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PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — Thrill seekers have avoided any gorings for a fourth straight bull run at Pamplona’s San Fermín Festival. The Red Cross’ preliminary medical report and the city’s hospital say four people needed treatment in for hard knocks they received during Sunday’s early morning bull run. At least one young man needed to
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BEIJING (AP) — The Asian gambling center of Macao will close all its casinos for a week starting Monday. It will also largely restrict people to their homes as it tries to stop a COVID-19 outbreak that has infected more than 1,400 people in the past three weeks. All businesses have been ordered to shut
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — The Asian gambling center of Macao will close all its casinos for a week starting Monday. It will also largely restrict people to their homes as it tries to stop a COVID-19 outbreak that has infected more than 1,400 people in the past three weeks. All businesses have been ordered to shut
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese went to the polls Sunday in the shadow of the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was gunned down while making a campaign speech. Abe’s governing party appeared to be cruising to a major victory. As people voted, police in western Japan sent the
Continue Reading By MIKE CORDER Associated Press MAASLAND, Netherlands (AP) — Bales of hay lie burning along Dutch highways. Supermarket shelves stand empty because distribution centers are blocked by farmers. Then, at dusk, a police officer pulls his pistol and shoots at a tractor. Dutch farmers are embroiled in a summer of discontent that shows no sign
Continue Reading By MIKE CORDER Associated Press MAASLAND, Netherlands (AP) — Bales of hay lie burning along Dutch highways. Supermarket shelves stand empty because distribution centers are blocked by farmers. Then, at dusk, a police officer pulls his pistol and shoots at a tractor. Dutch farmers are embroiled in a summer of discontent that shows no sign
Continue Reading By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press ZHURIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Oleksandr Chubuk’s warehouse should be empty, awaiting the new harvest, with his supply of winter wheat already shipped abroad. Instead, his storage bins in central Ukraine are piled high with grain he cannot ship out because of the war with Russia. The green spikes of wheat
Continue ReadingBy Allison Hope, CNN When the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, rolling back nearly 50 years of abortion rights, the threat of more to come cast a shadow on many, particularly those in the LGBTQ community. Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurring opinion made clear the threat may be substantive. “In future cases, we should
Continue ReadingBy Kathleen Magramo, Emiko Jozuka, and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN Japanese voters headed to the polling stations on Sunday for an election billed as a defense of democracy, just two days after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated while on the campaign trail. Abe was shot in broad daylight on Friday in the central city
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The Covid-19 patient population is back on the rise across California, including in Riverside County. Doctor Nasrollah Ahmadpour, who specializes in pulmonary and critical care medicine at JFK Memorial Hospital, said there has been a shift in his patients, compared to the first two years of the pandemic. “Their length of stay, hospital stay, is
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Story by Reuters United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Saturday he had discussed Russian aggression in Ukraine during more than five hours of talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and raised concerns over Beijing’s alignment with Moscow. Both diplomats described their first in-person talks since October as “candid”, with the meeting
Continue ReadingBy Harry Enten, CNN I haven’t been on a vacation in 10 years. Part of the reason, admittedly, is I’m a workaholic. The other part is I hate flying. I despise the lines, the cramped seats, the security — all of it feels like a giant waste of time. Usually, I keep these feelings to
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By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clayton Kershaw isn’t even comfortable saying he deserves to play in the All-Star Game on his home field. He certainly won’t campaign for a roster spot, or even the All-Star starting assignment that has somehow eluded him throughout his incredible career. The rest of the
Continue Reading By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s opposition political parties will meet Sunday to agree on a new government a day after the country’s president and prime minister offered to resign in the most dramatic day of monthslong political turmoil, with protesters storming both leaders’ homes and setting fire to
Continue Reading By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer BANGKOK (AP) — The Biden administration is moving to strengthen ties with key Southeast Asian ally Thailand as it presses ahead with efforts to counter China’s push for influence in the region. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken signed two cooperation agreements with his Thai counterpart on Sunday, pledging
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The shooting sent shudders through low-crime, orderly Japan: A high-profile politician gets killed by a man emerging from a crowd, wielding a handmade firearm so roughly made it’s wrapped up in tape. The 40-centimeter-long (16-inch) firearm that was used to kill former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN Devin, the founder of a cryptocurrency startup based in San Francisco, woke up one day in February to the most bizarre phone call of his life. The man on the other end, an FBI agent, told Devin that the seemingly legitimate software developer he’d hired the previous summer was a North
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Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Si Marvel Studios tiene problemas, son claramente del tipo de clase alta. Su última secuela, protagonizada por Doctor Strange, acumuló más de US$ 950 millones en todo el mundo, y la más reciente, “Thor: Love and Thunder”, también parece destinada a hacer llover dinero. Sin embargo, el éxito comercial
Continue Reading By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer High Connection won the $125,000 Los Alamitos Derby by 1 3/4 lengths Saturday, giving trainer Bob Baffert his second victory on the card in his return to competition after serving a 90-day suspension. “What a way to come back,” said Baffert, whose punishment by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission
Continue Reading By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — After his last start, when San Francisco lost its fifth straight game, Carlos Rodón said the Giants needed to “play with a little more fire.” It turns out that Rodón was the one to light the flame. The left-hander retired 22 of the final 23
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