Advocates fear US weighing climate vs. human rights on China
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press U.S. envoy John Kerry is on a diplomatic quest to stave off the worst scenarios of global warming, but…
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Communists, observers report violations in Russian election
By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The head of Russia’s Communist Party, the country’s second-largest political party, is…
Continue ReadingWhy we’re talking about the debt limit again
By Zachary B. Wolf, CNN Republicans and Democrats in Washington are gearing up for their occasional fight over raising the US debt limit. Also known…
Continue ReadingTop doctors say not so fast to Biden’s boosters-for-all plan
By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Just a month ago, President Joe Biden and his health advisers announced big plans to soon deliver…
Continue ReadingYemen Houthi rebels execute 9 over senior official’s killing
By AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels say they have executed nine people for their alleged…
Continue ReadingPope to bishops: Listen to abuse victims for sake of church
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is urging European bishops to listen to survivors of clergy sexual abuse and consider…
Continue ReadingAfter Afghanistan pullout, US seeks NATO basing, intel pacts
By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The top U.S. military officer is in Greece meeting with NATO counterparts this weekend,…
Continue ReadingFrance’s Notre Dame cathedral secured at last. Next: rebuild
PARIS (AP) — France’s Notre Dame Cathedral is finally stable and secure enough for artisans to start rebuilding it. It took more than two years…
Continue ReadingAttack on gas pipeline in Syria causes brief power outage
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s electricity minister says an attack with explosive devices laid along a natural gas pipeline southeast of…
Continue ReadingHigh temperatures, wildfire smoke and drought: The politics of climate change in one California congressional district
By Dan Merica, CNN Photographs by Damon Casarez for CNN The changing climate is everywhere Gustavo Carranza looks when he walks through his…
Continue ReadingHow televangelist Tammy Faye Messner became a gay icon
By Scottie Andrew, CNN Tammy Faye Messner (formerly Bakker) was camp incarnate. With her wildly over-the-top makeup and garish animal-print…
Continue ReadingTaliban replace ministry for women with ‘virtue’ authorities
By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers have set up a ministry for the “propagation of…
Continue ReadingRomanian forest attack highlights illegal logging ‘scourge’
By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian authorities say two journalists and an environmental activist have been…
Continue ReadingChile, Fiji and South Africa are ready for travelers to come back
By Maureen O’Hare, CNN There have been mixed fortunes for the world’s island communities this week, as some have restricted entry due to…
Continue ReadingNew tropical depression forms; Odette well offshore
MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters have announced Saturday night the formation of a new tropical depression in the Atlantic Ocean. The U.S. National…
Continue ReadingAngry and afraid, Afghanistan’s LGBTQ community say they’re being hunted down after Taliban takeover
CNN By Ben Westcott, CNN Growing up as a teenager in Afghanistan, Rabia Balkhi felt lucky. Despite being born in a country with a long history of…
Continue ReadingAngry and afraid, Afghanistan’s LGBTQ community say they’re being hunted down after Taliban takeover
CNN By Ben Westcott, CNN Growing up as a teenager in Afghanistan, Rabia Balkhi felt lucky. Despite being born in a country with a long history of…
Continue ReadingAngry and afraid, Afghanistan’s LGBTQ community say they’re being hunted down after Taliban takeover
By Ben Westcott, CNN Growing up as a teenager in Afghanistan, Rabia Balkhi felt lucky. Despite being born in a country with a long history of…
Continue ReadingFDA vaccine advisers vote to recommend booster doses of Covid-19 vaccine in people 65 and older and those at high risk
CNN By Maggie Fox, Jamie Gumbrecht and Jacqueline Howard, CNN Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted Friday to recommend…
Continue ReadingFDA vaccine advisers vote to recommend booster doses of Covid-19 vaccine in people 65 and older and those at high risk
By Maggie Fox, Jamie Gumbrecht and Jacqueline Howard, CNN Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted Friday to recommend emergency…
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