BANGKOK (AP) — A Myanmar court has rejected the bail application of Danny Fenster, an American journalist jailed for the past five months, and added a charge against him. Fenster had already been charged with incitement for allegedly spreading false or inflammatory information, as well as with violating the Unlawful Associations Act for alleged links
Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gary DiSarcina will coach third base for the Washington Nationals, Eric Young Jr. will coach first base and Ricky Bones is the new bullpen coach as part of a revamped staff under manager Dave Martinez. DiSarcina and Bones come to Washington from the NL East rival New York Mets. Bones takes over
Continue Reading
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s central bank has made its second interest rate hike in as many months as consumer prices surge. The National Bank of Poland raised the rate Wednesday to 1.25%. The move indicates the central bank intends to move more forcefully against rising prices after facing criticism
Continue Reading By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s central bank has made its second interest rate hike in as many months as consumer prices surge. The National Bank of Poland raised the rate Wednesday to 1.25%. The move indicates the central bank intends to move more forcefully against rising prices after facing criticism
Continue Reading
By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business Employees calling for better wages and working conditions have always been a given in the workplace. But workers are increasingly calling on their companies to take action on other issues that they care about as well. They may want their employers to speak out against a state law — such
Continue Reading
By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Climate activist Greta Thunberg has joked that she is adopting a “net-zero” approach to cursing, an apparent response to criticism of her use of strong language at a demonstration earlier this week. The 18-year-old Swede was filmed singing “You can shove your climate crisis up your a**e” to the tune of
Continue Reading By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Anti-vaccine protesters have blocked central streets in the Ukrainian capital, protesting against state-imposed restrictions that require teachers, government employees and other workers to get fully vaccinated by Nov. 8 or have their salaries suspended. The government has also decided to bar the unvaccinated from using public
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The stars are showing up early in the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship. The seven-way tie for the lead in Dubai includes defending champion Yuxin Lin of China and top-ranked amateur Keita Nakajima of Japan. Joining them at 67 is Lukas Michel of Australia. He won the U.S. Mid-Amateur two years
Continue Reading By DON BABWIN and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman who served more than seven years in an Indonesian prison for killing her mother at a luxury resort in Bali has been indicted on federal murder conspiracy charges and taken into custody. A 2016 federal indictment unsealed Wednesday shows 26-year-old Heather
Continue Reading THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Police say they have arrested two doctor’s assistants in Amsterdam on suspicion of selling fake COVID-19 vaccination registrations. Vaccination registrations are needed to get a COVID-19 pass that people have to show to get into bars and restaurants in the Netherlands. The announcement Wednesday of the arrests came a day
Continue Reading VILLARREAL, Spain (AP) — Unai Emery has put an end to rumors about him joining Newcastle and says he will stay as coach with Villarreal despite interest from the English club. Emery says he is grateful for being considered for the Newcastle job but is “even more grateful” for being able to continue with the
Continue Reading By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer The NCAA has upheld a one-year postseason ban and other penalties against the Oklahoma State men’s basketball program. An NCAA infractions committee panel hit the Cowboys with numerous penalties last year related to findings that former assistant coach Lamont Evans accepted up to $22,000 in bribes so he could
Continue Reading By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — America’s favorite serial killer is hiding out in upstate New York when we finally spot him again. The good news is he hasn’t killed anyone in a decade. The bad news is his knife skills are still top-notch. Michael C. Hall, who plays the troubled
Continue Reading
By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union is often at odds with conservative religious groups — for example when they argue that religious freedom gives them the right to discriminate against LGBTQ people. But there’s an issue before the Supreme Court that unites the ACLU and conservative
Continue Reading SAN DIEGO (AP) — After nearly a decade of planning, work has started at San Diego International Airport on a $3.4 billion project that will eventually replace the 1960s-era Terminal 1 and build a new airport access road. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports the project got underway this week after the Federal Aviation Administration approved
