By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dan Rather was synonymous with CBS News before the veteran anchorman left in bitterness in 2006, following a discredited report on then-President George W. Bush’s military service. On Sunday, he returned to the network for the first time in 18 years. He’s now 92 and
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG, JON GAMBRELL and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A senior Qatari official has urged Israel and Hamas to show “more commitment and more seriousness” in cease-fire negotiations in interviews with Israeli media, as pressure builds to reach a deal that would free some Israeli hostages and bring a
Continue ReadingBy KEN MILLER Associated Press HOLDENVILLE, Okla. (AP) — Two people are dead in Oklahoma after tornadoes swept through the state, leveling buildings and knocking out power for tens of thousands of residents. Hughes County Emergency Medical Services says one of the deceased was a child and that four other people were injured. Dozens of
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is out to win votes by scoring some laughs at the expense of Donald Trump, unleashing mockery with the goal of getting under the former president’s thin skin and reminding the country of his blunders. Like a comic honing his routine,
Continue ReadingBy Eve Brennan, Catherine Nicholls and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — Prince Harry will return to the United Kingdom in May to celebrate a milestone anniversary of the Invictus Games, the biennial sporting competition he founded a decade ago. The Duke of Sussex will give a reading at a ceremony at London’s St. Paul’s
Continue ReadingBy SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Officials in Ukraine say Russian drones struck the Black Sea city of Mykolaiv, setting a hotel ablaze and damaging energy infrastructure while ammunition shortages continue to hobble Kyiv’s troops in the more than 2-year-old war. The governor of Ukraine’s southern Mykolaiv province said there were no
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Not long ago, senior citizens got the two biggest annual increases in their monthly Social Security checks that most had ever seen. But for many of them, the adjustments still weren’t enough to cope with the runaway inflation of earlier this decade and the continued high prices for food, housing,
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Dozens of people in northern Italy have raised their arms in the fascist salute to honor Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on the 79th anniversary of his execution. Dressed in black, the neo-fascist supporters marched through northern Italian towns where Mussolini was arrested and executed at the end
Continue ReadingBy DARREN SANDS Associated Press No woman had ever preached the keynote sermon at the Joint National Baptist Convention, a gathering of four historically Black Baptist denominations representing millions of people. That changed in January when the Rev. Gina Stewart took the convention stage in Memphis, Tennessee, — the Southern city home to Christ Missionary
Continue ReadingBy SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press CHBAR MON, Cambodia (AP) — A funeral was held Sunday for 20 soldiers who died at an army base in southwestern Cambodia in a huge explosion of stored munitions that also wounded several others and damaged nearby houses. There has been no public explanation of what caused the Saturday afternoon
Continue ReadingBy JAMES POLLARD Associated Press More workplaces are bolstering their volunteer programs, especially as employee demands grow for socially responsible employers and engagement. Nearly three in five companies surveyed by the Association of Corporate Citizenship Professionals reported increased opportunities for group volunteering last year. With National Volunteer Week in the rearview mirror, coworkers buoyed by
Continue ReadingBy JAMES POLLARD Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Employees increasingly find that robust workplace volunteer programs meet their desires for in-person connections, professional growth and altruistically inclined employers — career objectives that might be missing in conventional corporate atmospheres. The surge in interest coming out of the pandemic-era shutdowns that forced many Americans to
Continue ReadingBy ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné arrived in Lebanon on Sunday as part of diplomatic attempts to broker a de-escalation in the conflict on the Lebanon-Israel border. Séjourné met with United Nations peacekeeping forces in south Lebanon and with Lebanon’s parliament speaker, army chief, foreign minister and caretaker
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director (CNN) — Donald Trump continues to hold an advantage over President Joe Biden as the campaign – and the former president’s criminal trial – move forward, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. And in the coming rematch, opinions about the first term of each man vying
Continue ReadingBy BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump is running against Joe Biden, but Trump keeps bringing up another Democrat, Jimmy Carter. Trump likes to cite the 99-year-old Carter as a measuring stick to belittle Biden. Trump calls Carter a happy man because, according to Trump, Biden’s performance in office makes Carter’s presidency
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Carey and Olga Voitovych, CNN (CNN) — Vladimir Putin’s forces have made further gains in at least three locations along the eastern front in Ukraine – including for the first time in several months an advance in the northern Kharkiv region – highlighting again Kyiv’s need for ammunition and weapons from the United
Continue ReadingBy Annette Choi and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — This November, voters in at least 10 states will take to the polls to determine the future of abortion access in their state, after a nationwide effort by organizers to secure a wave of ballot measures aimed at restoring or protecting the right to an abortion
Continue ReadingBy ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Human rights groups and diplomats criticized a law that was quietly passed by the Iraqi parliament over the weekend that would impose heavy prison sentences on gay and transgender people. U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement that the law passed
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Morgan Freeman spoke the words, but pretty much everyone who took the stage at the presentation of the AFI Life Achievement Award agreed: “ Nicole Kidman. She makes movies better.” The line came in a video parody of Kidman’s AMC Theatres “we make movies better”
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Morgan Freeman spoke the words, but pretty much everyone who took the stage at the presentation of the AFI Life Achievement Award agreed: “ Nicole Kidman. She makes movies better.” The line came in a video parody of Kidman’s AMC Theatres “we make movies better”
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