Last-minute candidate José Raúl Mulino wins Panama’s presidential election
By JUAN ZAMORANO and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — José Raúl Mulino, the stand-in for former President Ricardo Martinelli in…
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What we learned from local votes ahead of looming UK general election
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Millions of voters in England have voted in local elections, the last big test before a looming U.K.…
Continue ReadingKing Charles III’s openness about cancer has helped him connect with people in year after coronation
By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III’s decision to be open about his cancer diagnosis has helped the new monarch…
Continue ReadingPortland Thorns take down Washington Spirit 2-1 for 4th straight NWSL victory
By SUSIE RANTZ Associated Press Sam Coffey and Christine Sinclair scored early goals and the Portland Thorns earned a 2-1 win over the Washington…
Continue ReadingThey study next to one of Africa’s largest trash dumps. They’re planting bamboo to try to cope
By ZELIPHA KIROBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Armed with gardening hoes while others cradled bamboo seedlings, students gathered outside…
Continue ReadingAs storms move across Texas, 1 child dies after being swept away in floodwaters
By JAMIE STENGLE and LEKAN OYEKANMI Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Storms in Texas are bringing additional rain to the already saturated Houston…
Continue ReadingAnger mounts as Kenyans left homeless and searching for loved ones swept away in floods
By Larry Madowo and Laura Paddison, CNN Mai Mahiu, Kenya (CNN) — When Julia Wanjiku put her son Isaac to bed after a day celebrating his third…
Continue ReadingAustralian police shoot dead a boy, 16, armed with a knife after he stabbed a man in Perth
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A 16-year-old boy armed with a knife was shot dead by police after he stabbed a man in…
Continue ReadingJuro Kara, rebel playwright behind Japan’s modern underground theater, dies at 84
By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Juro Kara, who helped shape Japan’s postwar avant-garde theater, defiantly yet playfully…
Continue ReadingDeveloping Taiwan’s own ‘Starlink’ crucial for island-wide emergency, space agency says
By Eric Cheung, CNN Hsinchu, Taiwan (CNN) — Taiwan’s leaders are working on an ambitious new satellite system to keep the island online in…
Continue ReadingUniversity of Mississippi opens student conduct probe after confrontation between Black student and counterprotesters
By Sara Smart, Dianne Gallagher, Sarah Dewberry and Denise Royal, CNN (CNN) — The University of Mississippi has opened a student conduct…
Continue ReadingNikola Petkovic scores first MLS goal to help Charlotte beat Timbers 2-0
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Nikola Petkovic scored his first MLS goal, Enzo Copetti also scored and FC Charlotte beat the Portland Timbers 2-0 Saturday…
Continue ReadingMystik Dan wins in a dramatic photo finish at 150th Kentucky Derby
By Homero De la Fuente and Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — Mystik Dan has won the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby in a dramatic photo finish at…
Continue ReadingFrank Stella, artist renowned for blurring the lines between painting and sculpture, dies at 87
NEW YORK (AP) — Frank Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and…
Continue ReadingJury foreperson in New Hampshire youth center abuse trial ‘devastated’ that award could be slashed
By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Attorneys for a New Hampshire man who prevailed in a landmark lawsuit over abuse at a…
Continue ReadingOrthodox Russians mark Easter with nighttime service in Moscow cathedral
MOSCOW (AP) — Worshippers including President Vladimir Putin have packed Moscow’s landmark Christ the Savior Cathedral for a nighttime Easter…
Continue ReadingGeorgian protesters against ‘Russia-style’ media law mark Orthodox Easter with candlelight vigil
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Several thousand Georgians marked Orthodox Easter with a candlelight vigil outside Parliament on Saturday evening as daily…
Continue ReadingWarren Buffett’s company rejects proposals, but it faces lawsuit over how it handled one last year
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Shareholder proposals are usually uneventful at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting, but…
Continue ReadingDick Rutan, co-pilot of historic round-the-world flight, dies at 85
By NICK PERRY Associated Press MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Burt Rutan was alarmed to see the plane he had designed was so loaded with fuel that the wing…
Continue Reading‘Like wildfires underwater’: Worst summer on record for Great Barrier Reef as coral die-off sweeps planet
By Rebecca Wright, Ivan Watson and Tom Booth, CNN Great Barrier Reef, Australia (CNN) — As the early-morning sun rises over the Great Barrier…
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