By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Republican-controlled House is once again targeting the Internal Revenue Service, this time voting to cut some of the agency’s funding to pay for a $14.3 billion emergency aid package for Israel. The bill, put forth by the House’s newly minted speaker, Mike Johnson, passed the House Thursday,
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Palm Springs Pride Week is set to get underway Thursday with the free inaugural Latin Pride Fiesta in the Arenas District. The celebration, which will be hosted by Chichi Fuera, will get underway at 5 p.m. on Arenas Road between Indian Canyon Drive and Calle Encilia until 10 p.m. Thursday, according Greater Palm Springs
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — These days, think twice before you lavishly ladle olive oil onto your pasta, salad or crusty bread. Olive oil, a daily staple of Mediterranean cuisine and the life of many a salad throughout Europe, is experiencing a staggering rise in price. It’s a prime example of how
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Gaming giant Bally’s paid Donald Trump’s company $60 million to buy the right to operate a public golf course in New York City, the former president’s namesake son testified Thursday. The terms of the lease transfer on the former Trump Golf Links
Continue ReadingBy LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian opposition lawmakers have caused commotion in Parliament, trying to disrupt a session in protest against what they say is increasingly authoritarian rule by the governing Socialists. Democratic lawmakers on Thursday blocked left-wing Socialists of Prime Minister Edi Rama from taking their seats and stacked chairs
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Dozens of Palestinians with foreign passports crossed through the war-torn Gaza Strip’s only exit for the second straight day Thursday, escaping Israel’s suffocating siege into the empty Egyptian desert. But the evacuation rush left families divided by citizenship status in painful limbo.
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Dozens of Palestinians with foreign passports crossed through the war-torn Gaza Strip’s only exit for the second straight day Thursday, escaping Israel’s suffocating siege into the empty Egyptian desert. But the evacuation rush left families divided by citizenship status in painful limbo.
Continue ReadingBy LEAH WILLINGHAM and JOHN RABY Associated Press Crews began the arduous process of removing layers of rubble and debris from a collapsed coal mine preparation plant in eastern Kentucky Thursday. Efforts were part of the continued search for a worker missing since Tuesday night, when the 11-story abandoned building crashed down on two men
Continue ReadingBy SIMINA MISTREANU and HAN GUAN NG Associated Press SHANGHAI, China (AP) — American Ballet Theatre has returned to China for the first time in a decade, the latest sign that strained U.S.-China relations are beginning to improve. The New York-based company’s 85 dancers prepared for opening night at the Shanghai Grand Theater on Thursday.
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER BODEEN and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press HEFEI, China (AP) — Hundreds, possibly thousands, of people have gathered near a state funeral home in Beijing as China’s former second-ranking leader, Li Keqiang, was put to rest. Crowds also gathered in Li’s hometown in the central city of Hefei, laying a mound of bouquets in
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez and Camila DeChalus, CNN (CNN) — The mayors of Denver and Chicago met with senior White House officials on Thursday to discuss the influx of migrant arrivals in their cities, according to a White House spokesperson. Over the last year, the White House has come under increasing criticism from local officials across
Continue ReadingMILAN (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s office has expressed “regret” that she fell prey to a prank call that induced her to acknowledge “fatigue” over the war in Ukraine. Meloni believed she was speaking with officials of the African Union. She told a pair of Russian pranksters that “there is a lot of fatigue,
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BLETCHLEY PARK, England (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and senior politicians from around the world agreed Thursday at a U.K. summit on the importance — if not the details — of containing risks from rapid advances in cutting-edge artificial intelligence.
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The host of a weekend family lunch at her Australian country home was charged Thursday with murdering her ex-husband’s parents and aunt with poisonous mushrooms and attempting to murder a fourth guest, police said. Police arrested Erin Patterson, 49, at her home in the Victoria state
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is piling more gains onto its rally from the day before on hopes the Federal Reserve may finally be done with its market-crunching hikes to interest rates. The S&P 500 was 1.6% higher in midday trading Thursday and on track for a fourth
Continue ReadingBy Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — Jenny Nguyen-Don was craving some chicken. It was earlier this year, and Nguyen-Don, who was living in London at the time, had also been talking to this guy on Hinge, a dating app, for about a month. So, she thought: Two birds, one stone. She shot him a text
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy says it will disburse $440 million to install solar panels on low-income homes in Puerto Rico as the U.S. territory struggles with ongoing power outages and a crumbling electric grid. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Thursday that the department
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s highest court apparently isn’t ready to allow the state to restart executions after more than 12 years until they hear more arguments about newly obtained lethal injection drugs as well as the firing squad and electric chair. The state Supreme Court set a Feb.
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Autoworkers at the first Ford factory to go on strike have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a tentative contract agreement reached with the company. Members of Local 900 at the Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Michigan, west of Detroit voted 81% in favor of the four
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Thursday imposed a new round of sanctions on 130 firms and people from Turkey, China and the United Arab Emirates in an effort to choke off Russia’s access to tools and equipment that support its invasion of Ukraine. The sanctions imposed by the
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