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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Saying that the Sydney Opera House is a well-known icon of Australia is kind of like saying the Amazon is a creek. The building, which turns 50 years old on October 20, has been given a cultural value of $11.4 billion by the global financial firm Deloitte. Sure, the
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, Kayla Tausche and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden tied the wars in Ukraine and Israel together during a primetime Oval Office address Thursday, making an impassioned appeal to the American people to support two fellow democracies that he says are facing existential threats. The president has often cast this
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By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — The decision by US prosecutors to offer Joran van der Sloot a plea agreement on charges of extortion and wire fraud led to his confession in the 2005 killing of Natalee Holloway in Aruba – and although he might not be prosecuted for the Alabama teen’s death, legal experts
Continue ReadingPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s national police say a former justice official considered one of the main suspects in the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021 has been arrested. Joseph Badio once worked for the Ministry of Justice and at the government’s anti-corruption unit until he was fired for alleged ethics violations weeks
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring that U.S. leadership “holds the world together,” President Joe Biden told Americans on Thursday night the country must deepen its support of Ukraine and Israel in the middle of two vastly different, unpredictable and bloody wars. Acknowledging that “these conflicts can seem
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMYA KULLAB and RAVI NESSMAN Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel pounded the Gaza Strip with airstrikes Thursday, including in the south where Palestinians were told to take refuge, as the Israeli defense minister ordered ground troops to prepare to see Gaza “from the inside”, though he didn’t indicate
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Mitt Romney, once the Republican Party’s standard-bearer, believes the right-wing media machine is at fault for much of the radicalization that has disfigured the GOP. The Utah senator and one-time GOP presidential nominee unleashed a torrent of criticism aimed squarely at the information universe in which most of his
Continue ReadingVANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — The trial has started for parents accused of starving a boy to death nearly three years ago in Washington state. Prosecutors in opening statements this week said 15-year-old Karreon Franks weighed 61 pounds (27.67 kilograms) when he died from starvation and neglect, The Columbian reported. Felicia Adams, 54, and Jesse Franks,
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The government of France has bestowed a further honor on Atlanta’s Andrew Young. French Ambassador Laurent Bili promoted Young to an officer in France’s Legion of Honor on Thursday in Atlanta. The 91-year-old Young is the former mayor of Atlanta, ambassador to the United Nations under President
Continue ReadingBy Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — The Senate passed a resolution affirming their support for Israel, its right to self-defense and condemning Hamas’s attacks on civilians. The final vote count was 97-0. An initial copy of the resolution put out by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee listed ninety-nine of the 100 senators co-sponsored the resolution,
Continue ReadingBy Dan Berman (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday struck back at Donald Trump’s attempt to dismiss his federal election interference case based on “presidential immunity,” saying no such protection from criminal liability exists for former presidents. Trump, Smith wrote, is trying to put himself on Mt. Rushmore. “In staking his claim, he
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMYA KULLAB and RAVI NESSMAN Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel pounded the Gaza Strip with airstrikes Thursday, including in the south where Palestinians were told to take refuge. One blast struck a Greek Orthodox church in Gaza City where families were seeking shelter, and Israel’s defense minister ordered
Continue ReadingPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti police has announced the arrest of a former Haitian official considered one of the main suspects in the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021. The National Police spokesman, Garry Desrosiers, has said that Joseph Badio was arrested in the neighborhood of Petion Vile, Port-au-Prince. Badio once worked for
Continue ReadingBy PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas officials have released a second audit in as many years of elections in Harris County. The report released Thursday does not suggest that results in 2022 were impacted by issues that Republicans have used to contest losses and take more control over voting in
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden declared it is “vital for America’s national security” for Israel and Ukraine to succeed in their wars, making the case Thursday night for deepening U.S. involvement in two unpredictable foreign conflicts as he prepared to ask for billions of dollars
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN and ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writers LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears’ highly anticipated memoir “The Woman in Me” will be released Tuesday, revealing the pop superstar’s personal take on events that have played out publicly in her decades as one of the most scrutinized figures in American life, along with private
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge who previously overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons did it again on Thursday, ruling that the state’s attempts to prohibit sales of semiautomatic guns violates the constitutional right to bear arms. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego conceded that powerful weapons like AR-15 rifles are
Continue ReadingWHEATON, Ill. (AP) — A prosecutor says a suburban Chicago man has been charged with two hate crimes for allegedly verbally abusing and threatening to shoot two Muslim men. The DuPage County state’s attorney says 46-year-old Larry York of Lombard was denied pretrial release during a court hearing Thursday. Berlin says York confronted the victims
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — Humanitarian aid supplies destined for Gaza civilians remain in limbo, as concerns rise about the rapidly worsening conditions for the population stuck in the besieged enclave. Multiple sources told CNN on Thursday that the critical Rafah Crossing is no longer expected to open Friday for a
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Gonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — John Stamos reveló en una nueva entrevista este miércoles que es un sobreviviente de abuso sexual. Hablando con People, Stamos dio más detalles sobre un extracto de sus próximas memorias “If You Would Have Told Me”, en el que reflexiona sobre el abuso que sufrió cuando era niño por parte de
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