By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, who rose to national prominence as the lead prosecutor in President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial, said Thursday he is running for the Senate seat held by long-serving Democrat Dianne Feinstein. The 2024 race is quickly emerging as a marquee Senate
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff is traveling this week to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, visiting key sites in Poland and Germany to honor those lost in the Holocaust and renew a pledge to “Never Forget.” As the first Jewish spouse of a president or vice president, Emhoff has made countering the
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff announced a 2024 Senate bid on Thursday, launching a campaign for Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s seat in what is shaping up to be a competitive Democratic primary. “I look forward to campaigning hard in this race, meeting Californians where they are, and listening to what
Continue ReadingSOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s foreign minister says his country may suspend joint projects with North Macedonia over the beating of a Macedonian citizen who identifies as Bulgarian. Bulgaria also recalled its ambassador to North Macedonia for consultations. Relations between the Balkan neighbors have severely deteriorated following last week’s assault on an employee of a
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN The US Treasury Department on Thursday designated the Wagner Group, a Russian private mercenary organization heavily involved in the war in Ukraine, as a significant transnational criminal organization, and imposed a slew of sanctions on a transnational network that supports it. The US Department of State concurrently announced a number of
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland and other U.S. officials say the FBI and international partners have at least temporarily disrupted the network of a prolific ransomware gang they infiltrated last year. And as a result they have saved victims, including hospitals and school districts, a
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden is considering making a trip to Europe around the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine next month, two senior administration officials tell CNN. A trip is not yet confirmed, and details have yet to be finalized. But one of the officials said that one
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Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN Three people received medical treatment during filming for a real-life “Squid Game” show, Netflix has confirmed, but the streaming giant denied that anyone suffered “serious injury.” Netflix announced last year that it was launching “Squid Game: The Challenge” as a reality competition series based on its smash-hit drama — a fictional
Continue ReadingCNN By Chris Isidore, CNN If airlines are to avoid repeats of recent service problems, they’ll need to have a lot more back-up in place, according to United CEO Scott Kirby. “You can’t run an airline like it’s 2019, and the reason is because the system is just stressed to the max,” Kirby told CNN’s
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, Kaitlan Collins and Casey Gannon, CNN Former Trump-era Department of Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli is testifying before a federal grand jury in Washington, DC, on Thursday. Cuccinelli headed into the grand jury area just before 10 a.m. ET at the federal courthouse, where prosecutors looking at efforts to undermine the 2020
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN People on the internet can calm down now as Austin Butler has acknowledged that his ex-girlfriend, Vanessa Hudgens, is the “friend” he credits for encouraging him to play Elvis. As Butler rides the awards season wave with nominations for his performance in the title role in Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis,” some
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — France has called for the “immediate release” of seven French nationals detained in Iran. The French foreign ministry denounced the detentions as an “unjustifiable and unacceptable” situation. A ministry spokesperson said Thursday that the French “hostages” in Iran include 35-year-old Louis Arnaud. The official said that Arnaud was arrested on Sept. 28
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A fire official says a 3-year-old girl has died more than two weeks after she was seriously injured in an Indianapolis apartment fire that killed her father and 15-month-old sister. Battalion Chief Rita Reith says the Indianapolis Fire Department was notified that the girl died Thursday morning. She was among five people
Continue ReadingCNN By Lianne Kolirin, CNN The rotation of Earth‘s inner core may have paused and it could even go into reverse, new research suggests. The Earth is formed of the crust, the mantle and the inner and outer cores. The solid inner core is situated about 3,200 miles below the Earth’s crust and is separated
Continue ReadingBy JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have declared the independent news website Meduza as an undesirable organization. The outlet based in Latvia has reported extensively and critically on Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. Thursday’s decision by the Russian prosecutor-general’s office came the same day that the publisher of a different website
Continue ReadingBy JIM HEINTZ and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — An independent news website that has been critical of Russia’s military action in Ukraine has been declared “undesirable” by the government. Thursday’s announcement effectively outlaws Meduza’s operation within the country as part of the Kremlin’s latest crackdown on dissent. Founded in 2014 and based
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Egypt, Israel and the West Bank this weekend amid a sharp spike in Israeli-Palestinian violence that has alarmed the Biden administration. Blinken’s visit to Israel has been planned for some weeks, but a deadly Israeli raid on a
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — La emblemática atracción Splash Mountain de Walt Disney World cerró oficialmente, pero los fans más entregados hacen todo lo posible por conservar para siempre partes de ella. Multitudes de personas abarrotaron el parque temático Magic Kingdom de Orlando el 23 de enero para presenciar el final de la atracción, vestidos con todo
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN The FBI has seized the computer infrastructure used by a notorious ransomware gang which has extorted more than $100 million from hospitals, schools and other victims around the world, US officials announced Thursday. FBI officials since July have had extraordinary access to the so-called Hive ransomware group’s computer networks, FBI Director
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