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BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s vice chancellor is stepping up an appeal for the country’s residents to save energy after Russia’s Gazprom announced significant cuts in natural gas deliveries through a key pipeline. State-owned Gazprom announced on Tuesday that it was cutting gas flows through the undersea Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany by 40%, then,
Continue Reading By STEVE PEOPLES and SAM METZ Associated Press Nevada Republican Jim Marchant insisted there hadn’t been a legitimate election in his state in more than a decade. All of Nevada’s election winners since 2006, he said on a recent podcast, were “installed by the deep-state cabal.” But when Marchant won the Republican nomination for Nevada
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s vice chancellor is stepping up an appeal for the country’s residents to save energy after Russia’s Gazprom announced significant cuts in natural gas deliveries through a key pipeline. State-owned Gazprom announced on Tuesday that it was cutting gas flows through the undersea Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany by 40%, then,
Continue Reading By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will launch a new task force dedicated to fighting online harassment and abuse, according to senior Biden administration officials. Although the problem isn’t new, it has taken on new urgency following shooting massacres in Texas and New York that were predated by misogynist
Continue ReadingBy Sam Fossum, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday launched a new national task force aimed at helping to prevent and address online harassment and abuse. Ahead of the meeting, President Joe Biden signed a memorandum establishing the initiative, the White House Task Force to Address Online Harassment and Abuse. The interagency effort will
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, Zachary Cohen, Annie Grayer and Ryan Nobles, CNN Thursday’s hearing from the House select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection will be all about former Vice President Mike Pence, who was at the center of former President Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election on January 6, 2021. Committee aides
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olivertapia (CNN) — Las ciudades que se postularon para albergar partidos en la Copa Mundial masculina de 2026, la primera edición que contará con 48 equipos y la primera que se realizará en tres países, sabrán el jueves si fueron las elegidas. En total, se espera que la FIFA, el organismo rector del fútbol mundial,
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The European Union’s embargo on 90% of the oil it imports from Russia is the toughest punishment it’s inflicted on the Kremlin since President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine. But a smaller part of the latest sanctions package could prove just as significant. A ban on insuring ships
Continue Reading By RODNEY MUHUMUZA and IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Expectations are high in Rwanda as the East African nation prepares to host the Commonwealth Heads of Government summit. The meeting of world leaders from June 20 to 25 will focus attention on Rwanda’s widely criticized deal with Britain to deport asylum-seekers from
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By Chris Boyette, CNN Twelve elementary school children drank floor sealant believing it was milk after it was served to students at a childcare program in Juneau, Alaska, on Tuesday, according to the school district. Students in a summer care program at Sitʼ Eeti Shaanáx̱-Glacier Valley Elementary School began complaining that the milk they were
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Mayra Flores hizo historia este 15 de junio al ganar la elección especial para el Distrito 34 del Congreso de Texas. Flores no solo es la primera mujer nacida en México en ganar esta elección, sino que esta republicana se quedó con un escaño que históricamente ha estado en
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN Tennis star Nick Kyrgios was involved in a fiery exchange with the umpire during his comeback win against Stefanos Tsitsipas at TP 500 Halle Open Wednesday. Kyrgios, 27, had smashed his racquet after losing the opening set and later locked horns with the umpire after he was given a time violation
Continue Reading TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian media is reporting that authorities have arrested a person accused of having a link to two French citizens being held on espionage charges. The Thursday report by State TV said the suspect was a Marxist who visited two French spies before the May 1 International Workers’ Day, as part of
Continue ReadingCNN By Simone McCarthy, CNN Chinese leader Xi Jinping reiterated his support for Moscow on “sovereignty and security” matters in a call with counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, upholding his backing for the countries’ partnership despite the global backlash against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Speaking on his 69th birthday, Xi also pledged to deepen strategic
Continue Reading By COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writer BRESCIA, Italy (AP) — Small Italian fashion producers are still allowed to export to Russia despite sanctions, as long as the wholesale price is under 300 euros. But they are having a hard time getting paid due to restrictions tied to the financial sector. Italy is the largest producer
Continue Reading By COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writer MILAN (AP) — Fine Italian knitwear packed in boxes addressed to retailers in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kursk sit stacked in a Lombardy warehouse awaiting dispatch. Although not subject to sanctions to punish Russia for invading Ukraine, the garments are not likely to ship any time soon. Missing payments
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — Tres líderes europeos de alto nivel llegaron este jueves a la capital de Ucrania, Kyiv, en medio de la guerra con Rusia, confirmó el equipo de CNN en el terreno. La guerra en Ucrania alcanza un momento crucial que podría determinar el resultado a largo plazo, dicen funcionarios de inteligencia de Occidente
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The ethics adviser to scandal-hit British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has quit and accused the government of seeking to flout conduct rules. In a resignation letter, Christopher Geidt said he was put in an “impossible and odious position” because the government asked him to advise on measures
Continue Reading By JOHN LEICESTER and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania arrived in Kyiv on Thursday in a show of collective European support for the Ukrainian people as they resist Russia’s invasion, marking the highest-profile visit to Ukraine’s capital since Russia invaded its neighbor. The French
Continue Reading By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England is under pressure to raise interest rates more aggressively amid concern that the quarter-percentage-point hike expected Thursday will do little to combat price increases that have pushed inflation to a 40-year high. While the United Kingdom’s central bank began raising interest rates earlier
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