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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — At least 13 people were injured in South Korea on Thursday when a man rammed a car onto a sidewalk and then stepped out of the vehicle and began stabbing people inside a nearby shopping mall near in the city of Seongnam. Yoon Sung-hyun, an official from the southern Gyeonggi
Continue ReadingBy ABBY SEWELL and FADI TAWIL Associated Press SIDON, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has demanded an end to the volatile clashes in the country’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, warning that troops may have to intervene if the deadly violence doesn’t stop. Najib Mikati called Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday after sporadic
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON and CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A woman who escaped her kidnapper by punching her way out of a homemade cinder block cell at a home in southern Oregon likely saved other women from a similar fate, authorities said, by alerting them to a man they now suspect in
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON and CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A woman who escaped her kidnapper by punching her way out of a homemade cinder block cell at a home in southern Oregon likely saved other women from a similar fate, authorities said, by alerting them to a man they now suspect in
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — A BBC presenter has been told by the corporation that a comment he made toward a female Australian cricketer was “not appropriate” after he called her a “little Barbie” during a match interview earlier this week. Presenter Chris Hughes made the comment to Maitlan Brown on Tuesday after the
Continue ReadingBy CURT ANDERSON Associated Press A Florida man sentenced to death for the 1988 attack on a woman who was sexually assaulted and killed with a hammer, then set on fire in her own bed, is set for execution Thursday after dropping all his appeals and saying he was ready to die. James Phillip Barnes
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — There’s no shortage of ambition in commercial aviation — we wouldn’t have heavier-than-air flight without dreamers, after all — but Boom Supersonic is in its own category when it comes to setting the bar high. The Colorado-based company aims to reintroduce commercial supersonic flight, which has been on hiatus
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urielblanco (CNN Español) — El ciclón Dora se convirtió este miércoles en el más reciente huracán formado en el Pacífico oriental. De acuerdo con el último reporte del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN) de México, Dora es actualmente un huracán categoría 1 en la escala Saffir-Simpson. Según el aviso del SMN de las 5:15 a.m. ET,
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court has imposed a 400,000-ruble ($4,400) fine against Apple for failing to remove material deemed to be “false information” about Russia’s military actions in Ukraine. Russian news agency Interfax reported on Thursday that a justice of the peace in a magistrate’s court found Apple guilty of failing to delete podcasts
Continue ReadingBy TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — After recording the warmest monthly average temperature for any U.S. city ever in July, Phoenix climbed back up to dangerously high temperatures Wednesday. That could mean trouble not just for people but for some plants, too. Residents across the sprawling metro are finding the extended extreme heat
Continue Reading Gonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — En un comunicado enviado por mensaje de texto a CNN, el Mando de las Naciones Unidas (UNC, por sus siglas en inglés) dijo que Corea del Norte respondió sobre el estado del soldado del ejército estadounidense Travis King, quien el mes pasado cruzó la frontera hacia Corea del Norte desde Corea
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish and Lithuanian leaders have held an urgent meeting in a strategically sensitive area where their NATO nations border Belarus and the Russian territory of Kaliningrad. The leaders warned that they are bracing for provocations from Moscow and Minsk in the area. The meeting Thursday came
Continue ReadingBy Kayla Tausche and Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — Outreach from Fitch Ratings to the Treasury Department on Monday afternoon set off a frenzy inside the Biden administration to respond to news that would once again put President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy under the microscope. The news from Fitch – that it would
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has raised its main interest rate to a fresh 15-year high as it tries to bring down persistently high inflation. The quarter-percentage point increase to 5.25% on Thursday was the central bank’s 14th hike in a row. There had been fears, certainly among hard-pressed
Continue ReadingCNN By Tierney Sneed, Hannah Rabinowitz and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — When former President Donald Trump appears in a Washington, DC, courtroom on Thursday he will be doing so in a building that had a direct view of the violence that unfurled at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Trump is scheduled to
Continue ReadingBy Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — A historically wet winter and, now, hotter summer are leading to “pretty big” warning signs for West Nile virus in the Western US, public health and mosquito control experts say, suggesting that residents should take care to avoid bites. “The number of mosquitoes that have hatched off after the
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Hace 80 años, el entonces teniente de la Marina de EE.UU. y futuro presidente del país, John F. Kennedy, nadó heroicamente entre las islas del Pacífico para ayudar a salvar a la tripulación de su barco torpedero que había sido destruido por un buque de guerra japonés durante la Segunda
Continue ReadingMANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine coast guard has rescued all 67 people from a ferry boat that struck a floating object and took on water off a northeastern province. It was the second ferry accident to hit the country in a week. Officials said a passenger on the Jovelle Express 3 managed to contact
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES and JOSH FUNK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress responded to the fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio earlier this year with bipartisan alarm at railroad crashes causing potential disasters. Yet six months after life was upended in East Palestine, lawmakers are deadlocked on new safety regulations. A bipartisan group of lawmakers
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — NFL great Tom Brady has joined a partnership to become a minority owner in second-tier British soccer team Birmingham City, it was announced on Thursday. Brady, who is a seven-time Super Bowl champion, joins with Knighthead Capital Management LLC to purchase a stake in the club. According to the
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