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Russia targets Greenpeace in crackdown on dissent but Kremlin critic Roizman avoids prison
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian branch of the environmental group Greenpeace on Friday says it is closing after authorities declared Greenpeace…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — The Russian branch of the environmental group Greenpeace on Friday says it is closing after authorities declared Greenpeace…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A California man accused of purposefully driving himself, his wife and two children off a cliff on a coastal…
Continue ReadingBy JOVANA GEC and DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Tens of thousands of people rallied in Serbia on Friday for a third…
Continue ReadingBy BABAR DOGAR Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has dialed down his campaign of defiance,…
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday named Gabe Gore, a former assistant U.S. attorney,…
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll finds that most U.S. adults say they are highly concerned…
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta prosecutor investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others broke the law…
Continue ReadingBy ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) — A new mayor has been sworn in in northern Kosovo after a vote that…
Continue ReadingMORAINE, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a feud over a woman led a man to fatally shoot his coworker at a General Motors engine factory in Ohio.…
Continue ReadingBy Jay Croft and Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — A construction worker whose family says he pleaded for help on Facebook Live before he died in a…
Continue ReadingBy KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon has received an Interpol notice for the country’s embattled central bank governor who…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN Orono, Maine (CNN) — The first, full-sized floating offshore wind turbine in the United States will tower 850 feet above…
Continue ReadingMILAN (AP) — Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has been released from a Milan hospital, a month and a half after he was admitted with a lung…
Continue ReadingCAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s top army general has fired the country’s paramilitary leader, his former ally turned rival, as the deputy of the…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China says Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will visit Beijing next week for talks, marking the latest exchange in a…
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — Brad Cox-trained First Mission has been scratched from the Preakness on the advice of…
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration has an ambitious goal to reduce the country’s homelessness by 25% before 2025. In a…
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration has an ambitious goal to reduce the country’s homelessness by 25% before 2025. In a…
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration has an ambitious goal to reduce the country’s homelessness by 25% before 2025. In a…
Continue ReadingBy OLIVIA CHEN of NerdWallet As more states adopt pay transparency laws, many small businesses will need to comply with legislation if they or the…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Sean Penn has strongly backed the current Hollywood screenwriters strike while speaking at the…
Continue ReadingCALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Canada’s second-largest airline WestJet and its pilots union say they have reached a last-minute deal to avert a strike…
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Andy Rourke, bass guitarist of The Smiths, one of the most influential British bands of the 1980s, has…
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Qiblawi and Isil Sariyuce, CNN Istanbul (CNN) — Turkey has a “special” and growing relationship with Russian President Vladimir…
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — A judge soon could decide if the writings of a shooter who killed three 9-year-olds and three adults in March at a…
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — Smoke from wildfires in Canada is moving into parts of the central US and could linger in the days ahead, health…
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Qiblawi and Isil Sariyuce, CNN Istanbul (CNN) — Turkey has a “special” and growing relationship with Russian President Vladimir…
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — One person was fatally wounded and another hurt in a shooting at an Ohio automotive…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China is warning against the introduction of “geopolitical games” in the South Pacific following the announcement that U.S.…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Britain’s government has unveiled its long-awaited semiconductor strategy. It’s catching up with similar efforts by Western…
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — Iran has been condemned by international watchdogs after it executed three more men over recent…
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia is hosting an Arab League summit that is welcoming back Syrian President…
Continue ReadingBy PAOLO SANTALUCIA, SETH BORENSTEIN and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The floods that sent rivers of mud tearing through towns in…
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Police shocked a 95-year-old woman with a stun gun as she approached them using a walker…
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina made it official Friday: He’s running for president.…
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The official death toll from the powerful cyclone that struck Myanmar has burgeoned to at least 145,…
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso and Jackson Grigsby, CNN (CNN) — Less than a year after an attempt on his life, author Salman Rushdie made a rare public…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Holding this week’s Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima, the site of the world’s…
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street’s best week since March ran out of steam Friday as worries rose about the U.S.…
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Volodymyr Zelensky will travel in person to Japan for the Group of Seven (G7) summit, according to…
Continue ReadingBy DEREK GATOPOULOS and THEODORA TONGAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greeks will head to the polls on Sunday to elect a leader who will…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Echoing the crackdown on freedoms in neighboring Hong Kong, the former Portuguese colony of Macao has revised its legal system to…
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has executed three men accused of deadly violence during last year’s anti-government protests despite…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has promised to build more railway and other trade links with Central Asia and proposed jointly developing…
Continue ReadingBY KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court has rejected an activist publisher’s latest effort to use a British lawyer to…
Continue ReadingBy NICK EL HAJJ Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A proposed $5 billion real estate project wants to take skyscraper-studded…
Continue ReadingBy COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) — A small enclave of Detroit is considering municipal bankruptcy to help rid itself of…
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand police have lowered the confirmed death toll from a Wellington hostel…
Continue ReadingBy CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AP Education Writer When Kamryn Yanchick graduated, she hoped to decorate her cap with a beaded pattern in honor of her Native…
