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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Millions of tons of coal ash leftover from burning the planet’s dirtiest fossil fuel are sitting in ponds and landfills, able to leach into waterways and pollute soil. But this toxic waste may also be a treasure trove for the rare earth elements needed to propel the world toward
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CNN By Ray Sanchez, CNN A week after taking over the nation’s largest police department, Jessica Tisch found herself on Wednesday reassuring New Yorkers that investigators would “not rest until we identify and apprehend the shooter” who brazenly gunned down the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare outside a Manhattan hotel. The high-profile, high-tech manhunt for the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A jailed Hong Kong activist has lost his landmark legal challenge against the prison authorities’ refusal to grant him early release under the new national security law. Ma Chun-man was serving a five-year term for inciting secession under a separate, Beijing-imposed national security law. He was convicted in 2021
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te has called on China to “open its arms rather than raise its fists” as he wraps up his first overseas tour since taking office in May. His remarks at a news conference Friday in Palau came in response to widespread speculation that China will hold military drills
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top diplomat says in an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that Moscow doesn’t want a war with the United States but will use “all means” to defend its interests. Sergey Lavrov argued in the interview that was released Friday that while Russia and the U.S. are officially not
Continue Reading By Angus Watson and Jennifer Hauser, CNN Sydney, Australia (CNN) — Police are searching for two masked suspects after a synagogue was set on fire in southeastern Australia early Friday in an attack condemned by the prime minister as an act of antisemitism. Worshippers fled from the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne when the blaze
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — China has banned exports of key materials used for a wide range of products, including smartphones, electric vehicles, radar systems and CT scanners, swiping back at Washington after it expanded export controls to include dozens of Chinese companies that make equipment used to produce computer chips. Both sides say
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A Chinese fishing vessel off the coast of Somalia has come under the control of alleged pirates, a European Union anti-piracy force operating in the area said Thursday. The ship, with up to 18 crew members, had been taken over by the suspected pirates, some of whom
Continue Reading By Chris Lau, Lisako Neriki Ancheta and Yumi Asada, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — The Japanese capital is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees, in its latest push to help working mothers and boost record-low fertility rates. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says the new arrangement, which begins in April, could give employees three
Continue Reading By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — An American man abducted in the Philippines is presumed dead after a witness claimed he was shot during a struggle with his captors, the Philippines News Agency reported, citing police. Elliot Eastman, from Vermont, was abducted on October 17, near his home in Sibuco, on the island of Mindanao,
Continue Reading By Jomana Karadsheh, Gul Tuysuz, Brice Laine, Lauren Kent and Eyad Kourdi, CNN Syria (CNN) — The goal of Syria’s rebel coalition, as it wrests another major city from government control this week, is ultimately to overthrow authoritarian President Bashar al-Assad, according to Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the militant leader of the main group driving the
Continue Reading CNN By Jomana Karadsheh, Gul Tuysuz, Brice Laine, Lauren Kent and Eyad Kourdi, CNN Syria (CNN) — The goal of Syria’s rebel coalition, as it wrests another major city from government control this week, is ultimately to overthrow authoritarian President Bashar al-Assad, according to Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the militant leader of the main group driving
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The United States has deployed a reconnaissance aircraft while Japan and the Philippines sent navy ships in a joint patrol in the disputed South China Sea two days after the allied forces condemned actions by Chinese coast guard vessels against Philippine patrol ships. The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MILAN (AP) — American tenor Brian Jagde was just wrapping up Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” in Barcelona last month when he got a very much last-minute offer to sing the same role in La Scala’s gala season premiere this Saturday, arguably the opera world’s most prestigious gig. Jagde’s appearance as Don Alvaro
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Por James Legge, CNN Dos estadounidenses y un canadiense que desaparecieron tras intentar hacer cumbre en la montaña más alta de Nueva Zelandia se dan por muertos, según informó este viernes la Policía local, que suspendió las operaciones de búsqueda. Kurt Blair, de 56 años, Carlos Romero, de 50, y el ciudadano canadiense fueron dados
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The 12-year-old Palestinian boy was lying in a hospital bed in central Gaza, wracked with leukemia, malnourished and whimpering in pain despite the morphine doctors were giving him, when Rosalia Bollen, a UNICEF official, said she saw him in late October. Islam al-Rayahen’s family had asked Israeli
Continue Reading Por Helen Regan, CNN Declarar la ley marcial en una democracia estable y bulliciosa fue una apuesta audaz, que parece haber fracasado estrepitosamente para el presidente de Corea del Sur, Yoon Suk Yeol. Ahora, la carrera política del exfiscal e incendiario conservador pende de un hilo, con una moción de juicio político en marcha. El
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgian authorities are responding to ongoing protests fueled by the governing party’s decision to suspend negotiations on joining the European Union with increasing force. Examples of police brutality are everywhere. An opposition leader was dragged into a police car and arrested. Georgian journalist Guram Rogava was doing a live
Continue Reading By Karina Tsui, John Miller, Brynn Gingras and Mark Morales, CNN New York (CNN) — Words written on ammunition. A smiling surveillance photo. A discarded water bottle. A burner cell phone. These are among the key pieces of evidence providing clues for police more than 24 hours into a hunt for the man who gunned
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The Coachella Valley Firebirds defeated the Texas Stars on Thursday night at Acrisure Arena by the final score of 6-4, scoring three goals in the final five minutes of the game. Big win for the Birds tonight over the Stars as the power play breaks out with 3 goals. Ben Meyers had 3 of his
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