By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China’s military declared Monday it is “ready to fight” after completing three days of large-scale combat exercises around Taiwan that simulated sealing off the island in response to the Taiwanese president’s trip to the U.S. last week. The “combat readiness patrols” named Joint Sword were meant
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN In an unusual coincidence, the US jobs report was released on a holiday Friday — meaning stock markets were closed when the closely-watched economic data came out. It was the first monthly payroll report since Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank collapsed. It also marked a full year of jobs data
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt, CNN ABBA’s long-term guitarist Lasse Wellander has died after a short battle with cancer, his family announced. The Swedish pop group described Wellander’s talent as “immense,” and paid tribute to a “dear friend, a fun guy and a superb guitarist.” “It is with indescribable sadness that we have to announce that our
Continue ReadingBy Abeer Salman and Jo Shelley, CNN Israeli forces shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in the Aqbat Jaber refugee camp near the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, Palestinian officials said, as violence in the region continued to simmer on Monday. Mohammad Fayez Balhan was “killed by live occupation bullets in the head,
Continue Reading CAMBRIDGE A fire broke out at a Massachusetts church not long after Easter services, with more than 100 firefighters working to save the 114-year-old structure. The fire started at about 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the Faith Lutheran Church in Cambridge. Part of the roof collapsed, but the main structure and steeple were still standing. Acting
Continue Reading By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet Scam artists often target older adults because they hold significant levels of wealth, but family and friends can help reduce the danger. First, talk openly about the risks and popular financial scams covered in the news so older adults are aware. Use simple anti-fraud tools like account alerts and strict
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Se cree que un cuerpo encontrado dentro de un vehículo sumergido es el del desaparecido maestro del área de Daytona, Robert Heikka, quien ha estado desaparecido por más de dos años. El cuerpo fue recuperado este sábado después de que los equipos locales de búsqueda y recuperación detectaran un vehículo
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse and Jacob Lev, CNN Sunday evening should have been a time for celebration for the Minnesota Timberwolves after cementing their spot in the NBA’s Play-In tournament. Instead though, it was filled with questions after the team’s star center Rudy Gobert was sent home for an altercation with his teammate Kyle Anderson during
Continue ReadingBy David Wright, CNN Sen. Bob Casey will run for reelection in 2024, the Pennsylvania Democrat announced Monday morning, providing good news for Democrats in a pivotal swing state. “Folks, I’m running for reelection,” Casey, 62, said in an announcement posted on Twitter. “There’s still more work to do to cut through the gridlock, stand
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau, Allegra Goodwin and Sana Noor Haq, CNN The Italian Coast Guard is leading rescue efforts to save at least 400 migrants adrift on a boat in the Mediterranean Sea between Italy and Malta, along an immigration route that NGOs have warned is perilously dangerous. Three rescue operations involving several vessels are
Continue ReadingBy Jack Bantock, CNN Jon Rahm won the 2023 Masters on Sunday, clinching his first green jacket and second career major with an unflappable showing at Augusta National. The Spaniard put on a clinic in consistency to ease to a four shot victory ahead of LIV Golf Series duo Brooks Koepka and Phil Mickelson. After
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — A human rights group says two prominent Chinese human rights lawyers have been sentenced to more than a decade in prison. It’s part of an ongoing crackdown by the ruling Communist Party on its critics. Human Rights Watch said Monday that Xu Zhiyong was sentenced to 14 years and Ding Jiaxi to
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson and Emma Tucker, CNN An Idaho mother who is accused of killing her two children and conspiring to kill her husband’s first wife was motivated by “money, power and sex,” prosecutors said as opening statements in her trial began Monday, according to CNN affiliate East Idaho News. Lori Vallow Daybell is charged
Continue Reading By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Israelis led by at least seven Cabinet ministers marched Monday to an evacuated West Bank settlement, in a defiant signal that Israel’s most right-wing government in history is determined to accelerate settlement building on occupied lands despite international opposition. The mass rally also threatened
Continue Reading By STEPHEN McGRATH and VADIM GHIRDA Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian prosecutors have carried out forensic searches of electronic devices in the case of Andrew Tate, the divisive internet personality who is under house arrest on suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking, his lawyer says. Tate, a British-U.S. citizen, was initially detained
Continue Reading MARSEILLE (AP) — Two bodies were found Monday in the rubble following an explosion that collapsed a building in the southern French city of Marseille, bringing the confirmed death toll to four as rescuers continue searching for four more people who are unaccounted-for. Two other bodies had previously been found overnight. The judicial authority will
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Los tigres alguna una vez vagaron por Asia, con un número de hasta 100.000 individuos a principios del siglo XX, antes de que la especie cayera al borde de la extinción. En 2006, su población en India, hogar de la mayoría de los tigres salvajes que quedan en el mundo,
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Una pareja de ancianos murió después de comer pez globo venenoso en Malasia, lo que provocó un pedido de su hija de leyes más estrictas para evitar que otros sufran el mismo destino. Ng Chuan Sing y su esposa Lim Siew Guan, ambos de poco más de 80 años, compraron,
Continue ReadingBy Phil Gast, CNN But for a flight surgeon who gave him a pass when he came up an eighth of an inch short of a height requirement, Michael Novosel Sr. might never have become a military aviator. After the 18-year-old promised to grow just a little bit more — to 5 feet, 4 inches
Continue Reading ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A vice president at Greece’s Supreme Court has resigned in a legal dispute over an attempt by the government to ban a far-right political party from participating in next month’s general election. Judge Christos Tzanerikos, one of 10 serving vice presidents at the court, tendered his resignation after the government introduced
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