By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors at the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell have completed presenting their case against the British socialite accused of sexually abusing teenage girls with her late companion, financier Jeffrey Epstein. Earlier Friday, key accuser Annie Farmer testified that Maxwell and Epstein forced themselves on
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BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The Bosnian Serb parliament has vote to launch a series of steps that would weaken the war-ravaged Balkan country’s central institutions as the Bosnian Serb leader stepped up his secession campaign despite a threat of new U.S. sanctions. The lawmakers voted Friday in favor of starting a procedure for Bosnian
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By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland has agreed to buy 64 Lockheed Martin fighter jets to replace its aging fleet of combat planes in an $11.3 billion deal that represents the Finnish military’s largest ever purchase. Finland picked the American company’s F-35A fighters from among five contenders, which also included the Boeing
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By Reuters Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is “thinking of” leaving his jobs and becoming an influencer, the world’s richest man tweeted on Thursday. “thinking of quitting my jobs & becoming an influencer full-time wdyt,” Musk said in the tweet, without elaborating. It was not immediately clear if Musk, a prolific user of the
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By Katie Bo Lillis The CIA is overhauling how it trains and manages its network of spies as part of a broader effort to transition away from 20 years of counterterrorism wars and focus more closely on adversaries like China and Russia, multiple sources familiar with the move tell CNN. After two decades of intense
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CNN By Andrew Carey and Amir Tal, CNN Former President Donald Trump railed against his one-time close ally Benjamin Netanyahu in a new interview series, saying he felt betrayed by the then-prime minister of Israel’s call to Joe Biden congratulating him on winning the presidency. “It was early. OK? Let’s put it this way —
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has told Catholic jurists that they must strongly defend basic human rights in their work, even as his own prosecutors stand accused of violating the basic rights of the defense in a big Vatican fraud trial. Francis met Friday with Italian Catholic jurists. He said
Continue Reading By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Opponents of military rule in Myanmar have held one of their biggest nationally coordinated protests in months, successfully calling on people across the country to shut their businesses and stay at home on International Human Rights Day. The “silent strike” was staged in cities and towns from
Continue Reading By VANESSA GERA and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Germany’s new foreign minister has voiced solidarity with Poland while also calling for humanitarian treatment of migrants and refugees stuck near the country’s border with Belarus as temperatures plummet. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock also raised the delicate matter of rule of law
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin Nueva York (CNN Business) — Los altos aumentos de precios en Estados Unidos de la época de la pandemia siguieron vivas en noviembre, cuando un indicador clave de la inflación subió a su nivel más alto desde junio de 1982. La inflación de los precios al consumidor llegó al 6,8% sin ajustes
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leaders have promised tax cuts and support for entrepreneurs to shore up slumping economic growth as the country grapples with a wave of bankruptcies and defaults among real estate developers caused by a campaign to rein in surging debt. A statement issued after a planning
Continue Reading YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia’s parliament has passed a law that would allow employers to fire those who refuse to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or a negative test result. Russia’s ex-Soviet neighbor has some of the lowest vaccination rates in the Caucasus region. Friday’s rule follows an August order by the ministry of
Continue Reading By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In 2021, few in the publishing industry worried that no one cared about books anymore. Sometimes, people seemed to care too much. A 22-year-old poet became a literary star. And the enthusiasms of young people on TikTok helped revive Madeline Miller’s “The Song of Achilles”
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In 2021, few in the publishing industry worried that no one cared about books anymore. Sometimes, people seemed to care too much. A 22-year-old poet became a literary star. And the enthusiasms of young people on TikTok helped revive Madeline Miller’s “The Song of Achilles”
Continue Reading By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In 2021, few in the publishing industry worried that no one cared about books anymore. Sometimes, people seemed to care too much. A 22-year-old poet became a literary star. And the enthusiasms of young people on TikTok helped revive Madeline Miller’s “The Song of Achilles”
