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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia’s prime minister says the country has faced the worst-ever natural disaster in its history, after devastating floods caused damage estimated at half a billion euros ($550 million). Robert Golob says the worst-hit sectors have been road and energy infrastructure. After three weather-related deaths were reported on Friday, Slovenian media said
Continue ReadingHOUSTON (AP) — Renowned opera singer David Daniels and his husband have pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting another singer in Houston. Daniels, 57, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Scott Walters, 40, entered the pleas Friday after a jury was assembled for the trial of the pair on first-degree felony charges of aggravated sexual assault. Both
Continue ReadingHOUSTON (AP) — Renowned opera singer David Daniels and his husband have pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting another singer in Houston. Daniels, 57, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Scott Walters, 40, entered the pleas Friday after a jury was assembled for the trial of the pair on first-degree felony charges of aggravated sexual assault. Both
Continue ReadingDORSET, Vt. (AP) — A driver accused of causing a crash that killed Treat Williams knew the actor and considered him a friend but denied wrongdoing and said charges are not warranted. Ryan Koss, the managing creative director of the Dorset Theatre Festival in Vermont, said he knew Williams for years as a member of
Continue ReadingBy JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say they arrested two Israeli settlers after they stormed a Palestinian village in the West Bank in a rampage that left one Palestinian dead. Armed settlers entered Burqa, a herding village east of the city of Ramallah, late Friday, shooting and killing 19-year-old Qusai Matan,
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — MMA fighter Nate Diaz used homophobic slurs during a confrontation with an employee of Jake Paul’s betting company ahead of his fight against the YouTuber-turned-boxer. Diaz was participating in a press conference before the fight, which is happening on Saturday at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas when he
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By Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — Editor’s note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Puppies tussle in the annual Puppy Bowl. Kids start a game of tag in a schoolyard. Play has been observed and documented in many species — and not
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Students are returning to classrooms around the Coachella Valley this month as our summertime desert temperatures remain well-embedded in the triple digits. For parents with children who ride school buses to and from school each day, concerns about hot buses have long been a reality. Those who ride school buses at the start and end of their
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Rain continued to pelt northeastern China in the wake of Typhoon Doksuri as authorities reported more fatalities and missing people while evacuating thousands more. State media reported Saturday that six people died and four went missing in the city of Shulan in Jilin province, which has seen five straight days of
Continue ReadingBy JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police that they arrested two Israeli settlers after they stormed a Palestinian village in the West Bank in a rampage that left one Palestinian dead. Armed settlers entered Burqa, a herding village east of the city of Ramallah, late Friday, shooting and killing 19-year-old Qusai Matan,
Continue ReadingBy Dan Berman, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s legal schedule is getting fuller by the day as the political season heats up, with the former president facing multiple criminal charges with more possibly on the way. This week, Trump was indicted on charges of leading a conspiracy to overturn his 2020 presidential election defeat and
Continue ReadingBy FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — A prosecutor in southern Italy says the boat crash that killed a U.S. tourist off the Amalfi Coast is being investigated as a case of possible manslaughter. Salerno Chief Prosecutor Giuseppe Borrelli told reporters Saturday that the skipper of the motorboat that slammed into a chartered sailboat
Continue Reading By Sophia Saifi and Azaz Syed, CNN Islamabad (CNN) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to three years in prison after he was found guilty in a corruption trial, a verdict that disqualifies him from holding political office. Khan was arrested at his home in Lahore after the court’s ruling and
Continue ReadingBy HANNA ARHIROVA KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian drones have hit a Russian tanker in the Black Sea near Crimea, according to Russian officials. The strike was the second sea attack involving drones in one day, after Ukraine said its sea drones also struck a major Russian port earlier on Friday, damaging a warship and
Continue ReadingMANILA, Philippines (AP) — Police in the Philippines say one person has died and more than 100 have had to be rescued after a ferry struck floating debris at sea and took on water Saturday. The accident involving the King Sto. Nino 7, which was carrying 117 people, was the third to hit the country
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, Victoria Butenko and Kostan Nechyporenko, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — One of Russia’s biggest oil tankers was struck by a maritime drone, the latest salvo in a Ukrainian military campaign employing unmanned vehicles to attack far-away Russian targets by air and by sea. The Russian-flagged ship, the Sig, was hit by a
Continue Reading CNN By Kostan Nechyporenko, Denis Lapin and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Explosions hit critical road bridges linking occupied Crimea with parts of Kherson region under Russian control, Russian authorities say, as Ukraine escalates its targeting of Russian infrastructure and territory. The blasts came on the same day the Moscow mayor said a drone had
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Biden administration has intensified its focus on tracing cryptocurrency payments that some of the most dangerous Mexican drug cartels use to buy fentanyl ingredients from Chinese chemical companies, the latest step in a renewed attempt to crack down on the multibillion-dollar fentanyl trade that kills thousands of
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — “Does this ratty T-shirt diminish my rizz?” “I’m going to rizz up a cutie at the party tonight.” “I’d love to have a modicum of the rizz that Gandalf the Grey has.” “Rizz” is a relatively young word — it’s been circulating online since 2021 — but one that’s
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The Loch Ness Centre in Scotland is calling for “budding monster hunters” and volunteers to join in what it dubs the largest search for the Loch Ness Monster since the 1970s. The visitor attraction said this week that modern technology such as drones that will produce thermal images of the lake will
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