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By Jeffrey Kopp, Eric Levenson and Veronica Miracle, CNN (CNN) — An Idaho judge on Friday gave Bryan Kohberger’s attorneys three weeks to submit evidence for the accused killer’s alibi if he plans on using that as a defense. The state has argued Kohberger must provide his exact whereabouts the night of last year’s killings
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities have ordered seven villages evacuated near the northeastern border with Turkey due to a large summer wildfire burning out of control and whipped on by high winds. The fire service says more than 100 firefighters, assisted by nine water-dropping aircraft, are struggling to contain the blaze. The forest fire
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Ice and permafrost are thawing rapidly across vast areas of Earth — imperiling glaciers, releasing carbon and, potentially, reawakening ancient pathogens. The climate crisis is also revealing secrets of a once inaccessible past. Viking arrows, an Iron Age tunic and prehistoric wooden skis are some of the artifacts recovered from melting
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — Nissan is recalling more than 236,000 small cars in the U.S. because the tie rods in front suspension can bend and break, possibly causing drivers to lose steering control. The recall covers certain Sentra cars from 2020 through 2022. Tie rods help vehicles move the wheels for steering. Nissan says in documents
Continue ReadingBy Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — Roberto Colaninno, the CEO and chairman of vehicle manufacturer Piaggio, died on Friday. He was 80. Colaninno’s investment firm, Immsi SpA, announced his death Saturday morning in a news release but did not provide additional details. Colaninno began his business career as the CEO of Italian auto
Continue Reading By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Modified skulls found in an ancient burial site in Japan were deliberately reshaped in both men and women as an expression of collective identity. The practice may also have helped the group to forge trade connections, a new study suggests. In all the skulls, the normally rounded part at
Continue ReadingBy DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bryce Harper wants to get to Cooperstown. Sure, what baseball player, especially a two-time NL MVP such as Harper, doesn’t dream of induction into the Hall of Fame. But Harper’s hopes extend well beyond a call to the Hall — the Philadelphia Phillies slugger would love
Continue ReadingBy SAM MCNEIL and NASSER NASSER Associated Press HAWARA, West Bank (AP) — Two Israelis were killed in a suspected Palestinian shooting attack on a car wash in a volatile stretch of the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the latest outburst of violence to rock the region. The Israeli military said it was searching for
Continue ReadingBy Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — The Lionesses had seemingly lost their ability to hunt. England had been on a poor run of form, at one stage losing seven out of 11 matches, and head coach Phil Neville was winding down the days until his exit. It was announced that Neville’s successor was to be
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — The days may be numbered for US Steel Corp., a one-time backbone of the nation’s economy. Once US Steel was the most valuable company in the world. Now, it’s the subject of a bidding war among rivals offering a fraction of what the company was once worth.
Continue ReadingBy Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Working underground in a Biosafety Level 3 insectary in Tres Cantos, Madrid, researchers at the pharmaceutical giant GSK were frustrated. The mosquitoes they were using to study experimental medicines for malaria had developed a pesky problem: They were becoming resistant to the parasite, plasmodium, that causes the ancient disease.
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Long before a wind-whipped wildfire blasted through the island of Maui, tension existed between Hawaii’s kamaaina, or longtime residents, and the visitors some islanders resent for turning their beaches, mountains and communities into playgrounds. It’s a love-hate relationship that dates back generations.
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — One of the Egyptian activists behind the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak has walked free from prison under a presidential pardon after spending nearly 10 years behind bars. Authorities released prominent activist Ahmed Douma from a prison complex outside Cairo on Saturday, according to
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — US Ambassador Kathleen FitzGibbon arrived in Niger on Saturday, the State Department announced, taking up her post as the United States and partners continue to grapple with the military takeover in that country. “Ambassador Kathleen FitzGibbon has traveled to Niamey to lead our diplomatic mission in Niger and bolster
Continue Reading By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Dnipro, Ukraine (CNN) — The depth and frequency of craters across the frontline city of Orikhiv are a blunt example of why Ukraine needs F-16 fighter jets urgently. Ukrainian troops amassed around the city have the unenviable task of pushing through minefields towards an enemy that has long anticipated their
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — The decorated French general in charge of the ambitious, big-budget restoration of fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has died. Jean-Louis Georgelin was 74. President Emmanuel Macron called him one of France’s “greatest soldiers, greatest servants.” Georgelin previously served as chief of France’s general staff among other senior military positions. Macron pulled
Continue ReadingBy SAM MCNEIL and NASSER NASSER Associated Press BALATA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli military says two Israelis have been killed in a suspected Palestinian shooting attack in the occupied West Bank. It was the latest outburst of violence to rock the region. The military said Saturday it was searching for suspects
Continue ReadingBy QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi and United Nations officials have marked the 20th anniversary of a deadly attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad. The Aug. 19, 2003, truck bomb attack on the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, which housed the U.N. headquarters in Iraq at the time, killed 22 U.N. staff
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The American presidency is vested with many overt powers, but one of the most important powers of the office is implicit, and that’s the power of rhetoric. Many presidents have been mindful of the urgent power of a president’s words, but Donald Trump seemed to show
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say they have rescued nearly 60 migrants in inflatable dinghies trying to cross from Turkey to the nearby eastern Aegean Sea islands in two separate incidents. A coast guard statement says a patrol boat located 41 people early Saturday on a drifting inflatable dinghy off the island of Lesbos.
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