Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping have met on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Russia, in their first bilateral meeting in five years. The meeting came days after the two giant neighbors announced a border accord aimed at ending a four-year-old standoff involving
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Abercrombie & Fitch has spent years trying to scrub the memory of longtime former CEO Mike Jeffries and the associated sexualized marketing campaigns with shirtless male models that he crafted. Since Jeffries exited as CEO in 2014 after more than two decades, Abercrombie ditched the perfume-drenched stores,
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A new history of the USS Intrepid will be co-written by Montel Williams, a former Navy man otherwise known for his long career as a daytime television host. Hanover Square Press announced Wednesday. that “The Sailing of the Intrepid” will be published May 6, and the writers are Williams and David
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By Karen Zatkulak Click here for updates on this story BAT CAVE, North Carolina (WLOS) — If you meet Paula Masters, be ready for a hug and a laugh. The 78-year-old grandmother also has an unbelievable strength. She somehow lived through Helene in her Bat Cave home as it collapsed around her. “It sounded like
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed in September to the weakest annual pace in nearly 14 years even as mortgage rates eased and the supply of properties on the market continued to climb. Existing home sales fell 1% last month from August to a seasonally adjusted annual
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ASTON, Pa. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris says she believes Donald Trump “is a fascist.” Her comment comes after Trump’s his longest-serving chief of staff said the former president praised Adolf Hitler while in office and put personal loyalty above the Constitution. In interviews with The New York Times and The Atlantic,
Continue ReadingALBION, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana man has been sentenced to life in prison for the 1975 killing of a 17-year-old girl. A judge sentenced 69-year-old Fred Bandy Jr. on Tuesday to a life term with the possibility of parole in Laurel Jean Mitchell’s death. She was found drowned in a river after she failed
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — Al menos 19 personas murieron en un operativo en que el Ejército Mexicano capturó este lunes a Edwin Antonio Rubio López, alias “El Max”, el presunto jefe de una célula delictiva armada asociada al cártel del Pacífico, que habría participado en la reciente ola de violencia en el municipio
Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — A man accused of peppering homes and business with rubber ducks and fake $100 bills bearing messages supporting Karen Read now faces criminal charges — the latest twist in a high-profile case that has deeply divided a Boston suburb. Richard Schiffer Jr. is charged with witness intimidation, criminal harassment
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — With her portraits of red-lipped women painted like sculptures in resplendent jewel tones, the Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka has posthumously become an Art Deco icon. Her figures are sumptuous and moody, seemingly longing for something more as they pose in front of crowded skylines or behind the wheel
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By Mostafa Salem, Isil Sariyuce, Benjamin Brown, Niamh Kennedy, Christian Edwards and Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — Armed assailants launched a deadly “terror” attack on Turkey’s state-run aerospace company near the capital Ankara on Wednesday, government officials said. At least five people were killed and 22 injured in the “terrorist attack” on the Turkish Aerospace
Continue ReadingAP Pro Football Writer Lamar Jackson couldn’t have performed much better as a passer when he threw five TD passes, only five incompletions and no interceptions while throwing for 281 yards in a victory for Baltimore over Tampa Bay. It just wasn’t perfect, according to the NFL’s arcane passer rating formula. Jackson fell two-tenths of
Continue ReadingBy Michael Hudak, Kevin Boulandier, Jordan Segundo Click here for updates on this story CUTLER BAY, Florida (WSVN) — A Cutler Bay community is on edge after gunshots rang out on Monday night, injuring two people. Miami-Dade Police units responded to reports of gunshots on Southwest 89th Avenue and Old Cutler Road, shortly before 8
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine will receive $50 billion in loans, backed by frozen Russian assets, from Group of Seven allies. That word comes Wednesday from the White House. Distribution of the money will begin by year’s end, according to officials who say the United States is providing $20 billion of the total. Leaders
Continue ReadingPETRILA, Romania (AP) — For many years, Sebastian Tirinticǎ worked in a coal mine, just like his father and grandfather before him. These days, Tirinticǎ, now 38, is largely surrounded by solar panels and wind turbines as he travels across Romania to train former coal workers and others for jobs in renewable energies. It’s been
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Martha Stewart may be hot in the kitchen, but she’s not looking to replicate that on a dating reality show. During a recent appearance with her friend and all-around cool guy Snopp Dogg on “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen,” the topic of the ABC series “The
Continue ReadingKING By Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — A 15-year-old was arrested Monday after five people were found dead in a home in Fall City, Washington, in an incident “perpetrated by firearm,” law enforcement officials said. Two adults and three of their children were found dead after deputies responded early Monday to 911 calls of a
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has rejected a claim by Donald Trump’s campaign that his Labour Party is illegally interfering in the U.S. presidential election. A statement on Trump’s website says an official complaint has been filed with the Federal Election Commission against the Labour Party and the campaign of Vice President
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s air force struck Kurdish militant targets in Iraq and Syria on Wednesday in an apparent retaliation for an attack at a key state-run defense company that killed five people and wounded more than 20 others. The defense ministry said more than 30 targets were “destroyed” in the aerial
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Police say a 60-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after three people were found dead in a care home in southern England. Dorset police are investigating whether carbon monoxide poisoning caused the deaths. Detective Chief Inspector Neil Third says investigators are trying to determine if someone was grossly negligent.
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