DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The nation’s longest-serving attorney general is seeking another term in Iowa. Seventy-seven-year-old Tom Miller said Saturday that is will seek in 11th term in office in 2022 because he has “unfinished business” he wants to take care of. Miller has already held the job for nearly 40 years. Miller said
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By JUAN A. LOZANO, ERIC GAY, ELLIOT SPAGAT and EVENS SANON Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — The U.S. is flying Haitians camped in a Texas border town back to their homeland and trying to block others from crossing the border from Mexico. It’s a massive show of force that signals the beginning of
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By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Vinícius Junior and Karim Benzema added to their impressive starts to the season by scoring late goals in Real Madrid’s 2-1 win against Valencia in the Spanish league. Vinícius Júnior scored his fourth goal of the season in the 86th minute and Benzema netted his sixth
Continue Reading By JIM HEINTZ and DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Early results Sunday in Russia’s parliamentary election show the dominant pro-Kremlin party well in the lead, but it is unclear if the party will retain the two-thirds majority of seats that would allow it to change the constitution. Results from about 30% of the
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By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter As the Supreme Court finds itself in an unwelcome political spotlight at the start of a new term, Justice Stephen Breyer defended the institution Sunday in an interview on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” insisting that the court is driven not by political considerations, but by judicial philosophy.
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By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is travelling to the United States with senior Cabinet officials to urge world leaders attending the U.N. General Assembly to take urgent action on climate change ahead of this fall’s COP26 climate summit in Scotland. Johnson is set to co-host a meeting
Continue Reading By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is travelling to the United States with senior Cabinet officials to urge world leaders attending the U.N. General Assembly to take urgent action on climate change ahead of this fall’s COP26 climate summit in Scotland. Johnson is set to co-host a meeting
Continue Reading By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is making his case to voters on the final day of campaigning before Monday’s Canadian election. He’s warning that his Conservative opponents would weaken the nation’s battle against the pandemic. Polls indicate the race is close and Trudeau is unlikely to get the
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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business After Bart Schoenfeld’s Chevrolet Bolt EV was recalled for the second time, he’d had enough. GM had warned that some of the cars could have a manufacturing defect that might cause them to catch fire. For safety’s sake, the automaker recommended Bolt owners restrict their use of the car to
Continue Reading By MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — King Willem-Alexander has officially unveiled a new memorial in the heart of Amsterdam’s historic Jewish Quarter to honor the more than 102,000 Dutch victims of the Holocaust. Designed by Polish-Jewish architect Daniel Libeskind, the memorial is made up of walls shaped to form four Hebrew letters spelling
Continue Reading Associated Press MOOSE, Wyo. (AP) — Authorities say a body discovered Sunday in Wyoming is believed to be Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito. An FBI agent said the cause of death not yet been determined. Petito and her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, left in July on a cross-country trek in a converted van to visit national parks in
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By Hannah Gard, CNN Weather This year’s busy tropical season continues as more activity ramps up in the Atlantic. Tropical Depression Seventeen intensified into Tropical Storm Rose Sunday afternoon, about 370 miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands, says the National Hurricane Center. The other active storm currently in the Atlantic basin is Tropical Storm
Continue ReadingBy Alta Spells, CNN Two people were fatally shot at a parking deck at North Carolina Central University in Durham on Saturday night, prompting a lockdown of the nearby college football game, authorities said. Two men were shot and taken to the hospital where they were both pronounced dead, the Durham Police Department said on
Continue Reading By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — One of Sao Paulo’s biggest favelas is celebrating its centennial — a sign of the permanence and resilience of poor communities that were once thought of as temporary. Paraisopolis community leader Gilson Rodrigues says that authorities didn’t do much to help the local
Continue Reading By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Bamba Dieng’s third goal in two games helped unbeaten Marseille defeat Rennes 2-0 and move into second place in the French league behind bitter rival Paris Saint-Germain. PSG was playing against Lyon in the late game Sunday with six-time Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi set for
Continue Reading By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — Freshman quarterback Jaxson Dart came off the bench to throw four touchdown passes as Southern California rebounded from last weekend’s tough loss to Stanford and the subsequent firing of coach Clay Helton with a 45-14 victory over Washington State. Dart replaced an injured Kedon Slovis
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By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Alabama had more people die last year during the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic than births, a top health official said, as the US continues to grapple with rising coronavirus cases and deaths. “This past year, 2020, is going to be the first year that we know of in the history
Continue ReadingCORRECTION A headline in today’s “5 Things” mistakenly stated that the US Food and Drug Administration said no to a broad rollout of boosters. The FDA’s panel of advisers made the recommendation. The FDA has not weighed in yet. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2021 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.
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By Kristin Fisher, CNN Business The four people aboard SpaceX’s Inspiration 4 mission flew higher than the International Space Station, but that still may not be enough to earn them their official commercial astronaut wings from the federal government. Astronaut wings don’t have any significance beyond their symbolic value, but they are quickly becoming the
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By Tara Subramaniam, CNN President Joe Biden’s new vaccine requirements could apply to as many as 100 million Americans, or almost two-thirds of the American workforce, and have spawned a predictable pushback from a handful of Republican states — making them the latest frontier in the fight between the administration and state officials over how
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