By Betsy Klein, CNN Paris (CNN) — President Joe Biden heralded the close ties between the United States and France on Saturday, calling his current visit “the most remarkable trip” that he’s made to the country as French President Emmanuel Macron hosted his US counterpart for an official state visit in Paris. “This week, we
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By Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Call it the Miracle on Grass. A national cricket team that most Americans didn’t even know they had beat one of the sport’s global powers Pakistan, for whom the game is a national obsession. The triumph Thursday in the T20 World Cup – a global tournament using a shortened,
Continue ReadingBy MARC BOWMAN Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Bobby Witt Jr. tied it with a two-run triple in the ninth inning and scored on Nelson Velázquez’s fielder’s choice to give the Kansas City Royals a 10-9 victory over Seattle after they trailed 8-0 in the fourth. After Maikel Garcia’s RBI grounder cut it
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Hartfield, CNN (CNN) — The judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial in New York on Friday informed the former president’s defense team and prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office that a comment was posted on the New York State Unified Court Systems’ public Facebook page last week by a poster who claimed to be a cousin of a juror, saying that
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SOLOMON Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Dylan Carlson drove in his first three runs of the season to help the St. Louis Cardinals rebound from relinquishing a four-run lead to beat the Colorado Rockies 8-5. Carlson stroked a two-run double off Matt Carasiti after Brendan Donovan put the Cardinals ahead with an
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has agreed to testify before a Republican-controlled congressional subcommittee, but likely not until after former President Donald Trump is sentenced in July. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan wrote Bragg in late May after Trump’s conviction in his hush money trial, accusing him of having conducted
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Saturday sees a UV index level 3 with scattered showers and storms.
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — Más de 450.000 personas se encuentran sin agua potable en la República Dominicana tras las fuertes lluvias que han afectado el país durante los últimos días, informó el Centro de Operaciones de Emergencia (COE) este viernes. El reporte del COE indica que 27 acueductos se encuentran afectados. El COE mantiene
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CNN By Chandelis Duster and Justin Gamble, CNN (CNN) — The father of a Minnesota transgender high school student who says she was beaten in school said Thursday he wants the students who beat or harassed his daughter to face criminal charges. Mark Walztoni tells CNN his 17-year-old daughter Cobalt Sovereign, a junior at Hopkins High School in Minnetonka, was in
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers argue he didn’t get a fair trial in Los Angeles when he was convicted of rape and sexual assault in 2022. The brief filed Friday with California’s Second District Court of Appeal comes six weeks after Weinstein’s similar conviction in New York was overturned on appeal.
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is defending her decision to block a plan to reduce New York City traffic and raise billions for its ailing subway system through a new toll on Manhattan drivers. But on Friday, in her first appearance since announcing she was indefinitely
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VERONA, Italy (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has joined top political and cultural figures at Verona’s ancient Arena amphitheater for an open-air celebration of Italian lyric opera’s recognition by UNESCO as a global cultural treasure. Conductor Riccardo Muti presided over an orchestra of 170 musicians from Italy’s 14 opera
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN) — William “Bill” Anders, un astronauta de la NASA que formó parte de la tripulación del Apolo 8 de 1968 y que fue una de las primeras tres personas en orbitar la Luna, murió en un accidente aéreo en el estado de Washington, de acuerdo con su hijo, Gregory Anders. Tenía
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN) — El secretario general de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas, Antonio Guterres, agregó al ejército de Israel y a Hamas a la llamada “lista de la vergüenza” de 2023, que incluye a países y otros actores que atentan contra los derechos de los niños en situaciones de conflicto, confirmó su
Continue ReadingBy JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — A medal richly deserved but long denied to an African American combat medic wounded on Omaha Beach in the D-Day landings has been tenderly laid on the hallowed sands where he saved lives and shed blood. U.S. First Army soldiers held a ceremony in honor
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By Jessie Yeung, Hanako Montgomery and Junko Ogura, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Yu felt a rush of excitement as she walked into his bar for the first time – eager to meet the charming young host she’d been following for years online. On that cold January night last year, they chatted over champagne – the
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Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect a new statement from Capt. Brian Leer with the Boone County Sheriff’s Department. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary since two teenagers were killed, and four others were injured in a shooting at a vacant Boone County house. On June 4, 2023, Boone County
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As the city of Columbia continues to mull over its four options for its next fire chief, one of its four candidates said he would like to bring AI technology to the department. Brian Schaeffer has served as the assistant fire chief and fire chief of the Spokane Fire Department since 2005.
Continue ReadingSANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A state judge has ordered academic workers at the University of California to temporarily halt their weekslong strike over the war in Gaza. An Orange County judge issued the emergency restraining order on Friday after UC officials argued the ongoing strike would cause irreversible harm as students are nearing finals.
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Un padre, sus dos hijos y su primo estaban de excursión en las Badlands de Dakota del Norte en 2022 cuando encontraron lo que parecía una pata de dinosaurio sobresaliendo de una roca. Sam Fisher, sus hijos Jessin y Liam, que entonces tenían 10 y 7 años, y su primo Kaiden
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