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By Hannah Seligson, CNN (CNN) — While there might not be any truly undiscovered parts of the Mediterranean, luckily there are still places that have not quite landed on the 21st century American traveler’s radar. One of those destinations is Marbella – which once drew Hollywood royalty such as Brigitte Bardot, Grace Kelly and Cary
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The battle over abortion rights looms over an Ohio ballot measure being voted on statewide Tuesday. Issue 1 would raise the threshold needed to amend the state’s constitution from a simple majority of state voters to 60%. Although the text of the proposal does not address abortion,
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman and John Bonifield, CNN (CNN) — All infants under 8 months of age should get a new antibody shot to protect against severe respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, according a recommendation from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A panel of independent experts that advises the agency – the Advisory
Continue ReadingTRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey will send off Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, who died after being hospitalized this week, with a three-day state funeral. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy said in a statement that Oliver’s remains would lie in state in the capitol rotunda Thursday, followed by a similar honor in her home county’s historic
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Alexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN) — La diferencia entre el sueldo de un CEO y el de un empleado medio siempre ha sido enorme. Pero la llegada de la inteligencia artificial (IA) ya amenaza con exacerbar esa brecha, enriqueciendo a los directivos a expensas de sus empleados, según un nuevo informe de la AFL-CIO. La
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — The United Nations’ human rights chief says his office in Uganda will close this weekend after the East African country decided not to renew an agreement allowing it to operate. The closure comes amid concern over human rights violations including extrajudicial killings and over a new law that prescribes the death penalty
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is preparing to hear the verdict in his latest trial on extremism charges. The prosecution has demanded a 20-year prison sentence, and the politician himself said he expects to receive a lengthy term. If the court finds Navalny guilty on Friday, it would be his fifth
Continue ReadingBy ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The United Nations says damage to the school complex in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp from clashes between factions could delay the start of the school year for some 6,000 children. Dorothee Klaus, Director of UNRWA in Lebanon, told The Associated Press Friday that a heavily fortified
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER, SAM MEDNICK and CARA ANNA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten days into a coup in Niger, life has become more challenging for U.S. forces at a counterterrorism base in a region of West Africa known as the world’s epicenter of terrorism. Flights in and out of the country have been curtailed
Continue ReadingTALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A landslide has hit a resort area in the mountains of the country of Georgia, killing at least seven people and leaving more than 30 missing. Officials say the landslide hit the Shovi area on Thursday. The region is popular for its mineral springs and rugged mountain vistas and contains cottages
Continue ReadingBy HANNA ARHIROVA and EMMA BURROWS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian sea drones attacked a major Russian port Friday, damaging a naval ship, according to a Ukrainian official, as the Black Sea becomes an increasingly important battleground in the war. Moscow claimed it repelled the attack. The strike on Novorossiysk — which halted
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Six white former law enforcement officers in Mississippi have pleaded guilty to a racist assault on Michael Corey Jenkins and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker, who are Black. A roughly 90-minute period of terror began late on Jan. 24 after a white neighbor called
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Global prices for food commodities like rice and vegetable oil have risen for the first time in months after Russia pulled out of a wartime agreement allowing Ukraine to ship grain to the world, and India restricted some of its rice exports, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
Continue ReadingBy Ellie Stevens, CNN (CNN) — Mattel says it is conducting a nationwide job search for a “Chief Uno player.” The salary: $277 an hour. The toy company is hiring someone to promote the release of their new game, Uno Quatro. The chosen applicant will be paid $4,444 a week for four weeks to play
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tuesday is primary day in Mississippi. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves’ bid for renomination to a second term tops the list of contests voters will decide. The winner of Reeves’ three-way primary will face Democrat Brandon Presley, a state utility regulator and Elvis Presley’s cousin. Lt. Gov. Delbert
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By Catherine Nicholls, Teodora Preda and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Controversial internet influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been released from house arrest in Romania ahead of their trial on charges of human trafficking and rape, Bucharest’s Court of Appeals announced on Friday. The Tate brothers and two Romanian female accomplices
Continue ReadingBy LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania has declared more than a thousand citizens of Russia and Belarus living in the country to be threats to national security and said it is stripping them of their permanent residency permits. The decision came after the government asked the Russians and Belarusians to answer
Continue ReadingBy Allison Morrow and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A husband and wife, whose eccentricities and alleged crimes earned them the nickname “Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde,” pleaded guilty to orchestrating a $4.5 billion money-laundering scheme linked to the 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex. The couple, Russian-born tech entreprener Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, an
Continue ReadingBy HANNA ARHIROVA and EMMA BURROWS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian sea drones attacked a major Russian port on the Black Sea on Friday, damaging a naval ship, according to a Ukrainian official, the latest in a series of strikes inside Russia as Kyiv vowed to bring the fight home to them. Moscow
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — All Louisiana public schools are now required to display the national motto of “In God We Trust” inside every classroom, according to a new law that went into effect this week. Some critics fear the law will further blur the lines separating church and state, which follows a pattern
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