By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — If Donald Trump is elected, he’ll take office next year having learned the lessons of four years of legal battles in his first term, during which inexperienced personnel, slapdash policymaking and his own indifference to how the federal government worked made his agenda especially vulnerable to legal challenges. The
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Vietnamese coast guard ship arrived in Manila on Monday for a four-day goodwill visit and joint exercises as the two countries attempt to put aside their own territorial disputes in the face of rising tensions with China over control of key features in the South China Sea. As
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Con dos candidatos presidenciales luchando por 270 de los 538 votos del Colegio Electoral, un escenario de empate en el que cada uno obtenga 269 votos es más que posible. De hecho, es sorprendente que hasta ahora sólo haya habido un empate, en 1800, entre Thomas Jefferson y Aaron Burr.
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Alma Cooper, de Michigan y oficial del Ejército de Estados Unidos, fue nombrada Miss Estados Unidos este domingo, convirtiéndose en la tercera persona en ostentar el título este año tras la sorprendente renuncia de la ganadora de 2023. La joven de 22 años, que posee un máster en ciencia de
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — Olympic triathletes plunged into the Seine River when the mixed relay event got underway after organizers said the bacteria levels in the long-polluted Paris waterway were at acceptable levels. Organizers on Sunday night made the decision to hold the event Monday morning with swimming legs in the Seine. The plan
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PREK TAKEO, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia on Monday broke ground to build a controversial, China-funded canal to link the capital Phnom Penh to the sea despite environmental concerns and the risk of straining ties with neighboring Vietnam. The $1.7 billion, 180-kilometer Funan Techo canal will connect the country’s capital with Kep province on
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — With its breakneck competition, exhilarating starts and whitewater waves, the kayak cross has proven to be one of the most unique and exciting spectacles at these Olympic Games, already going viral on social media. First, the four competitors are dropped into the water from a two-meter high ramp and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press QEPARO, Albania (AP) — Preliminary results show Albania’s governing Socialist Party candidate Vangjel Tavo has won the mayoral election in the southwestern town of Himara. Results at the Central Election Commission on Monday showed Tavo won more than 58% of the votes in Sunday’s election while Petraq Gjikuria from the Together We Win
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HORSESHOE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Tropical Storm Debby slammed Florida on Monday with torrential rain and high winds, contributing to at least four deaths in the state and the rescue of hundreds from flooded homes before turning menacingly toward the Eastern Seaboard’s low-lying regions and threatening to flood some of America’s most historic
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Landslides and flooding have killed more than 150 people around China in the past two months as torrential rainstorms batter the region. In the latest disaster, state media say the death toll has risen to nine with 18 others still unaccounted for after a flood and mudslide Saturday in a mountainous Tibetan
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s prime minister resigned and fled the country Monday after weeks of protests against a quota system for government jobs descended into violence and grew into a broader challenge to her 15-year rule. Thousands of demonstrators stormed her official residence and other buildings associated with her party and family.
Continue ReadingAP Political Writer DE SOTO, Kan. (AP) — The sheriff in Kansas’ most populous county is facing a contentious Republican primary after taking on election fraud as a cause. Democrats see a good chance of capturing an office that they haven’t won since 1930. The GOP in Johnson County in the Kansas City area is
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — The Season 2 finale of “House of the Dragon” that aired Sunday night kept on teasing a big battle scene. You know, the kind of signature “Game of Thrones”-style battle where Kings and Queens try to take what they believe is rightfully theirs, complete with dragonfire and pithy lines
Continue ReadingTOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock index has plunged more than 12% as investors worried that the U.S. economy may be in worse shape than had been expected and dumped a wide range of shares. Tokyo’s benchmark fell more than 4,400 points to 31,458.42 on Monday. It dropped 5.8% on Friday, logging its worst
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer COMPTON, Calif. (AP) — A man charged with murder vehemently denied in court testimony that he sent his 17-year-old son into a Los Angeles restaurant in 2022 to rob and kill hip-hop star PnB Rock. “I understand you’re trying to put together your story,” Freddie Trone told a prosecutor during cross-examination in
Continue ReadingAP Education Writer WASILLA, Alaska (AP) — She was a teenager, and the mother of a 2-year-old, when a knock came on the door of the trailer she called home. Two women were there to tell her about a federally funded preschool program called Head Start that was opening near her home in Chugiak. Would
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza Seúl, Corea del Sur (CNN) — Corea del Norte afirmó que envió 250 nuevos lanzadores de misiles balísticos tácticos hacia su frontera con Corea del Sur, en la última declaración belicosa del líder Kim Jong Un contra su vecino. Fotografías publicadas por el periódico estatal norcoreano Rodong Sinmun muestran lo que parecen
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state’s longtime attorney general and a former sheriff known for his work hunting down the Green River Killer are vying to become the next governor of a Democratic stronghold that hasn’t had an open race for the state’s top job in more than a decade. Democratic attorney general Bob
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Russell Vought, a key architect of the controversial Project 2025 plan, speaks as a general marshaling troops to tame a “woke and weaponized” federal government. Vought has said political opposition is “enemy fire that’s coming over the target” and has urged allies to be “fearless at the point of attack.” He
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A chief architect of Project 2025, the controversial conservative blueprint to remake the federal government, Russell Vought is likely to be appointed to a high-ranking post in a second Trump administration. Vought is among the small cadre of Trump advisers who has a mechanic’s understanding of how Washington operates. He’s
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