By NATHAN ELLGREN, ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and JIM SALTER Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The pallbearers wore white shirts and gloves. The desert-brown church with the tall bell tower was filled to overflowing. The casket held a 10-year-old girl who loved purple. On Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of mourners turned out for the funeral Mass
Continue ReadingRICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Authorities in Virginia identified two women missing Tuesday after a group of people in rafts and on paddleboards went over the Bosher Dam on the James River a day earlier. WWBT-TV reported that 12 people were involved in the accident Monday afternoon. WAVY-TV reported the dam has a 12-foot (3.6-meter) drop,
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, CNN The extraordinary trauma after a school massacre may be too overwhelming for survivors to even think about returning to class. In Uvalde, Texas, students at Robb Elementary School are marred by the slaughter of 19 children and two teachers at their school. But at some point, classes must resume. Now, questions
Continue ReadingCNN By Holly Yan, CNN The extraordinary trauma after a school massacre may be too overwhelming for survivors to even think about returning to class. In Uvalde, Texas, students at Robb Elementary School are marred by the slaughter of 19 children and two teachers at their school. But at some point, classes must resume. Now,
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, CNN Despite warnings that ditching voting machines would delay election results and likely violate the law, county commissioners in a rural slice of western Colorado this year voted to stop paying the licensing fee on the county’s devices. Commissioners in Nye County, Nevada, meanwhile, want local election officials to begin hand-counting paper
Continue ReadingFrancesca Street, CNN The sun was starting to set over Skara Brae, a prehistoric stone village on the Orkney Islands, an archipelago off the most northerly tip of Scotland. A lone figure stood alone among the 3,000 year-old stone buildings, cradling a cup of tea in the waning light. Rachael was a history graduate in
Continue ReadingBy JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine government has announced a new diplomatic protest against China over disputes in the South China Sea. It’s a long-thorny issue that has flared anew as the next Philippine president prepares to take office next month. The Department of Foreign Affairs says it filed a
Continue ReadingANDREW WILKS ISTANBUL (AP) — The European Court of Human Rights says Turkey had unlawfully detained the head of the country’s Amnesty International branch for 14 months. In a judgement issued Tuesday, the Strasbourg-based court ruled there were no reasonable grounds to warrant the “unlawful and arbitrary” detention of Taner Kilic. He was arrested in
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the 19 countries that use the euro currency hit a record 8.1% amid surging energy costs prompted in part by Russia’s war in Ukraine. The latest data from European Union statistics agency Eurostat on Tuesday showed that annual inflation in May surpassed the previous
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Tonga on Tuesday as he continued his regional island-hopping tour a day after failing to ink an ambitious deal with 10 South Pacific nations. Wang fell shy of consensus on the multilateral security and economic plan at a
Continue ReadingVerónica Ojeda (CNN) — Maite Rodríguez, de 10 años, quería ser bióloga marina antes de poder decir las palabras. “Ella amaba a los animales”, dijo su prima Destiny Esquivel a Adrienne Broaddus de CNN el lunes. “Era decidida, era inteligente. Iba a ser alguien”. Pero la semana pasada, un hombre armado irrumpió en su clase
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An international charity has urged Yemen’s warring sides to extend a two-month truce, appealing to the parties in the conflict to work together to avoid “catastrophic hunger” in the war-wrecked country. The appeal from Oxfam on Tuesday said the U.N.-brokered cease-fire is essential for millions of Yemenis
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the 19 countries that use the euro currency hit a record 8.1% amid surging energy costs prompted in part by Russia’s war in Ukraine. The latest data from European Union statistics agency Eurostat on Tuesday showed that annual inflation in May surpassed the previous
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s groundbreaking decision to ban nearly all oil from Russia to punish the country for its invasion of Ukraine is a blow to Moscow’s economy, but its effects may be blunted by rising energy prices and other countries willing to buy some
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s groundbreaking decision to ban nearly all oil from Russia to punish the country for its invasion of Ukraine is a blow to Moscow’s economy, but its effects may be blunted by rising energy prices and other countries willing to buy some
Continue ReadingBy Heather Chen, CNN More than one billion methamphetamine pills were seized in East and Southeast Asia last year, a record figure that the United Nations says highlights a “staggering” increase in the regional synthetic drug trade. Meth production and trafficking is surging in countries in the Lower Mekong region — Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand
Continue ReadingBy Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Supreme Court officials are escalating their search for the source of the leaked draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, taking steps to require law clerks to provide cell phone records and sign affidavits, three sources with knowledge of the efforts have told CNN.
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and the United Arab Emirates have signed a free trade agreement, the first Israel has concluded with an Arab country. The UAE agreed to normalize relations with Israel in a U.S.-brokered deal in 2020, the first of the so-called Abraham Accords that Israel eventually concluded with four Arab nations. Since then,
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE and ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s longtime parliament speaker who has held the post for 30 years, was reelected Tuesday for a seventh four-year term with the minimum number of votes required and despite multiple crises plaguing the nation. Still, the slim majority in favor of Nabih Berri was
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s president has highlighted the activities of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party as part of his country’s objections to Sweden and Finland joining NATO. The insurgent group known as the PKK is designated a terrorist entity by the European Union including Sweden and Finland. But its Syrian wing
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