GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s defense department says any delay to a planned multibillion-dollar acquisition of U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets would have “grave consequences” for Swiss security. On Tuesday, the Swiss government announced that campaigners had cleared the bar of 100,000 signatures on a petition calling for a referendum on the planned purchase of 36 of
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN The Texas church that staged an unauthorized production of the Tony-winning musical “Hamilton” and changed several lines to include references to Jesus and Christianity has apologized to “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and the team behind the musical for its staging. The Door, a church in McAllen, confirmed that its production was
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By Anna Cooban, CNN Business The United Kingdom will have to find an answer to soaring energy bills soon or risk a humanitarian crisis. But freezing gas and electricity prices over the next two winters could cost the government over £100 billion ($118 billion), more than it spent paying millions of people’s salaries during the
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By Kristin Fisher, CNN For the first time in 50 years, NASA is on the precipice of launching a rocket that is designed to fly astronauts all the way to the moon. But instead of leaving just flags and footprints in a mad dash to beat the Soviet Union, NASA has a new rival and
Continue Reading CNNEE (CNN Español) — El Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba) ya está presentando “Diego y yo”, el autorretrato de Frida Kahlo que se convirtió en la obra más cara de un artista latinoamericano jamás vendida en un remate a fines del año pasado. ¿Por qué es importante la obra de Frida Kahlo?
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By Phil Mattingly, Katie Lobosco and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced new steps to address student loan debt, which includes forgiving $10,000 for borrowers who make less than $125,000 per year and extending the payment freeze one final time until the end of the year. Low-income borrowers who went to college
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LONDON (AP) — Howard Webb is leaving his job as head of refereeing in Major League Soccer to take up a similar role in the English Premier League with the aim of improving the general standard of officiating and providing better insight into the calls made by referees. The 51-year-old Webb has taken charge of
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Seis migrantes cubanos a la deriva en el mar en una balsa improvisada fueron rescatados por un crucero la semana pasada, según muestra un video compartido con CNN. El video captó el improvisado encuentro el viernes de la semana pasada mientras el crucero Carnival Paradise navegaba de Tampa, Florida, a
Continue Reading By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Team Penske has signed Joey Logano to a long-term contract extension to continue driving the No. 22 Ford. The announcement comes a week after Penske locked down Ryan Blaney for several years. Logano joined Team Penske ahead of the 2013 season after he was
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By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press A federal judge in Idaho has barred the state from enforcing a strict abortion ban in medical emergencies over concerns that it violates a federal law on emergency care. The ruling Wednesday evening came after a federal judge this week in Texas made the opposite call, barring the federal government
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Three-time Grand Slam champion Angelique Kerber has withdrawn from the U.S. Open because she is pregnant. Kerber announced the news via social media on Wednesday by joking that “two against one just isn’t a fair competition” and posting a string of emojis that included a baby bottle. The 34-year-old German won
Continue Reading By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer ATLANTA (AP) — The PGA Tour is making its boldest response yet to the rival Saudi-funded league. PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan has announced a plan for the best players to commit to a 20-tournament schedule starting next year. That means they will be competing against one another up
Continue Reading By Amarachi Orie, CNN Meghan, Duchess of Sussex has said she did not realize ambition could be considered a “terrible” quality in a woman until she started dating her future husband, Prince Harry. Meghan kicked off her new podcast, “Archetypes,” which “dives into the labels that try to hold women back,” with an episode on
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed, CNN Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday told a federal court that it should bar a grand jury’s questioning of the South Carolina Republican “on all the topics” sought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in the subpoena for Graham’s testimony as part of an investigation into plots to illegally influence Georgia’s
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By Brian Fung, CNN Twitter’s former head of security is blowing the whistle on company practices that he says have jeopardized US national security and misled investors and regulators. With a nearly 200-page disclosure to the US government, Peiter “Mudge” Zatko has become the latest whistleblower to come forward from the tech industry. Zatko levels
