By Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Friday spoke with the families of the Americans who remain unaccounted for in Israel after promising to speak with family members of those who are held hostage by Hamas. During a speech in Philadelphia Friday afternoon, Biden recounted the conversation. “They’re going through agony
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Authorities say a van packed with migrants crashed at a highway junction in southern Germany after the driver accelerated to avoid a police check, killing seven people and injuring 16. Police said a police patrol noticed the overloaded vehicle early Friday and tried to stop it. The driver didn’t react and accelerated
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Israeli leaders that “we have your back” as he reaffirmed U.S. support in the first week of their war against the militant Hamas group. He voiced little public criticism of their stunning demand that some 1 million civilians
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan Chase’s third-quarter profit soared 35% from last year, fueled by a rapid rise in interest rates, but the bank’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, issued a sobering statement about the current state of world affairs and economic instability. Dimon said the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Palestinian wars, high
Continue ReadingBy MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — It’s Sunday night and Crystal P. Lira is not answering her messages. Inside the headquarters of Colectiva Bloodys y Projects, an organization that has supported reproductive rights near the U.S.-Mexico border since 2016, her only concern is for the woman she has provided with a
Continue ReadingBy MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — It’s Sunday night and Crystal P. Lira is not answering her messages. Inside the headquarters of Colectiva Bloodys y Projects, an organization that has supported reproductive rights near the U.S.-Mexico border since 2016, her only concern is for the woman she has provided with a
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Michal Muszkat-Barkan is a natural leader. The kind of person who can rally the troops and knows exactly how to get help where it’s needed. A professor at the Hebrew Union College, Muszkat-Barkan had spent the past 10 months organizing protests against the Israeli government’s plans to weaken
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN KABUMBA and JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s president says he will gradually ease the state of military rule in the conflict-riddled east and lift some restrictions imposed more than two years ago. Speaking to the nation Thursday, President Felix Tshisekedi said there would be a gradual easing of the
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has selected clean-energy projects from Pennsylvania to California for a $7 billion program to kickstart development and production of hydrogen fuel, a key component of President Joe Biden’s agenda to slow climate change. Biden called clean hydrogen essential to his vision of net-zero greenhouse
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY and MARC LEVY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Large-scale clean energy projects from Pennsylvania to California have been selected by the Biden administration for a $7 billion program to kickstart development and production of hydrogen fuel, a key component of President Joe Biden’s agenda to slow climate change. His goal is to
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Party leaders competing in Poland’s upcoming key parliamentary elections are holding their final campaign rallies in hopes of attracting new voters as opinion polls suggest a close race. The election Sunday will decide whether the ruling conservative, Euro-skeptic Law and Justice party will win a third straight term or whether the
Continue ReadingLAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say several suspects behind this week’s killing of a member of an outlawed anti-India militant group in a mosque attack have been arrested. The arrests took place in multiple raids over the past two days. That’s according to the police chief in eastern Punjab province. The gunmen in Wednesday’s
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin, on his first trip abroad since being indicted by the International Criminal Court in March, has Friday called on an alliance of former Soviet states to expand relations with non-Western countries. In an address to the Commonwealth of Independent States summit in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Putin
Continue ReadingBy Vasco Cotovio, Svetlana Vlasova and Yulia Kesaieva, CNN (CNN) — Russian forces have launched a “fierce,” large-scale attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, intensifying the fighting there, but they have so far been unable to make significant progress, according to Ukrainian officials, analysts and geolocated footage shared on social media. “The fighting
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court avoided a catastrophic accident last year when a piece of marble at least 2 feet long crashed to the ground in an interior courtyard used by the justices and their aides, according to several court employees. The incident, which the court still fails to
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Two sisters from the Coachella Valley got to attend the red carpet premiere of Taylor Swift’s concert movie, where they got to meet the star! The premiere of “Taylor Swift: The ERA’S TOUR” movie was held Wednesday at the Grove in Los Angeles. Karah and Katelynn Shouse were out among the fans eagerly waiting to
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Palm Springs will soon have 15 license plate recognition cameras around the city. The city council approved a two-year cooperative subscription agreement with Insight Public Sector Inc. The motion passed with a 4-1 vote. Mayor Grace Garner was the lone “no” vote. Check out the agreement here Palm Springs Police Chief Andy Mills had a
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Second gentleman Doug Emhoff’s role as a leader confronting antisemitism – and, personally, his historic role as the first Jewish spouse of a president or vice president – has taken new significance this week. “We witnessed a mass murder of innocent civilians,” Emhoff told Jewish leaders Wednesday at the
Continue ReadingBy Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — As student loan payments resume this month, more than 43 million Americans carrying that debt saw the end of more than three years of relief from monthly payments. But the financial landscape in which they resume payments has shifted. Researchers are still working to understand the impact that the
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — On Saturday, a celestial spectacle will occur over North, Central and South America as an annular solar eclipse creates a “ring of fire” in the sky. Annular solar eclipses are like total solar eclipses, except the moon is at the farthest point in its orbit from Earth, so it
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