By MICHELLE L. PRICE, JILL COLVIN and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump, campaigning in Iowa Saturday, marked the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol by casting the migrant surge on the southern border as the “real” insurrection. Just over a week before
Continue ReadingAMMAN (AP) — The Jordanian army says it has killed five drug and weapon smugglers and arrested 15 in a day of clashes with armed groups of smugglers attempting to cross into Jordan from Syria. The army statement says the clashes broke out before dawn between Jordanian border guards and “armed organizations that practice smuggling
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior Biden administration leaders, top Pentagon officials and members of Congress were unaware for days that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had been hospitalized since Monday, U.S. officials said Saturday, as questions swirled about his condition and the secrecy surrounding it. The Pentagon did not inform the
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing faces new scrutiny about the safety of its best-selling plane after federal officials announced the temporary grounding of some Boeing 737 Max planes on Saturday, following a harrowing flight in which an Alaska Airlines jetliner was left with a gaping hole in its side. The Federal Aviation Administration
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Ahmir Jolliff dashed out of his home in Perry Thursday morning, eager to see his friends on the first day back to school after winter break. It was vintage Ahmir — known as “Smiley” around his house — an 11-year-old whirlwind of cheerful activity. He
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal officials order grounding of Boeing 737-9 Max jetliners after a plane suffers a blowout midflight.
Continue ReadingBy Xiaofei Xu, CNN Paris (CNN) — A couple from the French-speaking part of Belgium wanted to become naturalized French citizens but found themselves with the most French of problems – a bureaucratic struggle to prove they speak their mother tongue. The documents they provided to their local prefecture were deemed insufficient to demonstrate that they speak French. “I am the commercial director of
Continue ReadingBy Olga Voitovych, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — Eleven people including five children were killed in Russian S-300 missile strikes on Saturday in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, according to the local military administration. “Eleven dead, including five children – these are the preliminary results of the strikes on Pokrovsk district. Russians hit the area with S-300 missiles, killing 11 people and wounding 8 others. The main hit was on
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — New year, new content. Welcome to 2024. We embrace this year and are hopeful that good times, they are a-coming. After a bit of a tumultuous year in pop culture and entertainment (remember those SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes?), hopefully things will be both calmer and more exciting –
Continue ReadingPaulina Nares (CNN) — El astro brasileño de fútbol Mário Lobo Zagallo, cuatro veces campeón de la Copa del Mundo y considerado uno de los mejores jugadores de todos los tiempos, falleció el viernes a la edad de 92 años en Río de Janeiro, confirmó su familia a través de su cuenta oficial de Instagram
Continue ReadingBy DARREN SANDS Associated Press Over its 215-year history, the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City has earned a reputation as the flagship of the Black church in America. Based in Harlem, it became a famous megachurch with the political rise of the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. perhaps the most influential of the
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Three Florida residents are in FBI custody on charges that they assaulted officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the nation’s Capitol. The FBI said it arrested 24-year-old Jonathan D. Pollock, his 33-year-old sister, Olivia M. Pollock and 27-year-old Joseph D. Hutchinson at a
Continue ReadingCNN By Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — The family of a woman who was shot and killed by a responding deputy after calling for help in a domestic violence incident is seeking $30 million in a claim filed Thursday against Los Angeles County and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Niani Finlayson died on December 4 after
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Here’s something sure to make Elon Musk smile – short sellers, those investors who placed bets that the value of Tesla shares were going to go down, lost a combined $12.2 billion last year, more than short sellers lost on any other company in 2023. That estimate,
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Soccer icon Mário Zagallo, a four-time World Cup winner with Brazil as a player and coach, has died at age 92, a post on his official Instagram account announced on Saturday. After playing in two World Cup winning teams in 1958 and 1962, he went on to win the
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — El presidente Javier Milei, junto a una comitiva oficial, arribó este sábado a la Antártida, donde fue recibido por personal científico y militar de la Base Marambio, según informó la Oficina del Presidente en un comunicado difundido en X. Además del comunicado, la Oficina del Presidente difundió un video con
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — The 81st edition of the Golden Globes will take place this Sunday in Los Angeles, unofficially heralding the start of a new and decidedly different awards season. The show, which will be broadcast live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, is being hosted by comedian Jo Koy.
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Eleven people were killed Saturday in Russian shelling in Ukraine’s partially occupied Donetsk province, according to regional Gov. Vadym Filashkin. Five children were among the dead and eight further people were wounded in the attack on the Pokrovsk district, he said. Ukraine’s military claimed Saturday it successfully attacked the Saki military
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — The rivalry between GOP presidential candidates Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley has become a leading storyline before the leadoff Iowa caucuses on Jan. 15. The two candidates are in an increasingly testy contest to emerge in Iowa as the preferred alternative to former President Donald Trump
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — A minibus exploded in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul killing at least two civilians and wounding 14 others, a Taliban official said Saturday. It was the first attack in the country in 2024. Police spokesman Khalid Zadran said the explosion happened in the western part of the
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