By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s navy seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday amid wider tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program, the latest-such capture in a waterway crucial for global energy supplies. The Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet identified the vessel as the Advantage
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urielblanco (CNN) — Falleció Jerry Springer, exalcalde de Cincinnati y presentador de televisión durante muchos años —cuyo programa de entrevistas sensacionalista era conocido por sus escandalosas discusiones, sillas arrojadas y enfrentamientos físicos entre parejas de boxeadores y rompehogares—, según informó este jueves Bradley Singer, su representante. Springer tenía 79 años. “La capacidad de Jerry para
Continue ReadingCNN By Elizabeth Cohen and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Later this spring, a little girl in California who essentially has no immune system will receive a lifesaving treatment for “bubble boy disease” thanks to the persistence of a dogged group of parents, a pediatrician, a veteran newsman and a few episodes of “Grey’s Anatomy.” Five-year-old Seersha
Continue ReadingCNN By Lisa Respers France and Marianne Garvey, CNN Jerry Springer, the former Cincinnati mayor and and long time TV host whose tabloid talk show was known for outrageous arguments, thrown chairs and physical confrontations between sparring couples and homewreckers, has died, a family spokesperson said Thursday. Springer was 79. “Jerry’s ability to connect with
Continue ReadingHarmeet Kaur, CNN When Pip Harry first got her period at 11, her mother handed her pads and a copy of Judy Blume’s “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.” The seminal coming-of-age novel, which tells the story of sixth grader Margaret Simon who’s anxious for her body to mature and conflicted about religion, has
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration is bracing for a surge of migrants at the US-Mexico border when a Covid-era border restriction lifts next month, putting an issue that’s been a political vulnerability for President Joe Biden at the forefront just weeks off his 2024 campaign announcement. On May 11, when the coronavirus public
Continue Reading By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Gap is laying off 1,800 corporate workers, roughly three time the number of headquarters jobs it cut last fall, as the struggling chain cuts costs in a bid to become more nimble. More layoffs at the struggling chain follow similar cuts at large U.S.
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan, CNN Elephants have lost almost two-thirds of their habitat across Asia, the result of hundreds of years of deforestation and increasing human use of land for agriculture and infrastructure, a new study has found. The Asian elephant, listed as endangered, is found across 13 countries in the continent but their forest and
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By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators in Kansas have enacted what may be the most sweeping transgender bathroom law in the U.S. on Thursday, overriding the Democratic governor’s veto of the measure without having a clear idea of how their new law will be enforced. The vote in the
Continue ReadingBy Shania Shelton, David Wright and Manu Raju, CNN Republican Gov. Jim Justice of West Virginia announced his Senate candidacy on Thursday, setting up a potential challenge to Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, among the most vulnerable incumbents in 2024. “I am officially announcing my candidacy for the United States Senate,” Justice told a roomful of
Continue Reading By DAN SEWELL Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — Jerry Springer, the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional families willing to bare all on weekday afternoons including brawls, obscenities and blurred images of nudity, died Thursday at 79. At its peak, “The Jerry Springer Show” was a
Continue Reading By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer ST. LOUIS (AP) — Doctors are zapping the heart with radiation normally reserved for cancer in a bid to better treat a dangerous kind of irregular heartbeat. It’s highly experimental. But researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have reported dramatic success with small numbers of severely ill patients
Continue Reading By PETER DEJONG Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Netherlands is celebrating the 56th birthday of King Willem-Alexander with street markets, parties and orange-glazed pastries, even as a poll shows support for the monarchy continuing to decline. An annual poll for national broadcaster NOS by Ipsos ahead of the King’s Day national holiday showed support
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France and Marianne Garvey, CNN Jerry Springer, the former Cincinnati mayor and and long time TV host whose tabloid talk show was known for outrageous arguments, thrown chairs and physical confrontations between sparring couples and homewreckers, has died, a family spokesperson said Thursday. Springer was 79. “Jerry’s ability to connect with people
Continue Reading By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and TARA COPP Associated Press WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — The Massachusetts Air National guardsman accused of leaking highly classified military documents kept an arsenal of guns, talked of “violence and murder” on a social media platform and an “assassination van,” prosecutors wrote ahead of Thursday’s hearing for 21-year-old Jack
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Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Pending home sales dropped in March, falling for the first time since November amid tight inventory and buyer uncertainty about the financial sector due to bank failures, according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors. The pending sales index, a forward-looking indicator based on signed contracts to buy
Continue Reading By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — At Michigan State University, children of employees can spend Thursday seeing what it’s like to staff a dairy farm, work in sports or plant a tree at the school’s first in-person Take Our Kids to Work Day since the pandemic began. Some 1,500 employees and kids
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s navy has seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman amid wider tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program. Thursday’s seizure represents the latest-such capture in a waterway crucial for global energy supplies. The Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet identified the vessel as
Continue ReadingBy Andy Pierrotti Click here for updates on this story ALBANY, Georgia (WANF) — Sitting at her dining room table, Sonya Holmes writes a postcard to her son who she hasn’t seen, in person, for years. She mails at least one a week. “It’s just a quick hello to let him know he’s always being
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