By Whitney Wild, Danny Freeman, Holmes Lybrand, Mark Morales, Pamela Brown and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump – the worst security failure by the US Secret Service in four decades – has pitted the agency against local law enforcement as both say the other was responsible for
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A recently signed agreement will open a direct line of communication between the presidential offices of China and the Philippines to help prevent any new confrontation from spiraling out of control in the disputed South China Sea, according to highlights of the accord seen by The Associated Press on
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top security official has banned a far-right magazine that she accused of stirring up hatred against Jews, people with immigrant roots and parliamentary democracy. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser on Tuesday banned Compact magazine and the company that publishes it, as well as a film production firm. Her ministry said police raided
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — The Forbidden City was once one of the most powerful places on the planet. In 1420, while Europe was in the midst of the Hundred Years’ War and yet to discover America, China’s Ming Dynasty ruler was moving into his new home in the center of Beijing and
Continue ReadingBy Isaac Yee, CNN (CNN) — It’s a creature of the deep so rare that there’s never been a recorded live sighting, and since the 1800s only six samples have ever been documented. Now, experts in New Zealand are scrambling to confirm whether a 5-meter (16-foot) carcass that recently washed ashore on the country’s South
Continue ReadingAsian stocks were mostly lower Wednesday even as investors wagered that the Federal Reserve will come ahead with a cut to interest rates, while Australia’s benchmark hit a new record. U.S. futures were mixed and oil prices were little changed. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 index gave up early gains to shed 0.4% to 41,095.23.
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — En las 48 horas previas a abrir fuego contra el expresidente Donald Trump, Thomas Matthew Crooks, de 20 años, hizo una serie de paradas en su ciudad natal de los suburbios de Pittsburgh y sus alrededores. Este viernes, fue a un campo de tiro del que era miembro, y practicó tiro,
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On Sunday night, Travis Bazzana made Oregon State baseball history, becoming the second Beaver to be drafted No. 1 overall in the MLB draft. Oregon State becomes one of four schools to do so, as Adley Rutschman was the first pick in the 2019 draft. The Bend Elks got swept in Portland this weekend, but
Continue ReadingBy David Wright, Matt Holt, Fredreka Schouten and Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — Democrats outraised Republicans in competitive congressional races during the second quarter of the year, new fundraising reports show, putting down-ballot candidates on solid financial ground as Democratic concerns grow over President Joe Biden’s candidacy. But several vulnerable Senate Democrats also burned
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian military says four of its soldiers were killed in a gunfight with suspected rebels fighting against Indian rule in disputed Kashmir. The soldiers were killed when they were fired at by militants hiding in the forests of southern Doda district in Jammu division late Monday. The attack was the
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden concedió este lunes una entrevista a la cadena NBC, la primera desde el intento de magnicidio de su rival político, el expresidente Donald Trump. En una entrevista con Lester Holt, Biden reiteró que estaba agradecido de que Trump sobreviviera al tiroteo, pero también señaló el papel de su
Continue ReadingBy Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — The CIA has assessed that the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, is coming under increased pressure from his own military commanders to accept a ceasefire deal and end the war with Israel, CIA Director Bill Burns told a closed-door conference on Saturday, according to a source who attended. Sinwar, the key
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s innovation minister says the government is testing its own ChatGPT-style tool for its employees, with plans to eventually make it available to the public, after OpenAI decided to take extra steps to block access from unsupported regions like China. The program was developed by a generative AI
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — J.D. Vance es la encarnación de la transformación populista, nacionalista y obrera del viejo Partido Republicano del establishment. Por eso el expresidente Donald Trump –que nunca olvida los entusiasmos de su base– eligió al senador de Ohio como compañero de fórmula para la vicepresidencia y lo nombró de hecho heredero político.
Continue ReadingBy Alayna Treene, Steve Contorno and Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — A day before Donald Trump’s deadline to pick a running mate, after months of private conversations with every corner of his orbit, the former president took a call from a new voice. That person, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk, was one of several people urging
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Authorities in Nepal say there were 65 people on board the two buses that were pushed into a swollen river in Nepal last week. Rescuers have been able to recover 14 bodies. Eight have been identified and are being handed over to relatives. The bodies were washed away as
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — Mientras persiste una crisis de salud mental juvenil en EE.UU., un nuevo informe pone de manifiesto una importante brecha entre el nivel de apoyo que sienten los adolescentes y el que los padres creen que tienen sus hijos. Según un informe publicado este martes por el Centro Nacional de Estadísticas Sanitarias,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez was convicted of all charges Tuesday in a sweeping corruption trial in which he was accused of accepting bribes of gold and cash from three New Jersey businessmen and acting as an agent for the Egyptian government. A jury in Manhattan deliberated for parts of
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CANNON BEACH, Ore. (KTVZ) — A 160-pound Great Pyrenees needed help from rescuers recently when the dog refused to keep walking on a trail at Saddle Mountain due to raw, cut paws, the Cannon Beach Rural Fire Protection District said The dog was hiking on Saddle Mountain last Friday “when he suddenly refused to keep
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of execution for a Texas man shortly before he was to receive a lethal injection in a killing decades ago. The nation’s high court issued the stay about 20 minutes before Ruben Gutierrez was to have been taken into the Huntsville, Texas,
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