By Clare Foran, Kristin Wilson and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to pass a bill to suspend the nation’s debt limit through January 1, 2025, as lawmakers race to prevent a catastrophic default. The bill will next need to be passed by the Senate before it
Continue ReadingBy Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Pterosaurs, the world’s oldest flying reptiles, once flew in Australia’s skies as far back as 107 million years ago, according to a study published Wednesday. Palaeontologists came to that conclusion after examining two pieces of prehistoric bone extracted from Dinosaur Cove – a fossil-bearing site in the Australian state
Continue ReadingCNN By Don Riddell, CNN (CNN) — Yogi Berra famously said “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over,” but one of the greatest careers in baseball history might have been over before it had even begun. In 1944, two years before he started launching home runs at the Yankee Stadium, Berra was on a rocket boat
Continue ReadingBy HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer PARIS (AP) — Novak Djokovic refrained from any political messages at the French Open after a second-round victory that was a struggle for a set, hours after a government minister criticized the 22-time Grand Slam champion’s comments about clashes in Kosovo as “not appropriate.” Djokovic beat Marton Fucsovics 7-6
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo Seúl (CNN) — El intento de Corea del Norte de poner en el espacio un satélite militar de reconocimiento fracasó este miércoles al averiarse la segunda etapa del cohete, informó la estatal Agencia Central de Noticias de Corea (KCNA), que añadió que Pyongyang planeaba realizar un segundo lanzamiento lo antes posible. “El nuevo
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press SANT JOAN DESPÍ, Spain (AP) — Barcelona midfielder Aitana Bonmatí learned when she was the only girl playing on her village’s soccer team that she would have to fight for the game she loved. She often got into scraps with her teammates who couldn’t accept that a girl could play
Continue ReadingBy GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic sports bodies are meeting amid ongoing uncertainty about if and how Russian athletes could return to their competitions ahead of the 2024 Paris Games. The annual meeting of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations is being held in the Olympic home city of
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say seven people have been arrested in raids across Germany against alleged members of a network that helped finance the Islamic State extremist group’s activities in Syria. The suspects — four women and three men, with German, Turkish, Moroccan and Kosovo citizenship — were arrested on Wednesday in five German states,
Continue ReadingBy JOHNSON LAI and HIROYUKI KOMAE Associated Press NAHA, Japan (AP) — A weakened Tropical Storm Mawar headed toward Japan’s southern archipelago of Okinawa, leading the airport and businesses to close and fishermen to batten down their boats in preparation. Many residents in the prefectural capital of Naha on the main Okinawan island, where about
Continue ReadingBy JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Latvian lawmakers are set to elect new head of state on Wednesday from a field of three candidates with no clear favorite. The 100-seat Saeima legislature will elect the president for a four-year term. Entrepreneur and businessman Uldis Pilens, civil society activist Elina Pinto and Foreign Minister
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China’s commerce minister met Tesla Ltd. CEO Elon Musk and promised to support the development of foreign companies. Musk joined a series of CEOs from global companies including Apple Inc. who have met with Cabinet officials this year following the end of anti-virus controls that blocked most travel into China. The ruling
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party has warned of the risks posed by advances in artificial intelligence while calling for heightened national security measures. A meeting headed by party leader and President Xi Jinping on Tuesday urged “dedicated efforts to safeguard political security and improve the security governance of internet data and artificial intelligence,”
Continue ReadingBy DENG MACHOL and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press MAGWI COUNTY, South Sudan (AP) — Many South Sudanese are returning to areas riddled with mines left from decades of conflict as they trickle back into the country after a peace deal was signed in 2018 to end a five-year civil war that killed nearly 400,000 people
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Officials in Davenport, Iowa, say they’re carefully assessing whether rescuers can further search a partially collapsed apartment building – which they say can topple at any moment – for missing residents before they order the structure demolished. Five people are unaccounted for after the back portion of the six-story
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s defense force chief says the United States has warned that allegations of war crimes against Australian soldiers in Afghanistan could prevent U.S. forces from working with Australia’s Special Air Service Regiment. Gen. Angus Campbell told a Senate committee on Wednesday that he received a letter
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has asked aides to get to the bottom of how at least $17 million was transferred from the Vatican’s U.S.-based missionary fundraising coffers into an impact investing vehicle run by a priest. The story of what happened to the money and how is one
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Desde que el movimiento “flight shame” o “vergüenza por los vuelos” empezó a instar a los viajeros a buscar alternativas más ecológicas a los aviones, muchos europeos se han fijado en la extensa red ferroviaria del continente para sustituir a los viajes aéreos de corta distancia. No cabe duda de que
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — More than half the country’s teachers believe arming themselves would make students less safe, while 1 in 5 say they would be interested in carrying a gun to school, according to a new report from the RAND Corporation. The survey, conducted in October and November, found 54% of US
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — United Nations appeals judges have significantly expanded the convictions of two allies of late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, holding them responsible for involvement in crimes across Bosnia and in one town in Croatia as members of a joint criminal plan to drive out non-Serbs from
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — La Cámara de Diputados de Brasil aprobó un proyecto de ley que limitaría el reconocimiento de las tierras ancestrales indígenas, con 283 votos a favor, 155 en contra y una abstención. La ministra de Pueblos Indígenas, Sônia Guajajara, calificó la votación de “grave atentado contra los pueblos indígenas y el medio
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