PARIS (AP) — French investigations into a fatal weekend attack near the Eiffel Tower are looking into the suspect’s mental health. The alleged attacker swore allegiance to the Islamic State group before stabbing a German-Filipino tourist to death and injuring two other people with a hammer. Officials say the French national taken into police custody,
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — ‘Tis the season for holiday shopping and Americans are in a mood to spend, as shown by record-high figures from Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Charitable giving, on the other hand, is at the lowest level in decades, according to data from Giving Tuesday. Here’s what else you need
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — ‘Tis the season for holiday shopping and Americans are in a mood to spend, as shown by record-high figures from Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Charitable giving, on the other hand, is at the lowest level in decades, according to data from Giving Tuesday. Here’s what else you
Continue ReadingCNN By Helen Regan and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN (CNN) — For weeks, CNN producer Ibrahim Dahman reported from Gaza as Israeli airstrikes brought devastation and despair to the besieged strip in the wake of the Hamas terror attacks of October 7. Dahman, 36, escaped to Egypt with his young family after nearly a month, but
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — ‘Tis the season for holiday shopping and Americans are in a mood to spend, as shown by record-high figures from Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Charitable giving, on the other hand, is at the lowest level in decades, according to data from Giving Tuesday. Here’s what else you
Continue ReadingBy RAHMA NURJANA Associated Press PADANG, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities have halted the search for 12 climbers after Mount Marapi volcano erupted again, unleashing a new burst of hot ash as high as 800 meters (2,620 feet) into the air. The head of West Sumatra’s Search and Rescue Agency said.bodies of 11 climbers were
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli warplanes heavily bombarded an area around Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Monday as the military ordered mass evacuations from the town in the face of a widening ground offensive that is pushing Palestinians into a progressively shrinking
Continue ReadingBy Hafsa Khalil, CNN London (CNN) — Language experts choosing the Oxford word of the year 2023 were dazzled by a bright young thing, selecting a relative newcomer, “rizz,” for the top spot. Derived from the word “charisma,” “rizz” refers to a person’s ability to attract a romantic partner through “style, charm or attractiveness,” dictionary
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren and three other liberal senators are raising concerns about how the Department of Education and federal student loan servicers are handling the return of student loan payments after a three-plus year, pandemic-related pause. Federal student loan payments resumed in October, but the 12-month on-ramp period
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer At stake over the next week in the NBA: a trip to Las Vegas for four teams, a chance to be the first team to hoist the league’s newest trophy, medals for each of the players on the champion team, along with bragging rights for winning the inaugural in-season
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Oxford University Press has named “rizz″ as its word of the year, highlighting the popularity of a term used by Generation Z to describe someone’s ability to attract or seduce another person. It topped “Swiftie” (an enthusiastic fan of Taylor Swift), “situationship” (an informal romantic or sexual relationship) and “prompt” (an instruction
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Human rights lawyers have gone to court in the Netherlands to call for a halt to the export of fighter jet parts to Israel that are being used in attacks on Gaza. The lawyers say that delivery of parts for F-35 jets makes the Netherlands
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Spotify says it’s axing 17% of its global workforce in the music streaming service’s third round of layoffs this year. It’s trying to slash costs while focusing on becoming profitable. In a message to employees posted on the company’s blog Monday, CEO Daniel Ek said the jobs are being cut as part
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has accused the U.S. of double standards, slamming it for allowing rival South Korea to launch a spy satellite from U.S. territory after condemning the North’s earlier satellite launch. The North’s space agency said Monday that if “the gangster-like logic of the U.S.
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — Heavy rains and strong winds are pelting India’s southern and eastern coastlines and states have been put on high alert after a deep depression over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a powerful storm. Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh states in the south and Odisha in the east braced for flooding
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. and Japanese divers have discovered wreckage and remains of crew members from a U.S. Air Force Osprey aircraft that crashed last week off southwestern Japan, the Air Force announced Monday. The CV-22 Osprey carrying eight American personnel crashed last Wednesday off Yakushima island during a training
Continue ReadingPESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say they arrested at least 17 suspects in the weekend bus shooting that left 10 people dead and 25 others wounded, authorities said. Security forces raided several areas in the northern Gilgit Baltistan region — where the attack took place — and arrested the men who were currently being
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Border officials in South Africa say they have intercepted dozens of buses carrying more than 400 young children from Zimbabwe without parents or legal guardians in an anti-trafficking operation. The officials say the children were being “trafficked” into South Africa, although an organization representing foreign nationals living
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday sent Congress an urgent warning about the need to approve tens of billions of dollars in military and economic assistance to Ukraine, saying Kyiv’s war effort to defend itself from Russia’s invasion may grind to a halt without it. In
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, Jeff Zeleny and Kit Maher, CNN Newton, Iowa (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had only moments earlier departed a Saturday celebration marking his completion of a 99-county tour of Iowa – a feat he has hyped for months – when word began to spread that another wave of turmoil had hit the
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