By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press KILLINGWORTH, Conn. (AP) — As the financially struggling Boy Scouts sell off a number of campgrounds, conservationists, government officials and others are scrambling to find ways to preserve them as open space. A $2.6 billion proposed bankruptcy settlement designed to pay thousands of victims of child sexual abuse has added
Continue ReadingCNN By Evan Perez, Ryan Nobles and Gloria Borger, CNN The Department of Justice has informed the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection that it will not indict two former Trump White House officials found in contempt by the committee. According to a source familiar with the notification, US Attorney Matt Graves
Continue ReadingCNN By Evan Perez, Ryan Nobles and Gloria Borger, CNN The Department of Justice has informed the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection that it will not indict two former Trump White House officials found in contempt by the committee. According to a source familiar with the notification, US Attorney Matt Graves
Continue ReadingBy Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Many working parents who rely on local summer camps to keep their kids busy when school’s out for the summer won’t have that option this year because of a serious staffing shortage. The start of summer vacation has arrived, but instead of preparing to welcome campers, several camps have had
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN Business) — El CEO de JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, dice que se avecina un huracán económico. Elon Musk de Tesla dice que tiene un “muy mal presentimiento” sobre una recesión. Las empresas están rebajando sus previsiones de beneficios. Ah, y estamos en medio de una crisis energética y de inflación,
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Now we know what is in Queen Elizabeth II’s handbag. The long-time mystery was solved Saturday when the British monarch made the second star turn of her career, appearing in a mini-movie to kick off a concert celebrating her 70 years on the throne.
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt, Dalal Mawad and Camille Knight, CNN For Liverpool and Real Madrid fans, last Saturday’s Champions League final was supposed to be the magical conclusion to a long, arduous season. Tens of thousands of fans filtered through Paris towards the Stade de France ready to watch Liverpool and Real Madrid go head-to-head for
Continue ReadingBy Whitney Wild, CNN A former Wisconsin judge was killed Friday in what authorities are calling a targeted attack by a suspect who also had other government officials as targets, a source familiar with the investigation told CNN. Former Juneau County Circuit Court Judge John Roemer, 68, was killed in a New Lisbon, Wisconsin, home,
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s state-run Anadolu new agency says Greece’s ambassador to Turkey has been summoned to the Foreign Ministry over concerns about the activities of the outlawed Kurdish Workers’ Party in his country. Anadolu reported late Friday that Turkish officials complained to Ambassador Christodoulos Lazaris about the Kurdistan Workers’ Party or PKK carrying out
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronauts have been venturing into space for 61 years to unlock the human potential for exploration. But the floating freedom offered by a lack of gravity also presents a number of limits when it comes to the human body and mind. Short trips to space from the early Mercury and Apollo
Continue ReadingTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has acknowledged that Iran took two Greek oil tankers last month in helicopter-launched raids in the Persian Gulf. He said Saturday the confiscations were retaliation for Greece’s role in the U.S. seizure of crude oil from an Iranian-flagged tanker the same week in the Mediterranean
Continue ReadingBy JOHN LEICESTER and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press ZHYTOMYR, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine is losing 60 to 100 soldiers each day in combat. Just short of 50 American soldiers died per day on average in 1968, during the Vietnam War’s deadliest year for U.S. forces. Concentrations of Russian artillery
Continue ReadingBy Cape Diamond and Irene Nasser, CNN Two men will be executed in Myanmar by the military junta after their death sentence appeals were denied, the junta said Saturday, in what would mark the first judicial executions in the country in decades. “It’s confirmed that Phyo Zayar Thaw and [Ko] Jimmy would be on the
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Gas station bathrooms are the last place most people want to stop to do their business. But that wasn’t always the case. Spotless bathrooms were once a crucial selling point for gas stations. In fact, oil giants’ gas station ads in the early and mid-20th century assured travelers that their
Continue ReadingBy Hafsa Khalil, CNN This weekend, millions in towns and cities across the United Kingdom will mark Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-year reign. In London, her Platinum Jubilee is being celebrated with an array of events, from a parade to a flypast and a star-studded party at Buckingham Palace. Meanwhile, neighborhoods across the capital decked out
Continue ReadingMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian boxer George Kambosos has made the weight on his second attempt for his unification world lightweight title fight against American Devin Haney. The U.S.-based Kambosos missed the 135-pound limit initially after weighing in at 135.36 pounds. He had two hours to return to the scales to ensure Sunday’s fight before
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Chavez, CNN Joe Del Bosque roamed the 2,000 acres of his California farm knowing he couldn’t touch nearly half of the land he’s owned for decades. “I got the land, I got the people. I have everything but no water. I can’t do it,” said Del Bosque, a 73-year-old farmer in Firebaugh, California.
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN The lack of clarity surrounding authorities’ response to the mass shooting at a South Texas elementary school could hinder efforts to prevent such massacres from happening again, a state lawmaker told CNN on Friday. Ten days after a gunman slaughtered 19 students and their two teachers in their classrooms at Robb
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — France and Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema has dropped his appeal against a conviction for complicity in blackmail in a sex-tape case. The scandal rocked French soccer and put Benzema’s international career on hold for five years. He was given a one-year suspended jail sentence and a fine of 75,000 euros in
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — France and Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema has dropped his appeal against a conviction for complicity in blackmail in a sex-tape case. The scandal rocked French soccer and put Benzema’s international career on hold for five years. He was given a one-year suspended jail sentence and a fine of 75,000 euros in
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