By Laura He, CNN Business China’s top cybersecurity regulator is vowing to crack down on “illegal” online content as part of a campaign to clean up the internet ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics and one of the country’s most important annual holidays. The Cyberspace Administration of China announced Tuesday that its month-long internet “purification”
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By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer The San Francisco 49ers are hoping their recent regular-season dominance over the Los Angeles Rams extends to the playoffs. The Niners have swept the season series against the Rams the past three seasons and take a six-game winning streak in the series into the NFC title game. It’s
Continue Reading By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer The San Francisco 49ers are hoping their recent regular-season dominance over the Los Angeles Rams extends to the playoffs. The Niners have swept the season series against the Rams the past three seasons and take a six-game winning streak in the series into the NFC title game. It’s
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By INNA VARENYTSIA and LORI HINNANT Associated Press ZOLOTE 4, Ukraine (AP) — Soldiers and civilians in eastern Ukraine are waiting with helpless anticipation to see if war comes. They understand that the decision will be made by people who know little about the lives of those on the eastern front lines. The battle-weary region
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mixed, with many investors staying on the sidelines ahead of an update on how aggressively the Federal Reserve will tackle inflation. Benchmarks fell in Tokyo and Seoul but rose in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Stocks have gyrated this week, putting heightened scrutiny on
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By Cheri Mossburg and Amir Vera, CNN The San Jose, California, city council voted Tuesday night to adopt a first-in-the-nation ordinance requiring most gun owners to pay a fee and carry liability insurance, measures aimed at reducing the risk of gun harm by incentivizing safer behavior and easing taxpayers of the financial burden of gun
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By Raja Razek and Joe Sutton, CNN Grammy award-winning rapper Cardi B won a lawsuit Monday against YouTuber Tasha K for defamation, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress, and was awarded a seven-figure sum in damages. Cardi B, whose real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almanzar, was targeted by Latasha Transrina Kebe, who
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By Alta Spells, Leyla Santiago and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN Hundreds of anti-Semitic flyers — falsely claiming the public health response to Covid-19 is being orchestrated by Jewish people — were distributed to homes in South Florida over the weekend, according to authorities. Similar flyers were distributed in five other states — Colorado, Wisconsin, Texas, California,
Continue Reading By Alta Spells, Leyla Santiago and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN Hundreds of anti-Semitic flyers — falsely claiming the public health response to Covid-19 is being orchestrated by Jewish people — were distributed to homes in South Florida over the weekend, according to authorities. Similar flyers were distributed in five other states — Colorado, Wisconsin, Texas, California,
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By Jessie Yeung, Steven Jiang, David Culver and Jennifer Hansler, CNN The US diplomatic mission in China has formally requested the State Department grant American diplomats “authorized departure,” allowing them and their families to leave the country amid increasingly strict Covid-19 containment measures, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The request has not
Continue Reading By Amanda Jackson, CNN Ozzie, the world’s oldest male gorilla and the third-oldest gorilla in the world, died Tuesday at Zoo Atlanta, the facility announced. He was 61. The 350-pound western lowland gorilla’s cause of death is not yet known, the zoo said in a news release. Ozzie was considered a true legend at the
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By Josh Campbell, CNN A 16-year-old was arrested Tuesday and charged with murder for selling a fentanyl-laced pill to a child who died of a drug overdose, California prosecutors said. The 12-year-old girl who ingested most of the pill was the youngest person to overdose and die in 2020 in Santa Clara County, the district
Continue Reading By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press COMACHUEN, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s remittances — the money migrants send home to their relatives — have soared in the past two years, and are now expected to top $50 billion for the first time once 2021’s figures are added up. But as happy as the Mexican government is about
Continue Reading By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press COMACHUEN, Mexico (AP) — Comachuen is a Puerpecha Inidgenous community of about 10,000 inhabitants nestled high in the pine-clad mountains of the western state of Michoacan. The whole town survives because of the money sent home by migrants working in the United States. That money kept families fed after local
Continue Reading By Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, CNN As Jan Stone stirred a large pot of grits with sausage for her six adopted children on Friday, she was juggling a little more than usual during the family’s predawn routine. Not only was Stone trying to get them out the door for school with backpacks and full
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wild volatility in the stock market this week has put heightened scrutiny on the Federal Reserve’s meeting Wednesday and whether the Fed will clarify just how fast it plans to tighten credit and potentially slow the economy. With high inflation squeezing consumers and businesses, the Fed
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Fulton Police are asking for public help in identifying the persons who stole catalytic converters from a Fulton-based non-profit.
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By Brad Lendon, CNN The United States Navy is trying to retrieve its most advanced fighter jet from the depths of the South China Sea, an extremely complex operation that analysts say will be closely monitored by Beijing. The F-35C, a single-engine stealth fighter and the newest jet in the US Navy fleet, crash-landed on
Continue Reading By Amanda Jackson, CNN Ozzie, the world’s oldest male gorilla and the third-oldest gorilla in the world, died Tuesday at Zoo Atlanta, the facility announced. He was 61. The 350-pound western lowland gorilla’s cause of death is not yet known, the zoo said in a news release. Ozzie was considered a true legend at the
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Richer, more heavily armed and openly confrontational, China has undergone history-making changes since the last time it hosted the Olympics, in 2008. Then, as fireworks exploded over Beijing, China was about to pass Japan to become the No. 2 global economy. The ruling Communist Party celebrated
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