By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A month after the fall of Kabul, the question of how the world will help Afghanistan’s impoverished people without propping up their Taliban rulers grows more urgent by the day. Donor countries have pledged $1.2 billion in humanitarian aid through the United Nations. But
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden reveló este miércoles un nuevo esfuerzo por ayudar a Australia a adquirir submarinos nucleares, un paso importante para contrarrestar la influencia de China mientras trabaja para conseguir el respaldo internacional para su enfoque hacia Beijing. El anuncio se produjo en el marco de una nueva asociación trilateral
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares are mixed after a hodge-podge of economic data led Wall Street to close mostly lower. Benchmarks rose in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul but fell in Shanghai and Sydney. The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average each lost about 0.2% Thursday, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares are mixed after a hodge-podge of economic data led Wall Street to close mostly lower. Benchmarks rose in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul but fell in Shanghai and Sydney. The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average each lost about 0.2% Thursday, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq
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By Nicole Williams and Joe Sutton, CNN Country star Reba McEntire expressed gratitude Wednesday after she had to be rescued from a historic building in Atoka, Oklahoma, after the staircase collapsed. McEntire had to be evacuated on a fire ladder from a second-story window on Tuesday, CNN affiliate KXII reported. “Thankfully, no one was seriously
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By Nicole Williams and Joe Sutton, CNN Country star Reba McEntire expressed gratitude Wednesday after she had to be rescued from a historic building in Atoka, Oklahoma, after the staircase collapsed. McEntire had to be evacuated on a fire ladder from a second-story window on Tuesday, CNN affiliate KXII reported. “Thankfully, no one was seriously
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By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Julio Urías earned his major league-leading 18th victory, Gavin Lux singled in the go-ahead run in the fourth, and the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-3. The Dodgers won their sixth straight overall and ninth in a row at home, where they are
Continue Reading By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A prominent South Carolina lawyer has surrendered to face insurance fraud and other charges in what’s described as a failed plot to arrange his own death. Alex Murdaugh was issued a $20,000 bond and released Thursday on his own recognizance to return to drug rehab after
Continue Reading By PATRICK WHITTLE and ROBERT F. BUKATY Associated Press ROCKLAND, Maine (AP) — More than 90 years after starting, Maine’s oldest lobster harvester is still doing it at age 101. Virginia Oliver is the oldest lobster fisher in the state and possibly the oldest one in the world, Oliver still faithfully tends to her 200
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By Jill Martin, CNN A major sports broadcasting barrier has been broken. Lisa Byington has been hired by the defending NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks as the team’s television play-by-play announcer for games on Bally Sports Wisconsin, the Bucks announced Wednesday. The move makes Byington the first woman hired as a full-time TV play-by-play announcer for
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Dos menores, una niña de dos años y un bebé de solo tres meses de edad, fueron encontrados solos en la orilla del Río Grande cerca de Eagle Pass en Texas, informó el martes en un comunicado la Patrulla Fronteriza de Estados Unidos. Los menores son hermanos, originarios de
Continue Reading CARSON, Calif. (AP) — Javier “Chicharito” Hernández Balcázar scored his 12th goal of the season to help the LA Galaxy tie the Houston Dynamo 1-1 on Wednesday night. Chicharito pulled the Galaxy even in the 61st minute, heading home Dejan Joveljic’s entry for his fourth goal in four games. Fabrice-Jean Picault scored for Houston in
Continue Reading By SARAH RANKIN and STEVE HELBER Associated Press GRUNDY, Va. (AP) — Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin clashed over abortion and vaccination policies in Virginia’s first gubernatorial debate of the general election season. Each sought to cast the other as extreme on major issues Thursday. The race is being closely watched as a
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A 67-year-old man was injured Wednesday after he fell out of the bed of a truck.
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Kabul, Afganistán (CNN) — Para los militares de Estados Unidos, era un facilitador de ISIS-K que temían que estuviera implicado en un complot para atacar el aeropuerto internacional de Kabul. Para su familia y sus colegas de una organización estadounidense sin ánimo de lucro, Zamarai Ahmadi, de 43 años, era un trabajador humanitario
Continue Reading SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Rubio Rubín scored two goals, Albert Rusnák added a goal and two assists and Real Salt Lake beat San Jose 4-3 on Wednesday night, spoiling a hat trick by the Earthquakes’ Javier “Chofis” López. Justin Meram tied it at 3 for Real Salt Lake in the 71st minute, and Rubín
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By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN More than 18 months into the coronavirus pandemic, a number of countries have decided it’s time to open up and adopt a “living with Covid” model. Some have enviable vaccination rates; others have decided that the costs of continued economic and social restrictions outweigh the benefits. Here are five nations to
Continue Reading By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom handily survived this week’s recall election that could have removed him from office. But his Democratic allies in the Legislature already are seeking changes that could make it harder to mount such a challenge in the future. Those reforms could include raising
Continue Reading By HAU DINH Associated Press VUNG TAU, Vietnam (AP) — The AP’s Hau Dinh set off from Hanoi for the seaside resort of Vung Tau in southern Vietnam for a long weekend in mid-July. The trip came just as the delta variant of the coronavirus began sweeping through Vietnam in the pandemic’s worst wave yet,
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By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Matt Olson hit a two-run homer, Josh Harrison drove in three runs and Elvis Andrus had four hits as the Oakland Athletics held on through a nervy ninth inning to beat the Kansas City Royals 12-10 on Wednesday night. The A’s ended a three-game
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