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By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had private talks with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Saturday, later saying he sought support for Ukraine’s peace plan from the pontiff, who in the past has offered to try to help end the full-scale war launched by Russia a year ago.
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By The Associated Press Australian tennis player Owen Davidson, who won 13 Grand Slam doubles titles, has died. He was 79. The International Tennis Hall of Fame announced Saturday that Davidson died on Friday. Longtime friend Isabel Suliga said he died in Conroe, Texas. He won 11 major titles in mixed doubles and two in
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Our First Alert Weather Alert team is forecasting triple digits all Mother’s Day Weekend. You can find our full forecast and the latest weather updates here. With Summer right around the corner, more triple digit days are expected. Some venues and businesses like College of the Desert’s ‘Street Fair’ are starting to make adjustments to
Continue Reading By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Stephen Curry is far from ready to accept that these Golden State Warriors are done chasing championships together. Draymond Green and Klay Thompson, too. Same goes for Kevon Looney and Andrew Wiggins. “No matter how different it looks, I think we understand each other, what
Continue Reading By HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press For four hours, Raymond V. Buelna, a cultural leader for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, sat on a metal bench in a concrete holding space at the U.S.-Mexico border, separated from the two people he was taking to an Easter ceremony on tribal land in Arizona and wondering when they might
Continue ReadingBy WDJT Staff Click here for updates on this story GRAFTON, Wisconsin (WDJT) — Grafton police arrested a teacher at John Long Middle School on Friday, May 12, on charges of making “terrorist threats” to students in his class as well as “exposing a child to harmful material, descriptions, or narrations.” Both of these are
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN An ex-ByteDance employee claimed he was wrongfully terminated after raising concerns about what he believed were illegal practices by the company, such as allegedly stealing content from its competitors Snapchat and Instagram. Yintao “Roger” Yu, who filed a lawsuit in Superior Court in San Francisco earlier this month, worked at ByteDance,
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By Ashley R. Williams, CNN Chances have dwindled for finding two climbers alive more than a week after they went missing in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve, as park authorities announced they have scaled back their active search. A small slab avalanche may have swept Eli Michel, 34, of Columbia City, Indiana, and Nafiun
Continue ReadingBy Richard Allen Greene, Ibrahim Dahman, Abeer Salman, Duarte Mendonca, Hamdi Alkhshali and Heather Chen, CNN Israel and Islamic Jihad agreed to a ceasefire Saturday, after days of violence that have claimed the lives of at least 35 people — almost all of them Palestinians. The ceasefire was scheduled to take effect at 10 p.m.
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Roberts, who worked as UCLA’s football and basketball play-by-play radio announcer for 23 years, has died. He was 74. He died at his Glendora home east of Los Angeles on Friday from complications of Parkinson’s disease, the school said Saturday. When he retired in 2015, Roberts equaled Fred Hessler’s record
Continue Reading By KARL RITTER and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi has expressed concern about Russian and Chinese military cooperation in Asia, saying the security situation in Europe could not be separated from that in the Indo-Pacific region since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Speaking at a meeting of European
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN Mayim Bialik is taking a stand for entertainment industry writers by choosing to stop her “Jeopardy!” hosting gig early. The “Call Me Kat” star, who has been co-hosting the uber-popular TV trivia show on and off since 2021, opted not to host the final week of filming of Season 39, in
Continue Reading By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — One outcome is clear as Washington reaches for a budget deal in the debt ceiling standoff. The ambitious COVID-19 era of government spending is giving way to a new focus on stemming deficits. As President Joe Biden and congressional leaders prepare to meet again soon, their
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Ramishah Maruf, CNN An ex-ByteDance employee claimed he was wrongfully terminated after raising concerns about what he believed were illegal practices by the company, such as allegedly stealing content from its competitors Snapchat and Instagram. Yintao “Roger” Yu, who filed a lawsuit in Superior Court in San Francisco earlier this month,
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — The grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest has kicked off in Liverpool. A Swedish diva and a party-loving Finnish rapper among favorites to win a joyous multinational music competition clouded, for a second year running, by the war in Ukraine. Britain is hosting the event
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — The grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest has kicked off in Liverpool. A Swedish diva and a party-loving Finnish rapper among favorites to win a joyous multinational music competition clouded, for a second year running, by the war in Ukraine. Britain is hosting the event
Continue Reading ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The detention of a mayoral candidate belonging to the Greek minority in Albania has raised tensions between the two neighboring countries. Greece’s Foreign Ministry released a statement Saturday demanding the release of Dionysis-Fredi Beleri, a candidate for mayor of the Albanian city of Himare, which has a strong Greek minority presence.
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN The world’s oldest dog is living it up in his 30s. Bobi, a Portuguese pooch who was declared the world’s oldest dog by Guinness World Records in February, celebrated his 31st birthday on Thursday, according to a news release from Guinness. Bobi’s family planned a Saturday birthday party at his home
Continue Reading By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany says it’s providing Ukraine with additional military aid worth more than 2.7 billion euros ($3 billion) including tanks, anti-aircraft systems and ammunition. The announcement came on the eve of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s first visit to Germany since Russia invaded his country last year. Defense Minister
Continue Reading By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany says it’s providing Ukraine with additional military aid worth more than 2.7 billion euros ($3 billion) including tanks, anti-aircraft systems and ammunition. The announcement came on the eve of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s first visit to Germany since Russia invaded his country last year. Defense Minister
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