante de Carolina del
Continue Reading ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani authorities have banned gatherings of five or more people in the capital ahead of a planned march by supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The two-month ban announced Tuesday comes before a rally Sunday planned by Khan’s party to put pressure on the government to release the imprisoned former leader.
Continue Reading Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Forty-five prominent activists in Hong Kong have been sentenced to up to 10 years in jail, sparking criticism from foreign governments and rights groups. The democracy advocates were among 47 people charged under a Beijing-imposed national security law in 2021 for their involvement in an unofficial primary election to
Continue Reading Sofía Barruti (CNN) — El pionero escritor de guías de viajes Arthur Frommer falleció a la edad de 95 años, según un comunicado de la marca de medios que fundó. Su hija, Pauline Frommer, confirmó que su padre falleció el 18 de noviembre, “en su casa, rodeado de sus seres queridos”. Arthur Frommer nació en
Continue Reading By Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — Joe Mixon scored three touchdowns, rushing for 109 yards, while Derek Barnett scored on a fumble return as the Houston Texans ended their two-game losing streak with a 34-10 victory over the Dallas Cowboys on Monday night in Arlington, Texas. With the victory, the Texans improve to
Continue Reading Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The opposition leader in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland won last week’s election. The electoral commission announced the results Tuesday. Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi of the Waddani Party received more than 50% of the votes. President Muse Bihi Abdi of the ruling Kulmiye Party, who was seeking a second term,
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Tens of thousands of people have marched on the New Zealand parliament in Wellington to protest against a bill that critics say strikes at the core of the country’s founding principles and dilutes the rights of Māori people. The Hīkoi mō te Tiriti march began nine days ago in
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Continue Reading Associated Press VANG VIENG, Laos (AP) — Two 19-year-old Australian tourists are being treated in Thailand for suspected severe alcohol poisoning after apparently consuming tainted drinks in neighboring Laos. Australian media said the women became ill in the tourist town of Vang Vieng while on a backpacking vacation. It wasn’t clear what the two drank.
Continue Reading AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Nvidia helped pulled U.S. stock indexes higher on Tuesday after they stumbled in the morning on worries about escalations in the Russia-Ukraine war. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% after erasing an early drop of 0.7%. The Nasdaq composite also shook off an early loss to turn 1% higher,
Continue Reading Julia Hernández (CNN) — Dos mujeres declararon ante la comisión de Ética de la Cámara de Representantes que recibieron pagos por “favores sexuales” del exrepresentante Matt Gaetz, quien ha sido propuesto por el presidente electo Donald Trump como secretario de Justicia, según declaró este lunes a CNN el abogado de las mujeres, Joel Leppard. Ahora
Continue Reading Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Just as a simple lever can move heavy objects, rich nations are hoping another kind of leverage — the financial sort — can help them come up with the money that poorer nations need to cope with climate change. It involves a complex package of grants, loans and private
Continue Reading Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — What was expected to be one of the strongest storms in the northwest U.S. in decades arrived Tuesday evening, knocking out power and downing trees across the region. The Weather Prediction Center issued excessive rainfall risks beginning Tuesday and lasting through Friday as the strongest atmospheric river — a large
Continue Reading Associated Press FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (AP) — A man convicted of human smuggling testified that he shuttled more than 500 Indian migrants across the U.S.-Canada border over four years. Rajinder Singh said Tuesday that he made over $400,000 while working in the same international smuggling ring as two men who are on trial in federal
Continue Reading Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Extreme heat ruined the pineapples on Esther Penunia’s small farm in the Philippines this year, more disappointment than catastrophe since Penunia doesn’t depend on the farm for a living. But Penunia worries about the millions of small farmers in her part of the world who do depend on rice
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FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — John Square Jr.’s 17 points helped Cal State Fullerton fend off Idaho State 62-61 on Monday night for the Titans’ first victory of the season. Square added five rebounds for the Titans (1-4). Donovan Oday totaled 16 points and seven rebounds. Davis Bynum had 12 points. Jake O’Neil led the Bengals
Continue Reading Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The trial has begun for a man accused of holding down a teenage boy so colleagues could rape him at a New Hampshire youth center in the 1990s. Prosecutors said Tuesday that a brutal crime took place. The defense says that it never happened and that the accuser is
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Multiple students were injured after a car crashed into people outside a primary school in central China on Tuesday morning, state news agency Xinhua reported. Authorities have not said how many people were injured in the incident, which took place in Hunan province’s Changde city. A 39-year-old
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s first stint in the White House proved to be a chaotic ride for the District of Columbia. Now with Trump set to return to power — backed by a Republican-controlled Congress and the momentum of a sweeping electoral win — local officials in the nation’s capital are trying
Continue Reading Associated Press NEWLAND, N.C. (AP) — The Cartner family had known since last year that one of their farm’s Christmas trees would be headed to the White House this winter. But then Hurricane Helene struck, unleashing a deadly deluge across western North Carolina, including Avery County, where Cartner’s Christmas Tree Farm has stood for decades.
