MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The FBI has joined a weekslong search for a missing Wisconsin boy. Thirteen-year-old James Yoblonski’s father reported him missing from the family’s Reedsburg home on June 12. A sheriff’s deputy found the family’s van abandoned in the town of Sumpter about three hours before Yoblonski reported him missing. Deputies found a
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — During her “Eras Tour” performances, Taylor Swift has typically given her hat to an audience member and a special little girl was one of the latest recipients. At her concert held at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Thursday night, Swift gifted her hat to Bianka Bryant, the
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he has high hopes to discuss further strengthening of three-way strategic cooperation with the United States and South Korea at a summit hosted by President Joe Biden at Camp David later this month. The Aug. 18 summit with Biden and South
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Dramatizations tend to take liberties with the facts, but the issues surrounding 2022’s debut season of “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” were as much about its leering tone as fudging the details. The second season doesn’t fix those problems – in ways, it adds to
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The men who came forward to allege they were sexually abused as teenagers by Japanese boy band producer Johnny Kitagawa now have a powerful listener: the United Nations. The chair of the U.N. Working Group on Business and Human Rights told reporters on Friday that the number
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Tony Bennett’s wife and son are sharing some of their final memories of him. Danny Bennett and Susan Benedetto spoke with “Today” about the legendary singer, who died recently at the age of 96. Danny Bennett, who is the son of the star and his former wife Patricia
Continue ReadingBy MATTHIAS SCHRADER and DANA BELTAJI Associated Press CLAUSTHAL-ZELLERFELD, Germany (AP) — Tiny bark beetles have been causing havoc in Germany’s Harz mountains, eating away at trees and killing off swaths of the spruce population by hampering their ability to take in nutrients. Drought — made longer and more intense by climate change — is
Continue ReadingBy Nic Robertson, CNN (CNN) — Saudi Arabia’s ancient Red Sea port city Jeddah, stewing in the steamy heat of the world’s hottest summer on record, is not the obvious pick to cool the world’s fiercest conflict, currently raging in Ukraine. Yet, the desert kingdom’s king-in-waiting, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – MBS for short
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) – – Un revés golpea la investigación de la desaparición de Cecilia Strzyzowski, la joven de 28 años que es considerada por la justicia de Chaco, Argentina, como víctima de feminicidio. Parte de los restos óseos hallados durante los rastrillajes no son humanos, confirmaron a CNN fuentes judiciales. Los restos que
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Men who had sworn an oath to protect and serve were huddled on the back porch of a Mississippi home as Michael Corey Jenkins lay on the floor, blood gushing from his mutilated tongue where one of the police officers shoved a gun in
Continue ReadingBy SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republicans in Ohio have set in motion a summer special election over a measure that would make it harder for voters to pass future constitutional amendments. The Legislature acted in the spring to put the question on the August ballot and so far the
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The battle over abortion rights looms over an Ohio ballot measure being voted on statewide Tuesday. Issue 1 would raise the threshold needed to amend the state’s constitution from a simple majority of state voters to 60%. Although the text of the proposal does not address abortion,
Continue ReadingTRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey will send off Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, who died after being hospitalized this week, with a three-day state funeral. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy said in a statement that Oliver’s remains would lie in state in the capitol rotunda Thursday, followed by a similar honor in her home county’s historic
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — The United Nations’ human rights chief says his office in Uganda will close this weekend after the East African country decided not to renew an agreement allowing it to operate. The closure comes amid concern over human rights violations including extrajudicial killings and over a new law that prescribes the death penalty
Continue ReadingBy ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The United Nations says damage to the school complex in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp from clashes between factions could delay the start of the school year for some 6,000 children. Dorothee Klaus, Director of UNRWA in Lebanon, told The Associated Press Friday that a heavily fortified
Continue ReadingTALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A landslide has hit a resort area in the mountains of the country of Georgia, killing at least seven people and leaving more than 30 missing. Officials say the landslide hit the Shovi area on Thursday. The region is popular for its mineral springs and rugged mountain vistas and contains cottages
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Global prices for food commodities like rice and vegetable oil have risen for the first time in months after Russia pulled out of a wartime agreement allowing Ukraine to ship grain to the world, and India restricted some of its rice exports, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
Continue ReadingBy Ellie Stevens, CNN (CNN) — Mattel says it is conducting a nationwide job search for a “Chief Uno player.” The salary: $277 an hour. The toy company is hiring someone to promote the release of their new game, Uno Quatro. The chosen applicant will be paid $4,444 a week for four weeks to play
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tuesday is primary day in Mississippi. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves’ bid for renomination to a second term tops the list of contests voters will decide. The winner of Reeves’ three-way primary will face Democrat Brandon Presley, a state utility regulator and Elvis Presley’s cousin. Lt. Gov. Delbert
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Después de documentar las prácticas de entrenamiento, ahora vistas como abusivas, de la gimnasia de élite en su libro de 1995 “Little Girls in Pretty Boxes”, la periodista y autora deportiva Joan Ryan se encontró incapaz de ver el deporte. “Una vez que sabes lo que está pasando, no puedes
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