By Aya Elamroussi and Adrienne Winston, CNN The Washington, DC, city council voted Tuesday to create a new office focusing on the recent arrival of migrants who were sent to the district from states whose leaders oppose the Biden administration’s stance on immigration policies. The move aims to improve response to the thousands of migrants
Continue ReadingBy Rhea Mogul and Manveena Suri, CNN Movie theaters in Indian-controlled Kashmir have reopened their doors, more than two decades after they were forced shut during an armed rebellion that saw multiple threats and attacks on crowded public places. The lieutenant governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Manoj Sinha, inaugurated the disputed region’s newest cinema on
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge is one home run away from matching the AL record. Judge hit his 60th homer on Tuesday night. Roger Maris set the AL mark of 61 in 1961. St. Louis Cardinals star Albert Pujols is two home runs shy of 700 for his career. The
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press Protests have erupted across Iran in recent days after a 22-year-old woman died while being held by the morality police for violating the country’s strictly enforced Islamic dress code. The death of Mahsa Amini, who had been picked up by Iran’s morality police for her allegedly loose headscarf, or hijab,
Continue ReadingBy KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China has toned down its rhetoric on Taiwan, saying it is inevitable that the self-governing island will come under its control but that it would promote efforts to achieve that peacefully. The comments Wednesday came one day after the U.S. and Canadian navies sailed through the strait
Continue ReadingBy SAM McNEIL and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — Authorities in the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank announced that a truce has been reached to end violent clashes between militants and Palestinian security forces. The violence highlights deep disenchantment with the internationally backed Palestinian leadership. Wednesday’s deal to
Continue ReadingHOBART, Australia (AP) — A day after 230 whales were found stranded on the wild and remote west coast of Australia’s island state of Tasmania, only 35 were still alive despite rescue efforts that were to continue Thursday. Half the pod of pilot whales stranded in Macquarie Harbour were presumed to still be alive on
Continue ReadingBy DOUG PADILLA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Drey Jameson pitched six strong innings in his second big league game and Ketel Marte homered as the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-2 to split a doubleheader. The Dodgers won the opener 6-5 as rookie Miguel Vargas drove in the go-ahead run with
Continue ReadingBy HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer LONDON (AP) — In Roger Federer’s case, the farewell news conference will come before the beginning of what he’s said will be the last competitive tennis event of his career. Federer is in London and has been practicing ahead of the Laver Cup, an event founded by his management
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy and Rob Picheta, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the immediate “partial mobilization” of Russian citizens on Wednesday, a move that threatens to escalate his faltering invasion of Ukraine following a string of defeats that caused recriminations in Moscow. Putin said in a speech that he would use “all the means at
Continue ReadingBy TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A close ally of Donald Trump is in court fighting charges he secretly worked as an agent for the United Arab Emirates. A jury heard opening statements at the trial of billionaire Tom Barrack are Wednesday in federal court in Brooklyn. The 75-year-old Barrack has known
Continue ReadingBy MARK GONZALES Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Myles Straw had a tiebreaking two-run double in Cleveland’s five-run 11th inning, and the Guardians beat the Chicago White Sox 10-7 to move closer to the American League Central title. The Guardians won for the 12th time in 16 extra-inning games this season and expanded their lead
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Seattle Mariners are hardly hitting the way they’d like to be in late September chasing a long-overdue, elusive playoff berth. Luis Castillo got knocked out in the fifth inning and the contending Mariners managed just one hit, falling to the Oakland Athletics 4-1 on
Continue ReadingCNN, WFTS, WEAR, WHDH By Amir Vera, Rob Frehse and Zenebou Sylla, CNN Lawyers for Civil Rights, a non-profit immigrant advocacy group that represents more than 30 of the nearly 50 migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard, filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of Alianza Americas and other migrants, according to a news release from
Continue ReadingBy BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Kim Ha-seong homered and Mike Clevinger had a strong outing for the San Diego Padres, who shut down Albert Pujols and the NL Central-leading St. Louis Cardinals 5-0 to clinch their first winning record in a full season since 2010. The Padres improved to 82-66
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL WARREN Associated Press MACON, Ga. (AP) — When Tracie Revis climbs the Great Temple Mound, rising nine stories above the Ocmulgee River in the center of present-day Georgia, she walks in the steps of her Muscogean ancestors who were forcibly removed to Oklahoma 200 years ago. “This is lush, gorgeous land. The rivers
Continue ReadingBy AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer who pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd was sentenced Wednesday to three years. Thomas Lane is already serving a 2 1/2-year federal sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights. When it
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A military exercise in Fiji involving the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand ends this week as the traditional allies counter China’s growing influence in the region. The U.S. Embassy in Fiji says the 11-day Exercise Cartwheel began on Sept. 12 and ends on Friday. U.S.
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday declared Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a violation of the global order, sharpening his rebukes of President Vladimir Putin as the war entered a tense new moment. Biden’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly came hours after Putin announced an expansion of his war effort, lending
Continue ReadingCNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday declared Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a violation of the global order, sharpening his rebukes of President Vladimir Putin as the war entered a tense new moment. Biden’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly came hours after Putin announced an expansion of his war effort,
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