CNN By Oliver Darcy and Marshall Cohen, CNN The high-stakes showdown between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News finally commences in earnest Tuesday when the $1.6 billion defamation trial begins, shining a spotlight on Fox’s election denialism and the toxic role of its disinformation on American politics. The trial, initially set to begin with opening
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy and Marshall Cohen, CNN The high-stakes showdown between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News finally commences in earnest Tuesday when the $1.6 billion defamation trial begins, shining a spotlight on Fox’s election denialism and the toxic role of its disinformation on American politics. The trial, initially set to begin with opening statements
Continue ReadingCNN By Mindy Weisberger, CNN Translucent, fragile marine creatures that drift through the sea are riding the motion of the ocean to a destination that’s infamous as a home for trash: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Ocean surface currents have shaped the enormous garbage pile for decades, funneling human-made debris into a region that extends
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt, CNN The votes are in and, once again, no women have been elected to the executive committee of European soccer’s governing body, UEFA, which has been running for almost 70 years. Lise Klaveness, president of the Norwegian Football Federation (NFF), wanted to change this woeful precedent — this month, she became the
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — El jefe de las Fuerzas de Apoyo Rápido (RSF) de Sudán, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, aprobó un alto el fuego de 24 horas “para garantizar el paso seguro de los civiles y la evacuación de los heridos”. El “armisticio” se acordó tras una conversación con el Secretario de Estado estadounidense, Antony Blinken,
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Interested investors may have to dig deep into their pockets to claim a giant Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton that was dug up from three sites in the United States and is going up for auction Tuesday in Switzerland. The 293 T. rex bones were assembled into a
Continue ReadingBy NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s military chief has dismissed a separatist group claim that they had killed more than a dozen government soldiers who were searching for a New Zealand pilot taken hostage by the rebels in the restive Papua region. Adm. Yudo Margono and the military’s top brass flew
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat is expected to arrive in the Syrian capital, the first official visit by an official from the kingdom in more than a decade. Tuesday’s visit by Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan to Damascus follows that of his Syrian counterpart to Riyadh last week. The kingdom cut off
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Elliot Mintz, a longtime insider with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, will release a memoir next year that will weave in behind-the-scenes moments with the famous couple. The U.S. publisher Dutton and British publisher Transworld announced the deal with Mintz, who first met Lennon and Ono in the early 1970s and
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — The reclusive top leader of the Taliban has released a message lauding the changes in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover and the measures they imposed after seizing the country following two decades of war. Tuesday’s statement from Hibatullah Akhundzada was made public ahead of the Eid al-Fitr holiday later this week that
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Authorities in northern Italy have captured a bear that fatally mauled a runner and became the focus of a battle over what to do with Italy’s growing brown bear population. Officials in Trento announced Tuesday that the female bear, Jj4, had been captured overnight. Andrea Papi was
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Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — J-Hope, a member of K-pop sensation BTS, entered a South Korean boot camp Tuesday to start his 18-month compulsory military service, becoming the group’s second member to join the country’s army. There was heated public debate in 2022 over whether to offer special exemptions of
Continue ReadingBy JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Andrew Liveris has spent a year putting in the groundwork to make the Brisbane Olympics a one-of-a-kind event in 2032, laying the foundations for the foundations of the third Summer Games to be staged in Australia. The former chairman of the Dow Chemical Company was
Continue ReadingBy JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Andrew Liveris has spent a year putting in the groundwork to make the Brisbane Olympics a one-of-a-kind event in 2032, laying the foundations for the foundations of the third Summer Games to be staged in Australia. The former chairman of the Dow Chemical Company was
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Michelle Yeoh says she is looking for new challenges including as a producer, as she credited perseverance, hard work and passion for her historic Oscar win last month. The 60-year-old became the first Asian to win the Academy Award for best actress for her performance as a laundromat owner in
Continue ReadingBy NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president has reiterated threats against Israel while marking the country’s annual Army Day, though he stayed away from criticizing Saudi Arabia as Tehran seeks a détente with the kingdom. The comments by Ebrahim Raisi came as fighter jets and helicopters flew overhead in Tehran on
Continue ReadingBy JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Fighting is still raging in Sudan hours after an internationally brokered truce was supposed to have come into effect. Forces loyal to dueling generals battled for key locations in the capital late Tuesday and accused each other of violating the cease-fire. The truce
Continue ReadingBy Isabel Rosales, Elizabeth Wolfe, Kevin Conlon and Taka Yokoyama, CNN Before Alexis Dowdell headed to her Sweet 16 party, she sat on her big brother’s bed to tell him she was nervous for the event she had been planning for months — only to have him make her laugh and assure her that he
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — Israelis have ground to a halt for a nationwide moment of silence in remembrance of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust as a two-minute siren wailed across the country. Vehicles and pedestrians halted on streets and highways on Tuesday as Israelis stood, heads bowed, in solemn remembrance for those systematically
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