By TERRY TANG Associated Press The Philippines has a long history of trying to attract Filipino American citizens and their families to come and add to the economy. Most of those travelers have been retirees or immigrants catching up with relatives. Today, the country is aiming at a younger generation of professionals who live on
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By Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — A slump in government bonds around the world has pushed up the cost of some nations’ debt to levels not seen in more than a decade. That’s bad news for governments in the red but also for the wallets of millions of mortgage borrowers, stock investors and businesses.
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By Mostafa Salem, Teele Rebane, Sahar Akbarzai and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN (CNN) — Activists have accused Iran’s morality police of assaulting a teenage girl for not wearing a headscarf in a Tehran metro station, leading to her hospitalization with serious injuries. A Norway-based group focused on Kurdish rights, the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, said
Continue ReadingSANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Authorities in the Dominican Republic say the bodies of six newborns have been found discarded at the entrance of a cemetery in the capital, Santo Domingo. Medical examiner Dr. Angi Vicioso said Wednesday the newborns still had hospital tags around their feet and wrists and there were no signs
Continue ReadingBy GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — FIFA has approved the possible reintegration of Russian youth teams into its competitions and eased a total ban on the country in international soccer amid the war in Ukraine. The decision by the FIFA Council followed eight days after European soccer body UEFA provoked a rare
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — El Mundial 2030 de la FIFA está todavía muy lejos en el tiempo. Unos siete años nos separan de ese evento futbolístico. Pese a ello, ya tenemos un poco de luz de lo que será ese torneo. Aunque está más cerca el Mundial 2026 de México, Estados Unidos y Canadá, el
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — You don’t expect to see a movie named “Dicks: The Musical” on the marquee and neither did its makers. It’s the nature of creating a delirious, Dadaist riff on “The Parent Trap” only with two obviously dissimilar gay men as long-lost identical twins and Bowen Yang
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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — In a Phase 1/2 clinical trial, Moderna’s combination vaccine appeared to elicit “strong” immune responses against both influenza and Covid-19 and was found to be safe, the company announced Wednesday. The investigational vaccine, named mRNA-1083, was developed to offer some protection against both flu and Covid in a single
Continue ReadingCOLLEGE PARK, MD. (AP) — Authorities say a University of Maryland bus has crashed injuring 27 people. Prince George’s County Fire/EMS posted online that the bus hit a light pole Wednesday morning at the intersection of Baltimore Avenue and University Boulevard in College Park. The agency says crews took 27 people to hospitals with minor
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The federal Health Resources and Services Administration has awarded the University of Missouri’s School of Medicine $16 million to help train new doctors to work in parts of rural Missouri.
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Three decades ago, the world held its breath as tanks blasted the Russian parliament building in central Moscow while the Kremlin moved to flush out rebellious lawmakers in a crisis that shaped the country’s post-Soviet history. While Russia narrowly avoided what many feared could be a civil war, the violent clashes
Continue ReadingHAVANA (AP) — Authorities in Cuba say a building in the historic center of Havana that housed 13 families partially has collapsed, leaving three person dead and at least two injured. Officials in Havana said that among the three fatalities were one resident and two firefighters who got trapped in the building when they were
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By Kit Maher, David Wright and Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s political operation announced raising $15 million for his Republican presidential bid during the third quarter of this year, but only $5 million of that haul was available to spend in the bruising primary fight ahead, a senior campaign official said.
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By Matt Egan New York (CNN Business) — As Donald Trump scrambles to defend his business empire in court, the former president has suffered another blow: dropping off The Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans. Trump’s net worth tumbled by 19%, or $600 million, to an estimated $2.6 billion total. That left him $300
Continue ReadingCNN By Jack Forrest and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Following Kevin McCarthy’s historic ouster as House speaker, names have started to emerge as possible successors to take over the gavel. With McCarthy announcing Tuesday night he will not be running for the speakership, the race is already underway. There is no clear alternative
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By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp has called for his side’s recent match against Tottenham to be replayed after the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) made an error which led to a goal being disallowed. With Liverpool reduced to 10 men and the score at 0-0 in the first half of Saturday’s
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Se avecina un cambio drástico en EE.UU., ya que un fuerte frente frío traerá la primera dosis de otoño el fin de semana y hará que las temperaturas desciendan hasta 19°C. El enfriamiento es una buena noticia para millones de personas del sur que han soportado un verano boreal brutalmente caluroso
Continue Reading By Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — In their opening statements to a newly sworn-in jury in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday, lawyers laid out previews of their cases, offering two divergent narratives for the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire. Assistant US Attorney Thane Rehn painted a picture of a villainous, greedy businessman
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — El presidente electo de Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, pidió a la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) que intervenga en la crisis política en su país, donde el Ministerio Público ha allanado instalaciones del Tribunal Supremo Electoral y confiscado actas de votación alegando supuestas irregularidades por parte de la institución y
Continue ReadingBy JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Armless archer Matt Stutzman is reshaping thinking about people with disabilities one arrow at a time. Before he won a silver medal at the Paralympic Games in 2012, prospective employers wouldn’t hire him because he has no arms. Now the American is targeting his fourth Paralympics in
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