By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel has praised Japan’s contribution to their military alliance, particularly a decision to allow Japanese-made Patriot guided missiles to be shipped to the United States to make up for its decreasing inventory. In a meeting with Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara on
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — When it comes to the US-Mexico border, there’s often so much noise that it’s hard to hear — and see — what’s really going on. I’ve covered immigration for more than a decade, through three different presidential administrations and through many different moments when people on all sides of
Continue ReadingBy LAUREN WINFREY Click here for updates on this story DETROIT (WWJ) — Dancing his way around the globe, an Inkster native is taking the spirit of Motown from coast to coast and across seas one dance move at a time. “They call me ‘Mike Manson dat be Dancin’,” said Michael Manson Jr. “What I
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CNN By CNN staff (CNN) — The 2024 GOP presidential primary kicks off in January with Republican front-runner Donald Trump campaigning to win nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire while facing his own legal challenges. Here are key dates to watch as some of the former president’s legal woes and important election dates come
Continue ReadingBy Marianna Cerini, CNN Milan, Italy (CNN) — When Italian designer Giacomo Moor was tasked with creating furniture for a school in a slum of Nairobi, Kenya last fall, he knew instantly what he wanted to make: Pieces that were functional, straightforward and easy to assemble. “‘Simplification’ was the word that immediately came to mind,”
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL HUDAK Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WSVN) — A vandal was caught on camera bashing a South Florida restaurant with a rock on Christmas morning, but it wasn’t the first time that the business was targeted. The man was seen using unconventional methods to vandalize Meson Ria De Vigo,
Continue ReadingBy LOUISE DIXON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — It’s a festive old English drink that you can have fun experimenting with. Sloe gin can be used in New Year’s Eve cocktails hot and cold, from a Hot Sloe Gin Punch or a spiked hot chocolate to the classic Sloe Gin Fizz, on ice. You can
Continue ReadingPORTAGE, Ind. (AP) — Police say a man who had been trapped for days in his crashed pickup truck has been rescued in northwest Indiana. State Police Sgt. Glen Fifield says two men were scouting fishing locations when they found the man in his badly damaged vehicle Tuesday. The pickup had wrecked along Interstate 94
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A main opposition candidate in Congo accused police of using live bullets to break up a protest in the capital as demonstrators demanded a re-do of last week’s presidential election. Martin Fayulu told The Associated Press that the bullet landed near him while he was barricaded
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By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine claimed on Tuesday to have carried out an airstrike in Crimea that destroyed a Russian Navy tank landing ship in what would be, if confirmed, the third instance of major losses of Russian military hardware in less than a week. In a post on Telegram, Ukrainian Air Force
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CNN, WBBM By Amanda Jackson and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — The two men had gone out the day after Christmas, scouting for fishing holes at a creek in northwest Indiana, when something shiny in the distance caught their attention. Mario Garcia and his son-in-law Nivardo Delatorre had been ready to call it a day.
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — There’s a reason so many of us regularly put up with cramped seats, delayed bags, long security lines and short tempers: the ability to fly across the world is a daily miracle that’s not to be taken for granted. An estimated 34.4 million flights were scheduled to take off
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Wall Street aimed for a winning week to close out the year in subdued holiday trading Wednesday. Futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average each edged less than 0.1% lower before the bell, but markets so far are holding on to gains for the week with little
Continue ReadingBy Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — Taylor Swift and Beyoncé may have been the pop stars that made the most headlines in 2023. But another major music industry milestone is worth noting. A record number of Spanish-language songs landed on the Billboard Hot 100 list this year, and a record number also made it
Continue ReadingBy MARISELA BURGOS, JULIAN QUINTANA, SAMANTHA SOSA Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WSVN) — The victims of a horrifying home invasion in Miami Gardens turned the tables on a man accused of breaking in and tying them up. Now, they’re sharing their story of how they escaped and helped police to
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — The Lauder Business School in Vienna, Austria, has severed ties with Harvard University “in solidarity with the Jewish student community,” according to a statement from the institution. “Since 2014, Lauder Business School has proudly been an affiliate of Professor Michael Porter’s Microeconomics of Competitiveness Network at Harvard
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s political battle over state media continues as the president has filed a revised spending bill in defiance of the new pro-European Union government’s goal of freeing the media from political control. President Andrzej Duda is an ally of the previous right-wing government. He had vetoed the new government’s bill that
Continue Reading By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Ali Hajimiri has spent a decade researching how to put solar panels in space and beam the energy down to Earth. Yet when the Caltech electrical engineering professor talks about his work, people always have three questions, usually in this order: Why not just put solar panels on Earth?
Continue Reading By Isabelle Chapman, CNN. Photographs by Austin Steele, CNN Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) — On a dark, drizzly morning this fall in rural South Carolina, a team of federal agents wearing tactical gear quietly assembled for a mission that was part raid, part rescue operation. The stakes were high: Agents feared the victims would be
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — The longest US auto strike this century is over after a pretty clear win for the United Auto Workers union at all three unionized automakers. But don’t think the union is moving to repair relations between labor and management the way it has after past strikes. The
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