BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico has appeared for the first time since an assassination attempt three weeks ago. In a pre-recording speech posted on his Facebook page ahead of the European Parliament election, Fico said the attack caused a serious damage to his health and “it will be a small
Continue ReadingWILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden’s ex-wife Kathleen Buhle has taken the witness stand in his federal gun trial.
Continue ReadingBy Cheri Mossburg and Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — More than a dozen pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested and a public safety officer was injured on Wednesday at Stanford University, the school said, after demonstrators broke into and occupied the office of the president demanding divestment, transparency and amnesty. Shortly after 8 a.m. local time, about two
Continue ReadingBy SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — An official says Turkey’s foreign minister has urged Chinese authorities to protect the cultural rights of minority Muslim Uyghurs and allow them to “live their values.” Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Wednesday ended a three-day visit to China that included a visit to China’s Xinjiang province.
Continue ReadingBy JOHN SEEWER Associated Press Police near Cleveland say a woman who fatally stabbed a 3-year-old boy sitting in a grocery cart attacked him and his mother in less than five seconds before walking away. Police say witnesses in the supermarket parking lot had no time to stop the stabbing. Investigators believe it was a
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Months after Disney and Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointees agreed to end a protracted legal fight, the two sides are set to approve an agreement that could result in the company investing up to $17 billion into its Florida resort and opens the door to a fifth
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Months after Disney and Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointees agreed to end a protracted legal fight, the two sides are set to approve an agreement that could result in the company investing up to $17 billion into its Florida resort and opens the door to a fifth
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite indexes are rising toward all-time highs on Wednesday as technology stocks keep climbing. The S&P 500 was 1% higher in afternoon trading and on track to surpass its record set two weeks ago. The Nasdaq composite was 1.7% higher,
Continue ReadingSTANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied a building that houses the offices of Stanford University’s president and provost early Wednesday. Approximately 10 students barricaded themselves in the building while some 50 others linked arms outside, The Stanford Daily reported. The university confirmed the takeover. “A group of individuals this morning unlawfully entered Building 10,
Continue ReadingSTANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied a building that houses the offices of Stanford University’s president and provost early Wednesday. Approximately 10 students barricaded themselves in the building while some 50 others linked arms outside, The Stanford Daily reported. The university confirmed the takeover. “A group of individuals this morning unlawfully entered Building 10,
Continue ReadingCNN By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Florence, Italy (CNN) — An Italian court has upheld Amanda Knox’s final remaining conviction stemming from the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007. Knox was convicted in 2009 of slander for falsely accusing Patrick Lumumba of murdering Kercher in the Italian city of Perugia. An appellate
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is again suggesting he would try to prosecute his political opponents if he’s elected to a second term as he rails against his criminal conviction in New York. “Look, when this election is over, based on what they’ve done, I would have
Continue ReadingBy Alayna Treene and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — One of Donald Trump’s leading super PACs told donors it raised nearly $70 million in May and shared plans to spend $100 million this summer in key battleground states, according to a copy of a memo sent Tuesday and obtained by CNN. Taylor Budowich, the CEO
Continue ReadingBy Mike Schwartz and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi (CNN) — Tensions are escalating on the Israel-Lebanon border as the Israeli military warned it was prepared to launch a large-scale attack in the north to deter the Iran-backed Islamist group Hezbollah. Cross-border attacks from Lebanon led to large fires blazing through Israel’s northern
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing launched astronauts for the first time Wednesday, belatedly joining SpaceX as a second taxi service for NASA. A pair of NASA test pilots blasted off aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule for the International Space Station, the first to fly the new spacecraft. The trip
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press A court in Russia has convicted a dual U.S.-Russian citizen for “rehabilitating Nazism” over posts on social media. Yuri Malev was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in a minimum-security penal colony. Malev was arrested in December after sharing images on a Russian social media site featuring the black-and-orange Saint George’s ribbon — a
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann and Gawon Bae, CNN (CNN) — The United States flew a B-1B bomber over the Korean Peninsula on Wednesday in the first live munitions drop over South Korea in seven years as part of joint air exercises between the two countries, the US and South Korea said Wednesday. As part of the
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — U.N. Secretary General António Guterres has called for a “windfall” tax on profits of fossil fuel companies to help pay for the fight against global warming. Guterres decried them as the “godfathers of climate chaos.” He made the remarks on Wednesday in a speech timed for World
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s chief of staff, Kelly Magsamen, is stepping down at the end of the month, Austin said in a statement on Wednesday. Magsamen was most recently at the center of Austin’s secretive hospitalization which drew criticism from lawmakers; officials said at the
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — A former FBI employee who raised questions about the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol had his security clearance reinstated and was awarded 27 months of backpay after being suspended since February 2022, his lawyer told CNN. FBI staff operations specialist Marcus Allen had his security clearance
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