By HUIZHONG WU and EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin focused on trade and cultural exchanges Friday during his state visit to China that started with bonhomie in Beijing and a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping that deepened their “ no limits ” partnership as both countries face
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Like a political convention held amidst an intra-party rift, Thursday night’s PEN America gala was a call for unity, dialogue and a renewed sense of mission at a time when PEN’s priorities have been called into question. “Our assembly is disassembling,” PEN America CEO Suzanne
Continue ReadingBy Chris Lau and Angus Watson, CNN Sydney (CNN) — Three players from Australia’s top soccer league have been arrested and charged over an alleged betting scam, accused of deliberately getting yellow cards and giving away penalties at the behest of a South American criminal. A senior A-League player allegedly took instructions from the mastermind
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By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — On many nights, hundreds of migrants squeeze through poles in a border wall or climb over on metal ladders. They gather in a buffer zone between two walls with views of the night lights of Tijuana, Mexico, waiting hours for Border Patrol agents while
Continue ReadingBy ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — On many nights, hundreds of migrants squeeze through poles in a border wall or climb over on metal ladders. They gather in a buffer zone between two walls with views of the night lights of Tijuana, Mexico, waiting hours for Border Patrol agents while
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By DAVID J. PHILLIP, LISA BAUMANN and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Fast-moving thunderstorms pummeled southeastern Texas on Thursday for the second time this month, killing at least four people, blowing out windows in high-rise buildings, downing trees and knocking out power to more than 850,000 homes and businesses in the Houston area.
Continue ReadingBy JEFF MARTIN and CURT ANDERSON Associated Press STONECREST, Ga. (AP) — A funeral will be held Friday for a Black U.S. Air Force senior airman who was shot and killed in his Florida home by a sheriff’s deputy, a day after the decorated military member’s mother vowed during an emotional news conference to get
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER and KIM CHANDLER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union faces the latest test of its ambitious plan to unionize auto plants in the historically nonunion South when a vote ends Friday at two Mercedes-Benz factories near Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The voting at the two Mercedes factories — one an
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Catholic Church has a long and controversial history of the faithful claiming to have had visions of the Virgin Mary, of statues that purportedly wept blood tears and stigmata that erupted on hands mimicking the wounds of Christ. On Friday, the Vatican will announce new
Continue ReadingSYDNEY (AP) — Australian professional soccer was rocked Friday by accusations that the captain of A-League club Macarthur FC paid two younger teammates up to 10,000 Australian dollars ($6,600) to deliberately receive yellow cards in a scheme set up by a South American gambling connection. The player were identified Macarthur team leader Ulises Davila and
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man convicted of attempting to kidnap then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking her husband with a hammer is set to be sentenced in federal court Friday. Jurors found David DePape, 44, guilty in November of attempted kidnapping of a federal official and assault on
Continue ReadingBy Paul P. Murphy and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Satellite images exclusively obtained by CNN show three destroyed Russian jets and damaged buildings at Belbek airbase in occupied port city of Sevastopol on Wednesday. The hardware losses come after two days of attacks by the Ukrainians on Sevastopol in Crimea, which was illegally annexed by Russia in
Continue ReadingBy MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HUITZILAC, Mexico (AP) — Tailed by trucks of heavily armed soldiers, four caskets floated on a sea of hundreds of mourners. Neighbors peered nervously from their homes as the crowd pushed past shuttered businesses, empty streets and political campaign posters plastering the small Mexican town of Huitzilac. Days earlier, armed
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will head to Minnesota on a day off from his hush money trial for a Republican fundraiser Friday night in a traditionally Democratic state that he boasts he can carry in November. Trump will headline the state GOP’s annual Lincoln Reagan
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge is considering Alec Baldwin’s request to dismiss a grand jury indictment against him at a virtual court hearing Friday. The indictment in January charged Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on Oct. 21, 2021, at
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge is considering Alec Baldwin’s request to dismiss a grand jury indictment against him at a virtual court hearing Friday. The indictment in January charged Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on Oct. 21, 2021, at
Continue ReadingBy DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Whether it’s tapioca balls or computer chips, Taiwan is stretching toward the United States and away from China — the world’s No. 2 economy that threatens to take the democratically ruled island by force if necessary. That has translated to the world’s biggest maker of computer chips
Continue ReadingBy SHARON LURYE Associated Press On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court laid out a new precedent: Separate but equal has no place in American schools. The message of Brown v. Board of Education was clear. But 70 years later, the impact of the decision is still up for debate. Have Americans truly ended segregation
Continue ReadingBy Chandelis Duster, Nicquel Terry Ellis and Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas – the landmark Supreme Court decision that declared “separate but equal” education unconstitutional in the United States – remains one of the most consequential court cases in American history. As the nation commemorates the ruling’s 70th
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Four local students are being recognized with this month’s “Do the Right Thing” award, which is a partnership between the Palm Springs Police Dept. and News Channel 3. Mattheo Estrada Rios, Rose Wells, Josiah Cecena, and Martinez Shanti Turner were all honored today. The students were chosen for their positive attitudes and contributions to the
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