By CHINEDU ASADU and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The Secretary-General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has died, Nigerian authorities and the oil cartel announced Wednesday. Only hours before his death, he’d met with Nigeria’s president and spoken in defense of the energy industry amid increasing climate change pressure. Mohammad
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By Travis Caldwell, Jason Hanna and Dakin Andone, CNN The gunman in Monday’s massacre at a Fourth of July parade in the Illinois city of Highland Park admitted he carried out the attack, killing seven and wounding dozens of others, prosecutors said in court Wednesday. Robert E. Crimo III, 21, told authorities in a voluntary
Continue Reading By MATT O’BRIEN and NATHAN ELLGREN Associated Press REMINGTON, Va. (AP) — For years, there’s been a cardinal rule for flying civilian drones: Keep them within your line of sight. Not just because it’s a good idea — it’s also the law. But some drones have recently gotten permission to soar out of their pilots’
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung and Hannah Ritchie, CNN Australian authorities have charged 12 members of a religious group with the alleged murder of an 8-year-old girl, police said in a statement Tuesday. The child died at her family home in Rangeville, in southern Queensland, on January 7 after allegedly being “denied medical treatment for a period
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By Amanda Jackson and Chris Boyette, CNN Legendary musician Carlos Santana suffered a medical emergency Tuesday night during a performance in Michigan, according to his management team. Santana was “over-taken by heat exhaustion and dehydration,” according to a statement by his management team posted on his official Facebook page. He was performing at Pine Knob
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Continue Reading By Amy Simonson, CNN Three men pleaded guilty to defrauding 14 Rhode Island seniors out of more than $350,000 in what authorities described Tuesday as a “Grandparent Scam.” “Few things are more frightening than thinking a family member is in trouble,” U.S. Attorney Zachary A. Cunha said in a news release. “These defendants exploited that
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By The Associated Press Angels two-way star Shohei Ohtani takes a scoreless streak of 21 2/3 innings to the mound when he starts at Miami on Wednesday night. Ohtani is 7-4 with a 2.63 ERA. He has won four consecutive starts, allowing just one run in that span. He’s struck out 101 in 74 innings
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets gained Thursday after the Federal Reserve said higher U.S. interest rates might be needed to cool inflation. Shanghai, Tokyo and Sydney advanced. Hong Kong declined. Oil prices fell more than $1 per barrel to stay below $100. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and Shawn Deng, CNN China’s northwestern city of Xi’an, home to 13 million people, was partially shut down on Wednesday after it reported the country’s first outbreak of a highly transmissible new Omicron subvariant that is fast dominating the United States and Europe. The city recorded 18 Covid infections from Saturday to
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN South Korea, one of the world’s most fossil fuel-reliant economies, is re-embracing nuclear energy, with the government announcing Tuesday it will restart construction on two nuclear reactors and extend the life of those already in operation. By 2030, the Energy Ministry wants nuclear to make up at least
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Continue Reading By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Max Muncy got on base four times and scored three runs. Nearly a month after returning from an elbow problem, he’s finding his groove just as the Los Angeles Dodgers lose another All-Star to injury. Muncy and Mookie Betts hit first-pitch home runs in a
Continue Reading By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Daulton Varsho hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning after Josh Rojas caused problems with his speed, and the Arizona Diamondbacks extended the San Francisco Giants’ losing streak to six games with a 6-2 win. Rojas led off the eighth with a two-strike bunt single
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By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Attorneys hoping to save an Obama-era program that prevents the deportation of thousands of people brought into the U.S. as children told a federal appeals court Wednesday that ending the program would cruelly disrupt the lives of thousands who have grown up to become tax-paying, productive
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon and Gawon Bae, CNN Top-of-the-line F-35 stealth fighter jets from the United States and South Korea are teaming up for the first time in a 10-day exercise meant to send a message to North Korea. Six US Air Force F-35As from Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska arrived in South Korea on
Continue Reading By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Stephen Piscotty homered, Adrián Martínez struck out five over five solid innings, and the Oakland Athletics beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-3. Matt Chapman hit a tying two-run homer in the second against his former club, but the A’s held on to secure a winning
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Sri Lanka is desperate for help with weathering its worst crisis in recent memory. Its schools are closed for lack of fuel to get kids and teachers to classrooms. Its effort to arrange a bailout from the International Monetary Fund has been hindered by the severity
Continue Reading By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign ministers from the world’s largest nations are looking to address Russia’s war in Ukraine and its impact on global energy and food security when they meet in Indonesia this week. Yet instead of providing unity, the talks may well exacerbate existing divides over the Ukraine
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By Kevin Dotson, CNN Former NFL player Demaryius Thomas was suffering from stage 2 CTE when he died late last year, according to his parents. Katina Stuckey Smith and Bobby Thomas said the diagnosis came after an examination of their son’s brain following his death in December, according to a news release from the Concussion
Continue Reading CNN By Paula Hancocks and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Choi Jung-hun smiled as I read out the latest official Covid-19 figures from North Korean state media: fewer than 5 million cases of “fever” and just 73 fatalities — a fraction of the death toll of every other country in the world. “North Koreans call them rubber
Continue Reading By DANIEL POLITI and DEBORA REY BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The abrupt resignation of Argentina’s economy minister has engulfed the country in an all-too familiar anxiety that flows from its periodic financial crises in recent decades. The departure of moderate Martín Guzmán also gave another sign of the growing isolation of President Alberto Fernández
Continue Reading By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Alex Kirilloff hit two of Minnesota’s five home runs, Jorge Polanco went deep on his birthday for the second time and the Twins beat the Chicago White Sox 8-2. Kirilloff had his second career multihomer game. He went back to back with Polanco against slumping White
Continue Reading By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Long established as a star at the plate, Yordan Alvarez has been showing flashes of brilliance on defense this season, too. Alvarez threw out Hunter Dozier at the plate from just short of the warning track in left field to preserve a two-run, eighth-inning lead, then
Continue Reading By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Long established as a star at the plate, Yordan Alvarez has been showing flashes of brilliance on defense this season, too. Alvarez threw out Hunter Dozier at the plate from just short of the warning track in left field to preserve a two-run, eighth-inning lead, then
Continue Reading Story by Reuters North Korea appears to have released water from a dam near its border with South Korea, prompting vacationers in the neighbouring country to evacuate due to rising water levels on the Imjin River, officials said Tuesday. The water level at a bridge on the river in the South’s border county of Yeoncheon
Continue Reading By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — Seiya Suzuki homered for the second straight night as the Chicago Cubs overcame Kyle Hendricks’ early exit and defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 8-3. Hendricks left after three innings with a sore right shoulder. The right-hander threw 69 pitches, with his velocity slightly lower than usual. Chicago’s
Continue Reading By Iqbal Athas, Chris Liakos, Rhea Mogul and Daniela Gonzalez-Roman CNN Sri Lanka is “bankrupt,” Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said Tuesday, as the country suffers its worst financial crisis in decades, leaving millions struggling to buy food, medicine and fuel. Wickremesinghe told lawmakers that negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to revive the country’s
Continue Reading By DOUG ALDEN Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Kevin Kiermaier hit an early three-run double and broke a tie with an RBI grounder during a four-run sixth inning that sent the Tampa Bay Rays past the Boston Red Sox 8-4. Yandy Díaz had three singles and an RBI as the Rays evened the three-game series
Continue Reading By DAVID GINSBURG Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Cedric Mullins doubled in the winning run in the 10th inning, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Texas Rangers 10-9 Tuesday night in a wild game that featured several comebacks and clutch home runs. Mullins hit a two-out liner into the gap off Matt Moore (3-2) to
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