LAS VEGAS (AP) — Warren Washington scored 15 points and grabbed nine rebounds and Arizona State slugged out a 63-57 win over Oregon State in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament. Washington’s jump shot with 12:47 left broke a 36-all tie and started a 10-0 Sun Devils run and they rode that spurt to
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By EDNA TARIGAN and VICTORIA MILKO Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Jakarta is congested, polluted, prone to earthquakes and rapidly sinking into the Java Sea. Now the government is in the process of leaving, moving Indonesia’s capital to the island of Borneo. Indonesian officials say the new metropolis will be a “sustainable forest city”
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Nick Remsen, CNN With her second runway show at Paris Fashion Week behind her, Victoria Beckham appears to be ushering in an exciting new era for her eponymous label, nearly 15 years since it launched. “I’ve been doing fashion longer than I did music,” Beckham said, introspectively, over a phone call from London just days
Continue Reading VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — J.T. Miller scored his second goal of the game 20 seconds into overtime to give the Vancouver Canucks a 3-2 win over the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday night. Miller beat goalie Lukas Dostal with a high wrist shot. Miller also scored short-handed in the first period, Andrei Kuzmenko added a
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By Mayumi Maruyama and Juliana Liu, CNN Police in central Japan have arrested three people for taking part in pranks at a sushi conveyor belt restaurant. The acts, which appear to be becoming more commonplace, have been dubbed online as “#sushitero” or “#sushiterrorism” and have affected the financial fortunes of the country’s famous rotating kaiten-style
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By Josh Campbell, David Shortell, Fidel Gutierrez, Karol Suarez and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN The cartel believed responsible for the armed kidnapping last week that killed two American tourists and a Mexican woman in Matamoros, Mexico, issued an apology letter and handed over five of their members to local authorities, according to images circulating online and
Continue Reading TOKYO (AP) — Robbie Perkins hit one of Australia’s three homers to beat South Korea 8-7 on Thursday in Group B at the Tokyo Dome. It was both team’s first game in the group. In Taiwan in Group A, the Netherlands defeated Panama 3-1. It was the Netherlands second win in two days after beating
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By Rhea Mogul, Sophie Tanno, Niamh Kennedy and Hannah Ritchie, CNN Georgia‘s ruling party has withdrawn a controversial “foreign influence” bill after two nights of protests in Tbilisi, but the opposition warned that more demonstrations were planned on Thursday. The announcement that the bill would be scrapped, carried by the country’s public broadcaster, was made
Continue Reading BOISE, Idaho (AP) — RaeQuan Battle scored 25 points and Montana State beat Northern Arizona 85-78 to clinch its second consecutive Big Sky Conference title and an automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA Tournament. Jalen Cone converted a three-point play to cap a 12-6 spurt and pull the Lumberjacks within five points — as close
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By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Tens of thousands of liters of oil that’s spilling from a sunken tanker off the coast of the Philippines has coated pristine beaches and diving spots in an island province, sickening dozens of residents and threatening its tourist industry and rich marine biodiversity, officials said. The MT Princess Empress sank off
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three Los Angeles police officers were shot and wounded Wednesday evening in a confrontation with a wanted parolee who was found dead hours later after a standoff, police said. The three officers, all senior officers and members of an Los Angeles Police Department’s K-9 dog-handling unit, were hospitalized in stable condition
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By Jennifer Gray, CNN Meteorologist An atmospheric river is a plume of moisture that helps carry saturated air from the tropics to higher latitudes, delivering unrelenting rain or snow. Think of it as a fire hose that aims at — then drenches — a particular region. Typically 250 to 375 miles wide, atmospheric rivers can
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Umoja Gibson made three free throws with 3.9 seconds left and Nick Ongenda blocked a layup at the buzzer to give DePaul a 66-65 win over Seton Hall on Wednesday in the first round of the Big East Tournament. The 10-seed Blue Demons will face second-seeded Xavier in Thursday’s semifinals. After
Continue Reading By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Peterson Zah, who guided one of the largest Native American tribes in the U.S. through a politically tumultuous time, has died. Navajo Nation officials say Zah died late Tuesday at a hospital in Fort Defiance, Arizona, following a lengthy illness. He was 85. Zah served as
Continue Reading By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With the government at risk of defaulting, President Joe Biden on Thursday will make his opening offer in a high-stakes debate over federal finances as he proposes a federal budget that would cut deficits by nearly $3 trillion over the next decade. It’s part of a broader
Continue Reading By STEPHEN GROVES and JOSH FUNK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chief executive of one of the nation’s largest railroads is coming to a Senate hearing with an apology and a commitment to send millions of dollars to the village on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border disrupted by a fiery derailment as senators investigate railway safety
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo Big Pine, California (CNN) — Un anciano sobrevivió con croissants, dulces y galletas mientras estuvo atrapado, casi una semana, en su automóvil por un banco de nieve en una carretera desolada de California. Jerry Jouret, de 81 años, salió de su casa en la montaña en Big Pine, California, el 24 de febrero
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — Chaim Topol, a leading Israeli actor who charmed generations of theatergoers and movie-watchers with his portrayal of Tevye, the long-suffering and charismatic milkman in “Fiddler on the Roof,” has died in Tel Aviv, Israeli leaders said Thursday. He was 87. The cause was not immediately released. Israeli leaders on Thursday tweeted their
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials have informed members of the House and Senate and their staffs that hackers may have gained access to their sensitive personal data in a breach of a Washington, D.C., health insurance marketplace. Employees of the lawmakers and their families were also affected. DC Health Link confirmed Wednesday that data on an
Continue Reading By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell was hospitalized after tripping at a local hotel, a spokesman for the senator said. The Kentucky senator, who’s 81, was attending a private dinner in Washington on Wednesday when he tripped. He was admitted to a hospital for
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