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By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping will meet at a historic country house and museum with lavish gardens for one-on-one talks aimed at improving relations between the two superpowers. The two leaders will meet Wednesday at Filoli, a secluded estate along Northern California’s coastal
Continue ReadingBy JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping will meet at a historic country house and museum with lavish gardens for one-on-one talks aimed at improving relations between the two superpowers. The two leaders will meet Wednesday at Filoli, a secluded estate along Northern California’s coastal
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A former executive director of a Florida museum that was raided last year by the FBI over an exhibit of what turned out to be forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings filed counterclaims Tuesday against the museum, claiming wrongful termination and defamation. The countersuit comes months after the
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A former executive director of a Florida museum that was raided last year by the FBI over an exhibit of what turned out to be forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings filed counterclaims Tuesday against the museum, claiming wrongful termination and defamation. The countersuit comes months after the
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It’s a First Alert Weather Alert Day as a Pacific storm brings rain to Southern California, including in the Coachella Valley and surrounding mountains. We are tracking impacts to travel as the rain will make roads slick. The thunderstorms that developed brought, at times, heavy rain to the Coachella Valley, with more than a quarter
Continue ReadingBy Morgan Rimmer and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday publicly endorsed Donald Trump for president, becoming the highest-ranking Republican so far to back the former president’s 2024 bid. “I’m all in for President Trump, I expect he’ll be our nominee, and he’s going to win it, and we have
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — En Gaza han muerto más trabajadores humanitarios de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) que en ningún otro conflicto en los 78 años de historia de la organización, según informó el organismo este lunes, un duro recordatorio de que el personal humanitario de las organizaciones mundiales no se ha librado
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — The climate crisis is carrying a mounting health toll that is set to put even more lives at risk without bold action to phase out planet-warming fossil fuels, a new report from more than 100 scientists and health practitioners found. The annual Lancet Countdown report, released Tuesday, found that
Continue ReadingCNN By MJ Lee and Kevin Liptak, CNN San Francisco (CNN) — US officials encountered a remarkable – even unprecedented – level of concern from their Beijing counterparts over how Chinese President Xi Jinping would be treated during his brief visit to the United States this week, people familiar with the matter said. Over months
Continue ReadingGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A man awaiting trial in the kidnapping of a 16-year-old western Michigan girl who was later killed has died from medical complications. U.S. Attorney Mark Totten said Tuesday that 63-year-old Gerald Bennett was admitted Nov. 7 to a hospital for cancer treatment. He died Monday. Bennett was found competent last
Continue Reading By Maija Ehlinger, CNN (CNN) — The government of Belize will suspend diplomatic ties with Israel over its refusal to implement a ceasefire in Gaza, adding to the list of countries in the Western Hemisphere voicing anger over the Israeli government’s war conduct. “The Government of Belize has repeatedly condemned the actions of the IDF
Continue ReadingBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia has begun the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s. Two male hippos and one female underwent surgical sterilization as part of a larger government’s effort to control the population of more than 100 of the mammals
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Washington is weighing whether to hold in contempt a veteran journalist who has refused to identify her sources for stories about a Chinese scientist who was investigated by the FBI but never charged. The lawsuit from Yanping Chen seeks
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By Clare Foran and Haley Talbot, CNN The House passed a stopgap bill on Tuesday to keep the government open, putting Congress on a path to avert a shutdown and setting the stage for a broader funding fight in the new year. The Senate will next need to approve the measure. President Joe Biden is
Continue ReadingRUSTON, La. (AP) — Three women are still hospitalized — one in critical condition — a day after what officials say was a random knife attack on a college campus in north Louisiana. The suspect in the case was taken into custody soon after the Monday morning attack outside a recreation center at Louisiana Tech
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man accused of attacking former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer apologized Tuesday, echoing right-wing conspiracy theories to explain to jurors that he went to the Pelosis’ home as part of a bigger plot to end what he viewed as government
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man accused of attacking former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer apologized Tuesday, echoing right-wing conspiracy theories to explain to jurors that he went to the Pelosis’ home as part of a bigger plot to end what he viewed as government
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK ORSAGOS and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press ETNA, Ohio (AP) — A charter bus filled with high school students was rear-ended by a semitruck on an Ohio highway, leaving three people dead and 15 others injured. Licking County Emergency Management Agency Director Sean Grady says the charter bus was carrying students from the Tuscarawas
Continue ReadingBy Jake Tapper and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN Washington (CNN) — A document recovered from a computer found inside a Hamas pickup truck outside Gaza, obtained by CNN from Israeli officials, shows a Hamas military commander requesting a scholarship for Hamas operatives to study engineering, physics and technology at universities in Iran. While it is widely
Continue ReadingBy Wayne Sterling and David Close, CNN (CNN) — Chelsea FC women’s manager Emma Hayes has been named head coach of the US Women’s National Team, the US Soccer Federation announced on Tuesday. Hayes has been a huge success while leading the Blues for the past 11 seasons. She was named 2021’s Best FIFA Women’s
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