Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El teléfono de Agnes Marciniak-Kostrzewa no para de sonar. Lleva 25 años en el negocio inmobiliario, ayudando a polacos a comprar casas en la costa sur de España, pero los últimos meses han sido “una auténtica locura”. Hay muchas razones para cambiar la costa báltica por el Mediterráneo. Más de
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian police are examining why a lone assailant who stabbed six people to death in a busy Sydney shopping mall and injured more than a dozen others targeted women while avoiding men. New South Wales state Police Commissioner Karen Webb said on Monday detectives would question
Continue ReadingTANA TORAJA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers have recovered the bodies of a 3-year-old girl and her mother who were the last victims still missing after landslides on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island that killed 20 people. The rescue chief said the mother and child were found close to each other. Mud loosened by torrential rain poured from
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares skidded Tuesday following a slump on Wall Street after higher yields in the U.S. bond market cranked up pressure on stocks. The Shanghai Composite index lost 1.4% to 3,013.84 even though the Chinese government reported that the economy grew at a faster-than-forecast annual rate
Continue ReadingBy AIJAZ HUSSAIN and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government are increasingly wielding strong-arm tactics to subdue political opponents and critics of the ruling Hindu-nationalist party ahead of the nationwide elections that begin this week. A decade into power, and on the cusp of securing
Continue ReadingBy THEODORA TONGAS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — No one knows what music in ancient Greece sounded like or how dancers once moved. Every two years, a new interpretation of the ancient performance gets a global audience. It takes place in southern Greece at a site many still consider sacred:
Continue ReadingBy KEN MILLER Associated Press A judge in Texas is set to hear arguments Monday in rap star Travis Scott’s request to be dismissed from a lawsuit over the deadly 2021 Astroworld festival in Houston. Scott headlined the concert during which 10 people were killed as authorities and festival organizers responded to a massive crowd
Continue ReadingBy DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s upcoming parliamentary election, set for Wednesday, follows a campaign that was marked by heated exchanges between the country’s two top officials. The ballot pits the ruling conservative Croatian Democratic Union, or HDZ, led by acting Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic against an alliance of centrist and
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A movie weapons supervisor was sentenced to 18 months in prison in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film “Rust,” during a hearing Monday in which tearful family members and friends gave testimonials that included calls
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE, QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hosting Iraq’s leader at the White House as his administration works to prevent an escalation in Mideast hostilities following Iran’s weekend attack on Israel. Biden is meeting Monday with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani for talks intended
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press The near-total abortion ban resurrected last week by the Arizona Supreme Court dates to 1864, a time when gold-seekers were moving in, dueling had to be regulated and settlers were increasingly encroaching on tribal lands. The ban was written before Arizona even became a state, created by a New York
Continue ReadingBy Laura He and Anna Cooban, CNN Hong Kong/London (CNN) — US stocks were rocked by hot economic data and worries about an escalation of tensions in the Middle East, with the Dow swinging through 600 points Monday. The Dow fell 248 points, or 0.7%, giving up earlier gains. The S&P 500 fell 1.2% and
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tax Day reveals a major split in how Joe Biden and Donald Trump would govern: The presidential candidates have conflicting ideas about how much to reveal about their own finances and the best ways to boost the economy through tax policy. Biden, the sitting
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ, MICHAEL R. SISAK, ERIC TUCKER and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The historic hush money trial of Donald Trump got underway Monday with the arduous process of selecting a jury to hear the case charging the former president with falsifying business records in order to stifle stories about his
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include Taylor Swift’s eagerly anticipated album “The Tortured Poets Department,” a family of ducks is coaxed into flying south for the winter in the kid-friendly animated movie “Migration” and Conan O’Brien makes himself the brunt of jokes in his new travel show “Conan O’Brien Must
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Juan Brito López tenía unos 20 años cuando los soldados irrumpieron en su casa de la aldea de Pexla, ubicada en el altiplano occidental de Guatemala. Escapó, escondiéndose en el bosque, pero no pudo salvar a su mujer y a sus cuatro hijas. Brito López, que ahora tiene 70 años, relató
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell, Annette Choi and Gillian Roberts, CNN (CNN) — Jurors found former President Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in his New York hush money trial, the first criminal trial of a US ex-president. Judge Juan Merchan set a sentencing hearing for July 11. This is the
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN) — El corazón de María Acosta se encoge cada vez que escucha la pregunta. “Señora, ¿tengo que mudarme?” Los inmigrantes en Iowa siguen preguntándole. Y Acosta dice que no sabe cómo responder. “Me siento impotente. Me siento frustrada”, dice Acosta, organizadora comunitaria del Movimiento de Migrantes por la Justicia de Iowa. “¿Qué
Continue ReadingWLS, JOSE MOLINA, CNN By Dalia Faheid and Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — An 8-year-old girl died and seven other people were wounded – including two young children – when shots were fired while they were standing outside at a family gathering in Chicago Saturday night, police said. The girl was pronounced dead after being
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More than 20 dogs were wagging their tails and looking for their new owner to take them home Sunday, as Amazing Dogs held a dog adoption event at Bend’s PetSmart. The event was a chance for families to interact and connect with their potential forever pet. Amazing Dogs says it’s in need of volunteers, donations and local fosters to help
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