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By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press A small town in Iowa is stunned but pulling together after a school shooting in which a 17-year-old killed a sixth-grade student and wounded seven other people before authorities say he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Many questions remain about how the shooting unfolded and what might have led
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — For nearly two decades, journalists, police detectives, FBI agents, lawyers and amateur sleuths have pried into the depraved world of Jeffrey Epstein. Yet even after the release of thousands of pages of court records in recent days, some questions about the millionaire pedophile remain unanswered. The documents have gotten a lot
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer CHANIA, Greece (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday that Turkey is committed to playing “a positive, productive” role for postwar Gaza and prepared to use its influence in the region to prevent the Israel-Hamas conflict from broadening even more. The latest Mideast mission by America’s
Continue ReadingBy Eva Rothenberg and David Goldman, CNN New York (CNN) — Boeing faces scrutiny over the safety of its aircrafts after an Alaska Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing Friday when a panel and window blew out. Although it’s unclear what or who was to blame for the incident, engineering and quality
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By Brammhi Balarajan and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A single tree can take much of the credit for a woman surviving in frigid nighttime temperatures after falling hundreds of feet down a mountain in New York State. The 46-year-old woman fell down through steep snowfall on December 26 while hiking the Adirondack Mountains in
Continue ReadingBy LEE KEATH Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — At Egypt’s Rafah border crossing, lines of hundreds of trucks carrying aid wait for weeks to enter Gaza, and a warehouse is full of goods rejected by Israeli inspectors, everything from water testing equipment to medical kits for delivering babies, two U.S. senators said Saturday after a
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Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Once personas, entre ellas cinco niños, murieron en ataques con misiles rusos S-300 este sábado en la región ucraniana de Donetsk, según la administración militar local. “Once muertos, entre ellos cinco niños: estos son los resultados preliminares de los ataques en el distrito de Pokrovsk. Los rusos atacaron la zona con misiles
Continue Reading Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) — El decreto de necesidad y urgencia (DNU) que emitió el presidente de Argentina, Javier Milei, el 21 de diciembre, incluyó la derogación de la llamada Ley de Tierras, que bajo el argumento de la soberanía nacional establecía un límite a la compra y posesión de tierra por extranjeros. Esto ocurre
Continue ReadingTARPON SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — After thunderstorms moved past, Florida’s largest Greek Orthodox community celebrated the Epiphany on Saturday as a 16-year-old boy dove into chilly water to retrieve a cross in an annual rite that draws thousands. John Hittos found the cross before 64 other boys after it was thrown into a bayou in
Continue Reading Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) — El presidente Javier Milei, junto a una comitiva oficial, arribó este sábado a la Antártida, donde fue recibido por personal científico y militar de la Base Marambio, según informó la Oficina del Presidente en un comunicado difundido en X. Además del comunicado, la Oficina del Presidente difundió un video con
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Escenas de edificios reducidos a escombros dieron la vuelta al mundo esta semana tras el terremoto de magnitud 7,5 que sacudió el lunes la prefectura de Ishikawa, en la costa occidental de Japón. Aún se desconoce el alcance total de los daños. Según las autoridades, al menos 270 viviendas de
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s state news agency is reporting that Polish farmers who had blockaded a border crossing to Ukraine have ended their protest after reaching an agreement with the government. The farmers’ frustration was one of the challenges facing the new Polish government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, which seeks to support Ukraine
Continue Reading Paulina Nares (CNN) — En la carrera por conseguir combustibles alternativos y sostenibles para los aviones, algunas empresas se están poniendo creativas. Hemos oído hablar de aviones propulsados con aceite de cocina, pero ¿qué hay del combustible para aviones fabricado íntegramente con excremento humano? Firefly Green Fuels, una empresa de aviación con sede en Gloucestershire
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The emergency landing of a Boeing 737 Max jetliner with a gaping hole in its side is renewing safety concerns about the planes and creating new headaches for Boeing. And now the Federal Aviation Administration is ordering similar planes to be grounded for emergency inspections. A fuselage panel blew
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE L. PRICE, JILL COLVIN and ANDREW HARNIK Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is courting young conservative activists in Des Moines as he kicked off another day of campaigning in Iowa that will launch the race for the White House in just over a week. He spoke to
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — Wayne LaPierre, the leader of the National Rifle Association of America who served for decades as a fierce protector of the Second Amendment, advocating for firearms owners and manufacturers, announced his resignation on Friday – days before his civil trial is set to begin. LaPierre is
Continue ReadingAMMAN (AP) — The Jordanian army says it has killed five drug and weapon smugglers and arrested 15 in a day of clashes with armed groups of smugglers attempting to cross into Jordan from Syria. The army statement says the clashes broke out before dawn between Jordanian border guards and “armed organizations that practice smuggling
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior Biden administration leaders, top Pentagon officials and members of Congress were unaware for days that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had been hospitalized since Monday, U.S. officials said Saturday, as questions swirled about his condition and the secrecy surrounding it. The Pentagon did not inform the
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE, SAMY MAGDY and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah traded fire Saturday in one of the heaviest days of cross-border fighting in recent weeks, a day after the militia’s leader urged retaliation for the targeted killing, presumably by Israel, of a top Hamas leader in Lebanon’s capital.
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The mother of an 11-year-old who was killed in a school shooting in Iowa this week remembers the boy as a friendly child who exuded happiness. Ahmir Jolliff’s family called him “Smiley.” He was killed on Thursday when a teenager opened fire in the cafeteria
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