By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY, JAN M. OLSEN and JARI TANNER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — When the leaders of Finland, Sweden and Turkey met with NATO’s chief this week, some remained pessimistic the meeting would lessen Turkey’s objections to the Nordic pair’s historic request to join NATO. The government in Ankara had indicated for weeks that
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. government this week is holding its first onshore oil and natural gas sales from public lands since President Joe Biden took office. The lease auctions start Wednesday and conclude Thursday. They come after a federal court blocked the administration’s attempt to suspend federal lease
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is urging the Catholic faithful to stop exploiting the old Latin Mass for ideological reasons. In a letter Wednesday, he is instead urging them to discover the beauty of the new liturgy that grew from the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.Francis penned a letter
Continue ReadingDAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria says it has decided to recognize the “independence and sovereignty” of Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions and establish diplomatic relations. The Syrian Foreign Ministry announcement Wednesday comes days after President Bashar Assad met a joint delegation from both regions in Damascus. Syria is a strong ally of Russia, which
Continue ReadingBy Sana Noor Haq and Benjamin Brown, CNN An 8-year-old boy was found alive in a sewer eight days after he went missing in Oldenburg, northwestern Germany. The boy, identified by authorities only as Joe, was reported missing on the afternoon of June 17. Joe was eventually rescued from the sewer system after a passer-by
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL PHILLIS and JULIO CORTEZ Associated Press POOLESVILLE, Md. (AP) — People who work to protect rivers and waterways have begun using drones to catch polluters in places where wrongdoing is difficult to see or expensive to find. The images they capture have already been used as evidence to accuse companies of wrongdoing. Now
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN We’re about to have an entirely new perspective on the universe. The James Webb Space Telescope will release its first high-resolution color images on July 12. One of those images “is the deepest image of our universe that has ever been taken,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson during a news conference
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Unilever has sold its Ben & Jerry’s business in Israel to its distributor in the country, following ongoing controversy related to its activities in Israel and the West Bank. Unilever announced Wednesday the sale for an undisclosed amount to American Quality Products (AQP), which distributes Ben & Jerry’s in Israel.
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Shareholders of Spirit Airlines will vote next month on a proposed merger with Frontier Airlines. If that deal fails, Spirit could be sold to JetBlue Airways. A vote on the Frontier deal had been scheduled for Thursday but was delayed until July 8. The outcome could
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Shareholders of Spirit Airlines will vote next month on a proposed merger with Frontier Airlines. If that deal fails, Spirit could be sold to JetBlue Airways. A vote on the Frontier deal had been scheduled for Thursday but was delayed until July 8. The outcome could
Continue ReadingBy RAHIM FAIEZ and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan finance and central bank officials from the Taliban-led government have departed for Qatar to meet with U.S. officials. The move comes after last week’s deadly earthquake highlighted how critical relief efforts have stumbled under the weight of the country’s spiraling economic woes. The
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said there’s “no guarantee” the central bank can tame runaway inflation without hurting the job market. Speaking Wednesday at a European Central Bank forum in Sintra, Portugal, Powell repeated his hope that the Fed can achieve a so-called soft landing —
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said there’s “no guarantee” the central bank can tame runaway inflation without hurting the job market. Speaking Wednesday at a European Central Bank forum in Sintra, Portugal, Powell repeated his hope that the Fed can achieve a so-called soft landing —
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Mets aces Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer took their next steps toward returning to New York’s rotation. DeGrom threw 27 pitches to hitters in Port St. Lucie, Florida, on Wednesday and could progress to a minor league injury rehabilitation assignment. The 34-year-old right-hander missed the second half of last season because
Continue ReadingBy DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Timberwolves are bringing back reserve forward Taurean Prince. He became a vital part of the second unit in his first season with the club. Prince and the Timberwolves have agreed to a two-year, $16 million contract extension, according to a person with knowledge of
Continue ReadingNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a former U.S. Coast Guard employee has pleaded guilty in a test score-fixing scheme that happened over seven years at an exam center in Louisiana. U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans said in a news release Tuesday that Eldridge Johnson entered the plea June 23 to one count each
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business In the wake of the Supreme Court’s controversial decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, people have flooded social media platforms with information about how to access in-person or medication abortions to help those in states that have outlawed the procedure or could soon do so. But the situation could create
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Justice Stephen Breyer has notified the White House that his retirement will be effective Thursday, June 30, at noon ET. In a letter to President Joe Biden, Breyer said it had been his “great honor” to participate as a judge in the “effort to maintain our Constitution
Continue ReadingBy Scottie Andrew, CNN Photographs by Rana Young for CNN Rodd Gray moved to Eureka Springs to rest. Gray had done it all, or close to it, in his 60-plus years — the military veteran has been a hairdresser, computer programmer, award-winning AIDS advocate, and drag queen (he performed as Patti Le Plae Safe, a
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes (CNN Español) — “El uso de la fuerza excesiva es inaceptable y los derechos humanos y la dignidad de las personas en movimiento deben ser priorizadas por los países”. Con este contundente mensaje, el secretario general de la ONU, António Guterres, se sumó a la discusión pública sobre la violencia en la frontera
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