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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — An undersea volcano erupted off Japan three weeks ago, providing a rare view of the birth of a tiny new island, but experts say it may not last very long. The unnamed undersea volcano, located about 1 kilometer (half a mile) off the southern coast of Iwo
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By Jessie Yeung, Duarte Mendonca, Abeer Salman and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — A UNICEF spokesperson has defended the death toll being reported out of Gaza, saying the organization’s figures had historically matched those of the Hamas-controlled Gazan health ministry. More than 10,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes in the past month –
Continue ReadingBy Giri Viswanathan, CNN (CNN) — US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Thursday of a salmonella outbreak in humans that’s linked to dry dog food. The agency issued a food safety alert, recording seven cases of salmonella across seven states that have resulted in one hospitalization. Most of those infected were infants. The
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who said his death sentence was based on false expert testimony has been executed for killing a man during a robbery decades ago. Brent Ray Brewer received a lethal injection Thursday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. The
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied the lobby of The New York Times on Thursday to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. They also accused the media of betraying a bias toward Israel in war coverage. The sit-in lasted for more than an hour. It was led by a
Continue ReadingBy DYEPKAZAH SHIBAYAN Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s president has signed a controversial bill that earmarks $6.1 million for a presidential yacht and millions more for sport utility vehicles for his wife and other top government officials. Bola Tinubu’s signature on Wednesday came despite widespread anger and criticism over the move in a
Continue ReadingDALLAS (AP) — A man has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of fatally shooting two workers at a Dallas hospital last year as he argued with his girlfriend, who had just given birth to their child. Thirty-one-year-old Nestor Hernandez was found guilty of capital murder Thursday in the October 2022 shooting
Continue ReadingBy ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jezebel, the sharp-edged feminist website founded at the height of blogosphere era, is shutting down after 16 years. Its parent company, G/O Media, said Thursday that 23 staffers would be laid off, including Jezebel’s team, as part of a restructuring to cope with economic headwinds
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — An opposition candidate for the mayorship of Mexico City is accusing the city prosecutor’s office of having filed a request for his phone records and those of about a dozen other prominent politicians. The allegation is the latest to accuse city prosecutors of going to extremes for political purposes. The city
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the world’s population has topped 8 billion for the first time. The agency said Thursday that it estimates the global population exceeded the threshold Sept. 26. The bureau says the overall trend is longer lifespans offsetting fewer births. Even so, the global population growth rate
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom and Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — A Manhattan jury on Thursday found actor Robert De Niro’s production company, Canal Productions, liable for gender discrimination and retaliation in a civil trial related to a workplace dispute brought by De Niro’s former assistant, Graham Chase Robinson. Robinson, who worked as De Niro’s executive assistant
Continue ReadingBy Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN New York (CNN) — Bangladesh has been gripped by violent protests for two weeks, as thousands of garment workers take to the streets to demand better wages for the country’s four million garment workers. Protesters clashed with police — resulting in the deaths of three workers. Unions there say police have
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it has approved the first vaccine to prevent disease caused by the chikungunya virus. The single-dose vaccine, Ixchiq, made by Valneva Austria GmbH, is approved for adults who are at an increased risk of exposure to the virus. Ixchiq was
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, Evan Perez and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — FBI Director Christopher Wray raised concerns Thursday about “fairness and transparency” in the decision to select Greenbelt, Maryland, as the new location for the bureau’s headquarters. In a message to FBI employees, Wray questioned the selection process by the General Services Administration and the
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, Abeer Salman, Celine Alkhaldi, Nada Bashir and Kareem Khadder, CNN. Video by William Bonnett. Jerusalem and Gaza (CNN) — Palestinian workers who were expelled back to Gaza from Israel last week have accused Israeli authorities of “torture,” alleging they were stripped naked, held in cages, viciously beaten and, according to one worker’s account, subjected to electric shocks.
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, Kareem Khadder, Mohammad Al Sawalhi, Abeer Salman and Sarah Diab, CNN Gaza (CNN) — Three-year-old Joudi hasn’t uttered a word in 16 days, her father says. Wearing a gray dress adorned with a picture of an ice cream cone, she stares ahead, a vacant look in her eyes, while sitting in bed at
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, Abeer Salman and Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN Ashkelon, Israel (CNN) — Souad Al-Alem was one of the roughly 10,000 people forced to flee the Palestinian town of al-Majdal. It was 1948, she was a young woman and Israel’s troops were approaching the community during the Arab-Israeli war in what is now part of the Israeli city
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the world’s population has topped 8 billion for the first time. The agency said Thursday that it estimates the global population exceeded the threshold Sept. 26. The bureau says the overall trend is longer lifespans offsetting fewer births. Even so, the global population growth rate
Continue ReadingMcALLEN, Texas (AP) — Police in Texas say they are investigating messages spray-painted on U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz’s office that condemn the Republican’s support for Israel in the war with Hamas. De La Cruz is a first-term congresswoman whose district is on the U.S.-Mexico border. A spokesperson said Thursday that district office was
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Two more suspects were arrested in connection with a smash-and-grab robbery at a jewelry store in Palm Desert. On Wednesday, police arrested two women, an 18-year-old from Los Angeles and a 24-year-old San Bernardino resident after serving search warrants in both those cities. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office has arrested six suspects in total in
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