By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo says construction of the first phase of the country’s ambitious new capital is 80% complete and he will have an office there once clean water is available in July. Widodo told reporters on Wednesday during a visit to Nusantara on the island
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says the U.S. has flown a long-range B-1B bomber over the Korean Peninsula for its first precision-guided bombing drill with the South in seven years. South Korea’s Defense Ministry says the U.S. B-1B bomber conducted joint aerial drills with other
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian markets rose Thursday after Wall Street barreled to records Wednesday as the frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology kept sending stocks higher. U.S. futures and oil prices gained. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 index climbed 0.9% to 38,841.75. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong added 0.8% to
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Voters in the European Union are set to elect lawmakers starting Thursday for the bloc’s parliament, in a major democratic exercise that’s also likely to be overshadowed by online disinformation. Experts have warned that artificial intelligence could supercharge the spread of fake news to
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SHASTA LAKE, Calif. (KGW/KTVZ) — It was a messy Memorial Day weekend on a Northern California lake, and some University of Oregon students are partially to blame, according to officials. The U.S. Forest Service told KGW they always expect large crowds in May, and say every Mother’s Day and Memorial Day weekends bring lots of
Continue ReadingBy Omar Fajardo, Mitchell McCluskey and Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — The woman mayor of a town in western Mexico was shot dead Monday, authorities said, just hours after the country elected its first female president in a race marred by deadly attacks on candidates. Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa, mayor of Cotija in Michoacán state, was walking
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They may or may not be the same family, but Larissa Metzger shared her photo Tuesday of two Canada geese and their four little ones, while Cary Boyce snapped a parental pair on the Deschutes River on Sunday with a total of eight goslings all in a row.
Continue ReadingBy KAREEM CHEHAYEB and LUJAIN JO Associated Press AUKAR, Lebanon (AP) — A gunman who attacked the U.S. embassy near Beirut was shot and captured by Lebanese soldiers after a Wednesday morning shootout that injured an embassy security guard, the military and embassy officials said. The attack took place as tensions simmered in the tiny
Continue ReadingBy JESSICA DONATI Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — When armed men entered Safi’s village in northern Burkina Faso and began firing, she hid in her home with her four children. The gunmen found them and let them live — to suffer the guilt of survival — after killing her husband and other relatives. Safi,
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN)– El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, aterrizará en París este miércoles para conmemorar el 80 aniversario del Día D y participar en una visita de Estado organizada por el presidente de Francia, Emmanuel Macron. Pero la tarea que tiene entre manos es mucho más ambiciosa, ya que Biden pretende estrechar lazos
Continue ReadingBy Abeer Salman, Tamara Qiblawi, Allegra Goodwin and Barbara Arvanitidis, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel has transferred hundreds of Palestinian detainees out of the shadowy detention facility of Sde Teiman in Israel’s Negev desert, a state attorney told Israel’s Supreme Court on Wednesday during a first-ever hearing about the facility where prisoners from Gaza have
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe, Rebekah Riess and Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — Crews in Atlanta have completed repairs to a key water main whose break, among others, contributed to a huge swath of the city spending days without safe drinking water – though a boil advisory remains in effect for many homes and businesses “out of
Continue ReadingWXIA By Elizabeth Wolfe, Rebekah Riess and Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — Crews in Atlanta have completed repairs to a key water main whose break, among others, contributed to a huge swath of the city spending days without safe drinking water – though a boil advisory remains in effect for many homes and businesses “out
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By Samantha Young for KFF Health News in collaboration with Eric Tegethoff, Oregon News Service PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon is shipping air conditioners, air purifiers and power banks to some of its most vulnerable residents, a first-in-the-nation experiment to use Medicaid money to prevent the potentially deadly health effects of extreme heat, wildfire smoke, and
Continue ReadingBy KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A global human rights group accused Israel of using white phosphorus incendiary shells on residential buildings in at least five towns and villages in conflict-hit southern Lebanon, possibly harming civilians and violating international law, in a report published Wednesday. Human Rights Watch said in its report that
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza Roma, Italia (CNN) — Amanda Knox, la estadounidense que pasó cuatro años en la cárcel en Italia por el asesinato de su compañera de piso antes de ser absuelta del delito, vuelve este miércoles a un tribunal italiano para tratar de anular un cargo menor relacionado con el caso que atrajo la
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Thursday marks the 80th anniversary of D–Day, when American and allied forces attacked the Germans with the seaborne and airborne invasion of Normandy, France. After 11 months of bitter fighting, the Germans surrendered to the allies on May 5, 1945 ending the war in Europe. To honor those brave American heroes
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris spent part of a Tuesday episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” rehashing how she found out about former President Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts in his criminal hush money trial. She deflected a light-hearted question from Kimmel about whether the people she watched the verdict with were
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Two families have filed a federal lawsuit against Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and the Williamson County School District, claiming their middle school kids were arrested, strip-searched, placed in solitary confinement, forced to undergo evaluations and placed on house arrest after officials misinterpreted a Tennessee statute and claimed that
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Australia’s eSafety commissioner has dropped her legal bid to force Elon Musk’s social media site X to hide a violent video of a church stabbing in Sydney from global users. Julie Inman Grant had sought a Federal Court ruling after X failed to fully comply with a
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