CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans awoke Friday to a major power outage in the capital, Caracas, and several states. President Nicolas Maduro’s government blamed the outage, which it said began about 4:50 a.m., on “electrical sabotage.” Freddy Nanez, the communications minister, said officials were working to restore power. Venezuela in years past suffered from regular
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By Don Riddell and George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — When athletes paraded down Paris’ Champs-Élysées for the opening ceremony of the Paralympics earlier this week, many did so as a cast of tens or even hundreds, shoulder to shoulder with their teammates and compatriots. But not Fadi Aldeeb. He is the only Paralympic athlete representing
Continue ReadingBy Laura Klairmont, CNN Phoenixville, PA (CNN) — In the last three years, a record number of unaccompanied migrant children – more than 500,000 – have traveled to the United States, many of them escaping violence and extreme poverty in rural areas of Central America. As an immigration lawyer who works closely with these children,
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By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — A widespread area of the eastern United States will get a taste of early fall weather for Labor Day weekend after July-like heat baked tens of millions of people this week. A potent cold front will sweep across the area and usher in cooler air from Canada this weekend
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An influx of drivers is expected to hit Missouri highways for Labor Day weekend. AAA released a recent report detailing gas prices ahead of holiday travel. On this report the average statewide gas price in Missouri is $3.04, which is $0.46 less per gallon compared to this time last year. Drivers in
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By Dana Karni and Kareem Khadder, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s military said it killed three Hamas members, including a commander, as its offensive in the occupied West Bank entered its third day. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Friday it killed Wissam Khazem, whom it described as the Hamas leader in the city of Jenin,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Massachusetts Republicans will choose candidates to challenge U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch in state primaries on Tuesday. The contests top the list of races that will be held across the commonwealth. Democrats have a lock on the state’s congressional delegation, with both U.S. Senate seats and
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By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump, in his third White House bid, has sought to reignite the cultural battles over education that erupted throughout the country in recent years, and on Friday, he will appear before the conservative parents group that helped spark the fight. Trump’s visit to Moms for Liberty’s annual convention
Continue ReadingThe Kremlin says it has “no worries” about President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming visit to Mongolia, a country that is a member of the International Criminal Court, which last year issued a warrant for his arrest. The visit, scheduled for Sept. 3, will be Putin’s first trip to an ICC member state since the warrant was
Continue Reading By Sam Joseph, CNN (CNN) — Former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka’s run at this year’s US Open ended in the second round with a 6-3, 7-6(5) defeat to the Czech Republic’s Karolína Muchová on Thursday. Osaka has previously enjoyed success at Flushing Meadows and won the tournament in 2018 and 2020, but hasn’t been
Continue ReadingGENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office says it will deploy a fact-finding team to Bangladesh to investigate alleged rights abuses and violations during a harsh crackdown by security forces to quell protests this summer. The office of U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said he received an invitation from the country’s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Racial differences in how schools discipline students received new attention 10 years ago, during a national reckoning with racial injustice. A decade later, change has been slow to materialize. In many schools around the country, Black students have been more likely to receive punishments that remove them from the classroom, including suspensions, expulsions
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — At the Paralympic Games in Paris, women are blazing trails in the roughest of sports — mixed-gender but male-dominated wheelchair rugby. Sarah Adam is the first American woman to compete at the Paralympics in wheelchair rugby. She was in the starting lineup when Team USA kicked off its campaign on
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — Donald Trump presentó una demanda para trasladar su caso penal del estado de Nueva York a un tribunal federal en Manhattan y retrasar la próxima sentencia por su condena por 34 cargos de falsificación de registros de negocios. La demanda presentada este jueves pide al tribunal federal que confirme que el
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — Tres palestinos han muerto en ataques israelíes al sur de Yenín, en la Ribera Occidental ocupada, según el ejército israelí. Las fuerzas israelíes han dicho que han matado en un intercambio de disparos a Wissam Khazem, que dicen que es el jefe de Hamas en Yenín después de que fuera identificado
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Continue ReadingAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Defense Ministry has sought a record 8.5 trillion yen or $59 billion budget for the next year to fortify its deterrence on southwestern islands against China’s increasing threat. Defense officials are also focusing on unmanned weapons and artificial intelligence to make up for the declining number of servicemembers as
Continue ReadingBy Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — A record number of travelers is expected to shuttle through the nation’s airports this Labor Day weekend, with as many as 17 million passengers expected from Thursday through the following Wednesday, the Transportation Security Administration said. The agency, which tracks the numbers of passengers it screens for security,
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — The world’s leading AI chip producer, Nvidia, just delivered a slam dunk earnings report that most businesses would be jealous of. Sales rose 122% in the second quarter. Profits doubled. The outlook for the current quarter? Strong. In short: The numbers were fantastic. Yet Nvidia’s shares
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — Thai officials say the bodies of three foreign workers who were trapped for days in a railway tunnel in northeastern Thailand that collapsed while under construction have been retrieved after an intensive rescue effort. The tunnel is a part of a Thai-Chinese high-speed railway project linking Bangkok to the northeastern province of
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