REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has admitted Israel into a select group of countries whose citizens are allowed to travel to the United States without getting a visa in advance. The decision was announced Wednesday in Washington. It comes despite U.S. concerns about the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinian Americans.
Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — Eric Ulis was only 5 when a dapper man in a suit and sunglasses boarded a commercial flight in Portland, Oregon, ordered a bourbon and soda from his seat in 18E and then handed a flight attendant a handwritten note saying he had a bomb. It was November 24,
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — Shares of UBS plunged Wednesday following a Bloomberg report that the Swiss bank faces a widening probe by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) over suspected compliance failures that allowed Russian clients to evade sanctions. The Swiss Stock Exchange said it had temporarily stopped trade in the stock,
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Scottish authorities have approved a multimillion pound drug consumption room. It’s the first government-backed place in the U.K. where users can take illegal drugs such as cocaine and heroin under supervision by medical staff. Local officials in the Scottish city of Glasgow on Wednesday approved the 2.3 million-pound or $2.8 million facility.
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — A French government-nominated watchdog body on sexual equality says an online deluge of violent and degrading pornography is sowing the seeds for real-world rapes and femicides. France’s high council for equality between women and men released a damning study on Wednesday about porn-industry practices. It alleged that the porn industry massively promotes
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Travis Kelce was already famous, but now he is learning what it means to be Taylor Swift-adjacent-famous. The new episode of his podcast, “New Heights,” which he hosts with his brother, fellow NFL football player Jason Kelce, dropped Wednesday. Jason Kelce introduced the TSwift of it all in
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press LAGOA SANTA, Brazil (AP) — When Brazilian soccer player Paulinho scored a goal at the Tokyo Olympics, he celebrated by pointing an imaginary arrow at the flashing cameras as homage to a deity in his persecuted Afro-Brazilian faith – and taking aim at religious intolerance. Shortly after, he lost more
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany will increase its police patrols along “smuggling routes” on the border with Poland the Czech Republic in an effort to prevent more migrants from entering the country. The German interior minister said Wednesday that the new measures would begin immediately but she did not offer any
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY The Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Tourism and Antiquities Minister Ahmed Issa says they are seeking to double the number of tourists in the next five years, to reach 30 million visitors by 2028. He has told The Associated Press that Egypt received 10 million tourists in the first eight months
Continue ReadingBy BEN WALKER Associated Press ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson died Tuesday at the age of 86. Among his many fans in Maryland during his playing days was Ben Walker, a young left-hander who would go on to cover baseball for The Associated Press for more than 40 years.
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — Shortly after Hunter Biden was indicted on three gun-related federal charges, his attorney made it clear that his multi-pronged defense strategy in the historic case would include questioning the legality of the gun control accusation at the heart of the matter. “The constitutionality of these charges are very
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — As prescriptions for Ozempic soar, the drug and others like it are still reaching only a fraction of the population who could benefit from taking them — and the limited supply is disproportionately reaching White patients. The US Food and Drug Administration has approved two injectable semaglutide medications, which
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — Tal como se preveía, Alberto Núñez Feijóo fracasó en su primer intento de ser investido presidente del Gobierno de España. En la primera votación realizada este miércoles, en la que requería una mayoría absoluta de apoyos, obtuvo 172 votos a favor, mientras que hubo 178 votos en contra y cero
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — The Ryder Cup’s food scene is decidedly local at the Marco Simone club outside Rome. There’s an “APECESARE” food truck named after Julius Caesar selling “Street Food Romano” where the menu highlight is a carbonara burger with Damini beef, carbonara sauce, guanciale, Soncino lettuce,
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Hyundai and Kia are recalling nearly 3.4 million vehicles in the U.S. and telling owners to park them outside due to the risk of engine compartment fires. The recalls cover multiple car and SUV models from the 2010 through 2019 model years including Hyundai’s Santa Fe
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El rapero Nashawn Breedlove, más conocido por aparecer en una batalla de rap contra Eminem en la película de 2002 “8 Mile”, murió a los 46 años. Su madre, Patricia Breedlove, confirmó su muerte en un post en Facebook publicado este martes. “Con el corazón encogido comparto la noticia del
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Danaher, Benjamin Brown and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Armenian soccer player Henrikh Mkhitaryan has called on international leaders to “stand up against ethnic cleansing” in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Nagorno-Karabakh is a landlocked region in the Caucasus Mountains that is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but is home to around 120,000 ethnic Armenians,
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts returned to Earth on Wednesday after being stuck in space for just over a year. American Frank Rubio set a record for the longest U.S. spaceflight — a result of the extended stay. The trio landed in a remote area of Kazakhstan,
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles and Kristin Fisher, CNN (CNN) — Record-breaking NASA astronaut Frank Rubio has finally returned to Earth, feeling the pull of the planet’s gravity for the first time in more than a year. Rubio and his two Russian colleagues — cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin — parachuted to a landing in Kazakhstan
Continue ReadingBy JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish artist who was commissioned by a museum in northern Denmark to create a piece for its exhibition on labor conditions two years ago submitted two empty canvases, causing an uproar. Jens Haaning’s lawyer said on Wednesday that his client has appealed the ruling
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