By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press When 14-year-old Michael Carneal opened fire on his fellow students during a before-school prayer meeting in 1997, school shootings were not yet a part of the national consciousness. The carnage that left three students dead and five more injured at Heath High School, near Paducah, Kentucky, ended when Carneal put
Continue ReadingTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has spoken to students in person after being out of the public eye for nearly two weeks. His website says that Khamenei, 83, gave a seven-minute speech Saturday at the Imam Khomeini Hosseinieh, or congregation hall, in Tehran while standing. It reported that Khamenei called
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN A small creature caused a blackout in Virginia Beach last week: a wandering squirrel that made its way into the substation. It happened around 8:45 a.m. on September 7, according to a tweet from Bonita Harris, spokesperson for Dominion Energy, which provides electricity in Virginia and other states. The power outage
Continue ReadingMUNICH (AP) — The beer is flowing at Munich’s world-famous Oktoberfest for the first time since 2019. With three knocks of a hammer and the traditional cry of “O’zapft is” — “It’s tapped” — the city’s mayor inserted the tap in the first keg at noon on Saturday to open the festivities. Oktoberfest has typically
Continue ReadingMUNICH (AP) — The beer is flowing at Munich’s world-famous Oktoberfest for the first time since 2019. With three knocks of a hammer and the traditional cry of “O’zapft is” — “It’s tapped” — the city’s mayor inserted the tap in the first keg at noon on Saturday to open the festivities. Oktoberfest has typically
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Inflation has made it hard to buy much with a buck these days. $1 pizza has disappeared. Dollar stores aren’t dollar stores anymore. So wouldn’t it make more sense to start paying with $2 bills instead? “If you had a $2 bill, perfect,” said Heather McCabe, a writer and $2
Continue ReadingJonathan Glancey After Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne in February 1952, the popular composer Ronald Binge changed the name of a light and graceful piece he had originally titled “The Man in the Street” to “Elizabethan Serenade.” He did this, reportedly, to reflect the optimism of the new Elizabethan Age. While equating the
Continue ReadingBy Aimee Lewis, CNN We are living through a period where the expected has surprised. In life, there is always an ending. Always. We know this. We anticipate this. We try to prepare for this. But when the passing of time forces a chapter to inevitably close, the reality of it all still stuns like
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business For anyone prone to typos, sending messages to the wrong person or firing off thoughts they may later regret, there’s now some hope. Apple has delivered on two of its most requested features: the ability to edit and unsend iMessages. This week, Apple released its latest operating system, iOS
Continue ReadingCNN By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple said it is working on a software fix after some users who recently purchased an iPhone 14 Pro or iPhone 14 Pro Max reported their devices’ rear-facing cameras shook “uncontrollably” and made strange noises when using social media apps. In videos and posts uploaded to social media
Continue ReadingBy Dan Merica and Michael Warren, CNN Republican Senate candidates eager to make the 2022 midterms about inflation, crime and President Joe Biden‘s first term have a new dilemma in Sen. Lindsey Graham’s bill that would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The bill, which the South Carolina Republican introduced this week on a
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, Jacob Lev and Homero De la Fuente, CNN The National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) executive director Tamika Tremaglio has called for a lifetime ban of Phoenix Suns and Mercury owner Robert Sarver, while PayPal has threatened to end its sponsorship with the team if he remains as team owner. Appearing on ESPN’s
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — The security chiefs of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan sat down for talks Saturday to stop fighting on the border between the two countries that so far has killed at least 24 people and wounded over 100. The Kyrgyz border service announced the new round of talks as the two ex-Soviet nations traded blame
Continue ReadingBy Isa Kaufman-Geballe and Aya Elamroussi, CNN The first Latina to become postmaster for the US Postal Service in Manhattan was sworn in on Friday — 25 years after starting her career as a letter carrier, officials said. Wanda Diaz is the first Puerto Rican woman to hold the role and also the third woman
Continue ReadingNICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus on Saturday hailed the full lifting of a U.S. arms embargo on the ethnically divided island nation as a milestone reaffirming increasingly tighter bilateral bonds that serve to bolster stability in the turbulent east Mediterranean region. President Nicos Anastasiades tweeted his gratitude to the chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin mounted on the battlefield and in the halls of global power as Ukrainian troops pushed their counteroffensive Saturday to advance farther into Ukraine’s partly recaptured northeast. Western officials and analysts said Russian forces were apparently setting up a new defensive
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS, DANICA KIRKA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — All eight of Queen Elizabeth II’s grandchildren stood in silent vigil beside her coffin Saturday, capping another huge day in which thousands came to pay their respects. Mourners huddled in a line that snaked across London, enduring the city’s coldest night in
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, CNN As Britain grinds to a national standstill ahead of Monday’s funeral for Queen Elizabeth II, it is grappling with an uncomfortable conundrum: what should, and what shouldn’t, be canceled out of respect for the monarch? Sporting fixtures and cultural events have been almost entirely suspended on Monday, the day of UK’s
Continue ReadingBy Haley Brink, CNN Meteorologist A new storm system will arrive on the West Coast this weekend, bringing beneficial rain to northern and central California. Some experts believe the storm could bring enough rain to the region to slow the ongoing fire season. Against the odds, an early and substantial rain event appears likely for
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — After his headline performance at Hungary’s Sziget Festival last month, pop star Justin Bieber held a grandiose party for his staff in a luxurious countryside setting — a 19th century castle owned by the son-in-law of the country’s prime minister. The castle, to the critics of
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