By Athena Jones, CNN Former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday he would give “due consideration” to any formal invitation to testify before the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, while hinting at potential executive privilege issues. Pence made the remarks during a Q&A after a speech here
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By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A hermit who was evicted from New Hampshire property on which he had lived for nearly three decades has found a new home in Maine. Eighty-two-year-old David Lidstone has put in windows and is working on installing a chimney on his rustic three-room cabin. He said
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Comienza el Mundial de Qatar con la participación, por primera vez, de 32 selecciones y 64 partidos que se podrán disfrutar en todos los rincones del mundo. Argentina – Francia en vivo, final del Mundial de Qatar: resultado, goles y más Las transmisiones de los partidos del Mundial de
Continue Reading By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Wartime rivals Serbia and Kosovo will hold high-level crisis talks which the European Union mediators hope will de-escalate growing tensions in the Balkans. Russia has been trying to further increase its influence in the region amid the war in Ukraine. Hopes that the rare face-to-face meeting
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CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Blackhawks have agreed to a one-year contract with Jack Johnson after the veteran defenseman helped Colorado win the Stanley Cup last season. Johnson’s contract carries a $950,000 hit to the salary cap. General manager Kyle Davidson says Johnson “provides the team with a strong veteran presence, good size and a
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Authorities in Spain say an approaching wildfire caused a train driver to stop and prepare to change directions, and several passengers were injured when they got off rather than wait. The train was traveling in the Valencia region on Tuesday night when the driver decided to reverse course because of the wildfire
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN A UK court has sentenced Queen Elizabeth II‘s stunt double to 18 months in prison after he threw his girlfriend down a staircase and shattered her shoulder. Gary Connery was convicted of grievous bodily harm without intent at Oxford Crown Court on Tuesday, a spokesman for the court told CNN on
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Artemis I mega moon rocket has arrived at the launchpad — and this time, it’s for liftoff on a journey around the moon. Engineers and technicians have been busy with checkouts and final testing of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s
Continue ReadingBy Claudia Dominguez, Ed Lavandera, Raja Razek and Caroll Alvarado, CNN The suspect in a shooting that killed a 43-year-old coach during a weekend youth football game outside Dallas turned himself in Monday, police said. Yaqub Salik Talib, 39, the brother of former NFL star and Super Bowl winner Aqib Talib, pulled out a gun
Continue ReadingBy Claudia Dominguez, Ed Lavandera, Raja Razek and Caroll Alvarado, CNN The suspect in a shooting that killed a 43-year-old coach during a weekend youth football game outside Dallas turned himself in Monday, police said. Yaqub Salik Talib, 39, the brother of former NFL star and Super Bowl winner Aqib Talib, pulled out a gun
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN As the Colorado River system spirals toward its demise, some Western water officials, lawmakers and experts had expected federal officials on Tuesday to announce an ambitious plan to cut usage and save the river basin after stakeholders failed to meet a Monday deadline to do it themselves. At the very least,
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso and Jennifer Henderson, CNN The Florida state Senate will pause its proceedings to remove state attorney Andrew Warren, who was suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis for his pledge not to prosecute certain cases, according to a letter penned by Senate President Wilton Simpson on Wednesday. The Republican governor announced he was suspending
Continue ReadingBy Hafsa Khalil, CNN When Isabella Payne heads back to elementary school in September, she’s going to have the best “what I did in my vacation” story to tell. In a tale of “right place, right time,” the 8-year-old girl from Kent in southeast England spoke with American astronaut Kjell Lindgren aboard the International Space
Continue Reading By Athena Jones, CNN Former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday he would give “due consideration” to any formal invitation to testify before the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, while hinting at potential executive privilege issues. Pence made the remarks during a Q&A after a speech here
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Charlotte FC says it will house the club’s permanent training facility and business operations headquarters in Charlotte, North, Carolina. The expansion Major League Soccer team says the site, where the team has practiced this season, will be renovated to include a privately-financed 52,000-plus square foot facility with four fields. It will
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say two sailboats carrying dozens of migrants have arrived on a southern Greek island early, with the first running aground on rocks. Nobody was reported injured or missing. The coast guard said the first sailboat, which ran aground on the southern coast of Kythera early Wednesday, was carrying 97
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business The Girl Scouts are adding a new, raspberry-flavored cookie to the lineup. The Raspberry Rally, described in a release as a “sister” cookie to the iconic Thin Mints, replaces the mint filling with a raspberry-flavored one. It’s dipped in the “same delicious chocolaty coating” as its sibling. For the first
Continue Reading By Oren Liebermann, CNN A US airstrike in Somalia over the weekend killed 13 members of the al-Shabaab terror group, US Africa Command said in a statement. The US carried out the strike on Sunday in support of the Somali military, which was under attack near Teedaan, Somalia. According to an initial assessment, no civilians
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — A cargo ship that broke down on the Rhine River caused a backup of other ships near the German town of St. Goar. The ship blocked the river until midday Wednesday, when it was towed downstream to the town of Bingen. Water police said other ships heading in the same direction would
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By Forrest Brown, CNN We can’t say that we weren’t warned. Experts told an eager public jazzed to fly again this summer that things would get chaotic in the skies — and that’s exactly how things turned out all summer long. We started out with rough Memorial Day weekend. Cancellations and stranded luggage were headlines
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