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By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will send a 21-member team of government experts to Japan next week to visit the Fukushima nuclear power plant where they will review contentious Japanese plans to release treated but slightly radioactive water into the sea. Officials said the six-day visit starting Sunday
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Friday as hopes grow that the U.S. Congress will reach a deal to avoid defaulting on the nation’s debt. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 0.8% to finish at 30,808.35. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.6% to 7,279.50. South Korea’s Kospi added 0.9%
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Friday as hopes grow that the U.S. Congress will reach a deal to avoid defaulting on the nation’s debt. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 0.8% in early trading to 30,827.87. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.5% to 7,270.20. South Korea’s Kospi added
Continue Reading WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A 7.7 magnitude earthquake Friday in the far Pacific posed a tsunami threat for Vanuatu. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said waves up to 1 meter (3 feet) above tides were possible for Vanuatu. That’s much lower than the initial forecast. New Zealand’s National Emergency Management Agency said it was
Continue Reading By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, Western allies have shipped billions of dollars worth of weapons systems and ammunition to Ukraine with an urgency to get the supplies to Kyiv in time for an anticipated spring counteroffensive. Now summer is just weeks away. While Russia and Ukraine are focused on an
Continue Reading By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Conservative Nebraska lawmakers are expected to have just enough votes to pass a bill Friday that combines a ban on gender-affirming care for minors with a 12-week abortion ban. The mood in the Nebraska Capitol since the hybrid measure was advanced Tuesday by a single
Continue ReadingJessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — In one shot, a young woman stands on a New York street beneath glittering string lights, the nighttime scene mimicking an old photo of her mother, a Japanese immigrant who raised four children in the United States. “My mother has always been bound by the limitations of her reality,” reads
Continue Reading By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press A judge is poised to decide Friday whether a Massachusetts Air National Guard member accused of leaking highly classified military documents will remain behind bars while he awaits trial. Jack Teixeira is due back in federal court in Worcester, Massachusetts, where a magistrate judge is expected
Continue Reading By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jordan Neely’s chokehold death on the New York City subway set off a debate about vigilantism, homelessness and public safety. On Friday he is being mourned by his family at a church in Harlem. The former Michael Jackson impersonator died May 1 when a fellow subway
Continue Reading By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — About two-thirds of U.S. adults say they are highly concerned about how the national economy would be affected if the U.S. debt limit is not increased and the government defaults on its debts, according to a new poll, even as few say they have
Continue Reading By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — About two-thirds of U.S. adults say they are highly concerned about the impact on the national economy if the U.S. debt limit is not increased and the government defaults on its loans, according to a new poll, even as few say they have a
Continue Reading By SHARON JOHNSON Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — On the weekend in March when Brittany Glover would have turned 34, her mother stood on the same busy road in Atlanta where her daughter died six months earlier. Glover, a flight attendant with a passion for clothes, was coming from an entertainment venue during the early
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By Jake Kwon and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The United States Tsunami Warning Center lifted an alert over the South Pacific on Friday, around three hours after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck the region. “Based on all available data, the tsunami threat from this earthquake has now passed,” the center said in
Continue Reading By Eliza Mackintosh, Ehsan Popalzai, Antonio Jarne and Lou Robinson, CNN (CNN) — Qasim received a call in late March that his brother, an employee with Afghanistan’s Taliban government, had been seriously injured in a suicide bombing near the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul. The 32-year-old rushed to the hospital with his family, but
Continue Reading MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The executive committee of Minnesota’s Democratic Farmer Labor Party gave initial approval to bylaws that will permanently ban people who engage in or incite violent acts from participating in party activities. The bylaws now go on to the state party’s central committee for final approval. The executive committee held an emergency meeting
Continue Reading By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — More than 33 million people in the United States are driving vehicles that contain a potentially deadly threat: Airbag inflators that in rare cases can explode in a collision and spew shrapnel. Few of them know it. And because of a dispute between federal safety regulators
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By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — After Nikola Jokic’s monster game in the opener, his pick-and-roll partner Jamal Murray took the spotlight in the Western Conference finals Thursday night. Murray scored 23 of his 37 points in the fourth quarter, propelling the Denver Nuggets to a 108-103 come-from-behind win over the Los
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Gonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Un terremoto de magnitud 7,7 sacudió el sur del océano Pacífico, al sur de las islas Fiyi y Nueva Caledonia, informó este viernes el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS). El terremoto tuvo una profundidad de 38 kilómetros (23 millas), dijo el USGS. El Centro Nacional de Alerta de Tsunamis de
Continue Reading Sofía Narváez (CNN) — Walt Disney World cerrará su hotel Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, una de sus atracciones más nuevas y espléndidas, a finales de septiembre, según anunció este jueves. La experiencia ultrainmersiva ––y ultracara–– del universo de Star Wars se inauguró con bombos y platillos en la primavera de 2022. Por una estadía de
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson Pasadena, California (CNN) — Un caudaloso río pudo haber atravesado Marte hace miles de millones de años. El rover Perseverance captó nuevas imágenes que parecen mostrar indicios geológicos de un caudaloso río que alimentaba el cráter Jezero, el sitio de un antiguo lago marciano. Perseverance comenzó a explorar los restos del entorno dentro
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