BERLIN (AP) — The World Health Organization says that the number of reported new COVID-19 cases worldwide decreased by nearly a quarter last week. That means there’s been a decline in reported infections since the end of March. The Geneva-based U.N. health agency said in a weekly report that nearly 5.59 million cases were reported
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — A Russian news outlet says China’s credit card processor has refused to work with banks in Russia for fear of being targeted by sanctions over its attack on Ukraine. That cuts off a possible alternative after Visa and Mastercard stopped serving them. RBC reported UnionPay’s decision affects Sberbank, Russia’s biggest commercial bank,
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares have retreated, tracking losses on Wall Street after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell indicated increases in interest rates must be faster to fight inflation. Major regional indexes cascaded downward in Asia, with the drop pronounced at nearly 2% in Tokyo. Japan’s consumer price index
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By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Like most any boy growing up in Mobile, Walker Hayes’ early goal in his sporting career was obvious. Star at Alabama and then be drafted into the NFL. While it hasn’t quite worked out that way for the country music singer/songwriter, he’s found the
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By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing Bureau The men came after 2 a.m. on Tuesday in the dead of the night, banging on an apartment door in a rundown housing complex in Shanghai. When nobody answered, they pried open the lock and barged in, rousing a 92-year-old woman from her bed. The visitors demanded to
Continue Reading CNN By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing Bureau The shouts of locked-down residents demanding basic necessities, the cries of babies separated from their parents in quarantine, the pleas of a son repeatedly rejected by hospitals to treat his critically ill father, and the sobs of an exhausted local official who admits there is “no good
Continue Reading CNN By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing Bureau The men came after 2 a.m. on Tuesday in the dead of the night, banging on an apartment door in a rundown housing complex in Shanghai. When nobody answered, they pried open the lock and barged in, rousing a 92-year-old woman from her bed. The visitors demanded
Continue Reading W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin enjoyed the biggest moment of his career inside T-Mobile Arena in 2018, when he skated the Stanley Cup around the rink after defeating the Vegas Golden Knights in the Final. On Wednesday night he enjoyed another milestone. With two goals during a
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Detroit Tigers star Miguel Cabrera needs one more hit for 3,000 in his career, and will try to reach the mark at Comerica Park. Cabrera added three more hits to his total Wednesday night in a 5-3 loss to the Yankees. With fans standing and cheering while hoping to see history,
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Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — La guerra en Ucrania puede estar entrando en una nueva y crítica etapa con un nuevo enfoque del ejército de Rusia, una última batalla en una ciudad ucraniana clave y la promesa de potencia de fuego adicional de Estados Unidos para ayudar a Ucrania a contraatacar. Nuevo enfoque. El ejército de
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar officials have sought to reassure foreign investors who say doing business in the military-ruled country is nearly impossible because of new currency controls. Two ministers in Myanmar’s army-installed government said Thursday that approved foreign investors, embassies, United Nations agencies and non-government organizations are exempt from
Continue Reading Craig Robinson, the brother of Michelle Obama, is suing his kids’ former school. He says his children were kicked out after he and his wife raised concerns about unfair treatment of students of color. CNN’s Omar Jimenez has more.
