By Nectar Gan, CNN China has threatened the Biden administration with retaliation over its decision to impose a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, warning the move could harm bilateral relations. The Biden administration said Monday it would not send an official United States delegation to the Beijing Winter Games as a
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By Nectar Gan, CNN China has threatened the Biden administration with retaliation over its decision to impose a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, warning the move could harm bilateral relations. The Biden administration said Monday it would not send an official United States delegation to the Beijing Winter Games as a
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, CNN China has threatened the Biden administration with retaliation over its decision to impose a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, warning the move could harm bilateral relations. The Biden administration said Monday it would not send an official United States delegation to the Beijing Winter Games as a
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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Ukrainian and Western officials are worried about a Russian military buildup near Ukraine. They fear it could signal plans by Moscow to invade its ex-Soviet neighbor. Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014 after the country’s Moscow-friendly president was driven from power by mass protests. Russia also
Continue Reading DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s military says Israeli warplanes fired missiles on the port of the coastal city of Latakia, causing fire without inflicting any human losses. Syria’s state media quoted an unnamed military official as saying that several missiles struck the containers area in the port early on Tuesday, setting some of them on
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By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer The NCAA’s first NET rankings are out and the top spot mirrors the AP Top 25 with Purdue at No. 1. The NCAA’s college basketball primary sorting tool takes a bit of a deviation at No. 2. LSU, which entered the AP poll at No. 25 this week, is
Continue Reading By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Angela Merkel is credited with raising Germany’s profile and influence and working to hold a fractious European Union together. She also been lauded for managing a string of crises and being a role model for women in a near-record tenure that ends with her leaving office amid
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Científicos revelaron una especie de ictiosaurio marino con dientes afilados recién descubierto que fue encontrado en Colombia. El cráneo parcial de un ictiosaurio, un reptil marino extinto, que parecía un pez espada fue descubierto en Loma Pedro Luis, Villa de Leyva, en Boyacá, Colombia, en la década de 1970, según un
Continue Reading By AGOES BASOEKI Associated Press LUMAJANG, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s president has visited areas devastated by a powerful volcanic eruption that killed at least 34 people and left thousands homeless, and vowed that communities would be quickly rebuilt. Clouds of hot ash shot high into the sky and an avalanche of lava and searing gas
Continue Reading TOKYO (AP) — A group of about 100 Japanese lawmakers has prayed at a Tokyo shrine viewed by China and the Koreas as a symbol of Japanese wartime aggression. Their visit to Yasukuni Shrine occurred 80 years after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Many of the lawmakers, including nine vice Cabinet ministers, are members of
Continue Reading By Natasha Chen, Amy Simonson and Tina Burnside, CNN The Hawaii Department of Health has demanded the Navy immediately halt operations at a Navy fuel storage facility after a leak led to contaminated drinking water — forcing 700 people from their homes and sickening families. The Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility is located 100
Continue Reading By WILLIAM J. KOLE Associated Press The list of 2021’s most mispronounced words is out, and they’re a mouthful. The U.S. Captioning Company, which captions and subtitles real-time events on TV and in courtrooms, compiled the list. It highlights the names and terms that were most challenging for newsreaders and people on television to pronounce.
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By WILLIAM J. KOLE Associated Press The list of 2021’s most mispronounced words is out, and they’re a mouthful. The U.S. Captioning Company, which captions and subtitles real-time events on TV and in courtrooms, compiled the list. It highlights the names and terms that were most challenging for newsreaders and people on television to pronounce.
Continue Reading By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In New York City, long a beacon for immigrants, noncitizens are about to win an important civic duty: The right to vote. New York is poised to become the largest U.S. city to give access to the ballot box to those with green cards or
Continue Reading By LEE KEATH and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press HERAT, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghans are streaming across the border into Iran in accelerating numbers, driven by desperation. Since the Taliban takeover in mid-August, Afghanistan’s economic collapse has accelerated, robbing millions of work and leaving them too poor to feed their families. In the past three months,
Continue Reading By LEE KEATH and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press HERAT, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghans are streaming across the border into Iran in accelerating numbers, driven by desperation. Since the Taliban takeover in mid-August, Afghanistan’s economic collapse has accelerated, robbing millions of work and leaving them too poor to feed their families. In the past three months,
Continue Reading By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — Pearl Harbor attack survivors are expected to gather at the site of the bombing to remember those killed 80 years ago. About 30 survivors and 100 other veterans of the war were expected to participate in a ceremony at a pier overlooking the USS Arizona
Continue Reading By Holly Yan, CNN To help thwart potential school violence, students and staff need to beware of certain warning signs — and feel comfortable reporting them. But “the general public, they really don’t know what to look for,” said former FBI special agent and profiler Mary Ellen O’Toole, who has studied school shootings for more
Continue Reading By CALEB JONES Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — From the now empty shores of Oahu’s Waikiki Beach to the snowy summit of the Big Island’s highest peak, an unusually strong winter storm is clobbering the Hawaiian Islands. And it’s raising the threat of dangerous flash floods, landslides and crashing tree limbs. The storm over the
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By Omar Jimenez, Bill Kirkos, Eric Levenson and Steve Almasy, CNN Jussie Smollett’s defense rested its case Tuesday after the former “Empire” actor testified that he was the victim of a real anti-gay and racist hate crime in Chicago in January 2019 and denied that he staged the attack for media attention. Smollett, 39, has
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