By Jason Morris, Sara Murray and Devan Cole, CNN Portions of a highly anticipated report by the Atlanta-area special grand jury that investigated Donald Trump’s actions in Georgia after the 2020 election will be released Thursday, giving the public its clearest look yet into the two-year probe into Trump and his associates’ efforts to reverse
Continue ReadingBy Edward-Isaac Dovere and Phil Mattingly, CNN When President Joe Biden went for his annual physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Thursday morning, he set a new record — as he does every morning — as the oldest US president ever. Biden’s age is “omnipresent” in nearly every conversation, one person involved
Continue ReadingBy David Close, CNN Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo was on Tuesday reimbursed over $300,000 for legal fees he spent while defending himself in a federal civil case alleging he had raped a woman in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2009. The case was dismissed in June, after the judge found that the plaintiff’s
Continue ReadingBy Rob Frehse and Celina Tebor, CNN The man suspected of hitting pedestrians while driving a rental truck in Brooklyn Monday, killing one person and injuring eight, appeared in court Wednesday to face charges of murder and attempted murder, according to court records. Weng Sor, 62, allegedly was driving a U-haul truck and struck people
Continue ReadingBy Alasdair Howorth, CNN Lewis Hamilton says “nothing will stop him” from speaking out after new rules were introduced by the FIA restricting drivers from making “political, religious and personal statements.” The seven-time world champion was speaking at the launch of the Mercedes’ 2023 car for the upcoming season at Silverstone and was not impressed
Continue ReadingBy Wayne Sterling, CNN Basketball Hall of Famer Michael Jordan is making a record-breaking $10 million donation to Make-A-Wish America in honor of his upcoming 60th birthday, the organization announced Wednesday. The gift is the largest given by an individual in the foundation’s 43-year history. Jordan, who turns 60 on Friday, hopes his donation will
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By TANYA TITOVA and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s disaster management agency has raised the number of people killed in the Feb. 6 earthquakes to 36,187. NATO’s chief called it the worst disaster on the alliance’s territory. The revised death toll pushes the combined total from Turkey and Syria to 39,875.
Continue ReadingElizabeth Wolfe, CNN One person was killed and three others were injured in a shooting Wednesday evening at a mall in El Paso, Texas, police said, sending patrons running or sheltering in a community scarred three years ago by a shooting massacre in a store just down the road. Two random groups had a physical
Continue Reading By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Thousands of black-clad pilgrims from across Iraq are taking part in an annual procession marking the death of a Shiite saint. The procession Thursday amid chilly temperatures and heavy security travels to the shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, the seventh of 12 Shiite imams who died in
Continue Reading MERIBEL, France (AP) — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin has taken the lead with her first run of the giant slalom at the world championships. Shiffrin was the third starter and beat the time of then-leader Tessy Worley of France by 0.12 seconds. Defending champion Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland had more than six-tenths to make up
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares were mostly higher Thursday, cheered on by a stronger than expected reading on U.S. retail sales that set off a rally on Wall Street. France’s CAC 40 edged up 0.8% in early trading to 7,356.36. Germany’s DAX added 0.5% to 15,586.02. Britain’s FTSE 100
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — France is bracing for a fifth day of nationwide strikes and protests against a pension reform that is the flagship policy of President Emmanuel Macron’s second term. Thursday’s protests are expected to be less disruptive that on previous occasions, with the Paris Metro working normally and most schools unaffected. A railway worker
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Beech, Eric Levenson and Aya Elamroussi, CNN The head of the US Environmental Protection Agency traveled to East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday and said the agency plans to hold the train company Norfolk Southern accountable for its role in the derailment of a train carrying hazardous chemicals earlier this month. Speaking to CNN’s
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Missouri’s General Assembly is again working on legislation to legalize sports betting in the state.
Continue Reading By PIYUSH NAGPAL and ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s tax officials are searching the BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai for a third straight day seeking information about the organization’s business operations amid allegations of tax evasion. Some news staff members were questioned overnight, but the tax officials restricted themselves
Continue Reading By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Nearly a year since fleeing Ukraine for Hungary amid the bombs and terror of Russia’s invasion, more than 100 young circus performers still hold intensive daily training sessions in Budapest while waiting to see what an uncertain future holds. The group, whose members are between the
Continue Reading By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — In the cemetery where Oleksii Zavadskyi and Yurii Stiahliuk are buried, the women they loved take drags on the men’s favorite brands of cigarettes. Clouds of smoke are exhaled in silence. Interlaced between Anastasiia Okhrimenko’s dainty fingers are Camels. Anna Korostenska lights L&M’s, her hands shaking
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose and Bill Kirkos, CNN The father of the man accused of killing seven people and wounding dozens more at a Fourth of July parade mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, appeared in court Thursday after being indicted on multiple charges by a grand jury Wednesday. Robert Crimo Jr. was charged by the
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Starbucks will open more than 400 stores across Asia Pacific in 2023, marking its biggest expansion in the region in five years. The coffee chain plans to add the new outlets in India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos and the Philippines, where it aims to expand beyond major cities. It will open
Continue ReadingBy Ryan Young, Devon M. Sayers, Melissa Alonso and Ray Sanchez, CNN A Shreveport, Louisiana, police officer was arrested Thursday on a charge of negligent homicide in the fatal shooting earlier this month of Alonzo Bagley, an unarmed Black man, Louisiana State Police said. Officer Alexander Tyler made his initial appearance in court, where a
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