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — Defending champion Daniil Medvedev stayed in contention for the year-end No. 1 ranking by defeating Ilya Ivashka of Belarus 7-5, 6-4 in the second round of the Paris Masters. Novak Djokovic, has a lead of 800 points over Medvedev in the rankings and could clinch the year-end No. 1 this week depending
Continue Reading By Anneken Tappe and Ken Olshansky, CNN High inflation is a thorn in America’s side. Prices of groceries and gas are rising and Americans are growing pessimistic about the economy because of it. But it’s still nowhere as bad as the inflation spike of the 1970s, and prices aren’t going to surge like they did
Continue Reading By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Biden administration has announced it is putting new export limits on Israel’s NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire company, saying its tools have been used to “conduct transnational repression.” The U.S. Commerce Department said Wednesday that NSO Group and three other firms are being
Continue Reading By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Russia has eliminated defending champion France to reach the semifinals of the Billie Jean King Cup. Russia needed only one win from the best-of-three match against France to advance from Group A and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova delivered it. The 12th-ranked Pavlyuchenkova rallied to beat Alize Cornet 5-7, 6-4,
Continue Reading
Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Estados Unidos tiene un problema con su cadena de suministro. Y a medida que las preocupaciones económicas erosionan la posición política del presidente Joe Biden, sus asesores están tratando de asegurarles a los estadounidenses que están haciendo todo lo posible para abordar los temores sobre la inflación y los bienes
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, CNN Business American journalist Danny Fenster, who has been detained in Myanmar for five months, was denied bail and hit with a new charge Wednesday following a hearing inside Yangon’s Insein Prison. Fenster, 37, has now spent 163 days detained in Myanmar, where his family has had little contact with him. The
Continue Reading CNN By Helen Regan, CNN Business American journalist Danny Fenster, who has been detained in Myanmar for five months, was denied bail and hit with a new charge Wednesday following a hearing inside Yangon’s Insein Prison. Fenster, 37, has now spent 163 days detained in Myanmar, where his family has had little contact with him.
Continue Reading By Annie Grayer, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in a major shift, announced on Wednesday that four weeks of paid family and medical leave will be added back into the social spending bill, after Democrats had previously scrapped the provision from the package. In her Dear Colleague letter announcing the decision, Pelosi said paid family
Continue Reading
By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Families are getting an early gift this holiday season: the chance to protect their children between the ages of 5 and 11 against Covid-19 through vaccination. For many, the winter holidays mean gathering with family and friends from near and far to share meals and quality time, situations that can quickly
Continue Reading By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer METAIRIE, La. (AP) — New Orleans Saints two-time All-Pro receiver Michael Thomas says he won’t play this season because of complications related to ankle surgery last summer. It’s the latest blow to a team that lost starting quarterback James Winston to a major knee injury last weekend. Saints coach
Continue Reading By TOM CANAVAN AP Sports Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — New York Giants injured star running Saquon Barkley and two other starters did not practice Wednesday after being placed in the COVID-19 protocol along with assistant coach Burton Burns. Safety Xavier McKinney and left guard Matt Skura also did not practice because of the
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has seized a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman last month and still holds the vessel off Bandar Abbas. That’s according to two U.S. officials who spoke to The Associated Press. One of the officials says Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops took
Continue Reading By Peter Nickeas and Omar Jimenez, CNN Minneapolis residents on Tuesday rejected a ballot measure to overhaul policing drafted amid the national fury over George Floyd’s murder but that went to voters as concerns about rising gun violence drained energy from the protest movement that had launched it. More than 56 percent of the 143,000
Continue Reading CNN’s Omar Jimenez reports on Minneapolis voters rejecting the measure to replace the police department.
Continue Reading By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Malian authorities say they are actively searching for a French woman who spent four years as an al-Qaida hostage and who now has returned to the West African country despite being denied a visa. The 76-year-old Sophie Petronin spent years working in Mali before her 2016
Continue Reading