Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Las cuadrillas en Florida seguirán trabajando para restaurar la energía y retirar los escombros este viernes después de que el huracán Idalia inundó miles de hogares a lo largo de su costa oeste. Los apagones han dejado a miles de personas despertando en la oscuridad mientras el calor abrasador se
Continue ReadingRussian President Vladimir Putin will host Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks next week, the Kremlin announced Friday, just over six weeks after Moscow broke off a deal brokered by Ankara and the U.N. that allowed Ukrainian grain to reach world markets safely despite the 18-month war. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin and
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KEYTON Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Several Swedish lawmakers say they will boycott this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies after the private foundation that administers the prestigious awards changed its position from a year earlier and invited representatives of Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend. The Nobel Foundation said invitations to the Dec.
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer A choppy day of trading on Wall Street ended Friday with slight gains for stocks, as the market notched its second straight winning week. The market got a boost early on from a closely watched government report that showed U.S. job growth increased at a healthy, but more moderate
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Las autoridades indias están decididas a mantener a raya a los monos antes de la llegada de líderes mundiales la semana que viene. Para ello, han colocado por toda la capital figuras a tamaño natural de langures enfadados, con el fin de disuadir a los molestos primates más pequeños de
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi and Rob Shackelford, CNN (CNN) — Severe thunderstorms bombarded the Phoenix area Thursday night, knocking out power for more than 30,000 homes and businesses in Arizona while threatening flash flooding and dust storm conditions. The northwestern portion of Maricopa County – home to the state’s most populous city of Phoenix – was
Continue ReadingOpinion by Nolan Peterson (CNN) — In March last year, while artillery thundered from not far away, I sat down at the desk in my Kyiv apartment and logged onto Zoom for one of the most extraordinary interviews of my life. A bearded young man with unkempt hair appeared on the computer screen. In idiomatic, slightly accented
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Resulta que intentar robar votos, difamar a trabajadores electorales indefensos e invadir el Capitolio de EE.UU. para intentar frustrar un traspaso democrático del poder presidencial tiene un precio muy alto. Y el proceso de rendición de cuentas se está acercando aún más a Donald Trump. El sistema judicial de Estados
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government is imposing sanctions against three groups and four individuals for supporting North Korea’s missile and nuclear development program. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said Friday that the sanctions, in tandem with the United States and South Korea, are in response to North Korea’s recent attempt
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By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Authorities in India are determined to keep a lid on any monkey business ahead of world leaders jetting in next week, by placing life-size cutouts of angry langurs across the capital to dissuade smaller pesky primates from wreaking havoc or hogging the limelight while the nation takes center stage.
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — As many communities along Florida’s west coast face oppressive heat Friday without air conditioning or electricity, crews are racing to restore power to tens of thousands in the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia. Idalia inflicted record storm surge and knocked out power for hundreds of thousands after making landfall Wednesday
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s prime minister has staged a televised a disaster drill in which he declared a fictional state of emergency based on a real-life earthquake that devastated the capital region a century ago. Fumio Kishida led the exercise Friday, based on a hypothetical 7.3-magnitude tremblor, as Japan marked
Continue Reading By Mariya Knight and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has opened more than 3,000 criminal cases over Russia’s alleged crimes against children in the country, including dozens of torture cases, Ukrainian prosecutors said Thursday. The allegations include “murders, mutilations, abduction of children, forced displacement, deportation, sexual violence against children and kidnapping,” Yulia Usenko, head
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — In recent weeks, Lebanon’s sharply divided political and religious leaders have come together to fight the LGBTQ+ community. The country that long showed a relative tolerance has seen a series of assaults on symbols associated with the community. The education minister barred a version
Continue ReadingQUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s fragile security situation was underscored Thursday by a series of car bombings and the hostage-taking of more than 50 law enforcement officers inside various prisons, just weeks after the country was shaken by the assassination of a presidential candidate. Ecuador’s National Police reported no injuries resulting from the four explosions
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CNN, WPVI By Danny Freeman, CNN Philadelphia (CNN) — An inmate convicted of murder escaped a prison in Pennsylvania’s Chester County on Thursday morning, according to local officials. Danelo Cavalcante, 34, broke out of Chester County Prison at around 8:50 a.m. Thursday, the Chester County District Attorney’s Office said. The district attorney, Deb Ryan, described
Continue ReadingBy ED KOMENDA Associated Press BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — An assistant high school football coach in Washington state who lost his job during a controversy over his public post-game prayers was back on the field Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court held his practice was protected by the Constitution. Joe Kennedy strode alone to midfield,
Continue ReadingBy ANITA SNOW Associated Press ORGAN PIPE CACTUS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Ariz. (AP) — Border Patrol agents ordered the young Senegalese men to wait in the scant shade of desert scrub brush while they loaded a more vulnerable group of migrants — a family with three young children from India — into a white van for
Continue ReadingBy SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio authorities on Friday released bodycam video showing a police officer fatally shooting Ta’Kiya Young in her car in what her family denounced as a “gross misuse of power and authority” against the pregnant Black mother. Sean Walton, an attorney representing Young’s family, said
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BLACKWELL and LAURA BARGFELD Associated Press HORSESHOE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The worst of Hurricane Idalia left residents of a region of tight-knit communities trying to find places to live as they rebuild — if they decide it’s even worth it — and waiting potentially weeks for electricity to be restored after winds
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