By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a … wait, what is that? A flying Beluga whale? Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart. The weekend that was • Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of felony
Continue ReadingCNN By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a … wait, what is that? A flying Beluga whale? Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart. The weekend that was • Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of
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By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court is turning toward the final, frenzied days of its term, readying potential blockbuster decisions on abortion, guns and former President Donald Trump’s claims of absolute immunity. The court will hand down opinions on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week as the justices aim to finish their
Continue ReadingBy Jaide Timm-Garcia and Isabel Rosales, CNN Minutes before plunging to their deaths, five airmen successfully dropped 14 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne near their landing mark over Normandy, France from their C-47. It was just after 2:44 a.m. on June 6, 1944. The airmen completed their mission but lost their lives. The remains of
Continue ReadingBy JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press CARENTAN-LES-MARAIS, France (AP) — Parachutists jumped from World War II-era planes into now peaceful Normandy to kick off a week of ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Soldiers from across the United States, Britain, Canada and other Allied nations waded ashore through hails of fire on five beaches on
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung and Kathryn Monahan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has joined TikTok, the fast-growing social media platform with ties to China that Trump has publicly embraced even though he railed against it as president. In his first post on the social network, which is filled with young potential voters, Trump posted
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — Two Lebanese shepherds were killed in an Israeli strike that hit their house in the town of Houla near the Lebanon-Israel border, Lebanon’s National News agency says. Lebanon’s Agriculture Minister Abbas Hajj Hassan said that a separate Israeli strike Sunday morning had damaged his ministry’s office in the town of Bint Jbeil
Continue ReadingPENN HILLS, Pa. (AP) — Police say an exchange of gunfire in a suburban Pittsburgh bar has left two people dead and seven others injured. Allegheny County police said the shooting occurred at the Ballers Hookah Lounge and Cigar Bar in Penn Hills, where first responders found the bodies of a man and a woman
Continue ReadingBy CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Scaling back treatment for three kinds of cancer can make life easier for patients without compromising outcomes, doctors reported at the world’s largest cancer conference. It’s part of a long-term trend toward studying whether doing less — less surgery, less chemotherapy or less radiation — can help patients
Continue ReadingBy TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Tamika Davis couldn’t nap on her couch during cancer treatment. She kept worrying one of her toddlers would wander over and pull out the needle delivering chemotherapy. Friends and family watched her kids when they could during her treatment last year for colon cancer. But Davis had gaps with
Continue ReadingBy JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press CARENTAN-LES-MARAIS, France (AP) — Parachutists jumped from World War II-era planes into now peaceful Normandy to kick off a week of ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Soldiers from across the United States, Britain, Canada and other Allied nations waded ashore through hails of fire on five beaches on
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The future of Puerto Rico’s political status and its fragile economy are at the center of fiery debates as the island’s two biggest political parties hold contentious gubernatorial primaries. Gov. Pedro Pierluisi is head of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party. He is seeking a
Continue ReadingBy Eugenia Yosef, Sophie Tanno and Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — Two far-right Israeli ministers have threatened to resign and bring down the governing coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he accepts a peace proposal laid out by US President Joe Biden. Biden unveiled on Friday what he said was a three-phase Israeli proposal
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Iceland’s national broadcasting service says Halla Tomasdottir, a businesswoman and investor, has won Iceland’s presidential election, topping a crowded field of candidates in which the top three finishers were women. RUV reported Sunday that Tomasdottir was elected to the largely ceremonial post with 34.3% of the vote,
Continue ReadingBy Niamh Kennedy and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s largest hydroelectric dam, the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP), is in “critical condition” after it was hit in a Russian strike on Ukraine’s key energy facilities, authorities say. The head of the Zaporizhzhia region military administration, Ivan Fedorov, told Ukrainian television that the power plant can
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A wind-driven fire continued to scorch thousands of acres 60 miles (97 kilometers) east of San Francisco, prompting residents to flee their homes and the closure of two major freeways near the central California city of Tracy. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said the fire erupted Saturday afternoon
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A wind-driven fire continued to scorch thousands of acres 60 miles (97 kilometers) east of San Francisco, prompting residents to flee their homes and the closure of two major freeways near the central California city of Tracy. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said the fire erupted Saturday afternoon
Continue ReadingFRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Flooding, high river levels and heavy rain led to the death of a firefighter and disrupted train travel across Germany on Sunday. The firefighter died when an inflatable watercraft carrying four firefighters capsized as they navigated flood waters in the town of Pfaffenhofen on the Ilm River in the southern Bavaria
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says it’ll take strong retaliatory steps against North Korea over its launch of trash-carrying balloons across the border and other provocations. In the past week, North Korea floated hundreds of huge balloons to dump rubbish on South Korea, simulated nuclear strikes and allegedly
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s African National Congress party will not consider any demands from possible coalition partners that President Cyril Ramaphosa step down, a top official said Sunday, as the ANC attempted to present a united front after a stinging election result ended its 30-year majority.
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