By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Five European nations and Canada are seeking to join a case brought by Gambia at the United Nations’ highest court accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against its Rohingya minority. The International Court of Justice said Thursday that Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is some background information about the Academy Awards, also known as the “Oscars.” March 10, 2024 – The 96th Annual Academy Awards ceremony is scheduled to take place, with Jimmy Kimmel hosting. March 12, 2023 – The 95th Annual Academy Awards ceremony takes place, with Jimmy Kimmel hosting. 2023
Continue ReadingBy SARAH TETAUD Associated Press ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Polling stations have closed and counting of votes is underway in Madagascar’s presidential election that was boycotted by the majority of candidates following weeks of unrest and court battles. The country’s elections management body will announce late Thursday the first nationwide trend, based on the counting
Continue ReadingBy Jeffrey Kopp, Veronica Miracle and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — A jury has found David DePape guilty on two counts in the violent attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, last year in the couple’s San Francisco home. DePape was convicted in federal court of one count of
Continue ReadingBy MIKE STOBBE and KENYA HUNTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — RSV infections are rising sharply in some parts of the country, nearly filling hospital emergency departments in Georgia, Texas and some other states. Federal officials say they are taking action to help counter the surge. On Thursday, they announced the release of 77,000
Continue ReadingCNN By Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump maintains a significant lead among likely voters in New Hampshire’s Republican presidential primary, but former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has moved ahead of Trump’s other rivals and holds second place, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by the University
Continue ReadingBy Paula Reid, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Robert Hur is not expected to charge anyone in connection with the mishandling of classified documents at two locations connected to President Joe Biden, two sources close to the investigation told CNN. Hur and his team are compiling a detailed report on their year-long probe that is
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A jury on Thursday convicted the man who broke into former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home last year of federal charges for seeking to hold her hostage and attacking her husband with a hammer. Jurors deliberated for about eight hours before finding
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The fire erupted after midnight under a Los Angeles freeway where 16 people were living, including a pregnant woman who was only weeks from giving birth. As the flames engulfed the storage yard and the inferno’s heat melted some of the thoroughfare’s steel guardrails and concrete
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The fire erupted after midnight under a Los Angeles freeway where 16 people were living, including a pregnant woman who was only weeks from giving birth. As the flames engulfed the storage yard and the inferno’s heat melted some of the thoroughfare’s steel guardrails and concrete
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jury finds man who attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband guilty of federal assault and attempted kidnapping charges.
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Major League Baseball will play its 2025 All-Star Game in Atlanta, four years after moving the event from Truist Park to Denver’s Coors Field over objections to changes in Georgia’s voting rights laws. Atlanta was awarded the 2021 All-Star Game in May 2019, but MLB
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 ReadingBy KIM CHANDLER Associated Press ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is scheduled to execute a man convicted in the killing of a friend’s father during a 1993 robbery. Forty-nine-year-old Casey McWhorter is slated to receive a lethal injection at a south Alabama prison on Thursday evening. He was convicted of capital murder for the Feb.
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to assaulting Democratic Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota in the elevator of her Washington apartment has been sentenced to more than two years behind bars. Twenty-seven-year-old Kendrid Khalil Hamlin apologized to Craig and said he wants to get mental health and substance
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — Manhattan prosecutors urged a judge to reject Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss criminal charges related to a hush money payment, saying the former president is trying to use his political power to evade accountability. Prosecutors also said while investigating the hush money case this year that they gleaned new information
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Fresh off his meeting with the leader of China, President Joe Biden on Thursday is addressing CEOs who are grappling with the risks to their businesses from world crises. He’ll also spend time trying to persuade other Indo-Pacific leaders that the U.S. is
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Fresh off his meeting with the leader of China, President Joe Biden on Thursday is addressing CEOs who are grappling with the risks to their businesses from world crises. He’ll also spend time trying to persuade other Indo-Pacific leaders that the U.S. is
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By Nathan Hodge, Victoria Butenko and Marshall Cohen, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — A sitting Ukrainian lawmaker who helped Rudy Giuliani smear Joe Biden during the 2020 US presidential campaign has been jailed on suspicion of treason, Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation announced Tuesday, in a statement accusing him of carrying out a Russian disinformation operation. The
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