By ISSAM ADWAN and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel has closed the main commercial crossing in the Gaza Strip, effectively banning exports from the coastal territory after saying it uncovered explosives hidden in clothing being shipped to the occupied West Bank. The ban, imposed Monday night, chokes off the
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — After completing a historic landing on the lunar surface, putting India in the tiny club of countries that have safely placed a spacecraft on the moon, the Chandrayaan-3 lander is now asleep — resting through the 14-day lunar night before mission controllers attempt to reawaken the spacecraft later this
Continue ReadingBy Max Goldwasser Click here for updates on this story SPRING LAKE, Michigan (WXMI) — A senior on the Spring Lake High School football team is kicking down barriers every time she kicks the ball through the uprights. When Jessica Stewart takes the field, she proves that playing ball like a girl isn’t such a
Continue ReadingBy Zac Summers Click here for updates on this story STONE MOUNTAIN, Georgia (WANF) — The police chief for the DeKalb County School District is on paid leave after a video reportedly showed him body slam a student to the ground. Richard Stephens told Atlanta News First he is beyond furious over how Chief Brad
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo prosecutors say they have arrested a former vice foreign minister of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Cabinet on suspicion of accepting more than 61 million yen ($414,000) in bribes from a wind power company in return for his promotion of wind power and other favorable treatment. Prosecutors
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden wants to show the world at the Group of 20 summit in India and during a stop in Vietnam that the United States and its like-minded allies are better economic and security partners than China. White House officials said Biden, who
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Suspected Chinese operatives have used images made by artificial intelligence to mimic American voters online in an attempt to spread disinformation and provoke discussion on divisive political issues as the 2024 US election approaches, Microsoft analysts warned Thursday. In the last nine months, the operatives have posted striking AI-made
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Alison Sinclair’s trip to Turks and Caicos was supposed to be one of the best times of her life. But while on an island getaway with her best friend, she skipped beach time and swimming in favor of the bar, getting so drunk every day that she alienated her
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business New York (CNN) — Gatorade’s newest beverage doesn’t look or taste like its other neon-bright drinks. In fact, it’s just water. The PepsiCo-owned brand, best known for its fruit-flavored sports drinks like Fierce Grape or Frost Glacier Cherry, is adding Gatorade Water. It’s a major bet that the brand can
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WANF) — Another inmate at Fulton County Jail died three days after he was found unresponsive in his cell, the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office said on Wednesday. Shawndre Delmore, 24, was found during a routine check on Aug. 31. The sheriff’s office said
Continue ReadingBy TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — An escaped murderer on the run in southeast Pennsylvania has so far eluded hundreds of law officers — including tactical teams in full combat gear, tracking dogs, cops on horseback and aircraft — as the search entered its second week Thursday and
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN Español) — Las elecciones generales del 2 de junio de 2024 en México serán las más grandes de la historia, según el Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE). Se espera un padrón electoral de cerca de 98 millones de posibles votantes, lo que representa entre 8 y 9 millones de personas más que en
Continue ReadingBy Casey Gannon and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Washington (CNN) — The grand jury that handed up the indictment against former President Donald Trump stemming from efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election is meeting Thursday at the federal courthouse in Washington, DC, after an over four-week hiatus. CNN saw the jurors working for special counsel
Continue ReadingCNN By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El Gobierno de Colombia puso en marcha un programa de transferencias para los ciudadanos que viven en pobreza extrema con el que busca entregar dinero en efectivo suficiente para que los hogares más vulnerables, que están por debajo de la lÃnea de la pobreza, puedan satisfacer sus necesidades básicas.
Continue ReadingBy Sugam Pokharel, Niamh Kennedy, Sana Noor Haq and Rob Picheta, CNN London (CNN) — More than 150 police officers are searching for a terror suspect who escaped from a London prison by strapping himself to the underside of a delivery van, as questions mount over how the audacious breakout was allowed to happen. The
Continue ReadingBy Emily Brown Click here for updates on this story GENESEE CO., Michigan (WNEM) — Two dogs were rescued from what Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson said was a life of neglect and torture. The dogs eventually had to be euthanized. Anthony Jackson bought two Bullmastiffs, a brother and sister named Papa Black and Momma
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s prime minister says China’s blanket ban on Japanese seafood in reaction to the release of treated radioactive water from a tsunami-ravaged nuclear power plant contrasts starkly with broad understanding shown by many other members of the international community. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Japan’s
Continue ReadingCNN By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Hurricane Lee has strengthened into a major Category 4 storm with maximum sustained wind speeds of 130 mph, according to the 5 p.m. EDT advisory from the National Hurricane Center. “Additional strengthening is expected tonight. Fluctuations in intensity are expected after that, but Lee is forecast to
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL RUBINKAM and SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ta’Kiya Young treated her two little boys like kings, dressing them sharply, letting them have too many sweets, cooking them big gourmet meals of T-bone steak with broccoli, cheese and rice. The royal life also awaited her unborn daughter. When Young found out
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