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By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds Both the Toyota Prius and Kia Niro have been redesigned for 2023. The new Prius is more powerful and better-looking than ever, but the bold new Kia Niro is a great all-around choice. Does it have what it takes to overthrow the Prius’ reign? Edmunds experts compared both hybrids to find
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By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds Both the Toyota Prius and Kia Niro have been redesigned for 2023. The new Prius is more powerful and better-looking than ever, but the bold new Kia Niro is a great all-around choice. Does it have what it takes to overthrow the Prius’ reign? Edmunds experts compared both hybrids to find
Continue Reading By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and PHILIPP JENNE Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Austrian police are warning of a possible “Islamist-motivated attack” targeting churches in Vienna. They cited undisclosed information the country’s intelligence service had received. Police in Vienna tweeted Wednesday that they had heightened security in front of certain buildings, including churches, and increased the presence
Continue Reading By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Local elections with national fallout have opened in the Netherlands as voters cast their ballots for the country’s 12 provincial legislatures — which in turn elect the national parliament’s upper house. A big swing away from the ruling four-party center-right coalition of long-serving Prime Minister
Continue Reading By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Local elections with national fallout have opened in the Netherlands as voters cast their ballots for the country’s 12 provincial legislatures which in turn elect the national parliament’s upper house. A big swing away from the ruling four-party center-right coalition of long-serving Prime Minister Mark
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China’s Defense Ministry says Chinese, Iranian and Russian naval forces are staging joint drills in the Gulf of Oman near the mouth of the strategic Persian Gulf this week. The ministry’s announcement Tuesday says other countries are also involved in the “Security Bond-2023” exercises but gave no details. Iran, Pakistan, Oman and
Continue Reading By VITUS-GREGORY GONDWE and WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — After barreling through Mozambique and Malawi since late last week and killing hundreds and displacing thousands more, Cyclone Freddy is set to move away from land Wednesday, which should bring some relief to southern African regions that have been ravaged by its torrential
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By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Mike Pence and Bernie Sanders are hardly political allies. But in the aftermath of two large bank failures, the conservative former vice president and the democratic socialist senator are striking remarkably similar tones. Pence, a Republican, bemoaned that “we live in a world where certain politically favored
Continue Reading By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Mike Pence and Bernie Sanders are hardly political allies. But in the aftermath of two large bank failures, the conservative former vice president and the democratic socialist senator are striking remarkably similar tones. Pence, a Republican, bemoaned that “we live in a world where certain politically favored
Continue Reading By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Mike Pence and Bernie Sanders are hardly political allies. But in the aftermath of two large bank failures, the conservative former vice president and the democratic socialist senator are striking remarkably similar tones. Pence, a Republican, bemoaned that “we live in a world where certain politically favored
Continue Reading By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — Long before a Chinese spy balloon captivated the U.S. last month, Kyle Bass foresaw a foreign danger planned for the skies above his Texas property. Dozens of massive wind turbines were set to span 15,000 thousand acres near the Devils River in Del Rio on
Continue Reading By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — Long before a Chinese spy balloon captivated the U.S. last month, Kyle Bass foresaw a foreign danger planned for the skies above his Texas property. Dozens of massive wind turbines were set to span 15,000 thousand acres near the Devils River in Del Rio on
Continue Reading ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish officials say floods caused by torrential rains have hit two provinces that were devastated by last month’s earthquake and killed at least five people. The flooding increased the misery for thousands who were left homeless. A number of other people are reported missing. A Turkish governor said that one person
Continue ReadingBy Tara Subramaniam and Junko Ogura, CNN A YouTube star who became a Japanese lawmaker has been stripped of his role after he failed to show up for a single day of work in parliament. At a plenary session on Wednesday, Japan’s parliament expelled Yoshikazu Higashitani for his continued absence, the first time it has
Continue Reading By AMANDA SEITZ and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Joe Biden will highlight the stark differences in how Democrats are tackling skyrocketing drug prices compared to their Republican counterparts as he gears up for an expected reelection announcement. In a speech on Wednesday in Las Vegas that could serve as a
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN The federal judge overseeing a high-profile challenge to the FDA’s two-decade-old approval of certain drugs used to terminate a pregnancy is a deeply conservative jurist with a proclivity for siding with plaintiffs looking to roll back reproductive and LGBTQ rights or block key Biden administration policies. US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk,
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By Justin Gamble, Nicole Chavez and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Students at Wellesley College in Massachusetts approved a referendum Tuesday that called for accepting admissions applications from all nonbinary and transgender prospective students, a college spokesperson said. The women’s college of about 2,300 students currently accepts those who “live as women and consistently identify as women,”
Continue ReadingBy Chris Lau, CNN A Taiwanese museum that houses some of the world’s most precious Chinese artworks has confirmed that up to 100,000 high-resolution images of paintings and calligraphy leaked online — some of them turning up for sale on a Chinese shopping platform for less than $1. The National Palace Museum in Taipei said
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal judge in Texas will consider at a high-stakes hearing on Wednesday whether he should block the US government’s approval of the drug used for medication abortions. The case, brought by anti-abortion doctors and medical associations, is arguably the most significant legal dispute concerning abortion since the Supreme Court ended
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby and Donald Judd, CNN Starting next month, some Medicare beneficiaries will pay less out of pocket for 27 prescription drugs whose prices rose faster than inflation late last year, the Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday. The announcement came as President Joe Biden once again highlighted his efforts to lower
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