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By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press Local climate activists in Congo are hoping Pope Francis’ visit will help spur action to protect the country’s rainforest from oil and gas interests. The Pope’s call to protect Congo’s “great green lungs of the world” on Tuesday was welcomed by campaigners who see the papal visit as a fresh
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, CNN Sam Bankman-Fried is in trouble, once again, for talking too much. A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily tightened the FTX founder’s bail conditions after learning that Bankman-Fried sent a text message to a former top executive of the crypto trading platform. The judge said that appeared to be a “material threat
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By Holmes Lybrand and Nouran Salahieh, CNN A Washington, DC man has been charged with shooting and killing a 13-year-old boy while he said he was investigating noises outside his home. At his first appearance in DC Superior Court on Tuesday, Jason Lewis, 41, pleaded not guilty to the charge of second-degree murder while armed
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are drifting on Wall Street Wednesday ahead of the Federal Reserve’s latest decision on interest rates. The S&P 500 was 0.2% lower in morning trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 190 points, or 0.6%, at 33,895, as of 10:20 a.m. Eastern time,
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By BRITTNEY J. MILLER Cedar Rapids Gazette CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Waves of torrential rainfall drenched California into the new year. Snowpacks in the Sierra Nevada Mountains have swelled to more than 200 percent their normal size, and snowfall across the rest of the Colorado River Basin is trending above average, too. While the
Continue Reading By BRITTNEY J. MILLER Cedar Rapids Gazette CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Waves of torrential rainfall drenched California into the new year. Snowpacks in the Sierra Nevada Mountains have swelled to more than 200 percent their normal size, and snowfall across the rest of the Colorado River Basin is trending above average, too. While the
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN Every year, Americans in snowy states wait with bated breath to see whether Punxsutawney Phil will spot his shadow. And every year, we take Phil’s weather forecast — six more weeks of winter, or an early spring? — as gospel, meteorology be damned. It’s about as strange (and cute) as holidays
Continue Reading By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer It’s only fitting that the top two quarterbacks in the regular season based on All-Pro voting are the last two quarterbacks standing in the NFL this season. First-team All-Pro quarterback Patrick Mahomes will take his Kansas City Chiefs into the Super Bowl against second-team All-Pro Jalen Hurts and
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The Associated Press Beyoncé is taking her “Renaissance” global — the superstar will start a world tour in Sweden in May with stops throughout Europe and the United States. The highly anticipated tour announcement she made on Instagram and her website Wednesday comes days before the Grammy Awards on Sunday, where the global superstar is
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CNNEspañol sjv (CNN) — El FBI completó la búsqueda en la casa del presidente Joe Biden en Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, y no se encontraron documentos clasificados, dijo este miércoles el abogado personal de Biden. Bob Bauer, el abogado de Biden, dijo que el FBI se llevó notas escritas a mano y algunos materiales para una
Continue Reading By Randi Kaye, Dakin Andone, Dianne Gallagher and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Two witnesses in the murder trial of Alex Murdaugh told the court Wednesday they are “100%” certain that Murdaugh’s voice is on footage prosecutors say undermines the disgraced former South Carolina attorney’s claim he was not at the scene of the killings when his
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN Legendary quarterback Tom Brady has announced his retirement after 23 seasons in the NFL. “I’ll get to the point right away,” Brady, 45, said in a video posted to Twitter Wednesday. “I’m retiring for good. I know the process was a pretty big deal last time, so when I woke up
Continue ReadingBy Vasco Cotovio, Nic Robertson, Kareem Khadder and Richard Harlow, CNN Abu A’asem brews pot after pot of his specialty Arabic coffee, despite the pouring rain. His corner stand at the heart of Ramallah is always busy, no matter the weather, but his future as a Palestinian is very much as gloomy as the skies
Continue ReadingCNN By Mohammed Tawfeeq, Jennifer Hauser and Jessie Yeung, CNN Israel carried out airstrikes in Gaza early on Thursday after intercepting a rocket attack from the coastal enclave, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. In a Twitter post, the IDF said Israeli fighter jets targeted a chemical production site and a weapons manufacturing facility owned
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, MJ Lee, Jeremy Diamond and Paula Reid, CNN The FBI completed a search of President Joe Biden’s Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, home on Wednesday and found no documents with classified markings, according to Biden’s personal lawyer. Bob Bauer, Biden’s attorney, say the FBI did take with them handwritten notes and some materials for
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Pat Riley remembers just about every detail surrounding the events of Dec. 29, 1961. It was a cold night in Schenectady, New York. A little snowy, the roads a little icy. And when the bus carrying the opposing team from New York City arrived, all of Riley’s Linton High
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, Frederik Pleitgen and Konstantin Hak, CNN Southwest of the city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian soldiers Andriy and Borisych live in a candle-lit bunker cut into the frozen earth. For several weeks they have been confronting hundreds of fighters belonging to the Russian private military contractor Wagner throwing themselves against Ukrainian defenses. Disguised in
Continue ReadingCNN By Tim Lister, Frederik Pleitgen and Konstantin Hak, CNN Southwest of the city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian soldiers Andriy and Borisych live in a candle-lit bunker cut into the frozen earth. For several weeks they have been confronting hundreds of fighters belonging to the Russian private military contractor Wagner throwing themselves against Ukrainian defenses. Disguised
Continue Reading Sofía Benavides (CNN) — El presidente de El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, visitó las instalaciones del Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, una megacárcel con ocho módulos que pronto comenzará a funcionar y que, de acuerdo con las proyecciones de las autoridades, servirá para recluir a por lo menos 40.000 miembros de pandillas. El recorrido fue exhibido
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt and Laura Ly, CNN A 22-year-old high school assistant basketball coach who allegedly posed as a player to take part in a junior varsity game has been fired, along with the rest of the coaching staff. Churchland High School received a report last month that a member of the junior varsity (JV)
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