By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bob Odenkirk has known he wanted to immortalize the playful poems he created with his kids since they were first scribbled down years ago. The Emmy-nominated actor always assumed “Zilot & Other Important Rhymes” would be a project he completed once his son and daughter had
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Fat Joe is hosting the BET Hip Hop Awards for the second year in a row. He couldn’t be more thrilled, especially given that this year marks the 50th anniversary of hip hop. “Hosting for the 50th anniversary is beyond an honor,” he told CNN. “Any year that
Continue ReadingAleja Páez (CNN Español) — La tormenta tropical Lidia avanza por el Pacífico y podría cobrar fuerza de huracán antes de tocar tierra en la costa oeste de México, según la actualización de las 8 a.m. ET del Centro Nacional de Huracanes de EE.UU. (NHC). A esa hora, la tormenta se encontraba casi 600 km
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An independent inquiry has opened in the U.K. to examine claims that British special forces murdered dozens of Afghan men during counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan a decade ago. It will also look into allegations that authorities subsequently covered up the alleged illegal activity. The inquiry opened at
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Max made landfall in Mexico’s southern Pacific coast Monday, as the country braces for a second punch from Tropical Storm Lidia, expected to hit Tuesday as a hurricane in a different part of the country. Max was located about 40 miles (65 kilometers) east of the resort town of
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has reversed an earlier announcement that it was “immediately” suspending aid for Palestinian authorities and instead said it would urgently review such assistance in the wake of the attacks on Israel by Hamas. A terse European Commission statement said late Monday that “there will
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CNN Opinion by Peter Bergen, CNN (CNN) — Comparisons are being made between 9/11 and Hamas’ attacks in Israel, and there are certainly parallels. In both cases, terrorist organizations killed large numbers of civilians in attacks that seemed to come out of the blue, shocking the two nations. Hamas’s attacks are also being ascribed to an intelligence failure, just
Continue ReadingOpinion by Peter Bergen, CNN (CNN) — Comparisons are being made between 9/11 and Hamas’ attacks in Israel, and there are certainly parallels. In both cases, terrorist organizations killed large numbers of civilians in attacks that seemed to come out of the blue, shocking the two nations. Hamas’s attacks are also being ascribed to an intelligence failure, just as 9/11 was.
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin Jerusalén y Gaza (CNN) — El ministro de Defensa de Israel ordenó este lunes el “asedio total” de Gaza, mientras el Ejército afirmaba haber retomado el control de las comunidades israelíes cercanas al enclave costero que fueron asaltadas por hombres armados de Hamas en un ataque sin precedentes durante el fin de
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By Zoe Whitfield, CNN Petworth, UK (CNN) — When Eve Arnold joined Magnum in 1951 — four years after the renowned photographic agency was founded — she was its first female photographer. “Magnum was about to open a New York office,” she would write in her acclaimed monograph, 1976’s “The Unretouched Woman”. “I went to
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar, Jennifer Henderson and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — A retired university dean was found shot in the head on a hiking trail near the Vermont State University Castleton Campus where she’d worked, and authorities are searching for clues to help lead them to whoever killed the beloved educator. Honoree Fleming, a retired
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — “Barbie” writer/director Greta Gerwig wanted to get reaction to her film in real time. Gerwig hit theaters during the blockbuster film’s opening weekend in July, where she revealed she would stand in the back to observe audiences reacting to the movie. “I went around to different theaters and sort
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By Natasha Bertrand and Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s ongoing hold on military confirmations is impacting a number of senior military appointments in the Middle East, as the Pentagon moves to bolster its presence in the region amid the ongoing crisis in Israel. And Tuberville is still not relenting, according to
Continue ReadingRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro’s state government has deployed hundreds of police officers to three of the city’s sprawling and low-income neighborhoods. Authorities say are they aiming to clamp down on organized crime groups. The three-pronged raid that began early Monday targeted not only the Mare complex of favelas by Rio’s international
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE, TARA COPP and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has already begun delivering critically needed munitions and military equipment to Israel, the White House said Monday, as the Pentagon reviews its inventories to see what else can be sent quickly to boost its ally in the three-day-old war
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A British army veteran who fought and survived one of his country’s harshest battles known as the Burma Campaign against the Japanese during World War II has traveled to Japan to lay flowers at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at a memorial ceremony on Monday to
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CNN By Ibrahim Dahman, CNN Gaza (CNN) — When the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an attack on Israel over the weekend, Palestinians living in the besieged strip had mixed feelings. Some celebrated, taking pride in what they perceived as a victory against Israel. Others, however, were afraid, dreading a deadly retaliation. The militant group’s
Continue ReadingSTOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish court has released a Russia-born Swedish citizen charged with collecting information for Russia’s military intelligence service for almost a decade. Sergey Skvortsov is accused of “gross illegal intelligence activities against Sweden and against a foreign power,” namely the United States. He was released on Monday, with the court saying there was
Continue Reading Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — It sounds like a mathematical problem. How do you make one of the world’s most famous ancient sites bigger? You can’t build more of it. You can excavate more, but at immense cost. So with ever more tourists cramming onto the site, the team behind the archaeological park of Pompeii
Continue ReadingAleja Páez (CNN) — Al menos nueve ciudadanos estadounidenses murieron en el conflicto de Israel, informó este lunes un portavoz del Consejo de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos. “En este momento, podemos confirmar la muerte de nueve ciudadanos estadounidenses. Hacemos llegar nuestro más sentido pésame a las víctimas y a las familias de todos los afectados,
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