Protests flare near Paris after 17-year-old shot dead during police traffic stop
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Protests flare near Paris after 17-year-old shot dead during police traffic stop
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Some Dutch people seeking euthanasia cite autism or intellectual disabilities, researchers say
By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Several people with autism and intellectual disabilities have been legally euthanized in the…
Continue Reading Muslims at Hajj brave intense heat to cast stones at pillars representing the devil
By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims on Wednesday braved intense heat to perform the…
Continue Reading Norway approves 19 oil and gas projects, saying the resulting investments are worth over $19 billion
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway has approved 19 oil and gas projects on the Norwegian continental shelf, saying the total investments are worth…
Continue Reading French police, protesters clash after Macron calls police fatal shooting of teen ‘inexcusable’
By OLEG CETINIC and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press NANTERRE, France (AP) — Police clashed with protesters overnight just hours after French…
Continue Reading Protests flare near Paris after 17-year-old shot dead during police traffic stop
By Saskya Vandoorne, Alex Stambaugh, Oliver Briscoe, Helen Regan and Xiaofei Xu, CNN Paris (CNN) — France was bracing for further unrest on…
Continue Reading Protests flare near Paris after 17-year-old shot dead during police traffic stop
By Saskya Vandoorne, Alex Stambaugh, Oliver Briscoe, Helen Regan and Xiaofei Xu, CNN Paris (CNN) — France was bracing for further unrest on…
Continue Reading New migrant tragedy at sea changes little as EU leaders forge ahead with tougher borders plans
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders will push ahead this week with plans to beef up the bloc’s borders and…
Continue Reading They faced life in prison for blocking the Queen’s motorcade. But these Thai protesters just got acquitted
By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — A Thai court on Wednesday acquitted five activists accused of obstructing the…
Continue Reading They faced life in prison for blocking the Queen’s motorcade. But these Thai protesters just got acquitted
By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — A Thai court on Wednesday acquitted five activists accused of obstructing the…
Continue Reading Russian missile kills 11 in a pizza parlor and Ukraine arrests man accused of directing the strike
By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities on Wednesday arrested a man they accused of helping Russia direct a…
Continue Reading Recruitment of children by armed groups in Syria is on the rise, even as fighting subsides
By HOGIR ABDO and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — A 13-year-old Kurdish girl went missing on her way home from a school exam…
Continue Reading Teacher who killed his wife found guilty of sexually abusing student he started new life with
By Angus Watson, CNN Sydney (CNN) — An Australian physical education teacher who murdered his wife so he could start a new life with a teenage…
Continue Reading Teacher who killed his wife found guilty of sexually abusing student he started new life with
By Angus Watson, CNN Sydney (CNN) — An Australian physical education teacher who murdered his wife so he could start a new life with a teenage…
Continue Reading Threatened by shortages, electric car makers race for supplies of lithium for batteries
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to…
Continue Reading As a lengthy legal battle ends, a Palestinian family braces for eviction from Jerusalem home
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Few places in Jerusalem speak of the larger conflict being waged over the city more than the…
Continue Reading Stock market today: Asian shares are lower after central bankers say interest rates must stay high
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday after leaders of major central banks said they need to…
Continue Reading London jury seated in Kevin Spacey sex assault trial on allegations over a decade old
By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Jurors who will decide the fate of actor Kevin Spacey were sworn in Wednesday in a London court as…
Continue Reading Thai court acquits 5 who were accused of blocking the queen’s motorcade during 2020 protests
By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand has acquitted a student activist and four other people of impeding the…
Continue Reading Wagner chief Prigozhin is in Belarus following armed rebellion, Lukashenko says
By Katharina Krebs, Paul P. Murphy, Natasha Bertrand, Jennifer Hansler and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has arrived…
Continue Reading Wagner chief Prigozhin is in Belarus following armed rebellion, Lukashenko says
By Katharina Krebs, Paul P. Murphy, Natasha Bertrand, Jennifer Hansler and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has arrived…
Continue Reading Exonerated member of ‘Central Park Five’ takes lead in New York City Council primary
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man who was part of a group of teenagers wrongly accused and imprisoned for the rape of a…
Continue Reading Activist detained in Hong Kong begins final appeal for recognition of his overseas same-sex marriage
By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — An activist detained in Hong Kong began his final appeal Wednesday seeking recognition for his…
Continue Reading Trump wants to keep ‘communists’ and ‘Marxists’ out of the US. Here’s what the law says
By REBECCA SANTANA and ALI SWENSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has announced a new campaign proposal on United States…
Continue Reading Supreme Court rejects novel legislative theory but leaves a door open for 2024 election challenges
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press The U.S. Supreme Court shot down a controversial legal theory that could have changed the way…
Continue Reading Families worry over the future of Medicaid caregiver payments that were expanded during the pandemic
By TOM MURPHY and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press Nathan Hill started receiving $12.75 an hour from a state Medicaid program to help care for his…
Continue Reading Smoke from Canada wildfires is increasing health risks in Black and poorer US communities
By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Smoky air from Canada’s wildfires shrouded broad swaths of the U.S. from…
Continue Reading Threats of impeachment and censure used to be rare. In this Congress, they’re becoming routine
By STEPHEN GROVES and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have held it over Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro…
Continue Reading Threatened by shortages, electric car makers race for supplies of lithium for batteries
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to…
Continue Reading Gunmen abduct 14 state police officers in the Mexican state of Chiapas
By ÉDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Armed men have abducted 14 state police officers in southern Mexico. The kidnapping on…
Continue Reading New Zealand Prime Minister Hipkins visits China to boost economic ties
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has discussed his country’s interest in boosting economic ties with China during a…
Continue Reading Sisters tell Australia court that abuse by Jewish school principal broke trust, painful to remember
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Two sisters have told an Australian court that being sexually abused by their Jewish…
Continue Reading Could the ‘Metaversity’ be the college campus of the future?
