Germán Padinger (CNN Español) — “Rusia es la amenaza más importante y directa para la seguridad”, dice la OTAN, sin atenuantes, en su nuevo Concepto Estratégico —el documento que define el rol de la alianza en la próxima década— aprobado el miércoles en la cumbre de Madrid. La Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte (OTAN)
Continue ReadingBy Michele Fiore Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — Two weeks after the first black transgender woman was killed in more than a decade in Milwaukee, loved ones were out celebrating her life, and vowing to find her killer. The black transgender community spoke out at the vigil saying “I’m angry”.
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By JILL LAWLESS, JOSEPH WILSON and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press MADRID (AP) — An unstable world could get even more dangerous if NATO does not remain strong and united, the head of the alliance said Thursday at the end of a summit where Western leaders labeled Russia “a direct threat” to the security of their
Continue Reading BANGKOK (AP) — A Myanmar fighter jet has crossed the border into Thailand’s airspace, prompting Thai air force jets to scramble and officials to order the evacuation of villages and classrooms. The Royal Thai Air Force says it dispatched two F-16 fighters to patrol the area after receiving a report of an aircraft that crossed
Continue Reading By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The remains of Congo’s independence hero and first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba were laid to rest in Kinshasa Thursday amid honors including a procession through the capital, military salutes and music in front of thousands of people. The interment in a Chinese-built mausoleum will be marked
Continue Reading By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A judge cleared the way Thursday for abortions to resume in Kentucky, temporarily blocking the state’s near-total ban on the procedure that was triggered by the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. Abortion-rights groups fought for the ruling that pauses the 2019 Kentucky law
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FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota attorney general has found the sale of a couple thousand acres of prime farmland to a group tied to Bill Gates complies with a Depression-era law meant to protect family farms because the land is being leased back to farmers. The state’s Republican Attorney General Drew Wrigley had
Continue Reading FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota attorney general has found the sale of a couple thousand acres of prime farmland to a group tied to Bill Gates complies with a Depression-era law meant to protect family farms because the land is being leased back to farmers. The state’s Republican Attorney General Drew Wrigley had
Continue Reading By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Mary J. Blige’s 2022 is going pretty well. Her new album landed in the top 10 of Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and she was featured at the Super Bowl halftime show. Now she’s been tapped for a concert like no other. Blige will host a
Continue Reading SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A storm that has hurled rain on the southern Caribbean and the northern shoulder of South America was expected to hit Central America as a tropical storm over the weekend and eventually develop into a hurricane over the Pacific, forecasters said Thursday. The fast-moving disturbance known merely as “Potential
Continue Reading By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. envoy to Libya says two officials from the country’s rival camps failed to reach an agreement on a constitutional framework for elections after U.N.-mediated talks in Geneva this week. Stephanie Williams, the U.N. special adviser on Libya, said on Thursday that the influential speaker of
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton are expecting their first child together. The “Mr. Malcolm’s List” actress was in New York City on Wednesday to promote the film when she showed off her baby bump. Ashton plays Julia Thistlewaite in the period drama. Hiddleston was not at the screening. Ashton was joined by
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Spirit Airlines are rising after the budget airline postponed a vote on a merger with Frontier for the second time. Spirit announced hours before a shareholder meeting Thursday that the merger vote will be pushed back to July 8. That will give Spirit more time to talk with Frontier
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Giant pandas are notoriously fussy eaters. They only munch on bamboo and each day spend 15 hours eating up to 99 pounds (45 kilograms) of the stuff. But their ancestors, like most bears, ate a much wider diet that included meat, and it was thought that modern pandas’ exclusive diet evolved
Continue ReadingBy CNN staff The Supreme Court on Thursday curbed the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to broadly regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants, a major defeat for the Biden administration’s attempts to slash emissions at a moment when scientists are sounding alarms about the accelerating pace of global warming. Read the ruling: The-CNN-Wire™ & ©
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A patched-up dispute between the European Union and Poland over judicial independence has revived. A top EU official said Thursday that new Polish regulations did not meet expectations, threatening the flow of billions of euros in EU recovery funds to Warsaw. The new regulations signed into law by Polish President Andrzej
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN A pair of orcas drove great white sharks away from a stretch of South African coast after killing five sharks over just a few months in 2017, according to a new study. Great whites used to dominate areas of the Gansbaai coast, around 100 kilometers (62 miles) east of Cape Town,
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Continue ReadingCNN By Maegan Vazquez, Betsy Klein, Phil Mattingly and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he would support making an exception to the filibuster — the 60-vote threshold in the Senate needed to pass most legislation — in order to codify abortion rights and the right to privacy through legislation passed
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand, CNN NATO military officials said Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg’s announcement earlier this week that 300,000 troops would be placed on high alert across the alliance is something the alliance will work on going forward, rather than an immediate shift. Stoltenberg said on Monday that NATO “will transform the NATO Response Force and increase
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