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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares traded mixed Wednesday, as investors weighed recent data highlighting a slowing U.S. economy that offers both upsides and downsides for Wall Street. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 shed 0.9% to 38,490.17. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 edged up 0.4% to 7,769.00. South Korea’s Kospi jumped 1.0% to
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By Joe Sutton and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Texas A&M University President Mark Welsh announced on Tuesday the school will not bring back the Aggie Bonfire traditionally held the night before the school’s then-annual football game against the University of Texas. “I decided that Bonfire, both a wonderful and tragic part of Aggie history,
Continue ReadingBy Katie Bo Lillis, MJ Lee and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Top Biden administration officials are traveling to the Middle East this week to engage in ongoing talks on a possible ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas, as well as the dire situation in the Gazan city of Rafah, US officials
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Democrats have ousted a state senator accused of sexual harassment in New Mexico as voters picked their partisan favorites in Tuesday’s primary to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November. It was the first state Senate election since redistricting
Continue ReadingBy LISA BAUMANN Associated Press BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Asylum-seekers mainly from Angola, Congo and Venezuela have set up an encampment in a Seattle suburb. The Seattle Times reports the asylum-seekers moved to the site next to an empty motel in Kent on Saturday. The motel is owned by King County and was used as
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Three-term incumbent Democrat Sen. Jon Tester and Republican newcomer Tim Sheehy have cruised to victory in Montana’s primary election. That sets up a contentious November election that could tip the balance of power in the closely divided U.S. Senate. Sheehy is a
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Record producer and singer-songwriter The-Dream (Terius Gesteelde-Diamant) is accused of sex trafficking, rape and sexual battery in a lawsuit that was filed on Tuesday. According to the complaint, obtained by CNN, Gesteelde-Diamant “used his age and influence” in the music industry to “manipulate” the plaintiff Chanaaz Mangroe, a singer-songwriter
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner and David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Jon Tester and Republican challenger Tim Sheehy will win their respective primaries in Montana, CNN projects, setting up what’s likely to be one of the hardest-fought races in the battle for control of the Senate. Sheehy, a businessman and retired Navy SEAL, had the backing of former President Donald Trump
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON and MAYA SWEEDLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press has declared U.S. Rep. Rob Menendez the winner of the Democratic primary for New Jersey’s 8th Congressional District based on the incumbent’s lead throughout the district in initial vote results. He defeated Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla and real estate executive Kyle
Continue Reading By Rhea Mogul and Kunal Sehgal, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — India’s transformative yet divisive Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared victory in national elections on Tuesday evening, but his goal of winning an unassailable majority was left in tatters after voters delivered a shock result that reduced the extent of his party’s grip on power. “Today is
Continue Reading By Heather Chen, Hanako Montgomery and Moeri Karasawa, CNN Hong Kong/Tokyo (CNN) — Wearing a toy whale hat, whale tie and a whale motif shirt, Hideki Tokoro spends much of his days thinking about the world’s largest mammals. But he doesn’t want to protect them. He wants to hunt them. To do that his company
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Construction on the outfield bullpen finished just in time as pitchers from the Oakland Ballers began arriving to work at Raimondi Park for the new minor league team’s home opener. The batting cage came together last minute, too. And everybody with the “B’s” embraced the
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Mauricio Torres (CNN Español) — El Juzgado 10 de Conocimiento de Bogotá condenó este martes a 42 años y ocho meses de prisión al estadounidense John Poulos, a quien declaró culpable del feminicidio agravado de la joven colombiana Valentina Trespalacios, así como de los delitos de ocultamiento, alteración o destrucción de pruebas. El crimen ocurrió
Continue ReadingCNN By Dan Berman and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Judge Aileen Cannon is again ripping up the court schedule in former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case – pushing some of the legal questions that have been before her for months even further down the road. Cannon is planning on holding a sprawling hearing on Trump’s
Continue ReadingCNN By Dan Berman and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Judge Aileen Cannon is planning on holding a sprawling hearing on Donald Trump’s request to declare Jack Smith’s appointment as special counsel invalid, signaling the judge could be more willing than any other trial judge to veto the special prosecutor’s authority. The planned hearing also adds a new, unusual
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — New Jersey Rep. Rob Menendez Jr. will survive his Democratic primary challenge Tuesday, CNN projects, fending off Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla in the face of backlash to the congressman’s scandal-tarred father, Sen. Bob Menendez. The senator is on trial in New York City on federal corruption and bribery charges. He has
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Daily temperature records will tumble as sizzling early season heat from a summerlike heat dome sends thermometers skyrocketing into the triple digits in parts of California and the West this week. The official start of summer is just a few weeks away, but it will feel like July
Continue ReadingCNN By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — A brutal heat dome is ramping up and sending temperatures to dangerous levels in California and the West in what is the region’s first significant heat wave of the year. And heat hasn’t peaked yet. July-like high temperatures will top out at 20 to 25 degrees above
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Sanjay Lal’s first bit of coaching to Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver Quentin Johnston didn’t have to do with route running or hand placement when vying with a cornerback while being covered. It was to focus on a fresh start after struggling as a
Continue Reading CNN Analysis by Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — The opposition obituaries had been written. According to most polls, India’s election was a foregone conclusion. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s right-wing, Hindu-nationalist alliance was expected to secure a supermajority – and with it the power to enact radical change unopposed. To Modi’s critics and opponents, India was
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