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By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Gerhard Schroeder left the German chancellery after a narrow election defeat in 2005 with every chance of a future as a respected elder statesman. His ambitious overhaul of the country’s welfare state was just beginning to kick in and he had won plaudits among voters for opposing
Continue Reading By JOSH BOAK and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — President Joe Biden said Monday that the U.S. would intervene militarily if China were to invade Taiwan, in one of the most forceful and overt statements in support of Taiwan in decades. Biden said the burden to protect the self-ruled island was “even stronger”
Continue Reading By JOSH BOAK and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says President Joe Biden supports Japan’s bid to join a “reformed” U.N. Security Council. If approved by the U.N., Japan would join Britain, China, France, Russia, and the U.S. as permanent members of the international body’s security council. Biden
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A pedestrian was struck and killed by a car in the area of Avenue 48 and Oasis street in Indio tonight. The accident happened at 8:22 p.m. Indio police are currently on the scene where the pedestrian was found. Authorities say the driver is being cooperative and at this time no suspected drugs or alcohol have
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By Joe Sutton, Keith Allen and Emma Tucker, CNN Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) mishandled allegations of sexual abuse, intimidated victims and their advocates, and resisted attempts at reform over the course of two decades, according to an explosive report released Sunday by a third-party firm. “Survivors and others who reported abuse were
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ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Cody Simpson will be swimming rather than singing at the next Commonwealth Games. He was part of the entertainment lineup in the buildup to the 2018 Commonwealth Games that were hosted by his home town on Australia’s Gold Coast. He’ll be on the program again for the 2022 event in Birmingham
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The ‘Powered by Pink’ Bus Tour is making its way across California and stopped at the Palm Springs Cultural Center on Sunday. The pink bus that accompanies the tour was not able to make it to Palm Springs and was rerouted to Los Angeles, but the event still continued with presentations from Planned Parenthood and
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By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer DALLAS (AP) — Stephen Curry shimmied for the TV crew, Andrew Wiggins shook Luka Doncic with a posterizing dunk and the Warriors are thinking sweep. Curry scored 31 points, Wiggins’ playoff career high 27 points included the dunk that was originally called an offensive foul and Golden State beat
Continue Reading By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer DALLAS (AP) — Stephen Curry shimmied for the TV crew, Andrew Wiggins shook Luka Doncic with a posterizing dunk and the Warriors are thinking sweep. Curry scored 31 points, Wiggins’ playoff career high 27 points included the dunk that was originally called an offensive foul and Golden State beat
Continue Reading By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Daniel Gazdag scored in the opening minutes and the Philadelphia Union went on to defeat the Portland Timbers 2-0. Sergio Santos also scored for the Union who came into the game with a streak of five straight draws. Goalkeeper Andre Blake finished with his
Continue ReadingStory by Reuters Seven people have died after a high-speed Philippine ferry carrying 134 people caught fire on Monday, with seven passengers still missing, the coast guard said. The MV Mercraft 2 caught fire just before reaching the port of Real in Quezon province, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) east of the capital Manila. It
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The Coachella Valley Firebirds, Acrisure Arena and Desert Recreation District, along with Riverside County Supervisor V. Manuel Perez and assembly member Eduardo Garcia, are scheduled to hold an intro to youth street hockey clinic community event. This event marks more than 5,000 local children having participated in the Firebirds Street Hockey Clinics this year. Acrisure Arena and Coachella Valley Firebirds will have several personnel attending the event that will take
Continue Reading The Associated Press The Commerce Department issues its April tally of new U.S. home sales Tuesday. The Federal Reserve releases minutes from its recent policymakers’ meeting Wednesday. Macy’s reports quarterly results Thursday.
Continue Reading By ELENA BECATOROS, OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and RICARDO MAZALAN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainians were digging in to defend the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk as it endured heavy bombardment from Russian forces trying to take the industrial area known as the Donbas. In Tokyo on Monday, President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová and Oleksandra Ochman, CNN “What would happen if we cut off your ear?” the soldiers asked Oleksandr Vdovychenko. Then they hit him in the head. The punches kept coming whenever his interrogators — a mixture of Russian soldiers and pro-Russian separatists — didn’t like his answers, he later told his family. The
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Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju and Alex Rogers, CNN Last summer, Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell was nervous about Herschel Walker, seeing stories about the rookie candidate’s turbulent past and fearful that an unvetted and untested Republican could implode in the heat of the biggest Senate race in the country. But not long after he suggested to
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner and Michael Warren, CNN Republican voters in Georgia’s primary on Tuesday could move the party — at least temporarily — out from under former President Donald Trump’s shadow. Gov. Brian Kemp, the Republican whom Trump has targeted over his refusal to embrace the lie that widespread fraud cost the former President the
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