By Jaide Timm-Garcia and Isabel Rosales, CNN Minutes before plunging to their deaths, five airmen successfully dropped 14 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne near their landing mark over Normandy, France from their C-47. It was just after 2:44 a.m. on June 6, 1944. The airmen completed their mission but lost their lives. The remains of
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By Aimee Lewis, CNN (CNN) — With a bird’s eye view from his chair, umpire Damien Dumusois spotted a poorly pigeon on Court Suzanne-Lenglen and flew into action. Remaining on the ground after landing on the red clay during a changeover in the fourth set in the match between Daniil Medvedev and Tomas Machac, the
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By Brian Fung and Kathryn Monahan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has joined TikTok, the fast-growing social media platform with ties to China that Trump has publicly embraced even though he railed against it as president. In his first post on the social network, which is filled with young potential voters, Trump posted
Continue ReadingOpinion by Richard Galant, CNN (CNN) — Trying to achieve moral virtue is not easy, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle taught. If you have to pick between two extremes, choose “the lesser of two evils,” because that’s likelier to bring you to the desired middle way. That’s the approach President Joe Biden implies when he
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — Two Lebanese shepherds were killed in an Israeli strike that hit their house in the town of Houla near the Lebanon-Israel border, Lebanon’s National News agency says. Lebanon’s Agriculture Minister Abbas Hajj Hassan said that a separate Israeli strike Sunday morning had damaged his ministry’s office in the town of Bint Jbeil
Continue ReadingPENN HILLS, Pa. (AP) — Police say an exchange of gunfire in a suburban Pittsburgh bar has left two people dead and seven others injured. Allegheny County police said the shooting occurred at the Ballers Hookah Lounge and Cigar Bar in Penn Hills, where first responders found the bodies of a man and a woman
Continue ReadingBy CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Scaling back treatment for some cancers can make life easier for patients without hurting the outcomes. That’s what doctors are reporting this weekend at the world’s largest cancer conference in Chicago. The research is part of a long-term trend toward doing less — less surgery, less chemotherapy or
Continue ReadingBy TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Tamika Davis couldn’t nap on her couch during cancer treatment. She kept worrying one of her toddlers would wander over and pull out the needle delivering chemotherapy. Friends and family watched her kids when they could during her treatment last year for colon cancer. But Davis had gaps with
Continue ReadingBy JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press CARENTAN-LES-MARAIS, France (AP) — Parachutists jumped from World War II-era planes into now peaceful Normandy to kick off a week of ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Soldiers from across the United States, Britain, Canada and other Allied nations waded ashore through hails of fire on five beaches on
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico congressional representative Jenniffer González has defeated Gov. Pedro Pierluisi in a surprise upset during a primary election held by their pro-statehood party. The two ran on the same ticket four years ago under the New Progressive Party, but González, a Republican, announced
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. You can listen to an audio version of the newsletter by clicking the same link. Americans are worn down by high inflation and interest rates.
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By Eugenia Yosef, Sophie Tanno and Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — Two far-right Israeli ministers have threatened to resign and bring down the governing coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he accepts a peace proposal laid out by US President Joe Biden. Biden unveiled on Friday what he said was a three-phase Israeli proposal
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Iceland’s national broadcasting service says Halla Tomasdottir, a businesswoman and investor, has won Iceland’s presidential election, topping a crowded field of candidates in which the top three finishers were women. RUV reported Sunday that Tomasdottir was elected to the largely ceremonial post with 34.3% of the vote,
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By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Maryhope Howland gave birth to a baby she thought was a boy. But at 6 years old, the child asked her questions such as “Mom, am I a boy? How do you know I’m a boy?” “Once I clued in, I said, ‘The doctors make a best guess
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald and Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — Simone Biles won a record-extending ninth all-around national title at the US Gymnastics Championships on Sunday, impressing ahead of next month’s Olympics in Paris. Biles finished with a combined score of 119.750 while Skye Blakely finished 5.900 points back in second and Kayla DiCello came in
Continue Reading By Niamh Kennedy and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s largest hydroelectric dam, the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP), is in “critical condition” after it was hit in a Russian strike on Ukraine’s key energy facilities, authorities say. The head of the Zaporizhzhia region military administration, Ivan Fedorov, told Ukrainian television that the power plant can
Continue Reading By Aimee Lewis and Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — It was a long day at the French Open for world No. 1 Novak Djokovic. The 24-time major champion outlasted Italian Lorenzo Musetti 7-5 6-7 (6-8) 2-6 6-3 6-0 in a third round five-set thriller which ended at 3.08 a.m local time in Paris. The Serbian,
Continue ReadingFRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Flooding, high river levels and heavy rain led to the death of a firefighter and disrupted train travel across Germany on Sunday. The firefighter died when an inflatable watercraft carrying four firefighters capsized as they navigated flood waters in the town of Pfaffenhofen on the Ilm River in the southern Bavaria
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it will stop sending trash-carrying balloons into South Korea, claiming that its campaign left the South Koreans with “enough experience of how much unpleasant they feel.” The North’s announcement Sunday came hours after South Korea said it would soon punish North Korea
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for his country’s political parties to overcome their differences and find “common ground” to form the first national coalition government in its young democracy. South Africa on Sunday announced its final election results confirming that no party
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