NEW YORK (AP) — Melinda French Gates, already one of the world’s most prominent philanthropists, will now take on the job of publisher. Gates has formed a nonfiction imprint with Flatiron Books, a division of Macmillan. The imprint, announced Tuesday by Macmillan, is called Moment of Lift Books and will launch with three releases about
Continue Reading By JAMEY KEATEN and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press ZURICH (AP) — President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to hold a virtual working meeting before year’s end. That’s according to a senior administration official who was not authorized to comment publicly. The agreement for a more formal leaders’ meeting came as White
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By STEFANIE DAZIO, MATTHEW BROWN and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Some of the oil that spilled from a pipeline into the waters off Southern California has been breaking up naturally in ocean currents. That’s according to a Coast Guard official who spoke to reporters Wednesday. Petty Officer Steve Strohmaier says
Continue Reading By STEFANIE DAZIO, MATTHEW BROWN and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Some of the oil that spilled from a pipeline into the waters off Southern California has been breaking up naturally in ocean currents. That’s according to a Coast Guard official who spoke to reporters Wednesday. Petty Officer Steve Strohmaier says
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN) — El gobierno de Etiopía utilizó a Ethiopian Airlines, la aerolínea comercial de bandera del país, para transportar armas desde y hacia la vecina Eritrea durante la guerra civil en la región etíope de Tigray, según ha descubierto una investigación de CNN. Los documentos y manifiestos de carga vistos por CNN, así
Continue Reading By DAVID KEYTON, FRANK JORDANS and CHRISTINA LARSON Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize for chemistry for finding an “ingenious” and environmentally cleaner way to build molecules that can be used to make a variety of compounds, including medicines and pesticides. The work of Benjamin List and David W.C.
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN Some Democratic lawmakers are sounding an alarm this week that Congress won’t be able to pass major climate provisions ahead of an important international climate conference set for early November in Glasgow. “That is a real concern,” Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware told CNN. “I think it’s critical that we go to Glasgow
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DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — A Davenport man charged with killing a woman as she was leaving a civil rights protest has agreed to plead deal that replaces his first-degree murder charge with a charge of attempted murder. The Quad-City Times reports that a judge on Tuesday accepted the plea agreement signed by 22-year-old Parker Belz
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers left pitcher Walker Buehler off their roster for the one-game wild-card playoff against the St. Louis Cardinals. Buehler would start Game 1 of the NL Division Series if the Dodgers advance. They added four players to the roster — Billy McKinney, Zach McKinstry, Luke Raley and Steven
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By Hannah Ritchie, CNN The ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, used agents of Dubai and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to hack into and monitor the phones of his ex-wife Princess Haya bint al-Hussein, her legal advisors, and staff, during an ongoing custody battle concerning their two children, England’s high court has
Continue Reading By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization has endorsed the world’s first malaria vaccine and said it should be given to children across Africa in the hope that it will spur stalled efforts to curb the spread of the parasitic disease. The WHO’s director-general called it “a historic moment”
Continue Reading By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization has endorsed the world’s first malaria vaccine and said it should be given to children across Africa in the hope that it will spur stalled efforts to curb the spread of the parasitic disease. The WHO’s director-general called it “a historic moment”
Continue Reading By JAMIE STENGLE and JILL BLEED Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Police have arrested a student suspected of opening fire during a fight at his Dallas-area high school, leaving four people injured. Police say 18-year-old Timothy George Simpkins fled from Timberview High School in Arlington. He was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon and is
Continue ReadingBy Leyla Santiago, Gregory Lemos, Kristina Sgueglia and Travis Caldwell, CNN North Port Police say investigators did not find a campsite in the sprawling nature reserve that has been the focus of the search for Brian Laundrie, the missing fiancé of Gabby Petito. Police spokesperson Josh Taylor’s confirmation that there was no campsite comes after
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By Leyla Santiago, Sara Weisfeldt and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN Police searching for Brian Laundrie have found the remnants of a campsite that appeared to have been recently used at the Florida reserve that has been the focus on efforts to find him, a source close to the family told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Wednesday. Earlier,
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — An organization that monitors human rights in the Russian military and provides legal support for conscripts says it is ending its work because of new restrictions that could lead to its being designated a foreign agent. Wednesday’s announcement by the Soldiers’ Mothers of St. Petersburg follows an order by the Federal Security
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By Bethlehem Feleke, Vasco Cotovio and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN The Ethiopian government’s air force carried out two air strikes in the northern region of Tigray, government spokesperson Legese Tulu told CNN Sunday. One of the strikes hit a military command post and training center belonging to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) — the region’s
Continue Reading By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California judge says Wednesday that she plans to resentence Scott Peterson to life in prison Dec. 8 while she separately considers whether he deserves a new trial in the 2002 murders of his pregnant wife and unborn son. Peterson has spent more than 15 years
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Está previsto que el Senado lleve a cabo una votación de procedimiento este miércoles sobre si se debe adelantar un proyecto de ley aprobado por la Cámara para suspender el límite de deuda de Estados Unidos hasta diciembre de 2022, pero se espera que los republicanos bloqueen la medida. La
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El secretario de Estado de EE.UU., Antony Blinken, instó este miércoles “firmemente” a China a que cese su actividad militar en torno a Taiwán, ya que la isla denunció incursiones récord en su espacio aéreo por parte de aviones de guerra chinos esta semana. “Estamos muy preocupados por la actividad
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