By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Another experimental Alzheimer’s drug can modestly slow patients’ inevitable worsening — by about four to seven months, researchers reported Monday. Eli Lilly and Co. is seeking Food and Drug Administration approval of donanemab. If cleared, it would be only the second Alzheimer’s treatment convincingly shown to
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, Mick Krever and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Russia said Monday it was suspending its participation in a crucial deal that allowed the export of Ukrainian grain, once again raising fears over global food supplies and scuppering a rare diplomatic breakthrough to emerge from Moscow’s war in Ukraine. The agreement, brokered by
Continue ReadingBy Josh Pennington, Alex Stambaugh, Brad Lendon and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — A Ukrainian security official has claimed Kyiv’s responsibility for an attack on the bridge linking the annexed Crimean peninsula to the Russian mainland – a vital supply line for Russia’s war effort in Ukraine and a personal project for President Vladimir Putin.
Continue ReadingBy MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania authorities drew on 100 people, drones and cadaver dogs Monday in their search for two missing children whose family’s car was swept away in flash flooding that ravaged the East Coast over the weekend. Other parts of the country endured threateningly high temperatures and
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — To get a sense of just how much animosity is flying around Hollywood these days, watch how Ron Perlman responded to a report that the studios aimed to prolong a strike long enough for writers to lose their homes. Perlman, the hulking, gravel-voiced actor of
Continue ReadingPRAGUE Officials says two buses have collided on a highway in the southeastern Czech Republic, killing at least one person and injuring about 50. Police say one of the bus drivers has died. The regional rescue service says the accident took place near the second largest Czech city of Brno on the D2 highway. Some
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — James Cameron no está trabajando en un proyecto relacionado con la tragedia del sumergible Titán de OceanGate. El director de la película “Titanic”, ganadora del Oscar, desmintió recientemente a través de Twitter los rumores de que tiene planes de trabajar en un proyecto sobre el sumergible que viajó a los restos del
Continue ReadingANTIOCH, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say carnival rides were shut down at an Illinois festival after a 10-year-old boy was thrown from his seat and seriously injured Sunday. The boy was riding Moby Dick, which locks people in at the shoulders and then goes up and down as speed increases. The boy was thrown as
Continue ReadingBy BETH LAWRENCE Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — A 10-year-old boy has been airlifted to a local hospital after being thrown from a carnival ride at the Taste of Summer Festival in Antioch Sunday afternoon. According to Antioch Police, when crews arrived on the scene around 2:40 p.m., officers discovered
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Blisteringly high temperatures are expected to continue across parts of southern Europe this week, as the continent braces for its second extreme heat wave, putting people’s health at risk and setting the stage for wildfires. Last week’s “Cerberus” heat wave is making way for another, which Italian weather forecasters
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Blisteringly high temperatures are expected to continue across parts of southern Europe this week, as the continent braces for its second extreme heat wave, putting people’s health at risk and setting the stage for wildfires. Last week’s “Cerberus” heat wave is making way for another, which Italian weather forecasters
Continue ReadingBy Tony Garcia Click here for updates on this story DICKSON, Tennessee (WSMV) — A horse was rescued from a collapsed barn this weekend in Dickson County. According to the Dickson County Emergency Management Agency, rescue and fire crews were called to a barn collapse and found a horse trapped inside around 8 p.m. on
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Hertha Berlin has suspended goalkeeper Marius Gersbeck while police investigate his alleged involvement in a fight with another man who later needed hospital treatment. Gersbeck left the team’s summer training camp in Austria. Salzburg police said in a statement that “a 28-year-old German man and a 22-year-old local man got into an
Continue ReadingBy JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose is running for the U.S. Senate. The Republican’s announcement Monday makes him the fourth Republican vying to unseat third-term Democrat Sherrod Brown. The GOP views it as among its best pickup opportunities of 2024. The 44-year-old LaRose is a
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Continúa la búsqueda de una niña de 2 años y su hermano de 9 meses que fueron arrastrados por las feroces inundaciones que dejaron a su madre muerta en el sureste de Pensilvania que dejó una poderosa tormenta azotó la región durante el fin de semana. Los niños y su
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press The bridge connecting Crimea and Russia carries heavy significance for Moscow, both logistically and psychologically, as a key artery for military and civilian supplies and as an assertion of Kremlin control of the peninsula it illegally annexed in 2014. It was built despite strong objections from Ukraine and is the most visible
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A pod of 55 pilot whales have died after they were found washed ashore on a beach in Scotland in the worst mass whale stranding in the area, marine experts said Monday. Marine rescuers, the coast guard and police were called to Traigh Mhor beach on the Isle of Lewis in northwest
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — An American woman has been fined after attempting to bribe a police officer at the Munich airport’s passport control over the weekend. That’s according to German federal police. They say the 70-year-old was traveling from Athens to Washington with a stopover in Munich when she attempted to go through passport control without
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Otis, CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — Ketamine can effectively treat severe depression, according to a new study. Published Friday in the British Journal of Psychiatry, the study found that more than one in five patients with treatment-resistant depression saw symptoms disappear after receiving ketamine
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Mae Jones, CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — A firefighter has died in the course of battling a wildfire in the Northwest Territories, officials say. Officials confirmed the death in a bulletin on Sunday, three days after a 19-year-old was killed while responding to a
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