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Continue ReadingAssociated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Interpol has announced the outcome of a global operation targeting West African organized crime groups across five continents in 21 countries. The agency said Tuesday that police arrested 300 people, seized $3 million and blocked 720 bank accounts during “Operation Jackal III,” which ran from 10 April to 3
Continue ReadingCNN By Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s son, Bobby Kennedy III, posted a video of a phone call between Kennedy and former President Donald Trump in which the former president appeared to endorse false theories about the safety of vaccines. Kennedy III posted a brief video on social media Tuesday morning
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Shiite Muslims in Lebanon and Iraq are commemorating Ashoura, marking the 7th-century death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, while paying tribute to Palestinians as the Israel-Hamas war has entered its 10th month and tensions heighten between Hezbollah and the Israeli military. The rift between Islam’s two main sects deepened after
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Caleb Williams, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, reportedly agreed to a fully guaranteed, four-year, $39.5 million deal with the Chicago Bears on Tuesday, according to NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport and ESPN’s Adam Schefter. According to the reports, Williams’ contract includes a $25.5 million signing bonus.
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A German court has convicted a businessman of delivering electronic components to Russian firms associated with the production of military equipment, and sentenced him to six years and nine months in prison. The defendant, a German-Russian dual citizen, was convicted on Wednesday of violating export laws. The court also ordered the confiscation
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip in the city’s River Seine on Wednesday in a bid to demonstrate the cleanliness of the river for the Olympics. Triathlon events are due to start at the city’s Alexandre III Bridge later this month, but official testing by the city has
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have long theorized the existence of lunar caves — underground passageways formed through volcanic processes that are connected to the pits covering the moon’s surface. Now, a team of international researchers has found the first direct evidence that the moon’s deepest known pit connects to a cave that could
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs says he’s running for lieutenant governor of California. Tubbs garnered widespread attention when he was elected mayor of his hometown in 2016 at just 26 years old. Tubbs launched a privately funded program that paid poor people $500 a month with no restrictions on
Continue ReadingHELSINKI (AP) — Swedish police say the two bodies found in a burnt Danish-registered car in the city of Malmo during the weekend haven’t been identified yet and they are currently unable to confirm whether the victims are two British citizens reported missing. A police spokesman told the Swedish news agency, TT, “We can neither
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean land mines could be swept into South Korea by swelling rivers, South Korea’s military warned Wednesday, as the North places tens of thousands of the deadly explosives along its heavily fortified border. North Korea has laid tens of thousands of new mines since April, the military
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Former South African President Jacob Zuma’s disciplinary hearing with the African National Congress has been postponed for more arguments, as he faces expulsion for campaigning against the organization he once led as head of a new political party. The hearing could see Zuma, 82, become the first
Continue ReadingBy Amy Gunia, CNN (CNN) — As a child in Ivory Coast, West Africa, Tidiane Ouattara would gather with friends in his village to stargaze. The group, who dubbed themselves “the Moon Club,” would lay on the ground, looking up at the cosmos. “We believed we could talk to the moon,” he told CNN in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Dozens of aging bridges in 16 states will be replaced or improved with the help of $5 billion in federal grants announced Wednesday by President Joe Biden’s administration, the latest beneficiaries of a massive infrastructure law. The projects range from coast to coast, with the largest providing an additional $1.4 billion to help
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Heat is normal during the summer, but this year’s has been anything but, and halfway through the season’s hottest month it’s clear this one is for the record books. Hundreds of cities in nearly every US state – including parts of Alaska and Hawaii – are on track
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Joe Biden has tested positive for the coronavirus while trying to shore up support among disenchanted voters key to his reelection chances. That prompted him to cancel a meeting with members of a Latino civil rights organization in the battleground state of Nevada. After testing positive, Biden was
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Within 30 minutes of the shooting at Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania rally on Saturday, federal law enforcement used a byzantine paper records system to track down decade-old gun sales records to help identify the 20-year-old would-be assassin. Law enforcement agents initially ran into roadblocks as they attempted to name the
Continue ReadingBy Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Landing somewhere between sequel and reboot, “Twisters” introduces new characters and an extra letter to the 1996 disaster movie but not much else, leaving its stars stranded in a vehicle with roughly the weight of a stiff breeze. Impressive visual effects only go so far, though they at least
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Los grupos armados dirigidos por Hamas cometieron “numerosos crímenes de guerra y crímenes contra la humanidad” contra civiles durante el ataque del 7 de octubre en el sur de Israel, según un informe de Human Rights Watch (HRW) publicado este miércoles. “El brazo militar de Hamas –las Brigadas Qassam– y al
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El apuñalamiento mortal de dos personas por un hombre en un complejo residencial del sur de China ha encendido un debate en Internet que se ha amplificado durante un verano marcado por una oleada de crímenes similares en todo el país. Dos días después de los asesinatos del 28 de
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