By Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — September started with a typhoon that ripped through Hong Kong, uprooting trees and flooding the city. It was the first of a slew of extreme weather events that have hit ten countries and territories in just 12 days – the most catastrophic being the floods in Libya,
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Un avión que transportaba turistas se estrelló este sábado en Barcelos, Brasil, dejando 14 personas muertas, según CNN Brasil. El alcalde de la ciudad confirmó el accidente a CNN Brasil. En el avión viajaban 12 turistas, además de un piloto y un copiloto, informa CNN Brasil. No hay supervivientes,
Continue ReadingRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian authorities say a small passenger plane has crashed in the Amazon rainforest, killing all 14 people on board. The Amazonas state governor says on social media that the plane went down Saturday with two crew members and 12 passengers. Local media say the PT-SOG aircraft had taken off from
Continue Reading By Heather Chen, Sahar Akbarzai and Duarte Mendonca, CNN (CNN) — A plane carrying tourists has crashed in Barcelos, Brazil, leaving 14 people dead, according to CNN Brasil. The city’s mayor confirmed the accident to CNN Brasil on Saturday. The plane was carrying 12 tourists, plus a pilot and co-pilot, CNN Brasil reports. There are
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — An armed man accused of impersonating a federal officer was taken into custody outside a Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaign event in Los Angeles. A Los Angeles Police Department statement said police received a call Friday afternoon that a man with a loaded gun and holster and wearing a U.S. Marshals
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CNN By Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — Now a post-tropical cyclone, Lee made landfall on the far western tip of Nova Scotia on Saturday afternoon as it churned 65 mph sustained winds to parts of southeastern New England and Atlantic Canada, according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm made landfall on Long Island in
Continue ReadingST. LOUIS (AP) — Former Philadelphia Phillies manager Charlie Manuel has suffered a stroke while undergoing a medical procedure in a Florida hospital. The team said Sunday that Manuel “has made progress over the past 12 hours, and his doctors are encouraged.” The 79-year-old Manuel had a blood clot removed Saturday. Manuel managed the Phillies
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jann Wenner, who co-founded Rolling Stone magazine and also was a co-founder of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has been removed from the hall’s board of directors after making disparaging comments toward Black and female musicians. He apologized within hours. “Jann Wenner has
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — La Patrulla Fronteriza de Estados Unidos separó a algunos niños migrantes de sus padres mientras las familias estaban bajo custodia en medio del hacinamiento en las instalaciones, según un expediente judicial del viernes. El documento, que forma parte de un caso judicial de años de duración, subraya los desafÃos
Continue ReadingLAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A family member of a slain Black 14-year-old is calling for a white Kansas teen to be tried on federal hate crime charges in the shooting death. The Lawrence Journal-World reports Kamarjay Shaw’s cousin, Michael Berry, called for federal involvement in a letter to the U.S. attorney for Kansas. Derrick Del
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By Veronica Stracqualursi, Ebony Davis and Kit Maher, CNN Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) — With roughly four months until the Iowa caucuses, Republican presidential hopefuls spent Saturday courting the state’s conservative evangelical activists, an influential voting bloc in the Hawkeye State. Nearly all the major GOP candidates spoke at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition’s
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — On one cold November morning in 1864, more than 200 Cheyenne and Arapaho tribal members, mostly women and children, were murdered in one of the worst massacres in American history. For 128 years, the man historians say authorized the massacre had a mountain – which was located on Indigenous
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A man has been accused of entering a campaign event for Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Los Angeles on Friday with a loaded weapon and impersonating federal enforcement. The Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement Saturday they were called Friday afternoon to the campaign
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The union representing striking auto workers is describing its latest talks with Ford as reasonably productive. The United Auto Workers’ statement came Saturday as its limited strike against the Big 3 automakers carried into a second day. Stellantis also gave details about its most recent offer to workers. It raised its
Continue ReadingBy Caroll Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — A police officer in Colorado who placed a handcuffed suspect into a police SUV that was then hit by a train, was sentenced to supervised probation and public service, her attorney said. Fort Lupton officer Jordan Steinke will serve 30 months of supervised probation and 100 hours of public
Continue ReadingBy ELÉONORE HUGHES Associate Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has met with his Cuban counterpart in Havana. The meeting signals a revitalization of ties between the two countries in the first trip by a Brazilian president to the Caribbean nation in nine years. Lula was in Havana
Continue ReadingBy JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Minnesota manager Rocco Baldelli spends most of his life around a bunch of Twins. His future is going to be a little different. Baldelli went on paternity leave after Saturday’s 7-6 loss to the Chicago White Sox. His wife, Allie, is expecting twin boys in the
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — El presidente electo de Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, anunció que el 18 de septiembre presentará un amparo ante la Corte Suprema de Justicia para exigir “que se reestablezca el orden constitucional”, asà como el despido de la fiscal general, Consuelo Porras, y otros dos importantes funcionarios del gobierno guatemalteco.
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The state of California filed a lawsuit against some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, claiming they deceived the public about the risks of fossil fuels now faulted for climate change-related storms and wildfires that caused billions of dollars in damage, officials said
Continue ReadingBy Caroll Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — The state of California is suing the oil companies BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and ConocoPhillips and their trade group, the American Petroleum Institute, over what the state says is a long-standing pattern of deceiving the public over the risks associated with fossil fuels and causing billions of dollars in
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