Continue Reading Associated Press The Osprey is back in the air after being grounded for months following a crash last November that killed eight U.S. service members in Japan. But there are still questions as to whether it should be. The complicated aircraft flies fast like a plane but converts to land like a helicopter, and even
Continue Reading Associated Press UDHAGAMANDALAM, India (AP) — Scattered groves of native trees, flowers and the occasional prehistoric burial ground are squeezed between hundreds of thousands of tea shrubs in southern India’s Nilgiris region — a gateway to a time before colonization and the commercial growing of tea that reshaped the country’s mountain landscapes. These sacred groves
Continue Reading Associated Press CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AP) — Over a New Mexico training range named the Hornet, two Osprey aircraft speed 100 feet off the ground, banking hard over valleys and hills as they close in on a dusty landing zone. A flight engineer in the back braces a .50-caliber machine gun over the
Continue Reading Officials in Texas have backed a controversial new public school curriculum that would incorporate Christian lessons from the Bible as early as kindergarten.
Continue Reading By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — It was the early hours of the morning when a guard entered Sohrab’s cell – a small, dark room with a barred window and a blanket on the floor – in Kabul’s sprawling Pul-e-Charkhi prison last August. The 19-year-old was escorted to another room in the complex, where he
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung and Laura Dolan, CNN (CNN) — The factory explosion that killed two workers in Louisville, Kentucky, last week was caused by a failed cooking vessel, officials said Monday. “It was an industrial accident, and there’s no indication anyone did anything intentional to cause the explosion,” said Shawn Morrow, the Louisville special agent
Continue Reading Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s president has opened the second day of a meeting of the world’s 20 major economies by calling for more action to slow global warming, saying developed nations must speed up their initiatives to reduce harmful emissions. The two-day meeting in Rio de Janeiro resumed for a second
Continue Reading By Caroll Alvarado, Michelle Watson, Maria Aguilar Prieto and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — It’s been more than a week since Hannah Kobayashi missed a flight connection in Los Angeles. After a series of suspicious texts from her phone, the 30-year-old Hawaii woman has gone silent – and her family now fears she may have
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Pioneering travel guidebook writer Arthur Frommer has died at the age of 95, according to a statement from the media brand he founded. His daughter, Pauline Frommer, confirmed that her father died on November 18, “at his home, surrounded by loved ones.” Born in Virginia in 1929, Arthur Frommer
Continue Reading TORONTO (AP) — Poet-novelist Anne Michaels has won the Giller Prize for her novel “Held,” a multi-generational examination of war and trauma. The 100,000 Canadian dollar ($71,000) Giller prize honors the best in Canadian fiction. Past winners have included Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler and Alice Munro. Michaels appealed for “unity” among “all the arts” during
Continue Reading Belén Liotti (CNN Español) –– El presidente de Paraguay, Santiago Peña, fue ingresado la noche de este lunes en el Hospital Samaritano Botafogo, en Río de Janeiro, para realizarse exámenes médicos, debido a un malestar que presentó durante la tarde mientras participaba de la cumbre del G20, informó el centro médico en un comunicado. Agregó
Continue Reading By Morgan Rimmer, Manu Raju and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — A House Republican is pushing to ban transgender women from women’s restrooms at the US Capitol, two weeks after history was made with the election of America’s first out transgender person to Congress. South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace on Monday introduced a resolution to
Continue Reading Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — As tens of thousands crowded the streets in New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, on Tuesday, the throng of people, flags aloft, had the air of a festival or a parade rather than a protest. They were marching to oppose a law that would reshape the county’s founding treaty between
Continue Reading By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — Ohio officials have denounced a small contingent of neo-Nazis who paraded Saturday afternoon through a Columbus neighborhood – waving flags featuring swastikas and shouting a racist slur – in the latest public demonstration by White nationalists in recent years across the United States. Around a dozen people in black
Continue Reading Belén Liotti (CNN) –– El escurridizo pez remo de aguas profundas, considerado un presagio de malas noticias, fue avistado una vez más en las costas de Encinitas, California. Fue el tercer avistamiento de la especie en el estado en los últimos tres meses, y solo el vigésimo segundo en el último siglo. Ahora puedes seguirnos
Continue Reading Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The final counts by counties are about over and a Democratic incumbent on North Carolina’s Supreme Court has an ever-slight lead over a Republican challenger. Associate Justice Allison Riggs had trailed on election night by roughly 10,000 votes to Jefferson Griffin. But that margin dwindled last week as provisional
Continue Reading Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese state media say numerous children were injured by a vehicle outside an elementary school in central China’s Hunan province. Students were arriving for classes on Tuesday morning at Yongan Elementary School in the city of Changde when the incident occurred. No details were immediately available, and it wasn’t
Continue Reading AP Travel Editor NEW YORK (AP) — Arthur Frommer, whose “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day” guidebooks revolutionized leisure travel by convincing average Americans to take budget vacations abroad, has died. He was 95. Frommer died from complications of pneumonia, his daughter Pauline Frommer said Monday. “My father opened up the world to so many
Continue Reading Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Forty-five ex-lawmakers and activists were sentenced to four to 10 years in prison Tuesday in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case under a Beijing-imposed law that crushed a once-thriving pro-democracy movement. They were prosecuted under the 2020 national security law for their roles in an unofficial primary election. Prosecutors
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