Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A bag of Cheetos gets dropped and left on the floor. Seems inconsequential, right? Hardly. Rangers at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southern New Mexico describe it as a “world-changing” event for the tiny microbes and insects that call this specialized subterranean environment home. The bag could have been
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping will visit Russia next month for a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi confirmed Thursday, a move that comes as Moscow and Beijing seek to counter the West’s global influence. Xi’s visit to Russia will be his second since the Kremlin
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — WNBA star Caitlin Clark hinted at her political beliefs ahead of this year’s US election by liking a social media post from Taylor Swift endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, but she stopped short of endorsing a candidate when asked by reporters on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Swift ended speculation about
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — The new NFL season couldn’t have started much worse for Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals. A disappointing home defeat to the previously unheralded New England Patriots meant the season began on an low note for a team with Super Bowl aspirations. But after the Week 1 loss, it
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — President Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal promised severe sanctions against people smugglers during his visit on Wednesday to the town of Mbour, the departure point of a boat that capsized on Sunday, killing at least 37 people. Mbour, a coastal city in Senegal nearly 50 miles south of the
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A pile of amputated limbs and the remains of several military horses have been excavated at the site of the Battle of Waterloo. The gruesome discovery was made at a farm in Belgium by Waterloo Uncovered, a UK charity that combines archaeology with veteran care. The epic battle was
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s state House speaker says lawmakers in 2025 will consider new policies to foster student mental health, detect guns and encourage people to safely store guns after a school shooting killed four at a high school northeast of Atlanta. But Republican Jon Burns of Newington is stopping short of Democratic
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MADRID (AP) — Venezuela’s opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González has met with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, just days after fleeing to the European country in a negotiated deal with Nicolás Maduro’s government. González’s flight to exile — after weeks of seeking refuge in the embassies of the Netherlands and Spain in Caracas
Continue ReadingBy Sam Joseph, CNN (CNN) — Las Vegas Aces superstar A’ja Wilson set the record for the most points in a WNBA season in her team’s 86-75 road win over the Indiana Fever on Wednesday. Wilson tied the existing record of 939 set by the Seattle Storm’s Jewell Loyd last year with a free throw
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JENIN, West Bank (AP) — As the world’s attention focuses on the deadly war in Gaza, less than 80 miles away scores of Palestinian teens have been killed, shot and arrested in the West Bank, where the Israeli military has waged a monthslong crackdown. More than 150 teens and children 17 or younger
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is getting its bells back, just in time for the medieval landmark’s reopening following a devastating 2019 fire. A convoy of trucks bearing the restored bells pulled into the huge worksite surrounding the monument Thursday on an island in the Seine River. They are being blessed in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JENIN, West Bank (AP) — In the web of battered, sunbaked streets winding up the hillside, bloodshed is as unrelenting as the heat. So it is not hard to see why, when raid sirens and gunfire erupted yet again on a morning in late May, 15-year-old Mahmoud Hamadneh turned his bike down an
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — If Manchester United is broken, then Cristiano Ronaldo thinks that he has the keys to fix it. The Portuguese forward, who had two spells at United before leaving for the final time two years ago, has said that the club must “rebuild everything” in order to return to its
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — The McDonald’s $5 meal deal is staying on menus until December, a sign that inflation-weary customers are devouring value meals recently offered by fast food chains. The Chicago-based fast-food giant announced the $5 meal deal in June. But what the company offered as a one month only
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — The face of artificial intelligence in America is set to meet with top US officials at the White House on Thursday, CNN has learned, in a first-of-its-kind meeting to solve a riddle that could severely strain US infrastructure: how to power the AI boom. Sam Altman, the CEO behind
Continue ReadingBy Andy Scholes, CNN (CNN) — Week 1 of the NFL season always brings out some great and massive overreactions from fans to their team’s results. But at the same time, the opening games can also be very revealing of how a team is shaping up heading into this season. If you are a Cincinnati
Continue ReadingBy Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Four years ago, North Carolina voters handed Democrats one of the party’s toughest losses and one of its most consequential wins. Despite years of Democrats hoping that changing demographics in the fast-growing state would tip the presidential race, Donald Trump defeated Joe Biden here by 1 point, his narrowest
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Barton, CNN (CNN) — Shohei Ohtani moved to within touching distance of MLB history on Wednesday night, as he picked up his 47th home run and 48th stolen base of the year in his bid to achieve the league’s first ever 50-50 season. The two-time AL MVP had a terrific game, going 2-for-4
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s opposition leader says if he wins the presidential race he will renegotiate the International Monetary Fund economic reforms package to ensure that rich residents pay more taxes and poor ones see their conditions improve. The reforms were introduced after Sri Lanka defaulted on its foreign debt,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities say the key eastern Ukraine city of Pokrovsk is without a drinking water supply or natural gas for cooking and heating as the Russian army’s attritional slog across the Donetsk region lays waste to public infrastructure and forces civilians to flee their homes. The Donetsk regional governor said
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