LONDON (AP) — A judge says a former British soldier will stand trial in the killing of two civil rights protesters half a century ago on Bloody Sunday, one of the deadliest days of the decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland. The former paratrooper is charged with murder in the killings of James Wray and William
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani just inked a monster contract with a unique structure that will surely make Bobby Bonilla smile. Valued at a staggering $700 million, Ohtani’s 10-year deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers isn’t just the richest sports contract on the planet. The record-setting contract features
Continue ReadingBy Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis has called for an international treaty to regulate the use of Artificial Intelligence, warning that the new technology risks causing a “technological dictatorship” which would threaten peace and democracy. The 86-year-old pontiff says he wants world leaders to agree to a “binding international treaty” on AI developed
Continue ReadingBy LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer Gautam Dongre’s two children in India and Pascazia Mazeze’s son in Tanzania live with an inherited blood disorder that turns blood cells into instruments of pain. Now that new gene therapies promise a cure for their sickle cell disease, Dongre says he’s “praying the treatment should come to us.”
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — George McGinnis spent his teenage years sneaking into Pacers games at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. He finished his Hall of Fame career as one of the most popular, revered and decorated basketball players in Pacers history. The groundbreaking power forward, who captivated ABA and NBA fans
Continue ReadingBy Paulina Aguilar Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — An autonomous security robot is now patrolling part of downtown Portland. Portland city officials and their community improvement partners gathered on Tuesday to unveil a new mural. The mural, located at Southwest Ankeny and 4th Avenue, was created in hopes to
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press Two men killed about 3,600 birds, including bald and golden eagles, during a “killing spree” on Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation and elsewhere, then sold eagle parts on a black market that has been a long-running problem for U.S. wildlife officials, a federal grand jury indictment says.
Continue ReadingBy Casey Tolan, Audrey Ash and Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — The largest credit union in the US has the widest disparity in mortgage approval rates between White and Black borrowers of any major lender, a trend that reached new heights last year, a CNN analysis found. Navy Federal Credit Union, which lends to military
Continue ReadingCNN By Casey Tolan, Audrey Ash and Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — The largest credit union in the US has the widest disparity in mortgage approval rates between White and Black borrowers of any major lender, a trend that reached new heights last year, a CNN analysis found. Navy Federal Credit Union, which lends to
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s been a great year for stock markets around the world. Wall Street’s rally has been front and center, with the U.S. stock market the world’s largest and its clear leader in performance in recent years. But stocks have powered higher across developed and emerging
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A federal judge said she would decide by Friday whether to temporarily halt the impending reintroduction of gray wolves to Colorado under a voter-approved initiative, after representatives of the state’s cattle industry went to court to try to stop the predators’ release. If the
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN INGANGA Associated Press MANDERA, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s military continued efforts Thursday to evacuate hundreds of people trapped by raging floods that have hit many parts of the East African country. Floods have killed at least 170 and displaced more than 600,000 since the onset of heavy rains in November, according to the
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — After spending 1,000 days on the Martian surface, NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered new details about the history of an ancient lake and river delta on the red planet. The new insights, detectable thanks to the rover’s detailed on-the-ground sleuthing, are helping scientists piece together the puzzle of Mars’
Continue ReadingCNNEE (CNN Español) — Los líderes de Venezuela y Guyana se dieron la mano el jueves durante una muy esperada cumbre sobre la disputada región de Esequibo celebrada en la isla caribeña de San Vicente y las Granadinas. Un video publicado por el Gobierno de Venezuela mostró el momento, con los dos hombres rodeados por
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By Clare Foran and Haley Talbot, CNN The House voted Thursday to pass a critical defense policy bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, which sets the policy agenda and authorizes funding for the Department of Defense annually. The bill will next be sent to President Joe Biden to be signed into law. The Senate passed the bill
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — El papa Francisco pidió un tratado internacional para regular el uso de la inteligencia artificial (IA), advirtiendo del riesgo de que esta nueva tecnología provoque una “dictadura tecnológica” que amenace la paz y la democracia. El pontífice, de 86 años, quiere que los líderes mundiales acuerden un “tratado internacional vinculante” sobre la
Continue ReadingBy JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — NATO’s newest member and Russia’s neighbor Finland is to sign a bilateral defense cooperation agreement next week with the United States in a deal that allows Washington to send troops into the Nordic country and to store weapons and equipment there. Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen told
Continue ReadingBy Jake Tapper and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — US Navy officer Lt. Ridge Alkonis, who was jailed in Japan for negligent driving that resulted in the death of two people, has been booked into a federal prison in Los Angeles following his transfer to the US, according to a family spokesperson and the Federal
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The climate negotiations that just finished in Dubai hit upon the essence of compromise, finding common language that nearly 200 countries accepted, at times grudgingly. For the first time in nearly three decades of such talks, the final agreement mentioned fossil fuels —
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer, CNN Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire is introducing a new resolution with a bipartisan group of senators to condemn Hamas’ use of sexual violence and rape as a weapon of war against the people of Israel, according to a copy of the resolution shared first with CNN. The Senate-led resolution,
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