Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Sherpa teenager who’s won mountaineering celebrity as the youngest person ever to summit the world’s 14 highest peaks called for Sherpas to be recognized as athletes and expedition leaders as well as porters and guides. “It’s always been that Sherpas were supporting climbers and we’re never seen as
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Krieg, Priscilla Alvarez and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris, after being endorsed and embraced onstage in Houston by music superstar Beyoncé, warned voters across the country Friday night that Texas-style abortion bans would end up in their states if Donald Trump returns to the White House. Harris has leaned
Continue ReadingAP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is moving ahead with a new path to student loan cancellation for Americans who face steep medical bills, child care costs and other types of financial hardship that prevent them from repaying their loans. Announced Friday, the proposed rule is President Joe Biden’s third attempt at
Continue ReadingDubai, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A group campaigning for Iran’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi says Iranian authorities have issued an additional six-month prison sentence against her. The Free Narges Coalition said in a statement on Thursday that Mohammadi was sentenced on Oct. 19 to an additional six months in prison on the
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By Annette Choi, CNN (CNN) — The Yankees versus the Dodgers — it’s a tale as old as 1941. The New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers, two of the most storied franchises in Major League Baseball history, face-off Friday in the World Series for the first time since 1981. While the two powerhouses are
Continue ReadingBy Jeanne Sahadi, CNN (CNN) — Choosing when to vote is usually about finding that one block of time between your responsibilities at home and at work. But, in many states, your calculation might also include the fact that, by law, your employer must allow you some time off during the workday to vote, albeit
Continue ReadingBy Sara Murray and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — During a special election in Wisconsin over the summer, a group of partisan poll watchers showed up at a handful of precincts in Glendale, a suburb of Milwaukee, and created chaos by contesting every absentee ballot that was cast. After they were reminded repeatedly about the
Continue ReadingCNN By Sara Murray and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — During a special election in Wisconsin over the summer, a group of partisan poll watchers showed up at a handful of precincts in Glendale, a suburb of Milwaukee, and created chaos by contesting every absentee ballot that was cast. After they were reminded repeatedly about
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN Español) — Se agrava la situación energética en Ecuador y la ministra encargada de Energía y Minas, Inés Manzano, anunció la noche de este jueves que los cortes del servicio de electricidad se incrementarán de 8 a 14 horas diarias pese a que el 17 de octubre el presidente Daniel Noboa ofreció
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Environmental activist Paul Watson, who is detained in Greenland and facing possible extradition to Japan, has formally requested French citizenship after France’s Foreign Minister said his bid for political asylum could not be processed because he is not on French soil. Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd and a prominent anti-whaling advocate,
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — At the Joseph Stalin Museum in Gori, the small Georgian town where the Soviet dictator was born, a line of guides is waiting to tell you the story of the local boy who made it big. They can list the birthdays of Stalin’s family and recite the poems he
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Extreme weather has thrashed the United States this year with more flood emergencies than any other year — a deadly, sobering statistic that scientists say paints a picture of the future as the planet warms. An unprecedented 91 flash flood emergencies have been issued by the National Weather
Continue ReadingBy Majlie de Puy Kamp, Danny Freeman and Sarah Boxer, CNN Erie, Pennsylvania (CNN) — For a Republican canvasser going door-to-door to get out the vote in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, the address on East Lake Road in Erie must have seemed like Heaven-sent evidence of the sort of widespread voter fraud many in
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — When a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $120,000 in 2019, social media uproar and an age-old debate about the meaning of art ensued. But artist Maurizio Cattelan’s viral creation, titled “Comedian,” may yet prove a sound investment: On Friday, auction house Sotheby’s announced that one of the
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — Los miles de soldados norcoreanos que, según los servicios de inteligencia estadounidenses, llegaron este mes a Rusia para entrenarse, desataron la preocupación de que sean desplegados para reforzar el frente de batalla de Moscú en Ucrania. También hicieron saltar las alarmas de Estados Unidos y sus aliados ante la posibilidad de
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — Hace más de 45 años se encontró el cráneo de una adolescente del siglo XIX durante las obras de reforma de una casa en los suburbios de Chicago. Gracias a los avances de la tecnología del ADN, por fin sabemos su nombre. La oficina forense del condado de Kane identificó este
Continue ReadingBy Matt Holt and Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — Staring down the prospect of losing the Senate and amid a tight race for the House, Democrats are burning through cash in the final sprint to Election Day, new federal filings show. The pre-general election reports, which cover the first sixteen days of October, are
Continue ReadingAP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA astronaut was taken to the hospital for an undisclosed medical issue after returning from a nearly eight-month space station stay extended by Boeing’s capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton, the space agency said Friday. A SpaceX capsule carrying three Americans and one Russian parachuted before dawn
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, David Wright and Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk plowed nearly $44 million in October into a super PAC working to restore Donald Trump to the White House – pushing the billionaire’s total donations to the group he established to benefit the former president to nearly $119 million, new campaign
Continue ReadingBy Max Foster, Alex Stambaugh and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — Britain’s King Charles III has told world leaders that “none of us can change the past” but that nations can commit to finding “creative ways to right inequalities that endure,” as calls grow for reparatory justice for the transatlantic slave trade. The 75-year-old monarch
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