Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders announced an agreement Sunday on a short-term spending bill that will fund federal agencies for about three months, averting a possible partial government shutdown when the new budget year begins Oct. 1 and pushing final decisions until after the November election. Temporary spending bills generally fund agencies at
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MUMBAI, India (AP) — Rafiq Maqbool has been with The Associated Press for more than 20 years, covering conflict, politics, fashion shows, sports and everyday life. He has been based in Mumbai for the past several years. He always looks forward to photographing the annual Ganesh Festival.
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson helped put smiles on the faces of some students from Apalachee High School, where earlier this month a gunman killed four people and injured nine others. On Saturday, Johnson posted a series of photos and videos to his Instagram showcasing his visit with students, identified
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has announced plans to transform the Tirana-based Bektashi Muslims into a sovereign state. On Sunday, he spoke at the United Nations, highlighting Albania’s history of saving Jewish refugees during World War II and sheltering Afghans after the Taliban took over Afghanistan. Rama mentioned Mother
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN) –– Un ataque aéreo israelí reduce a escombros un edificio de apartamentos de nueve pisos en un suburbio del sur de Beirut. Un hombre cubierto de polvo se tumba sin vida en los brazos de un escatista. Un cadáver en una bolsa pasa rápidamente al lado de ambulancias estacionadas atrás de una
Continue ReadingFormer President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he doesn’t “think” he’d run again for president in 2028 if he falls short in his bid to return to the White House in 2024. “No, I don’t. I think that will be, that will be it,” Trump said when journalist Sharyl Attkisson asked him if he’d
Continue ReadingWBRC, CNN By Michelle Watson, Paradise Afshar and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Authorities in Birmingham, Alabama, are offering a combined reward of up to $100,000 dollars for information to help identify multiple people who opened fire in a bustling entertainment district Saturday night as part of what they called a targeted “hit” that left
Continue ReadingOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Luis Armando Albino was 6 years old in 1951 when he was abducted while playing at an Oakland, California park. Now, more than seven decades later, Albino has been found thanks to help from an online ancestry test, old photos and newspaper clippings. The Bay Area News Group reported Friday that
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Under tight security, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday visited a Pennsylvania ammunition factory to thank the workers who are producing one of the most critically needed munitions for his country’s fight to fend off Russian ground forces. Rep. Matt Cartwright, a Democrat who was among those who met
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — “Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags. California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at supermarkets and other stores, but shoppers could purchase bags made
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — A menos que ya te gusten las películas de género, puede que sea fácil descartar “The Substance”, a primera vista, como una entrada demasiado sangrienta en la categoría de terror corporal. Pero al analizarla más a fondo, este segundo trabajo de la guionista y directora francesa Coralie Fargeat (cuyo
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Olivia Munn and John Mulaney are now parents of two. On Sunday, the couple announced on Instagram that they welcomed a daughter named Méi June Mulaney on September 14. “My heart has exploded,” Munn wrote, adding that their daughter’s name means “plum” in Chinese. Mulaney and Munn wed in
Continue ReadingBy WBBM News Staff Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO, Illinois (WBBM) — Inmates at the Cook County Jail got the chance to cut loose Saturday morning when actor Kevin Bacon came to perform alongside his brother at the jail. It’s part of a collaboration with Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart to bring
Continue ReadingBy Nikiya Carrero Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — Inches is what separated a Miami man from life and death on Saturday after a car came flying off southbound Interstate 95 and descended toward him with only seconds to act. The man and the car’s driver reportedly made it out
Continue ReadingBy Miana Massey Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — September is National Sepsis Awareness Month, the condition that affects over a million Americans each year and can be deadly. In May of 2021, Jackie Duda nearly died of septic shock. “When I closed my eyes, I didn’t think I’d see
Continue ReadingComedian John Mulaney and actor Olivia Munn now have a second child, a daughter named Méi June Mulaney. Munn said in an Instagram post Sunday that the girl was born via a surrogate on Thursday. “I had so many profound emotions about not being able to carry my daughter,” Munn said in the post that
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump told two fictional stories about Oprah Winfrey on Saturday – one of them new, another he has been telling for at least 11 years. Trump’s claims about Winfrey are both trivial. But they are the latest on a long list of recent examples of
Continue ReadingUNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States has brought him to New York. On Sunday, Modi addressed an estimated 13,000 people at a cultural celebration at Long Island’s Nassau Coliseum. Speaking for more than an hour, Modi praised the United States’ return this week of nearly 300 antiquities
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten and Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — In Pennsylvania, officials are bracing for another presidential election in which the state could once again be the decisive battleground and take days to determine the winner. Seth Bluestein, a Republican city commissioner in vote-rich Philadelphia, put the odds of knowing the winner on election night at
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar has rejected accusations by Mexico’s president that the U.S. shares some responsibility for cartel violence in Sinaloa state. On Saturday, Salazar said the U.S. was not to blame for the massacres in Sinaloa. The violence erupted after two Sinaloa cartel leaders were arrested in the
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