By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes surged in February to the fastest pace in six months as homebuyers seized on a modest drop in mortgage rates and slight pullback in prices. The National Association of Realtors said Tuesday that existing home sales jumped 14.5% last
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Police say one of two porcupines which went missing from a zoo in central Germany over the weekend has somehow found its way back home. State police in Saxony-Anhalt had called Sunday for the public to keep an eye out for the two Indian crested porcupines, called Pinky and Brain, after they
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Martina Navratilova returned to TV work at Tennis Channel for its coverage of the Miami Open on Tuesday, less than three months after saying she had throat cancer and breast cancer. “It’s great to be back. … Thrilled to be here,” said the 18-time Grand Slam singles champion and member of the
Continue Reading By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. cases of a dangerous fungus tripled over just three years, and more than half of states have now reported it, according to a new study. The COVID-19 pandemic likely drove part of the increase, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wrote
Continue Reading By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press ASHFORD, Conn. (AP) — Amarey Brookshire was devastated when she heard about the fire at the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for seriously ill children — her camp. The February 2021 blaze destroyed much of the retreat in the woods of eastern Connecticut, which was founded by the late
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN US Patriot missile defense systems and Abram tanks are set to be deployed to Ukraine faster than originally planned, US defense officials said on Tuesday. A group of 65 Ukrainian soldiers will complete their training on the systems at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in the coming days, the defense
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Video by Channon Hodge, CNN Researchers have been pushing the limits of 3D printing for decades, using the manufacturing technique to churn out consumer goods such as furniture and shoes, human organs and even a rocket. But can the industrial technology be applied to make a fully baked dessert that can
Continue ReadingBy Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst Former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has provided a public accounting of his firm’s work at the Supreme Court that began five years ago with security at justices’ homes, for their travels and in courtroom operations, confirming CNN’s exclusive reporting related to Chertoff’s endorsement of the court’s
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FORT RILEY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a Fort Riley guard has shot and wounded a motorist after an altercation at a gate at the Kansas Army base. The base said in a news release that the motorist’s injuries weren’t life threatening. The altercation happened Monday after the motorist drove through the gate and was
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN As TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew prepares for his first congressional grilling on Thursday, much of the focus will undoubtedly be on the short-form video app’s potential national security risks. Concerns about TikTok’s connections to China have led governments worldwide to ban the app on official devices, and those fears have
Continue ReadingBy Hadas Gold, Amir Tal and Abeer Salman, CNN Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich denied the existence of a Palestinian people or nationhood over the weekend, prompting a rebuke from the United States just weeks after calling for a Palestinian town to be “erased.” Smotrich, a Jewish nationalist, argued that the idea of Palestinian
Continue ReadingBy Kim Berryman, Brian Todd, Andy Rose, Michelle Watson and Eric Levenson, CNN Surveillance video released by a prosecutor Tuesday shows Irvo Otieno being pinned to the floor by multiple security officers at a Virginia state mental health facility in the moments leading up to his death earlier this month. Dinwiddie County Commonwealth’s Attorney Ann
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — Officials say a patient carrying a bladed weapon has been fatally shot by Belgian police at a psychiatric clinic in Brussels. The local prosecutor’s office said police were asked to intervene Tuesday at the psychiatric institute Fond’Roy for a man aged 49, described as aggressive and whom the clinic staff could not
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, CNN While the fury of conflict echoes across the eastern Donbas region, a very different war is being waged in Crimea: one of night-time explosions, sabotage and disinformation. Reclaiming Crimea may seem like an unlikely quest for Ukraine but it is putting considerable effort into making Russia’s occupation as uncomfortable as possible.
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Jaap van Zweden will conduct Mahler’s Second Symphony in his farewell concerts as the New York Philharmonic’s music director from June 6-8, 2024, ending a season that will spotlight the 100th anniversary of the orchestra’s Young People’s Concerts. Van Zweden succeeded Alan Gilbert as music director in the 2018-19 season and
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tens of thousands of workers in the Los Angeles Unified School District walked off the job Tuesday over stalled contract talks, and they were joined by teachers in a three-day strike that shut down the nation’s second-largest school system. Demonstrations began at a bus yard by
Continue Reading By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya say that one person died, 31 officers were injured and more than 200 protesters were arrested in anti-government protests led by opposition leader Raila Odinga. Odinga on Tuesday announced that the protests will be held twice a week starting next week. The opposition
Continue Reading By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — TikTok went on a counteroffensive Tuesday amid increasing Western pressure over cybersecurity and misinformation concerns, rolling out updated rules and standards for content as its CEO warned against a possible U.S. ban on the Chinese-owned video sharing app. CEO Shou Zi Chew is scheduled to appear
Continue ReadingBy Negar Mahmoodi and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Every spring, Mona Gorjestani eagerly awaits the arrival of Nowruz. “I have wonderful memories of preparing for Nowruz with my family,” the San Francisco Bay Area resident said. “When I was younger, it was definitely a bragging point to my American friends.” Persian New Year, which is celebrated
Continue Reading Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says his country’s security forces discovered an arsenal of weapons intended for terrorist attacks. The reported discovery followed their killing on Sunday in the city of Grodno, just east of the Polish border, of a foreigner allegedly planning a terrorist attack. The Belarusian security agency said the alleged terrorist was killed
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