By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House will seek another $4 billion to address natural disasters as part of its supplemental funding request, bringing the total to $16 billion. The request is a sign wildfires, flooding and hurricanes intensifying during a period of climate change are imposing higher costs on U.S.
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A top glacier watcher has warned that a warm early summer and a heat wave last week could have caused severe glacier melt across Switzerland, threatening to make 2023 the second-worst year for ice loss after a record thaw last year. Matthias Huss of the GLAMOS glacier
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By Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — World No.1 Carlos Alcaraz beat Lloyd Harris in the US Open second round to progress to round three at Flushing Meadows. Alcaraz beat his opponent in straight sets, winning 6-3 6-1 7-6 (7-4) in two hours and 28 minutes for essentially his first victory of the championship after his
Continue ReadingRABAT, Morocco (AP) — Moroccan media reports say Algerian forces killed two men and detained a third after they strayed across Morocco’s maritime border with Algeria on water scooters. The French government says one of the victims was French, as was the detained man. The border has long been closed because of tensions between the
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By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is asking Congress for an additional $4 billion to replenish the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Disaster Relief Fund, pointing to what it says is a particularly brutal stretch of natural disasters across the nation. Friday’s request – which is in addition to one made last month
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv Idalia pudo ser un desastre mayor. Así fue la extraordinaria recuperación del oso pardo en España. Así quedaron los grupos de la Champions League. Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad. 1. Los otros escándalos de Luis Rubiales Luis Rubiales se encuentra envuelto en uno de los
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Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s king has reduced former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s eight-year prison term to a single year following the divisive politician’s return from 15 years of self-imposed exile. Thai media, citing Justice Ministry sources, said Thaksin can apply for parole after serving one-third of his sentence, or four
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian health officials say that the Israeli military has raided a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank, besieging an apartment and sparking a gunfight with local militants that killed an apparently uninvolved Palestinian teacher. It is the latest in a series of Israeli army raids in
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By Tim Lister, Anna Chernova and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — A Russian military blogger who has written critically of Russia’s conduct in Ukraine was arrested in Moscow Thursday, according to state news agency RIA Novosti. The blogger, Andrey Kurshin, runs the Moscow Calling Telegram channel, which has some 87,000 subscribers. “A criminal case was
Continue Reading By Wayne Chang and Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — A self-made, septuagenarian billionaire with limited political experience has thrown his hat into one of the most consequential presidential elections of 2024, shaking up a race that could have huge ramifications far beyond its borders. Terry Gou, the founder of the world’s largest iPhone maker Foxconn,
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By Feride Yalav-Heckeroth, CNN (CNN) — With untouched and natural rugged scenery, forested with pristine bays on both sides, the Datça peninsula feels a world away from the touristy towns of this popular corner of the Med. The long and narrow headland, stretching between the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas in southwestern Turkey, is mostly uninhabited
Continue Reading By Aimee Lewis, CNN (CNN) — Two-time Women’s World Cup winner Julie Ertz, one of the greats of US soccer, has announced her retirement from the sport. Ertz, 31, was an integral member of the US teams which won the Women’s World Cup in 2015 and 2019. She represented the US National Women’s Team (USWNT)
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A 98-year-old man has been charged in Germany with being an accessory to murder as a guard at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1945, prosecutors said Friday. The German citizen, a resident of Main-Kinzig county near Frankfurt, is accused of having “supported the cruel and malicious killing of thousands
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Residents were not on board with the idea of building a recycling drop-off center on Oakland Gravel Road during an August public input meeting, so the city is looking at other options.
Continue Reading By David Close, CNN (CNN) — Pro Football Hall of Famer Gil Brandt, widely regarded as the architect who helped build the Dallas Cowboys into one of the most successful and popular sports franchises of all time, died on Thursday, according to the Cowboys. Brandt was 91. “Gil was at the very core of the
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CNN By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Soon after he became chief justice of the United States, John Roberts faced what he believed was a “crisis” involving the judiciary: Federal judges were underpaid. What Roberts did next to address the situation stands in stark contrast to the way he has tiptoed
Continue Reading By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Soon after he became chief justice of the United States, John Roberts faced what he believed was a “crisis” involving the judiciary: Federal judges were underpaid. What Roberts did next to address the situation stands in stark contrast to the way he has tiptoed through
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By Radina Gigova and Katharina Krebs, CNN (CNN) — This summer’s blockbuster “Barbie” has made it to Russia despite not being officially released there due to the war in Ukraine, and it seems Barbiemania has infatuated many Russians even as the movie draws condemnation from officials. “Barbie” distributor Warner Bros., which is owned by CNN’s
Continue ReadingBy CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross says 43 bodies have been collected in the past week from the front line of the latest fighting in a disputed city in Somaliland. The ICRC says a further 110 wounded people have been taken to hospitals in the
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