MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin could meet with the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign policy chief in the Russian capital. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Monday that “we don’t rule out” Putin’s meeting with Wang Yi, the Chinese Communist Party’s most senior foreign policy official, who’s visiting Moscow. Peskov hailed
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By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking aim at a new health hazard: online misinformation. Under FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf the agency has begun using Instagram memes, YouTube videos and other online tools to try and debunk myths about COVID vaccines and other medical
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Aunque las autoridades han asegurado en repetidas ocasiones a los residentes que el agua y el aire de East Palestine, Ohio, son seguros tras el descarrilamiento de un tren que transportaba materiales peligrosos a principios de mes, la ansiedad se apoderó de la comunidad en medio de informes de erupciones cutáneas, náuseas
Continue ReadingBy Emily Rittman Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — An 18-year-old Tonganoxie man is charged with two counts of first-degree involuntary manslaughter following a deadly crash that killed a police officer, his K-9 partner and a pedestrian near Truman Road and Benton Boulevard on Wednesday. According to online court
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By Ben Morse, CNN Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider saved a woman’s life after he saw her choking in a restaurant, the team announced on social media. Schneider and his wife, Jess, were eating at a restaurant in Dunedin, Florida, the Blue Jays said, when he noticed a woman at a nearby table was
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By Cheri Mossburg and Dakin Andone, CNN The oldest Black church in California’s East Bay was devastated by a massive fire Sunday night that the church’s pastor said gutted its interior structure. Video showed heavy smoke and flames shooting from the roof of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Oakland, where the fire erupted
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg and Dakin Andone, CNN The oldest Black church in California’s East Bay was devastated by a massive fire Sunday night that the church’s pastor said gutted its interior structure. Video showed heavy smoke and flames shooting from the roof of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Oakland, where the fire erupted
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By Kari Barrows Click here for updates on this story YANCEY COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — A sheriff’s office in the mountains is now better equipped to handle non-emergency situations that may involve people with certain invisible disabilities. The Yancey County Sheriff’s Office announced in January that the department had partnered with KultureCity, a nonprofit
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By Sammy Mngqosini, CNN Chicago White Sox Minor League baseball player Anderson Comas announced he is “proudly and happily part of the LGTBQ+ community,” in an Instagram post on Sunday. “I’m also a human with a great soul, I’m respectful, I’m a lover, I love my family and friends and that’s what really matters, I
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By Jeffrey Lindblom Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND Oregon (KPTV) — A fire in a Portland icon started with the grill, then transformed into a plume of smoke rising from the 1940s diner roof on Sunday afternoon. Portland Fire & Rescue responded around 3:30 p.m. to Fuller’s Coffee House at 136 Northwest
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Hara Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A woman was killed when gunfire outside her apartment traveled through a window, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department. Gunfire erupted near 500 Summer Place, across the interstate from Nissan Stadium near Cayce Homes, just after 10 p.m. Sunday. When
Continue Reading By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — A cyclone which is intensifying as it approaches the southeastern African coast has been labeled as “dangerous” by the United Nation’s weather agency on Monday as nations brace for landfall. Cyclone Freddy is projected to reach Madagascar on Tuesday evening and hurtle toward Mozambique by the
Continue Reading By EVAN VUCCI, JOHN LEICESTER, AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Joe Biden swept unannounced into Ukraine on Monday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a defiant display of Western solidarity with a country still fighting what he called “a brutal and unjust war” days before the first
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By FRANCIS KOKUTSE Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — The body of Ghana soccer player Christian Atsu has been repatriated after he was found dead in his collapsed apartment building in the Turkey earthquake. Atsu’s remains arrived in the Ghanaian capital of Accra late Sunday and Ghana Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia led a government delegation
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By Sammy Mngqosini and George Ramsay, CNN Football authorities have called on social media companies and officials to take “the strongest action” after Tottenham Hotspur said forward Son Heung-min was subjected to “reprehensible” online abuse. Son scored Tottenham’s second goal in a 2-0 win against West Ham on Sunday, moving the club up to fourth
Continue Reading NEW ORLEANS (AP) — One person has died and four are in stable condition after a shooting during a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, police said Monday. The New Orleans Police Department said one suspect was taken into custody shortly after the Sunday night shooting. The department said in a statement that the victims
Continue Reading By SHARON LURYE Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The air-conditioning gave out as students returned from summer break last year to Jim Hill High School in Jackson, Mississippi, forcing them to learn in sweltering heat. By Thanksgiving, students were huddling under blankets because the heat wasn’t working. Along the way students dealt with broken
Continue Reading By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press Among Kshama Sawant’s earliest memories of the caste system was hearing her grandfather — a man she “otherwise loved very much” — utter a slur to summon their lower-caste maid. The Seattle City Council member, raised in an upper-caste Hindu Brahmin household in India, was 6 when she questioned her
Continue Reading By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one’s birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status. Its history, evolution and current state are complicated. A move to outlaw caste-based discrimination in Seattle has thrust this complex — and often misunderstood — system into the
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By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden slipped into Kyiv on Monday for the first time since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost a year ago, demonstrating in dramatic personal fashion his commitment to the country and its struggle as the war enters an uncertain new phase. The highly secretive visit — which
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