VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania’s prime minister says her country won’t try to reverse a decision by the European Union’s executive arm to allow certain sanctioned goods pass through its territory on the way to Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave. The European Commission said Wednesday that Russia can continue transporting certain cargo to Kalingrad by rail as
Continue ReadingBy Allie Malloy, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday stopped short of committing to raise the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi with leaders in Saudi Arabia this week, instead saying he “always” brings up human rights and that his views on the murder have been made “absolutely” clear. “My views on Khashoggi have been
Continue ReadingBy FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari has died at age 98. Scalfari helped revolutionize Italian journalism by founding liberal daily newspaper La Repubblica. The Rome-based paper broke ground when it burst onto already crowded newsstands in 1976, grabbing attention with punchy headlines and a sassy style. It was known
Continue ReadingBy FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari has died at 98. Scalfari helped revolutionize Italian journalism by founding liberal daily newspaper La Repubblica. The Rome-based paper broke ground when it burst onto already crowded newsstands in 1976, grabbing attention with punchy headlines and a sassy style. It was known for
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN It could take a decade to fully eradicate a critical vulnerability found last year in software used by governments and tech firms around the world from some computer systems, a Department of Homeland Security review board said Thursday. The review board, which the White House established last year to investigate major
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN Neema Avashia is all too used to the shocked reaction she gets when she tells people she’s from West Virginia. A queer woman whose parents immigrated to the US from India, Avashia doesn’t fit the image many Americans have about Appalachians: impoverished, rural and White. But those stereotypes about Appalachia don’t
Continue ReadingBy Barry Neild, CNN Cycling vacations usually conjure up images of pedaling across the French countryside, a baguette lashed to the handlebars, or perhaps a breezy ride along the flat and friendly bike paths that weave their way through cities like Copenhagen or Amsterdam. They don’t usually involve the Arabian desert, where summer temperatures and
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Two foreign nationals from the Democratic Republic of Congo have pleaded guilty in federal court in Seattle for acting as middle men in a smuggling ring that brought illegal ivory, rhinoceros horn and pangolin scales into the U.S. Herdade Lokua, 24, and Jospin Mujangi, 32, of Kinshasa, Congo, pleaded guilty to two
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL PHILLIS and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press Preston Brown knows the risk of wildfire that comes with living in the rural, chaparral-lined hills of San Diego County. He’s lived there for 21 years and evacuated twice. That’s why he fiercely opposed a plan to build more than 1,100 homes in a fire-prone area he
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL PHILLIS and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press Preston Brown knows the risk of wildfire that comes with living in the rural, chaparral-lined hills of San Diego County. He’s lived there for 21 years and evacuated twice. That’s why he fiercely opposed a plan to build more than 1,100 homes in a fire-prone area he
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business Maybe this counts as good news in a time of painful price increases for necessities such as food, fuel and housing: The cost of a US postage stamp just increased by a mere 2 cents. That raises the cost of mailing a first-class letter by 3.4%, to 60 cents —
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Profits at JPMorgan Chase fell by 28% in the second quarter, as the bank tries to navigate an economy that’s showing strength in many areas but losing steam as interest rates continue to rise. The nation’s largest bank by assets said Thursday that profits fell to $2.76 per share from $3.78
Continue ReadingBy Virginia Langmaid and Deidre McPhillips, CNN The number of monkeypox vaccine doses distributed across the United States has more than tripled since last week, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services, but supply falls far short of demand — and short of the levels that experts say will be needed to
Continue ReadingBy NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Libya says it’s concerned over the struggle for control of Libya’s oil corporation after its chairman was sacked. The embassy said in a statement on Thursday that it’s following the standoff over the leadership of Libya’s National Oil Corporation. The Tripoli-based government of
Continue ReadingBy FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Mario Draghi offered to step down Thursday after a populist coalition partner refused to vote for a key bill in Parliament, but the nation’s president quickly rebuffed him, leaving one of Western Europe’s main leaders at the helm for now. The rejection of the tendered
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump, son Donald Trump Jr. and daughter Ivanka Trump are due soon to face questioning under oath in a civil investigation into their business practices. But will the Trumps answer? The ex-president’s lawyer has indicated that he’ll advise Trump to stay mum and
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump and two of his children — Donald Jr. and Ivanka — are due, in the coming days, to face questioning under oath in New York’s civil investigation into their business practices. But will the Trumps answer? The ex-president’s lawyer has indicated that he will
Continue ReadingBy Randi Kaye, Dianne Gallagher and Ray Sanchez, CNN Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has been indicted for the 2021 murders of his wife and son by a Colleton County grand jury. The once prominent, now disbarred, attorney was indicted Thursday morning on two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin Washington (CNN) — Un tribunal federal condenó este miércoles a un exempleado de la CIA, acusado de llevar a cabo la mayor filtración de datos clasificados en la historia de la agencia. Joshua Schulte —que fue acusado de entregar resmas de datos clasificados a WikiLeaks en 2016— fue declarado culpable de reunir
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN Once again, Covid-19 seems to be everywhere. If you feel caught off-guard, you aren’t alone. After the Omicron tidal wave washed over the United States in January and the smaller rise in cases in the spring caused by the BA.2 subvariant, it might have seemed like the coronavirus could be ignored
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