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By Vasco Cotovio, CNN (CNN) — Karine Pitana had just paid off the last installment on her new couch when floods tore through her hometown of Canoas in southern Brazil nearly two weeks ago. It was just a piece of furniture, but for the 42-year-old nurse, there’s a pride in having worked hard for everything
Continue ReadingBy MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Voters in the Dominican Republic will take to the polls Sunday in general elections likely to reinforce the government’s crackdown on its shared border with Haiti and the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the violence-stricken nation. Leading the presidential race is President
Continue ReadingBy KRISTIN M. HALL Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) — The World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest crowned a grand prize winner Saturday after hundreds of dedicated pitmasters sweated through smoke to be named the best in pork. The Shed BBQ and Blues Joint from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, won the whole hog division and was named
Continue ReadingBy DREW DAVISON Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Nathaniel Lowe was hit by a pitch from Carson Fulmer with the bases loaded in the 13th inning, forcing home the winning run as the Texas Rangers outlasted the Los Angeles Angels 3-2 on Saturday night. Lowe tied the score with a sacrifice fly in the
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Multiple organizations throughout the valley gathered at the Hope Center in Palm Desert on Saturday evening. The event raised awareness about the dangers of fentanyl and human trafficking. Our crews spoke to two mothers who are working to protect Coachella Valley’s youth from these harms. Human trafficking is a multi-billion dollar generating industry and anti-trafficking
Continue ReadingBy Dalia Faheid, Joe Sutton and Taylor Ward, CNN (CNN) — As officials assess the damage from destructive storms in the Houston area that killed at least seven people and knocked out power amid rising temperatures, residents in the Southeast and Gulf Coast face a severe weather threat through Saturday that could bring another round
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE, MATT BROWN and BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College on Sunday, a key opportunity for an election-year appearance before a Black audience but one that also could directly expose him to the anger that some of these and other students
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Walker Buehler pitched six sharp innings with seven strikeouts in his third start since returning from Tommy John surgery, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-0 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday night. Buehler (1-1) yielded three hits and no walks in a
Continue ReadingBy Kylie Atwood and Khalil Abdallah, CNN (CNN) — Arab and Palestinian Americans left a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday night frustrated they did not have a clear understanding of how the Biden administration might act upon their concerns as the Israel-Hamas war devastates the civilian population in Gaza, participants told CNN.
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The Grant Fuhr celebrity invitational celebrated its fourth year at the Desert Willow Golf Resort in Palm Desert. Actors and professional athletes competed in the event for a good cause. All the money raised at the invitational will be donated to the children’s program at the Betty Ford Center. Some of the athletes in this
Continue ReadingBy FIRDIA LISNAWATI and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Elon Musk has arrived in Indonesia’s resort island of Bali to launch Starlink satellite internet service in the world’s largest archipelago nation. The billionaire head of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of social platform X arrived Sunday by private jet on the idyllic
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Sol Amaya (CNN Español) — La apertura de un restaurante en Fort Wayne, Indiana, puso en debate una pregunta: ¿puede considerarse a los tacos y burritos como sándwiches? El debate surgió a raíz de que Martín Quintana, promotor comercial y empresario gastronómico, en 2022 quiso abrir un local del restaurante The Famous Taco en su
Continue ReadingBy Reuters (CNN) — Oleksandr Usyk scored a razor-thin split decision over Tyson Fury to become undisputed heavyweight boxing world champion in a thrilling contest at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh in the early hours of Sunday morning. Dwarfed by his enormous opponent, Usyk had to weather a storm in the middle of the fight but he
Continue ReadingCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Charlotte goalkeeper Kristijan Kahlina finished with five saves for his fourth clean sheet in a row, but Novak Micovic stopped both shots he faced in his first start of the season for the Los Angeles Galaxy in a scoreless draw on Saturday night. Charlotte (6-5-3) was aiming for its first four-match
Continue Reading By Dalia Faheid and Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — The UCLA Academic Senate rejected censuring and making a no confidence statement against university Chancellor Gene Block amid mounting criticism over his handling of a campus pro-Palestinian encampment that was violently attacked by counterprotesters. Faculty members were divided Thursday while mulling whether “Chancellor Block failed to ensure
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, Evan Perez and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Alice Stewart, a veteran political adviser and CNN political commentator who worked on several GOP presidential campaigns, has died. She was 58. Law enforcement officials told CNN that Stewart’s body was found outdoors in the Belle View neighborhood in northern Virginia early Saturday morning. No foul play is suspected, and
Continue ReadingKARK, CNN Opinion by Douglas Heye (CNN) — After a dinner for Harvard’s Institute of Politics earlier this year, Alice Stewart suggested we have a glass of wine. Alice was a member of the senior advisory committee at the institute, but politics never came up. Instead, we caught up on life. We talked about running,
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SMALE Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Seth Lugo struck out 10 and earned his American League-leading seventh victory as the Kansas City Royals beat the Oakland Athletics 5-3 Saturday night. The Royals improved to 28-19, nine games over .500 for the first time since the end of the 2015 season, when
Continue ReadingBy Michael Rios and Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Georgia’s President Salome Zourabichvili has vetoed a controversial “foreign agents” bill that sparked weeks of widespread protests across the country. Zourabichvili had previously vowed to torpedo the bill, but her veto could still be overruled by a simple majority in parliament, which approved the bill on Tuesday with 84
Continue Reading By Wayne Chang and Nectar Gan, CNN Taipei (CNN) — Tsai Ing-wen never set out to be a leader. Growing up shy, she aspired to become an archeologist, because “people that are dead already wouldn’t jump up and argue with you.” But instead of picking over the remains of history, the self-described introvert ended up
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