By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — A dense fog clouding the US economy could soon clear. For months, US consumers and businesses have felt some degree of paralysis from the upcoming presidential election, putting off purchases and investments until the world knows who will move into the White House, according to surveys and comments
Continue ReadingKAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Fourteen people were killed when lightning struck a church in a refugee camp in northern Uganda, according to police. The incident happened Saturday in the remote district of Lamwo but was reported Sunday. Police spokesman Kituuma Rusoke said 34 other people were injured when the lightning hit the makeshift metallic structure
Continue ReadingBy Kostyantyn Hak, Darya Tarasova and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s army chief has warned that his forces are facing “one of the most powerful Russian offensives” since the start of the war as Russia claimed it captured more settlements on the eastern frontline. Russia has steadily been making gains in the eastern Donbas
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Robert “Boo Lee” Williams was still seething days after a popular basketball coach and two assistant principals at Houston’s first two historically Black high schools were arrested in an alleged teacher certification scheme. “It almost got me in tears, man,” said Williams, a 1967 graduate of Jack Yates Senior
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — A lightning strike killed 14 people during a prayer service in a refugee camp in Uganda on Saturday, authorities in the east African country said. The strike, in northern Uganda’s Lamwo district, injured 34 others, police said in a Sunday statement. “The victims, yet to be identified, had gathered
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHIVA, Spain (AP) — Irene Cuevas will never forget the sound of the waves crashing below her apartment’s balcony. If only there had been a flash of lightning in the darkness to let her glimpse what sounded like a roaring sea. “It was a constant fear because we didn’t have light to see
Continue ReadingBy Hadas Gold, CNN New York (CNN) — By all accounts, it is unlikely Americans will go to bed on Election Day knowing who their next president will be. As polls show a dead heat between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in the final days of the race, news outlets are
Continue ReadingBy Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Michigan’s West Coast (CNN) — Rumbling down the road between small towns in western Michigan, Bill Clinton was considering mortality – potentially American democracy’s or the Democratic Party’s, but also his own. The nation’s 42nd president believes Kamala Harris will win and that the economy will “explode” over the next few
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Donald Trump está reutilizando su manual de 2020 para afirmar sin fundamento que le están robando las elecciones de 2024 y se le están uniendo aliados con grandes megáfonos que amplifican sus falsedades antes del día de las elecciones. Trump hizo repetidas afirmaciones falsas de que los demócratas están haciendo trampa
Continue ReadingSRINAGAR, India (AP) — A grenade attack at a marketplace bustling with shoppers in the main city of Indian-controlled Kashmir has wounded at least nine people. The attack on Sunday comes a day after a suspected militant was killed in a daylong gunbattle in Srinagar, a rare occurrence in the city where security is tight.
Continue ReadingBy John Blake, CNN (CNN) — As soon as Greg McDonald Jr. saw his parents, he knew he was in trouble. His father stood waiting for him with his arms folded and his brow furrowed. Beside him was Greg’s mother, her eyes red and puffy. “Quick, pretend you’re interested in me,” Greg Jr. told his
Continue ReadingBy Artemis Moshtaghian and Maria Aguilar Prieto, CNN (CNN) — Nearly a decade after Liliana Moreno and her 8-year-old daughter Daniella disappeared in the Miami area, federal investigators say they have now arrested a man in the case: The girl’s father. Gustavo Alfonso Castano Restrepo, 55, of Miami was arrested Monday, days after he was
Continue ReadingAP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — No one knows how Tuesday’s presidential election will turn out, but the Federal Reserve’s move two days later is much easier to predict: With inflation continuing to cool, the Fed is set to cut interest rates for a second time this year. The presidential contest might still be unresolved
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Rusia observa la política estadounidense como un halcón. Ese fue el mensaje que el presidente de Ucrania, Volodymyr Zelensky, dirigió a los periodistas la semana pasada en Kyiv, al responder a una pregunta sobre la disposición de Moscú a negociar. “Depende de las elecciones en Estados Unidos”, dijo. Si es elegida,
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — British prosecutors say they have been given a file of evidence from police about alleged sexual offenses by comedian Russell Brand and are considering whether to charge him. The Crown Prosecution Service said late Saturday that “we have been passed a file by the police to consider a charging decision in this
Continue ReadingOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Severe storms and tornadoes battered Oklahoma early Sunday, tossing cars and ripping roofs off buildings in the middle of the night and leaving tens of thousands of homes and businesses without power. Among numerous injuries, 11 people required hospitalization, authorities said. Much of the damage was reported in and around the
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — La noche de las elecciones en Estados Unidos se desarrollará siguiendo el sol y las horas de cierre de las urnas de este a oeste, en términos generales. CNN proyecta quiénes ganarán las carreras a medida que haya datos disponibles. Si bien algunos estados no competitivos podrían proyectarse poco después del
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is re-using his 2020 playbook to baselessly claim the 2024 election is being stolen from him and is being joined by allies with big megaphones amplifying his falsehoods ahead of Election Day. Trump has made repeated false claims that Democrats are cheating in the election, and he’s
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — A mitad del documental “No Other Land”, el periodista y activista Basel Adra relata una visita a su pueblo en 2009 que realizó el exprimer ministro de Reino Unido Tony Blair. Con un traje azul marino y una corbata elegante, rodeado de personal de seguridad y fotógrafos, Blair caminó por el
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Benjamin Netanyahu se sentó para su reunión habitual de gabinete y tuvo algunas palabras para un nuevo aliado y un viejo enemigo. “La semana pasada me reuní con la embajadora de Estados Unidos ante las Naciones Unidas, Nikki Haley”, dijo el primer ministro de Israel a sus colegas. “Le agradecí, también
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