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WABC By Kiely Westhoff, CNN Federal authorities have accused a New Jersey woman of concealing approximately 15,000 rainbow-colored fentanyl pills in a Lego box as part of a drug trafficking scheme, in what US Drug Enforcement Administration authorities said in a news release is the largest seizure of the drug in New York City history.
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By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Loretta Lynn, the Grammy-winning country music icon who died Tuesday at 90, lived through — and sang about — decades of advancements for women’s social movements, achievements now endangered. A mother multiple times over by the end of her teens, she gave voice to
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urielblanco (CNN Español) — Las inscripciones a la ‘Lotería de visas’ 2024 de Estados Unidos comenzaron este miércoles 5 de octubre a las 12 pm ET. Con este mecanismo, el gobierno de EE.UU. permitirá a unas 55.000 personas obtener el documento para residir legalmente en el país. Si cumples con los requisitos y eres elegible,
Continue Reading By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s foreign minister says about 50% of the water has receded in the country’s worst flood-hit province. Thursday’s remarks by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari raised hopes that many Sindh province farmers after losing cotton and other crops in this summer’s flooding will now be able to sow wheat
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By LORNE COOK and KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — The leaders of 44 European countries stretching from Iceland all the way to Turkey met Thursday in what many said was a united stand against Russia’s war on Ukraine, as an energy crisis and high inflation fueled by the conflict wreak havoc on their
Continue Reading By LORNE COOK and KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — The leaders of 44 European countries stretching from Iceland all the way to Turkey met Thursday in what many said was a united stand against Russia’s war on Ukraine, as an energy crisis and high inflation fueled by the conflict wreak havoc on their
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN Español) — Tras los encuentros de este miércoles, se cierra la jornada 3 de la fase de grupos de la Champions League 2022/2023. Concluye así la mitad de la fase de grupos y se empiezan a vislumbrar varias cosas. Cabe recordar que esta Champions League se está jugando de forma más rápida debido
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN Español) — Este jueves conocimos a la ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura 2022. Se trató de la autora francesa Annie Ernaux, quien recibió este galardón “por el coraje y la agudeza clínica con la que descubre las raíces, los distanciamientos y las restricciones colectivas de la memoria personal”. Desde el primer Nobel
Continue Reading By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea flew 12 warplanes near its border with South Korea on Thursday, prompting the South to scramble 30 military planes in response, Seoul officials said. The highly unusual incident came hours after North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the sea
Continue Reading ROME (AP) — The Vatican has released details of Pope Francis’ upcoming trip to Bahrain. The itinerary blends three of his top priorities as pope: Ministering to a tiny Catholic community, promoting dialogue with the Muslim world and fostering relations with other Christian communities. Francis’ Nov. 3-6 visit will marks his second trip to a
Continue Reading By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER, DAVID KEYTON and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French author Annie Ernaux won this year’s Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for blending fiction and autobiography in books that fearlessly mine her experiences as a working-class woman to explore life in France since the 1940s. In more than 20 books published
Continue Reading By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is ready to celebrate a new $20 billion investment by IBM in New York’s Hudson River Valley with two House Democrats running in competitive races in next month’s critical midterm elections. Biden is taking part in a Thursday afternoon announcement at the IBM facility
Continue Reading By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has published video footage showing two French citizens purportedly confessing to acting on behalf of a French security service. The scenes were published amid ongoing protests roiling the country that Tehran has sought to describe as a foreign plot instead of local anger over
Continue Reading By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A gunman who attacked a child care center in Thailand and then fired from his car as he fled killed more than 30 people Thursday, including two dozen children, authorities said. It was the deadliest mass shooting in the country’s history. The assailant, identified as a former
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Germans are using too much gas to avoid a potential energy shortage this winter, the head of Germany’s national network regulator warned Thursday. The head of Germany’s network agency says “gas consumption increased by too much last week.” There has been a reduction in natural gas flows from Russia amid the war
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — Under the watchword “Every gesture counts,” France’s government has launched an energy-saving drive to get the country through the winter without gas from Russia. The French government’s push for “energy sobriety,” which ministers launched Thursday, is also aimed to speeding France closer to European Union targets of reaching climate neutrality by 2050.
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju, CNN House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy will be swiftly confronted in a Republican majority with a politically dicey proposition gaining steam within his conference: Launching impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden’s top official in charge of the southern border. Senior Republicans and a number of McCarthy allies are signaling
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — The French ski federation, mayors from mountain resorts and ski instructors have lashed out at the decision to award the 2029 Asian Winter Games to Saudi Arabia. They say the decision goes against “what is desirable for the planet.” They say they have been “left flabbergasted” by the plan to host the
Continue ReadingBy Olga Voitovych and Joshua Berlinger, CNN Russia carried out a deadly salvo of missile attacks on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia early Thursday, just hours after the Kremlin said it was formally seizing a massive nuclear power plant nearby. The barrage began with pre-dawn strikes, the first of which hit high-rise residential buildings
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN The pandemic has been tough, but the return to in-person schooling has also been emotionally difficult for Mary Norris’ 12-year-old daughter. Norris says her daughter was bullied relentlessly at the school she attended last year in Fresno, California, near where her father lives. So she transferred to a school in Madera,
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