Story by Rebecca Cairns; Video by Hazel Pfeifer, CNN (CNN) — When Muhsinah Morris stepped onto the central quad of the Morehouse College campus…
Continue Reading Vietjet plane with 214 people aboard lands safely in Philippines after technical problem
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Vietjet plane carrying 214 people has made an unscheduled but safe landing in the northern Philippines after…
Continue Reading South Koreans become younger overnight after country scraps ‘Korean age’
By Jessie Yeung and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — More than 51 million people in South Korea awoke on Wednesday to find…
Continue Reading South Koreans become younger overnight after country scraps ‘Korean age’
By Jessie Yeung and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — More than 51 million people in South Korea awoke on Wednesday to find…
Continue Reading Regulators begin final safety inspection before treated Fukushima wastewater is released into sea
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese regulators have begun a final inspection before treated radioactive wastewater is released…
Continue Reading Maine lawmakers are a single vote from approval of bill to allow later abortions
By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine House has voted again to allow later abortions in some circumstances, putting the…
Continue Reading Rights to the works of Argentine literary giant Jorge Luis Borges granted to his widow’s nephews
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A court has granted the rights to the works of the late Jorge Luis Borges, considered Argentina’s most…
Continue Reading More than a third of the US population, from the Midwest to the East Coast, under air quality alerts from Canadian wildfire smoke
By Nouran Salahieh, Joe Sutton and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — More than third of the US population is under air quality alerts, covering…
Continue Reading Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani interviewed in Jan. 6 investigation
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rudy Giuliani, who as a member of Donald Trump’s legal team sought to overturn 2020…
Continue Reading NFL RedZone channel will be available on DirecTV after agreement with NFL Media
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — The NFL RedZone channel will be available to DirecTV customers for the first time as part of a multiyear renewal of its…
Continue Reading That’s no pizza: A wall painting found in Pompeii doesn’t depict Italy’s iconic dish
MILAN (AP) — A still-life fresco recently discovered in the Pompeii archaeological site features a flatbread with colorful toppings that looks like…
Continue Reading Former Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett dies at 35 in an apparent drowning
DESTIN, Fla. (AP) — Former Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett, who also played for New England, Houston and Baltimore during five seasons in the…
Continue Reading California man gets prison for nearly $9M phony cow manure-to-green energy investment scheme
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A California man is going to prison for running a cow dung-to-green energy scheme that authorities say was a load of manure.…
Continue Reading Paul McCartney’s rediscovered photos show Beatlemania from the inside
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Is there really a new way to look at The Beatles, one of the most filmed and photographed bands in…
Continue Reading Wagner chief walks free after armed revolt. Other Russians defying the Kremlin aren’t so lucky
By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin led an armed rebellion against the Russian military…
Continue Reading Labor group requests ethics probe of Kentucky GOP gubernatorial candidate over campaign solicitation
By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A labor group has requested an ethics investigation of Kentucky Attorney General Daniel…
Continue Reading Sexual abuse victims’ chance to file lawsuits in old cases remains in question after court ruling
By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press Louisiana’s Supreme Court has sidestepped a ruling on the constitutionality of legislation that gave adult…
Continue Reading Judge, rejecting Trump arguments, signals he’ll let New York criminal case stay in state court
By JENNIFER PELTZ and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The hush money case against former President Donald Trump appears headed…
Continue Reading Extortion trial delayed until fall for suspect in Natalee Holloway’s disappearance
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday agreed to delay Joran Van der Sloot’s extortion trial until the fall to give him more time to prepare…
Continue Reading Couple arrested in fatal fentanyl overdoses at Hawaii hotel room
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Authorities in Hawaii have arrested a man and woman they say supplied the fentanyl in a…
Continue Reading Woman loses bid to sue prosecutor over sexual abuser’s light sentence
By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana woman who watched the man who coerced her into a sex act when she was 16 walk free…
Continue Reading Bernardo Arévalo, Guatemala’s electoral surprise, makes corruption fight top priority
By SONIA PÉREZ D. and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Bernardo Arévalo, the surprise of the first round of voting in…
Continue Reading New Mexico negotiates settlement over permit renewal for US nuclear waste repository
