By DAVID SHARP, ANDREW DEMILLO and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A local district attorney’s race in Maine wasn’t generating much attention until a political action committee linked to a deep-pocketed liberal donor with international name recognition suddenly took an interest. A super PAC funded by George Soros, the billionaire investor, philanthropist
Continue ReadingWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A man diagnosed with schizophrenia has been found competent to stand trial in Florida in the stabbing of a teenager. Lawyers for Semmie Williams had argued — over his objections — that he should be found incompetent and sent to a forensic mental health facility. Fourteen-year-old Ryan Rogers went
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business The pain of higher prices continues for US consumers. Record gas prices drove inflation to 8.6% for the 12 months ending in May, higher than the pace in April, according to the latest Consumer Price Index, the government’s basic inflation measure. The reading for core CPI, which strips out volatile
Continue ReadingSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police have detained dozens of truckers blocking traffic and disrupting movement of goods near factories as a nationwide strike extends into a fourth day. The truckers are urging the government to provide a minimum income in the face of soaring fuel prices that are squeezing their finances. Government
Continue ReadingSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police have detained dozens of truckers blocking traffic and disrupting movement of goods near factories as a nationwide strike extends into a fourth day. The truckers are urging the government to provide a minimum income in the face of soaring fuel prices that are squeezing their finances. Government
Continue ReadingBy Pedram Javaheri and Allison Chinchar, CNN meteorologists The two largest fires in New Mexico history are happening simultaneously and are only expected to get bigger through the weekend. The wildfires — the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire just northeast of Santa Fe and the Black Fire in the Gila National Forest — continue to burn at
Continue ReadingBy Jack Bantock, CNN The Swedish city of Malmö is taking dirty talk to a whole new level in its latest effort to clean up the streets. By installing talking garbage cans that dish out racy audio messages after being fed trash, authorities are hoping for an increase in rubbish being deposited. Pedestrians that drop
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Diecisiete meses pasaron en un instante. La imagen de vandalismo indómito y violencia fascista desatada por un presidente autoritario que abusa de su poder que se pintó este jueves en la primera audiencia en horario estelar de la comisión del 6 de enero de 2021 fue casi más aterradora que cuando
Continue ReadingCNN By Jamie Gangel, Annie Grayer, Zachary Cohen and Jeremy Herb, CNN Conservative Republican election attorney Ben Ginsberg will be among the witnesses testifying Monday before the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, as the panel seeks to scrutinize how former President Donald Trump’s election lies led to
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Russian suspect in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine has appealed in a video statement to a Dutch court to be declared innocent. The statement Friday came as judges adjourned the long-running trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s law minister says the government has agreed to abolish the mandatory death penalty and allow judges to set alternative punishments for a range of offenses. Wan Junadi Tuanku Jaafar said in a statement Friday that the Cabinet will study other proposed punishments for 11 offenses that currently
Continue ReadingBAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Charles Leclerc has set the fastest time of the day in second practice for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix as he aims to turn around his recent run of disappointing race results. Sergio Pérez led the first session. Leclerc set the pace for Ferrari with a lap of 1 minute 43.224 seconds
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Regional emergency workers say four workers have been injured when a stage being prepared for a music festival collapsed in northwestern Spain. Spanish National Television said 20 people had been working on the main stage when the accident occurred Friday outside the city of Santiago de Compostela. The four workers were temporarily
Continue ReadingBy Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent An active-duty member of the US military based in Stuttgart, Germany has been identified as having the military’s first known case of monkeypox, a US European Command spokesperson told CNN in a statement. The service member “recently tested positive for monkeypox,” Captain William Speaks, USN, said in a statement.
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El papa Francisco pospuso su visita de julio a África debido a un problema en su rodilla, según informó este viernes la oficina de prensa del Vaticano en un comunicado. “A petición de sus médicos, y para no poner en peligro los resultados de la terapia a la que se
Continue ReadingBy RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Taliban security forces in northern Afghanistan have unlawfully detained and tortured residents accused of association with an opposition armed group, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said Friday. Fighting has escalated in Panjshir province since mid-May as anti-Taliban forces there attacked Taliban units and checkpoints, HRW said
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business Next stop, $5. The US average for the price of a gallon of regular gas hit $4.99 according to the most recent reading from AAA Friday. It marked the 14th straight day, and the 31st time in the last 32 that gas has set a record in America. Gas prices
Continue ReadingCNN By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Dozens of international flights loaded with baby formula have already come into the United States, but formula stock rates are not improving. Experts say it will take at least another couple months for this to change, as both supply levels and consumers’ perspectives level out. Through Operation Fly Formula, the
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman and Deidre McPhillips, CNN The first shipments from the federal government’s Operation Fly Formula will bring a total of nearly 1 million pounds of baby formula powder into the United States. That’s just a fraction of what the nation’s families need — about the same amount of formula typically sold over two
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says his company might not be able to keep its bathrooms open to the general public. The coffee company opened its bathrooms to the public in 2018 after two Black men were denied use of the bathroom in a Philadelphia Starbucks while they were waiting for
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