SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean and U.S. troops have been conducting live-fire exercises to hone their ability to respond to potential “Hamas-style surprise artillery attacks” by North Korea. South Korea’s military said Friday the three-day firing exercises, which began Wednesday, involved 5,400 South Korean and U.S. soldiers and 300 artillery systems. South Korean
Continue ReadingBy MARK STEVENSON Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Survivors of the Category 5 storm that killed at least 27 people and devastated Mexico’s resort city of Acapulco are getting desperate amid a slow government response, worrying that the focus will remain on repairing infrastructure for the city’s economic engine of tourism instead of helping
Continue ReadingBy CINAR KIPER and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish Republic, founded from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire by the national independence hero Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, turns 100 on Oct. 29. Ataturk established a Western-facing secular republic modeled on the great powers of the time. That ushered in radical reforms
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO, SEUNG MIN KIM and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has met with new House Speaker Mike Johnson at the White House. Johnson was joined by Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries as they discussed Biden’s request for nearly $106 billion for Israel, Ukraine and other national security needs. Johnson
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Kaczynski and Allison Gordon, CNN (CNN) — Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has a history of harsh anti-gay language from his time as an attorney for a socially conservative legal group in the mid-2000s. In editorials that ran in his local Shreveport, Louisiana, paper, The Times, Johnson called homosexuality a “inherently unnatural”
Continue ReadingBy DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A Chinese fighter jet came within 10 feet of an American B-52 bomber flying over the South China Sea, nearly causing an accident, the U.S. military says, underscoring the potential for a mishap as both countries vie for influence in the region. The Shenyang J-11 twin-engine fighter
Continue ReadingBy DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — U.S. Rep. George Santos is set to be arraigned on a revised indictment accusing him of several frauds, including making tens of thousands of dollars in unauthorized charges on credit cards belonging to his campaign donors. The New York Republican was scheduled to appear Friday
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Roughly 900 US troops have been deployed or are deploying to the Middle East amid heightened tensions in the region after a series of attacks on coalition bases that resulted in minor injuries for almost two dozen troops. “These include forces that have been on prepare to deploy orders,
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The sudden death of China’s former No. 2 leader Li Keqiang has shocked many people in the country. They are paying tribute to the former official who promised market-oriented reforms but was politically sidelined. Li worked alongside President Xi Jinping for a decade, helping to navigate
Continue ReadingBy BEN FINLEY Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The mother of a 6-year-old who shot his teacher in Virginia is scheduled to be sentenced for felony child neglect. The sentencing scheduled for Friday comes 10 months after Deja Taylor’s son used her handgun to critically wound his first-grade teacher. Prosecutors recommend six-months behind
Continue ReadingBy DIDI TANG and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — China’s top diplomat went into a second meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday as part of a highly watched visit to Washington that could help stabilize U.S.-China ties by facilitating a summit between Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Wang Yi,
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include Taylor Swift’s “1989 (Taylor’s Version),” a glossy look at opioid addiction with the movie “Pain Hustlers” starring Emily Blunt, Chris Evans and Andy Garcia, and the streaming horror flick “Five Nights at Freddy’s.” There’s also Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey co-starring in “Fellow Travelers” as
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Minnesota Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips is announcing a primary challenge of President Joe Biden at an event Friday in New Hampshire. This follows Phillips saying for months that some “well-positioned Democrat” should run against Biden. He says he’s hoping to head off a
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — “Embarrassing,” “chaotic” and “irresponsible.” And those were just the words that House Republicans used to describe the past three weeks as they removed one speaker from office and splintered over three successive nominees before finally landing on Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La. Now they hope voters won’t hold
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s civil business fraud trial is turning to the question of whether his daughter Ivanka will have to testify. Friday’s court session is set to start with a hearing on the issue. Ivanka Trump has been dismissed from the case, and lawyers for
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — One year ago, billionaire and new owner Elon Musk walked into Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters with a white bathroom sink and a grin, fired its CEO and other top executives and began transforming the social media platform into what is now known as X. X
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — One year ago, billionaire and new owner Elon Musk walked into Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters with a white bathroom sink and a grin, fired its CEO and other top executives and began transforming the social media platform into what is now known as X. X
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Can’t come to Washington? Couldn’t get a ticket to tour the White House? Don’t worry. The White House, Google Maps and Google Arts & Culture launched a new virtual tour of the famous mansion on Friday, which is also National Civics Day. With a computer or smartphone,
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP, ROBERT BUMSTED, HOLLY RAMER and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Shocked and fearful Maine residents kept to their homes for a second night Thursday as hundreds of heavily armed police and FBI agents searched intensely for Robert Card, an Army reservist authorities say fatally shot 18 people at a
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Ángela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — Durante más de 65 años, el estadio Spotify Camp Nou, hogar del Fútbol Club Barcelona, ha ofrecido incansables emociones a los amantes de ese deporte que se han sentado en sus gradas. Conocedores de la historia que se ha vivido en su interior y aprovechando una nueva vía para
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