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Year: 2024

New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s administration is in chaos as federal probes target his inner circle

By Gregory Krieg, Mark Morales and Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s administration is unraveling. Late Saturday night, the mayor abruptly announced the resignation of his top lawyer and most ardent public defender. Days earlier, his police commissioner stepped down under pressure as a quartet of federal probes targeting numerous

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Rain and cool temperatures this week

The cool pattern continues. Highs today will be in the 60s under mostly cloudy skies. Rain will be light and scattered throughout the day today but will mostly occur before noon. Showers should clear in the late afternoon but will return again tomorrow. Lows tonight in the 30s and 40s, with La Pine reaching near

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Washington y Seúl discuten un nuevo acuerdo sobre el costo militar en Corea del Sur ante una posible victoria de Trump

Sofía Barruti (CNN) — Washington y Seúl podrían llegar a un acuerdo para compartir los costos de las fuerzas estadounidenses estacionadas en Corea del Sur antes de fin de año, aunque el acuerdo actual no expira hasta fines de 2025, ya que ambas partes sienten una sensación de urgencia para consolidar un nuevo acuerdo antes

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The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the UN says

Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.N. says the Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan. It’s a devastating setback for polio eradication. Afghanistan is one of two countries in which the spread of the potentially fatal, paralyzing disease has never been stopped. The other is Pakistan. News of the suspension

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Investigators seek public’s help in identifying Asian victim found in Gilgo Beach area

By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Investigators on New York’s Long Island are seeking the public’s help in identifying an Asian victim from a years-old killing, whose remains were discovered along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach in 2011. The victim investigators are referring to as “Asian Doe” was a biological male of Asian descent, between

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Central Europe flooding leaves 16 dead in Romania, Poland, Czech Republic and Austria

Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Exceptionally heavy rainfall pounding Central Europe has prompted deadly flooding in the region, with four new deaths reported Monday in Poland, three in the Czech Republic and one in Romania. The flooding has swamped parts of Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Romania as a low-pressure system crossing the

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How Connie Chung launched a generation of Asian American girls named Connie — and had no idea

AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Some public figures are honored with namesake buildings or monuments. Veteran broadcaster Connie Chung has a strain of marijuana and hundreds of Asian American women as legacies. Chung was contacted five years ago by a fellow journalist, Connie Wang, whose Chinese immigrant parents gave her the chance as

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