By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — An unusual alliance of international activist groups, Mexican prosecutors and a dog trained to sniff out memory devices joined forces this month to catch a high-profile suspected pedophile in Mexico City. A Netherlands-based group that fights human trafficking tipped off activists at the U.S.-based Operation Underground
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden is still debating whether to lift some tariffs on China put in place by his predecessor as he mines his authorities for ways to bring down skyrocketing prices that have caused his approval ratings to plummet. Biden is on track to announce a decision on tariffs within a
Continue ReadingGOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING, EVERYONE… Today we get to enjoy a nice, pleasant day in between storm patterns. Under mostly sunny skies, our daytime highs will reach the mid to upper 70’s, with a few spots breaking through 80 degrees. Breezes will be gentle out of the south and SW at 5-10 mph. Clouds will thicken
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) — El Hospital Carilion Franklin Memorial en Rocky Mount, Virginia, está lleno: atiende su cuota de casos de covid-19 y problemas más comunes en esta época del año, como los accidentes de barcos. Pero sus profesionales también tratan a pacientes enfermos por algo engañosamente peligroso: el calor extremo. Las altas temperaturas en el
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish toy company Lego said Wednesday it plans to invest more than $1 billion over 10 years to build a new factory in the U.S. state of Virginia and to enlarge an existing factory in Mexico. The moves in North America follow Lego’s announcement last year of a similar investment in
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish toy company Lego said Wednesday it plans to invest more than $1 billion over 10 years to build a new factory in the U.S. state of Virginia and to enlarge an existing factory in Mexico. The moves in North America follow Lego’s announcement last year of a similar investment in
Continue ReadingBy EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Ben Silverman and Davis Shore are among the young, the journeymen, the amateurs and the dreamers who made it through qualifying to earn spots in the U.S. Open this week. Starting Thursday, they will play alongside the millionaire disrupters, players such as Phil Mickelson and
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN With its cliff-chiseled road, dramatic curves and sheer drops towards the turquoise sea far below, the Amalfi Coast has become an iconic road trip destination. A little too iconic, perhaps — because these days, it has become as legendary for its traffic as for its spectacular setting. Tales of miles-long backups abound,
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state-run news agency says the country’s caretaker energy minister has extended the licensing deadline for oil and gas companies to explore in the country’s territorial waters until mid-December, to give more firms the chance to bid. The agency said Wednesday’s decision to extended the deadline of the second round of licensing
Continue ReadingBy Barbara Starr, Jeremy Herb and Oren Liebermann, CNN The Biden administration announced on Wednesday it was providing an additional $1 billion in military aid to Ukraine to fight Russia, a package that includes shipments of additional howitzers, ammunition and coastal defense systems. US President Joe Biden spoke by phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
Continue ReadingLianne Kolirin, CNN Germany’s highest appeal court has ruled that a medieval sculpture can remain on the outside of a church in Wittenberg, eastern Germany, despite acknowledging that it is anti-Semitic. The sandstone carving, which has been part of the exterior of Wittenberg Stadtkirche — or city church — since around 1290, depicts two people
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El Tribunal Superior de Bogotá ordenó a los candidatos presidenciales Gustavo Petro y Rodolfo Hernández programar un debate presidencial a más tardar en 48 horas luego de emitido el fallo. Amparándose en el “derecho fundamental de participar en la conformación del poder político”, el Tribunal Superior le dio la
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Dozens of heavily armed men swarmed through the Mexican colonial-era city of San Cristobal de las Casas, and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday that one person was killed in confrontations between two gangs. López Obrador said the confrontation involved “two groups that are fighting for control of a market”
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, Tierney Sneed, Priscilla Alvarez and Chandelis Duster, CNN The Supreme Court dismissed an appeal Wednesday brought by a group of Republican-led states seeking to intervene in a case challenging the Trump-era “public charge” immigration policy, a version of which the Biden administration has abandoned. The case did not center on the
Continue ReadingHALLE, Germany (AP) — Defending champion Ugo Humbert and the second-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas have both been eliminated from the Halle Open in the second round. Humbert lost to Hubert Hurkacz 7-6 (5), 6-3, and Nick Kyrgios fought back to beat Tsitsipas 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 at the grass-court tournament. Top-ranked Daniil Medvedev advanced by beating David
Continue ReadingGAIBA, Italy (AP) — Top-seeded Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium needed just 45 minutes to ease into the quarterfinals of the Veneto Open, beating compatriot Ysaline Bonaventure 6-2, 6-2. She will next face Ylena In-Albon after the Swiss player beat compatriot Susan Bandecchi 6-3, 6-3. Third-seeded Lucia Bronzetti and fifth-seeded Arantxa Rus were eliminated. It
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed and Ariane de Vogue, CNN In an international child custody dispute, the Supreme Court said Wednesday that once a US court finds that returning an abducted child to the home country would subject the child to grave risk, courts are not required to consider whether there are some measures that can be
Continue ReadingCHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A third arrest has been made in a mass shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where three people died and 14 were injured. News outlets cited an affidavit filed with the U.S. District Court for Eastern Tennessee in reporting that 31-year-old Rodney Harris was charged Tuesday in federal court with possession of a
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — A medida que las turbulentas aguas comienzan a bajar, luego de obligar a cerrar temporalmente el Parque Nacional de Yellowstone y provocar la evacuación de decenas de residentes locales, los responsables del parque y las comunidades del sur de Montana evalúan los daños catastróficos y se preparan para la posibilidad de más
Continue ReadingBy CAROLYN THOMPSON and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket was charged Wednesday with federal hate crimes that could potentially carry a death penalty. The criminal complaint filed Wednesday against Payton Gendron coincided with a visit
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