By ILLIA NOVIKOV and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s two largest cities came under attack early Tuesday from Russian missiles that killed five people and injured as many as 130, officials said, as the war approached its two-year mark and the Kremlin stepped up its winter bombardment of urban areas. Air
Continue ReadingPESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say unidentified gunmen have shot and killed six barbers in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country’s northwest near the Afghanistan border. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the killings in Mir Ali, a town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The incident before dawn on Tuesday shocked
Continue ReadingWXYZ By Thomas Schlachter, Jill Martin and Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — The Michigan Wolverines and Washington Huskies have advanced to the College Football Playoff National Championship where they’ll face off in Houston on January 8 in the title game. In Monday’s two semifinals, No. 1 Michigan edged the No. 4 Alabama Crimson
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) –The Oregon Ducks finished their season on a high note Monday morning. The 8th ranked Ducks took on the 23rd-ranked Liberty Flames in the VRBO Fiesta Bowl, and despite the slow start, this one was all Oregon. The Ducks were down 6-3 at the end of the first quarter, but from there
Continue ReadingCNN By Helen Regan, Sahar Akbarzai, Chie Kobayashi and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN (CNN) — Scenes of devastation emerged along Japan’s western coast Tuesday as rescuers raced to save residents trapped in the rubble of a 7.5 magnitude quake that has triggered multiple aftershocks and killed dozens of people. The quake shook the Noto Peninsula in
Continue ReadingBy RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The remarkable comeback story of Michael Penix Jr. is a victory away from a perfect ending for Washington. Penix passed for 430 yards and two touchdowns, and the Huskies held off Texas 37-31 in the Sugar Bowl on Monday night to advance to
Continue ReadingNEW ORLEANS (AP) — ESPN apologized Monday night for a video clip of a woman baring her breast that was shown during the broadcast of the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. It was aired coming out of a commercial during the second half of Washington’s 37-31 victory over Texas in a semifinal game of the
Continue ReadingBy Diksha Madhok, CNN (CNN) — ASML has been ordered by the Dutch government to restrict shipment of some of its chip-making equipment to China, the company said on Monday. The curb comes after the United States ramped up its own restrictions on the types of semiconductors that American companies will be able to sell
Continue ReadingBy RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press MBARARA, Uganda (AP) — At least once a week, Girino Ndyanabo’s family converges around a pit in which bananas have been left to ripen. The bananas are peeled and thrown into a wooden vat carved like a boat, and the patriarch steps in with bare feet. The sweet juice he
Continue ReadingCNN By Gawon Bae, Yoonjung Seo and Nectar Gan, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korea’s main opposition party leader Lee Jae-myung is recovering from surgery after being stabbed in the neck during a visit to the southern city of Busan on Tuesday. Lee underwent a vein reconstruction surgery and is recovering in the
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan, Sahar Akbarzai, Chie Kobayashi and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN (CNN) — Scenes of devastation emerged along Japan’s western coast Tuesday as rescuers raced to save residents trapped in the rubble of a 7.5 magnitude quake that triggered multiple aftershocks and killed dozens of people. The quake shook the Noto Peninsula in the central
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva likes to boast he had a good first year after returning to the job. The economy is improving, Congress passed a long-overdue tax reform bill, rioters who wanted to oust him are now in jail, and his predecessor
Continue ReadingBy Zenebou Sylla and Polo Sandoval, CNN (CNN) — A migrant surge continues to overwhelm authorities at the US-Mexico border — and in US cities where many asylum-seekers are being sent. Here are the latest developments: Transit points in New Jersey have been used by buses to evade new rules aimed at curbing the massive numbers of
Continue ReadingWABC By Zenebou Sylla and Polo Sandoval, CNN (CNN) — A migrant surge continues to overwhelm authorities at the US-Mexico border — and in US cities where many asylum-seekers are being sent. Here are the latest developments: Transit points in New Jersey have been used by buses to evade new rules aimed at curbing the massive numbers
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A bail hearing was postponed Tuesday in Las Vegas for a former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged with orchestrating the killing of hip-hop music legend Tupac Shakur in 1996, giving defense attorneys time to respond to prosecutors’ allegations that witnesses in the case may be at
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Buried at the edge of a Chicago Catholic cemetery are an elderly person’s remains marked only by a cement cylinder deep in the ground labeled with the numbers 04985. The person died in 2015 at a nursing home not remembering much, including their own name. They went
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Buried at the edge of a Chicago Catholic cemetery are an elderly person’s remains marked only by a cement cylinder deep in the ground labeled with the numbers 04985. The person died in 2015 at a nursing home not remembering much, including their own name. They went
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — U.S. presidential elections have been rocked in recent years by economic disaster, gaffes, secret video and a pandemic. But for all that tumult, the volatility surrounding this year’s presidential contest has few modern parallels, posing profound challenges to the future of American democracy. Not
Continue ReadingBy MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The tiny Aliquippa water authority in western Pennsylvania was perhaps the least-suspecting victim of an international cyberattack. It had never had outside help in protecting its systems from a cyberattack, either at its existing plant that dates to the 1930s or the new $18.5 million one
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — U.S. presidential elections have been rocked in recent years by economic disaster, stunning gaffes, secret video and a pandemic. But for all the tumult that defined those campaigns, the volatility surrounding this year’s presidential contest has few modern parallels, posing profound challenges to the
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