By Casey Barber, CNN (CNN) — Sign up for CNN’s Eat, But Better: Mediterranean Style. Our eight-part guide shows you a delicious expert-backed eating lifestyle that will boost your health for life. The adage of only eating oysters in months that end in R no longer holds true as advances in aquaculture have made farmed shellfish
Continue ReadingJERICHO, West Bank (AP) — A U.N. committee has voted to list prehistoric ruins near the ancient West Bank city of Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine. The decision Sunday angered Israel, which controls the territory and does not recognize a Palestinian state. Jericho is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities on
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has begun enforcing an entry ban on all Russian-registered passenger cars seeking to enter the country. The move comes just days after the nearby Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia banned vehicles with Russian license plates from entering their territory. The countries are acting
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Un ayudante del sheriff del condado de Los Ángeles murió después de que le dispararan dentro de su patrulla este sábado por la noche, dijeron las autoridades. El agente Ryan Clinkunbroomer, de 30 años, fue encontrado inconsciente por un civil en su patrulla alrededor de las 6 p.m. hora local frente
Continue ReadingBy Annette Choi and Krystina Shveda, CNN (CNN) — Cities across the US, particularly those in California where wildfires are common, are often exposed to lower air quality due to a mix of urban pollution and weather effects. But even some rural areas of the country known for their pristine air reached dangerous pollution levels
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By Rob Hodgetts, CNN (CNN) — From the litany of bad headlines surrounding the world of travel, you could be forgiven thinking it’s been the summer from hell for vacationers. Environmental disasters, aviation industry mishaps and strikes, dirty beaches, soaring temperatures, deluges, price hikes and overcrowding all seem to have conspired to ruin getaways for
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — El ciclón postropical Lee está provocando fuertes lluvias, vientos destructivos e inundaciones costeras en Canadá y Maine, dejando sin electricidad a decenas de miles de personas, azotando las costas con grandes olas y provocando llamados a permanecer en casa. Lee, que alguna vez fue un poderoso huracán, está agitando vientos máximos
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — During the final days of 1936, about 50 autoworkers at General Motors shut down their machines at Fisher Body Plant No. 2 in Flint, Michigan, and sat down. The workers, members of the tiny United Automobile Workers union founded just a year prior, sought to improve brutal
Continue ReadingBy Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — The numbers on an Maryland woman’s license plate led her to win a $50,000 lottery prize from a $1 ticket. The 50-year-old Baltimore woman, who hasn’t been publicly identified, was assigned the lucky license plate with her new car a few years ago. She initially didn’t like the numbers
Continue ReadingBy Josh Campbell, Nouran Salahieh and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Authorities will be offering a $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who shot and killed a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy as he sat inside his patrol car, they announced Sunday. Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer,
Continue ReadingBy PAUL J. WEBER and JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Newly acquitted of impeachment charges, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is back on the job and getting back to the usual. Promises to keep dragging the Biden administration into court. Support from former President Donald Trump. And coming soon, a sit-down
Continue ReadingBy FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Barely a week after being elected as a local councilor for Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, Womberaiishe Nhende and a relative were pulled out of their car by unidentified men, shot with a stun gun and handcuffed. They were then bundled into a pickup truck and driven
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president said the international community “will unite more tightly” to cope with deepening military cooperation between Russia and North Korea, as he plans to raise the issue with world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly this week. Worries about Russian-North Korean ties have
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — La fuga del asesino convicto Danilo Cavalcante y la persecución de casi dos semanas que condujo a su captura pusieron a las autoridades de Pensilvania en el punto de mira. Desde la forma en que Cavalcante subió como un cangrejo por los muros de la prisión hasta la libertad, pasando por
Continue ReadingBy HAZEM TURKIA and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Zahra el-Gerbi wasn’t expecting much of a response to her online fundraiser, but she felt she had to do something after four of her relatives died in the flooding that decimated the eastern Libyan city of Derna. She put out a call for
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A long stretch of hot, dry weather has left the Mississippi River so low that barge companies are reducing their loads just as Midwest farmers are preparing to harvest crops and send tons of corn and soybeans downriver to the Gulf of Mexico. The transport
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A long stretch of hot, dry weather has left the Mississippi River so low that barge companies are reducing their loads just as Midwest farmers are preparing to harvest crops and send tons of corn and soybeans downriver to the Gulf of Mexico. The transport
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT F. BUKATY and DAVID SHARP Associated Press BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — Atlantic storm Lee — which made landfall at near-hurricane strength, bringing destructive winds and torrential rains to New England and Maritime Canada — kept weakening Sunday after officials withdrew warnings and predicted the storm would disappear early this week. The U.S.
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CNN By Heather Law, Nechirvan Mando, Heather Chen, Sahar Akbarzai and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Protests erupted throughout Iran on Saturday to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old women who died in the custody of Iran’s morality police after being arrested for allegedly not wearing her headscarf properly.
Continue Reading By Heather Law, Nechirvan Mando, Heather Chen, Sahar Akbarzai and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Protests erupted throughout Iran on Saturday to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old women who died in the custody of Iran’s morality police after being arrested for allegedly not wearing her headscarf properly. Video
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