By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rican superstar Ricky Martin has filed a lawsuit against his nephew accusing him of extortion, malicious persecution, abuse of law and damages stemming from false allegations that attorneys say cost the singer and actor millions of dollars in lost income. The lawsuit filed
Continue ReadingLEIPZIG, Germany (AP) — Leipzig has hired former Borussia Dortmund coach Marco Rose to take charge a day after firing Domenico Tedesco. The Bundesliga club says the 45-year-old Rose has a two-year contract to June 2024. It is also appointing a new coaching team. Tedesco was fired on Wednesday following a 4-1 home loss to
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN Are you waking up in a puddle of sweat — if you can sleep at all? That’s the grim reality for millions around the globe suffering through severe, unbearable heat waves. In California, temperatures in the 110’s (Fahrenheit) are setting records and pushing the state’s electrical power grid to a breaking
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi and Paradise Afshar, CNN A Washington state public school district will reopen Thursday after a teacher strike that demanded improvements to classroom sizes, pay and health services — while another district is planning to strike if similar asks aren’t met, joining educators in Seattle. The Kent Education Association, which represents close to
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh and Swati Gupta, CNN Business Amazon will halt the sale of devices that can disable seatbelt alarms in India following a request from the government. The Transport Ministry told CNN Business on Thursday that it had sent a notice to Amazon, ordering it to take down listings of replacement seatbelt clips that
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 has struck off the western islands of Zakynthos and Cephalonia, but no damage or injury has been reported. The Athens Geodynamic Institute said the undersea quake occurred at 10:36 a.m. (0736GMT) some 57 kilometers (35 miles) southwest of Lixouri on
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 has struck off the western islands of Zakynthos and Cephalonia, but no damage or injury has been reported. The Athens Geodynamic Institute said the undersea quake occurred at 10:36 a.m. (0736GMT) some 57 kilometers (35 miles) southwest of Lixouri on
Continue ReadingRAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says President Joe Biden has approved additional military aid to Ukraine worth up to $675 million. The announcement Thursday came as he gathered allies to renew their commitment to military support “for the long haul.” Austin said at the start of a meeting with
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, Hannah Rabinowitz and Shawna Mizelle, CNN Former Donald Trump aide Steve Bannon pleaded not guilty Thursday in a New York court to state charges of money laundering, conspiracy and fraud related to an alleged online scheme to raise money for the construction of a wall along the southern US border, according to
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN Do you ever sit and watch sports and think: “What on earth is going on?” Do you ever feel excluded from a conversation about sports because you don’t understand what is being talked about? Learning a new sport is tough. Even knowing all the words and phrases in a sport you
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say a man has been found safe after he spent two days aloft in a hydrogen balloon, traveling about 320 kilometers (200 miles), after it became untethered and flew away while he was using it to harvest pine nuts from a tree. The man and a partner were collecting
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank after the military said he hit a soldier in the face with a hammer. In a separate incident on Thursday, Israeli police said they had “prevented a disaster” by arresting a Palestinian in Tel Aviv who was armed with
Continue ReadingAMSTERDAM (AP) — The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum will unite two iconic paintings from Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer early next year — The Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Milkmaid. The most famous museum in the Netherlands will bring together 27 of the 35 known paintings of the 17th century artist. Vermeer had the uncanny genius
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Three days after a brutal mass stabbing devastated a rural Indigenous community in Saskatchewan, the two brothers who were wanted in the violent attacks are dead, though witness accounts indicate that one of the men, Myles Sanderson, was responsible for the deaths of 10 of the victims, according to a law
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Liz Truss says her Conservative government will cap domestic energy prices for homes and businesses to ease the cost-of-living crisis. She also says she will approve more North Sea oil drilling and lift a ban on fracking to increase the United
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — New British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced Thursday that her Conservative government will cap domestic energy prices for homes and businesses to ease a cost-of-living crisis that has left residents across the United Kingdom facing a bleak winter. The moves are a huge government
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Five speech therapists in Hong Kong were found guilty of a conspiracy to publish seditious children’s books on Wednesday, in a case that rights defenders say marks a major blow to free speech amid a tightening of civil liberties in the Chinese territory. The charges center around a
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN At 2:50 a.m. local time in New York, Carlos Alcaraz triumphed in a captivating, five-set encounter against Jannik Sinner at the US Open to reach his first grand slam semifinal. It was, by almost half an hour, the latest ever finish in the tournament’s history. The 19-year-old Alcaraz dropped to the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A bomb has detonated outside of a Hezbollah-backed Lebanese minister’s home in the eastern Bekaa valley. Caretaker Public Works Minister Ali Hamieh’s press office said in a statement Thursday that the explosive was wrapped in electrical cables and placed in his garden in the village of Taraya. The statement did
Continue ReadingCNN, WHBQ, WMC By Amir Vera and Andi Babineau, CNN Eliza “Liza” Fletcher routinely ran 8.2 miles in the predawn hours. But her final run ended tragically unfinished. Fletcher, a 34-year-old wife, mother and teacher, was violently abducted last week in Memphis, Tennessee; her body was found Monday behind a vacant complex. A week to
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