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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — A chance discovery made in southern France has revealed a rare specimen — an almost complete dinosaur skeleton found connected from its hind skull to its tail. The massive fossil came to light in May 2022, after now 25-year-old amateur paleontologist Damien Boschetto and his dog stumbled across something
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A sweeping bank regulatory proposal will be significantly revised by year’s end, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday, a potential victory for the large banks that have aggressively opposed the likely changes. The proposed rule, issued last summer by the Fed and other regulatory agencies,
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to use his State of the Union address Thursday to promote his vision for a second term to a dispirited electorate that questions whether he’s up to the job and to warn that GOP front-runner Donald Trump would
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — Four people including two juveniles have been indicted in the fatal beating of a teenage boy during a Halloween party last year in the Phoenix suburb of Queen Creek, and authorities announced two more arrests on Thursday. Preston Lord, 16, died from his injuries two days after the Oct. 28 gang-style attack
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has met with his child protection board as new developments outside the Vatican underscored that the Catholic Church’s clergy sex abuse scandal isn’t going away anytime soon. The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors is expected to soon release the first-ever audit of safeguarding
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A judge has barred some text messages as evidence in the trial of a Michigan school shooter’s father. The ruling came before opening statements in a suburban Detroit court. James Crumbley is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of four students at Oxford High School
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will announce a plan in his State of the Union address Thursday for the U.S. military to help establish a temporary port on the Gaza coast, increasing the flow of humanitarian aid for the beleaguered territory during the Israel-Hamas war, according to administration officials.
Continue ReadingPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s government said Thursday that it was extending a state of emergency and nighttime curfew to try and curb violent gang attacks that have paralyzed the capital of Port-au-Prince amid a fierce political battle for power. An initial three-day curfew was announced over the weekend, but gangs have continued to attack
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Scientists working in southwest England have found the oldest fossilized forest known on Earth, according to a new study. Dating back 390 million years, the fossils break the record held by a forest in New York state by 4 million years, reads a press release from the University of
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Hu, Tara John, Paul P Murphy and Abel Alvarado, CNN Caitlin Hu, Tara John and Sahar Akbarzai, CNN (CNN) — Intruders broke into a major port terminal in Haiti Thursday as violence in the country escalated after the government extended its state of emergency. The Haitian government decreed the state of emergency would be extended to
Continue ReadingBy JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — When Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry filled the void left by the assassination of the country’s president in 2021, he did so over the protest of wide segments of the population but with the full-throated support of the Biden administration. Now, almost three years later, Henry’s grip
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press A major electrical transmission line proposal intended to carry power to New England from Canada through Vermont and New Hampshire has been canceled. Electric utility National Grid said in an emailed statement on Thursday that it “has determined that the project is not viable at this time.” The proposed 211-mile, $2 billion
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE and LORNE COOK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sweden has formally joined NATO as the 32nd member of the transatlantic military alliance, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality and centuries of broader non-alignment. Sweden’s membership comes as concerns about Russian aggression in Europe have spiked following Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Continue ReadingBy JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press Power lines ignited massive wildfires across the Texas Panhandle that destroyed homes and killed thousands of livestock, officials said Thursday, including the largest blaze in state history that the utility provider Xcel Energy said its equipment appeared to have sparked. The Texas A&M Forest Service said its investigators have concluded
Continue ReadingBy JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A coalition of humanitarian and nongovernmental groups has slammed Israel’s halt in renewing visas for international aid workers in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank. Since early February, Israel’s welfare ministry has stopped the renewal process saying it doesn’t have the bandwidth to investigate aid
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. Facts The organization’s charter states that the signing parties will “seek to promote stability and well-being in the North Atlantic area,” and will “unite their efforts for collective defense and for the preservation of peace and
Continue ReadingBy TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Tennessee have identified the victims of a small plane crash near downtown Nashville as a family of five from Canada. Metro Nashville Police say pilot Victor Dotsenko was with his wife Rimma and their three children, ages 12, 10 and 7. The Mayor of
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards, Radina Gigova, Jennifer Hansler and Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — Sweden officially joined NATO on Thursday after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine spurred it to rethink its defense policy and abandon its long held position of neutrality. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson formally handed over accession documents to the US State Department in
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa has been the only state in the U.S. to explicitly mandate that state, county and local decision-making bodies are balanced by gender. That will end when Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signs a bill that aligns with a broader abrogation of gender- and race-conscious policies
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The mother of a 6-year-old girl who has been missing in South Africa for nearly three weeks was arrested and charged Thursday with kidnapping and selling or trafficking her daughter, a shocking twist in a case that has seized the country’s attention and sparked
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