By ASHRAF KHALIL and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a year after a generational victory for their movement, thousands of opponents of abortion rights rallied under falling snow on Friday at the annual March for Life, vowing to keep fighting until abortion is eliminated. Months before a presidential election that
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Strauss and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, sporting a white and gold “Caucus Captain” hat, beamed as he marveled about the charming nature of the Iowa caucuses. Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was all smiles as she talked to a conservative media host. Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson mingled with guests at the Iowa Events Center. They
Continue ReadingBy Evan Perez, Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Uvalde, Texas (CNN) — Attorney General Merrick Garland said in an interview with CNN that he believes there should be a “speedy trial” in the election subversion case against Donald Trump, while also pushing back on allegations that his department is targeting the former president for political reasons. Garland said
Continue ReadingBy TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Inside the ballroom of a swanky downtown Seattle athletic club another small piece to the legacy of Pac-12 football ended Thursday. The Morris Trophy was never a name-brand award handed out following the college football season in part because it honored offensive and defensive linemen, players
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In the east valley, the lowrider scene stands strong just like religion. “My dad came home once with an Impala 59 and since I saw that car, I fell in love with them,” said Lupe Gonzalez, a local lowrider owner. The modified classic cars defy gravity hopping up and down. They’re works of art that under
Continue ReadingBy Suyin Haynes, CNN (CNN) — Think of Balenciaga today, and you may think of bold accessories emblazoned with the brand’s name, futuristic footwear, and runway shows featuring celebrities splashed across social media. Yet the label’s origins were rather more discreet; founder Cristóbal Balenciaga was renowned for his privacy, secrecy and need for control over every
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it has tested a nuclear-capable underwater attack drone in response to a combined naval exercise by South Korea, the United States and Japan this week, as it continues to blame its rivals for raising tensions in the region. The purported drone test
Continue ReadingBy JULIA FRANKEL, NAJIB JOBAIN and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A member of Israel’s War Cabinet cast doubt on the country’s strategy for releasing hostages held by Hamas, saying only a cease-fire can free them, as the prime minister rejected the United States’ calls to scale back its offensive. The comments by
Continue ReadingMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek will play a night match for the first time at this year’s Australian Open on Saturday when she meets Linda Noskova for a place in the round of 16. Swiatek rallied from 4-1 down in the deciding set against Danielle Collins in the previous round and is trying
Continue ReadingBy Michael Williams, Camila DeChalus and Nikki Carvajal, CNN Washington (CNN) — Several Texas mayors say they are fed up with the hyperpolarization over immigration as tensions between President Joe Biden and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott continue to escalate and the border becomes an intractable political issue for both men. Texas leaders attending the United States
Continue ReadingBy JAYAMPATHI PALIPANE Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan authorities say they have arrested tens of thousands of people in a monthlong crackdown on drugs and are vowing to continue despite U.N. criticism of possible human rights violations during the “heavy-handed” operation. Acting police chief Deshabandu Tennakoon told The Associated Press on
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — A member of Israel’s War Cabinet has confirmed reports that early in the war against Hamas in Gaza, an Israeli preemptive strike against Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia was called off at the last minute. Gadi Eisenkot, a former army chief, says he was among those arguing against such a strike in what he
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press A Russian official says a Ukrainian drone has struck an oil storage depot in western Russia, causing a massive blaze. It is the latest incident in Ukrainian forces’ apparently extended campaign of attacks on Russian soil ahead of the war’s two-year anniversary. Russian officials and news reports said four oil reservoirs
Continue ReadingBy FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan hopes to make the world’s first “pinpoint landing” on the moon, joining a modern push for lunar contact with roots in the Cold War-era space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. More than an hour after the spacecraft reached the moon, Japan’s space
Continue ReadingBy Maxime Tamsett, CNN (CNN) — Spelman College, a private women’s college in Atlanta, will receive a $100 million gift, which the school says is the largest single donation to a historically Black college or university. The donation comes from longtime Spelman trustee Ronda Stryker and her husband, William Johnston, the chairman of the wealth
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — World markets mostly advanced Friday after Wall Street recouped most of the week’s earlier losses and Japan reported slowing inflation, which may keep its ultra-low interest rates steady. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average edged 0.1% higher and the S&P 500 was up 0.2%. France’s
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — Early on Christmas Day in the central Gazan city of Deir al-Balah, Motaz Azaiza shared a terrifying update on X. A quadcopter was flying low above the door of his house, he said, and he feared he was about to be targeted in an Israeli airstrike. As a highly
Continue ReadingDAVAO, Philippines (AP) — A landslide set off by days of heavy rain buried a house where people were holding Christian prayers in the southern Philippines, killing at least 10 people, including five children, officials said Friday. Two people were injured, and at least one more villager remained unaccounted for following the landslide in a
Continue ReadingANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s leading soccer club Basaksehir says it’s ended its contract with Israeli player Eden Karzev following a disciplinary probe of his social media post calling for the release of hostages held in Gaza by the Hamas militant group. Thursday’s announcement comes days after another Israeli player, Sagiv Jehezkel, was briefly detained
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A mother’s love and a yearning for peace flowed from Japanese Empress Masako’s poem, read Friday at an annual celebration of poetry at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. The poem sings of how Masako was touched by what her daughter, Princess Aiko, wrote after her school trip
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