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By Jeremy Diamond, CNN President Joe Biden was greeted in Israel on Wednesday by a row of Israeli leaders offering open palms to the President. Biden offered a closed fist in exchange. The President doled out fist bumps and pats on the shoulder to the delegation stationed along the red carpet at the foot of
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By HELENA ALVES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A spate of wildfires is scorching parts of Europe, with firefighters battling blazes in Portugal, Spain, Croatia and southern France on Wednesday amid an unusual heat wave that authorities are linking to climate change. In Portugal, Civil Protection commander André Fernandes said multiple
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency on Wednesday celebrated the first flight of its Vega-C rocket, which is designed to provide more bang for customers’ buck in the increasingly competitive business of launching satellites into orbit. Vega-C is an upgrade to the Vega rocket that made its debut in 2012 as a launcher specializing
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un niño de 3 años murió este lunes después de que su padre lo dejara dentro de un vehículo afuera de un centro educativo judío en el norte del condado de Miami-Dade, Florida, según el Departamento de Policía de Miami Gardens (MGPD). Es la décima muerte de un niño por
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN Español) — Tras la huida a Maldivas del presidente Gotabaya Rajapaksa, el primer ministro Ranil Wickremesinghe fue nombrado este miércoles presidente interino de Sri Lanka en medio del grave conflicto político desatado por la crisis económica y las protestas en el país en los últimos meses, a la espera de nuevas elecciones.
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The heat has been consistent since the weekend, but now humidity is rising as well. Dew points will remain in the 50s today, making it less comfortable out there. Highs today will still register in the low one-teens, so we’ll see little relief from summer temps the next few days. The broad ridge of high
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By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock raised $17.2 million for his Senate reelection bid in 2022′s second quarter, while Republican challenger Herschel Walker raised $6.2 million. The numbers show how expensive Georgia’s race is likely to be. Democrats are building a money lead in Georgia, when combined with
Continue Reading By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer The U.S. relaxed rules around the addiction treatment drug methadone during the pandemic, and researchers now say those changes didn’t lead to more overdose deaths. That’s according to a new study published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry. The finding may help make the change permanent. More than 400,000 people
Continue Reading LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenian police say they have detained a Syrian man for illegally transporting migrants, as the country’s foreign minister says the dismantling of a razor wire on the border with Croatia will start soon. Police said Wednesday they stopped a van with Austrian license plates a day before on a highway in
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The race to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson is being called Britain’s most diverse political leadership campaign. Half of the eight contenders to replace Johnson as Conservative Party leader aren’t white, and only two are white men. But if the contenders reflect the face of modern Britain,
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Russia’s Gazprom appeared to cast doubt Wednesday on the prospects of quickly restoring the flow of natural gas to full capacity through a major pipeline to western Europe. The state-owned gas company last month reduced the flow through Nord Stream 1 to Germany by 60%. It cited technical problems involving a part
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are slipping in shaky trading on Wall Street Wednesday after a highly anticipated report on inflation turned out to be even worse than expected. The S&P 500 was 0.3% lower after tumbling as much as 1.6% earlier in the morning. The Dow Jones Industrial
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN | Esha Mitra, CNN A statue of India’s national emblem, unveiled this week atop the country’s new parliament, has been slammed by government critics for its “unnecessarily aggressive” appearance. Officials maintain that the 10-ton bronze sculpture, which depicts four lions, is an enlarged like-for-like replica of the ancient statue the emblem was
Continue ReadingBy Camille Knight and Amandine Hess, CNN The French Senate cleared Liverpool fans of any responsibility in the Champions League Final chaos, instead blaming French decision-making, two senators told journalists in a press conference Wednesday presenting conclusions of a report on the violence. The Senate has not yet released the report publicly at the time
Continue ReadingBy Heather Chen, CNN Angry protesters who stormed the official residences of Sri Lanka‘s President have forced him to flee the country, but his sudden departure has plunged the South Asian state deeper into crisis. Demonstrators furious about economic mismanagement and a spiraling financial crisis have demanded that both President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — En medio de los miles de tesoros de la colección de arte de Asia oriental del Museo de Arte de Cincinnati, un pequeño espejo de bronce que data del siglo XV o XVI siempre pareció bastante anodino. Expuesto por última vez en 2017, este artefacto había pasado gran parte de
Continue ReadingCNN By Jeremy Diamond, CNN President Joe Biden was greeted in Israel on Wednesday by a row of Israeli leaders offering open palms to the President. Biden offered a closed fist in exchange. The President doled out fist bumps and pats on the shoulder to the delegation stationed along the red carpet at the foot
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CNN By Melissa Alonso and Michelle Krupa, CNN Little league teams have pulled out of the North Carolina state championship tournament after gunshots erupted during a weekend game, their organizers said Monday in social media posts. “Our 8U Machine Pitch team had to withdraw from the State Championship tournament in Wilson, North Carolina,” read Wilmington
Continue ReadingBy KCTV Staff Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — A Toyota driver who tried to outrun police after a traffic violation ended up crashing into another vehicle, police said. The Kansas City Police Department stated officers had attempted to pull over a silver Toyota RAV4 Wednesday morning in the
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Tokyo court has ordered four former executives of the utility operating the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant to pay 13 trillion yen ($94 billion) to the company, holding them liable for the 2011 disaster. In the closely watched ruling, the Tokyo District Court said the former
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