By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to go on the offensive against Republicans by saying their policies would add $3 trillion to the national debt. Ahead of Biden’s remarks Wednesday to union workers in Lanham, Maryland, the White House issued a fact sheet that questions the GOP’s sincerity on
Continue ReadingBy Donald Judd, CNN The Biden administration is announcing new steps Wednesday to expand the nation’s electric vehicle infrastructure, including a new partnership with Tesla that would see the electric vehicle manufacturer open a portion of its charging network to non-Tesla EVs for the first time. According to a fact sheet shared with CNN, Wednesday’s
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN New Zealand’s Hawke’s Bay is known for its fine wine, but many of the region’s vineyards are now under water, along with homes and roads in the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle. The weather system didn’t make landfall in New Zealand, but it caused widespread destruction, killing at least eight people, displacing
Continue ReadingBy Mark Morales, Eric Levenson, Laura Ly and Aya Elamroussi, CNN The 19-year-old White man who killed 10 people in a racist mass shooting at a grocery store in a predominantly Black area of Buffalo last May apologized to the victims’ families and was sentenced to life in prison during an emotional court hearing Wednesday.
Continue Reading By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian General Staff says Russian forces are still trying to punch through Ukraine’s defenses in eastern areas of the country, as Moscow’s invasion struggles to gain momentum almost a year after it began. Russian artillery, drones and missiles have been relentlessly pounding Ukrainian-held eastern areas
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan and Brad Lendon, CNN It’s known as the “Hawaii of China,” a tropical island paradise where the Chinese middle class enjoys sandy beaches, five-star resorts, and duty-free luxury shopping. It’s also China’s largest free-trade port and host of the Boao Forum, an annual meeting of political and business leaders dubbed “Asia’s Davos.”
Continue ReadingBy Talia Kayali, Rhea Mogul and Hande Atay Alam, CNN A confused woman asked her rescuers “What day is it?” when pulled alive from the rubble of last week’s earthquake after 228 hours, Turkey’s state-run news agency Anadolu reported Wednesday, as another woman aged 77 was also rescued from the debris. More than nine days
Continue ReadingBy Eric Cheung and Juliana Liu, CNN Shares in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company fell as much as 4% on Wednesday, after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed that it had sold most of its holdings in the chip giant. In a Tuesday filing with the United States’ Securities and Exchange Commission, Berkshire Hathaway said it had
Continue Reading WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck near the New Zealand capital Wellington as the nation grapples with widespread landslides and flooding days after a cyclone. New Zealand’s National Emergency Management Center tweeted that the quake on Wednesday was widely felt in the North Island. There
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A Missouri man who has been serving a life sentence for nearly three decades was set free Tuesday after a judge ruled he is innocent and vacated his murder conviction. Lamar Johnson was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in 1995 after being convicted of murder
Continue Reading By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press AKERNI, Albania (AP) — A new, multimillion-euro international airport near Albania’s coastal city of Vlora will mean hundreds of jobs for area residents. But environmentalists warn it could cause irreparable damage to the fragile ecosystems of protected lagoons that host flamingos, pelicans and millions of other migratory birds. Albania’s new,
Continue Reading PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A defense lawyer says a court in northwest Pakistan has acquitted the parents of an exiled female human rights activist three years after the couple was arrested on charges of terror financing and sedition. The 2019 arrests of the activist Gulalai Ismail’s parents, Mohammad  Ismail and Uzlifat Ismail, had drawn widespread
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea on Wednesday said that it’s still premature to determine whether the recently unveiled daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is being groomed as her father’s successor. Speculation about the status of Kim’s daughter, reportedly named Kim Ju Ae and aged about
Continue ReadingBy Junko Ogura, CNN Japan said Tuesday it “strongly” suspects three Chinese spy balloons entered its airspace between 2019 and 2021. Three “balloon-shaped flying objects” were detected between November 2019 and September 2021, the Japanese Ministry of Defense said, adding that these were “strongly presumed” to be “unmanned reconnaissance” aircraft flown by China. The ministry
Continue Reading By PIYUSH NAGPAL and CHONCHUI NGASHANGVA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s tax officials searched BBC offices in India for a second straight day on Wednesday questioning staff about the organization’s business operations in the country, some staff members said. BBC management told editorial and other staff members to work from home after they
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh and Holly Yan, CNN Years before Anthony Dwayne McRae killed three Michigan State University students and critically wounded five others, he was charged with carrying a concealed weapon — a felony count that would have prevented him from being able to buy a gun if he were convicted. That felony case never
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh and Holly Yan, CNN Years before Anthony Dwayne McRae killed three Michigan State University students and critically wounded five others, he was charged with carrying a concealed weapon — a felony count that would have prevented him from being able to buy a gun if he were convicted. That felony case never
Continue Reading By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A white supremacist is set to be sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket in an attack fueled by racist conspiracy theories he encountered online. Payton Gendron is scheduled to appear in Erie County Court, where he pleaded
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday that he anticipates finding a CEO for Twitter “probably toward the end of this year.” Speaking via a video call to the World Government Summit in Dubai, Musk said making sure the platform can function remained the most important
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — The head of China’s national soccer federation has been arrested on corruption charges in the latest blow to the country’s effort to grow its standing in the international game. A one-sentence statement from the ruling Communist Party’s anti-graft watchdog body says Chen Shuyuan had been placed under investigation by national and Hubei
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