By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese Fisheries Agency says Japan and Russia have reached an agreement over Tokyo’s annual catch quota for Russian-born salmon and trout, despite delays and chilled relations between the two sides amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The agreement on Japan’s quota for the popular fish in waters
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese Fisheries Agency says Japan and Russia have reached an agreement over Tokyo’s annual catch quota for Russian-born salmon and trout, despite delays and chilled relations between the two sides amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The agreement on Japan’s quota for the popular fish in waters
Continue ReadingBy Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Phil Metzger flew home to California from Ukraine soon after the war broke out, devastated by what he saw. He’d been helping deliver medicine and evacuate families from danger, and the evangelical pastor knew he wanted the church he leads in suburban San Diego to do even more to help
Continue ReadingMONTVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT By Caroll Alvarado, CNN Dashcam video shows the terrifying moments when a truck driver near Cleveland, Ohio, lost control of his tractor-trailer and nearly crashed into a school bus loaded with students. The incident unfolded Tuesday around 8:25 a.m. as a school bus was finishing its morning rounds on its way to
Continue ReadingBy CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — New Oklahoma coach Brent Venables respects what the Sooners accomplished in recent years. Lincoln Riley compiled a 55-10 record in five seasons before leaving to become head coach at Southern California, and quarterbacks Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray won Heisman Trophies and were No. 1
Continue ReadingBy JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The biggest position battle in the Big 12 is Texas quarterback. No position carries more expectations in pursuit of getting the once-proud Longhorns back to the top of the league. And none will be a bigger target of scorn if Texas can’t get there. That’s
Continue ReadingBy ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Johnny Manziel is still playing football with a new perspective. The 2012 Heisman Trophy winner and first-round bust will make his season debut Saturday in Fan Controlled Football on a team that features Pro Football Hall of Famer Terrell Owens. It’s Manziel’s second season in his third league
Continue ReadingBy ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Johnny Manziel is still playing football with a new perspective. The 2012 Heisman Trophy winner and first-round bust will make his season debut Saturday in Fan Controlled Football on a team that features Pro Football Hall of Famer Terrell Owens. It’s Manziel’s second season in his third league
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Beijing is on alert after 10 middle school students tested positive for COVID-19, in what city officials say was an initial round of testing. City officials suspended classes in the school for a week following the positive test results on Friday. The Chinese capital also reported four other confirmed cases that were
Continue ReadingBy ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer A dearth of premier passers in the upcoming NFL draft meant the quarterback carousel spun faster than ever this spring. Russell Wilson, Matt Ryan, Marcus Mariota, Carson Wentz, Teddy Bridgewater, Drew Lock and Deshaun Watson all changed teams in 2022. Franchises still searching for a prized quarterback won’t
Continue ReadingBy ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer A dearth of premier passers in the upcoming NFL draft meant the quarterback carousel spun faster than ever this spring. Russell Wilson, Matt Ryan, Marcus Mariota, Carson Wentz, Teddy Bridgewater, Drew Lock and Deshaun Watson all changed teams in 2022. Franchises still searching for a prized quarterback won’t
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is in the pole position to win reelection Sunday in France’s presidential runoff. Yet his lead over far-right rival Marine Le Pen depends on one major uncertainty: voters who could decide to stay home. A victory in Sunday’s runoff would make Macron
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN An Iowa man brought home a $1 million lottery prize — after the clerk made a mistake printing his tickets. Josh Buster, a 40-year-old chef from West Burlington, asked for five “easy-pick” plays for the April 15 Mega Millions drawing at a convenience store, according to a news release from the
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VENICE, Italy (AP) — For the first time in the 127-year history of the Venice Biennale, the world’s oldest and most important contemporary art fair features a majority of female and gender non-conforming artists, under the curatorial direction of Cecilia Alemani. The result is a Biennale contemporary art fair
Continue ReadingBy KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — A Czech leatherwork company that makes a wide variety of handmade products — travel bags, wallets and belts — never intended to add personal protective gear that would save lives in a war to its offerings. But the Russian invasion of Ukraine has changed all that. After
Continue ReadingBy CARA ANNA Associated Press LUKASHIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — A single metal cross remains inside the Orthodox church of shattered brick and blackened stone. Residents say Russian soldiers used the house of worship for storing ammunition, and Ukrainian forces shelled the building to make the Russians leave. There will be no Orthodox Easter service on
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH KRAUSS and FARES AKRAM Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says it will close its border crossing to thousands of Gaza workers after a series of rockets were fired from the territory ruled by the militant Hamas group in recent days. The Palestinians denounced the move as “collective punishment.” The rocket fire came
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN A game warden and his K9 colleague discovered almost 381 whole shark fins and 29.2 pounds of frozen shark fins at a seafood restaurant in San Antonio, Texas. Kevin Winters, one of two Texas Game Wardens who discovered the illegal fins on April 13, told CNN that the case has not
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Continue ReadingBy PAUL DAVENPORT and CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press New Mexico’s governor says the state faces a long and potentially devastating wildfire season as Southwestern wildfires cause destruction and force people from their homes. Hundreds of New Mexico structures have been lost in a growing number of wind-driven blazes across the drought-stricken state. Gov. Michelle Lujan
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