By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — A former Boeing test pilot has been indicted on fraud charges related to his work in evaluating the 737 Max jetliner, the same model that was involved in two deadly crashes. Prosecutors said Mark Forkner was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury and accused of
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By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Southeast Asia’s top diplomats will discuss in an emergency meeting Friday whether to allow Myanmar’s military leader to attend an annual summit after a crisis envoy was barred from meeting ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations appointed Brunei’s Erywan
Continue Reading By CHRIS GRYGIEL Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The two candidates for Seattle mayor agreed that tackling an ongoing homelessness crisis was the top issue facing the the Northwest’s largest city, but they differed sharply about how to pay for that. Lorena González and Bruce Harrell also clashed over police funding and the role and
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes (CNN Español) — La Comisión de la Ciudad de Miami votó este jueves por unanimidad afirmar la suspensión del jefe de policía Art Acevedo y destituirlo inmediatamente de su cargo. La decisión se tomó al final de una audiencia de casi cinco horas de duración durante la cual el abogado del administrador de
Continue Reading By RISHABH R. JAIN Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Soon after the pandemic began, India’s government, with funding from The Rockefeller Foundation, tasked the country’s most advanced bioscience innovation hub — the publicly funded Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms, or C-CAMP — with quickly finding a way to locally produce virus test kits
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN Español) — Aturdimiento, náuseas y sangrado nasal, son algunos de los síntomas que han experimentado más de 200 diplomáticos, funcionarios y familiares estadounidenses en todo el mundo. Estos síntomas son consistentes con el “síndrome de La Habana”, un fenómeno que continua siendo un misterio. ¿Qué es el “síndrome de La Habana”?
Continue Reading By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese officials have set up an independent commission to investigate the conditions at a run-down building where a fire killed 46 people. Outside the cordoned-off and charred building, a Taoist priest chanted a prayer for the victims. Many were elderly or infirm residents unable to escape
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By CNN’s Beijing Bureau and Hannah Ritchie China has denied a report that it tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August, saying on Monday that the test was instead a “routine spacecraft experiment.” The Financial Times reported Sunday that “China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August that circled the globe before speeding towards its
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By Laura Ly, CNN Actress Lili Bernard filed a lawsuit against Bill Cosby on Thursday, alleging he drugged and raped her in Atlantic City in or around August 1990, according to court documents. In her lawsuit, Bernard alleges that she met the comedian on the set of “The Cosby Show” and that in July 1990
Continue Reading By JAMES ANDERSON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Attorneys for a former security director of Dominion Voting Systems say President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, campaign attorneys and conservative media outlets recklessly spread an uncorroborated report that the director tried to fix the 2020 election for Joe Biden. They made that argument Thursday in asking a
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By Sonia Moghe, CNN A teenager who pleaded guilty to murder and robbery charges last month in the death of Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors was sentenced Thursday to nine years to life in prison. Luchiano Lewis, who was 14-years-old at the time of the murder but who was charged as an adult, cried as
Continue Reading By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — New York real estate heir Robert Durst has been sentenced to life in prison without a chance of parole for the murder of his best friend more that two decades ago. He was convicted in Los Angeles Superior Court last month of first-degree murder for shooting
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The mandate, in effect since July, applied to classrooms and indoor spaces where social distancing was not possible. Leaders of the University of Missouri System will ask that everyone wear masks indoors, especially where they can’t keep distance, but it will not be required.
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By Tamara Qiblawi and Mostafa Salem, CNN A fierce political dispute over a probe into Beirut’s August 2020 port blast prompted the worst violence Lebanon has witnessed in more than 10 years on Thursday, after a protest descended into deadly street battles. At least six people were killed. Hundreds of supporters of Iran-backed Hezbollah and
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN Español) — Estados Unidos reabrió desde este lunes sus fronteras para viajeros internacionales completamente vacunados, aunque no todos los países podrán disfrutar de estos beneficios. Según los lineamientos, se considera que una persona está completamente vacunada cuando recibió las dosis completas de las vacunas aprobadas o autorizadas para uso de emergencia
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A man that shot himself while in custody of the Cole County Jail has pleaded guilty to trafficking meth and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
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By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Evergrande‘s unraveling is still commanding global attention, but its troubles are part of a much bigger problem. For weeks, the ailing Chinese real estate conglomerate has made headlines as investors wait to see what will happen to its enormous mountain of debt. As the slow-moving crisis unfolds, analysts are pointing
Continue Reading By LOU KESTEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A spokesman for Bill Clinton says the former president is being treated in a Southern California hospital for a non-COVID-related infection. Spokesman Angel Ureña says Clinton was admitted to the University of California Irvine Medical Center on Tuesday evening. Ureña says Clinton “is on the mend, in
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By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court is once again allowing Texas to continue banning most abortions. The decision Thursday night keeps the law known as Senate Bill 8 in place as the Justice Department tries to halt the law. The Biden administration is suing Texas over the
Continue Reading By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court is once again allowing Texas to continue banning most abortions. The decision Thursday night keeps the law known as Senate Bill 8 in place as the Justice Department tries to halt the law. The Biden administration is suing Texas over the
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