Diplomatic spat erupts between Balkan rivals Serbia, Croatia
By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Diplomatic tensions have soared between Balkan rivals Serbia and Croatia after Croatia…
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Child who lost mother to cancer got one RSVP to her birthday party. Strangers then came together to help her celebrate
By Sara Smart, CNN After losing their mother to brain cancer in April, a Tennessee woman wanted to make her younger sister’s birthday special.…
Continue ReadingStart your week smart: January 6, Uvalde, Europe heat wave, Middle East, Dust storm
By Andrew Torgan, CNN Today is National Ice Cream Day! OK, I know what you’re thinking … isn’t this just some phony celebration…
Continue ReadingPope seeks prayers for his ‘penitential’ Canadian pilgrimage
By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday asked for prayers to accompany him on what he called his…
Continue ReadingBiden’s realism approach runs head-on into liberal pressure
By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On restoring access to abortion, President Joe Biden says his hands are tied without more…
Continue ReadingYoungkin shifts Virginia right, raising profile inside GOP
By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — To promote the recently signed Virginia budget and its array of tax cuts, Gov. Glenn Youngkin…
Continue ReadingNo major problems with ballot drop boxes in 2020, AP finds
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The expanded use of drop boxes for mailed ballots during the 2020…
Continue ReadingNetflix is in rough shape. This week will determine its future
By Frank Pallotta and Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Netflix, once a darling of Wall Street, is suddenly on the ropes. The streaming giant will report…
Continue ReadingTo defeat Ron DeSantis, Florida Democrats are coalescing around Charlie Crist and the Joe Biden playbook
By Steve Contorno, CNN Fifteen minutes into a recent Sunday service, a man in a trim pinstriped suit with coiffed white hair and a blue disposable…
Continue ReadingCandidates for UK leader seek to woo right wing before vote
LONDON (AP) — The candidates to become the next British prime minister are appealing to their right-wing base as they seek to replace Boris…
Continue ReadingUN says flooding kills 12 people in Sudan’s Darfur region
CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. and an aid group say flash floods triggered by seasonal torrential rains in Sudan’s western Darfur region have killed at…
Continue ReadingUAE sentences former Khashoggi lawyer to 3 years in prison
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates has sentenced an American citizen and the former lawyer of Jamal Khashoggi — the…
Continue Reading‘Those people’: French minister’s LGBTQ remarks spark anger
By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Pressure is mounting on a French government minister to quit over comments stigmatizing…
Continue ReadingFires scorch Spain and France, where flames reach the beach
By ANGELA CHARLTON and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Firefighters battled wildfires raging out of control in Spain and France,…
Continue ReadingUkraine’s Zelenskyy fires top security chief and prosecutor
By HANNA ARHIROVA and CARA ANNA Associated Press VINNYTSIA, Ukraine (AP) — As Russian troops pressed their offensive in Ukraine’s east,…
Continue ReadingAlbuquerque is set to unveil bronze statues of ‘Breaking Bad’ characters Walter White and Jesse Pinkman
By Zoe Sottile, CNN Missing “Breaking Bad’s” iconic characters? Not to worry — the drug dealer protagonists of the famous TV…
Continue ReadingScenes of devastation after plane carrying military munitions crashes in Greece, killing eight people
By Talia Kayali, Chris Liakos and Teele Rebane, CNN A cargo plane crashed in northern Greece on Saturday, killing all eight people on board and…
Continue ReadingHolocaust survivors mark 80 years since mass Paris roundup
By ANGELA CHARLTON and JADE LE DELEY PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron decried his Nazi-collaborator predecessors and rising…
Continue ReadingChina floods leave at least 12 dead, thousands evacuated
BEIJING (AP) — Flash floods in southwest and northwest China have left at least a dozen dead and put thousands of others in harm’s way. State…
Continue ReadingHow an author, a NASCAR star and a young boy flipped ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ on its head
By AJ Willingham, CNN Sheletta Brundidge has a keen eye for little miracles. Whether it’s faith or gratitude, she knows not to look away when…
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