By Arlette Saenz and Nikki Carvajal, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden honored Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday, a site he described as a “sanctuary of sacrifice” during his deeply personal remarks. “We come together today to once again honor the generation of Americans who stood on the front lines of freedom,”
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has marked Veterans Day with a visit to Arlington National Cemetery. The commander in chief said America’s veterans are “the steel spine of this nation” as he spoke at the Memorial Amphitheater. He recounted famous battles fought by U.S. troops and said those deployments of soldiers are “linked in
Continue ReadingBy Daria Markina Tarasova, Victoria Butenko, Kostan Gak, Josh Pennington, Yulia Kesaieva and Maria Kostenko, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — The battle for dominance in the Black Sea raged on this week between Ukraine and Russia, as elsewhere each side’s forces continued the bitter fight for control in Ukraine’s east with winter looming. Ukraine claimed it
Continue ReadingBy KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — The husband of a Russian-American journalist working for a U.S. government-funded media company who is detained in Russia has called for her speedy release. Alsu Kurmacheva’s husband Pavel Butorin told The Associated Press in an interview Friday that the couple was due to celebrate their 21st anniversary
Continue ReadingBy BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer KENNER, La. (AP) — Police say New Orleans Saints receiver Michael Thomas is facing simple battery and criminal mischief charges following a confrontation with a construction worker. Kenner police Capt. Mark McCormick says Thomas was arrested without incident Friday night and was released. A person familiar with the situation
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say Russian forces targeted Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, as part of an overnight bombardment felt across the country. The head of the Kyiv City Military Administration said a ballistic missile was shot down as it approached the Ukrainian capital, the first attempted missile attack on Kyiv in almost two months.
Continue ReadingBy Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis has removed a Texas bishop from his position after an investigation ordered by the Vatican. The Pope removed Bishop Joseph E. Strickland from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, after an apostolic visitation conducted by two bishops, according to a statement from Cardinal Daniel Nicholas
Continue ReadingBy KEN MILLER Associated Press A Texas police officer was killed in a shooting that also left the suspect dead and a second officer wounded in Austin. That is according to interim Police Chief Robin Henderson. Two other people were later found dead inside a home. An emotional Henderson said officers were called shortly before
Continue ReadingBy RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — No. 2 Michigan was without coach Jim Harbaugh on Saturday against No. 9 Penn State after a judge did not issue a ruling on the school’s attempt to at least temporarily lift the Big Ten’s penalty against the Wolverines for a sign-stealing
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched peacefully through central London on Saturday, even as right-wing counter-protesters clashed with police, after a week of angry debate over whether to permit the event on a day when Britain honored its war dead. The day unfolded in a backdrop of tensions fueled by
Continue ReadingBy RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — No. 2 Michigan will be without coach Jim Harbaugh on Saturday against No. 9 Penn State after a judge did not issue a ruling on the school’s attempt to at least temporarily lift the Big Ten’s penalty against the Wolverines for a
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s ruling party has named its candidates for eight governorships and the mayorship of Mexico City. But after ruling out the most popular candidate for the capital, questions remain about whether the party can avoid desertions. The Morena party, founded by charismatic President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is made up of
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Reports from Myanmar say one of the military government’s jet fighters has crashed in a combat zone in the eastern state of Kayah. A spokesperson for an ethnic armed group, the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force, says it shot down the plane during heavy fighting near Loikaw, the
Continue ReadingBy DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Volunteers are taking part in an effort to extend the habitat of the most emblematic and endangered species of Rio de Janeiro’s rural interior — the golden lion tamarin. The small, copper-colored monkey whose face is framed by a silken mane can only be found in this
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group says his fighters have introduced new weapons including a missile with a heavy warhead in the ongoing fighting along the Lebanon-Israel border. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Saturday Hezbollah will keep using the tense frontier to pressure Israel. Nasrallah blasted the
Continue ReadingZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s defense minister has been sacked after he apparently caused a traffic collision in which one person died and he was also seriously injured. Authorities say defense Minister Mario Banozic was overtaking a truck in bad weather when he crashed into a van coming from the opposite direction. The van driver
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The cosmos is filled with unexpected surprises. Observatories such as the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes and the Chandra X-ray Observatory see the universe in different wavelengths of light, showcasing new details that the human eye would never detect on its own. But when their powerful capabilities are
Continue ReadingBy RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — No. 2 Michigan will be without coach Jim Harbaugh on Saturday against No. 9 Penn State, after a judge did not issue a ruling on the school’s attempt to at least temporarily lift the Big Ten’s penalty against the Wolverines for a
Continue ReadingKEN MILLER One Texas police officer was killed and a second officer was wounded in a shooting at a home in Austin that also left the suspected gunman dead. That is according to a post on the City Council message board. The post from Mayor Kirk Watson by Chief of Staff Colleen Pate says a
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW. Poland (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have marched through Warsaw in an event organized by nationalist groups as Poland celebrates its Independence Day holiday. Participants in the Independence March carried Poland’s white-and-red flag and some burned flares. While many patriotic events take place across the nation of
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