By Stefano Pozzebon and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN An ongoing wave of violent protests in Peru shows how the Russian invasion of Ukraine is affecting markets around the world, sparking unrest and deepening political divides. Rising fuel costs originally triggered the protests, which started last week, but quickly intensified into large anti-government demonstrations with marches
Continue ReadingRICHLAND, Ore. (AP) — Officials say a wolf was killed in northeast Oregon and the state is seeking the public’s help to find the person or people involved. The Oregon State Police Fish & Wildlife Division said Wednesday that the wolf was killed in the Keating Wildlife Management Unit. Fish and Wildlife officials say their
Continue ReadingCompiled by Jon Passantino, CNN Republican-led states around the country have enacted a flurry of new restrictions on abortion, LGBTQ and transgender youth rights, and discussion of critical race theory. Here’s a look at some of the legislation that has passed this session, what’s next for the bills and what else is under consideration. The
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly will vote Thursday on whether to suspend Russia from the U.N.’s premier human rights body. The move was initiated by the United States in response to the discovery of hundreds of bodies after Russian troops withdrew from towns near the Ukrainian
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — The captain of an overloaded smuggling boat that crashed into rocks and broke up off the San Diego coast last year, killing three immigrants, has pleaded guilty to federal charges. Antonio Hurtado entered pleas Wednesday to attempted human smuggling resulting in death and attempted human smuggling for financial gain. He faces a
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The scheduled starting time for the opening day matchup between the New York Mets and Washington Nationals has been pushed back three hours because of rain in the forecast. Washington announced Wednesday that the Nationals and Mets agreed to play each other on Thursday at 7:05 p.m. EDT instead of 4:05 p.m.
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged two men they say were posing as federal agents, giving free apartments and other gifts to U.S. Secret Service agents, including one who worked on the first lady’s security detail. Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 36, were taken into custody as more
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear on Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have prohibited transgender women and girls from competing on sports teams consistent with their gender at public and private schools in the state. In a veto letter signed Wednesday, Beshear said guidelines regarding transgender student-athletes are already being implemented by
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER and BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s Republican attorney general has issued an interim report on his review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County. The review released Wednesday outlines Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s concerns with some election procedures but does not provide proof of any major issues despite
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Megha Majumdar, whose novel “A Burning” was among the most talked about debuts of 2020, is among this year’s 10 recipients of a Whiting Award. Fiction writers Claire Boyles and Nana Nkweti, poets Ina Cariño and Anthony Cody and nonfiction writers Anaïs Duplan and Alexis Pauline Gumbs also will receive $50,000
Continue ReadingTUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama wide receiver Agiye Hall has been suspended and is no longer listed on the roster. Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban says Hall violated unspecified team rules. Hall was a four-star recruit coming out of high school and had four catches for 72 yards as a freshman. Alabama is replacing its
Continue ReadingBy RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — Closing arguments are underway in the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy case. A Delaware judge must decide whether to approve a reorganization plan the BSA negotiated over the past two years. It would establish a $2.6 billion trust fund to compensate tens of thousands of men
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La invasión rusa de Ucrania ha sido más costosa y menos exitosa de lo que la mayoría de los analistas habían esperado en sus primeras seis semanas, y los expertos ahora consideran que Moscú está cambiando su enfoque militar. La estrategia de guerra revisada del presidente de Rusia Vladimir Putin ahora
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar and Claudia Dominguez, CNN A Nevada man was charged with murder Tuesday in the death of an 18-year-old woman whose body was found last week after she disappeared in mid-March, court documents show. Naomi Irion was last seen March 12 around 5 a.m. in a Walmart parking lot in the Lyon County
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN An Oklahoma House committee voted Wednesday to advance a bill that would allow private citizens to take civil action against abortion providers to enforce the law. The bill would follow another anti-abortion bill the Oklahoma legislature sent to the governor’s desk on Tuesday that would make performing an abortion or attempting
Continue ReadingBy Jon Sarlin, CNN Business Sky Mavis, makers of the crypto “play-to-earn” game “Axie Infinity,” announced on Wednesday it had raised a $150 million investment. The news comes on the heels of recent and widely-publicized hack of the company in which around $625 million in assets were stolen. The company says the additional money will
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN Español) — Ya solo falta la decisión del Poder Ejecutivo, luego de que la Corte Suprema de Colombia avalara este miércoles la extradición de Dairo Antonio Úsuga, alias Otoniel, solicitada por las autoridades de Estados Unidos por cargos de narcotráfico. Las autoridades de ese país y la Policía de Colombia afirman que
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN The future of Covid-19 vaccines — including when and how often booster doses might be needed — remains unclear and “complex,” according to advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration. The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) detailed in a meeting Wednesday how emerging coronavirus variants and
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Oregon has seen an increase in daily reported cases of COVID-19 for the most recent reporting week following more than two months of steady declines, the Oregon Health Authority reported Wednesday.
Continue ReadingBy Shawna Mizelle, CNN Safi Rauf, an Afghan American naval reservist who was recently released from captivity under the Taliban, recounted his detainment on Wednesday and what it’s like to finally return home. “It’s an incredible feeling. It hasn’t settled in yet,” he told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an exclusive interview on “The Lead,” his
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