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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Apple is opening small cracks in the iPhone’s digital fortress as part of a regulatory clampdown in Europe that’s striving to give consumers more choices. But it’s coming at the risk of creating new avenues for hackers to steal personal and financial information stored on the devices. The overhaul
Continue ReadingBy Wayne Chang and Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) — It’s about to get easier for some foreign travelers to visit China, with the government announcing plans to extend its visa exemption policy to six additional European countries. The exemption will take effect on March 14, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced on Thursday during a
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first official visit to Kashmir’s main city since India stripped the disputed region of its semi-autonomy in 2019. Speaking in Srinagar on Thursday, Modi announced development projects and said previous governments had misled people over the region’s now-scrapped special status. Thousands of paramilitary troops and
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Millions of travelers across Germany are being affected by strikes again after two unions called for two-day walkouts over wages and work conditions. Around 80% of all long-distance trains as well as regional and commuter trains in the country were canceled early Thursday as train drivers went
Continue ReadingHOUSTON (AP) — A United flight from Houston to Fort Myers, Texas, was forced turn around Monday after one of the plane’s engines caught fire. KTRK-TV reports that several of the 167 passengers aboard the Boeing 737 took video showing a line of flames shooting out of the engine. FlightAware shows Flight 1118 taking off
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By AnneClaire Stapleton, Victoria Butenko, Eleni Giokos, Christian Edwards and Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — A Russian missile exploded close to a convoy carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis during a deadly attack on the Black Sea port city of Odesa on Wednesday. The group felt the impact of the
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares traded mostly lower Thursday after Wall Street recovered some losses from the day before. France’s CAC 40 fell nearly 0.3% in early trading to 7,933.56. Germany’s DAX declined 0.4% to 17,653.05. Britain’s FTSE 100 dropped 0.4% to 7,651.10. U.S. shares were set to drift
Continue Reading By Joe Sutton, Elizabeth Wolfe and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — A small plane crashed into the shoulder of Nashville’s Interstate 40 and burst into flames Monday night, killing a Canadian family of five, police said. Two adults and three children were on the plane, National Transportation Safety Board air safety investigator Aaron McCarter said
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — The United Kingdom has announced that it will scrap a 225-year-old rule that has allowed many of its richest residents to pay hardly any tax on their vast foreign earnings — a benefit enjoyed at one point by the prime minister’s wife. The axing of the non-domiciled tax regime
Continue ReadingBy DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The top American diplomat for East Asia and the Pacific is criticizing China for using intimidation tactics against other countries in the region to press its sweeping maritime claims in the South China Sea. Speaking to reporters Thursday after returning to the United States from meetings with
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — During his 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised a stark departure from the immigration policies of the Trump administration. He pledged a 100-day moratorium on deportations after taking office. He promised to protect sanctuary cities from federal law enforcement agencies. And he harshly criticized the Trump
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, Alayna Treene, Fredreka Schouten and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Twelve hours after Donald Trump predicted his near sweep of Super Tuesday states would lead to unity “very quickly” in the Republican Party, the former president delivered a parting shot to his last remaining rival for the GOP nomination. On his social
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim says that the United States has become more “transactional,” using rewards and punishments to achieve aims with other countries, and should be encouraged to enhance cooperation with China in the Asia-Pacific region. Anwar on Thursday advocated against taking sides in U.S.-led
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News Channel 3 is wishing Fuego a special Happy Birthday. As official media partners of the Coachella Valley Firebirds, the KESQ News Team wanted to be the first in wishing Fuego a Happy Birthday. Fuego’s official Birthday Bash was this Saturday, March 9 at Acrisure Arena. The first 6,500 fans in attendance received a ‘Fuego
Continue Reading By Mitchell McCluskey and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Senegalese President Macky Sall has scheduled the country’s presidential election for March 24, the government said in a statement on Wednesday. “The President of the Republic informed the Council of Ministers that the date of the presidential election has been set for Sunday, March 24, 2024,”
Continue ReadingBy Susan Griffin, CNN (CNN) — When Helena Bonham Carter walked onto the set of 2012’s Dark Shadows movie, she was stinking of bourbon whiskey and Gauloises cigarettes. Her character was a chain-smoking alcoholic psychiatrist, but Bonham Carter hadn’t gone “method”; she had simply spritzed herself with a bespoke fragrance created specifically for her by
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — President Joe Biden won the Democratic caucuses in Hawaii on Wednesday, propelling him closer to winning his party’s nomination again after romping through the Super Tuesday contests earlier this week. The president defeated long-shot candidates including U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips and author Marianne Williamson. Biden went into
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — China’s top diplomat hit out at Washington’s “bewildering” trade policy during a news conference Thursday on the sidelines of a political gathering in Beijing, where Chinese leaders have been championing high-tech development in the face of mounting curbs from Washington. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi accused the US of “devising various
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — As Japan prepares to mark the 13th anniversary of its worst-ever nuclear disaster, the man in charge of cleaning it up says his team is fighting to bring a sample out of the heart of the site’s radioactive debris. A decades-long project to clean up the remains
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un puñado de gobernadores demócratas se abrieron paso entre un grupo de colegas el mes pasado para decirle directamente al presidente de Estados Unidos Joe Biden lo que han estado enfatizando detrás de escena: necesita luchar más fuertemente. Los demócratas le dijeron a Biden que necesitaba mostrar más del fuego
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