Dutch customs officials make record cocaine seizure worth 600 million euros
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Customs authorities in Rotterdam have confiscated more than 8,000 kilograms (17,600…
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Aid organization says US nurse and daughter freed after abduction in Haiti are healthy and unharmed
By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An aid organization says a U.S. nurse and her young daughter who were kidnapped in…
Continue Reading‘High School Musical’ series reveals the fate of Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens’ characters
By Marianne Garvey (CNN) — “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” will reveal the fates of the original film franchise’s many…
Continue ReadingNew Thomas revelations unlikely to result in congressional passage of Supreme Court ethics reform
By Shania Shelton, CNN Washington (CNN) — Calls to implement tougher ethics standards on Supreme Court justices are likely to be stirred again…
Continue ReadingKentucky governor’s efforts to help storm-ravaged towns may dilute GOP advantage in rural areas
By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — The time Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, has spent helping disaster-stricken…
Continue ReadingRussia’s Luna 25 mission launches to the moon
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Russia has successfully launched Luna 25, the country’s first lunar lander in 47 years. The uncrewed…
Continue ReadingHere’s how much your grocery prices rose last month
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN New York (CNN) — Grocery prices ticked up 0.3% in July, after staying flat in June, driven largely by rising…
Continue Reading‘Painkiller’ veers off course with its fictionalized look at the opioid crisis
Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Covering the same terrain as “Dopesick” in too-precious fashion, “Painkiller” is a…
Continue ReadingCredit card and car loan delinquencies pass pre-Covid levels as consumers get squeezed
By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — More Americans are failing to make payments on their credit cards and auto loans, another sign of rising…
Continue ReadingRising flood risks threaten many water and sewage treatment plants across the US
By SUMAN NAISHADHAM and BRITTANY PETERSON and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press LUDLOW, Vermont (AP) — Across the U.S., municipal water systems and…
Continue ReadingPrisoner uses sheets to escape from 5th floor of NYC hospital and hail taxi; he’s still at large
NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a prisoner receiving medical treatment escaped from a New York City hospital by tying sheets together, rappelling from a…
Continue ReadingEmmys 2023 have been pushed to January 2024, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — The telecast of the 75th Emmy Awards has been pushed back to air in January, on Martin Luther King, Jr.…
Continue ReadingThe rising cost of shelter represented 90% of last month’s inflation
By Anna Bahney, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — The latest Consumer Price Index shows that shelter costs contributed 90% of total inflation last…
Continue ReadingAn author says AI is ‘writing’ unauthorized books being sold under her name on Amazon
By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — An author is raising alarms this week after she found new books being sold on Amazon under her name —…
Continue ReadingPhilippine president suspends 22 land reclamation projects in Manila Bay after US airs concerns
By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered an indefinite suspension of 22 major…
Continue ReadingNearly all hospital pharmacists say drug shortages are negatively impacting care; a third say impacts are ‘critical’
By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — As drug shortages near record levels in the United States, a new survey shows how widespread — and serious…
Continue ReadingUS, UK, and Canada sanction Lebanon’s former central bank governor over corruption allegations
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The United States, United Kingdom, and Canada have slapped sanctions on Lebanon’s embattled…
Continue Reading‘I haven’t seen a tree in three years,’ TV anchor jailed in China says in rare message
By Alex Stambaugh and Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Australian TV anchor Cheng Lei, who will have spent three years in detention in China as of…
Continue ReadingUna mujer de Georgia alega que su bebé fue decapitado durante el parto y que intentaron ocultárselo a la familia, según una demanda
Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Una madre que alega que su bebé fue decapitado durante el parto en un hospital de Georgia el mes pasado…
Continue ReadingCo-founder of Russia’s equivalent of Google slams ‘barbaric’ invasion of Ukraine
By Darya Tarasova, Tim Lister and Radina Gigova, CNN The founder and former CEO of Russia’s largest internet company, Arkady Volozh, has slammed…
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