Continue Reading CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Clare Duffy, CNN Business After years of users clamoring for such a feature, Twitter is finally testing edited tweets. Twitter said in — where else? — a tweet Thursday morning that some users may start seeing edited tweets in their feed because it is testing the long-awaited edit button. “This is
Continue Reading By Katie Lobosco, CNN President Joe Biden is taking a “hard look” at canceling some federal student loan debt, but even a broad forgiveness plan may leave out some of the 43 million borrowers. The President is planning to announce his decision on Wednesday, CNN has learned. Biden has indicated that if he does take
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Welcome to Wrexham” desperately wants to position itself as “the real ‘Ted Lasso,’” but that’s only part of what’s going on in this FX docuseries, in which Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney buy a struggling Welsh soccer team. The resulting series is a little of this, a bit of that,
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN John McAfee was a strange, eccentric figure, who helpfully allowed cameras to chronicle almost every beat of his frenzied, paranoia-filled flight from the authorities. Yet “Running With the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee” suffers from zooming in too close on its subject, leaving a documentary that’s chaotic and
Continue Reading By Chandelis Duster, CNN The US Department of Agriculture will allocate over half a billion dollars toward initiatives to help poor farmers and increase diversity in the agriculture industry, the agency will announce Wednesday morning. The funding announcement follows two new provisions signed into law under the Inflation Reduction Act last week that will allow
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NEW YORK, New York — Do you have a tattoo you regret? If you do now is a good time to make up for it with one you’ll treasure forever: a tattoo of your dog. Online pet product retailer BarkBox will pay you to get that tattoo. The company kicked off the contest last week.
Continue Reading By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Two months ago, Australian media site Crikey called “Murdoch” an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol. Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch’s lawyers have been battling Crikey ever since. On Monday, Crikey published an open letter and took out a full-page ad in the New York
Continue Reading By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region say Ethiopia’s military has launched a “large-scale” offensive for the first time in a year. But Ethiopia’s government says Tigray forces attacked first. It’s a significant setback to mediation efforts and humanitarian work to feed millions of people starved of
Continue Reading By Rachel Janfaza, CNN Maxwell Frost, a 25-year-old community organizer and one of the first members of Generation Z to run for Congress, will win the Democratic nomination in Florida’s 10th Congressional District, CNN projects. He bested a crowded field of candidates looking to replace Democratic Rep. Val Demings in an Orlando-based district, including state
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, CNN The outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Wednesday, marking six months since Russia begun its full-scale invasion of the country which also falls on Ukraine’s Independence Day. Announcing the visit on Twitter, 10 Downing Street shared an image of Johnson speaking to Zelensky
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By Kevin Dotson, Sammy Mngqosini and Issy Ronald, CNN Thirty-one years ago, the Ukrainian Declaration of Independence from the Soviet Union was issued, an occasion traditionally marked with celebrations and military parades in the streets of Kyiv. Ukraine’s Independence Day this year marks six months exactly since Russia invaded and began a bloody war which
Continue Reading By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer Daniel Ricciardo and McLaren will split at the end of the Formula One season after a buyout was negotiated with the Australian on the final year of his contract. Ricciardo held the option on 2023 for his seat at McLaren but his performance has been underwhelming through 35
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — German officials launched what they say is the world’s first fleet of hydrogen-powered passenger trains Wednesday, replacing 15 diesel trains that previously operated on nonelectrified tracks in the state of Lower Saxony. The 14 trains use hydrogen fuel cells to generate electricity that powers the engines. The German government has backed expanding
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CALIFORNIA — Authorities in California are cracking down on A-list celebrities who are blatantly using way too much water. Many of these over-users are hit with fines but it has not curbed water use. To help, authorities will now install flow restriction devices. These devises remove the functionality of irrigation systems causing frustratingly slow- dripping
Continue Reading BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — City leaders in Birmingham have agreed to a $5 million bailout to help The World Games 2022 reduce a roughly $15 million debt. Organizers told the City Council about potential long-term benefits and other positive aspects of the Olympics-style competition during a meeting Tuesday, But members say they were kept in
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