By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Why has it been raining so much in South Florida? Experts say the latest windy, rainy storm system has nothing to do with hurricane season — and it’s finally moving on. The storm system that formed over the Florida Keys this week and dumped up
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It’s a First Alert Weather Alert Day as a Pacific storm brings rain to Southern California, including in the Coachella Valley and surrounding mountains. We are tracking impacts to travel as the rain will make roads slick. The thunderstorms that developed brought, at times, heavy rain to the Coachella Valley, with more than a quarter
Continue ReadingBy JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s government says it will close four crossing points on its long border with Russia to stop the flow of migrants that it accuses Moscow of ushering to the border in recent months. Finnish officials say they will be closed at midnight Friday on the land border
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — Demonstrators seeking a ceasefire in Gaza are blocking traffic on the Boston University bridge during rush hour. The group chanted “Ceasefire now!” during the protest that came more than five weeks after the Hamas-led attacks in Israel on Oct. 7 amid an ongoing Israeli ground offensive in Gaza. Activists were demanding that
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ending the threat of a government shutdown until after the holidays, Congress gave final approval to a temporary government funding package that pushes a confrontation over the federal budget into the new year. The Senate met into Wednesday night to pass the bill with an 87-11 tally
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer More Americans filed for jobless claims last week, but the labor market remains broadly healthy in the face of retreating inflation and elevated interest rates. Applications for unemployment benefits rose by 13,000 to 231,000 for the week ending Nov. 11, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s the most in
Continue ReadingBy MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Britain’s medicines regulator has authorized the world’s first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease, in a move that could offer relief to thousands of people with the crippling illness in the U.K. In a statement on Thursday, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it
Continue ReadingCNN By Sam Fossum, Morgan Rimmer and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Law enforcement clashed with protesters calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war outside of the Washington headquarters of the Democratic National Committee Wednesday night, the latest eruption of tensions across the country over the Israel-Hamas war. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, House
Continue ReadingGIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — When the Rev. Silvio Báez finished his homily on a recent Sunday, applause broke out among the hundreds of faithful in St. Agatha Catholic Church, on the outskirts of Miami, that has become the spiritual home of the growing Nicaraguan diaspora. For the auxiliary bishop of Managua, his
Continue ReadingBy FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A storm system that formed over the Florida Keys and dumped up to 9 inches of rain across parts of South Florida has moved into the Atlantic Ocean. Meteorologist Luke Culver with the National Weather Service in Miami says the area should start seeing clearing
Continue ReadingBy KIM COOK Associated Press There’s one room in the home where a lot of holiday memories are made — the kitchen. For years, peak kitchen design has favored serious, sleek, state-of-the-art. But as one designer puts it, many of us reminisce about family kitchens that weren’t perfect or luxurious. They were where conversations happened,
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street turned modestly lower early Thursday with mixed results this week from some of the nation’s biggest retailers and a meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping intended to lower tensions between the world’s two largest economies. Futures for the Dow
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Five people including the founder of the Blackwater security firm have gone on trial in Austria, accused of exporting two crop-spraying aircraft that were allegedly refitted for military purposes without required permits. The trial stems from an investigation into a local firm which fits out aircraft with sensors and other equipment. Prosecutors
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Federal authorities in New York City have announced the largest U.S. seizure of counterfeit goods, consisting of handbags, shoes and other luxury merchandise valued at more than $1 billion. Two people were charged with trafficking the knockoffs from a New York City storage unit and other locations from January through October,
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Strauss and Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Less than three months ago, Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy was gaining traction in the polls, backed by a populist outsider message and an attention-grabbing performance at the first primary debate. Today, the Ohio entrepreneur is still stuck in the single digits in a thinning GOP primary pack.
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Russian court on Thursday convicted an artist and musician for replacing supermarket price tags with antiwar slogans and sentenced her to seven years in prison, Russian media reported. Sasha Skochilenko was arrested in her native St. Petersburg in April 2022 on charges of spreading false
Continue ReadingBy DIDI TANG Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping signaled that China will send new pandas to the United States, calling them “envoys of friendship between the Chinese and American peoples.” “We are ready to continue our cooperation with the United States on panda conservation, and do our best to meet
Continue ReadingBy DIDI TANG Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping signaled that China will send new pandas to the United States, calling them “envoys of friendship between the Chinese and American peoples.” “We are ready to continue our cooperation with the United States on panda conservation, and do our best to meet
Continue ReadingBy Nimi Princewill, CNN Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) — Diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Nigeria have come under scrutiny after 177 Nigerians were refused entry to the country on Monday. Nigeria’s foreign ministry said only 87 of 264 Nigerian nationals who landed in Jeddah on an Air Peace flight Monday were allowed to enter. All
Continue ReadingCNN Words by Gabrielle Jones; video by Jo Munnik, CNN (CNN) — Off the coast of South Africa lies the Great African Sea Forest, home to one of the most biodiverse marine environments on the planet. Many types of life live within the waters including fish, octopus, sea slugs, large amounts of kelp, and sharks
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