By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Wide-ranging legislation unveiled Tuesday would regulate cryptocurrencies and other digital assets following a series of high-profile busts and failures. It’s unclear whether the bill proposed by Democrat Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming can pass Congress. The bill unveiled Tuesday
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Wide-ranging legislation unveiled Tuesday would regulate cryptocurrencies and other digital assets following a series of high-profile busts and failures. It’s unclear whether the bill proposed by Democrat Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming can pass Congress. The bill unveiled Tuesday
Continue ReadingBy ACHMAD IBRAHIM and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A middle-rank Indonesian army officer is being stripped of his military title of colonel after he was sentenced to life in prison for murder, joint deprivation of the independence of others and removing the dead bodies with the intention of concealment. Priyanto crashed
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Environmental groups have started legal action against the European Commission to challenge the inclusion of 30 gas projects in a list of priority operations considered as beneficial to the bloc’s energy market. The campaigners said on Tuesday that the European Commission has given “these climate-destructive projects VIP
Continue ReadingBy AMY TAXIN, CHRIS MEGERIAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris says the Biden administration’s work to attract investment to Central America has generated $3.2 billion in private-sector commitments. The effort is intended to reduce migration toward the United States by creating more economic opportunity in countries plagued
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese army says it has thwarted an attempt by scores of migrants to sail to Europe aboard a boat from northern Lebanon. The army said in a statement that 64 Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians were all detained on Tuesday and are being questioned, except for one pregnant woman who was bleeding
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Princess Martha Louise, the daughter of Norway’s King Harald, has become engaged to her American boyfriend, Durek Verrett. The 50-year-old princess is fourth in line to the Norwegian throne. She has been together with the 47-year-old Verrett, who describes himself as a shaman and a healer, since 2019. The royal household
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon and Yoonjung Seo, CNN South Korea and the United States put on an aerial show of force to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday, flying 20 fighter jets over waters west of the Korean Peninsula in response to Pyongyang’s recent missile tests. The allies sent the jets — South Korean
Continue ReadingPHUKET, Thailand (AP) — No 15-year-old figure skaters will be allowed to compete at the 2026 Olympics following the controversy surrounding Russian national champion Kamila Valieva at this year’s Beijing Games. A new age limit for figure skaters at senior international events was passed Tuesday by the International Skating Union in a 110-16 vote that
Continue ReadingBy Matt Villano, CNN American teenagers aren’t getting enough sleep these days, and author Lisa L. Lewis refuses to snooze on the issue anymore. Lewis, a mother of two, helped spark the first law in the nation requiring healthy school start times for adolescents — a law that will be put into action in California
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Business Shares in Chinese tech companies have surged this week on hopes that Beijing is close to ending a yearlong regulatory crackdown on the industry. Alibaba was up 1.9% on Tuesday, following a 5% gain on Monday. JD.com climbed 3%, after rising 4.7% the previous day. Other tech shares have also
Continue ReadingBy PETER DEJONG Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — A court is examining evidence and prosecutors are expected to make sentencing demands in the trial of two suspects in the fatal shooting of Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries. The journalist was brazenly gunned down almost a year ago, triggering a national outpouring of grief
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Como cada año, Apple inauguró su Conferencia Mundial de Desarrolladores 2022 (WWDC) en la que presentó su más reciente software móvil, iOS 16 y otras novedades. Con la nueva versión de iOS, sus usuarios podrán cambiar la experiencia de personalización de sus teléfonos iPhone, asà como la manera en enviar
Continue ReadingBy JOHN LEICESTER and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia on Tuesday claimed to have taken control of 97% of one of the two provinces that make up Ukraine’s Donbas, bringing the Kremlin closer to its goal of fully capturing the eastern industrial heartland of coal mines and factories. Russian Defense Minister
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, CNN The amount of money needed to aid communities in the face of extreme weather-related emergencies has increased by more than 800% in the past two decades as the climate crisis also rapidly accelerated, new research shows. The report, released Tuesday by Oxfam, found not only is the need for extreme weather-related
Continue ReadingBy MALAK HARB and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai police say they have arrested two brothers from the Gupta family wanted in connection with a corruption case involving former South African President Jacob Zuma, the latest high-profile extradition case involving the United Arab Emirates. Police issued a statement on
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson scrambled to patch up his tattered authority on Tuesday after surviving a no-confidence vote that exposed his shrinking support in a fractured Conservative Party and raised serious doubts about how long he can stay in office. The fact that the vote was
Continue ReadingBy NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has visited an eastern Indonesia area with close ties to Indigenous Australians as he continued a trip aiming to strengthen his country’s economic ties with its closest major neighbor. Albanese said visiting Makassar on Sulawesi Island was an important symbol of
Continue ReadingBy NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has visited an eastern Indonesia area with close ties to Indigenous Australians as he continued a trip aiming to strengthen his country’s economic ties with its closest major neighbor. Albanese said visiting Makassar on Sulawesi Island was an important symbol of
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has long defended its World War II-era pope, Pius XII, against criticism that he remained silent as the Holocaust unfolded, insisting that he worked quietly behind the scenes to save lives. A new book, citing recently opened Vatican archives, suggests the lives the Vatican
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