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By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has begun airdrops of emergency humanitarian assistance into Gaza. President Joe Biden, who announced the operation on Friday, said the U.S. was looking into additional ways to help Palestinians in the Hamas-ruled territory as the Israel-Hamas war goes on. The White House
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By Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — Norway’s King Harald has had a temporary pacemaker fitted at a hospital in Malaysia after falling ill on holiday there. The procedure, which took place Saturday at Hospital Sultanah Maliha on the island of Langkawi, was undertaken due to the 87-year-old monarch’s low heart rate, the royal household said
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s hard-liners are leading in an initial vote count in the capital Tehran, state media reported Sunday, following a record-low turnout in a parliamentary election. State-run IRNA news agency and state TV said 1,960 from 5,000 ballots in Tehran had been counted so far, based on an Interior Ministry
Continue ReadingBy DIARLEI RODRIGUES and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press NITEROI, Brazil (AP) — Since Rio de Janeiro declared a public health emergency after an outbreak of dengue fever last month, the city has ramped up testing capacities, opened up a dozen of dengue health centers and trained medical staff to attend the ever-growing needs of its
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, Eric Levenson and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — One of the two paramedics convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, the 23-year-old Black man detained by police and injected with ketamine, was sentenced Friday in a Colorado courtroom to five years in prison, the minimum. Peter Cichuniec
Continue ReadingBABYLON, N.Y. (AP) — Police on New York’s Long Island are trying to identify human remains found in a popular suburban park that appear to be from a man and a woman. A girl walking to school Thursday morning found a severed arm on the side of the road at Southards Pond Park. Police searchers
Continue ReadingBETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a train derailment in eastern Pennsylvania has left some railroad cars along a riverbank Saturday morning and at least one partially in the river itself. Dispatchers in Northampton County said the derailment was reported at 7:14 a.m. in Lower Saucon Township. Authorities said it was unclear how many cars
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Third baseman Matt Chapman and the San Francisco Giants have agreed to a $54 million, three-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. Chapman will get $20 million this year and can earn $18 million in 2025 and $16 million in
Continue ReadingCNN By Sara Tonks, CNN (CNN) — A dangerous winter storm is slamming Northern California with rare blizzard conditions and fierce winds as it threatens to unload up to 10 feet of snow in the mountains and snarl travel. In the Sierra Nevada, the storm is delivering heavy snow, reduced visibilities, toppled power lines and
Continue ReadingBy BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian officials say they’re questioning a man on suspicion of starting a fire in a garden at a synagogue in the east of the country. The public prosecutor in the Mediterranean port city of Sfax told The Associated Press on Saturday that a courtyard of
Continue ReadingBy Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — With days to go before its previously announced mid-March deadline of finalizing plans for a third party presidential ticket, No Labels still doesn’t have a candidate or a clear plan — even as it looks to take swings at President Joe Biden that its own officials acknowledge are more potent than accurate. And major potential recruits
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military C-130 cargo planes dropped food in pallets over Gaza on Saturday in the opening stage of an emergency humanitarian assistance authorized by President Joe Biden after more than 100 Palestinians who had surged to pull goods off an aid convoy were
Continue ReadingCNN By Amanda Musa and Isabel Rosales, CNN (CNN) — Time is running out for Elizabeth Goldman to have one more baby with the uterus she received in a transplant two years ago. Her IVF treatments were halted after a state Supreme Court ruling last month, and it’s a delay she says her family can’t
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Many of the Palestinians killed or wounded in the chaos as they tried to get bags of flour from an aid convoy were hit by Israeli army fire, the European Union’s diplomatic service said Saturday, urging an international investigation. Outrage is rising
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — On a rain-soaked Saturday in Paris, the fashion world was treated to a spectacle of contrasts, where the audacious spirit of Vivienne Westwood’s punk melded with the whispers of historical elegance. The day’s showcases blurred the lines between rebellion and refinement, presenting collections that navigated through
Continue ReadingSPARTANSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man was arrested Saturday and charged with the slaying of a pregnant Amish woman whose body was found last week. Shawn C. Cranston, 52, of Corry, has been charged with criminal homicide, criminal homicide of an unborn child, burglary and criminal trespass, according to court documents. He was denied
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press HOPKINS, Minn. (AP) — Democratic voters in suburban Minneapolis seem far less interested in sending President Joe Biden a message of dissatisfaction with him than they are in keeping Republican Donald Trump from returning to the White House. Interviews with voters in Minneapolis’ Democrat-heavy western suburbs before the Super Tuesday
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: Circling the calendar for peak cherry blossoms, a very rare peek at post-pandemic North Korea and the insightful confessions of a Vegas habitué. Flower power Flowers can be powerful tourist draws, be they boldly colorful tulips in the Netherlands or fragrant lavender fields in
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Betiana Fernández Martino (CNN Español) — No es una novedad el volumen de la actividad de Javier Milei en X, pero en la última semana de febrero el presidente de Argentina aprovechó las madrugadas para darle “me gusta” y republicar algunos mensajes en esa red social que, según expertos consultados por CNN, forma parte de
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN SLODYSKO, ERIC TUCKER and ANTHONY McCARTNEY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Alexander Smirnov was cast by Republicans as one of the FBI’s most trusted informants, offering a “highly credible” account of brazen public corruption by Joe Biden that formed a pillar of the House impeachment investigation of the Democratic president. Then, last month,
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