Starbucks will now let customers use personal cups for nearly all orders
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Starbucks is expanding the ways its staff can fill customers’ personal cups as part of its ongoing…
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Biden opens 2024 campaign push with planned speech ahead of January 6 anniversary
By Arlette Saenz and Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden will use the backdrop of two historic sites in Pennsylvania and South Carolina…
Continue ReadingHong Kong prosecutors allege democracy publisher Jimmy Lai urged protests, sanctions against China
By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Prosecutors have alleged that Hong Kong activist and publisher Jimmy Lai had encouraged the city’s…
Continue ReadingRussia and Ukraine exchange hundreds of prisoners of war in biggest release so far
By The Associated Press Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war in the biggest single release of captives since…
Continue ReadingBritain’s official coinmaker is recovering silver from X-ray film and turning it into jewelry
By Flo Cornall, CNN (CNN) — Looking at an X-ray film you might spot fractured bones or even floating foreign objects — but hidden within the…
Continue ReadingThousands of doctors in Britain walk off the job in their longest-ever strike
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Patients faced canceled treatments after thousands of British doctors walked off the job on…
Continue ReadingNew Year’s Day quake in Japan revives the trauma of 2011 triple disasters
By HIRO KOMAE and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press SUZU, Japan (AP) — The powerful earthquake that shattered the peace of New Year’s Day in…
Continue ReadingSenior Hamas leader killed in Beirut blast, heightening fears of wider regional conflict
CNN By Abeer Salman, Nada Bashir, Tamara Qiblawi, Tara John and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN (CNN) — Hamas said Tuesday that one of its senior…
Continue ReadingInvestigators focus on air traffic communication after a fatal Tokyo runway crash
By FOSTER KLUG and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A transcript of communication between traffic control and two aircraft that…
Continue ReadingIndian billionaire Gautam Adani says ‘truth has prevailed’ after top court orders regulators to wrap up probe
By Diksha Madhok, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — India’s top court ordered the country’s market regulator on Wednesday to conclude its investigation…
Continue ReadingChina tries to lure foreign tourists with expanded visa-free scheme after weak post-pandemic bounce back
CNN By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China has struck an agreement with Thailand to permanently waive visa requirements for each other’s…
Continue ReadingChina tries to lure foreign tourists with expanded visa-free scheme after weak post-pandemic bounce back
By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China has struck an agreement with Thailand to permanently waive visa requirements for each other’s…
Continue ReadingMiracle at Haneda: Passengers describe terror and relief after fiery Japan Airlines collision
CNN By Helen Regan and Emiko Jozuka, CNN (CNN) — When Japan Airlines flight 516 touched down at Tokyo’s Haneda airport carrying hundreds of…
Continue ReadingHarvard President Claudine Gay resigns after plagiarism and campus antisemitism accusations
CNN By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Harvard President Claudine Gay announced Tuesday she is stepping down just six months into her…
Continue ReadingStock market today: Asian shares slip, echoing Wall Street’s weak start to 2024
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian stocks slipped on Thursday, tracking a weak start to 2024 on Wall Street as Japan’s…
Continue ReadingNationwide hunt for Australian sporting legend’s missing ‘baggy green’
By Andrew McNicol, CNN (CNN) — It’s baggy and green and at the time of writing it’s still missing, despite pleas for its safe return from…
Continue ReadingSuspect in deadly Rochester, New York, crash appeared to speed toward pedestrians, police say, but motive is still unknown
By Elizabeth Wolfe and Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — The motive behind the deadly New Year’s Day crash outside a Rochester, New York, concert…
Continue ReadingMore than 100 flights canceled following crash at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport
By Irene Nasser, Mayumi Maruyama and Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — More than 100 flights to and from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport are expected to be…
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UW heads to the national championship; OSU women’s basketball reaches 12-0; another Beaver transfer
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Monday night, the #2 Huskies won a close one in the Sugar Bowl against the #3 Texas Longhorns. The Huskies were looking to beat…
Continue ReadingSouth Korean police raid house of suspect who stabbed opposition leader Lee in the neck
By HYUNG-JIN KIM and JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police have raided the residence and office of a man who…
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