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By Michele Fiore Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — Marquette University played host Monday night to a legend in the field of land speed racing. Now, “LandSpeed Louise” wants to inspire the next generation of female racers. “It’s something when you’re watching something go 3, 400 miles per hour that starts
Continue ReadingBy Kelly Vaughen Click here for updates on this story BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan (WWJ) — Oakland County is dealing with a growing threat of burglary tourism, according to Sheriff Michael Bouchard. In a town hall meeting on Monday, Bouchard said they are concerned with transnational organized crime groups. Groups of people from other countries enter
Continue ReadingDERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Police in Pakistan say a missile fired by a drone struck a house in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban along the Afghan border before dawn Tuesday, killing at least four villagers, including children. They say it is not clear who fired the missile and officers are investigating.
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Russian authorities have arrested a second senior Defense Ministry official on bribery charges days after President Vladimir Putin replaced the defense minister in a Cabinet shake-up. Russia’s top law enforcement body said Tuesday the chief of the ministry’s main personnel directorate, Lt. Gen. Yury Kuznetsov, was arrested and placed in custody
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN Lord’s Cricket Ground, London (CNN) — At Lord’s Cricket Ground in the quiet, well-heeled streets of northwest London, different architectural eras collide together in a mishmash of mismatching styles representing the old and the new. A grand 134-year-old pavilion, its sandy brown stone façade covered in ornate embellishments, sits at one
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Authorities in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia have announced a curfew and banned gatherings after violent unrest on the archipelago with decades of tensions between indigenous Kanaks seeking independence and colonizers’ descendants who want to remain part of France. French media say the unrest started with protests against voting reforms
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Two French prison officers have been killed and three others seriously injured when their prison convoy was attacked in Normandy. Officials say the attack occurred as the convoy was returning to Évreux jail after a court hearing in Rouen. Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti said he would join a crisis unit to address
Continue ReadingTBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The Georgian parliament has approved in the third and final reading a divisive bill that sparked weeks of mass protests. The bill requires media and nongovernmental organizations and other nonprofits to register as “pursuing the interests of a foreign power” if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad.
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse and Marta Simonella, CNN (CNN) — Climate protesters interrupted two matches at the Italian Open on Monday, throwing confetti onto the court and gluing themselves to the stands, organizers said. US player Madison Keys’ last-16 clash with Sorana Cîrstea was delayed after protesters came on the court midway through the second set,
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — On Monday, Melinda French Gates announced her resignation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, officially ending one of the world’s leading philanthropic partnerships. If you ask Warren Buffett, the foundation is losing its smarter half. In a 2008 Fortune profile, the Berkshire Hathaway CEO said French Gates helped
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s fixer-turned-foe is returning to the witness stand for a bruising round of questioning from the former president’s lawyers. Michael Cohen’s testimony on Monday linked Trump to all aspects of a hush money scheme that prosecutors say was aimed at stifling stories that threatened his 2016 campaign. He’s the prosecution’s
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Markets on Wall Street inched slightly higher ahead of the release of more inflation data from the U.S. government. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrials and S&P 500 were each less than 0.1% higher before the bell Tuesday. Home Depot shares rose 1.8% in premarket after
Continue ReadingBy FADI TAWIL and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press ARSAL, Lebanon (AP) — More than 300 Syrians refugees are heading back home from northeastern Lebanon to an uncertain future in Syria as anti-refugee sentiment is surging in crisis-hit Lebanon. In the northeastern town of Arsal, Syrian refugees piled their belongings onto the back of trucks and
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Planning a summer vacation in Europe usually requires an exorbitant amount of cash, but when Taylor Swift is involved, it actually might be a deal. Fans looking to snag tickets to the European leg of her popular “Eras Tour” are finding it substantially cheaper to see Swift
Continue ReadingBy KASPARMAN PILIANG Associated Press TANAH DATAR, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers are searching in rivers and the rubble of devastated villages for bodies, and whenever possible survivors, of flash floods that hit Indonesia’s Sumatra Island over the weekend. Monsoon rains and a landslide of mud and cold lava from Mount Marapi caused rivers to breach
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought Tuesday to rally the spirits of glum Ukrainians facing a fierce new Russian offensive, assuring them that they are not alone and that billions of dollars in American military aid on its way to the country would make
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Europe’s oldest monarch, King Harald V of Norway, has welcomed Denmark’s King Frederik and his Australian-born wife, Queen Mary, on their second official visit abroad after the Danish monarch’s mother abdicated this year. The 87-year-old Harald returned to work last month following two surgeries to implant pacemakers. Harald has said he
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s highway safety agency has opened another investigation of automated driving systems, this time into crashes involving Waymo’s self-driving vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration posted documents detailing the probe on its website early Tuesday after getting 22 reports of Waymo vehicles either
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — European carmaker Stellantis says it will begin selling electric vehicles from its Chinese partner Leapmotor in nine European countries later this year. Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares said Tuesday that sales will begin in September in European countries including Belgium, France, Italy and Germany, and later in
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urielblanco (CNN) — En cuestión de semanas saldrán del subsuelo, con sus ojos rojos brillantes y su ensordecedor canto llenando el aire. Será una confluencia de criaturas como no se ha visto en Estados Unidos desde que Thomas Jefferson era presidente, y no volverá a ocurrir hasta 2245. Es una rara aparición de insectos a
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