Continue Reading By Omar Jimenez, CNN Craig and Kelly Robinson said they were shocked to receive a letter informing them their children would not be allowed back as students at the prestigious University School of Milwaukee (USM). “We cannot continue a relationship with your family,” is what part of the enrollment termination letter read, sent at the
Continue Reading By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Bucks forward Khris Middleton’s status for the rest of his team’s first-round playoff series with the Chicago Bulls is uncertain after the three-time All-Star left Wednesday’s Game 2 with a knee injury. Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said after Milwaukee’s 114-110 loss that Middleton has a
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By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — After a brief break in the weather allowed for new aerial attacks on some of the many fires burning in the Southwest, crews are preparing for ferocious winds to return through the end of the week. Resources are tight, and fire managers are scrambling to get
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — El resort Bocas Bali de Panamá aparentemente lo tenía todo. Dieciséis lujosas villas sobre el agua en una isla privada en el mar Caribe. Una piscina de agua dulce de 21 metros y un spa. Una envidiable apuesta por la sostenibilidad gracias al uso exclusivo de la energía solar. Cena de
Continue Reading By CHRIS TALBOTT Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Logan Gilbert pitched 6 2/3 scoreless innings and Adam Frazier doubled twice on a three-hit night to lead the COVID-hit Seattle Mariners over Texas 4-2 and send the Rangers to their worst start since 1987. Seattle was missing manager Scott Servais, third-base coach Manny Acta and assistant
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By CHRIS TALBOTT Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Logan Gilbert pitched 6 2/3 scoreless innings and Adam Frazier doubled twice on a three-hit night to lead the COVID-hit Seattle Mariners over Texas 4-2 and send the Rangers to their worst start since 1987. Seattle was missing manager Scott Servais, third-base coach Manny Acta and assistant
Continue Reading W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Shea Theodore scored 2:09 into overtime to lift the Vegas Golden Knights to a 4-3 win over the Washington Capitals. Vegas has 89 points and is two back of Dallas for the second wild-card spot in the Western Conference, and trails Los Angeles by three in the
Continue Reading By JACK MAGRUDER Associated Press GLENDALE, Ariz (AP) — Alex DeBrincat scored his 40th goal of the season with 37 seconds left in overtime, giving the Chicago Blackhawks a 4-3 victory over the Arizona Coyotes. Jake McCabe, Dominik Kubalik and Alex Vlasic also scored for the Blackhawks, who won for the second time in 12
Continue Reading SEATTLE (AP) — Kole Lind, Jordan Eberle and Yanni Gourde all scored in the first period and the Seattle Kraken held on to beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-2. Philipp Grubauer had 25 saves as Seattle won its third straight. Matty Beniers had an assist to become the first rookie this season to begin his NHL
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A Florida bride and her wedding caterer have been arrested and accused of lacing wedding food, including lasagna, with marijuana and causing several guests to become sick, according to their arrest warrant affidavits. Bride Danya Shea Svoboda, 42, and caterer Joycelyn Montrinice Bryant, 31, have been charged with
Continue Reading A $47 wedding dress, a free venue and a gifted honeymoon. A California couple exchanged vows with a $500 wedding. CNN’s Jeanne Moos reports.
Continue Reading By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The first and most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin, launched more than a decade ago. Yet for all the relentless buzz around cryptocurrencies, relatively few are well versed in them. A 2021 poll by Pew Research Center found that just 16% of Americans said they have ever invested
Continue Reading By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — DeMar DeRozan scored 41 points for his career playoff high and the Chicago Bulls outlasted the Milwaukee Bucks 114-110 on Wednesday to tie their Eastern Conference first-round playoff series at a game apiece. Nikola Vucevic added 24 points plus 13 rebounds and Zach LaVine had 20
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By Kashif Kakvi, Rhea Mogul and Esha Mitra, CNN Shahdullah Baig stands among the rubble of what was once his modest two-bedroom home, his belongings buried under debris and broken bricks. “In the blink of an eye, my home was demolished,” said the 45-year-old fruit seller, whose kitchen, fruit cart, and cattle shed have all
Continue Reading By HUIZHONG WU and DAKE KANG Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — In Shanghai, a city of 25 million people with hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 cases, Chinese health authorities have reported only 25 coronavirus deaths. An Associated Press examination of the death toll sheds light on how the figures have been obscured by the
Continue Reading By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — WNBA All-Star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is easily the most prominent American citizen known to be jailed by a foreign government. Yet as a crucial hearing approaches next month in Russia, the case against Griner remains shrouded in mystery. Little clarity has come from
Continue Reading By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — With the cryptocurrency industry under increasing pressure to rein in the environmental impact of the massive amounts of electricity it uses to power computers verifying transactions, some companies mining bitcoin are looking to switch to renewable energy. Many economists and environmentalists have warned that as
Continue Reading By Jen Christensen, CNN The US saw the highest number of “very unhealthy” and “hazardous” air quality days between 2018 and 2020 than it ever had before, according to a report released Thursday by the American Lung Association. After a steady 23-year decline in US pollution levels through 2017, the American Lung Association’s State of
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