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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Explosions rocked Ukrainian cities overnight, as a massive Russian attack started fires and injured at least 14 people. Seven people were injured in Kyiv, including a 9-year-old girl, reported Mayor Vitali Klitschko, and some residential and commercial buildings were damaged. At least six strikes hit the Slobidskyi district of Kharkiv, damaging
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER, LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy returned to Washington on Thursday for a whirlwind one-day visit, this time to face the Republicans now questioning the flow of American dollars that for 19 months has kept his troops in the fight against Russian forces.
Continue ReadingBy JAMES POLLARD and JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh is expected to stand before a judge Thursday and do something he hasn’t done in the two years since his life of privilege and power started to unravel: plead guilty to a crime. Murdaugh will admit in federal court
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The United States had 3.5 million residents who identify as Middle Eastern or North African, Venezuelans were the fastest-growing Hispanic group last decade and Chinese and Asian Indians were the two largest Asian groups, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The most detailed race and ethnicity data to date from
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The United States had 3.5 million residents who identify as Middle Eastern or North African, Venezuelans were the fastest-growing Hispanic group last decade and Chinese and Asian Indians were the two largest Asian groups, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The most detailed race and ethnicity data to date from
Continue ReadingBy MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican David McCormick is expected to announce that he’ll enter Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race in his second bid for the office, this time to take on Democratic Sen. Bob Casey after losing in last year’s Republican primary. McCormick’s aides have sent invites to a “special announcement”
Continue ReadingBy MARK STEVENSON Associated Press HUEHUETOCA, Mexico (AP) — Thousands of migrants riding atop railway cars in Mexico this week or waiting in mile-long lines by the tracks to hitch a ride to the U.S. have triggered the closure of one U.S. border crossing and forced Mexico’s largest railroad to suspend dozens of freight trains.
Continue ReadingBy MARK STEVENSON Associated Press HUEHUETOCA, Mexico (AP) — Thousands of migrants riding atop railway cars in Mexico this week or waiting in mile-long lines by the tracks to hitch a ride to the U.S. have triggered the closure of one U.S. border crossing and forced Mexico’s largest railroad to suspend dozens of freight trains.
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — More than 15,000 people in Arizona have registered to join a new political party floating a possible bipartisan “unity ticket” against Joe Biden and Donald Trump. While that’s less than the population of each of the state’s 40 largest cities, it’s still a number big enough
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By Mitchell McCluskey, Mariya Knight and Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Poland said Wednesday it will stop providing weapons to Ukraine amid a growing dispute between the two countries over a temporary ban on Ukrainian grain imports. “We no longer transfer weapons to Ukraine because we are now arming Poland,” Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Strauss, Kate Sullivan and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is shifting gears as the Iowa caucuses draw closer, taking a more active approach to campaigning in the Hawkeye State in order to quash any possibility that one of his primary rivals could catch up to him there. At the same time,
Continue ReadingBy PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton attacked his Republican rivals and displayed an openness to challenging U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in 2026 while speaking out Wednesday for the first time since his acquittal on corruption charges at his impeachment trial. He did not discuss accusations that
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan made false claims in his opening remarks at a Wednesday hearing at which Jordan and other Republicans pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland about the Justice Department’s handling of investigations into former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. Here
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supplying of bomb-carrying drones to Russia could see Moscow help Tehran’s program become more lethal, raising risks across the wider Middle East. That’s according to the top U.S. Air Force commander in the Middle East Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, the head of
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Valeria Ordóñez (CNN) — Cassidy Hutchinson, exasistente de Donald Trump en la Casa Blanca, afirma en un nuevo libro que Rudy Giuliani la tocó inapropiadamente durante el mitin que precedió el asalto al Capitolio de Estados Unidos el 6 de enero de 2021. Hutchinson, cuyo testimonio explosivo el año pasado fue clave en las audiencias
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Forecasters in Bermuda are warning of dangerous swells and rip currents as Hurricane Nigel spun through open waters in the northern Atlantic. The Category 1 hurricane was located about 495 miles (800 kilometers) south southeast of Cape Race Newfoundland. It had maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (140 kph)
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toshiba says a 2 trillion yen ($14 billion) tender offer for the troubled electronics and energy giant by a Japanese consortium has been completed, clearing the way for it to be delisted. private. Toshiba said the tender offer, announced last month, ended Wednesday, with the number
Continue ReadingHIRAM, Georgia (AP) — A man and woman have died after a shooting inside a Georgia Walmart that police are calling an apparent murder-suicide. Police say shots rang out at about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the store in Hiram, a small town near Atlanta. The two people shot died on the way to the hospital.
Continue ReadingBy Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — Lionel Messi’s return to the pitch was short-lived after the Argentine superstar was subbed off in the 37th minute of Inter Miami’s match against Toronto FC on Wednesday at DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Just a few minutes after teammate Jordi Alba was subbed off with an
Continue ReadingBy Kristin Wilson and Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — The Senate voted Wednesday to confirm the nomination of Gen. C.Q. Brown to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, following a monthslong hold of over more than 300 military promotions by Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
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