By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Christiane Amanpour still remembers her humble beginnings at CNN. Forty years ago, before she was hired by what was then a groundbreaking news startup, she was an electronics graphics operator at a local NBC affiliate, responsible for the various elements that appear on-air during broadcasts. When she arrived in
Continue Reading CNN By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Christiane Amanpour still remembers her humble beginnings at CNN. Forty years ago, before she was hired by what was then a groundbreaking news startup, she was an electronics graphics operator at a local NBC affiliate, responsible for the various elements that appear on-air during broadcasts. When she arrived
Continue ReadingBy MARÍA VERZA and MADDIE BURAKOFF Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Preventing dengue fever has long meant teaching people to fear mosquitoes and avoid their bites. Now scientists are promoting a potentially more effective way to control the disease with the help of mosquitoes. These aren’t just any insects: Mosquitoes are bred in laboratories
Continue ReadingBy SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A record of more than one in five young Chinese are out of work, their career ambitions derailed by a depressed job market as the economy struggles to regain momentum after its long bout with COVID-19. An estimated 16 million young adult Chinese, daunted by the
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press A jury has heard closing arguments in Michigan in the fourth trial connected to a plan to kidnap the governor just ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Deliberations will start Thursday. Prosecutor William Rollstin says William Null, brother Michael Null and Eric Molitor hated government and were “willing to go
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL HILL and TED SHAFFREY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Hudson River snakes through forests and rushes over boulders in the Adirondack Mountains before settling into a wide, slow flow closer to New York City. It stretches 315 miles (507 kilometers) from source to end. Lewis Pugh finished swimming all of it
Continue ReadingBy MARÍA VERZA and MADDIE BURAKOFF Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Preventing dengue fever has long meant teaching people to fear mosquitoes and avoid their bites. Now scientists are promoting a potentially more effective way to control the disease with the help of mosquitoes. These aren’t just any insects: Mosquitoes are bred in laboratories
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By Devan Cole, Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The federal judge who oversaw Peter Navarro’s criminal contempt of Congress conviction last week revisited the integrity of the jury deliberations in a rare post-trial hearing Wednesday morning, bringing a court security officer who accompanied the jurors into the courtroom to testify. Attorneys for
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — The initiation of an impeachment investigation against a president ought to be an earthshaking moment in the nation’s history. Yet when Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced the opening of such a probe into President Joe Biden Tuesday, it felt like more of an inevitable consequence of America’s
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — At a closed-door Senate forum, tech leaders loosely endorsed the regulation of artificial intelligence. The guest list at Wednesday’s hearing featured some of the industry’s biggest names, including Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and X’s and Tesla’s Elon Musk. Musk said after leaving the meeting that
Continue ReadingBy Sabrina Souza and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Two Virginia detectives thought they might be closing in on a suspect in a decades-old cold case killing. Then they got a phone call. “I want to talk, and I want to talk right now,” the person on the line said, according to Fairfax County Police
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — Cancer experts have made two calls for action from US lawmakers this year: fix the ongoing cancer drug shortage, and increase funding for cancer research. The American Association for Cancer Research, in its annual cancer progress report released Wednesday, highlighted the recent improvements that the United States has made
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The prospect of an autoworkers strike could test Joe Biden’s treasured assertion he’s the most pro-union president in U.S. history. A work stoppage targeting General Motors, Ford and Stellantis has the potential to reshape the political landscape in battleground Michigan. And a strike
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation jumped last month largely because of a spike in gas prices but other costs rose more slowly, suggesting price pressures are easing at a gradual pace. In a set of conflicting data released Wednesday, the Labor Department said the consumer price index rose 3.7% in
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — When Lariba was growing up in James Town — a coastal neighborhood in Accra, Ghana — they never felt criticized for living the life they wanted to live, they said, even as an LGBTQ person. Of course, there were certain areas in Accra they couldn’t go, like some religious
Continue Reading CNN By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — The White House plans to send a letter to top US news executives on Wednesday, urging them to intensify their scrutiny of House Republicans after Speaker Kevin McCarthy launched an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, despite having found no evidence of a crime. “It’s time for the
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state will intervene in an ongoing court case blocking San Francisco from cleaning homelessness encampments. Newsom says the judge has gone too far and is preventing California from solving a critical problem. He says he hopes the case goes all
Continue Reading By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — The White House sent a letter to top US news executives on Wednesday, urging them to intensify their scrutiny of House Republicans after Speaker Kevin McCarthy launched an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, despite having found no evidence of a crime. “It’s time for the media to ramp
Continue ReadingSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern seas. The launch Wednesday came as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was traveling in Russia for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile, there are international concerns about a potential arms deal that
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By Wayne Sterling, CNN (CNN) — Former NFL wide receiver Mike Williams died Tuesday morning after he was taken off life support at a Tampa, Florida, hospital following a construction accident, his agent Hadley Engelhard told CNN. Williams was 36. Williams was performing electrical work when he was severely injured and required hospitalization, according to
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