By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — As soon as Vice President Kamala Harris hit the campaign trail this week, she made it clear what one of her top priorities would be if she wins the presidential election in November. “Building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency,” she said at
Continue ReadingBy Patrick Snell, CNN (CNN) — When it comes to the highs and lows of professional sport, Bermuda’s first ever Olympic champion has experienced it all in recent years. Flora Duffy made history at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Games by winning gold in the triathlon. It was a life-changing moment for both her and her country which has
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By Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — The arrests of two top alleged leaders of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel are an “enormous blow” to the group accused of being responsible for most drugs “killing Americans from coast to coast”, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration says. Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the cartel’s alleged co-founder, and Joaquin
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — The swimming portion of a practice run for the Olympic triathlon was canceled Sunday because of concerns about water quality in the Seine River, but Paris officials said they’re confident that triathletes will be able to swim in the city’s famed waterway during the actual events this coming week. The
Continue Reading By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Jotaka Eaddy was sitting on her parents’ porch in South Carolina on Sunday afternoon when she got a text from an activist friend with a link to President Joe Biden’s letter announcing he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. Eaddy said she started texting in a
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Al menos diez personas murieron y 29 resultaron heridas este sábado tras el impacto de múltiples cohetes en la localidad de Majdal Shams, en los altos del Golán anexionados por Israel, según el servicio de emergencias israelí Magen David Adom (MDA). Las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel (FDI) culparon del ataque
Continue ReadingBy Kyle Feldscher, CNN Paris (CNN) — The first week of the Olympics and with it comes one of the Games’ signature events: Swimming. The pool has been the scene of some of the Games’ most legendary moments over the years and 2024 appears set to be no different. Several key swimmers are looking to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIJING (AP) — Lawmakers from at least six countries said Chinese diplomats were pressuring them not to attend a China-focused conference in Taiwan, in what they described as efforts to isolate the self-governed island. Politicians in Bolivia, Colombia, Slovakia, North Macedonia, Bosnia and one Asian country that declined to be named said they
Continue ReadingBy Simone Pathe, CNN (CNN) — When Kamala Harris held her first campaign rally as the presumptive Democratic nominee last week, one of the most vulnerable senators in the country was on hand to welcome her. Tammy Baldwin, the two-term Wisconsin Democrat, didn’t attend President Joe Biden’s post-debate rally in the state earlier this month.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Nicolás Maduro has survived an almost impossible litany of threats since becoming the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s political heir in 2013. They range from a drone attack and mass protests to international criminal investigations for human rights abuses and drug trafficking. But Sunday’s election in which he is
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The past two months have been unlike anything Edmundo González Urrutia had ever experienced: He gave political speeches, shook people’s hands and waved from the top of a truck moving through cheering crowds gathered across Venezuela. He also shed the title of ambassador for that of candidate. The dramatic
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHADDS FORD, Pa. (AP) — At first glance, it looks like an aerial photo of a cemetery destroyed by war, with charred coffins ripped from broken concrete vaults and arched marble tombstones flattened by a bomb blast. Then, the viewer begin to discern details: the coffins and vaults are actually parts of a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Imagine planning a vacation and not being able to check Airbnb or another online booking site for an apartment in which to spend a few days walking, shopping and eating among the locals. Would a hotel do? That’s the future confronting visitors to central Barcelona in four years. To
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Wisconsin Republicans are asking voters to take away the governor’s power to unilaterally spend federal money, a reaction to the billions of dollars that flowed into the state during the COVID-19 pandemic. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers was free to spend that money as he pleased, angering Republicans who wanted the Legislature to have
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN Español) — El Centro Cultural Fernando de los Ríos, lugar que el Consulado de Venezuela en Madrid ha habilitado para que los venezolanos de su circunscripción voten en las elecciones presidenciales, ha abierto sus puertas este domingo pasadas las seis y media de la mañana, hora local. Horas antes de que abriera,
Continue ReadingAP Media Writer James Peeler’s phone blew up with messages as he drove home from church in Texas. Reading a book on her couch in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Wendy Schweiger spied something on Facebook. After finishing a late-night swim in the Baltic Sea off Finland, Matti Niiranen clicked on a CNN livestream. Each learned that President
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — El secretario de Defensa de Estados Unidos, Lloyd Austin, mantendrá una reunión trilateral con sus homólogos de Japón y Corea del Sur en Tokio este domingo, hora local, la primera de este tipo en 15 años, dijo un alto funcionario de Defensa estadounidense. La reunión trilateral se produce casi un año
Continue ReadingAssociated Press AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa is set to join more than a dozen other states where abortion access has been sharply curbed since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The law banning most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy takes effect in Iowa at 8 a.m. Monday. The state’s abortion
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shea Langeliers hit a three-run homer in the first inning as the Oakland Athletics continued their recent power surge with a 3-1 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday night. The A’s have won three in a row over the Angels and eight of their last 10 games
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FOREST RANCH, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of firefighters battling a wildfire in Northern California received some help from the weather hours after it exploded in size, scorching an area greater than the size of Los Angeles. The blaze was one of several tearing through the western United States and Canada, fueled by wind
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