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By MARTIN CRUTSINGER and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — A warehouse worker in Tennessee is running up against price increases that far exceed her modest pay raise. The owner of a pastry business in Massachusetts has had to reduce his product offerings and personally absorb higher costs. A grocery chain executive in
Continue Reading By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business America’s high pandemic-era price hikes were alive and kicking last month, when a key measure of inflation climbed to a level not seen since June 1982. Consumer price inflation rose by 6.8% without seasonal adjustments over the 12 months ended November, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. Stripping out
Continue Reading CNNEE (CNN) — Entre las mentiras de Donald Trump sobre las elecciones de 2020 se perdió este hecho importante: al entonces presidente le fue sorprendentemente bien entre los votantes hispanos en varios estados importantes. En Florida, Trump ganó el 46% del voto latino, una actuación que le permitió ganar el estado más fácilmente de lo
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leaders have promised tax cuts and support for entrepreneurs to shore up slumping economic growth as the country grapples with a wave of bankruptcies and defaults among real estate developers caused by a campaign to rein in surging debt. A statement issued after a planning
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — German security officials said Friday that they have a foiled a planned Islamist attack, after arresting a man in the northern city of Hamburg over the summer who had been trying to buy weapons and make explosives. German news agency dpa reported that Hamburg’s top security official described the incident as “very,
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin Hong Kong (CNN Business) — Evergrande incumplió su deuda. Ahora Beijing está interviniendo para evitar un colapso desordenado del endeudado grupo inmobiliario que podría causar estragos en la segunda mayor economía del mundo. Fitch Ratings declaró el jueves que el asediado promotor inmobiliario ha entrado en “impago restringido”, lo que refleja la
Continue Reading By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A human rights group is calling on an international court to open an investigation into a crackdown on dissent by Myanmar’s military rulers. The group alleges that the leader of the coup in the Southeast Asian nation is responsible for widespread and systematic torture. The
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Health officials in Japan have confirmed eight more cases of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus, bringing the country’s total to 12. The health ministry says the eight tested positive when they arrived at Japanese airports from late November to earlier this month. Japan eased border
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen and John Keefe, CNN UN scientists were unequivocal in a landmark report published this summer: Human-caused climate change is intensifying extreme weather events. No region is spared from extreme weather, but America’s coasts are overwhelmingly at risk to flooding caused by rising seas, stronger hurricanes and torrential rain. As the climate crisis
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Personal Birth date: July 3, 1971 Birth place: Townsville, Queensland, Australia Father: John Shipton Mother: Christine (Hawkins) Assange Marriage: Stella Moris (March 2022-present) Children: with Stella Moris: Max and Gabriel Other Facts When he was a year old, his mother married
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish security officials say the diversion to Minsk of a Lithuania-bound flight carrying a self-exiled Belarusian journalist was an act of “state terrorism” carried out to detain an opponent of Belarus’ government. Poland’s Internal Security Agency and prosecutors investigated the May 23 incident in which a Ryanair jetliner registered in Poland
Continue Reading By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The White House has enacted a new policy requiring the FBI and other agencies to help US officials quickly assess whether a cyberattack “rises to the level of a national security concern” that could hamper the provision of key services such as fuel or food, according to a National Security Council
Continue Reading By Andrew Carey and Amir Tal, CNN Former President Donald Trump railed against his one-time close ally Benjamin Netanyahu in a new interview series, saying he felt betrayed by the then-prime minister of Israel’s call to Joe Biden congratulating him on winning the presidency. “It was early. OK? Let’s put it this way — he
Continue Reading OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Authorities say a flight from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles diverted to Oklahoma City after an unruly passenger assaulted a flight attendant. Police say an air marshal who was on board the Delta Air Lines flight had the passenger in custody when the flight landed in Oklahoma Thursday night. The Transportation
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — A close aide of Angela Merkel’s has told a German news outlet that the former chancellor wants to write an autobiographical book explaining her most important political decisions. Merkel handed over the chancellorship to successor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday after a near-record 16 years in power. She didn’t seek a fifth term
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