By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of thousands of Texans are without power and many could be in the dark for several days after fierce and deadly storms tore through the state Tuesday and over the holiday weekend, leaving people to pick up the pieces of devastated homes and businesses amid uncomfortably hot weather.
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By Jessie Yeung and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korea has adopted a new strategy to contend with its southern neighbor: sending floating bags of trash containing “filth” across the border, carried by massive balloons. The South Korean military began noticing “large amounts of balloons” arriving from the North starting Tuesday
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — — Veinticuatro horas y 26 minutos, sin parar a dormir: la nepalí Phunjo Lama acaba de batir el récord mundial de ascensión más rápida al monte Everest por una mujer. Su viaje desde el campo base del Everest hasta la cima duró 14 horas y 31 minutos, luego el descenso desde
Continue ReadingBy CHISATO TANAKA Associated Press STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Sweden became NATO’s 32nd member in March. The abrupt end to the Scandinavian country’s 200 years of neutrality following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has worried many. Teenagers are no exception, especially after officials’ warnings about the Russian threat to Sweden itself. Now teachers and Sweden’s
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The prosecution and defense wrapped up their cases in former president Donald Trump’s hush-money trial.
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Francia y Alemania afirmaron el martes que se debería permitir a Ucrania utilizar sus armas contra objetivos dentro de Rusia desde los que Moscú ataca a Ucrania. “Creemos que deberíamos permitirles neutralizar los sitios militares desde donde se disparan los misiles y, básicamente, los sitios militares desde donde se ataca a
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By Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A rebound in Apple’s iPhone sales in China is gaining momentum, after the company aggressively cut prices in its largest overseas market to lure back consumers actively hunting bargains in a weak economy. Shipments of foreign-branded cell phones in China, the vast majority of which are iPhones,
Continue ReadingQUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a speeding passenger bus fell off a highway into a ravine in southwest Pakistan, killing 28 people and injuring 20. Pictures in local media showed the wreckage at the bottom of a rocky ravine. Police said the driver suddenly lost control in Washuk town as the bus was traveling
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Authorities in Papua New Guinea are searching for safer ground to relocate thousands of survivors at risk from a potential second landslide in the South Pacific country’s highlands, while the arrival of heavy earth-moving equipment at the disaster site where hundreds are buried has been delayed. Emergency
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Jury deliberations are underway in the trial of an Idaho man accused of killing his wife and his girlfriend’s two youngest children. Chad Daybell is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the 2019 deaths. Prosecutors claim that Daybell and his girlfriend, Lori
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan prosecutors told a judge Wednesday they are evaluating more claims of sexual misconduct made against Harvey Weinstein and could potentially seek a new indictment against him before his scheduled retrial on rape and sexual assault charges. Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blumberg said during a court
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone, Gabe Cohen, Emma Tucker and Andy Rose, CNN Louisville, Kentucky (CNN) — All charges against Scottie Scheffler have been dismissed less than two weeks after the world No. 1 golfer was arrested trying to drive around the scene of a fatal crash on his way to the PGA Championship – and as
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — China Coast Guard ships have been in waters around Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea for a record 158 consecutive days, according to Tokyo’s latest count released Monday, surpassing the previous record set in 2021. Analysts fear the uninhabited islands, known as the Senkakus in
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN) — “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” es disco muy misterioso. Grabado en secreto por el legendario grupo de hip-hop Wu-Tang Clan durante seis años, solo se hizo una copia física del álbum y un pequeño puñado de personas lo escucharon completo. Ahora unos pocos afortunados miembros del público podrán escucharlo, si
Continue ReadingBy JEFF McMILLAN Associated Press About 10 drag artists from around the United States are banding together to protect and promote their art form. Qommittee announced its formation Wednesday ahead of June’s LGBTQ+ Pride Month. It spells its name with a Q instead of a C and consists of performers who have directly or indirectly
Continue ReadingBy LEKAN OYEKANMI and KEN MILLER Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Residents across Texas are recovering again from storms that ripped off roofs in Dallas and flooded roads in Houston. Up to 1 million homes and businesses were without power during the severe weather Tuesday. One electric utility said Wednesday that some outages could linger
Continue ReadingBy ANNIE MA and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. schools should teach about issues related to race, most Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders believe. They also oppose efforts to restrict what subjects can be discussed in the classroom, according to a new poll. In the survey from AAPI Data and
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Washington Post says it reported on a story about a controversial flag being flown outside the home of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito years ago, but chose not to write about it. The story broke in The New York Times earlier this month
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has been sitting for hours a day in a Manhattan courtroom, where his hush-money trial is nearing its end. On Monday, a trial is set to begin in Wilmington, Delaware, for President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, who is accused of lying
Continue ReadingBy MARÍA VERZA Associated Press PLAN DE AYALA, Mexico (AP) — Seventy years ago, Mexican women won the right to vote, and today the country’s on the verge of electing its first woman president. Yet some of the Indigenous women who will vote in Sunday’s national election still don’t have a voice in their own
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