AP Health Writer Shopping season for Medicare coverage is about to begin and with it comes the annual onslaught of TV ads and choices to consider. People eligible for the federal government’s Medicare program will have from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7 to sign up for Medicare Advantage plans, which are privately run versions of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Thinner benefits and coverage changes await many older Americans shopping for health insurance this fall. That’s if their plan is even still available in 2025. More than a million people will probably have to find new coverage as major insurers cut costs and pull back from markets for Medicare Advantage plans, the privately
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who transformed the Lebanese militant group into a potent paramilitary and political force in the Middle East, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, the group said. He was 64. Nasrallah, who spearheaded Hezbollah’s war against Israel in 2006 and got the group heavily involved in neighboring
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Ángela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Hassan Nasrallah, quien fue asesinado por Israel dijo en un ataque en el sur de Beirut, convirtió a Hezbollah en una de las fuerzas paramilitares más poderosas de Medio Oriente. Su muerte corona una serie de golpes devastadores para el grupo, que ya se tambalea por la humillación de que
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities say nine people have died and another 48 are missing after a boat carrying migrants capsized during a rescue operation near the Canary Islands. Spain’s maritime rescue service said that the tragedy occurred after it was alerted to the presence of a small boat loaded with people. The service says
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Dr. Felipe Paullier is quick to say he doesn’t speak for the world’s roughly 2 billion tweens, teens and young adults. But as the United Nations’ first assistant secretary-general for youth affairs, he’s tasked with advocating for young people and their concerns to be incorporated into the organization’s work
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By Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Hassan Nasrallah, who Israel killed in a strike on southern Beirut, turned Hezbollah into one of the most powerful paramilitary forces in the Middle East. His death caps a series of devastating blows for the group, already reeling from the humiliation of having its communications network comprehensively infiltrated,
Continue ReadingBy Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — As the MLB season nears its conclusion, the playoff picture continues to get clearer with each passing game. The Detroit Tigers and Kansas City Royals secured their spot in the playoffs on Friday – ending two of the longest droughts in the MLB. In a game where unwanted history
Continue Reading Sofía Benavides (CNN) — El vicegobernador de Carolina del Norte, Mark Robinson, fue tratado por quemaduras de segundo grado en el Northern Regional Hospital “tras un incidente en un evento de campaña” en Mount Airy en la noche del viernes, según Mike Lonergan, director de comunicaciones de la campaña para gobernador de Robinson. Lonergan agregó en
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HELSINKI (AP) — NATO members Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland will seek European Union funding to build a network of bunkers, barriers, distribution lines and military warehouses along their borders with Russia and Belarus. The three Baltic countries initially announced the plan for a “Baltic Defense Line” in January. In May, Poland announced
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Seventeen people, including 15 women, were killed in two mass shootings that took place at two homes on the same street in a rural town in South Africa, police said Saturday. A search was underway for the suspects, national police spokesperson Brig. Athlenda Mathe said in a statement. The victims
Continue Reading Analysis by Abbas Al Lawati and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s audacious assassination of Hezbollah’s leader on Friday has rattled the group, delivering its most severe blow since its founding. This has led its Iranian backers to warn that Israel has entered a dangerous phase of the conflict by altering the rules of engagement. As
Continue ReadingSMYRNA, Ga. (AP) — Two Georgia police officers were wounded and a man was killed during a shooting inside a suburban Atlanta retailer that calls itself the world’s largest gun store. Smyrna Police Chief Keith Zgonc says the officers were investigating reports of gunfire and a burglary around midnight when they found the suspect inside
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is off for the campaign season, as lawmakers from one of the most chaotic and unproductive legislative sessions in modern times try to persuade voters to keep them on the job. The House Republicans led the tumult — painstakingly electing their speaker in a bitter public feud then swiftly
Continue ReadingBy Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — The International Team stormed back into contention on Day 2 of the Presidents Cup in some style, sweeping the USA 5-0 during Friday’s foursomes. The score is now tied at 5-5 with two days of golf left to play. Heading into the second day of competition, Team USA was
Continue ReadingPESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistan policeman says a helicopter crash due to engine failure has killed six people and injured eight others in the country’s northwest. The chartered flight was transporting employees of Mari Petroleum when it crashed in North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on Saturday. A security official earlier put the death toll
Continue Reading By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Austria goes to the polls this Sunday, with the populist, anti-immigration Freedom Party (FPÖ) tipped to emerge as the winner, in what would mark another gain for the far right in Europe. Unlike its peers, however, the FPÖ is no upstart and has previously been part of coalition governments. As it is unlikely
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Pope Francis’ burdensome trip through Belgium reached new lows on Saturday when defiant Catholic university women demanded to his face a “paradigm change” on women’s issues in the church and then expressed deep disappointment when Francis dug in. The Catholic University of Louvain, the Francophone campus of Belgium’s storied Catholic
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We’re still feeling excessive heat as we start the weekend! This comes after three days of record heat in Palm Springs; we broke the previous record yesterday of 111° with a high temperature of 113°! The Coachella Valley remains under an Excessive Heat Warning until 8:00 p.m. tonight. We can expect temperatures today to be
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Lawmakers have elected a mainstream conservative as speaker of the state parliament in eastern Germany’s Thuringia region, putting aside a convention that the strongest party gets the job after the far-right Alternative for Germany won a regional election for the first time. The center-right Christian Democratic Union’s Thadäus König was elected in
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