By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Two US astronauts abandoned plans to exit the International Space Station to conduct maintenance on Monday due to a spacesuit malfunction. NASA officials called off the spacewalk because of a water leak in the cooling unit of one of the astronauts’ spacesuits. The leak, which affected the suit donned
Continue ReadingBy NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Authorities say Indonesia’s national data center has been compromised by a hacking group asking for a $8 million ransom that the government won’t pay. The cyberattack has disrupted services of more than 200 government agencies at both the national and regional levels since June 20. The
Continue ReadingMASON, Ohio (AP) — A man who was struck by a steel roller coaster at an Ohio theme park last week after he entered a restricted area to retrieve his lost keys has died from his injuries. Kings Island theme park near Cincinnati has said Arntanaro Nelson entered a fenced area there Wednesday night. The
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected two appeals related to COVID-19 vaccines from Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine nonprofit founded by independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The justices did not comment Monday in letting stand rulings against the group from the federal appeals courts in New Orleans and Philadelphia. In a
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Un salvavidas e instructor de surf –que también apareció en películas como “Piratas del Caribe: Navegando en aguas misteriosas” y “Blue Crush”– murió el domingo tras un aparente ataque de tiburón en la costa norte de Ohau, Hawai, según las autoridades. Tamayo Perry, de 49 años, era un “veterano de ocho años
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court won’t take up a case challenging Georgia’s system for electing its public utility board in a defeat for Black voters who argued the so-called “at-large” electoral system diluted their votes. The justices’ refusal to get involved will potentially make it much harder for challenges to such
Continue ReadingBy GEOFF MULVIHILL and CARLA K. JOHNSON Associated Press The Supreme Court is planning to weigh in on whether states can ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors. Most Republican-controlled states have adopted such laws in the past few years. The laws generally bar puberty-blocking drugs and hormone treatments for those whose gender identity does not
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN WITTE Associated Press The cargo ship Dali is headed out of Baltimore for Virginia. It departed Monday morning, nearly three months after it lost power and crashed into one of the Francis Scott Key bridge’s supporting columns and caused the bridge to collapse. The 984-foot Dali started moving shortly before 8:30 a.m. with
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to intervene for the second time in a dispute between Hungary and Holocaust survivors who want to be compensated for property confiscated from them during World War II. The justices said Monday they will hear arguments in the fall in Hungary’s latest bid to end the lawsuit
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge from Republican-controlled states to a horse racing safety law that has led to national medication and anti-doping rules. The justices on Monday left in place an appeals court ruling that upheld the law and rejected claims that Congress gave too much power to the Horseracing
Continue ReadingCNN By Cindy Von Quednow and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — A pro-Palestinian protest held outside a Los Angeles synagogue devolved into chaotic street violence with pro-Israel counterprotesters on Sunday in an incident that several officials, including President Joe Biden, criticized as antisemitic. The Los Angeles Police Department said it responded to two protests Sunday
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Josh Duggar, a former reality television star convicted of downloading child sexual abuse images. Duggar was on the TLC show “19 Kids and Counting” with his large family before his 2021 conviction. Lower courts have upheld his conviction, rejecting
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to revisit a long-running lawsuit filed by the families of Holocaust survivors seeking compensation from Hungary and a state-run railway for property seized from Jewish victims in the 1940s. The case questions how far parties must go to prove that property seized during World
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia Airlines says one of its plane en route to Bangkok made a U-turn back to Kuala Lumpur International Airport after experiencing a “pressurization issue.” It said the pilots initiated an emergency descent although cabin altitude was not exceeded and passenger oxygen masks were not deployed. It said the aircraft
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Pope Francis has appointed the longtime secretary of the late Pope Benedict XVI, who was sent back to his native Germany without a new assignment last year after a falling-out with the current pontiff, as the Vatican’s diplomatic representative to the Baltic states. The Vatican announced in its daily bulletin Monday that
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA G. SANCHEZ and PHILLIP REESE/KFF Health News and DEVNA BOSE/Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — LOCALIZE IT: HIV cases are on the rise in young gay Latinos, especially in the Southeast
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday jumped into the fight over transgender rights, agreeing to hear an appeal from the Biden administration seeking to block state bans on gender-affirming care. The justices’ action comes as Republican-led states have enacted a variety of restrictions on health care for transgender
Continue ReadingBy MELINA WALLING Associated Press OREGONIA, Ohio (AP) — At the end of their weeklong sleepaway camp, a hush falls over the boisterous kids at YMCA’s Camp Kern as they prepare for a treasured annual tradition: after songs and skits around a bonfire, they write down their favorite memories on slips of paper. Most years,
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the Biden administration’s challenge to a transgender care ban in Tennessee, delving into the complicated and politically fraught issue of gender-affirming care in a substantive way for the first time. The state law, enacted last year, bans hormone
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The United States will fund the printing of more than three million textbooks for Ukrainian students to use in the coming school year amid escalated Russian attacks on Ukrainian printing facilities that are part of Moscow’s war “against the Ukrainian people,” US senior administration officials told CNN. “By striking
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