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Homicide detectives in Australia are investigating why a police officer felt so threatened…
Continue ReadingBy MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano rumbled to life again this week, belching out towering…
Continue ReadingBy CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press MONTREAL (AP) — In the agonies of the virus that upended most of the world, millions of people from Bogota to…
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Social media has law enforcement facing increasing pressure to release information fast amid a surge of…
Continue ReadingWELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A 7.7 magnitude earthquake caused a small tsunami to wash ashore on South Pacific islands Friday. No damage has been…
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, Western allies have shipped billions of dollars worth of weapons systems and ammunition…
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Legislature has passed a bill that combines a 12-week abortion ban with…
Continue ReadingBy ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press A Massachusetts Air National Guard member charged with leaking highly classified military…
Continue ReadingBy SHARON JOHNSON Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — On the weekend in March when Brittany Glover would have turned 34, her mother stood on the same…
Continue ReadingBy Jake Kwon and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The United States Tsunami Warning Center lifted an alert over the South Pacific on…
Continue ReadingBy Eliza Mackintosh, Ehsan Popalzai, Antonio Jarne and Lou Robinson, CNN (CNN) — Qasim received a call in late March that his brother, an…
Continue ReadingBy ARNIE STAPLETON AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — Jamal Murray scored 23 of his 37 points in the fourth quarter, propelling the Denver Nuggets to a…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Top negotiators from the White House have met over the debt limit with House…
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — State media in Myanmar say at least 54 people were killed and more than 185,000 buildings damaged by…
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A wrongful death lawsuit accuses several establishments of overserving the alleged drunken driver who police say slammed into…
Continue ReadingQUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s Constitutional Court has rejected multiple challenges that sought to invalidate President Guillermo Lasso…
Continue ReadingPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island Gov. Daniel McKee signed a bill into law Thursday that would let state funds be used to pay for health…
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California legislative committees in the Assembly and Senate blocked…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Tom Kim has no regrets about the muddy lengths he went to in a bid to retrieve his ball out…
Continue ReadingBy BRADY McCOMBS and SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman who wrote a children’s book about grief after her husband’s…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID HAMILTON Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A lawyer for Twitter owner Elon Musk accused Microsoft of misusing the service’s data and…
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan, Teele Rebane, Salai TZ and Paula Hancocks, CNN (CNN) — Abdul Hussein wipes away tears as he describes the day waves churned by…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH and JOSH BOAK Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Leaders of the Group of Seven advanced economies are generally united…
Continue ReadingBy Eric Cheung, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — The United States and Taiwan agreed the first stage of a bilateral trade initiative on Thursday,…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON and MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Attorneys for the weapons supervisor on the New Mexico film set where Alec…
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — When Patrick Brown walked out of a New Orleans courthouse last week a free man after spending 29 years in…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FBI employees accused the bureau of politicization in…
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An 88-year-old Australian doctor held captive by Islamic extremists in West Africa for…
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The executive committee of Minnesota’s Democratic Farmer Labor Party gave initial approval to bylaws that will permanently…
Continue ReadingALBANY, Ore. (AP) — Oregon State Police say seven people are dead and others have been hurt in a crash involving two semi trucks and a passenger…
Continue ReadingOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is agreeing to not enforce its ban on gender-affirming medical care for young transgender people for now. The state…
Continue ReadingBy TERRY TANG and JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The trial over Kari Lake’s challenge to her defeat in the Arizona…
Continue ReadingAMY BETH HANSON, HALELUYA HADERO and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Five TikTok content creators have filed a lawsuit seeking…
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie has made his first in-person public appearance since being stabbed repeatedly…
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has overestimated the value of the weapons it has sent to Ukraine…
Continue ReadingBy Sharon Braithwaite (CNN) — A man was arrested after driving through a Vatican gateway on Thursday evening, according to a statement from the…
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Aric Hutchinson is still trying to wrap his head around the idea that his wife is no longer…
Continue ReadingBy Stefano Pozzebon and Caitlin Hu, CNN (CNN) — As the Colombian military frantically searches for four children missing after a jungle plane…
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Police say Thursday that two suspects have been arrested in the death of a 6-year-old boy nearly two weeks…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — A Massachusetts man was arraigned Thursday on new charges in the death of a 5-year-old boy whose body was…
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE, SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and ANITA SNOW Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Videos released Thursday of this week’s deadly rampage…
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office said Thursday that she is suffering from…
Continue ReadingBy Brad Parks and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has asked the state Supreme Court to review his…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has reached a modest trade agreement with Taiwan. The pact signals…
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press A legislative committee has finally advanced a bill to comply with a voter ID requirement approved by Nebraska…
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The United Nations office in Nigeria says at least $396 million is urgently needed to…
Continue ReadingBy JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The suspect in the fatal stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee on the streets of San Francisco…
Continue ReadingBy LESLIE AMBRIZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pierce Brosnan has attempted to write about himself many times, but it’s through painting…
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Navy investigation prompted by a spate of suicides is recommending widespread improvements…
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Mortgage rates bounced back up this week after falling for two weeks in a row. The 30-year…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Pasadena, California (CNN) — A raging river might have cut across Mars billions of years ago. The Perseverance rover…
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