By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Candidates to replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister are scattering tax-cutting promises to woo their Conservative Party members. They are campaigning as party officials set out rues to narrow the field of almost a dozen candidates to two contenders by next week. Voting starts Wednesday. So
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan, Nikki Carvajal, Jeremy Diamond and Paul LeBlanc, CNN President Joe Biden on Monday said gun violence has turned everyday places in America into “killing fields” as he marked the passage of the first significant federal gun safety legislation in 30 years. Biden said the package he signed into law represents “an important
Continue ReadingCNN, ROBERTS FAMILY PHOTOS, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINE COMER CHILDREN’S, NETWORK VIDEO PRODUCTIONS, LYNN SWEET, WLS By Nikki Carvajal, Jeremy Diamond and Paul LeBlanc, CNN President Joe Biden on Monday will meet with mass shooting survivors and victims’ families to celebrate the federal gun safety legislation he signed into law late last month. Biden will
Continue ReadingBy Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN A challenge requires a challenger — and all the Democrats being discussed as potential primary opponents to President Joe Biden tell CNN they’re ruling out runs and warning others to follow suit. The chatter is fed by Democratic officials and party leaders who have begun to doubt that Biden is, as
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church and Homero De la Fuente, CNN Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner was at the forefront of everyone’s mind as the WNBA All-Star game tipped off in Chicago on Sunday. Griner was named an honorary All-Star player this year and every effort was made to spread awareness of her situation. It comes after
Continue ReadingCNN By Ben Church and Homero De la Fuente, CNN Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner was at the forefront of everyone’s mind as the WNBA All-Star game tipped off in Chicago on Sunday. Griner was named an honorary All-Star player this year and every effort was made to spread awareness of her situation. It comes
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Faeroe Islands government is proposing an annual catch limit of 500 white-sided dolphins for 2022 and 2023, after last year’s slaughter of more than 1,400 dolphins in a day led to international condemnation. The killing is part of a four-century-old traditional drive of sea mammals into shallow water where they
Continue ReadingBy MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Russian missiles struck a key Ukrainian city, Russian President Vladimir Putin expanded a fast-track procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship to all Ukrainians on Monday, another effort to strengthen Moscow’s influence over war-torn Ukraine. Until recently, only residents of Ukraine’s separatist eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions,
Continue ReadingWJLA By Sonnet Swire, CNN Three churches located on the same road in Maryland, just outside Washington, DC, were vandalized over the weekend, and authorities are investigating fires set at two of the churches as arson. “These churches are within a few mile radius of each other,” said Pete Piringer, spokesperson for the Montgomery County
Continue ReadingBy Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Before I had my baby, I thought I would be a relaxed mom. I remember watching other mothers sweating the small stuff and thinking to myself — no sir, not me, never me. I thought that in part because I’m a pediatrician. I had treated lots of children for seven years
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — An industry group says China’s auto sales rose by a lackluster 3.4% over a year earlier in the first half of 2022 as anti-virus controls kept buyers away from dealerships. But the China Association of Auto Manufacturers said Monday that demand in the industry’s biggest global market rebounded in June. Sales in
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — An industry group says China’s auto sales rose by a lackluster 3.4% over a year earlier in the first half of 2022 as anti-virus controls kept buyers away from dealerships. But the China Association of Auto Manufacturers said Monday that demand in the industry’s biggest global market rebounded in June. Sales in
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN Spain arrived in England for Euro 2022 tipped by many as a contender to win the tournament. The national team’s ascent from also-ran to ever-present in major competitions over the past decade has been one of the more remarkable rises on the women’s international stage. Euro 2022 was supposed to showcase
Continue ReadingJacopo Prisco, CNN The post-pandemic recovery of commercial aviation may have an early, unlikely protagonist: the A380 superjumbo. The world’s largest passenger plane seemed to be on the scrapheap just two years ago, as airlines grappled with the spread of the coronavirus. The entire fleet was grounded, many of the planes went into long-term storage,
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN Australia’s Aboriginal flag will replace the New South Wales state flag on Sydney Harbour Bridge, after officials scrapped a 25 million Australian dollar ($17 million) scheme that would have accommodated both. In a statement announcing the decision Monday, New South Wales (NSW) Premier Dominic Perrottet said the landmark will provide an “everyday
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Shares of Chinese technology firms Alibaba and Tencent have tumbled after Chinese regulators fined their subsidiaries for failing to disclose transactions and not complying with anti-monopoly rules. E-commece giant Alibaba’s shares in Hong Kong dropped 6.8%. Gaming and social media company Tencent Holdings sank more
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Shares of Chinese technology firms Alibaba and Tencent have tumbled after Chinese regulators fined their subsidiaries for failing to disclose transactions and not complying with anti-monopoly rules. E-commece giant Alibaba’s shares in Hong Kong dropped 6.8%. Gaming and social media company Tencent Holdings sank more
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and longtime Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi are among the prominent figures assassinated in the 21st century. Abe was shot to death as he delivered a campaign speech on a street in western Japan on Friday. Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and Chad President Idriss Deby Itno
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Una playa en Iowa fue cerrada después de que se confirmara una rara infección cerebral potencialmente mortal, conocida coloquialmente como ameba comecerebros, en un visitante que recientemente fue a nadar allí. La playa en el Parque Estatal Lake of Three Fires en el condado de Taylor estará cerrada temporalmente para los nadadores,
Continue ReadingPAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish officials say three people have been gored, including one American, and three others suffered bruises in a tense fifth bull run at Pamplona’s San Fermín Festival. One man was gored on the street while two others were stabbed by a bull´s horn inside the bullring at the end of the
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