Palm Springs, Calif. – The Alberta Grizzly and Washington Blue Sox faced off in the California Winter League championship on Sunday. The Blue Sox entered the game as winners of 14 consecutive games, but the Grizzly stymied their streak and clinched the CWL crown with a 5-3 win. The California Winter League is the longest running
Continue ReadingBy Yoonjung Seo and Jessie Yeung, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — A South Korean pastor once hailed as a hero for helping North Korean defectors escape to safety has been jailed for sexually abusing minors. Chun Ki-won was sentenced to five years in prison last week for abusing six teenage victims between 2016 and 2023,
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A tribal clash in Papua New Guinea’s remote highlands in which at least 26 people were killed has put a growing internal security problem under the microscope in the strategically vital South Pacific island nation that has garnered closer military attention from the United States and
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL COLE Associated Press TEAHUPO’O, French Polynesia (AP) — Peva Levy said he felt a powerful, natural energy known as “mana” when he surfed Teahupo’o’s waves on a piece of plywood for the first time, rushing down a crumbling white surf in front of an untouched volcanic beach several years before the steady streams
Continue ReadingTORONTO (AP) — A flight heading from Toronto to New York City earlier this month had to turn around because of a “burnt electrical smell” in the cockpit. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says Endeavor Air Flight 4826 left Toronto’s Pearson International Airport the morning of Feb. 3 and was headed to JFK airport
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — Indian farmers who have been protesting for a week to demand guaranteed crop prices have rejected a proposal from the government, and say they will continue their march to the capital New Delhi. The protesting farmers began their march last week, but their efforts to reach the city have been blocked
Continue ReadingBy Yoonjung Seo and Jessie Yeung, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has presented a car to his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un, state media said Tuesday, in another sign of warming ties between the two countries that have raised concerns in the United States. The Russian-made car for Kim’s
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Chef Betty Berrysmith, the owner of the meal pickup service, Chef B’s Table CaliSoul, says that cooking is her love language. “Once it’s on the plate and when people eat it and say, ‘Oh my god, this is so good.’ You can feel that feeling that they have that you were trying to put into
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel’s assault in Gaza has killed more than 29,000 Palestinians since Oct. 7, the territory’s Health Ministry said Monday, marking another grim milestone in one of the deadliest and most destructive military campaigns in recent history. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Tuesday on the second day Chinese markets were open after the Lunar New Year break. Wall Street trading was closed Monday in the United States for President’s Day. Investors were generally turning less optimistic because of expectations that higher interest rates
Continue ReadingBy ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A study has found more than 57% of Argentina’s people are considered poor, the worst poverty level in 20 years. The findings unleashed accusations between former Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and the government of President Javier Milei. The study was done by the
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO AP Business Writer SINGAPORE (AP) — The Singapore Airshow – Asia’s largest – kicks off Tuesday with an array of aerial displays including some by China’s COMAC C919 narrow-body airliner. It’s the first time Singapore has opened the event to the public since 2020, when a scaled-down version went ahead as the
Continue ReadingBy Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin on Monday said Senate Republicans blocking a border and foreign aid bill earlier this month was the “biggest part” of his decision to not run for president after he had previously weighed a third-party campaign. The retiring Democratic lawmaker told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that
Continue ReadingCNN By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin on Monday said Senate Republicans blocking a border and foreign aid bill earlier this month was the “biggest part” of his decision to not run for president after he had previously weighed a third-party campaign. The retiring Democratic lawmaker told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says Russian President Vladimir Putin has gifted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a Russian-made car for his personal use in a demonstration of their special relationship. North Korea and Russia have boosted their cooperation significantly since Kim and Putin had a summit
Continue ReadingBy MARCOS ALEMÁN and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and his New Ideas party have won the supermajority the leader needs in Congress to govern as he pleases. Electoral officials announced the results Monday after a painstaking vote counting process, which has raised the hackles
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Capital One Financial said it will buy Discover Financial Services for $35 billion, in a deal that would bring together two of the nation’s credit card companies as well as potentially shake up the payments industry, which is largely dominated by Visa and Mastercard. Under
Continue ReadingBy SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican-led House has passed a ban on celebratory gunfire in cities less than a week after a deadly shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade. The bipartisan-supported bill passed Monday after a tearful and confrontational debate between Republicans and Democrats over the best
Continue ReadingBy JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The goal was obvious to William Byron: put the No. 24 Chevrolet in victory lane in the 2024 Daytona 500 to launch Hendrick Motorsports’ 40th anniversary season. Mission accomplished, even if Byron had to complete an agonizing final lap under caution around Daytona
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA Associated Press A man who killed himself after fatally shooting two police officers and a firefighter in a wooded Minneapolis-area neighborhood wasn’t legally allowed to have guns after a previous assault conviction and was entangled in a yearslong dispute over the custody and financial support of his three oldest children, court records
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