Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s financial watchdog says the bloc is failing to draw lessons about how to discourage unauthorized migration into Europe from Africa. The European Court of Auditors also says the EU could do more to help limit abuses against migrants. The warnings come in a report released Wednesday on
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Bronze Age desert dwellers unearthed from graves in what’s now northwest China were buried with cheese scattered on their heads and necks — perhaps as a snack packed for the afterlife. A decade after the dairy discovery on strikingly intact remains mummified by the Taklamakan Desert’s arid conditions, scientists
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer Coca-Cola Co. is discontinuing its newest “permanent” flavor a little more than seven months after putting it on the market. The beverage giant said Wednesday that Coca-Cola Spiced and Coca-Cola Spiced Zero Sugar will be phased out and replaced with a new flavor that will be introduced next year. “We’re always looking
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Russia is planning to attack Ukrainian nuclear power plants and disconnect them from the energy grid, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday, warning that such attacks risk nuclear disaster. “Radiation does not respect state borders,” Zelensky said Wednesday in his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — El Departamento del Tesoro de Estados Unidos informó este martes que sancionó a una cadena de heladerías y a una farmacia mexicanas por presunto financiamiento vinculado al cártel de Sinaloa. También impuso sanciones a cinco colombianos, vinculados a la banda Los Urabeños, por presunto narcotráfico. Según un comunicado, la Oficina de
Continue ReadingBy Mostafa Salem, CNN Abu Dhabi (CNN) — The first-ever visit by a president of the United Arab Emirates to the White House took place this week as Israel’s war in Gaza expanded to Lebanon. That war, however, was not at the top of the agenda in talks with US officials. US President Biden, Vice
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After fueling so many other people’s parties, it will be time for Kool & the Gang to themselves finally celebrate when they are inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame next month in Cleveland. The opening of the Hall of Fame door for the group coincides
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A passenger was killed after a gunman hijacked a city bus in Los Angeles early Wednesday, leading to a slow police chase through downtown before the suspect was eventually arrested, authorities said. The armed man boarded the Metro bus with the driver and two passengers aboard shortly before 1
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Riley Keough completed her late mother Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir, but it didn’t come without a cost. The actress spoke with People about “From Here to the Great Unknown,” which tells the story of the life of her mom, who died in January 2023 of complications from a
Continue ReadingUNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukraine’s president urged global leaders Wednesday to stand with his country and not seek “an out” instead of a “real, just peace” more than two years into Russia’s war. At a time when he faces growing pressure from Western allies and some of his fellow Ukrainians to negotiate a cease-fire, President
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Senate has approved putting the National Guard under the command of the military despite widespread criticism over deepening the country’s militarization. Wednesday’s move is the second constitutional change in two weeks, giving outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador another victory days before his exit. The Congress passed on
Continue ReadingCNN By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris holds a 12-point lead over former President Donald Trump among voters younger than 35 – a group that’s largely dissatisfied with the influence it holds in American politics, but remains optimistic about the country’s future, according to new CNN polling conducted by SSRS. Harris
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — America is called a melting pot – and that’s certainly true of its food. The USA’s culinary history is that of reinvention. Waves of food influences – Native, African, British, continental European, Asian and Latin – have landed on our shores (and still do). People take those classics, mix
Continue ReadingBy Artemis Moshtaghian, Melissa Alonso and Taylor Romine, CNN Cleves, Ohio (CNN) — All evacuations were lifted in a western Cincinnati suburb Wednesday evening, a day after a chemical leak from a railcar prompted tests of water and air quality. “All initial reports do not indicate any health concerns,” Little Miami Joint Fire and Rescue District
Continue ReadingBy Mike Sullivan Click here for updates on this story WALTHAM, Massachusetts (WBZ) — For most people, putting up Halloween decorations may take a few hours. But there’s a home in Waltham, Massachusetts that has a display so elaborate, it’s taking them two months to prepare. Billy Gridley started decorating his house on Marivista Avenue
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Comstock and Dean Fioresi Click here for updates on this story SIERRA MADRE, California (KCAL, KCBS) — It’s no secret that bears love rummaging through trash, campsites and even kitchen in search of human food, but one wildlife expert suggests that the uptick in bear-related incidents could actually be due to a sugar
Continue ReadingBy Mika Miyashima Click here for updates on this story HILO, Hawaii (KITV) — A 7-year-old boy is on the long road to recovery after being hit by a car on the Big Island. Taurean Reign DeNoto was hit by a car that also plowed into his Kaumana Drive home on Sept. 5, 2024. His
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Cross-border attacks between Israel and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah have reignited concerns that the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip could break out into a regional conflict, nearly a year after it began. That wider war could draw in Iran, and other regional militias that it has
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Michael Gove has been appointed as the editor of The Spectator which is one of the world’s oldest political magazines. Gove was a longtime U.K. Cabinet minister under successive Conservative Party governments. Wednesday’s announcement came little more than two weeks after billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Marshall bought the magazine via his
Continue ReadingStory by Reuters Zurich, Switzerland (Reuters) — Swiss police have arrested several people after a controversial futuristic-looking capsule designed to allow its occupant to kill themself was used for the first time, authorities said on Tuesday. Police in the northern canton of Schaffhausen bordering Germany said the so-called “Sarco” capsule had been deployed in a
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