By Ashley Strickland, CNN In 1660, a ship carrying a treasure trove of luxury goods sank off the coast of Texel, the largest island in the North Sea. Nearly four centuries later, little remained of the wooden unidentified Dutch merchant ship. But as the silt and sand covering the wreck washed away, broken chests began
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By Paula Reid and Zachary Cohen, CNN Kathy Chung, President Joe Biden’s former executive assistant, has agreed to sit for an interview with the House Oversight Committee as part of its investigation into classified documents found at Biden’s home and office, CNN has learned. The Republican-led committee sent a letter to Chung last month demanding
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By Laura Paddison, CNN Dangerous climate feedback loops are increasing global warming and risk causing a permanent shift away from the Earth’s current climate, according to a new study. Climate feedback loops are cyclical chain reactions that happen when one change triggers further changes, in a process that keeps on repeating itself. Some of these
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A fire caused heavy damage to a home north of Columbia but no one was injured.
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By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Shortly before leaving for his first state visit to China on Tuesday, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi issued a thinly veiled criticism of his powerful ally, saying the two countries’ relationship has not lived up to expectations. The first Iranian president to arrive in China on a state visit in two decades,
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — El FBI ha estado investigando y trabajando para contener un incidente cibernético malicioso en una parte de su red informática en los últimos días, según personas que fueron informadas sobre el asunto. Los funcionarios del FBI creen que el incidente involucró a un sistema informático que la agencia utiliza en investigaciones
Continue Readingdzaratsian (CNN) — ¡Los ovnis son reales! Solo pregúntale al gobierno de Estados Unidos. Estados Unidos ha ignorado en gran medida los informes sobre misteriosos objetos voladores, pero en años recientes ha empezado a reconocer lentamente avistamientos de ovnis, que el Pentágono se refiere como fenómenos aéreos no identificados. EE.UU. reporta más de 350 nuevos
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Una alta funcionaria del FBI les advirtió este jueves a los secretarios de estado de todo EE.UU. que los piratas informáticos chinos representan una “amenaza creciente” y dijo que su disposición a atacar la infraestructura de los partidos políticos antes de las elecciones de 2022 demuestra que “podríamos ver una
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By KWIYEON HA and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Former leaders from Australia, Britain and Belgium have called for a tougher international approach to China to reduce the possibility of war over Taiwan and respond to human rights violations. Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison linked human rights violations in China with security
Continue Reading By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Europe’s youngest country, Kosovo, on Friday launched festivities for the 15th anniversary of its independence from neighboring Serbia with a military parade, wreath-laying ceremonies and a special Parliament session. But the celebrations are overcast by revived tension with Serbia, despite yearslong Western efforts
Continue Reading By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona’s reputation as one of soccer’s elite is in danger because of a scandal of its own making. Spanish soccer is reeling this week as a state prosecutor probes Barcelona’s payment of millions of dollars over several years to a company that belonged to the vice
Continue Reading By JOHN RABY Associated Press Floodwaters in West Virginia forced some high school students to hunker down for the night in an impromptu slumber party complete with pizza, board games and football tosses in the gymnasium. All schools in Lincoln County, in the southern part of the state, were dismissed two hours early on Thursday
Continue Reading By KARL RITTER Associated Press MUNICH (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Western allies Friday to quicken their military support for Ukraine, warning at a major international security conference that delays would play into Russia’s hand as the invasion approaches its first anniversary. “There is no alternative to speed, because it’s speed that life
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are falling again on Wall Street Friday, and the S&P 500 is on track for its first back-to-back weekly drop since the turn of the year. Wall Street’s benchmark index was 0.8% lower in early trading, a day after sliding to its worst loss
Continue Reading SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A top prosecutor in Jamaica has ruled that Prime Minister Andrew Holness won’t face charges over possible conflict of interest in contracts awarded to a construction company in 2007-2009 while he was education minister. Jamaica’s director of public corruption issued the ruling Thursday after reviewing a report on the
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By Amanda Watts, Sara Smart and Rebekah Riess, CNN The family of Donovan Lewis filed a civil complaint against the officers involved in his August 2022 death, according to family attorney Rex Elliot. Lewis, a 20-year-old unarmed Black man was fatally shot by a Columbus, Ohio, police officer serving a warrant on an apartment in
Continue Reading COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A powerful storm over the North Sea hit northern Europe and led to dozens of train and ferry cancellations Friday in northern Denmark and southern Norway as the Danish Meteorological Institute forecast hurricane-force wind gusts. The storm, named Otto, was set to move east over Sweden and the Baltic Sea. In
Continue Reading WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Two weeks after Tropical Cyclone Cheneso devastated Madagascar, killing 30 people, the Indian Ocean island nation and its neighbors are bracing for a more powerful Cyclone Freddy. Meteo France has described Freddy as an “intense tropical cyclone” and a “particularly powerful and compact tropical system, generating extreme
Continue ReadingBy Emily Brown Click here for updates on this story GENESSEE CO., Michigan (WNEM) — Three people have been charged for concealing the death of an 86-year-old and allegedly cashing in the deceased person’s Social Security checks, Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said. Jodi and Gregory Baer, who are sister and brother, and Jodi’s boyfriend,
Continue ReadingBy Tony Garcia Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Nashville Fire paramedics treated several students after reports of an overdose at a Nashville school on Thursday morning. According to NFD, crews responded to the Nashville School of Arts on Foster Avenue for an overdose call involving students. NFD reported the
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