By MARIAM FAM and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO Associated Press With her 3-year-old daughter sitting inside a red Target shopping cart, Aya Khalil looked through the aisles with anticipation. The author was on a mission: See for herself that her children’s book about a boy and his grandmother baking for an Islamic feast was actually carried by
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, CNN After a string of recent ballot-box victories for abortion rights groups, opponents of the procedure are redoubling their efforts — including, in some places, pushing to make it harder to use citizen-approved ballot measures to guarantee abortion access. An anti-abortion coalition in Ohio, for instance, recently unleashed a $5 million ad
Continue ReadingBy MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — States are doling out more cash than ever to lure multibillion-dollar microchip, electric vehicle and battery factories, inspiring ever-more competition as they dig deeper into their pockets to attract big employers and capitalize on a wave of huge new projects. Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, New York, North
Continue ReadingBy MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — States are doling out more cash than ever to lure multibillion-dollar microchip, electric vehicle and battery factories, inspiring ever-more competition as they dig deeper into their pockets to attract big employers and capitalize on a wave of huge new projects. Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, New York, North
Continue ReadingJALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — A women-run radio station in Afghanistan’s northeast has been shut down for playing music during the holy month of Ramadan, a Taliban official said Saturday. Sadai Banowan, which means women’s voice in Dari, is Afghanistan’s only women-run station and started 10 years ago. It has eight staff, six of them female.
Continue ReadingBy ADRIAN SAINZ and ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press WYNNE, Ark. (AP) — Storms that dropped possibly dozens of tornadoes killed at least 26 people in small towns and big cities across the South and Midwest, tearing a path through the Arkansas capital, collapsing the roof of a packed concert venue in Illinois and stunning people
Continue ReadingBy FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — When Irwing López made it to Ciudad Juarez on the U.S.-Mexico border in January, the 35-year-old construction worker thought he had survived the worst and was steps away from his goal. He’d traversed jungle and raging rivers, and evaded Mexico’s notorious cartels, traveling thousands of
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — It has been more than three years since police announced that two kids were missing from a rural eastern Idaho town, and each twist in the grim investigation has seemed stranger than the last. Their mother claimed to be a deity, her estranged husband wrote in
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — It has been more than three years since police announced that two kids were missing from a rural eastern Idaho town, and each twist in the grim investigation has seemed stranger than the last. Their mother claimed to be a deity, her estranged husband wrote in
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN Associated Press GAMBELL, Alaska (AP) — Bruce Boolowon, then a lean 20-year-old, and a group of friends were hunting for murre eggs in a walrus skin boat on a remote Alaska island in the Bering Strait when they saw a crippled airplane flying low. “Something was wrong,” Boolowon, now 87, recalled of
Continue ReadingBy Megan DeLaire CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — A new Canadian study of 4.8 million people says a daily alcoholic drink isn’t likely to send anyone to an early grave, nor will it offer any of the health benefits touted by previous studies, even if it
Continue ReadingHELSINKI (AP) — Norwegian authorities plan to evacuate an area in northern Norway where avalanches and landslides have killed four people. Norwegian police tweeted the decision was based on a recommendation from the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute and would affect several parts of the Arctic municipality of Tromsoe. Four people died and one person was critically
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess, CNN One person was killed and 28 others were injured after a full roof collapse at the Apollo Theatre in Belvidere, Illinois, on Friday evening following devastating storms and tornadoes that ripped through the South and Midwest, officials said. Approximately 260 people, including guests, performers and staff, were inside the venue for
Continue ReadingBy Molly Thomas, Investigative Correspondent; and Kevin O’Keefe, Producer W5 Click here for updates on this story Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (CTV Network) — It’s not everyday you see a plea from a Catholic priest in the local paper asking people to take in homeless university students. “Recently, I learned that some of these students
Continue ReadingBy KARL RITTER and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Kyiv court ordered a leading priest to be put under house arrest Saturday after Ukraine’s top security agency said he was suspected of justifying Russian aggression, a criminal offense. It was the latest move in a bitter dispute over a famed Orthodox
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN When the Amazon Labor Union shocked the world last April by successfully forming the first US union in the e-commerce giant’s history, Chris Smalls, the president and face of the organization, celebrated by making champagne rain on the street and thanking Jeff Bezos “for going to space” while workers organized. Smalls,
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — La policía de Canadá dijo este viernes que recuperó ocho cuerpos en Akwesasne, el territorio de la Nación Mohawk que se extiende a ambos lados de las provincias canadienses de Quebec y Ontario a lo largo de las orillas del río San Lorenzo. Las autoridades dijeron que todas las personas intentaban
Continue ReadingCNN By Laura Paddison and Rachel Ramirez, CNN Scientists have watched in astonishment as ocean temperatures have steadily risen over the past several years — even as the cooling La Niña phenomenon had a firm grip on the Pacific. The oceans have been record-warm for the past four years, scientists reported in January. Then in
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison and Rachel Ramirez, CNN Scientists have watched in astonishment as ocean temperatures have steadily risen over the past several years — even as the cooling La Niña phenomenon had a firm grip on the Pacific. The oceans have been record-warm for the past four years, scientists reported in January. Then in mid-March,
Continue ReadingBy Aimee Lewis, CNN Lewis Hamilton qualified third for Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix and the seven-time world champion described the result as a “dream” for him and his Mercedes team. The Englishman did not win a race last season as Mercedes experienced a torrid 2022, the team’s run of eight successive constructors’ titles coming to
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