JERUSALEM (AP) — Christian worshipers gathered in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the traditional site of Jesus’s crucifixion, burial and resurrection, to observe the Easter holiday. Thousands of people participated on Sunday in mass at the church in the historic Old City, home to holy sites to the three monotheistic faiths. Tens of thousands
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN) — El papa Francisco dijo el domingo que el mundo está celebrando una “Pascua de guerra” y pidió la paz en Ucrania, que dijo que ha sido arrastrada a una “guerra cruel y sin sentido”. “Hemos visto demasiada sangre, demasiada violencia. Nuestros corazones también se han llenado de miedo y angustia”, dijo
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has begun releasing more than 1,600 prisoners to mark the traditional new year holiday, but they didn’t include any political detainees despite the country’s ruling general vowing to bring peace this year. Myanmar has been under military rule since last year, when the army
Continue ReadingBy Kate Bennett, CNN On Monday the White House will become something it has yet to become while Joe and Jill Biden have been in residence: A party house. At 6:45 a.m. ET, the first of what will ultimately be an anticipated 30,000 guests, who won tickets via a public lottery, will pour through the
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Nearly 400 million people across 45 cities in China are under full or partial lockdown as part of China’s strict zero-Covid policy. Together they represent 40%, or $7.2 trillion, of annual gross domestic product for the world’s second-largest economy, according to data from Nomura Holdings. Analysts are ringing warning bells,
Continue ReadingBy Maya Brown, CNN Mckayla Wilkes remembers repeatedly complaining of shortness of breath to her doctors during her entire pregnancy seven years ago. But she says no one listened. Her concerns were consistently dismissed or minimized while she was pregnant with her daughter, Madison, who is now 6. After being initially told it was asthma,
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Wis. (AP) — A crowded field of Democrats is trying to figure out a winning strategy to unseat Republican Sen. Ron Johnson in Wisconsin in November. It’s one of a handful of competitive Senate races this election year and could help decide Senate control. Johnson was elected as a
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Senior British royals including Prince William and his wife Kate have attended an Easter Sunday church service at Windsor Castle. Queen Elizabeth II, who has been experiencing mobility problems, did not attend the service at St. George’s Chapel on the castle grounds, a fixture in the royals’ calendar. William and Kate were
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of Americans wait until the last minute to file their taxes, and this year is no exception. Monday is Tax Day — the federal deadline for individual tax filing and payments. The IRS will receive tens of millions of last-minute filings electronically and through paper forms.
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of Americans wait until the last minute to file their taxes, and this year is no exception. Monday is Tax Day — the federal deadline for individual tax filing and payments. The IRS will receive tens of millions of last-minute filings electronically and through paper forms.
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The leader of the Anglican church has strongly criticized the British government’s plan to put some asylum-seekers on one-way flights to Rwanda. Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby says “sub-contracting out our responsibilities” to refugees cannot stand up to God’s scrutiny. In his Easter Sunday sermon, the archbishop
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, Tim Lister, Darya Tarasova, Julia Kesaieva, Manveena Suri and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Ukrainian forces besieged in Mariupol have rejected Russia’s demands to surrender and are still resisting an unrelenting assault on the southeastern port city, top Ukrainian officials said on Sunday. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said the city, which has been
Continue ReadingCNN By Jessie Yeung, Tim Lister, Darya Tarasova, Julia Kesaieva, Manveena Suri and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Ukrainian forces besieged in Mariupol have rejected Russia’s demands to surrender and are still resisting an unrelenting assault on the southeastern port city, top Ukrainian officials said on Sunday. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said the city, which has
Continue ReadingBARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Some Barcelona fans are expected to gather near the Camp Nou Stadium before the team’s Spanish league match on Monday to protest against the influx of Eintracht Frankfurt supporters for the Europa League game last week. Only about 5,000 tickets were sold to the visiting fans but nearly 30,000 made it
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN A 9-year-old boy’s love of cats inspired him to raise almost $2,000 for the Idaho Humane Society. Ben Miller has operated a lemonade stand for three years in a row, raising $1,950 for his favorite cause. For this year’s donation, he brought a plastic bag filled with a whopping $1,150 in
Continue ReadingBy FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has made an Easter plea for peace in Ukraine and in other wars in the world. After celebrating Easter Sunday Mass for tens of thousands of faithful in St. Peter’s Square for the first time since the pandemic, Francis delivered his traditional geopolitical speech,
Continue ReadingBy BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankans protesting for days near the president’s office have criticized a lack of progress in finding those responsible for the deaths of more than 260 people in Islamic State-inspired bombings on Easter Sunday three years ago, piling pressure on the government already embroiled in
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Authorities say shots fired at a house party in Pittsburgh left two 17-year-olds dead and at least eight more people wounded. The shooting happened at around 12:30 a.m. Sunday as hundreds of people had gathered at a short-term rental home. Pittsburgh Police Chief Scott Schubert says the “vast
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Watson, CNN Two people were killed after their car crashed into an Amtrak train Saturday night in Houston as the vehicle was trying to beat the train at a crossing, officials said. The car, possibly a Chrysler 300, went around another vehicle stopped at the Van Hut Lane crossing and “tried to cut
Continue ReadingBy KATHY GANNON Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has fired off a sharp warning to Afghanistan’s hard-line religious rulers. It said Sunday it wants the Afghan Taliban to stop sheltering homegrown Pakistani Taliban militants who have been staging increasingly deadly attacks against the country’s military. The warning followed Afghan reports that Pakistani aircraft late
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