By BECKY BOHRER and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. oil industry’s top lobbying group says Biden administration rules restricting oil and gas leasing in 13 million acres of Alaska’s petroleum reserve are “misguided.” The American Petroleum Institute says the rules limit development in a region “intended by Congress to bolster
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By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration on Friday will announce changes to Title IX, expanding protections for LGBTQ+ and pregnant students while overhauling controversial Trump-era guidance around how schools should handle sexual assault cases. “Our nation’s educational institutions should be places where we not only accept differences, but celebrate them – places that
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — An important ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded the government lift a two-month-old ban on the social media platform X, saying it violates citizens’ right to speech and expression. The ban on X has been in place since February, when the party of imprisoned former
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under rules finalized Friday by the Biden administration. The new provisions are part of a revised Title IX regulation issued by the Education Department, fulfilling a campaign pledge
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — In a sweeping win for climate and environmental advocates, the Biden administration on Friday finalized a rule to ban fossil fuel drilling on nearly half of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, alongside other major conservation actions. The Interior Department will block oil drilling on over 13 million acres
Continue ReadingBy GRACEY WAKARY and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press MANADO, Indonesia (AP) — More than 2,100 people living near an erupting volcano on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island were evacuated Friday due to the dangers of spreading ash, falling rocks, hot volcanic clouds and the possibility of a tsunami. Indonesia’s Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation recorded
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TODAY: Afternoon highs climb into the lower 60s as winds continue out of the north at 8-12 mph and gusts up to 20 mph. TOMORROW: Saturday begins cooler than average into the lower 40s before highs rise near 60 degrees. Skies remain mostly sunny with winds out of the northwest at 8-12 mph and gusts
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By Caitlin Chatterton, CNN (CNN) — “That is not a painting, it’s a humiliation!” Winston Churchill (played by John Lithgow) angrily tells the renowned painter Graham Sutherland (actor Stephen Dillane) in the first season of “The Crown,” Netflix’s six-series dramatization about the English monarchy. Churchill is talking about his own portrait, commissioned to celebrate his
Continue ReadingOpinion by Julian Zelizer, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is moving forward with a legislative package to provide aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Despite fierce opposition from MAGA Republicans within his caucus, Johnson has decided that the imperative of the US providing this assistance is more important than pleasing all the members of his caucus. Without
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The public got its first look Thursday at the concept for a massive project to improve Memorial Stadium.
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government says it will slow down a plan to admit more students to the country’s medical schools from next year, in a bid to end a weeks-long strike by thousands of doctors. More than 90% of the country’s 13,000 medical interns and residents
Continue ReadingBy ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s air force is claiming it shot down a Russian strategic bomber. But Moscow officials say the plane crashed Friday in a sparsely populated area due to a malfunction after a combat mission. Neither claim could be independently verified. Meanwhile, officials say Russian missiles struck cities
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — A group of Japanese doctors has filed a civil lawsuit against U.S. search giant Google, demanding damages for what they say are results showing unpoliced derogatory and often false comments. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Tokyo District Court, demands 1.4 million yen, or about $9,400, in
Continue ReadingBy Dalia Faheid, Caroll Alvarado and John Towfighi, CNN New York (CNN) — Dozens of activists denouncing Israel’s war in Gaza remain camped out on the West Lawn of Columbia University on Friday, a day after New York City police arrested more than 100 people on suspicion of criminal trespass during a pro-Palestinian demonstration on
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy, CNN (CNN) — An unclaimed aerial attack in central Iran on Friday comes fresh on the heels of tit-for-tat Iranian and Israeli strikes earlier this month, marking a potentially dangerous escalation of the Middle East conflict. Israel carried out the strike inside Iran Friday morning, a US official told CNN. Iranian officials have
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El Sistema de Aguas de la Ciudad de México presentó el miércoles ante la Fiscalía General de Justicia de la capital una denuncia por el presunto delito de sabotaje, tras encontrarse un compuesto de aceites degradados en el pozo Alfonso XIII, que abastece de agua a parte de las
Continue ReadingBy LIUDAS DAPKUS and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Officials say that two Polish citizens have been detained in Poland on suspicion of attacking Russian activist Leonid Volkov, an ally of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, on the orders of foreign intelligence services. Volkov was attacked in March outside his home
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — An opposition war monitor and a pro-government media outlet say an attack on pro-government fighters by suspected members of the Islamic State group in central Syria killed 22 pro-government fighters. Gunmen attacked a bus carrying members of the Quds Brigade, a government and Russian-backed faction of mostly Palestinian fighters in Syria, near
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — San Francisco is the latest U.S. city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing’s famed “panda diplomacy.” San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced the panda loan in Beijing on Friday, alongside officials from China Wildlife Conservation Association. It will be San Francisco’s first time hosting
Continue Reading CNN By Simone McCarthy and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s response if Israel takes any further military action against it would be “immediate and at a maximum level,” Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told CNN Thursday, as fears rise of an escalation of the conflict in the Middle East. “In case the Israeli regime embarks on
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