By MICHAEL RUBINKAM and TASSANEE VEJPONGSA The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Interstate 95 reopened Friday less than two weeks after a deadly collapse in Philadelphia, a quicker-than-expected rebuild to get traffic flowing again on a heavily traveled stretch of the East Coast’s main north-south highway. Workers put the finishing touches on an interim six-lane
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A powerful animal sedative in the illicit drug supply is complicating the U.S. response to the opioid crisis, scrambling longstanding methods for reversing overdoses and treating addiction. Xylazine can cause severe skin wounds, but whether it is leading to more deaths — as suggested by officials
Continue ReadingBy Sarah El Sirgany and Kostyantin Gak, CNN Neskuchne, Ukraine (CNN) — The bangs of incoming and outgoing shelling are the soundtrack of Ukraine’s frontline. But its president warned this week that the counteroffensive should not be seen through the lens of a Hollywood movie. Just outside the newly liberated villages of Neskuchne and Storozheve,
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Tras interpretar a Shiv Roy en “Succession” —la serie de televisión aclamada por la crítica que retrató satíricamente la lucha por el control de un imperio mediático de la familia Roy, muy rica pero moralmente en bancarrota— Sarah Snook protagonizará otra producción punzante. La actriz interpretará los 26 papeles de
Continue ReadingBy Sana Noor Haq and Niamh Kennedy, CNN London (CNN) — Hundreds of protesters lined the street outside the UK’s High Court on Saturday holding picket signs that read “Our bodies, Our right to decide,” before marching through the streets of central London demanding reformed abortion laws for women in England and Wales. Earlier this
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Kelsey Mitchell made seven 3-pointers and scored a season-high 25 points and the Indiana Fever used a 17-0 run in the second half to beat the Seattle Storm 80-68 on Thursday night. NaLyssa Smith had 12 points and 14 rebounds for Indiana (5-7). Emma Cannon and Erica Wheeler each scored 10 points,
Continue ReadingBy HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A disbarred Chinese human rights lawyer has been forced to move 13 times in two months as part of a pattern of harassment against him and three other prominent rights advocates in Beijing that is further squeezing the country’s battered civil rights community. Wang Quanzhang said
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Republican presidential candidates called Friday for imposing federal limits on abortion, declaring at a gathering of some of their party’s most influential evangelical Christian leaders that the year-old Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade didn’t go far enough. Hundreds of attendees
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — On a breezy morning at the height of the dry season six months ago, Rifkatu Andruwus and her children were chatting in front of their house in a displacement camp in the heart of Nigeria’s capital. Suddenly, security forces stormed into the camp, followed closely by
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Environmentalists, tribal leaders and others have fought for years against lithium mining ventures in Nevada. Yet opposition to mining one particular desert tract for the silvery white metal used in electric car batteries is coming from unusual quarters: space. An ancient Nevada lakebed beckons as a
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Environmentalists, tribal leaders and others have fought for years against lithium mining ventures in Nevada. Yet opposition to mining one particular desert tract for the silvery white metal used in electric car batteries is coming from unusual quarters: space. An ancient Nevada lakebed beckons as a
Continue ReadingBy CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer Cam Whitmore was projected by many to be a lottery pick, but he fell to the Houston Rockets at No. 20 in the NBA draft. The Associated Press’ mock draft had Whitmore going No. 5 overall. The versatile 6-foot-7 wing averaged 12.5 points and 5.3 rebounds last season as
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIE CORBET and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The Paris summit on finance and climate has wrapped up without a deal for a tax on the greenhouse gas emissions produced from international shipping. The gathering of world leaders and finance bosses aimed at tackling climate change and poverty ended without a major
Continue ReadingBy BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — When the Titan submersible made its fateful dive into the North Atlantic on Sunday, it also plunged into the murkily regulated waters of deep-sea exploration. It’s a space on the high seas where laws and conventions can be sidestepped by risk-taking entrepreneurs and the wealthy tourists
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is warning that Republicans seeking a nationwide ban on abortion won’t stop there. He is urging supporters to channel their outrage into mobilizing votes for Democrats in 2024. Just a mile from where Biden rallied reproductive rights supporters on the eve
Continue ReadingBy MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Another dreadful outing by Domingo Germán made things easy for touted rookie Bryan Woo on a breakthrough night for the Seattle Mariners. Teoscar Hernández hit one of Seattle’s four early homers and the Mariners teed off against a suddenly inept Germán in blowing out the
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press A day after revelations that the Titan submersible imploded, officials are searching the ocean floor for evidence and determining who will be responsible for investigating the international disaster. The U.S. Coast Guard said Friday that a formal inquiry has not yet been launched because maritime agencies are
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN) — ¿Adorable o tétrico? Cuando se trata del Furby, depende de a quién preguntes. Furby, el fenómeno de los juguetes de la década de 1990 que enfrentó a niños y padres en bandos opuestos cuando llegó a las tiendas y se convirtió rápidamente en una manía, está de vuelta. Hasbro,
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing bureau (CNN) — At least 31 people are dead and seven injured in the Chinese city of Yinchuan, in northwest Ningxia region, after a gas explosion at a barbecue restaurant Wednesday night, according to state media. The explosion was caused by a leak of a liquified gas tank inside
Continue ReadingBy Steve Almasy and Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — Victor Wembanyama, a 7-foot-4 Frenchman who some NBA commentators think could be a generational talent, was the No. 1 pick by the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Draft on Thursday night. The past two times the five-time NBA champions have had the top
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