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By Maria Sole Campinoti and Lauren Rapp, CNN (CNN) — A former New York police officer and former cellmate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was sentenced to life in prison for murdering four men, prosecutors said. Nicholas Tartaglione was sentenced Monday to four consecutive life sentences for the 2016 kidnappings and killings of Martin Luna,
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A House Oversight Committee panel that launched an investigation into the safety and oversight of the V-22 Osprey aircraft following a string of fatal crashes hasn’t received the critical data or accident reports that its members requested months ago. That’s according to two committee staffers who spoke
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Hungary has agreed not to veto the military alliance from giving support to Ukraine. But he says the government in Budapest refuses to provide any personnel or funds to help the war-ravaged country. At a summit in Washington next month, U.S. President
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Apollo Theater is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year. The bastion of Black music and culture is one of New York City’s most storied venues. It held its annual spring benefit on Tuesday with a star-studded event featuring Usher, Babyface and performances by Jordin
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar, once a thriving emerging economy, is struggling to regain momentum as the country’s civil war increasingly disrupts trade and livelihoods. World Bank economists estimate the country’s economy grew at a 1% annual pace in the year that ended in March, A World Bank report issued
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Hunter Biden’s historic conviction on three felony gun charges will add significant weight to a blockbuster Second Amendment appeal to be decided in coming days by the Supreme Court. Though the case deals with different circumstances and a different provision of a federal gun law, the
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — At least 35 people died in a building fire early Wednesday in Kuwait, the state-run news agency reported. KUNA said another 15 people were injured in the fire, which broke out in the southern Mangaf district. The fire had been brought under control and that authorities were combing the
Continue ReadingBy JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A special judge’s court in Bangladesh has indicted Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and 13 others on charges in an over $2 million embezzlement case. Yunus, 83, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for pioneering microcredit to help impoverished people, pleaded not guilty and
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Una investigación de las Naciones Unidas sobre los primeros meses de la guerra en Gaza ha concluido que tanto Israel como Hamas cometieron crímenes de guerra y graves violaciones del derecho internacional, en la primera investigación en profundidad del organismo sobre los ataques del 7 de octubre y el conflicto
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Hezbollah fired a massive barrage of rockets into northern Israel on Wednesday to avenge the killing of a top commander, further escalating regional tensions as the fate of an internationally-backed plan for a cease-fire in Gaza hung in the balance. The retaliatory attack
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The Hong Kong government has canceled the passports of six overseas-based activists under the new national security law, stepping up its crackdown on dissidents who moved abroad. Former pro-democracy lawmaker Nathan Law and five others are accused of endangering Hong Kong national security. The government said
Continue Reading CNN, WXIA, WANF By Shawn Nottingham, Nick Valencia and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Atlanta police had barely finished briefing the community about a shooting inside a downtown food court Tuesday afternoon when calls began to come in about a bus hijacking. A gunman had hijacked a commuter bus with 17 people inside and shot
Continue ReadingBy JAMES ELLINGWORTH AP Sports Writer DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Six years ago, Ilkay Gündogan’s place on the German national team was in question over a photograph with Turkey’s president. Now he’s the team captain. When Gündogan leads the German national team out against Scotland in the European Championship opener Friday, he will be its
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mixed Wednesday in Asia ahead of a decision by the Federal Reserve on interest rates. In Japan, higher inflation and falling wages raised questions about how the central bank can navigate away from near-zero interest rates. The Bank of Japan will issue a policy
Continue Reading Sofía Barruti Este cubrimiento ha terminado. Para más noticias sobre la guerra de Israel en Hamas visita este link Palestinos inspeccionan los daños y escombros un día después de una operación de las fuerzas especiales israelíes en el campo de Nuseirat, en el centro de Gaza, el 9 de junio de 2024. (Crédito: Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Whitfield, CNN (CNN) — What is perhaps most striking about the 32 photographs that make up Jack Lueders-Booth’s new book, “Women Prisoner Polaroids,” is the intimacy that occupies each frame. Inmates wear their own clothes and pose in cells embellished with personal effects, much like any regular college dorm room; one woman clasps
Continue ReadingBy Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — An image of Pope Francis wearing a stylish white puffer jacket went viral last year, prompting a flurry of comments about his choice of clothes and even questions about whether he had a stylist. But there was a problem: the image was a “deep fake” created using artificial intelligence.
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and Marc Stewart, CNN Jilin, China (CNN) — An American college instructor has recounted the horror of surviving a stabbing attack in China, offering the first personal account of an incident that has been given limited media coverage within the country. David Zabner is one of four Cornell College instructors attacked Monday
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Wong, CNN (CNN) — Boasting 51,000 statues carved into 252 caves and niches some 1,500 years ago, China’s Yungang Buddhist Grottoes is irrefutably a spectacular attraction. But in recent days, the restrooms in this UNESCO-listed World Heritage site have been earning more attention than the views. A video recently shared on various Chinese
Continue ReadingGENEVA (AP) — U.N.-backed human rights experts say in a report issued Wednesday that Israeli forces and Palestinian militants engaged in sexual and gender-based violence during the first months of the Israel-Hamas war. The independent experts, in a detailed chronicling of events that have mostly been reported in the media, said Israeli forces and Palestinian
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