JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A series of powerful and shallow earthquakes have shaken a sparsely populated island chain in eastern Indonesia. There are no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The U.S. Geological Survey said a magnitude 6.9 earthquake on Wednesday hit an area 211 miles southwest of Tual, a coastal town in Maluku province,
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a minibus explosion in the Afghan capital that killed at least seven people. The Sunni militant group said its members detonated an explosive device on the bus carrying Shiite Muslims late on Tuesday. Twenty others were wounded in the attack in Kabul’s western Shiite
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Unusually early heavy snowfall blanketed swathes of northeastern China this week, forcing airlines to cancel flights, halting trains and shutting schools and roads in the country’s first major blizzard of the season. The first snowfall in northeast China usually takes place between late November and early December,
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — She refused to ban books, many of them about racism and the experiences of LGBTQ+ people. And for that, Suzette Baker was fired as a library director in a rural county in central Texas. “I’m kind of persona non grata around here,” said Baker, who had
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping says potential risks associated with artificial intelligence are challenges that countries should deal with together. Xi’s remarks come against the backdrop of China’s rigid control of free speech on the internet while maximizing the internet’s economic benefits and social media’s propaganda contributions to the ruling Communist Party’s authoritarian
Continue ReadingCNN By Gregory Krieg and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Democrats will win full control of the Virginia legislature, CNN projects, expanding their foothold in state government and effectively ending Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s hopes of governing with Republican majorities and enacting his conservative agenda. Virginia Democrats will flip the state House while retaining their majority
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — An Arkansas man accused of hiding his 5-year-old daughter behind a wall to prevent state workers from taking her last week has been arrested and charged with false imprisonment and other offenses, authorities said. Jon Thompson, 40, was arrested Friday, two days after police found that the girl was
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK Associated Press ATACORA, Benin (AP) — Groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State have been spreading from the vast, arid expanse south of the Sahara Desert into wealthier nations on the coast of West Africa. In the past, experts thought militants wanted to use the West African coastal states as bases
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos aprobó este martes una resolución liderada por el Partido Republicano para censurar a la congresista Rashida Tlaib por sus comentarios críticos con Israel y su apoyo a los palestinos en medio de la guerra de Israel contra Hamas. La medida supone una reprimenda
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares meandered in Asia on Thursday after a another mixed close on Wall Street where benchmarks have been recalibrating following recent big swings. Stock prices fell in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Bangkok and rose in Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai. U.S. futures slipped and oil prices edged
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, JACK JEFFERY and LEE KEATH Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians living in the heart of Gaza’s largest city said Wednesday they could see and hear Israeli ground forces closing in from multiple directions, accelerating the exodus of thousands of civilians as food and water become scarce and urban
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear won reelection to Kentucky’s highest office Tuesday by improving upon the path to victory he carved in his successful 2019 bid. Beshear appears to have carried 29 of Kentucky’s 120 counties, all but two of them in counties Donald Trump carried in 2020.
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — La revista People nombró al actor Patrick Dempsey el ‘hombre vivo más sexy’ de este año. La noticia se reveló en el episodio del martes de “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” después de que los miembros del público hicieran preguntas a Dempsey, cuya voz y rostro estaban ocultos, para intentar identificarlo. “Estoy
Continue ReadingBy Shania Shelton, Ethan Cohen, Molly Gahagen and Melissa Holzberg DePalo, CNN (CNN) — Republican Gov. Tate Reeves will win a second term as governor of Mississippi, CNN projects, winning a majority of the vote to avoid a runoff. Reeves will defeat Democrat Brandon Presley, a member of the state Public Service Commission and a
Continue ReadingBy Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — American company Pizza Hut has teamed up with a century-old Hong Kong restaurant to put a modern spin on a traditional dish, or more simply, snake on a pizza. The new offering combines shredded snake meat, black mushrooms and Chinese dried ham – all indispensable ingredients of
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — The lower chamber of Mexico’s congress has once again turned to spectacle, giving hours of its time to a controversial character pressing the case for “non-human beings” he said were found in Peru. Less than three weeks after Category 5 Hurricane Otis devastated Acapulco, the Chamber of Deputies spent more than
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A proposal to enshrine abortion rights in Ohio’s Constitution was approved in a statewide election Tuesday, with a significant number of Republicans joining with Democrats to ensure the measure’s passage. Tuesday’s result followed a similar path as an August ballot measure election that would have raised the
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — People magazine has named actor Patrick Dempsey this year’s Sexiest Man Alive. Dempsey was revealed to be the new Sexiest Man Alive on Tuesday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” after audience members asked Dempsey, whose voice and face were concealed, questions to help narrow down his identity. “I’m just
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A recent speaker in Bend provided gardeners with strategies to reduce their reliance on chemical pesticides because insects can be caught in the crosshairs, Tracee Tuesday reports.
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ivanka Trump didn’t want to testify. But on the stand Wednesday in her father’s civil fraud trial, she took the opportunity to contend the family business has “overdelivered,” even as she kept her distance from financial documents that New York state says
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