By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined Wednesday after Wall Street sank, hitting the brakes on what’s been a nearly unstoppable romp. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 slid 0.8% in morning trading to 39,511.88. Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 slipped 1.3% to 7,788.20. South Korea’s Kospi dropped 1.3% to 2,716.65. Hong Kong’s
Continue ReadingBy SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — It wasn’t lack of food that pushed Heba al-Haddad and her family to leave their home in Gaza City. They had a source of clean water and could live off boiled peas. It wasn’t the incessant shelling. They felt the stairways would protect them even in
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By Helen Regan, Hamdi Alkhshali and Tamara Qiblawi, CNN (CNN) — Iran has vowed to retaliate after it accused Israel of bombing its embassy complex in Syria on Monday, in a deadly escalation of regional tensions over the war in Gaza that once again appeared to raise the risk of a wider Middle Eastern conflict. The
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Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — A partir de este lunes, cerca de medio millón de trabajadores de comida rápida en California ganarán al menos US$ 20 por hora, US$ 4 más que el salario mínimo general del estado. La nueva tarifa se aplica a las cadenas de restaurantes con más de 60 locales en todo el
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Some of Israel’s closest allies, including the United States, on Tuesday condemned the deaths of seven aid workers who were killed by airstrikes in Gaza — a loss that prompted multiple charities to suspend food deliveries to Palestinians on the brink
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe, Christina Maxouris, Raja Razek, Mary Gilbert and Robert Shackelford, CNN (CNN) — More than a dozen homes were damaged in one West Virginia community and more than 100,000 customers in the state were without power late Tuesday night as a powerful system of thunderstorms with damaging winds, dangerous hail and the potential
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Nadie ganó el bote del Powerball en el sorteo del lunes, informó la lotería, y ahora el premio mayor para el sorteo del miércoles asciende a un estimado de US$ 1.090 millones. Los números que salieron sorteados el lunes 1 de abril fueron el 19, 24, 40, 42, 56 y
Continue ReadingBy MARIA CHENG and MISPER APAWU Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — When Efua, a 25-year-old fashion designer and single mother in Ghana, became pregnant last year, she sought an abortion at a health clinic but worried the procedure might be illegal. Health workers assured her abortions were lawful under certain conditions in the West
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature has revived a proposal to stop giving voters three extra days after polls close to return mail ballots. GOP backers have made key concessions to get enough votes from rural Republican lawmakers to overcome Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s potential veto. Both
Continue ReadingROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — The northern Illinois man charged with killing four people and injuring seven others by stabbing, beating and driving over them has been denied pretrial release. A judge in the city of Rockford ruled Tuesday that Christian Soto must remain in jail pending trial. The judge scheduled an April 15 arraignment for
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — Days after Russian forces withdrew from the outskirts of Kyiv in the dramatic first weeks of their full-scale invasion two years ago, a photo revealed what had become of Nataliia Verbova’s missing husband. Poring over the image of eight men executed and lying on cold concrete
Continue ReadingLIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s top prosecutor says the scope of an investigation into President Dina Boluarte’s ownership of three luxury watches has broaden to include fine jewelry that authorities estimate could be worth more than $500,000 and money transactions that exceed $400,000. Attorney General Juan Villena on Tuesday told Parliament’s oversight committee that the
Continue ReadingBy BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Willson Contreras and Brendan Donovan each hit a two-run home run, Kyle Gibson was dominant in his St. Louis debut and the Cardinals won 6-2 against their former manager Mike Schildt and the San Diego Padres. Shildt managed the Cardinals from August 2018 until 2021,
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korea test-fired a presumed intermediate-range ballistic missile on Tuesday, South Korean officials said, its latest military maneuver since leader Kim Jong Un’s New Year declaration that he was ending a policy seeking reconciliation with the South. Pyongyang made no immediate comment on the suspected test, which
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) – Cole County first responders took one person to the hospital on Monday night after a storm flooded roads across the city. Jefferson City Fire Department assistant chief Jay Niemeyer told ABC 17 News that firefighters had to help people from three cars stuck in the water on Edgewood Drive and
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — A former Colorado police officer is on trial over the violent arrest of a Black man in 2021. A prosecutor told jurors during opening statements Tuesday that John Haubert repeatedly hit Kyle Vinson with his gun and strangled him for 39 seconds. Haubert’s lawyer said he
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — A New York judge just joined the interminable list of his judicial colleagues, government officials and campaign staff who’ve all tried to do the impossible: rein in Donald Trump. Judge Juan Merchan late Monday expanded a gag order on the former president ahead of his hush money trial,
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Above a bodega in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood, a mosque congregation hosts iftar, the traditional Islamic end of fast meal, for hundreds of hungry migrants every night during this holy month of Ramadan. Up north in the Bronx, an imam has turned the two-story brick
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — In the 1971 film “Diamonds are Forever,” James Bond stays in a swanky suite at the Tropicana Las Vegas. “I hear that the Hotel Tropicana is quite comfortable,” Agent 007 says. It was the Tropicana’s heyday, a frequent haunt of the legendary Rat Pack, while its
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