By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A stroke left Heather Rendulic with little use of her left hand and arm, putting certain everyday tasks like tying shoes or cutting foods out of reach. “I live one-handed in a two-handed world and you don’t realize how many things you need two hands for
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN For nearly a decade, Heather Rendulic hasn’t been able to use her left hand to feed herself or pick up something as light as a soup can — but that changed when she became part of a clinical trial that could radically improve the lives of people who’ve been paralyzed after
Continue ReadingBy EVAN VUCCI, JOHN LEICESTER and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Joe Biden’s motorcade slipped out of the White House around 3:30 a.m. Sunday. There was no big, flashy Air Force One for this trip. Instead, the president vanished into the night on an Air Force C-32, a modified Boeing 757
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Novak Djokovic logró otro hito en su ilustre carrera tenística: igualar a Steffi Graf como el tenista que más semanas ha permanecido en el número 1 del mundo. Este lunes, Djokovic inició su 377ª semana como número 1 del mundo de la Asociación de Tenistas Profesionales (ATP), el mayor número de semanas
Continue ReadingBy Nadeen Ebrahim and Dalya Al Masri It looks like a city out of a science fiction movie: Space pods, flying dragons and floating rocks. But this is the birthplace of Islam, Saudi Arabia, which wants to transform its capital into one of “the most livable cities on Earth.” The kingdom is building a new
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Ziady, CNN London’s mayor has announced an emergency program to provide free meals for all children attending state primary schools in the capital, adding to a string of fresh evidence that Brits are struggling to afford necessities. “The cost-of-living crisis means families and children across our city are in desperate need of additional
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Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tiger sightings are rare these days on the PGA Tour. Tiger Woods at Riviera played 72 holes for the first time in 10 months. And there’s no telling for sure when Woods will compete again. That might be in the Masters in April. This is
Continue ReadingTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch Royal House says that Princess Beatrix, the 85-year-old former Dutch queen, has undergone surgery after breaking her wrist in a skiing accident. The Royal House said in a statement Monday that the accident happened last Friday and the princess “has undergone surgery for the break and returned to
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has imposed sanctions on nine officials in Myanmar as well as government departments and companies linked to rising violence, human rights abuses and security threats. Monday’s move saw the energy minister and top military brass hit with asset freezes and travel bans. The assets in Europe of defense ministry
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It seems no one wants to cut Social Security or Medicare benefits. Not President Joe Biden, who’s telling voters his upcoming federal budget proposal will “defend and strengthen” the programs. Not Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who’s declared cuts to the programs off the
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It seems no one wants to cut Social Security or Medicare benefits. Not President Joe Biden, who’s telling voters his upcoming federal budget proposal will “defend and strengthen” the programs. Not Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who’s declared cuts to the programs off the
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin could meet with the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign policy chief in the Russian capital. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Monday that “we don’t rule out” Putin’s meeting with Wang Yi, the Chinese Communist Party’s most senior foreign policy official, who’s visiting Moscow. Peskov hailed
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The government agency responsible for tracking down contaminated peanut butter and defective pacemakers is taking on a new health hazard: online misinformation. It’s an unlikely role for the Food and Drug Administration, a sprawling, century-old bureaucracy that for decades directed most its communications toward doctors and
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking aim at a new health hazard: online misinformation. Under FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf the agency has begun using Instagram memes, YouTube videos and other online tools to try and debunk myths about COVID vaccines and other medical
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider saved a woman’s life after he saw her choking in a restaurant, the team announced on social media. Schneider and his wife, Jess, were eating at a restaurant in Dunedin, Florida, the Blue Jays said, when he noticed a woman at a nearby table was
Continue ReadingBy DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press One of Kshama Sawant’s earliest memories of the caste system was hearing her grandfather — a man she “otherwise loved very much” — utter a slur to summon their lower-caste maid. The Seattle City Council member, raised in an upper-caste Hindu Brahmin household in India, was 6 when she asked
Continue ReadingBy BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan police have fired tear gas and a water cannon at opposition supporters who marched in the capital demanding that the government hold next month’s local council elections as planned. Several thousand backers of the United Peoples’ Power party shouted anti-government slogans as they
Continue ReadingBy Emily Rittman Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — An 18-year-old Tonganoxie man is charged with two counts of first-degree involuntary manslaughter following a deadly crash that killed a police officer, his K-9 partner and a pedestrian near Truman Road and Benton Boulevard on Wednesday. According to online court
Continue ReadingBy Cheri Mossburg and Dakin Andone, CNN The oldest Black church in California’s East Bay was devastated by a massive fire Sunday night that the church’s pastor said gutted its interior structure. Video showed heavy smoke and flames shooting from the roof of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Oakland, where the fire erupted
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