By Jennifer Emert Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — “We’ve lost too many kids just this year alone to suicide, it’s gut-wrenching, it hurts,” said Porshea Boseman. Her daughter in March died of suicide. That News 13 investigation on teen suicide and mental health had parents sounding the alarm
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Rescuers have recovered the bodies of 33 people from a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar and are searching for three people believed to be missing. In the landslide on Sunday in Hpakant, the center of the world’s largest jade mining district, earth and debris
Continue ReadingBy JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer SYDNEY (AP) — Lauren Hemp didn’t let the Women’s World Cup semifinal match between Australia and England become the Sam Kerr show. Hemp scored to restore England’s lead eight minutes after a superb equalizer from Kerr, and then provided a perfect pass for the clincher as the Lionesses moved
Continue ReadingBy Joseph Ataman, CNN Paris (CNN) — Two American men were discovered on Monday after spending a drunken night up the Eiffel Tower, the monument’s management told CNN on Wednesday. The two men, who had Sunday evening tickets for Paris’ famous iron tower, were “allegedly trapped there due to their excessive alcohol consumption,” the Paris
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — New Jersey ordered more than two dozen Boston Market locations to close Tuesday because regulators found “multiple violations of workers’ rights,” including failure to pay wages, and fined the restaurant chain nearly $2.6 million. In a release, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development said
Continue ReadingBy ASIM TANVEER and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Police say a Muslim mob has attacked a Christian area in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, burning a church, damaging four others and demolishing a man’s house after accusing him of desecrating Islam’s holy book. A local police chief says Wednesday’s attack happened in
Continue ReadingBy Hafsa Khalil, CNN (CNN) — A technical fault meant that for several hours Tuesday customers of one of Ireland’s biggest banks could withdraw funds they did not have. The now-resolved glitch to the Bank of Ireland’s app and website meant people were able to transfer up to €1,000 ($1,090.20) to a digital account and
Continue ReadingBy LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania has decided to temporarily close two of its six checkpoints with Belarus this week amid growing tensions with its eastern neighbor, an ally of Russia. Wednesday’s decision came as Lithuanians grow increasingly worried about the presence of Russia-linked Wagner group mercenaries in Belarus. The head
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press appear to show China is constructing an airstrip on a South China Sea island also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan. The work on Triton island in the Paracel group mirrors construction on seven human-made islands in the Spratly group to the east which have been
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BRUNAT Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish Civil Guard police have arrested five French tourists and one Swiss for allegedly gang-raping an 18-year-old British woman on the Spanish island of Mallorca. The Civil Guard press office on the island said Wednesday that the six men, all in their 20s, have been jailed
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The Killers apologized on Tuesday after inviting a Russian drummer on stage during a concert in Shekvetili, Georgia, and telling the booing crowd that he was their “brother.” Videos posted on social media showed the crowd booing and gesturing with their thumbs down while The Killers’ frontman and singer
Continue ReadingGOODHUE, Minn. (AP) — A small Minnesota town will soon be without a police department. The exodus was spurred by low pay for the chief and his officers. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that the Goodhue police chief and one other officer are still on the force. But that’s only until their resignations become official
Continue ReadingBy JEFF McMURRAY Associated Press The Biden administration on Wednesday announced nearly $200 million in federal infrastructure grants to upgrade tunnels that carry streams beneath roads but can be deadly to fish that get stuck trying to pass through. Many of the narrow passages known as culverts, often made from metal pipes or concrete, were
Continue ReadingBy JEFF McMURRAY Associated Press The Biden administration on Wednesday announced nearly $200 million in federal infrastructure grants to upgrade tunnels that carry streams beneath roads but can be deadly to fish that get stuck trying to pass through. Many of the narrow passages known as culverts, often made from metal pipes or concrete, were
Continue ReadingBy NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s president has urged a continuation of his educational reforms to turn Southeast Asia’s largest economy into one of the world’s biggest by its hundredth anniversary in 2045. President Joko Widodo said in his annual state of the nation speech a day before Indonesia celebrates its
Continue ReadingBy Parija Kavilanz, CNN New York (CNN) — US consumers, trapped in a web of conflicting signals on the health of the economy and how it impacts their ability to shop, might be forced to spend less enthusiastically on a key bucket of discretionary spending – Christmas gifts, according to early forecasts of this year’s
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN (CNN) — When 16-year-old Shreya Nallamothu from Normal, Illinois, scrolled through social media platforms to pass time during the pandemic, she became increasingly frustrated with the number of children she saw featured in family vlogs. She recalled the many home videos her parents filmed of herself and her sister over
Continue ReadingBy NICK KURCZEWSKI Edmunds You may be familiar with previous technology format wars, whether it be VHS versus Betamax or Blu-ray versus HD DVD. Now another has quickly brewed in the way people plug in and charge their electric vehicles. It’s a battle of CCS versus NACS, and the winning format has a familiar backer:
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, is facing renewed scrutiny for apparently slowing load times for links to its competitors. While the platform has been plagued by technical issues after Elon Musk bought the site last year, many link delays this week appeared intentional, cybersecurity experts said, as
Continue ReadingCNN By Alayna Treene, CNN Washington (CNN) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are in “ongoing negotiations” with the Fulton County District attorney’s office regarding details of his surrender, two sources familiar with the talks tell CNN. As of now, they have not yet landed on a date for when Trump will surrender, the
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