By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s imperial family made an Instagram debut with a barrage of posts on Monday, hoping to shake off their reclusive image and reach out to younger people on social media. The Imperial Household Agency, a government agency in charge of the family’s affairs, posted 60 photos and
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — An old land mine found by children in eastern Afghanistan has exploded while they were playing with it, killing nine children. A Taliban spokesman says the land mine, which the children found near their village in Ghazni province, was from decades ago. He says the explosion Sunday killed five boys and four
Continue ReadingWBAL, STREAMTIMELIVE, CNN By Omar Jimenez, CNN (CNN) — It was just past 1 a.m. on March 26 and Larry DeSantis was headed to his second job at Herman’s Bakery in the Baltimore area -– the halfway point of another long, but normal, workday. When a ship collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — The French foreign minister pressed China on trade issues and the war in Ukraine on Monday ahead of a planned visit to France by Chinese leader Xi Jinping later this spring. Stéphane Séjourné, in talks with his counterpart Wang Yi in the Chinese capital, largely echoed positions that have been laid out
Continue ReadingBy SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The world’s largest democratic election could also be one of its most consequential. With a population of over 1.4 billion people and close to 970 million voters, India’s general election pits Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an avowed Hindu nationalist, against a broad alliance of opposition parties
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — A court in Indian has placed a top opposition leader in two weeks of judicial detention after his 10 days in the custody of a federal agency expired. Opposition leaders says the case is part of a crackdown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on rivals ahead of a national election later this
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The hottest ticket in Washington this week involves spoons, eggs, referees and a throng of cheering parents: It’s time for the 144th annual White House Easter Egg Roll. Since the 1870s, children have participated in the time-honored, Americana custom of pushing brightly colored, hard-boiled eggs across the White House South
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Charleston, South Carolina (CNN) — Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh received another prison sentence Monday, this time in federal court, where a judge sentenced him to 40 years after he pleaded guilty to a raft of financial crimes, including nearly two dozen charges of conspiracy, fraud and money laundering.
Continue ReadingCNN, WCSC, WTOC, POOL VIA COURT TV, ERIC BLAND, FAMILY PHOTOS, ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE By Dakin Andone and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Charleston, South Carolina (CNN) — Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh received another prison sentence Monday, this time in federal court, where a judge sentenced him to 40 years after he pleaded guilty to a
Continue ReadingBy Abeer Salman, Lucas Lilieholm, Jessie Yeung and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s military has withdrawn from Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, after a 14-day siege that witnesses and Palestinian officials say has left buildings largely destroyed and bodies strewn across the complex. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed its withdrawal Monday, saying its troops
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani officials say the bodies of five Chinese nationals who were killed last week in a suicide bombing in northwestern Pakistan have been flown to Beijing. The bodies were sent to Beijing overnight from a military air base in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. The development came a week after the Chinese,
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military withdrew from Gaza’s largest hospital early Monday after a two-week raid that engulfed the facility and surrounding districts in fighting. Footage showed widespread devastation, with the facility’s main buildings reduced to burned-out husks. The military has
Continue ReadingBy Omar Jimenez, CNN (CNN) — It was just past 1 a.m. on March 26 and Larry DeSantis was headed to his second job at Herman’s Bakery in the Baltimore area -– the halfway point of another long, but normal workday. When a ship collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing its catastrophic collapse,
Continue ReadingBy Marlon Sorto and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Argentina and Colombia say they have taken “concrete steps” to improve frayed relations between the two countries after far-right Argentine leader Javier Milei called his left-wing Colombian counterpart a “terrorist murderer” in a CNN interview. In a joint statement Sunday, the two nations’ foreign ministries said they had
Continue ReadingNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police say a man was killed and five other people were injured during a shooting inside a Nashville, Tennessee, restaurant. The city’s police department says the shooting around 3 p.m. Sunday began within minutes of the male suspect’s arrival when the suspect and the man who died got into an argument
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — A World Bank report says Asian economies are not doing as well as they could and growth in the region is forecast to slow to 4.5% this year from 5.1% in 2023. The report released Monday says debt, trade barriers and policy uncertainties are dulling the
Continue ReadingBy LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant list in 2015 instead of 2019 — and a racially biased organ test was to blame. As upsetting as that
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian residents say the Israeli military has withdrawn from Gaza’s main hospital after a two-week raid, leaving behind a vast swath of destruction. Hundreds of people returned to Shifa Hospital and the surrounding area after the withdrawal early Monday, where they
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president vowed Monday not to back down in the face of vehement protests by doctors seeking to derail his plan to drastically increase medical school admissions, as he called their walkouts “an illegal collective action” that poses “a grave threat to our society.”
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Former NFL cornerback Cameron Sutton has turned himself in to Florida authorities nearly one month after a warrant was issued for his arrest on charges of domestic battery by strangulation, according to a news release from Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. The Sheriff’s office said Sutton turned himself in at
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