By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Friday on looming worries over U.S. banks and lagging demand from China, the region’s major driver of growth. “Asian equities struggled for direction after weak inflation data in China pointed to weakening demand,” said Stephen Innes, managing partner at SPI Asset
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GOOD THURSDAY MORNING, EVERYONE… While we had some light scattered rain showers yesterday, all of the precipitation has passed and we look to stay dry today and through the weekend. We’ll continue to warm to the low 70s today, and be under some beautiful mostly sunny skies. Overnight lows will also warm to the low
Continue ReadingBy Rhea Mogul and Sophia Saifi, CNN Pakistan is teetering after former Prime Minister Imran Khan was dramatically arrested by paramilitary troops on corruption charges, sparking a deadly outpouring of anger against the powerful military that has put the country on edge. Unrest has spread across multiple major cities, resulting in unprecedented scenes of defiant
Continue ReadingCNN By Gregory Krieg and Eric Bradner, CNN The 2024 presidential campaign is only beginning, but former President Donald Trump made clear that his third bid for the White House will feel very much like the first two. Could he stop lying about the 2020 election? Did he regret his role in the US Capitol
Continue ReadingBy Kathleen Magramo, CNN Smoke from Australia’s worst wildfires in decades may have contributed to the rare triple La Niña weather event that impacted continents thousands of miles away, according to new research. Flames burned through 46 million acres from June 2019 to January 2020 — during Australia’s summer months — thrusting emissions into the
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Seven Peaks School is proud to announce five of our seventh-graders will present their research at the National History Day Nationals in Maryland this June.
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong newspaper will stop publishing works by the city’s most prominent political cartoonist after his drawings drew government complaints. Chinese-language newspaper Ming Pao did not elaborate on why it would stop publishing Wong Kei-kwan’s works. His comic drawings under the pen name Zunzi have
Continue ReadingEDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had a goal and an assist as the Edmonton Oilers beat the Vegas Golden Knights 4-1 to even their second-round playoff series at two games apiece. Nick Bjugstad, Evan Bouchard and Mattias Ekholm also scored as the Oilers built a four-goal lead in the second period. Connor McDavid had
Continue ReadingBy FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Carletta Tilousi hit the trail as the sun rose, the light revealing a grouping of cottonwood and ash trees deep in the Grand Canyon. Birds soared above and reptiles scampered across the rocks as the canyon walls grew taller and taller behind her.
Continue ReadingBy BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian authorities have opened an investigation into a shooting attack at a synagogue that killed two Jewish pilgrims and three members of the country’s security forces. The motive of the gunman, a National Guard member, remained unclear. Security officers killed him before
Continue ReadingCNN By Oliver Darcy, CNN It’s hard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired on CNN Wednesday evening. Kaitlan Collins is as tough and knowledgable of an interviewer as they come. She fact-checked Trump throughout the 70-minute town hall. Over and over and over again, she told him that
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN Español) — El Servicio Sismológico Nacional de México reportó la noche de este miércoles un sismo de magnitud 1,3 con epicentro en la Ciudad de México. El epicentro del sismo se ubicó a 3 kilómetros al noreste de La Magdalena C, en Ciudad de México, con una profundidad de 1,4 kilómetros. El
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine, CNN The family of Edward Bronstein, who died while in custody of law enforcement in 2020, reached a $24 million settlement in a lawsuit against the state of California, the California Highway Patrol and other parties, attorneys announced in a news conference Wednesday. Bronstein, 38, was initially pulled over in Los Angeles
Continue ReadingTOKYO (AP) — An earthquake has shaken Japan’s capital, Tokyo, and surrounding areas, injuring several people and causing minor damage. The Japan Meteorological Agency said the quake on Thursday had a 5.4 magnitude and its epicenter was in Chiba prefecture, southeast of Tokyo. No tsunami warning was issued. Japan’s Kyodo news agency said four people
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Long-haul carrier Emirates says it saw its most-profitable year ever in 2022, earning $2.9 billion after bouncing back from the coronavirus pandemic shutting down global aviation. The airline offered the figures in its annual report published Thursday, which said the carrier had revenue of
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press The war in Ukraine helped push the global total of people left internally displaced by conflict or natural disasters to a record high of 71.1 million last year, according to a report released Thursday by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. By the end of 2022, 5.9 million
Continue ReadingBy VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — Migrants rushed across the Mexico border Thursday, racing to enter the U.S. before pandemic-related asylum restrictions are lifted in a shift that threatens to put a historic strain on the nation’s beleaguered immigration system. The imminent end of the rules known as Title 42 stirred fear
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho jury is weighing the fate of a woman charged in the slayings of her two youngest children and a romantic rival in what prosecutors say was a strange doomsday-focused plot. Lori Vallow Daybell wanted the victims’ money, so she used sex and power to
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho jury is weighing the fate of a woman charged in the slayings of her two youngest children and a romantic rival in what prosecutors say was a strange doomsday-focused plot. Lori Vallow Daybell wanted the victims’ money, so she used sex and power to
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Deflationary pressure in China is worsening as consumer prices increased at their slowest pace in two years, suggesting weakness in domestic demand and raising questions about the strength of the economic rebound. The consumer price index rose by just 0.1% in April from a year ago, the lowest rate of inflation
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