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By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is making its final pitch to a federal judge to keep a key element of U.S. President Joe Biden’s immigration policy. It allows a limited number of people from four countries in the Americas to enter on humanitarian grounds. However, the judge is not
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Las autoridades del condado de Maui, Hawai, publicaron una lista de casi 400 personas que siguen en paradero desconocido tras los devastadores incendios que asolaron la isla este mes. La “lista validada” contiene 388 nombres y ha sido elaborada por el FBI, según un comunicado de prensa emitido este jueves
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Heineken anunció su salida de Rusia tras la venta de su negocio en el país por un simbólico 1 euro (1 dólar). El fabricante holandés de cerveza dijo en un comunicado este viernes que había recibido las aprobaciones necesarias para vender sus operaciones a Arnest Group, un fabricante ruso, completando
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By Renee Rigdon and Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — A brutal heat wave that baked most of the central and southern US this week will slowly shift its most intense heat southward through the weekend and tie or break dozens of heat records. On Friday, temperatures could top 100 degrees and records could fall across
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Poco menos de 700.000 hogares y negocios están sin electricidad en partes de Michigan y Ohio a primera hora de este viernes luego de que una ronda contundente de tormentas llevara lluvias y vientos fuertes y al menos un tornado confirmado a la región. Las tormentas avanzaron desde el sur
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Hicken and Blake Ellis (CNN) — In a high-profile case that rocked the commercial shipping industry, a sailor accused of raping a student from the US Merchant Marine Academy has agreed to surrender his credential to work on ships, but he will not be criminally prosecuted. Longtime merchant mariner Edgar Sison voluntarily surrendered
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares were trading mixed Friday, as investors digested a blowout profit report from Nvidia and mixed reports on the United States economy. France’s CAC 40 rose 0.6% in early trading to 7,256.90. Germany’s DAX added 0.4% to 15,682.35. Britain’s FTSE 100 gained 0.4% to 7,365.44.
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The Kremlin on Friday rejected allegations it was behind a plane crash that is presumed to have killed mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, who conducted a brief but shocking mutiny in Russia two months ago. Prigozhin, whose brutal fighters were feared in Ukraine, Africa and Syria, was eulogized Thursday by President Vladimir
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Facing his possible removal from office, the president of the Spanish soccer federation refused to resign Friday despite the uproar he caused when he kissed a player on the lips without her consent after the Women’s World Cup final. Luis Rubiales is under immense pressure to
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s interim central bank governor has called on the country’s ruling class to quickly implement economic and financial reforms that the central bank won’t offer loans to the state and does not plan on printing money to cover the huge budget deficit to avoid worsening inflation. Wassim
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French investigative magistrates have ordered former president Nicolas Sarkozy and 12 others to go on trial on charges that his 2007 presidential campaign received millions in illegal financing from the government of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. The national financial prosecutor announced that the decade-long investigation has been formally closed. The trial’s
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Mississippi voters will head back to the polls Tuesday to resolve a handful of state legislative contests from the Aug. 8 primaries in which no candidate reached the vote majority needed to advance to November’s general election. Six runoff primaries will be held in House districts throughout
Continue Reading CNN By Michelle Watson, Kelly McCleary, Cheri Mossburg, Anna-Maja Rappard and Natasha Chen, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of people are still listed as unaccounted for after this month’s devastating wildfires on Maui – a number that’s expected to change as the FBI continues vetting names. The “validated list” curated by the FBI currently includes 388
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — In many ways, raising a baby gorilla is very similar to nurturing human newborns, says Chad Staples, a father of four and the director of Mogo Wildlife Park, a small private zoo in the town of the same name on Australia’s southeastern coast. “The similarities are amazing.
Continue ReadingBy JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Australian and Filipino forces, backed by U.S. Marines, have practiced retaking an island seized by hostile forces in a large military drill on the northwestern Philippine coast facing the South China Sea. The Philippine president and Australia’s defense minister watched the mock beach landings and assaults
Continue ReadingBy SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s vice president and frontrunner in the presidential elections has accused China of using “unfair” trade practices to influence the elections. William Lai says China has targeted Taiwan’s “agricultural products, potentially in an effort to undermine the coming elections.” On Monday, China announced it would suspend
Continue ReadingBy JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Danish government will propose a law that would make it illegal to desecrate any holy book in Denmark. A recent string of public desecrations of the Quran by a handful of anti-Islam activists has sparked angry demonstrations in Muslim countries. Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s interim central bank governor has called on the country’s ruling class to quickly implement economic and financial reforms that the central bank won’t offer loans to the state and does not plan on printing money to cover the huge budget deficit to avoid worsening inflation. Wassim
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will observe Monday’s 60th anniversary of the March on Washington by meeting with organizers of the 1963 gathering and relatives of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The White House says all of King’s children have been invited. The
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that a Palestinian man cannot sue Israel’s former defense minister and another former senior military officer over their roles in a deadly Gaza 2014 airstrike. The highest Dutch court on Friday confirmed findings by judges in two
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