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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A 6.4 magnitude earthquake has struck southeastern Taiwan on Saturday evening and local media reported objects falling from store shelves but no immediate word on casualties. Taiwan’s Central News Agency said the metro system in Kaoshiung city in the south of the island was temporarily suspended. The quake was also felt
Continue Reading By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — U.S.-backed Syrian fighters say they have concluded a 24-day sweep at a sprawling camp in northeast Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children linked to the Islamic State group. They said on Saturday that dozens of extremists were detained and weapons were confiscated in the
Continue Reading Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Yeshiva University has abruptly suspended student club activity in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this week that ordered the school to recognize for now an LGBTQ student group. In an email to students, university officials on Friday said that it “hold off on all undergraduate
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin mounted on the battlefield and in the halls of global power as Ukrainian troops pushed their counteroffensive Saturday to advance farther into Ukraine’s partly recaptured northeast. Western officials and analysts said Russian forces were apparently setting up a new defensive
Continue Reading By AAMER MADHANI and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press LONDON (AP) — President Joe Biden arrived in London to pay his respects to Queen Elizabeth II at a time of transition in U.S.-U.K. relations, as both a new monarch and a new prime minister are settling in. The hawkish approach of Prime Minister Liz Truss to
Continue Reading By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The long good-bye for Queen Elizabeth II is a reminder of a broader truth playing out with little fanfare across Britain: The nation is bidding farewell to the men and women who fought the country’s battles during World War II. The queen, who served as a mechanic
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By John Blake, CNN The summer before his junior year in high school, Philip Yancey attended a Fourth of July rally that featured some of the most dangerous racists in America. It was 1964, and the event, billed as “Patriots Rally Against Tyranny,” was held at a racetrack in Yancey’s hometown of Atlanta. It featured
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Liz Truss took office less than two weeks ago, impatient to set her stamp on government and facing an overflowing inbox of crises: soaring inflation, a plummeting national currency and skyrocketing energy bills. Then the death of 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth II ripped up Truss’
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN It tastes like a tomato, smells like a tomato, and even looks (mostly) like a tomato. There’s just one catch: It’s purple. The USDA has approved a genetically modified purple tomato, clearing the path for the unique fruit to be sold in American stores next year. “From a plant pest risk
Continue ReadingBy Mostafa Salem, CNN Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei was seen attending an event at a mosque in Tehran on Saturday, according to pictures and a video published on Iran’s government websites and state media, one day after reports circulated about of his deteriorating health. One picture showed Ayatollah Khamenei wearing a mask
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, CNN It was a peaceful Friday morning for Murrisha Leon, who was asleep when she received a call from a fellow parent warning her of an active shooter at their children’s high school in Arkansas. Immediately, Leon’s heart sank as images of worst-case scenarios flooded her mind. She might lose one of
Continue Reading By KEVIN SCHEMBRI ORLAND Associated Press VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — A dilapidated villa outside Malta’s capital where a young Princess Elizabeth and her husband lived before she became queen has become a focal point of Malta’s remembrance of the late monarch. Flowers and wreaths have crowded the door of Villa Guardamangia, where Elizabeth and Prince Philip
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Cuando el fotógrafo Marc Schlossman tuvo en sus manos un pájaro extinto y muerto, tuvo lo que él llama un “momento de conversión”. Estando en la división de aves del Museo Field de Chicago con sus dos hijos pequeños en 2008, se dio cuenta de que el cajón de especímenes del
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — Two Chinese astronauts have completed a spacewalk from a new space station that is due to be completed later this year. State media said Saturday that Cai Xuzhe and Chen Dong installed pumps, a handle to open the hatch door from outside in an emergency, and a foot-stop to fix an astronaut’s
Continue ReadingCAIRO (AP) — Egypt says it will increase transit fees for vessels, including oil-laden tankers, passing through Suez Canal, one of the world’s most crucial waterways. The Suez Canal Authority said in a statement on Saturday that it will add 15% to the fees for tankers carrying oil and petroleum products, and 10% for dry
Continue Reading CAIRO (AP) — Egypt says it will increase transit fees for vessels, including oil-laden tankers, passing through Suez Canal, one of the world’s most crucial waterways. The Suez Canal Authority said in a statement on Saturday that it will add 15% to the fees for tankers carrying oil and petroleum products, and 10% for dry
Continue Reading By INNA VARENYTSIA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An honor guard fired a three-gun salute toward cloudy skies as friends and comrades-in-arms gathered in Kyiv to bid farewell to a Russian woman who was killed while fighting on Ukraine’s side in the war with her native country. Olga Simonova, 34, was remembered for her
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez regresa al ring para enfrentarse de nuevo al kazajo Gennady Golovkin el 17 de septiembre en Las Vegas, Nevada, en una pelea que marcará lo que parece ser el desenlace de una trilogía entre dos acérrimos rivales. En una entrevista con CNN en Español, el mexicano aseguró
Continue Reading By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Tropical Storm Fiona threatened to dump up to 16 inches (41 centimeters) of rain in parts of Puerto Rico on Saturday as forecasters placed the U.S. territory under a hurricane watch and people braced for potential landslides, severe flooding and power outages. The storm was located 145
Continue Reading By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer The ride-hailing service Uber said Friday that all its services were operational following what security professionals are calling a major data breach, claiming there was no evidence the hacker got access to sensitive user data. But the breach, apparently by a lone hacker, put the spotlight on an increasingly
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