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico says it has reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Energy…
Continue Reading SiriusXM is shutting down its Stitcher podcast app to emphasize its flagship app
Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Satellite-radio provider SiriusXM said it will shut down its Stitcher podcast app at the end of August in…
Continue Reading David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan cast as Superman and Lois Lane in James Gunn movie
By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer James Gunn has found his new Superman and Lois Lane in David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan. The DC Studios co-chair,…
Continue Reading Sudan violence likely to push over 1 million refugees out of the African country by October, UN says
By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations says the surging violence in Sudan is likely to drive over 1 million refugees out…
Continue Reading Deputies accused of abusing Black men are fired by Mississippi sheriff amid federal probe
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — All five Mississippi deputy sheriffs accused of beating and sexually…
Continue Reading Former Navy SEAL seeks GOP nod to challenge Montana Democratic US Sen. Tester in 2024
By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Former U.S. Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy says he will seek the 2024 Republican nomination to…
Continue Reading More than 50 MPs resign from Iraqi Kurdish region’s parliament to protest court ruling
By SALAR SALIM and ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — More than 50 members of the local parliament in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region in…
Continue Reading UN urges Israel and Palestinians to halt West Bank violence in statement backed by US and Russia
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is urging Israel and the Palestinians to avoid actions that…
Continue Reading Canadian wildfires are causing the worst air in the US in cities like Chicago and Detroit
By MELINA WALLING, MELISSA WINDER and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Drifting smoke from the ongoing wildfires across Canada is…
Continue Reading Honduras copies El Salvador’s playbook in anti-gang crackdown
By MARLON GONZÁLEZ Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Observers say that a crackdown in Honduras on gangs in the nation’s prisons is…
Continue Reading College sues for damages, saying cleaner turned off lab freezer and destroyed research
TROY, N.Y. (AP) — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute says in a $1 million lawsuit that a cleaner who switched off power to a lab freezer containing…
Continue Reading Race car driver Jimmie Johnson’s in-laws and their 11-year-old grandson found dead in murder-suicide, police say
By Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — The parents and nephew of race car driver Jimmie Johnson’s wife, Chandra Janway Johnson, were killed Monday at a…
Continue Reading NASCAR great Jimmie Johnson’s in-laws found shot to death in Oklahoma
MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — Police in Muskogee, Oklahoma, confirmed Tuesday they are investigating the shooting deaths of three relatives of seven-time…
Continue Reading Actor Julian Sands died while hiking on California mountain, authorities confirm
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Julian Sands, who starred in several Oscar-nominated films in the late 1980s and…
Continue Reading Federal prosecutors to help clear backlog of murder cases in St. Louis
By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office in St. Louis is loaning eight prosecutors to the St. Louis Circuit…
Continue Reading EPA retreats on Louisiana investigations that alleged Black people lived amid higher cancer risk
By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press The Biden administration has dropped investigations into whether Louisiana officials put Black residents living…
Continue Reading Rainfall likely won’t be enough to extinguish Quebec wildfires causing US smoke, officials say
MONTREAL (AP) — Canadian officials say rainfall likely won’t be enough to extinguish the wildfires ravaging northern Quebec, but the wet weather…
Continue Reading Family of Pakistani father and son who died in Titan submersible shares memories and gratitude
By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The family of two Pakistani men who died in the implosion of a submersible as it descended to the…
Continue Reading Tensions erupt in a Paris suburb after a 17-year-old delivery driver is killed in a police standoff
PARIS (AP) — A 17-year-old delivery driver was shot and killed by a police officer Tuesday in a Paris suburb, according to his family’s lawyers.…
Continue Reading Lukashenko claims he stopped Putin from ‘destroying’ Wagner group
By Rob Picheta and Katharina Krebs, CNN (CNN) — Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko claims he convinced Russian leader Vladimir Putin not to…
Continue Reading Lukashenko claims he stopped Putin from ‘destroying’ Wagner group
By Rob Picheta and Katharina Krebs, CNN (CNN) — Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko claims he convinced Russian leader Vladimir Putin not to…
Continue Reading Russian missile attack hits Kramatorsk city center, killing at least four, say Ukrainian officials
By Mick Krever, Mariya Knight, Ben Wedeman and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN (CNN) — Russian missiles struck the busy city center of the east…
Continue Reading Cleveland woman indicted on murder charges after leaving her 16-month-old child alone for 10 days, prosecutors say
