By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The White House on Thursday released an ambitious national cybersecurity strategy that calls for new federal regulation of vulnerable critical infrastructure firms and for software makers to be held liable when their products leave gaping holes for hackers to exploit. The strategy — shaped by major hacking incidents that threatened key
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By MAE ANDERSON and TED SHAFFREY The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Shoeshines are losing some luster. Once a common practice, the tradition of getting a quick polish from a rag-toting shoeshiner has become more of a rarity, and many stands have disappeared across the country. The decline has been exacerbated by the pandemic,
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By Tina Burnside, Nick Valencia, Holly Yan and Isabel Rosales, CNN University of Georgia football standout Jalen Carter surrendered to police in Athens, Georgia, Wednesday night on charges related to a crash that killed his teammate and a team staffer hours after they celebrated the Bulldogs’ national championship victory. Carter — who has been projected
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By Amanda Davies and Alasdair Howorth, CNN More than 20 years after his Formula One debut, Fernando Alonso is as hungry as ever ahead of the start of the 2023 season, which gets underway on Friday at the Bahrain Grand Prix. That desire for success led him to make the seismic decision last year to
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By George Ramsay, CNN Fernando Alonso won the 100th podium of his Formula One career at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix on Sunday, but the result was only confirmed hours after the end of the race when officials reversed a 10-second penalty. The Spaniard was initially handed a five-second penalty for lining up outside his
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By Tara Subramaniam, CNN Japan has recounted its islands — and discovered it has 7,000 more than it previously thought. Digital mapping by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) recently found there to be 14,125 islands in Japanese territory, more than double the figure of 6,852 that has been in official use since a
Continue Reading COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, whose half-century reign makes her Europe’s longest-serving monarch, has been discharged from a Copenhagen hospital. The palace said Thursday that she had undergone a successful back operation last week. The 82-year-old monarch is now facing “a lengthy physical rehabilitation process” which may last several months. On Feb.
Continue Reading COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The famed statue of Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid, one of Copenhagen’s biggest tourist draws, has been vandalized, with the colors of the Russian flag painted on the rock on which she sits. It is not known when the vandalism took place. The rock was painted in stripes of white, blue
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La Corte de Apelaciones del Noveno Circuito de EE.UU. está investigando una acusación de mala conducta contra un juez federal que le llamó la atención a una niña de 13 años que estaba en la galería de espectadores de la audiencia de revocación de libertad supervisada de su padre y
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SAKHIR, Bahrain (AP) — Lance Stroll is set to drive for Aston Martin at the Bahrain Grand Prix this week after missing preseason testing due to a wrist injury. Reserve driver Felipe Drugovich replaced Stroll as the teammate to Fernando Alonso in testing but Aston Martin says Stroll is back. Stroll says he had minor
Continue Reading CAIRO (AP) — Egypt has announced it is raising the price of some types of gasoline, the latest hike to beset the cash-strapped North African country. Egypt’s petroleum ministry said the price of three octanes of gasoline rose from between 0.75 to 1 Egyptian pound per liter. The hike was introduced Thursday morning, it said.
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Several people have been injured in turbulence during a flight from Frankfurt to Mauritius. The German news agency dpa reported that around 20 passengers and crew members on board a Condor flight were injured Thursday when the plane hit turbulence about two hours before landing. An airline spokesperson told dpa those who
Continue Reading By COSTAS KANTOURIS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Rescuers using cranes and heavy machinery on Thursday searched the wreckage of trains involved in a deadly collision that sent Greece into national mourning and prompted strikes and protests over rail safety. The death toll from Wednesday’s head-on crash involving a passenger train
Continue Reading By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has urged the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to speak up and hold Myanmar’s military leaders accountable for blatant human rights violations, but says the country should remain in the regional bloc. Anwar, who took office in November, has become one
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Scientists are puzzling over a strange feeding technique that they think whales recently began using: The creatures swim to the surface of the ocean, open their mouths into a gaping yawn with their upper jaw sitting just below the water’s surface, and wait for hoards of fish to swim in. The
Continue Reading By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer NEW DELHI (AP) — Top diplomats from the world’s major industrialized and developing nations grappled Thursday with deepening rifts in their ranks as they held contentious talks dominated by Russia’s war in Ukraine and China’s moves to boost its global influence. Host India appealed for all members of the
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un vuelo de Lufthansa que viajaba de Texas a Alemania fue desviado a Virginia al Aeropuerto Internacional Washington Dulles este miércoles por la noche debido a una turbulencia severa que dejó a algunos pasajeros heridos, dijo un portavoz del aeropuerto. El vuelo 469 de Lufthansa, que despegó de Austin, experimentó
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By Tara Subramaniam, CNN Japan has recounted its islands — and discovered it has 7,000 more than it previously thought. Digital mapping by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) recently found there to be 14,125 islands in Japanese territory, more than double the figure of 6,852 that has been in official use since a
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — SpaceX y la NASA lanzaron una nueva tripulación de astronautas en una misión a la Estación Espacial Internacional, iniciando una estadía de aproximadamente seis meses en el espacio. La misión, que transporta a dos astronautas de la NASA, un cosmonauta ruso y un astronauta de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, despegó del
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By Pete Muntean, Holly Yan and Christina Maxouris, CNN A federal agency has issued a new advisory urging major freight rail companies “to take immediate safety measures to look at the performance of the protective coverings over the pressure relief valves,” a spokesperson for the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration said Thursday. The advisory,
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