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By The Associated Press The Sevastopol Shipyard in Russian-annexed Crimea was on fire Wednesday after a Ukrainian attack, and 24 people were injured, local Russian-installed official reported. Mikhail Razvozhayev, Moscow-appointed governor of the port city of Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula, said on Telegram on Wednesday that the fire was sparked by a missile attack.
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — Danielle Collins beat qualifier Louisa Chirico 7-5, 6-0 in singles at the Cymbiotika San Diego Open on Tuesday and then joined Coco Vandeweghe of nearby Rancho Santa Fe for a 6-3, 4-6, 10-3 doubles victory against Marta Kostyuk and Alycia Parks. “The last couple of days, I hadn’t gotten a lot
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — School district officials in Las Vegas are asking a judge to put an end to what they claim is a coordinated union campaign of teacher absences during a bitter contract battle, forcing school closures and classroom disruptions in a state where it is illegal for public
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — School district officials in Las Vegas are asking a judge to put an end to what they claim is a coordinated union campaign of teacher absences during a bitter contract battle, forcing school closures and classroom disruptions in a state where it is illegal for public
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Christiane Amanpour still remembers her humble beginnings at CNN. Forty years ago, before she was hired by what was then a groundbreaking news startup, she was an electronics graphics operator at a local NBC affiliate, responsible for the various elements that appear on-air during broadcasts. When she arrived in
Continue ReadingCNN By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Christiane Amanpour still remembers her humble beginnings at CNN. Forty years ago, before she was hired by what was then a groundbreaking news startup, she was an electronics graphics operator at a local NBC affiliate, responsible for the various elements that appear on-air during broadcasts. When she arrived
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — For the first few months of the season, Cal Quantrill’s nagging shoulder kept him from feeling quite right physically. It affected just about everything. So it sure is nice to nice to be back to pitching like he wants to be in September. Quantrill (3-6),
Continue ReadingBy MARÍA VERZA and MADDIE BURAKOFF Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Preventing dengue fever has long meant teaching people to fear mosquitoes and avoid their bites. Now scientists are promoting a potentially more effective way to control the disease with the help of mosquitoes. These aren’t just any insects: Mosquitoes are bred in laboratories
Continue ReadingBy SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A record of more than one in five young Chinese are out of work, their career ambitions derailed by a depressed job market as the economy struggles to regain momentum after its long bout with COVID-19. An estimated 16 million young adult Chinese, daunted by the
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press A jury is set to hear closing arguments in Michigan in the fourth trial connected to a scheme by anti-government extremists to kidnap the governor just ahead of the 2020 presidential election. William Null, twin brother Michael Null and Eric Molitor are the last of 14 men to face charges
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL HILL Associated Press CASTLETON-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. (AP) — The Hudson River snakes through forests and rushes over boulders in the Adirondack Mountains before settling into a wide, slow flow closer to New York City. It stretches 315 miles (507 kilometers) from source to end. Lewis Pugh is about to finish swimming all of it.
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Stocks fell Wednesday in Asia after a slide in technology stocks dragged Wall Street lower ahead of a key report on U.S. inflation. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng lost 0.2% to 17,986,56 and the Shanghai Composite index sank 0.8% to 3,113.18. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index shed 0.2% to 32,706.52, while
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has been talking for months about accomplishing a potentially impossible task: Passing bipartisan legislation within the next year that both encourages the rapid development of artificial intelligence and also mitigates its biggest risks. On Wednesday, he is convening
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By Sabrina Souza and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Two Virginia detectives thought they might be closing in on a suspect in a decades-old cold case killing. Then they got a phone call. “I want to talk, and I want to talk right now,” the person on the line said, according to Fairfax County Police
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — Cancer experts have made two calls for action from US lawmakers this year: fix the ongoing cancer drug shortage, and increase funding for cancer research. The American Association for Cancer Research, in its annual cancer progress report released Wednesday, highlighted the recent improvements that the United States has made
Continue Reading By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — When Lariba was growing up in James Town — a coastal neighborhood in Accra, Ghana — they never felt criticized for living the life they wanted to live, they said, even as an LGBTQ person. Of course, there were certain areas in Accra they couldn’t go, like some religious
Continue ReadingSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern seas. The launch Wednesday came as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was traveling in Russia for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile, there are international concerns about a potential arms deal that
Continue ReadingCNN By Paul Glader, CNN (CNN) — “You’ll never be successful,” Errol Musk in 1989 told his 17-year-old son Elon, who was then preparing to fly from South Africa to Canada to find relatives and a college education. That’s one of the scenes Walter Isaacson paints in his 670-page biography of Elon Musk, who is
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — The White House plans to send a letter to top US news executives on Wednesday, urging them to intensify their scrutiny of House Republicans after Speaker Kevin McCarthy launched an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, despite having found no evidence of a crime. “It’s time for the media
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday the state will intervene in an ongoing federal court case that’s barred San Francisco from cleaning up homeless encampments until more shelter beds are available, saying the judge has gone too far and is preventing the state from solving a
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