By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — A Cleveland woman has been indicted on murder charges after she left her 16-month-old child alone for 10 days…
Continue Reading 11 people have died in rip currents in less than two weeks along Gulf Coast
By Alisha Ebrahimji and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Rip currents have claimed the lives of 11 people within two weeks along the Gulf Coast, amid…
Continue Reading Child among five killed in Egyptian building collapse
By Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN (CNN) — At least five people, including a child, have died and four others were injured after a building collapsed…
Continue Reading Struggling with a drug crisis, San Francisco wants Narcan available at every pharmacy
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco could become the first city in the country to require every pharmacy…
Continue Reading Rescuers found body in rubble of Paris building that collapsed in explosion
PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor’s office says French emergency workers found a body in the rubble of a building that collapsed in an…
Continue Reading Pope’s peace envoy arrives in Moscow after the short-lived Wagner rebellion
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis’ peace envoy has arrived in Moscow. The Vatican says the visit aims to help find a…
Continue Reading North Carolina GOP bars promotion of certain beliefs in state government, 1 of 6 veto overrides
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Republican-dominated North Carolina legislature has swept six vetoed bills into law.…
Continue Reading Florida issues health advisory after 4 locally contract malaria in first spread in US in 20 years
By ARTHUR BRICE and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press TERRA CEIA ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Department of Health has issued a statewide…
Continue Reading A man who fired a rifle at a pool cleaner will not be charged, sheriff says
DUNEDIN, Fla. (AP) — Officials says a Florida man who shot a rifle at his pool cleaner after mistaking the man for an intruder will not face…
Continue Reading Russian missile attack hits Kramatorsk city center, killing at least four, say Ukrainian officials
By Mick Krever, Mariya Knight, Ben Wedeman and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN (CNN) — Russian missiles struck the busy city center of the east…
Continue Reading 6 dead in a meningitis outbreak tied to Mexico clinics as officials struggle to reach more patients
By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer U.S. health officials say the death toll from outbreak of fungal meningitis tied to surgical procedures in a…
Continue Reading Supreme Court makes it more difficult to convict someone of making a threat
By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled to make it more difficult to convict a person of making a violent…
Continue Reading Russian militia maintains ruthless role in Africa after failed rebellion
By JEAN FERNAND KOENA, CHINEDU ASADU and ZANE IRWIN Associated Press BIRAO, Central African Republic (AP) — The Russian mercenary group that…
Continue Reading Ryan Seacrest named new host of ‘Wheel of Fortune’
By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Ryan Seacrest will take his place as the new host of “Wheel of Fortune” in 2024, Sony Pictures Television,…
Continue Reading The Great Grift: More than $200 billion in COVID-19 aid may have been stolen, federal watchdog says
By RICHARD LARDNER and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19…
Continue Reading Sierra Leone’s President Maada Bio sworn in hours after election win
By Nimi Princewill and Stephanie Busari, CNN (CNN) — Sierra Leone’s President Maada Bio was sworn into a second term on Tuesday, just hours…
Continue Reading Sierra Leone’s President Maada Bio sworn in hours after election win
By Nimi Princewill and Stephanie Busari, CNN (CNN) — Sierra Leone’s President Maada Bio was sworn into a second term on Tuesday, just hours…
Continue Reading A blistering heat wave is turning up the pressure on Texas’ power grid
By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An unrelenting heat wave in Texas is testing the state’s power grid as demand soars…
Continue Reading Ryan Seacrest will host ‘Wheel of Fortune’ after Pat Sajak retires next year
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The category? “Proper Name.” The answer? Ryan Seacrest, who will become the new “Wheel of Fortune” host after Pat…
Continue Reading Klimt painting sets European record with $108 million price tag at Sotheby’s auction in London
LONDON (AP) — A late-life masterpiece by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt sold Tuesday for 85.3 million pounds ($108.4 million), making it the most…
Continue Reading Sierra Leone’s president wins second term without need for runoff, election commission announces
By KEMO CHAM Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone’s election commission says President Julius Maada Bio has won a…
Continue Reading Haley says Trump did ‘too little’ about China threats, warns of global conflict if Ukraine falls
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley is criticizing former President Donald Trump for…
Continue Reading US push to lower wildfire risk across the West stumbles in places
By MATTHEW BROWN, TERRY CHEA, CALEB DIEHL and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press DOWNIEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Using chainsaws, heavy machinery and…
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