AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The NFL averaged 21.0 million viewers per game during the league’s opening week, making it the most-watched Week 1 on record. The league and Nielsen said Wednesday morning that the per-game average on TV and digital platforms was a 12% increase over last year. Nielsen began electronic measurement
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ warning that failing to support Ukraine could leave Poland and other countries open to attack by Russia is resonating in Poland. Wanda Kwiatkowska eagerly read reports on Wednesday morning about the U.S. presidential debate. She is convinced that a second Trump presidency would be
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo prosecutors have filed charges against 45 people over a gunfight following an incursion by heavily armed Serb gunmen last year. A Kosovo policeman and three Serb gunmen were killed in the shootout in the village of Banjska in September. Kosovo has accused Serbia of involvement, but Belgrade denied
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government has unveiled details of a new support package for workers who face losing their jobs at the country’s biggest steel plant ahead of its transition to a greener way of production. Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said workers will be offered improved severance terms and a reskilling package if
Continue ReadingEdmunds If you’re thinking about buying a new car but don’t need one right away, now is a great time to show a little patience. Waiting just a few months this time of year can create an opportunity to purchase an all-new or significantly updated vehicle. To give you an inside scoop on what’s coming
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s transgender community now has its first ride-sharing service. It’s the latest effort to protect trans people from discrimination and harassment. The business’s founder said on Wednesday that the service was launched over the weekend in the city of Lahore. It’s called SheDrives and will service only trans people and women. Ammaz
Continue ReadingKHAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on police escorting a team of polio workers during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in the northwest, killing an officer and a polio worker. No one immediately claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s attack in Bajur, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and a former
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The first general election ballots for the presidential race are going out as Alabama officials begin mailing them to absentee voters with the Nov. 5 contest less than two months away. Wednesday’s milestone is a sign of how quickly Election Day is approaching. North Carolina had been scheduled to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Senate has voted to overhaul the country’s judiciary, clearing the biggest hurdle for a controversial constitutional revision that will make all judges stand for election. Critics fear the changes will politicize the judicial branch and threaten Mexico’s democracy. The vote early Wednesday came after hundreds of protesters pushed
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — On this day 23 years ago, the US suffered a tremendous loss of loved ones in the September 11 terrorist attacks. Nearly 3,000 people were killed when hijackers crashed planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. It is with our deepest admiration and
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — France’s counterterrorism prosecutor says authorities foiled three plots to attack the Olympic Games in Paris and other cities that hosted events this summer. Olivier Christen said the plots included plans to attack “Israeli institutions or representatives of Israel in Paris” during the July 26-Aug. 11 Olympics. The prosecutor told broadcaster France Info
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Twenty-three years after the deadliest attack on US soil in its history, the mantra “Never Forget” endures in the American consciousness as a solemn reminder of that day. For the thousands of families who believe key facts have been withheld around the attack that stole their loved ones,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Relatives of 12 Polish inmates of Nazi Germany’s concentration camps have received precious belongings seized from their kin during captivity. The items were returned by a German archive in a ceremony late Tuesday. The Arolsen Archives and its volunteers have spared no effort to reach the families of inmates
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, Haley Talbot and Lauren Fox, CNN Washington (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Wednesday that he is pulling a short-term GOP government funding bill from the House floor amid significant defections on his right flank. “No vote today,” Johnson told reporters just hours ahead of the scheduled vote on the bill,
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Footage of NFL star Tyreek Hill being detained by Miami-Dade officers earlier this week has again highlighted the sometimes contentious and fraught nature of what is a routine and everyday procedure in policing: the traffic stop. Many traffic stops end without making headlines. But thanks to the ubiquity of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The United States and Britain pledged nearly $1.5 billion in additional aid to Ukraine on Wednesday during a visit to Kyiv by their top diplomats as Ukrainian officials renewed their pleas to use Western-provided missiles against targets deeper inside Russia. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced more than
Continue ReadingBy Michael Williams and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance are commemorating the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 attacks, appearing to put political hostilities on the back burner for a moment as the nation remembers the tragedy. All four were
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BERLIN (AP) — Officials are investigating why part of a bridge in eastern Germany has collapsed. No one has been injured but the partial collapse of the Carola Bridge on Wednesday disrupted a major traffic artery in Dresden. The bridge spans the Elbe River. Motorists, pedestrians and cyclists who use the bridge to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Caroline Ellison, a former top executive in FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s collapsed cryptocurrency empire, is seeking no prison time at her sentencing later this month. Lawyers for Ellison made the request shortly before midnight Tuesday in a filing in Manhattan federal court. The lawyers cited her immediate and extensive
Continue ReadingAP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The post-pandemic spike in U.S. inflation eased further last month as year-over-year price increases reached a three-year low, clearing the way for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates and likely shaping the economic debate in the final weeks of the presidential race. Wednesday’s report from the Labor Department
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