By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The debate around raising the debt ceiling sounds eerily similar: Newly elected House Republicans, eager to confront the Democratic president in the White House, refused to raise the debt limit without cuts to federal spending. Negotiations over the debt ceiling consumed Washington in 2011, a high-stakes
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta and Antonia Mortensen, CNN Poland has formally asked for approval from Germany to transfer some of its German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, its defense minister said Tuesday, raising the pressure on Berlin to respond to Kyiv’s pleas and send its own shipment of vehicles into the battlefield. “The Germans have already
Continue ReadingBy Amy Cassidy and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has said a decades-old photograph of Prince Andrew with his sexual abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre is “fake,” in a series of interviews from prison. The disgraced British socialite is currently serving a 20-year sentence in US federal prison for carrying out a
Continue ReadingSOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria will hold its fifth parliamentary election in two years after the Socialist Party failed to form a government and returned the unfulfilled mandate to the country’s president. It was the third and final opportunity to form a Cabinet in this parliament. President Rumen Radev will now dissolve parliament, appoint a
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Es una época cada vez más peligrosa para ser periodista. En su informe anual que se publicará la mañana de este martes, el Comité para la Protección de Periodistas (CPJ, por sus siglas en inglés) encontró que la cantidad de periodistas asesinados “aumentó considerablemente” en 2022, según una copia anticipada del informe
Continue ReadingNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A gold mining company says three workers have been killed after a blast in western Kenya and blamed illegal mining activities. Karebe gold mining company said in a statement that a wall built to prevent flooding and illegal incursion was blasted by illegal miners causing a blast. Three other workers were
Continue ReadingNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A gold mining company says three workers have been killed after a blast in western Kenya and blamed illegal mining activities. Karebe gold mining company said in a statement that a wall built to prevent flooding and illegal incursion was blasted by illegal miners causing a blast. Three other workers were
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN Late last August, a solar-powered drone called Zephyr almost beat one of aviation’s most enduring records. The unmanned aircraft, operated by the US Army and produced by Airbus, flew for 64 days, 18 hours and 26 minutes before unexpectedly crashing down in Arizona — just four hours shy of breaking the
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top court has ruled that a decision five years ago to raise the upper limit for state financing of political parties by 25 million euros ($27.2 million) a year was illegal. The country’s Constitutional Court said Tuesday that a 2018 law change backed by the left-right governing coalition under former Chancellor
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top court has ruled that a decision five years ago to raise the upper limit for state financing of political parties by 25 million euros ($27.2 million) a year was illegal. The country’s Constitutional Court said Tuesday that a 2018 law change backed by the left-right governing coalition under former Chancellor
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s foreign ministry says it has summoned the Dutch ambassador following a demonstration targeting Islam’s holy book, days after a similar protest in Sweden tensed relations. Edwin Wagensveld, Dutch leader of the far-right Pegida movement in the Netherlands, on Sunday tore pages out of a copy of the Quran near the Dutch
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, Stella Chan, Christina Maxouris, Casey Tolan and Curt Devine, CNN The 66-year-old man suspected of killing four people at a California mushroom farm he worked at and three others at another nearby site Monday had been accused of trying to suffocate and threatening to kill a former coworker at another job nearly
Continue ReadingBy Sara Murray, Jason Morris and Devan Cole, CNN Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis suggested Tuesday that the special grand jury investigating Donald Trump and his allies’ efforts to upend the 2020 election in Georgia has recommended multiple indictments and said that her decision on whether to bring charges is “imminent.” At a hearing
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Several senior Ukrainian officials, including five front-line governors, lost their jobs Tuesday in a corruption scandal plaguing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government as it grapples with the nearly 11-month-old Russian invasion. Ukraine’s biggest government shake-up since the war began came as Poland formally requested permission from Germany
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN If you are a man or woman approaching 50, look down at your middle. If you’re like many people, you might have to lean over a bit to see your feet. Yes, it’s the dreadful midriff bulge — that expanding waistline that can often creep up on you as you age,
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN During a recent excursion to the icy plains of Antarctica, an international team of researchers discovered five new meteorites — including one of the largest ever found on the continent. The rare meteorite is about the size of a cantaloupe but weighs a hefty 17 pounds (7.7 kilograms). The specimen is
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh and CNN’s Beijing bureau Millions of players in China have lost access to the iconic “World of Warcraft” franchise and other popular video games, as Blizzard Entertainment’s servers in the country went offline after two decades. The company’s services in China were suspended at midnight local time on Tuesday, marking the end
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh, Stella Chan and Eric Levenson, CNN All 11 victims of the mass shooting at a dance studio on Lunar New Year in Monterey Park, California, were between the ages of 57 and 76, the LA County Coroner Medical Examiner’s Office said in a statement. The victims, five men and six women, were
Continue ReadingCNN By Nouran Salahieh, Stella Chan and Eric Levenson, CNN All 11 victims of the mass shooting at a dance studio on Lunar New Year in Monterey Park, California, were between the ages of 57 and 76, the LA County Coroner Medical Examiner’s Office said in a statement. The victims, five men and six women,
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN Rising stars from the United States feature prominently in the men’s side of the draw at the Australian Open, making up three of the eight players ithat reached reached the quarterfinals in Melbourne. According to the ATP, it’s the first time since 2000 — when Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Chris Woodruff
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