BEIJING (AP) — A giant Chinese real estate developer that is struggling to avoid defaulting on $340 billion in debt says it is asking a U.S. court to approve a restructuring plan for foreign bondholders and denied what it said were news reports suggesting it filed for bankruptcy. Evergrande Groupe’s mountain of debt prompted fears
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — When Belgian designer Martin Margiela first released the split-toe Tabi silhouette in 1988, he dipped the soles in red paint and sheathed the runway in white gauze; ensuring the cloven footprints left a haunting mark. “It’s for a tiny group of women, and not everyone will like it,” Margiela
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — A suburban Atlanta school board has voted to terminate the contract of a teacher who read a book about gender identity to gifted fifth-graders – the latest salvo in a nationwide clash over how issues like gender and race are discussed in public school classrooms. The Cobb County board
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — Huge swaths of the digital asset space — which includes cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) — are going bust after a pandemic-driven boom. Some celebrity-endorsed NFTs that cost over $400,000 in May 2022 can now be bought for around $50,000, as the future of digital art remains questionable. Here’s
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Beyond the devastating human toll from the recent wildfires on Maui, there will be a financial cost far above what a disaster like this would have caused on the mainland. That’s because the process of rebuilding the more than 2,200 homes and businesses that state officials say
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Hello Central Oregon! The high pressure that has dominated our area continues to slide east today, making way for a new front which will lead to breezy conditions across much of the forecast area. This, combined with the recent heat and dry conditions has resulted in a Red Flag Warning for Deschutes, Crook and jefferson
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Washington (CNN) — The Justice Department is seeking three-decade prison sentences for the leaders of the Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy for plotting and leading the crowd at the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, positioning the men as failed, thuggish political revolutionaries. In a new court
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — The Florida Department of Health placed two counties under a mosquito-borne illness alert as five cases of dengue have been reported in Broward and Miami-Dade counties in less than a month, weekly reports show. In total, 11 cases of locally acquired dengue have been reported in the state this
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Japón expresó su “grave preocupación” después de que buques de guerra chinos y rusos navegaran cerca de sus islas del sur este jueves, solo un día antes de una cumbre en la que se espera que su líder discuta las crecientes tensiones en el Indo-Pacífico con sus homólogos de Corea
Continue ReadingMILAN (AP) — Italian police have arrested a 21-year-old Dutch man suspected in the stabbing death of his father and a family friend in the countryside near the French border. An official from the Carabinieri paramilitary police force confirmed the arrest. Italian media said the suspect was found hiding in the woods near where the
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say Austria’s former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has been charged with making false statements to a parliamentary inquiry into alleged corruption in his first government, which collapsed in a scandal in 2019. An indictment against Kurz, his former chief of staff and a third person was filed
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, Vasco Cotovio and Josh Pennington, CNN (CNN) — Russia temporarily shuttered all four major Moscow airports early on Friday morning following an alleged drone strike on the capital city, its civil aviation authority said. Seven flights were diverted because of the closures of Moscow’s Vnukovo, Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo and Zhukovsky airports, according to
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China is blasting this weekend’s summit among the leaders of the U.S., Japan and South Korea, saying no country should “seek its own security at the expense of the security interests of others and of regional peace and stability.” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told reporters at a daily briefing that “the
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin Esta cobertura en vivo ha finalizado. Sigue aquí las noticias más recientes. Los residentes locales pasan junto a un edificio destruido en la ciudad de Kupiansk, en la región de Kharkiv, el 17 de agosto de 2023, en medio de la invasión rusa de Ucrania. (Foto de SERGEY BOBOK/AFP vía Getty Images)
Continue ReadingBy Katie Bo Lillis and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has ramped up missile strikes on Russian-occupied Crimea in recent weeks in an effort to disrupt Russian logistics and resupply efforts as fighting rages in southern Ukraine – but it’s a strategy that some US officials in Washington are viewing with skepticism. For some
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Kaczynski, Em Steck and Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN (CNN) — When conspiracy theorist Alex Jones marched his way to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, riling up his legion of supporters, an unassuming middle-aged man in a red “Trump 2020” hat conspicuously tagged along. Videos and photographs reviewed by CNN show the man
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster fund is already running out of money in a year that’s setting records for billion-dollar weather disasters – all before the peak of Atlantic hurricane season has even arrived. The relief fund is expected to be depleted by the middle
Continue ReadingBy Nikki Carvajal, CNN (CNN) — On a fall day in September, two men sat watching movies about cowboys and the Old West at a rustic retreat in Maryland. It could have been a relaxing way to spend a weekend – except the men were President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, and
Continue ReadingBy ARTURO RODRÍGUEZ and DAVID BRUNAT Associated Press SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Canary Islands (AP) — Firefighters in Spain’s Canary Islands are battling dense smoke and high temperatures to try to control the worst wildfire in decades on the main tourist island of Tenerife, officials said Friday. The fire started late Tuesday in the north
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — Three Antioch, California, police officers were charged with civil rights violations as part of an FBI investigation into officers in the Antioch and Pittsburg Police Departments, the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California announced in a news conference Thursday. Morteza Amiri, Eric Rombough and Devon Wenger
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