By REGINA GARCIA CANO and GABRIELA MOLINA Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The global condemnation of Ecuador’s government for its decision to break into the Mexican Embassy snowballed Sunday with more presidents and other leaders expressing disapproval, shock and dismay. The criticism came as Mexico’s ambassador and other personnel arrived in Mexico City on
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer Jelly Roll won big at the 2024 CMT Music Awards Sunday night, taking home three awards at the annual event celebrating the best in country music videos. His accolades began with the CMT performance of the year award for his gospel-assisted rendition of “Need a Favor” at the 2023
Continue ReadingDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Powerball player in Oregon won a jackpot worth more than $1.3 billion on Sunday, ending a winless streak that had stretched more than three months. The single ticket — revealed following a delay of more than three hours to the drawing — matched all six numbers drawn to win
Continue ReadingBy Cassidy Hettesheimer, CNN (CNN) — When Jaedyn Shaw played youth soccer at FC Dallas, she would put her hair into a high ponytail, straightened, with a black prewrap. “A Mal Pugh ponytail,” Shaw called it, in honor of Mallory Swanson, née Pugh, the US national team forward who wore her hair the same way.
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers across North America are in for a treat on April 8 when a total solar eclipse will pass over Mexico, the United States and Canada. The event will be visible to millions — including 32 million people in the US alone — who live along the route the moon’s shadow will travel
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Preliminary hearings open Monday at the United Nations’ top court in a case that seeks an end to German military and other aid to Israel, based on claims that Berlin is “facilitating” acts of genocide and breaches of international law in the Israel-Hamas war in
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — State media say Russia’s government has declared the situation in flood-hit areas in the Orenburg region a federal emergency. Preparations for possible flooding are also underway in three other regions. The floods, caused by rising water levels in the Ural River, forced over 4,000 people, including 885 children, to evacuate, the Orenburg
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Sealy, CNN (CNN) — Braelen Bridges had finally made it. In 2021, after establishing his college basketball career at two smaller schools, he was set to play his very first game for the University of Georgia – the big leagues to many kids who, like Bridges, grow up in the Atlanta area. But
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China’s military says it has conducted air and sea patrols and that all activities that “disrupt the South China Sea” are under control. The brief announcement on Sunday is an apparent response to joint U.S. naval exercises with its allies. The United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines announced Saturday that they
Continue ReadingBy RODNEY MUHUMUZA and IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwandan President Paul Kagame blamed the inaction of the international community for allowing the 1994 genocide to happen as Rwandans on Sunday commemorated 30 years since an estimated 800,000 people were killed by government-backed extremists. Rwanda has shown strong recovery and economic growth
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Kaiser, Elisa Raffa and Allison Chinchar (CNN) — Excited eclipse watchers, watch out: Weather could complicate attempts to see the epic astronomical phenomenon in parts of the South and interior Northeast. Clouds and storms could hinder the ability to see the eclipse in its full glory in several spots along the path of
Continue ReadingBy Andrea Kane, CNN (CNN) — Sunday, April 7, marks six months since the brutal war between Israel and Hamas, which has resulted in an immense amount of fear and anguish among Israelis and Palestinians, as well as onlookers throughout the international community. People fortunate enough to be far from the conflict are nonetheless exposed to
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Perú anunció el sábado que exigirá visas a los ciudadanos mexicanos en respuesta a las nuevas restricciones introducidas por México el día anterior, según el Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores. “Ante el anuncio unilateral del Gobierno de México de imponer la exigencia de visa temporal para los ciudadanos peruanos que decidan
Continue ReadingBy ALFIAN KARTONO Associated Press JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Police say two Papuan separatist leaders were killed in a shootout between security forces and their rebel group near one of the world’s largest gold mines in Indonesia’s restive Papua region. Clashes ensued Thursday between independence rebels of the Free Papua Movement and a joint police
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By Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — House Democrats are aiming for just four more seats to win back the majority this fall – and their big-spending outside group is prepared to spend more than it ever has to pick them up. House Majority PAC, the super PAC linked to Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, is reserving
Continue ReadingBy Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Intense winds across the Central United States this weekend are fueling critical fire danger, leaving roads closed and thousands without power in some areas. Low relative humidity is combining with high winds to create an extreme fire weather threat across the western half of the Southern and Central Plains — the
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN London (CNN) — A rental property secretly transformed by the eccentric artist who lived there for three decades has been officially protected by the British government, five years after his death. Shortly after Ron Gittins died in September 2019 at age 79, his family visited the apartment where he had lived
Continue ReadingBy TAIWO ADEBAYO Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Matthew Walley’s eyes sweep over the large forest that has sustained his Indigenous community in Liberia for generations. Even as the morning sun casts a golden hue over the canopy, a sense of unease lingers. Their use of the land is being threatened, and they have
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — Last quarter, Tesla posted its first annual sales decline since the pandemic — a drop that was significantly worse than expected. The company blamed a weak Chinese economy, arson at its German factory and supply constraints because of escalating conflict in the Middle East. Those factors certainly aren’t helping.
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — En Oregon se vendió el boleto de Powerball que acertó todos los números en el sorteo del fin de semana, quedándose con el bote estimado en US$ 1.330 millones, el cuarto mayor de la historia, según el juego. También hubo cinco ganadores de US$ 1 millón del Match 5. Esos boletos
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