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By Sara Smart, CNN At least two people died and four others were caught in two different avalanches in Colorado over the weekend, authorities said. The first avalanche happened in the area of Rapid Creek near Marble, killing a 36-year-old man who was found Saturday buried in about four feet of snow, according to the
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Authorities in Australia say they’re arranging for the removal of millions of rotting fish from an Outback river. The unprecedent die-off in the Darling River near the town of Menindee began Friday after the water’s oxygen levels were depleted following floods and hot weather. Police Assistant Commissioner Brett Greentree said potable
Continue Reading By FRANK JORDANS and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A major new United Nations report being released Monday is expected to provide a sobering reminder that time is running out if humanity wants to avoid passing a dangerous global warming threshold. The report by hundreds of the world’s top scientists is the capstone
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press SINIYAH ISLAND, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Archaeologists say they have found the oldest pearling town in the Persian Gulf on an island off one of the northern sheikhdoms of the United Arab Emirates. The discovery further expands this young nation’s understanding of its pre-Islamic history. Archaeologists announced Monday that
Continue Reading By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has invited his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for the Group of Seven major industrial nations summit in May. He’s later expected to announce a new plan for a free and open Indo-Pacific. Kishida met Modi in New Delhi during his two-day
Continue ReadingBy Rhea Mogul, CNN Indian authorities have blocked internet access for about 27 million people in the state of Punjab for a fourth straight day — one of the country’s most extensive blackouts in recent years — as police search for a Sikh separatist on the run. The Punjab government initially announced a 24-hour internet
Continue Reading By Isa Kaufman-Geballe and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Police are asking for the public’s help as the search continues for a missing Indiana teenager who is “believed to be in extreme danger,” according to a missing person alert. Scottie Dean Morris, 14, was last seen at 8:30 p.m. Thursday in the small town of Eaton, 76
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN Thomas Nashe, the 16th-century British poet and dramatist, certainly looked forward to spring in his own colorful, singsong way: The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet,Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit,In every street these tunes our ears do greet:Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to witta-woo!Spring, the sweet spring! Sweet spring
Continue Reading By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Police have charged the first Australian veteran for an alleged murder in Afghanistan three years after a war crime investigation found that 19 Australian special forces soldiers could face charges for illegal conduct during the conflict. A police statement says a 41-year-old man was arrested Monday
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh, Rob Shackelford and Holly Yan, CNN Swaths of California still saturated by ruthless storms will get walloped by another atmospheric river, spawning fears of renewed flooding and forcing some residents to flee. The state has already been hammered by at least 11 atmospheric rivers this season. An atmospheric river is like a
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The Federal Reserve will close a two-day meeting on Wednesday with its latest decision on whether to keep raising interest rates in an effort to tame inflation, and by how much. The National Association of Realtors releases its report on sales of previously occupied homes on Tuesday. Nike reports its latest financial results on Tuesday.
Continue Reading By Dalal Mawad, Oliver Briscoe, Chris Liakos and Jack Guy, CNN Two no-confidence votes against French President Emmanuel Macron’s government have failed in the country’s parliament, clearing the way for his hugely unpopular pension reforms to be implemented and sparking new protests in Paris. The government triggered special constitutional powers last Thursday to push through
Continue ReadingBy Eric Cheung and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Taiwan’s former President Ma Ying-jeou will visit mainland China next week, the first such trip by a former Taiwanese leader since the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. Ma, a senior member of Taiwan’s Kuomintang (KMT) opposition party, will be in mainland China between March 27
Continue Reading By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou will visit China next week, in what a spokesman called a bid to ease tensions between the self-ruled island and the mainland. Ma presided over a period of warm ties with Beijing, but left office under a cloud after a trade
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets fell Monday after Swiss authorities arranged the takeover of troubled Credit Suisse amid fears of a global banking crisis ahead of a Federal Reserve meeting to decide on more possible interest rate hikes. Shanghai, Tokyo and Hong Kong declined. Oil prices retreated. Swiss
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets fell Monday after Swiss authorities arranged the takeover of troubled Credit Suisse amid fears of a global banking crisis ahead of a Federal Reserve meeting to decide on more possible interest rate hikes. Shanghai, Tokyo and Hong Kong declined. Oil prices retreated. Swiss
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By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Sobbing as she received hugs from friends, family and administrators, Mississippi coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin tried to grasp the magnitude of her team’s stunning win against top-seeded Stanford when someone reminded her there’s more basketball to be played. Her two young daughters danced for joy on
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS (AP) — Gloria Dea, touted as the first magician to perform on what would become the Las Vegas Strip in the early 1940s, has died. She was 100. Dea died Saturday at her Las Vegas residence, said LaNae Jenkins, the director of clinical services for Valley Hospice, who was one of Dea’s caretakers.
Continue Reading By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s calls for protests ahead of his anticipated indictment in New York have generated mostly muted reactions from supporters, with even some of his most ardent loyalists dismissing the idea as a waste of time or a law enforcement trap. The
Continue Reading By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Austin Reaves scored a career-high 35 points, D’Angelo Russell added 18 points and the Los Angeles Lakers hung on for a 111-105 victory over the Orlando Magic on Sunday night. Anthony Davis had 15 points and 11 rebounds on another rough shooting night, but Reaves
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