By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has decided to give women the right to vote at an upcoming meeting of bishops. It is an unprecedented change that reflects Francis’ hopes to give women greater decision-making responsibilities and laypeople more say in the life of the Catholic Church. Francis approved changes
Continue Reading By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s foreign minister says the new government led by a communist prime minister will give priority to enhancing relations with both of its giant neighbors, India and China, but won’t use them against each other for its own benefit. Foreign Minister Narayan Prakash Saud said in
Continue Reading By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy is pushing pushed ahead with plans for a swift vote on his sweeping debt ceiling package. The White House calls the Republican proposal extreme and President Joe Biden has threatened to veto it. But voting could come later Wednesday. Republicans have
Continue Reading By KATIA IERVASI of NerdWallet The “infinite banking” movement is trending on TikTok as a way to create wealth. It sounds simple: Use your cash value life insurance policy to take out low-interest loans and finance large purchases like college tuition and home renovations. But this strategy is best suited to individuals with high net
Continue Reading By AAMER MADHANI, COLLEEN LONG, and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidents Joe Biden and Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday will sign an agreement that includes plans to have U.S. nuclear-armed submarines dock in South Korea for the first time in more than 40 years, a conspicuous show of support to Seoul amid
Continue Reading By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The remains of a U.S. Army corporal killed during the Korean War and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor have been identified 73 years after he was declared missing, President Joe Biden said Wednesday during a welcome ceremony at the White House for South Korea’s president. Luther
Continue Reading By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Sexual abuse in the nation’s federal prisons must be rooted out. That’s the message the Justice Department’s second-highest-ranking leader carried to prison wardens gathered for their first nationwide training since revelations that a toxic, permissive culture at a California prison allowed abuse
Continue ReadingThroughout an acclaimed career spanning more than six decades, entertainer Harry Belafonte leveraged his passion and talents to champion the arts, spotlight humanitarian issues and advance justice. Born in 1927 Harlem, he moved to his mother’s native island, Jamaica. There, he embraced Caribbean culture and witnessed the impact of British colonization on the island. In
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN An accused MS-13 gang member has been arrested in Holiday, Florida, and charged in what the sheriff described as a “demonic” murder of an Uber Eats delivery driver whose remains were found dismembered at the suspect’s home last week, according to investigators. Oscar Solis, 30, a resident of
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a phone call that his government will send an envoy to Ukraine and other nations to discuss a possible “political settlement” to Russia’s war with the country. A government statement gave no indication whether the envoy also would visit Russia. A
Continue Reading ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani military says an army operation in the northwest targeting militants triggered a firefight that left two soldiers and two insurgents dead. The firefight happened Wednesday in Tirah, a former militant stronghold in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, the military said in a statement. It provided no details about the slain
Continue Reading LONDON British regulators have blocked Microsoft’s $69 billion deal to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard over worries that it would stifle competition in the cloud gaming market. The Competition and Markets Authority said in its final report Wednesday that “the only effective remedy” to the significant loss of competition that the deal would result
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he could be handed a life sentence on a set of new extremism and terrorism charges that he has described as a Kremlin-ordered political vendetta. Navalny exposed official corruption and organized massive anti-Kremlin protests in Russia, and survived a nerve-agent poisoning that he blamed on
Continue Reading By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer PERUIBE, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s Indigenous women often lead their villages and groups but for many years they were looked down on when they tried to play soccer. The South American nation has improved its structure for female players recently and Indigenous women say they also feel encouraged to
Continue ReadingBy Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Darren Williams, a teacher at McLain High School of Science and Technology in Tulsa, Oklahoma, pointed a wooden ruler at one of four questions in red on the dry-erase board in his classroom. “Question number three, somebody read it,” he said. “What is the Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Continue Reading By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidents Joe Biden and Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday will sign an agreement that includes plans to have U.S. nuclear-armed submarines dock in South Korea for the first time in more than 40 years, a conspicuous show of support to Seoul amid growing concern
Continue Reading KYIV Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is using the 37th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster to repeat his warnings about the potential threat of a new atomic catastrophe in Ukraine amid his country’s war with Russia. Zelenskyy drew a parallel between the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on April 26, 1986 to Moscow’s brief seizure of
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Gummies sold for sleep may have significantly more melatonin or CBD than what is actually listed on the product’s label, a new study finds. Researchers are calling on the FDA to investigate the alarming number of improperly labeled supplements on store shelves, as some companies skirt laws to boost sales. Here’s
Continue Reading By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AP Education Writer DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — Every decision Assata Salim makes for her young son is important. Amid a spike in mass killings, questions of safety were at the top of her mind when choosing a school. Next on her checklist was the school’s culture. Salim and her 6-year-old, Cho’Zen Waters,
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh, Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN The United States suffered more casualties from “active shooter” incidents in 2022 than it did in the four years prior, according to an FBI report released Wednesday. The report tallied 50 active shooter incidents in 2022 that left 313 casualties, including 100 people killed, not including
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