By ANDREW MEDICHINI Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Associated Press photographer Andrew Medichini has covered the Vatican and three popes for 27 years. So Medichini has mastered snapping images of papal pomp. Medichini knew exactly where to position himself to capture this photo based on the wind for a potential candid shot of Pope
Continue ReadingWATERLOO, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say one man has been killed and another injured in southern Illinois after a barn partially collapsed into a burn pit and caught fire. Monroe County Coroner Bob Hill says a man called 911 at 9:35 a.m. Saturday and said a dilapidated barn outside Waterloo that was being torn down
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Austria’s Christoph Baumgartner scored the fastest ever international goal on Saturday, taking just six seconds to find the back of the net during his country’s 2-0 victory against Slovakia. Immediately after kickoff, he weaved through the Slovakian defense before rifling the ball into the net from well outside the
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By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Bring up installing a bidet to the average American before the pandemic, and they might have likely flushed the idea straightaway. The bathroom washer business, once a foreign concept to many in the US, experienced a huge boom during the Covid-19 pandemic, when shoppers were battling over
Continue Reading By Wayne Sterling, CNN (CNN) — Louisiana State University women’s basketball head coach Kim Mulkey ripped the Washington Post on Saturday over what she describes as a “hit piece” in which she has threatened legal action if published. “This is exactly why people don’t trust journalists and the media anymore. It’s these kinds of sleazy tactics and hatchet
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CNN By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Justice was served this past week, a dozen years too late, when CJ Rice was legally exonerated by the Philadelphia district attorney’s office. The district attorney’s office dropped all charges against Rice for a 2011 shooting that sent him to prison for a crime he insists he did not — and
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Observances have been held in Poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the “Great Escape,” an ingenious act of defiance during World War II in which 76 prisoners of war tunneled out of a German prisoner-of-war camp into a snowy forest. A solemn roll call of
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By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis unexpectedly skipped delivering his homily during the Palm Sunday Mass service at the Vatican on Sunday, although was able to preside over the service and was later driven around in the popemobile. The service marks the beginning of Holy Week, the most sacred week in the church’s calendar
Continue ReadingBUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Four people have been killed and several others injured after a rally car veered off the road and crashed into a group of spectators during a race in Hungary. Police said Sunday the accident occurred between the towns of Labatlan and Bajot near the Danube River in northwest Hungary. Videos on
Continue ReadingSHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Months after his disputed one-vote victory in a Louisiana sheriff’s race was tossed by a court, a career law enforcement officer has been decisively elected on his second try. Democratic candidate Henry Whitehorn got 53% of the vote in Saturday’s election in northwest Louisiana’s Caddo Parish. He’ll be the parish’s first
Continue Reading By Gregory Krieg, CNN Jersey City, New Jersey (CNN) — The end of the line could be near for New Jersey’s almighty political machine. A federal judge in Trenton is poised to rule as early as this week on a lawsuit aimed at kneecapping local bigwigs’ influence over party primaries and the nominating process. First
Continue Reading By Andrew Carey, Maria Kostenko and Josh Pennington, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine says it hit two Russian naval vessels, along with a communications center and several other facilities belonging to the Black Sea Fleet, in a huge overnight attack on the Crimean port of Sevastopol. There has been no comment from Russian defense officials, although
Continue Reading By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — Listing your home in the spring used to be a no-brainer. But a major real estate shakeup is complicating the equation. That shakeup is coming from a $418 million settlement the National Association of Realtors announced last week with groups of homesellers that could go into effect as early
Continue Reading By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — UFC fighter Igor Severino was disqualified from his fight on Saturday night after biting his opponent, Andre Lima. In the second round of their flyweight bout in Las Vegas, Lima was being held from behind by Severino before the 20-year-old appeared to lean in and bite Lima on his
Continue Reading By Lauren Izso, Abeer Salman and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Israeli forces have surrounded two more hospitals in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said, describing intense shelling and heavy gunfire. Months into the conflict, fighting is still raging across Gaza, despite international pressure on Israel and ongoing efforts for a
Continue ReadingBy LAURA UNGAR and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a case Tuesday that could impact how women get access to mifepristone, one of the two pills used in the most common type of abortion in the nation. The central dispute in the case is whether the Food and Drug
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — A ubiquitous, resilient and seemingly harmless plant is fueling an increase in large, fast-moving and destructive wildfires in the US. To find the culprit, look no further than your front lawn. Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart. The weekend that was
Continue ReadingBy GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA and DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police have arrested two men for allegedly ordering the killing of popular Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco in 2018. Police investigators say federal legislator Chiquinho Brazão and his brother Domingos Brazão were detained Sunday. Both are allegedly connected
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — An Ohio man has been arrested for allegedly concealing his participation in the Rwandan genocide almost three decades ago. Eric Tabaro Nshimiye, also known as Eric Tabaro Nshimiyimana, a 52-year-old living in Uniontown, Ohio, was arrested Thursday by special agents from Homeland Security Investigations, according to a news release
Continue Reading By Ted Barrett and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Donald Trump-backed Senate Republican candidate Bernie Moreno, who won a tough primary race last week in Ohio, refused to say if he believes the 2020 presidential election was stolen from the former president. “Oh my gosh, are we talking about that? We’ve had like three elections since then,” he
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