By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Shares fell in Asia as investors braced Monday for an expected invasion by Israel in the Gaza Strip. U.S. futures edged higher while oil prices were little changed. Israeli forces, supported by a growing deployment of U.S. warships in the region and the call-up of
Continue ReadingMUMBAI, India (AP) — A big-ticket project for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics has been dropped because the Italian government no longer wants to help fund it. Organizing committee officials say bobsled, luge and skeleton events now need to be held outside Italy. That’s likely to be at a sliding track in either Austria or Switzerland.
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s online safety watchdog has fined X — the social media platform formerly known as Twitter — 610,500 Australian dollars ($385,000) for failing to fully explain how it tackled child sexual exploitation content. Australia’s eSafety Commission said on Monday X failed to answer questions including how
Continue ReadingBy Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — It wasn’t love at first sight when Aditi Anand met Susan Dias at a book club in Mumbai. “We didn’t get along with each other at all,” Anand, a filmmaker, said with a smile as she recalled the encounter. “We were always antagonistic toward each other’s views on the
Continue ReadingBy RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The Owino Market in Uganda’s capital has long been a go-to enclave for rich and poor people alike looking for affordable but quality-made used clothes, underscoring perceptions that Western fashion is superior to what is made at home. But, despite their popularity, secondhand clothes are facing
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan, Kareem El Damanhoury, Eyad Kourdi, Abeer Salman and Samantha Delouya, CNN Gaza and Jerusalem (CNN) — Gaza is being “strangled” by Israel’s week-long siege and aerial bombardment, UN experts have warned, as concerns grow that further escalation and a lack of safety for fleeing civilians risks drawing regional foes into the long-running
Continue ReadingBy REGINA GARCIA CANO and GONZALO SOLANO Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Daniel Noboa has managed to do what his father failed at five times: Get elected as Ecuador’s president. And he did it Sunday on his first attempt, winning a runoff in a special election against a leftist lawyer on the strength of
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Major U.S. pharmacy chain Rite Aid said Sunday that it has filed for bankruptcy and obtained $3.45 billion in fresh financing as it carries out a restructuring plan while coping with falling sales and opioid-related lawsuits. In 2022, Rite Aid settled for up to $30 million to resolve lawsuits
Continue ReadingAfter winning the AL Championship Series opener, Texas will send Nathan Eovaldi to the mound in Game 2 on Monday against Houston’s Framber Valdez. Zack Wheeler will be on the mound when Philadelphia opens the NL Championship Series against Arizona on Monday night. Jordan Montgomery outdueled Justin Verlander in Sunday night’s opener, combining with Josh
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois landlord accused of fatally stabbing a 6-year-old Muslim boy and seriously wounding his mother was charged with a hate crime after police and relatives said he singled out the victims because of their faith and as a response to the war between Israel and Hamas.
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, Abeer Salman, Wisam Jafari, Jeremy Diamond and Matthias Somm, CNN West Bank (CNN) — The men in the wedding hall at the Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank spend most of their days and nights glued to their phones, smoking, constantly refreshing their news feeds. They look exhausted, the horrors of
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors and lawyers for Donald Trump will argue in court Monday over a proposed gag order aimed at reining in the former president’s diatribes against likely witnesses and others in his 2020 election interference case in Washington. In pressing U.S.
Continue ReadingBy LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Leaders from the European Union and the Western Balkans will hold a summit in Albania’s capital on Monday to discuss the path to membership in the bloc for the six countries of the region. The main topics at the annual talks — called the Berlin Process
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press SUAMICO, Wis. (AP) — Kim Pytleski could barely sleep the night before. She replayed the PowerPoint slides in her head, packed her notebook and took a deep breath. The clerk from a rural Wisconsin county north of Green Bay was preparing for a public meeting to explain the election process
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A battle that killed dozens of civilians and more than a dozen Israeli soldiers nearly a decade ago offers a glimpse of the type of fighting that could lie ahead if Israeli forces roll into Gaza as expected to punish Hamas for its rampage across southern Israel
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN SLODYSKO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Jim Jordan has such a reputation as a political brawler that former House Speaker John Boehner once said he’d never met someone “who spent more time tearing things apart.” Now, nearly a decade after Boehner stepped down in the face of
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The names of 35 fallen firefighters throughout the state of California were added to the ‘California Firefighters Memorial Wall’ at the State Capitol Saturday. Three of those first responders served in neighboring fire departments before passing away in the line of duty. Brian Rice, President of the California Professional Firefighters organization dedicated these lines to the
Continue ReadingBy ALMUDENA CALATRAVA and NATACHA PISARENKO Associated Press SALTA, Argentina (AP) — Javier Milei is a right-wing populist who admires former U.S. President Donald Trump and made a name for himself by shouting against Argentina’s “political caste” on television. He is the front-runner heading into the Oct. 22 election thanks in large part to support
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A portion of Colorado’s Interstate 25 has been shut down in both directions after a coal train derailed off a bridge and onto the roadway Sunday afternoon, killing a semi-truck driver, state authorities said. Crews are working to clear toppled train cars and spilled coal at
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include a Rolling Stones album, a revealing documentary about spy novelist John le Carré and “Living for the Dead,” a new Hulu series that’s like “Queer Eye” meets “Ghost Hunters.” Comedian Heather McMahan debuts her first network comedy special called “The Son I Never Had,” and
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