By Barbara Starr, Oren Liebermann and Jeremy Herb, CNN With continued worry that Russia’s bloody invasion of Ukraine could spill over into neighboring countries, the Pentagon is putting in place the military infrastructure needed to help run a war in Europe and meet President Joe Biden’s pledge to defend “every inch” of NATO territory, according
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By Katie Lobosco, CNN The Department of Education said Wednesday that it has so far identified 100,000 borrowers who are eligible for student debt cancellation due to the changes the agency made to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program in October. The cancellations for those people are expected to total about $6.2 billion in federal
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By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is signing an executive order on government oversight of cryptocurrency that urges the Federal Reserve to explore whether the central bank should create its own digital currency. The Biden administration sees the explosive popularity of cryptocurrency as a call for acting with urgency to
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says the number of new coronavirus cases and deaths globally have continued to fall in the past week. Only the Western Pacific is reporting an increase in COVID-19. The U.N. health agency issued its latest report on the pandemic on Wednesday. WHO said new COVID-19 infections dropped by
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By Reuters Norway’s Yara, one of the world’s largest fertilizer makers, is curtailing its ammonia and urea output in Italy and France due to the surge in natural gas prices, it said on Wednesday, in another sign of rising costs for food production. The price of natural gas, which is used in the fertilizer manufacturing
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — El futuro político inmediato de Estados Unidos girará en torno a este punto crítico: si los conductores molestos por los precios récord de la gasolina culparán al presidente ruso Vladimir Putin o al presidente estadounidense Joe Biden. Un aumento asombroso en el elevado costo de cargar gasolina desde que Rusia invadió Ucrania
Continue Reading By JUSTIN SPIKE and RENATA BRITO Associated Press ZAHONY, Hungary (AP) — Annamaria Maslovska left her friends, her toys and her life in Ukraine and set off on a days-long journey with her mother toward safety in the West. They left after bombs started falling in their hometown of Kharkiv. The 10-year-old is one of
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN More than a century after it sank off the coast of Antarctica, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship HMS Endurance has been located, apparently intact and in good condition. The ship, which sank in 1915, is 3,008 meters (1.9 miles or 9,842 feet) deep in the Weddell Sea, a pocket in the
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By Kevin Liptak, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris is jetting to Europe Wednesday for a trip that became more complicated after one of her hosts — Poland — caught the United States by surprise with a proposal to provide its Soviet-era fighter jets to Ukraine. What seemed like a straightforward mission turned more fraught when
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By Kevin Liptak, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris is jetting to Europe Wednesday for a trip that became more complicated after one of her hosts — Poland — caught the United States by surprise with a proposal to provide its Soviet-era fighter jets to Ukraine. The Polish government announced Tuesday that it was putting its
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By Lauren del Valle, CNN Four men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 are heading to trial with opening statements beginning Wednesday. Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta face federal charges of conspiring to kidnap the Democratic governor. Fox, Croft and Harris face additional charges of conspiring
Continue Reading By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s government says it’s suspending the country’s coronavirus vaccination mandate for most adults. Authorities argue that there’s no need to implement it at present only a week before its enforcement was due to begin. The mandate for people age 18 and over became law in early February
Continue Readingolivertapia Nueva York (CNN Business) — El precio promedio de la gasolina en Estados Unidos ahora se ubica en un récord de US$ 4,17 por galón. Pero todavía se puede encontrar gasolina por menos de US$4 el galón en decenas de miles de estaciones de servicio en gran parte del país. Los datos muestran que
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WEDNESDAY Things are staying fairly settled this afternoon. We’ll wake up to some sunshine but clouds look to make a return later today. Highs will top out in the mid to upper 40’s this afternoon. TONIGHT With those clouds acting like a blanket tonight, overnight lows will only fall to about 30. EXTENDED But that’s
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN Español) — Con 76 votos a favor, 41 en contra y una abstención, el Congreso de Perú aprobó este lunes que se admita a debate la moción de vacancia presentada contra el presidente Pedro Castillo bajo el argumento de “permanente incapacidad moral”. Durante los poco más de siete meses que el mandatario lleva
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By Katia Hetter, CNN As Covid-19 cases continue to fall and state and local governments lift remaining pandemic restrictions, many offices are asking employees to return to in-person work. We know that 60% of workers with jobs that can be done from home say they’d like to work from home most or all of the
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The sun is getting more active — and two solar missions are perfectly poised to capture the stellar show. The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint mission between NASA and the European Space Agency, is gearing up for its closest approach to the sun so far on March 26. The journey has
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By Andy Rose, CNN A Nebraska man pleaded guilty to first-degree murder Monday in the 2020 shooting deaths of two employees at a Sonic Drive-In, prosecutors said. Roberto Silva Jr. also pleaded guilty to arson, the Sarpy County Attorney’s Office said in a news release Tuesday. Police had said Silva set a rental truck on
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By Travis Caldwell, CNN Brittney Griner, the star basketball player detained in Russia over alleged drug charges, has become the latest of several Americans who have yet to secure their freedom from a country increasingly isolated from the rest of the world. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine brought forth global condemnation from governments and peoples alike,
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