BEIJING (AP) — China has threatened “resolute countermeasures” over a planned meeting between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and Speaker of the United States House Speaker Kevin McCarthy during an upcoming visit in Los Angeles by the head of the self-governing island democracy. Diplomatic pressure against Taiwan has ramped up recently, with Beijing poaching Taipei’s dwindling
Continue Reading By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press AL-AZZA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — In schools across the world, children are halfway into their second semester. But in a Palestinian refugee camp south of Jerusalem, kids wake up at 1 p.m. They kick soccer balls, hang out in barbershops and aimlessly scroll through TikTok. They watch television
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Una empleada de un casino de Black Hawk, Colorado, fue acusada después de que un vídeo de vigilancia la mostrara cogiendo US$ 500.000 de la cámara acorazada y marchándose con ellos, según una declaración jurada de arresto, pero ella afirma que estaba “siguiendo órdenes” que creía que venían de los jefes
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh and Hanna Ziady, CNN UBS is bringing back its former chief executive, Sergio Ermotti, to manage the hugely complex and risky task of completing the bank’s emergency takeover of rival Credit Suisse. The surprise appointment, announced Wednesday, highlights the scale of the challenge facing the Swiss lender as it executes a first-of-its-kind
Continue Reading By KEN POWTAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — When the Nashville Predators’ team flight took off for Boston, defenseman Ryan McDonagh wasn’t aboard. He stayed home Monday, to be with his three young daughters in the shaken community. A day after a fatal grade school shooting in Nashville left six dead, including three children, McDonagh
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, Paula Hancocks and Yoonjung Seo, CNN North Korea has been building up a ballistic missile arsenal on the stated premise that it needs to deter an attack on it by United States and South Korean forces. Washington and Seoul have been showing their firepower through an increasing number of exercises, all of
Continue Reading By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and MORGAN LEE Associated Press CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — When smoke began billowing out of a migrant detention center in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, Venezuelan migrant Viangly Infante Padrón was terrified because she knew her husband was still inside. The father of her three children had been picked
Continue Reading By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Vanessa Santiago first met Pamela Smart in 2003 as a fellow prison inmate in New York, working with her as a teacher’s aide and participating with her in an arts rehabilitation program. The two became close, and when Santiago, 43, was released from the maximum security
Continue ReadingBy Treasure Welle and Paradise Afshar, CNN A Wisconsin man was arrested Tuesday in connection with a 2022 firebombing attack on an anti-abortion organization’s office in the state’s capital after DNA evidence linked him to the crime scene, prosecutors said. Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury, 29, of Madison, was arrested at Boston Logan International Airport on one
Continue Reading By HOLLY MEYER and ANNIE MA Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An alarm blared and lights flashed as a heavily armed assailant stalked the hallways of The Covenant School. Surveillance footage of the shooting Monday at the private Christian school in Nashville showed many familiar security measures, including the double set of locked glass
Continue Reading By SAM METZ Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Gwyneth Paltrow’s attorneys continue to lean on experts to mount their defense about her 2016 ski collision with a 76-year-old retired optometrist who sued her years later. Her defense team chose to devote their final full day to call witnesses, they questioned four medical experts,
Continue ReadingBy Shafi Kakar, Hande Atay Alam and Helen Regan, CNN A prominent activist for girls’ education in Afghanistan was arrested by the Taliban on Monday, according to an official, the latest step in its repressive clampdown on the rights of Afghan women. Matiullah Wesa, 30, is well known for his activism and is the founder
Continue Reading By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military governmenttook another major step in its ongoing attempts to cripple its political opponents on Wednesday , dissolving dozens of opposition parties including that of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi for failing to meet a registration deadline ahead of elections. Suu Kyi’s National League for
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart and Michelle Watson, CNN Two runaway barges remain stuck in the Ohio River, according to officials in Louisville, Kentucky, who reiterated Wednesday there is still no evidence of a chemical leak as one of the barges is carrying the highly flammable compound methanol. In a news conference Wednesday afternoon, Louisville Mayor Craig
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — El Gobierno de Estados Unidos ayuda en la investigación que se realiza por la pérdida de unas 19.000 dosis de fentanilo del Complejo Hospitalario de la Caja de Seguro Social de Panamá, según la embajadora estadounidense en el país, Mari Carmen Aponte. “Hay una investigación acerca de qué pasó con esos
Continue Reading HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Officials in Alabama say a Huntsville police officer has died after being shot Tuesday evening. Another officer was critically wounded. The two Huntsville police officers were shot at an apartment complex as they responding to a 911 call where a woman said she had been shot. One officer died from his
Continue Reading By JOSH BOAK and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the federal budget standoff, the majority of U.S. adults are asking lawmakers to pull off the impossible: Cut the overall size of government, but also devote more money to the most popular and expensive programs. Six in 10 U.S. adults say the government
Continue Reading By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii authorities on Tuesday say they have referred 33 people to U.S. law enforcement after the group allegedly harassed a pod of wild dolphins in waters off the Big Island. It’s against federal law to swim within 50 yards (45 meters) of spinner dolphins in Hawaii’s nearshore
Continue Reading By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The fire that killed 38 people at an immigration detention center in Mexico happened as Western Hemisphere countries face pressure to address the extraordinary number of people fleeing their homes. Mexico has expanded its network of dozens of detention centers while working closely with the United
Continue Reading By JULIE PACE and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press ON A TRAIN FROM SUMY TO KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Tuesday that unless his nation wins a drawn-out battle in a key eastern city, Russia could begin building international support for a deal that could require Ukraine to make unacceptable compromises. He
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