CNN By Gloria Pazmino and Norma Galeana, CNN “Welcome to the United States.” This was the greeting Enderson Amaya Blanco dreamed of hearing after trekking thousands of miles through dangerous and deadly terrain to take his chances at freedom in the US. The young father is one of thousands of migrants who turned themselves in
Continue ReadingBy Jason Hanna, Ray Sanchez and Rosa Flores, CNN With tens of thousands of migrants massed in northern Mexico, the expiration overnight of the US Covid-era border restriction policy known as Title 42 has American border communities on edge, worried an already challenging humanitarian crisis will worsen as crossings climb. “We’re boarding up like there
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Australian Trade and Tourism Minister Don Farrell has held meetings and visited businesses in Beijing in a sign of progress in restoring a nearly decade-long rift in relations with China. In Sydney, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday that the two sides need to “develop understanding and dialogue and I’ve
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GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, EVERYONE… Today we’ll wake up to some mild temperatures, as we’re coming off overnight lows in the mid 40s. The light cloud cover we saw yesterday will thin out completely and we look to be under sunny skies throughout the day. Temperatures will continue to warm to the mid to upper 70s.
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Australia’s trade chief has arrived in China to lobby for the removal of curbs from its top trading partner, three years after relations soured when the previous administration in Canberra called for an investigation into the origins of Covid-19. Trade Minister Don Farrell arrived in Beijing on Thursday for a three-day
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Over recent years, Sudan’s military and a separate armed force accumulated power, each suspicious of the other, even as they worked together against the country’s pro-democracy movement. Officers inside both forces say it was a long-building recipe for disaster. Their tenuous alliance ended in mid-April, when they
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Otro día de fuertes tormentas trajo informes de tornados, ráfagas de viento dañinas y granizo de gran tamaño a través de partes del centro de EE.UU. y también a través de partes del sureste este jueves. En total, hay más de 90 informes de tormentas. Hasta el momento, se han registrado
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press Japanese and South Korean officials have agreed on a visit later this month by South Korean experts to the Fukushima nuclear plant before it begins the controversial release of treated but radioactive water into the sea. The safety of the water is a major sticking point as the two sides
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN SMITH and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press BENTLEY, La. (AP) — They were born and raised in captivity, but as they slowly slithered away from their handlers and disappeared into gopher holes in the Kisatchie National Forest, the group of Louisiana pine snakes appeared to be right at home. The five pine snakes bred
Continue ReadingBy AARON MORRISON AP National Writer BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Tirzah Patterson will dedicate this Mother’s Day to the hardest part of a mother’s job, trying to help her child make sense of tragedy. Patterson and her husband had divorced but remained close for the sake of their son. Then Heyward Patterson was gunned down
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho mother Lori Vallow Daybell was convicted Friday in the murders of her two youngest children and a romantic rival, a verdict that culminates a three-year investigation that included bizarre claims that her son and daughter were zombies and she was a goddess sent to usher
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho mother Lori Vallow Daybell was convicted Friday in the murders of her two youngest children and a romantic rival, a verdict that culminates a three-year investigation that included bizarre claims that her son and daughter were zombies and she was a goddess sent to usher
Continue ReadingCNN By Tamara Qiblawi, Jomana Karadsheh and Gul Tuysuz, CNN Turkey’s fiercely contested presidential election appears likely to go to a second round after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan failed to secure 50% of votes cast to decisively extend his 20-year rule. The high stakes election will ultimately decide the fate of a key NATO ally
Continue ReadingStory by Tamara Qiblawi, Jomana Karadsheh and Can Ertuna | Photos and video by Lorenz Huber Bedi Değirmenci has taken his first breaths of fresh air since a monster earthquake struck southeast Turkey three months ago. For three days, the 36-year-old lay trapped under the rubble of his home in Hatay. Then he was hospitalized
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To help combat the deadly homeless-animal overpopulation crisis in Mexico, Bend-based nonprofit Street Dog Hero hosted a three-day spay/neuter event in Tepic, Mexico, where they sterilized 473 animals.
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan and Allison Chinchar, CNN A tropical cyclone is strengthening in the Bay of Bengal and is on course to hit western Myanmar and Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, where around 1 million people live in flimsy shelters in what many consider to be the world’s largest refugee camp. Cyclone Mocha is the first to
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — Thailand votes Sunday in an election many see as an opportunity to break free from military-led governments that have been in power for almost a decade. But the opposition party expected to win may find its way thwarted by the conservative establishment. The apparent favorite, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, is the daughter of a
Continue ReadingBy VALERIE GONZALEZ, ELLIOT SPAGAT and GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The border between the U.S. and Mexico is relatively calm, offering few signs of the chaos that had been feared following a rush by worried migrants to enter the U.S. before the end of pandemic-related immigration restrictions. Less than 24
Continue ReadingBy MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cassandra Nuñez and her grandmother cast their first ballots in a U.S. presidential election in 2016. She was a first-year college student; her grandmother, a newly minted citizen. They both hoped to elect the first woman president over a man who bragged about grabbing and kissing women
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Voters disaffected by nine years of plodding rule by a coup-making army general are expected to deliver a strong mandate for change in Thailand’s general election Sunday. But a predicted victory by the allies of Thaksin Shinawatra, whose ouster by coup 17 years ago plunged the country
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