Associated Press LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — The Rev. David Peck knows first-hand how divided communities wracked by violence can be gutted by that repeated devastation. In his previous work as an Anglican church representative for international development, Peck saw on his trips to Africa how religious groups could be part of the problem — but
Continue ReadingBy Eva McKend and Arit John, CNN (CNN) — More than a thousand religious leaders endorsed Kamala Harris on Sunday, bolstering the Democratic presidential nominee’s push to emphasize how faith is informing her campaign ahead of next week’s election. Among those backing the vice president is the Rev. William J. Barber II, a North Carolina-based
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Voters in Brazil’s biggest city of Sao Paulo have reelected mayor Ricardo Nunes following a tumultuous campaign that pitted him against a leftist ally of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Nunes, who received lukewarm support from former President Jair Bolsonaro in the campaign, distanced himself from the far-right
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TALISAY, Philippines (AP) — As a storm pounded his rural home, Raynaldo Dejucos asked his wife and children to stay indoors and keep safe from possible lightning strikes, slippery roads or catching a fever. One thing the 36-year-old didn’t mention was landslides. In the lakeside town of Talisay in the northeastern Philippines, the
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — En la madrugada del jueves 23 de marzo de 2023, los habitantes de la localidad alemana de Kronberg se despertaron de su sueño por varias explosiones. Los delincuentes hicieron estallar un cajero automático situado debajo de un bloque de viviendas en el centro de la ciudad. El ataque causó graves daños
Continue ReadingBy Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris is launching new ads this weekend targeting men in battleground states as part of her campaign’s effort to close the deficit she faces with male voters in the final days before Election Day. The new ads will air during sporting events on Sunday and Monday
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — For the young daughters of Michael and Kimberly Wood, it was their first time at the annual festival celebrating the culture of the Gullah Geechee community on Georgia’s remote Sapelo Island, the birthplace of their maternal grandmother and other descendants of enslaved Africans. After a day of storytelling, poetry,
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) –Donald Trump inicia este domingo la última semana completa de la carrera presidencial con un mitin en el Madison Square Garden , apostando a su propio talento para el espectáculo mientras busca llenar el icónico lugar y crear un espectáculo que llegará a las pantallas de televisión y teléfonos en los siete
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Top executives at some of the country’s largest tech companies have sought out Donald Trump ahead of Election Day, looking to get an audience with the former president as the likelihood he returns to the Oval Office sits at a coin flip. Trump and Apple CEO
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Israeli attack on Iran damaged facilities at a secretive military base southeast of the Iranian capital that experts in the past have linked to Tehran’s onetime nuclear weapons program and at another base tied to its ballistic missile program, satellite photos analyzed Sunday by The Associated
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — In the early hours of Thursday, March 23, 2023, residents in the German town of Kronberg were woken from their sleep by several explosions. Criminals had blown up an ATM located below a block of flats in the town center. The attack caused severe damage to the building and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PADANG, Indonesia (AP) — One of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes has erupted, spewing thick columns of ash at least three times and blanketing villages with debris, but no casualties were reported. Mount Marapi, in the province of West Sumatra, is known for sudden eruptions that are difficult to predict. It unleashed hot ash
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ROME (AP) — With Pope Francis a few weeks away from his 88th birthday, the plotting for his successor is well underway at the Vatican. How timely then, that just across town in Rome, “Conclave,” a thriller filled with back-stabbing, manipulative cardinals quick to toss morality out the window, is a top draw
Continue ReadingBy Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Two very different futures await Hakeem Jeffries in January. In one, the New York Democrat is sitting in the Oval Office with a woman he first met when she was a district attorney and he was a state assemblyman. He’d be a key shepherd for the legislative agenda of Kamala Harris, a peer and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kamala Harris said Sunday that “no one can sit on the sidelines” in this year’s presidential election, capping a day of campaigning across the largest city in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania. “We are focused on the future and we are focused on the needs of the American people,”
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s president said Sunday she did not recognize the results of this weekend’s parliamentary vote, which election officials say was won by the ruling party, adding that the country fell victim to a “Russian special operation” aimed at moving it off a path toward Europe. Standing alongside opposition leaders,
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Elizabeth Francis, conocida como la “Reina Isabel de Houston”, murió esta semana a los 115 años, lo que la convirtió en la persona de mayor edad de Estados Unidos y la tercera del mundo. Francis fue una de las pocas personas clasificadas como supercentenario, una persona que vive más de 110
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Holmes, Eric Bradner and Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is kicking off the final full week of the presidential race Sunday with a rally at Madison Square Garden, betting on his own showmanship as he seeks to fill the iconic venue and create a spectacle that will reach television and phone
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, CNN London (CNN) — A former prosecutor takes over a political party in turmoil, promises to turn the page on an era of political chaos, and surges to an election victory that once seemed unthinkable. It’s the playbook that Vice President Kamala Harris is hoping will take her to the White House.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuanians are voting in the second round of parliamentary elections, with the conservative governing party still in contention despite first-round gains two weeks ago for the left-leaning opposition. Strict COVID-19 measures during the pandemic, political scandals involving several key members of the Cabinet and an influx of migrants from neighboring
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