By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Japanese Agriculture Minister Ichiro Miyashita says Tokyo hopes to resolve the issue of Chinese ban on its seafood within the World Trade Organization’s scope. Despite repeated assurances, China banned seafood from Japan immediately after the discharge of treated wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Matt Gaetz is a product of America’s broken information environment. Not so long ago, a young Florida congressman with no major legislative achievements to his name would hold little power in Washington. Such a person would certainly not wield enough power to oust the speaker of the House.
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — La administración Biden aprobó el alivio de la deuda para otros 125.000 prestatarios de préstamos estudiantiles, por un total de US$ 9.000 millones de condonación, dijo la Casa Blanca este miércoles. El anuncio se produce pocos días después de que se reiniciaran los pagos de préstamos federales para estudiantes después de
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By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN New York (CNN) — Today was the day for the US government’s big emergency alert drill, which sent a test message to every TV, radio and cell phone in the nation. Starting at approximately 2:20 pm ET on Wednesday, the federal government began conducting a nationwide test of its Emergency Alert
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — Everyone’s cell phone in the US will sound off today at around 2:20 p.m. ET with a message from the government, but there’s no need to panic. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, is conducting a nationwide test that will be sent to all cell phones to ensure
Continue ReadingBy CHASE BIERENKOVEN Edmunds A little outdoors goes a long way, and America’s national parks and outdoor spaces are some of the most stunning on the planet. However, getting outdoors can be an expensive proposition. Thankfully, there are plenty of relatively inexpensive SUVs and trucks that can do double duty as your ticket to the
Continue ReadingBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia says it will resume checks at the border with Hungary to reduce growing numbers of migrants entering the country. The measure, which will become effective on Thursday, comes the day that the country’s neighbours, including Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland, reintroduced controls at their borders with Slovakia for at
Continue Reading By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — On Wednesday, more than 75,000 unionized employees of Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit health providers, walked off the job, marking the largest health care worker strike in US history. The striking employees, who work across California, Colorado, Washington, Virginia, Oregon and Washington, DC, are represented by
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press A court in Moscow has sentenced a former state TV journalist to 8 1/2 years in prison in absentia for protesting Russia’s war in Ukraine, the latest example of a crackdown on dissent that has intensified since Moscow’s invasion nearly 20 months ago. Marina Ovsyannikova was charged with spreading false information
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El Premio Nobel de Química 2023 fue concedido a un trío de científicos que trabajaron en el descubrimiento y desarrollo de puntos cuánticos, utilizados en luces LED y pantallas de televisión, así como por cirujanos a la hora de extirpar tejido canceroso. Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus y Alexei Ekimov son
Continue ReadingBy Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — Though 10-year-old Frank Rosiles is no longer here, his best friend thinks about him often. Frank and Trevon Alfred met in kindergarten and spent most of their time together – in and out of class – until fourth grade. “He was my No. 1 best friend,” Trevon said, recalling
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — China parece haber censurado una fotografía de dos atletas chinas abrazándose tras una carrera de salto de vallas porque sus números de carril formaban una referencia accidental a la masacre de Tiananmen de 1989. La imagen capta a Lin Yuwei, en el carril 6, y a Wu Yanni, en el
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El partido gobernante lo calificó de ceremonia de entrega del bastón de mando. Pero la oposición lo tachó de “paso del cetro”. El presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, que constitucionalmente no puede presentarse a la reelección, quiso demostrar el mes pasado, de forma muy pública, que la candidata
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is shaming and challenging world leaders to take concrete action to slow climate change before it’s too late. In an update to his landmark 2015 encycyclical, he’s warning that God’s increasingly warming creation is fast reaching a “point of no return.”
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Kevin McCarthy is House speaker no more. After angering GOP hardliners with a spending bill to keep the government funded last week, McCarthy was voted out of power on Tuesday. Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, filed what in the House is known as a “motion to
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv ¿Qué lesión tiene Lionel Messi? Si estás en EE.UU., este miércoles recibirás una alarma en tu celular. ¿Qué es un eclipse solar anular? Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad. 1. Histórico: destituyen a McCarthy La Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos votó este martes a favor de destituir
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER and SCOTT SONNER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Lawyers for international soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo were back in court in a legal battle over hush money he paid in 2010 to a woman who accused him of raping her in Las Vegas. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El Premio Nobel de la Paz se entrega este viernes en Noruega, en un momento en que la brutal invasión rusa de Ucrania no cesa y otros focos de tensión amenazan con estallar en todo el planeta. Dado que muchos esfuerzos por promover la paz se han visto cada vez
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By Martynas Ruseckas, CNN (CNN) — An inspiration for Walt Disney’s imagination for the Sleeping Beauty castle, Germany’s Neuschwanstein Castle is a go-to tourist destination for around 1.4 million people per year. But for professional skydiver Max Manow, it’s a landmark that has been ever-present in his life since childhood and a sight he remembers
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By Christian Edwards, Katie Hunt and Ed Upright, CNN (CNN) — The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who worked to discover and develop quantum dots, used in LED lights and TV screens, as well as by surgeons when removing cancer tissue. Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei
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