By Ashley Strickland, CNN Just a couple of weeks after the Ingenuity helicopter celebrated a year of flying on Mars, things got quiet. For the first time, the Ingenuity team on Earth lost contact with Ingenuity on sols 427 and 428, or Martian days that correspond with May 3 and May 4. The little chopper’s
Continue ReadingPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s election agency says the ruling party of long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen easily topped the field as expected in nationwide local polls, Official final returns from Sunday’s polls are due to be released on June 26. But a statement released by the National Election Committee says Hun Sen’s Cambodian
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN The Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a case brought to it by a Missouri Republican Senate candidate and his wife, who were seeking review of the professional disciplinary action they faced, as lawyers, for pointing guns at racial justice protestors demonstrating outside their St. Louis home. There were
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Milan’s famed La Scala opera house has announced the celebration of next season’s gala premiere with the Russian opera “Boris Godunov.” It’s a move that aims to separate politics from culture. La Scala’s 2022-23 calendar was set long before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It also marks the
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge in Oklahoma on Monday ruled the state’s three-drug lethal injection method is constitutional, paving the way for the state to request execution dates for more than two dozen death row inmates who were plaintiffs in the case. Judge Stephen Friot’s ruling followed
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN A fishy ruling from California: A California court has ruled bees can legally be considered fish under specific circumstances. The ruling, released May 31, reversed an earlier judgment which found bumblebees could not be considered “fish” under the California Endangered Species Act. “The issue presented here is whether the bumblebee, a
Continue ReadingBy Nadeen Ebrahim, Abbas Al Lawati and Swati Gupta, CNN It took India less than 24 hours to discipline two politicians after a controversy that had been brewing at home for over a week caught the attention of its Arab trade partners. India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday suspended a spokesperson and expelled
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business Tesla may not be cutting staff after all. That’s according to a tweet from its ever-mercurial CEO Elon Musk — an apparent contradiction to two emails he sent staff last week about planned job cuts and a hiring freeze, which pushed Tesla shares lower. Last Thursday, according to a Reuters
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The right-wing government in Poland, where a near-total abortion ban is in place, now faces accusations it is creating a “pregnancy register.” Poland is expanding the amount of medical data being saved digitally on patients to include pregnancies, blood type and allergies. Critics fear that women
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African court has convicted a pastor of plotting to overthrow the government and to kill thousands of Black people in the country. Harry Johannes Knoesen, 61, a leader of the National Christian Resistance Movement, was on Monday found guilty of high treason, incitement to carry
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — La superestrella de Los Angeles Lakers, LeBron James, se sumó a los muchos atletas que expresan su deseo de que la estrella de la WNBA Brittney Griner regrese a casa tras llevar más de 100 días detenida en Rusia. “Tenemos que unirnos y ayudar a hacer todo lo posible para traer a BG a
Continue ReadingBy Courtney Fischer Click here for updates on this story HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Deputies are searching for a woman’s ex-husband after she was found shot to death at a home in northeast Harris County. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez tweeted out the name and photo of the man they are searching for, who
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan, Kevin Liptak, Jeremy Diamond, Ana Cucalon and Mia Alberti, CNN Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday he won’t be attending the Summit of the Americas, hosted later on this week by the United States, due to the exclusion of several countries in the region. Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela were not
Continue ReadingCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Lindsey Vonn, Michelle Kwan, Mia Hamm, Billie Jean King and the late Pat Summitt are among the nine individual women who will be inducted into the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame this summer. Michael Phelps and hurdling great Roger Kingdom are also going in. Others voted onto the
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler’s divorce has been up and down. But now that their settlement has been finalized, Cutler says he celebrated. “When the settlement came through, I threw a party,” he said on his podcast, “Uncut With Jay Cutler.” “I don’t recommend divorce for anybody. I’m just gonna go ahead
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Penélope Cruz has won one of Spain’s top cinema awards for her contribution to Spanish film. The jury of the 2022 National Cinema award was unanimous in its decision to honor the Madrid-born star. The jury released a statement Monday describing the 48-year-old Oscar winner as an “iconic actress whose brilliant legacy
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has ordered emergency measures to boost crucial supplies to U.S. solar manufacturers. He’s also declared a two-year tariff exemption on solar panels from Southeast Asia as he attempts to jumpstart progress toward his climate change-fighting goals. Biden’s use of the Defense Production Act and
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden ordered emergency measures Monday to boost crucial supplies to U.S. solar manufacturers and declared a two-year tariff exemption on solar panels from Southeast Asia as he attempted to jumpstart progress toward his climate change-fighting goals. His invoking of the Defense Production Act and his
Continue ReadingCNN By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The amount of money needed to aid communities in the face of extreme weather-related emergencies has increased by more than 800% in the past two decades as the climate crisis also rapidly accelerated, new research shows. The report, released Tuesday by Oxfam, found not only is the need for extreme
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, CNN Humans’ historical greenhouse gas emissions have caused the climate crisis the world is in today. But it’s the amount emitted now and in coming years that will determine whether humanity can avert catastrophic climate changes. That’s the main finding of a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on
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