By COLLEEN LONG, SEUNG MIN KIM and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his likely Republican challenger Donald Trump both head to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Thursday in a sign of how central immigration has become to the 2024 election and how much both candidates want to use
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Between bridge and tunnel tolls and parking fees, it can already cost a mint to drive a car into Manhattan. Is forking over another $15 enough to get people out of their cars and onto mass transit? That’s the hope among some New York officials. The
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press KUNA, Idaho (AP) — For nearly an hour, Thomas Eugene Creech lay strapped to a table in an Idaho execution chamber as medical team members poked and prodded at his arms and legs, hands and feet, trying to find a vein through which they could end his
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY and LISA BAUMANN Associated Press FRITCH, Texas. (AP) — The small town of Fritch is again picking through the rubble of a Texas wildfire, a decade after another destructive blaze burned hundreds of homes and left deep scars in the Panhandle community. Residents in and around Fritch and other rural towns fled
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Russia makes battlefield advances and Ukrainian soldiers run short on ammunition, U.S. adults have become fractured along party lines in their support for sending military aid to Kyiv, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Democrats are
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CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Anna-Maja Rappard, Kosta Gak and Brice Laine, CNN Near Orikhiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Pixelated in the thermal drone imagery, the quad bike races down a dirt track, its destination unclear. It swerves and is hit by a grenade, dropped from a Ukrainian drone. Russian soldiers appear to stagger away from it, one rolling. The imagery,
Continue ReadingBy Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — American administration and intelligence officials are concerned that Israel is planning a ground incursion into Lebanon that could be launched in the late spring or early summer if diplomatic efforts fail to push Hezbollah back from the northern border with Israel, senior administrations officials and officials familiar with the
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s beleaguered Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is set to stand before a political ethics committee at Parliament in a bid to showcase his leadership. Kishida is struggling to survive his governing party’s corruption scandal that has sent his support ratings to new lows. The scandal, considered the
Continue ReadingBy Diksha Madhok and Hanna Ziady, CNN New Delhi/London (CNN) — Disney is joining forces with Asia’s richest man to create a new media giant in India that says it will reach a domestic audience of more than 750 million people. Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries and Disney have combined their digital streaming platforms and
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KELLY Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Jamal Murray scored 32 points, Nikola Jokic had 14 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists in just three quarters for his fourth straight triple-double and the Denver Nuggets had a big run to beat the short-handed Sacramento Kings 117-96 on Wednesday night. Jokic had his 19th triple-double
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pilots lined up on a runway in Dubai on Wednesday and fired up their seven jet engines with an ear-splitting roar. But they weren’t preparing to fly an airplane — they were the aircraft. This city-state in the United Arab Emirates, known for being
Continue ReadingDEMING, N.M. (AP) — A missing teen with autism has been found in New Mexico — about 200 miles (322 kilometers) away from his home in southern Arizona, according to New Mexico State Police. The 13-year-old turned up at a Walmart in Deming on Tuesday after going missing the night before from his family’s home
Continue ReadingTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Authorities in Honduras say two buses collided head-on in a village in the Central American country’s west, and 17 people were killed and 14 were injured, four of them seriously. Officials say witnesses in La Montañita reported the two buses were traveling at a moderate speed when the accident happened Wednesday.
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — The southern Great Barrier Reef is suffering from extensive coral bleaching due to heat stress, the reef’s managers said Wednesday, raising fears that a seventh mass bleaching event could be unfolding across the vast, ecologically important site. Aerial surveys conducted last weekend by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
Continue ReadingBy DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Caitlin Clark has another career record on her astounding resume: the most points by any major college women’s player to ever take the court. For Hawkeyes coach Lisa Bluder and her peers, this one matters the most. Iowa’s superstar guard scored 33 points to lead the
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Jurors in a trial over the fatal movie-set shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin have heard in courtroom testimony that a manager increased oversight of firearm safety but was only partially aware of misfires in the days leading up to it. The testimony by
Continue ReadingBy BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Caribbean leaders say embattled Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has agreed to hold general elections by mid-2025 as the international community pushes to raise money for a foreign armed force to fight gang violence in the Caribbean country. Members of a regional trade bloc known as
Continue ReadingPaulina Nares (CNN) –– La misión Odysseus reveló nuevas y extraordinarias imágenes de la nave espacial en los momentos inmediatamente posteriores a su tensionante e histórico aterrizaje en la superficie de la Luna. Este es el primer vehículo de fabricación estadounidense que logra tal hazaña en 50 años. Mira las imágenes más cercanas del polo
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN) — Un punto para la hija de Drew Barrymore. Durante un reciente episodio de su programa de entrevistas, Barrymore y la cantante Christina Aguilera hablaron sobre la comunicación con sus hijos pequeños. Aguilera dijo que si bien es muy abierta con sus hijos, trata de encontrar estrategias apropiadas para su edad
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mixed in Asia on Thursday after a lackluster day on Wall Street, where selling of technology stocks pulled benchmarks lower. U.S. futures were flat and oil prices also were barely changed. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index was down 0.1% at 39,166.19 after data showed factory
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