By Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand and Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — The federal criminal trial of Donald Trump on charges he sought to subvert the result of the 2020 presidential election will begin March 4, 2024, the day before the Super Tuesday primary, a federal judge ruled Monday. US District Judge Tanya Chutkan made
Continue ReadingBy Rhea Mogul, Manveena Suri and Irene Nasser, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — Police in India are investigating a teacher after a video of her encouraging students to slap their 7-year-old classmate, who is Muslim, sparked widespread outrage in the country. The video of the incident, which took place in the Muzaffarnagar district in northern
Continue ReadingCNN By Rhea Mogul, Manveena Suri and Irene Nasser, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — Police in India are investigating a teacher after a video of her encouraging students to slap their 7-year-old classmate, who is Muslim, sparked widespread outrage in the country. The video of the incident, which took place in the Muzaffarnagar district in
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Chinese Australian writer and democracy blogger Yang Hengjun has told his family he fears he will die in a Beijing detention center after being diagnosed with a kidney cyst, prompting supporters to demand his release for medical treatment. Yang has been detained in China since 2019,
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Los estadounidenses están a punto de conocer nuevos detalles importantes sobre el momento y el fondo de los juicios a Donald Trump, incluso cuando el expresidente y favorito republicano intensifica sus esfuerzos por alquimizar su peligro legal sin precedentes para impulsar su candidatura a la Casa Blanca. Dos audiencias clave
Continue ReadingBy BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press By some measures, Jacksonville was making strides to emerge from its racist past. But the killing of three Black people by a young, white shooter was a painful and startling reminder that the remnants of racism still fester in the Florida city. What happened Saturday in Jacksonville, said 79-year-old
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — One of Libya’s rival prime ministers says he has suspended his foreign minister after Israel revealed that its chief diplomat met with her last week. The news of the meeting prompted scattered street protests in the chaos-stricken North African nation. Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, who heads the government
Continue ReadingBy ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Five people, including four children, have died and dozens have been rescued in two separate incidents involving migrant boats heading to Greek islands from nearby Turkish shores. Greek authorities say four children died and 18 people were rescued after a boat carrying migrants apparently sank off
Continue ReadingBy SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China will no longer require a negative COVID-19 test result for incoming travelers, a milestone in its reopening to the rest of the world after an isolation that began with the country’s borders closing in 2020. A Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced the change on Monday. China
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top domestic security agency says a detained former employee of the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok is accused of collecting information about Russian action in Ukraine and related issues on U.S. diplomats’ orders. Russia’s Federal Security Service, the country’s main domestic security agency, said Robert Shonov is suspected of “gathering information about
Continue ReadingBy Angus Watson and Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — A Chinese-Australian writer who has been detained in China for more than four years said he fears he could die in jail, after a large cyst was found on his kidney. Yang Hengjun, an Australian citizen and democracy activist, was detained in 2019 during a visit
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Con una tormenta tropical intensificándose en el golfo de México y la ciudad más grande de Florida tambaleándose por un ataque por motivos raciales que dejó tres personas negras muertas, el gobernador Ron DeSantis abandonó la campaña electoral este domingo y regresó a su estado para sortear la crisis. DeSantis habló
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A typhoon has dumped heavy rain in the northern Philippines but didn’t make landfall as it moves toward southern Taiwan and is aiming at China’s southern coast. Flooding in low-lying villages displaced more than 2,300 people, most of whom sought shelter in government evacuation centers in the Philippines. Weather authorities warned
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, Robert Shackelford, Nouran Salahieh and Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — Tropical Storm Idalia is expected to strengthen into a powerful Category 3 hurricane Monday and could bring potentially catastrophic winds, heavy rain and flooding to Florida’s Gulf Coast later this week, prompting evacuations and school closures in parts of the state. By
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KUPIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — The thunder of mortar fire echoes in the distance as 5-year old David approaches his mother with an innocent request: Can he play with the baseball bat a relative gave him as a gift? Valeria Pototska rolls her eyes and tells her son no for the
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh, Sara Smart and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — A federal hate crime investigation is underway after a White gunman with a swastika-emblazoned assault-style rifle killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, authorities said. The shooting claimed the lives of Angela Michelle Carr, 52, Anolt Joseph “AJ” Laguerre
Continue ReadingBy ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS (AP) — An Israeli airstrike has hit the international airport in the city of Aleppo in northern Syria, damaging a runway and putting it out of service. State news agency SANA, citing a military official, says Israeli planes coming from the Mediterranean Sea carried out the attack at around
Continue ReadingBy Tara Subramaniam, CNN (CNN) — Afghanistan’s Band-e-Amir National Park was known for having employed the country’s first-ever female park rangers. Now, women won’t even be allowed to visit, let alone work there, as the Taliban deepens its repressive rule over the country. Afghanistan’s Minister for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Mohammad
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Eight U.S. Marines remained in a hospital in the Australian north coast city of Darwin on Monday after they were injured in a fiery crash of a tiltrotor aircraft that killed three of their colleagues on an island. All 20 survivors were flown from Melville Island
Continue ReadingBy MARIA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — In the forest-covered mountains of Mexico City a brigade of farmers and forest rangers plant inches-high pine saplings in a recently cut stand of trees, even as the sound of chainsaws rings out nearby. Illegal logging has taken a huge toll in recent years in the
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