LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass vowed that cleanup would happen at a home where mounds of garbage and debris had piled up several feet high across the entire property’s fenced-in yard and driveway. The mayor said Wednesday that she only learned this week about the Spanish-style bungalow in the Fairfax district
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Kentucky Rep. James Comer is decrying a new rule making it harder to fire thousands of federal employees as an attempt to “insulate the federal workforce from accountability.” Advocates hope the rule will head off former President Donald Trump’s promises to radically remake the federal workforce along
Continue ReadingBy ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $20 billion in grants for clean energy projects combating climate change, including residential heat pumps, electric vehicle charging stations and community cooling centers. The funds come from two programs that are part of the green bank created in the
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — La llamada programada para el jueves entre el presidente Joe Biden y el primer ministro israelí, Benjamin Netanyahu, no solo pondrá a prueba la cada vez más agria relación entre ambos líderes. También pondrá de manifiesto una flagrante contradicción en la política estadounidense respecto a la guerra de Gaza, un
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Tonga’s prime minister says he is open to Beijing’s offer of security support for the South Pacific kingdom hosting a major regional leaders’ summit, raising concerns in the United States as it strives to counter China’s growing influence. Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni says there’s nothing to
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Se espera que uno de los libros más antiguos que existen supere los US$ 2,6 millones cuando salga a subasta a finales de este año. El códice Crosby-Schøyen, escrito en copto sobre papiro en Egipto, es el libro litúrgico cristiano más antiguo, según la casa internacional de subastas Christie’s, que
Continue ReadingBy Thomas Page and Sean Coppack, CNN (CNN) — “When you are in Jamestown,” says Abdul Wahid Omar, “you know you have to be a hard guy.” A poor neighborhood and children with boundless energy but few positive ways to channel it. Then along comes boxing, cracking open a door to a less perilous future
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Star wide receiver Stefon Diggs has been traded from the Buffalo Bills to the Houston Texans, the Bills announced on Wednesday. Buffalo receives a 2025 second-round draft pick in exchange for Diggs, while the 30-year-old heads to Texas along with a 2024 sixth-round pick (No. 189 overall) and a
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Austria’s justice minister says she plans to tighten the country’s rules on espionage, which currently is explicitly banned if directed against Austria itself but not if it targets other countries or international organizations. Her push to tighten Austria’s laws comes as the arrest of a former Austrian intelligence officer on allegations of
Continue ReadingERIKA KINETZ and SOLOMIIA HERA The Associated Press DOVHENKE, Ukraine (AP) — Yukov says the same thing to all the mothers. He tells them to talk about their dead children, so they will be remembered. There is one person in particular whose story Yukov does not want forgotten: Oleksandr Romanovych Hrysiuk — Sasha, to his
Continue ReadingBy ERIKA KINETZ and SOLOMIIA HERA Associated Press DOVHENKE, Ukraine (AP) — The smell in the car is sick and sweet, the overpowering scent of corpses that have lain too long in muck and ruin, the ones the dogs didn’t devour. Oleksii Yukov, a 38-year-old martial arts instructor who leads a team of volunteer body
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — En Japón, todo el mundo podría tener algún día el mismo apellido a menos que cambien las restrictivas leyes matrimoniales, según un nuevo estudio. Pero la menguante tasa de matrimonios del país podría frenar esa tendencia, y el rápido descenso de la población podría dejarla totalmente obsoleta. A diferencia de
Continue ReadingCNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, Tierney Sneed, Sara Murray, Jason Morris and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump was dealt two major setbacks Thursday in his efforts to derail the criminal cases against him, with judges in the Georgia election interference case and in the federal classified documents case both rejecting bids by
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer Monday’s total solar eclipse might become one of the most filmed and photographed events of the year. As the moon passes in front of the sun, plunging a swath of North America into a few minutes of darkness, throngs will take pictures or videos of the moment. But powerful
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined Friday after a U.S. Federal Reserve official said the central bank might not deliver any of the interest rate cuts that Wall Street has been banking on this year, citing concerns about inflation. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 dove 2.4% to 38,812.24. Sydney’s
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto has held talks with Malaysia’s leader on bolstering bilateral ties as part of a regional visit that has also taken him to China and Japan. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Thursday he and Subianto discussed the next steps to strengthen bilateral ties, and also exchanged views
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Los 75 años de historia de la OTAN pueden describirse en tres actos, cada uno de ellos definido por amenazas existenciales a la seguridad occidental. El primero fue la Guerra Fría y la amenaza soviética. El segundo acto llegó en las décadas de 1990 y 2000, cuando la OTAN desplegó
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — Panicked passengers have jumped into the sea to escape a raging ferry fire in the Gulf of Thailand, and all 108 people on board are safe. The overnight ferry was about to arrive at the popular tourist island of Koh Tao when one of the passengers suddenly heard a crackling sound and
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La organización sin ánimo de lucro World Central Kitchen (WCK) reveló los nombres de los siete trabajadores humanitarios que murieron el lunes en un ataque militar de Israel en Gaza, elogiando sus “hermosas almas”, mientras crece la condena internacional por los hechos. Una persona con doble nacionalidad estadounidense y canadiense,
Continue ReadingBy HANNA ARHIROVA and BARRY HATTON Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities say a nighttime Russian attack using Iranian-designed drones has killed four people and wounded 12 in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. The Kremlin’s forces in recent months have stepped up their aerial barrages of Ukraine, hitting urban areas and the power grid. The
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