By Anna Chernova and Uliana Pavlova, CNN (CNN) — The Russian State Duma, or lower house of parliament, has voted in favor of a new law banning nearly all medical help for transgender people including gender reassignment surgery, in a raft of new anti-LGBTQ laws in Russia. The bill, which had its third and final
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO and LARRY FENN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Slain at the hands of strangers or gunned down by loved ones. Massacred in small towns, in big cities, inside their own homes or outside in broad daylight. This year’s unrelenting bloodshed across the U.S. has led to the grimmest of milestones: The
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s government says eight people were found dead after a boat capsized off the coast of northern Senegal as it tried to reach Europe. The interior minister said Thursday that the bodies were recovered Wednesday by the fire department and the navy and a search for
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin said he offered the Wagner private military company the option of continuing to serve as a single unit under their same commander after their short-lived rebellion, while some of the mercenaries were shown Friday in Belarus, possibly heralding the group’s relocation there. Putin’s comments appeared to reflect
Continue ReadingBy Nadia Leigh-Hewitson, CNN (CNN) — Plants naturally adapt to grow in challenging environments. Spontaneous natural mutations produce new traits, such as drought tolerance and disease resistance, which can help the plant to thrive. But the Earth’s climate is changing faster than plants can naturally evolve, meaning that many of the plants we rely on
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China has published new rules for generative artificial intelligence (AI), becoming one of the first countries in the world to regulate the technology that powers popular services like ChatGPT. The Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s top internet watchdog, unveiled a set of updated guidelines on Thursday
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China has published new rules for generative artificial intelligence (AI), becoming one of the first countries in the world to regulate the technology that powers popular services like ChatGPT. The Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s top internet watchdog, unveiled a set of updated guidelines on Thursday
Continue ReadingA court in central China says a Chinese kindergarten teacher who poisoned 25 of her students, killing one, has been executed. A notice posted outside the No. 1 Intermediate Court in the Henan province city of Jiaozuo on Friday said Wang Yun’s sentence had been carried out the day before. Wang, 40, was convicted of
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press KFAR CHOUBA, Lebanon (AP) — The little village of Ghajar has been a sore point between Israel and Lebanon for years, split in two by the border between Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. But after a long period of calm, the dispute has begun to heat up again. Israel
Continue ReadingBy HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — In a sunlit art studio in Kyiv filled with easels and canvases, Iryna Farion puts the finishing touches on an oil painting with a predominantly dark color palette in shades of blue and brown. The artwork depicts two intertwined trees held together by their roots, as
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Ted Lasso” star Jason Sudeikis, Rosario Dawson and other top movie and TV actors have joined picket lines alongside screenwriters. It happened Friday on the first full day of a walkout that has become Hollywood’s biggest labor fight in decades. A day after the dispute
Continue ReadingBy FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The highest-ranking U.S. military officer is praising Japan’s moves to double its defense spending over the next five years, citing rising threats from North Korea and China. Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, mentioned Japan’s need for cruise missile defense, early warning
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — India aspira a convertirse en el cuarto país en realizar un aterrizaje controlado en la Luna con el lanzamiento de su misión Chandrayaan-3 este viernes. Chandrayaan, que significa “vehículo lunar” en sánscrito, despegó del Centro Espacial Satish Dhawan de Sriharikota, en el estado meridional de Andhra Pradesh, poco después de
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Fran Drescher, presidenta del sindicato SAG-AFTRA, respondió el jueves a las críticas por haber viajado a Italia para asistir a las fiestas de Alta Moda de Dolce & Gabbana el pasado fin de semana, cuando su sindicato de actores, formado por 160.000 miembros, se enfrentaba a la fecha límite para
Continue ReadingBy AIJAZ RAHI and ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press SRIHARIKOTA, India (AP) — An Indian spacecraft blazed its way to the far side of the moon Friday in a follow-up mission to its failed effort nearly four years ago to land a rover softly on the lunar surface, the country’s space agency said. Chandrayaan-3, the word
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Robert Bowers killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue and he’s facing a possible death sentence at his ongoing trial. Patrick Crusius killed 23 people at a Texas Walmart, but the Justice Department took the death penalty off the table and he received a life
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The Oregon Department of Transportation continues to expand its road usage charge program, OReGO, by offering customers a new commercial account manager option, Ferrovial’s NextMove by Cintra.
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH FINGERHUT and SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy was signed into law Friday, forcing clinics to scramble to arrange out-of-state care for many women whose access immediately ended as a judge considered whether to temporarily put a hold
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Las muy anticipadas y controvertidas bombas o municiones de racimo de fabricación estadounidense que Washington acordó suministrar a Kyiv ya están en Ucrania, según un general ucraniano y el Pentágono. “Acabamos de recibirlas, aún no las hemos utilizado, pero pueden cambiar radicalmente (el campo de batalla)”, dijo el general de
Continue ReadingBy TY O’NEIL Associated Press DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — As uninviting as it sounds, Death Valley National Park beckons. Even as the already extreme temperatures are forecast to climb even higher, potentially topping records amid a major U.S. heat wave, tourists are arriving at this infamous desert landscape on the California-Nevada border.
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