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PANAMA CITY (AP) — A U.N. report says child migration through Panama’s dangerous Darien Gap is up 40% so far this year. UNICEF, the U.N. children’s agency, says that an estimated 30,000 minors have crossed the jungle-clad trail between Colombia and Panama. The report says a total of 139,000 migrants of all ages have made
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Council says high-level U.S. government envoys raised concerns about “the misuse of AI” by China and others in closed-door talks with Chinese officials in Geneva. NSC spokesperson Adrienne Watson said the countries exchanged perspectives on AI safety and risk management in “candid and constructive” discussions a day earlier. The
Continue ReadingBy Jenna Bree Click here for updates on this story AMERICAN FORK, Utah (KSTU) — It was two years ago when Kimberly Corey’s daughter Samantha was diagnosed with a rare cancer and given a slim chance of survival. “There was always a, ‘Do you want to keep doing treatment?’ She always said, ‘Yes, I do,’”
Continue ReadingBy Ben Winslow Click here for updates on this story SALT LAKE CITY (KSTU) — The toilet flushes and Utah State Auditor John “Frugal” Dougall steps out of the stall. “Oh hi! Are you the bathroom monitor? I actually thought the legislature assigned me to be the bathroom monitor!” he exclaims. In a video posted
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Alexandra Ferguson Hong Kong (CNN) — Durante décadas, las empresas occidentales hicieron una fortuna apostando por el inexorable ascenso del consumidor chino. Ahora, la recesión económica y la aparición de feroces competidores locales hacen que esas apuestas parezcan menos seguras a medida que estalla la guerra de precios. Todas las marcas, desde alimentos y ropa
Continue ReadingANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A first-year U.S. Naval Academy student has stood victorious on classmates’ shoulders and placed an upperclassman’s cap atop the Herndon Monument after a grueling, slippery struggle. The Class of 2027 worked together Wednesday to scale the 21-foot obelisk covered in vegetable shortening to replace a white plebe “Dixie cup hat” with
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Some progressives have frequently blamed corporate greed for fueling the high cost of living that Americans are fed up with. Yet new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco casts doubt on the greedflation theory. Economists at the SF Fed found that corporate price gouging
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ and MASSINISSA BENLAKEHAL Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Two Tunisian journalists are kept in pre-trial detention as authorities continued a wave of arrests targeting perceived critics of President Kais Saied’s government. Borhen Bsaies and Mourad Zeghidi remain behind bars after being apprehended. They were accused of violating a cybercrime law against
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER, JILL COLVIN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have agreed to hold two campaign debates, on June 27 hosted by CNN and on Sept. 10 hosted by ABC. CNN says its debate will be held in its Atlanta studios and “no audience
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Something stopped Michael McDonald from telling his story publicly — him. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer with multiple Grammys just didn’t think he had one. McDonald, a member of both Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers who became a singular soul solo artist
Continue ReadingHOUSTON (AP) — Prosecutors say a man has pleaded guilty in the fatal shooting of an off-duty New Orleans police officer and his friend during a holdup at a Houston restaurant in 2021. Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said Wednesday that Frederick Jackson pleaded guilty to two murder counts in exchange for a 60-year
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN New York (CNN) — Food shoppers can finally breathe a slight sigh of relief: After years of increases followed by months of plateau, grocery prices fell last month. Grocery prices retreated 0.2% from March to April, adjusted for seasonal swings, according to inflation data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor
Continue ReadingCNN Opinion by Julian Zelizer, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have both accepted an invitation from CNN to debate on June 27, nearly four years since they last clashed onstage. Biden, who was first to accept the invitation Wednesday morning, posted on X: “I’ve received and accepted an invitation from @CNN for a
Continue ReadingBy Sara Murray and Jason Morris, CNN (CNN) — In the high-stakes criminal case against former President Donald Trump in Georgia, the defendant isn’t the only one campaigning. In an election year oddity, both the prosecutor, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, and the judge presiding over the case, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCCI) — The priest accused of sexually abusing boys at a Dubuque school in the 1980s appeared in an Iowa courtroom for the first time, KCRG reports. Father Leo Riley made his initial appearance in a Dubuque County Courtroom Monday morning. Riley said
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Hay un recién llegado en la lista de los nombres de bebé más populares en Estados Unidos. Mateo entró por primera vez en la lista de los 10 nombres de niño más populares, convirtiéndose en el sexto nombre de niño más popular en 2023 y dejando fuera de la lista a
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER, JILL COLVIN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have agreed to hold two campaign debates, on June 27 hosted by CNN and on Sept. 10 hosted by ABC, setting the stage for the first presidential face-off in just weeks. CNN says its
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Prime Minister Robert Fico returned to power in Slovakia last year. Having previously served twice as prime minister, from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2012 to 2018, the 59-year-old’s fourth term made him the longest-serving head of government in Slovakia’s history. After five years in
Continue ReadingBy LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Investigators say the electrical blackouts experienced by the container ship Dali before it left Baltimore’s port were “mechanically distinct from” those that resulted in the deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge hours later. National Transportation Safety Board Jennifer Homendy said during congressional testimony Wednesday morning
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Mexico’s consulate in central Florida was working Wednesday to support a community of farmworkers after a highway collision killed eight Mexican citizens and injured 40 other people who were on their way to pick watermelons. A Florida man pleaded not guilty to driving
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