By Kristen Rogers, CNN Starting January 1, sesame will join the list of major food allergens defined by law, according to the US Food and Drug Administration. The change comes as a result of the Food Allergy Safety, Treatment, Education and Research Act, or FASTER Act, which was signed into law in April 2021. The
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN It would seem that not even going six weeks without playing competitive football can knock Erling Haaland out of his stride. The Norwegian goal machine has already scored three times in two matches since English domestic football returned following the World Cup, including his 19th and 20th goals of the Premier
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By RADUL RADOVANOVIC Associated Press MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo has reopened the main border crossing with Serbia after a nearby barricade that led to its closure was removed. Serbia’s president said other Serb roadblocks in northern Kosovo also would be dismantled starting Thursday. The move could defuse weeks of tensions between Kosovo and Serbia
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, Jeremy Herb and Tierney Sneed, CNN House Democrats’ historic decision to release former President Donald Trump’s tax returns this week is the culmination of a nearly four-year legal battle orchestrated by a little-known government lawyer who rewrote the playbook for congressional investigations. Outgoing House General Counsel Douglas Letter, a 69-year-old government lawyer
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By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — It was 2006. LeBron James wasn’t even midway through his first stint in Cleveland. He made the playoffs for the first time, was already a globally recognized star and well on his way to becoming the game’s best player. As a 21-year-old, he averaged 30.2 points.
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza 🔄 Haz clic aquí para ver las entradas más recientes La gente descansa en la estación de metro que se utiliza como refugio antiaéreo durante un ataque con cohetes en Kyiv, Ucrania, el jueves 29 de diciembre de 2022. (Foto AP/Efrem Lukatsky) The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner
Continue Reading MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines says President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. hopes to sign a number of agreements during a visit to Beijing that comes amid ongoing territorial disputes in the South China Sea. A statement from the Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs on Thursday said a number of projects were under discussion, including in
Continue Reading By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has staged large-scale military drills to simulate shooting down North Korean drones. South Korea is trying to ease public concerns over its defense readiness after the North flew drones into its territory earlier this week. South Korean warplanes and helicopters failed to bring
Continue Reading LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The Portuguese government’s chief official in charge of transportation, including the fate of the troubled national airline and a long-postponed plan for high-speed train lines, has resigned. Infrastructure and Housing Minister Pedro Nuno Santos quit late Wednesday amid an outcry over a 500,000-euro ($532,000) compensation payment made to a board member
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The Portuguese government’s chief official in charge of transportation, including the fate of the troubled national airline and a long-postponed plan for high-speed train lines, has resigned. Infrastructure and Housing Minister Pedro Nuno Santos quit late Wednesday amid an outcry over a 500,000-euro ($532,000) compensation payment made to a board member
Continue Reading By RENATA BRITO and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Multiple regions of Ukraine, including its capital, faced a massive Russian missile attack Thursday, the biggest wave of strikes in weeks targeting power stations and other critical infrastructure during freezing weather. Air raid sirens rang out across the country. Ukraine’s military chief, Gen.
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN Just 10 days after suffering disappointment in the World Cup final, Kylian Mbappé rescued Paris Saint-Germain with a last-gasp penalty as his side beat RC Strasbourg 2-1 in Ligue on Wednesday. Mbappé, who had ended up on the losing side against Argentina in Qatar 2022’s showpiece final despite scoring a hat-trick,
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN Three players were ejected after a clash between the Orlando Magic’s Moe Wagner and Detroit Pistons guard Killian Hayes sparked a bench-clearing brawl on Wednesday. It certainly wasn’t anywhere near the antagonism of the infamous “Malice at the Palace” during the Detroit game against the Indiana Pacers in 2004, but the
Continue Reading By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Benjamin Netanyahu was set to return to office Thursday at the helm of the most religious and ultranationalist government in Israel’s history, vowing to implement policies that could cause domestic and regional turmoil and alienate the country’s closest allies. Netanyahu’s new government has pledged to prioritize
Continue Reading By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Margret Yama’s phone screensaver is a picture of her cousin, Rifkatu Galang, who is still held by Boko Haram extremists nearly nine years after she and 275 other girls were seized from their school in northeastern Nigeria. Yama was among those taken but later freed. Dozens
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, CNN A surging Covid outbreak in China. Countries imposing travel restrictions on Chinese travelers, wary of the virus being imported. Scientists warning against fearmongering and xenophobia. But this isn’t early 2020. The familiar scene is playing out now as China battles its biggest-ever outbreak, after abandoning its stringent zero-Covid approach and partially
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza Islamabad, Pakistán (CNN) — Un tribunal de Pakistán liberó este lunes a un violador convicto luego de que se “acordara” que se casaría con su víctima, dijo su abogado, lo que enfureció a los activistas de derechos humanos que dicen que el fallo hace correr el riesgo de normalizar la violencia sexual
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By Paradise Afshar and Dakin Andone, CNN Patrick Holland had only been on the heart transplant list for a few weeks when he said he got a call last Thursday from the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle that a donor match had been found. The 56-year-old Alaska man, who has congestive heart failure,
Continue ReadingBy Rob Shackelford, Elizabeth Wolfe and Monica Garrett, CNN An eastbound stretch of Interstate-70 in Colorado has reopened, the state Transportation Department said, after a nine-hour closure left drivers stranded amid strong bouts of heavy mountain snow, widespread rain and gusty winds that continue to sweep the West and push into the Central US. Much
Continue Reading By COURTNEY WALSH Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has vowed to address the “litany of woe” created by the nation’s former government while raising concerns about the Pacific nation’s massive debt. In his first address to the country since being sworn in to office on Christmas Eve, Rabuka said
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