By Christian Edwards and Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a passionate plea to leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, urging them not to allow Russia’s war in Ukraine to become “frozen.” Speaking in person at the conference for the first time since Russia launched its full-scale invasion
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Of the six women Rex Heuermann is accused of killing on Long Island, four of them were discovered bound with belts or tape and wrapped in burlap along a stretch of Gilgo Beach in 2010. A married father accused by authorities of leading a double life, Heuermann initially faced
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.S. launched a new strike against the Yemen-based Houthis on Tuesday, hitting anti-ship missiles in the third assault on the Iranian-backed group in recent days, a U.S. official said. The strike came as the Iranian-backed Houthis claimed responsibility for a missile attack against the Malta-flagged bulk
Continue ReadingBy AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer UCLA’s domination of college basketball hit its title-hogging peak with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Walton in the middle. The two big men helped drive the Bruins’ unprecedented run of seven straight NCAA championships (1967-73) along with impacting the history of the Associated Press men’s college basketball poll. As the
Continue ReadingBy JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press KIBBUTZ NIR OZ, Israel (AP) — Standing in the ruins of her home in the Nir Oz farming village on the Gaza border, Sharon Alony Cunio gazed at the distant skyline of Khan Younis, the Palestinian city where Hamas militants dragged her more than three months ago. Her husband, David,
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINE FERNANDO and SUMMER BALLENTINE The Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Reproductive rights activists in Missouri agree they want to get a ballot measure before voters this fall to roll back one of the strictest abortion bans in the country and ensure access. The sticking point is how far they should go.
Continue ReadingRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — An American art dealer who co-owned a prominent Manhattan gallery has been found dead in a Rio de Janeiro apartment. Homicide investigators for the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro State are looking into the death of 75-year-old Brent Sikkema, who co-owned the contemporary art gallery Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Continue ReadingBy Elle Reeve, Samantha Guff and Frank Fenimore, CNN Boones Mill, Virginia (CNN) — Walk into Trump Town USA in Boones Mill, Virginia, and you may marvel at the breadth of human creativity, as long as you’re not distracted by how the merchandise tackles some of the most controversial political issues in the most vulgar
Continue ReadingCNN Opinion by Julian Zelizer, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is a cultural phenomenon. His dominance in the Iowa caucuses over well-funded and high-profile competitors this week proved it. For his legion of passionate supporters, he is more than a politician. He is like a sports team or a rock band that helps
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police in the Bahamas say a 10-year-old boy from Maryland was attacked by a shark at a local resort. Authorities said in a statement that the unidentified boy was hospitalized Monday after a shark attacked his right leg while he participated in what authorities said was a “shark tank”
Continue ReadingCNN By Brynn Gingras, Mark Morales and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Gilgo Beach serial killings suspect Rex Heuermann has now been charged with murder in the deaths of all four women who became known as the “Gilgo Four” after their remains were discovered by investigators on Long Island in 2010. Heuermann is charged with second-degree murder in
Continue ReadingBy RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Arizona hired San Jose State’s Brent Brennan to be the Wildcats’ next head coach on Tuesday, replacing Jedd Fisch about 48 hours after he left for Washington. Brennan, 50, agreed to a five-year contract with Arizona, a person with direct knowledge of the deal told The Associated
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A lawyer for imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny says that Russian authorities have charged her with participating in an extremist group. The same charges were brought against three other lawyers who represented Navalny and were jailed in October in a move his allies had decried as
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jury selection began in a New York courtroom Tuesday after a judge denied Donald Trump’s request that a defamation trial stemming from a columnist’s claims that he sexually abused her in the 1990s be suspended on Thursday so he could attend the
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Federal Reserve official said Tuesday that he is increasingly confident that inflation will continue falling this year back to the Fed’s 2% target level, after two years of accelerating price spikes that hurt millions of American households. The official, Christopher Waller, an influential member
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Rapper and entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs has withdrawn his lawsuit against Diageo as part of a settlement with the London-based spirits giant. Combs and Diageo “have now agreed to resolve all disputes between them,” the two parties said in a statement released Tuesday. Diageo is now the sole owner
Continue ReadingBy JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s only overseas adoption agency says it is “winding down” its facilitation of international adoptions after a government agency raised concerns over fabricated documents and procedures that obscured children’s origins abroad. Danish International Adoption mediated adoptions in the Philippines, India, South Africa, Thailand, Taiwan and
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer HONOLULU (AP) — Camilo Villegas was laughing about the time he was disqualified from Kapalua 13 years ago on his birthday. That was long before he was married, had his first child and then lost his daughter to brain cancer. He has been through a lot. So has Chris
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO and DAVID COLLINS Associated Press RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — A New York architect charged in a string of slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings was accused Tuesday in the death of a fourth woman, a Connecticut mother of two who vanished in 2007 and whose remains were found more than three
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Nikki Haley said Tuesday that she wouldn’t participate in the next Republican presidential debate unless former President Donald Trump takes part in it, leaving Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as the only candidate committed to Thursday’s event. “We’ve had five great debates in this campaign,” Haley
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