By LORI HINNANT, CARA ANNA, VASILISA STEPANENKO and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press NARVA, Estonia (AP) — For weeks Natalya Zadoyanova had lost contact with her younger brother Dmitriy, who was trapped in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. Russian forces had bombed the orphanage where he worked, and he was huddling with dozens
Continue ReadingBy EBRAHIM NOROOZI Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds of men using heroin, opium and meth were strewn over a hillside above Kabul in tents or lying in the dirt. Some of them overdose, and quietly slip across the line from despair to death. “There’s a dead man next to you,” someone told me
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN A US Navy warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, the third time in a week the vessel has entered waters claimed by China, heightening tensions between Washington and Beijing. Washington said the latest voyage by the guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold demonstrated its “commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,”
Continue ReadingKCAL, KCBS, HANDOUT PHOTO, HANDOUT VIDEO, CNN By Stephanie Elam and Kacey Cherry, CNN Gems and jewelry worth millions of dollars were stolen from an armored truck parked at a rest stop near Los Angeles, officials said, setting off a multi-agency investigation. The heist unfolded between 2 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. July 11 at a
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — European Parliament Vice President Nicola Beer has met with Taiwan’s leader Tsai Ing-wen and called for China to open a “mutual and respectful dialogue” with the self-governing island democracy it claims as its own territory. Nicola Beer on Wednesday emphasized Taiwan’s importance “on a global scale” and called for the island
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Elam and Kacey Cherry, CNN Gems and jewelry worth millions of dollars were stolen from an armored truck parked at a rest stop near Los Angeles, officials said, setting off a multi-agency investigation. The heist unfolded between 2 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. July 11 at a Flying J rest stop and gas station
Continue Readingolivertapia Nueva York (CNN Business) — Netflix informó el martes que perdió 970.000 suscriptores en el segundo trimestre de 2022, una cifra muy inferior a sus propios pronósticos, que habían proyectado que el gigante del streaming perdería dos millones de suscriptores. Netflix pierde 970.000 suscriptores en segundo trimestre 1:24 La compañía también dijo que agregaría
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Micronesia has likely become the final nation in the world with a population of more than 100,000 to experience an outbreak of COVID-19. For more than two-and-a-half years, the Pacific archipelago managed to avoid any outbreaks thanks to its geographic isolation and border controls. Those
Continue ReadingBy DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ivana Trump, the 1980s style icon and businesswoman who helped Donald Trump build the empire that put him on a road toward the White House, lived a “beautiful life,” the former president recalled as loved ones paid final respects to her Wednesday. The ex-president joined all
Continue ReadingCNN By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN More than a dozen Democratic members of Congress were among those arrested by Capitol Police on Tuesday afternoon as part of an abortion rights protest in front of the Supreme Court. Wearing specially made green bandanas with “Won’t Back Down,” they marched from the Capitol to the Court, which has
Continue ReadingWALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) — The once-powerful and now disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to murdering his wife and son 13 months ago. Prosecutors agreed to keep the evidence secret amid media attention. His defense said Murdaugh can’t afford to post any bond and wants a speedy trial because “he
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A 19-year-old man entered a guilty plea Tuesday in connection with the murders of his mother and three siblings in 2020 at their home in Grantsville, Utah, his attorney says. Colin Jeffery Haynie, who goes by Jeffery, “did accept responsibility today and entered guilty pleas to all of
Continue ReadingBy JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — NASCAR has added its first street course to the Cup schedule with a planned 2023 race through downtown Chicago. The Cup Series will race against the backdrop of Lake Michigan and Grant Park next July 2 in the debut race of a three-year deal with the
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Nneka Ogwumike scored a season-high 35 points and the Los Angeles Sparks pulled away in the second halfand handed the Indiana Fever their 10th straight loss, 86-79. Ogwumike, whose career high is 38 points, made 12 of 20 shots with two 3-pointers for Los Angeles (11-14). She missed a jumper and
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Four people have died in a gas explosion at a six-story residential building in the Chinese port city of Tianjin. State broadcaster CCTV said Wednesday that 13 other people had injuries that were not life-threatening. The cause of the explosion remains under investigation, but it points to the deterioration of infrastructure following
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Four people have died in a gas explosion at a six-story residential building in the Chinese port city of Tianjin. State broadcaster CCTV said Wednesday that 13 other people had injuries that were not life-threatening. The cause of the explosion remains under investigation, but it points to the deterioration of infrastructure following
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER and FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) — A transformer exploded at Hoover Dam, producing a thick cloud of black smoke and flames that quickly were extinguished. Authorities say no one was hurt in Tuesday’s explosion and electricity continued to flow to the 8 million people in Arizona, Nevada and
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan, CNN Towns and farmlands inundated by floods, homes and roads buried by landslides, crops withering under scorching heat, hazmat-suited Covid workers collapsing from heatstroke. Since summer began, scenes of devastation and misery have been playing out across China as the world’s most populous nation grapples with an unrelenting torrent of extreme weather
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s dismissal of senior officials is casting an inconvenient light on an issue that the Biden administration has largely ignored since the outbreak of war with Russia: Ukraine’s history of rampant corruption and shaky governance. As it presses ahead with providing
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence is becoming increasingly brazen in his willingness to counter former President Donald Trump. The two will hold dueling rallies in Arizona on Friday as they stump for rival candidates who offer dramatically different visions of the Republican Party in a critical
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