By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Are there any more real cowboys?” Neil Young sang Saturday night at the Hollywood Bowl on a rare evening when he was neither the headliner nor, at age 77, even close to the oldest artist on the bill. Providing an instant answer, Willie Nelson, wearing
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By NICOLE WINFIELD and JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Pope Francis urged Hungarians to open their doors to others on Sunday, as he wrapped up a weekend visit with a plea for Europe to welcome migrants and the poor and for an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine. Francis issued the appeal
Continue Reading NEW DELHI (AP) — Media reports in India say 11 people have died and four are hospitalized after a gas leak in northern Punjab state. Police told the Press Trust of India news agency the incident occurred Sunday at an industrial area in Ludhiana city but the source of the gas leak is still unclear.
Continue Reading BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) — Six high school students were injured after gunfire erupted at a house party in southern Mississippi. The Biloxi Sun Herald reports the shootings happened overnight Saturday in Bay St. Louis. All six students suffered gunshot wounds and were taken to area hospitals. Two victims are students at Bay High
Continue ReadingCNN By Sophie Tanno, CNN The artist behind a sculpture of a walrus that was controversially euthanized over public safety concerns says she hopes her creation becomes a “three-dimensional history lesson” after it was unveiled in Norway’s capital Oslo. The life-sized bronze statue shows Freya the walrus curled up on her side close to the
Continue Reading By KANIS LEUNG and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese authorities were preparing Sunday to release a man who disappeared three years ago after publicizing videos of overcrowded hospitals and bodies during the COVID-19 outbreak, a relative and another person familiar with his case said. Fang Bin and other members of the
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, CNN The artist behind a sculpture of a walrus that was controversially euthanized over public safety concerns says she hopes her creation becomes a “three-dimensional history lesson” after it was unveiled in Norway’s capital Oslo. The life-sized bronze statue shows Freya the walrus curled up on her side close to the water’s
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By Phil Gast, CNN It wasn’t just bullets and slashing swords that Isaac C. Hart had to fear during the Civil War. As a White Army officer leading Black troops, Hart faced the possibility of being treated harshly if taken captive by the Confederacy. The men in his company, part of United States Colored Troops
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco, CNN Some student loan servicers have recently cut back on customer service hours, adding to the fear that borrowers won’t have sufficient support when transitioning back into repayment after a more than three-year pandemic pause. There was already concern over whether the critical return to repayment set for later this year would
Continue Reading Essay by John Blake, CNN I don’t remember what I said because I was too shocked to respond. But I remember where I stood when it happened. I was 17, just months away from leaving home for college, when my father called me into his bedroom one afternoon. He was sitting up in bed with
Continue ReadingBy Simone Pathe, CNN Opportunity is ripe for Republicans to win back the Senate next year — if they can land the candidates to pull it off. The GOP needs a net gain of one or two seats to flip the chamber, depending on which party wins the White House in 2024, and it’s Democrats
Continue ReadingBy Xiaofei Xu and Darya Tarasova, CNN Russia says it will retaliate after Polish authorities seized the Russian Embassy school in Warsaw, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Polish police and staff from the Warsaw city hall entered the campus Saturday morning, asking employees to leave the premises, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN There is a popular saying in Italian — similar to how Anglophones use “when hell freezes over” — that translates as “I’ll do it when the bridge to Messina is finished.” The dream of a bridge connecting the mainland to Sicily across the Straits of Messina goes back to Roman
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — One person was found dead following an intensive search for a small airplane that crashed in a foggy area of Los Angeles Saturday night, authorities said. The Los Angeles Fire Department issued an online alert at 11:20 p.m. saying one victim was found at the scene where the single-engine aircraft crashed.
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — One person was found dead following an intensive search for a small airplane that crashed in a foggy area of Los Angeles Saturday night, authorities said. The Los Angeles Fire Department issued an online alert at 11:20 p.m. saying one victim was found at the scene where the single-engine aircraft crashed.
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN A team of firefighters and wildlife officials in Nevada accomplished a “bear-y” important rescue mission Wednesday. A bear was “spooked up a tree in front of a home” Wednesday morning in Reno, according to a Facebook post from the Nevada Department of Wildlife. “Between the busy roads, people, and all the
Continue Reading By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Heather Howarth tugged at King Charles III’s ears and tittered with satisfaction. The other ladies who gather to knit and natter in her small English village thought the ears should be bigger. But when creating a crocheted likeness of the new king, she was determined not to
Continue ReadingBy Josh Pennington and Heather Chen, CNN Ukrainian shelling has killed four civilians in the Russian border region of Bryansk, the local governor says. Alexander Bogomaz said the strikes hit residential buildings in the village of Suzemka, in Syzemsky district. Unverified video posted on Bogomaz’s Telegram channel shows people emerging from a damaged building at
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The American Red Cross was helping one person, who was left homeless after a fire broke out in Sky Valley on Saturday. Cal Fire said it broke out after 12:30 p.m. at Sky Valley Mobile Home Park, located off Dillon Road. Firefighters were able to knock out the fire before it was able to spread
Continue Reading By JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press DIXON, Ill. (AP) — Gertie Wadsworth was in the arms of her grandmother that bright day when sunshine dissolved distasteful memories of a long, brutal winter. Christan Goble held the 3 1/2-year-old girl in a crowd of more than 200 on the bridge over the Rock River. After a procession
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