By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge has sided with conservatives, ruling that absentee ballot drop boxes cannot be located anywhere other than at offices of local clerks and that no one other than the voter may return such a ballot. Thursday’s ruling, if it stands, means that no ballot
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macamilarincon (CNN) –– Un tribunal de Alemania condenó a un excoronel del Ejército de Siria a cadena perpetua sin posibilidad de libertad condicional, en el primer juicio por tortura contra el régimen del presidente Bashar al-Assad. Anwar Raslan, un alto funcionario del régimen, lideró la unidad de investigación en un destacado centro de detención de
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Lael Brainard, President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Federal Reserve’s No. 2 spot, said Thursday that combating high inflation is the Fed’s top priority and promised the Fed could bring it down without sacrificing job growth. Brainard’s elevation of inflation-fighting as the Fed’s top goal is
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Lael Brainard, President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Federal Reserve’s No. 2 spot, said Thursday that combating high inflation is the Fed’s top priority and promised the Fed could bring it down without sacrificing job growth. Brainard’s elevation of inflation-fighting as the Fed’s top goal is
Continue Reading Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — El Gobierno de Bolivia informó este miércoles que el juicio contra la expresidenta Jeanine Áñez iniciará próximamente. El anuncio despertó críticas de la defensa de la exmandataria, la cual aseguró a CNN que aún no han recibido una notificación oficial por parte de los tribunales. En un mensaje
Continue Reading By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — GOP Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine says he has no regrets about his response to the coronavirus pandemic, even if Republican voters who thought he went too far are angry enough to vote him out in the upcoming May primary. DeWine is running for
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CNN By Jeremy Herb, Jennifer Hansler and Alex Marquardt, CNN A senior US official warned Thursday that the “drumbeat of war is sounding loud” following a week’s worth of diplomacy between the West and Russia that wrapped up Thursday. The effort ended without clear breakthroughs over the tens of thousands of Russian troops amassed on
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police have dispersed hundreds of Bedouin protesters who blocked a desert highway during a demonstration against a tree-planting campaign they say is aimed at pushing them off disputed land. It was the third consecutive day of demonstrations by Bedouin residents of southern Israel’s Negev desert against a forestry project they say
Continue Reading WESTBROOK, Maine (AP) — A swirling disk of ice on a Maine river is drawing onlookers in the heart of winter once again. The disk has formed in the Presumpscot River in Westbrook. A handful of dog-walkers and onlookers stopped to gaze at the curious ice formation on a chilly Thursday morning around dawn. The
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Shares of Virgin Galactic — the space tourism company that carried its billionaire founder, Richard Branson, to the edge of space last summer — took a major price hit on Thursday after the company announced it’s raising as much as half a billion dollars in debt. Its stock shed more
Continue Reading By Delano Massey, CNN The Senate on Tuesday passed a bipartisan bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Emmett Till, a teenager savagely killed in 1955 by White supremacists in Mississippi, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who decided to have an open-casket funeral because she “wanted the world to see what they did
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UPDATE: Four people were injured in a crash on I-10 west near Mesquite. All four were taken to an El Paso hospital, according to New Mexico State Police. The extent of their injuries is not known. State police say an 18-year-old driver was speeding on I-10 west when he left the road and collided with
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is prolonging economic sanctions against Russia for six months for failing to live up to its commitments to the peace agreement in Ukraine. The move comes amid concern that Moscow may be preparing to invade its former Soviet neighbor, but is not linked to the tensions. The measures target
Continue Reading TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state-run news agency says the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard force has tested the engine for a solid-fuel satellite carrier rocket. Thursday’s report by the IRNA news agency quoted chief of the Guard’s aerospace unit as saying the test was successful. The general says the satellite carrier was made of a
Continue Reading By Matt Egan, CNN Business Inflation has vaulted to the top of CEOs’ worry list. More than half (55%) of global CEOs fear pricing pressures will stay elevated until mid-2023 — or beyond, according to a survey released Thursday by the Conference Board. Inflation is now viewed by executives as the No. 2 external threat
Continue Reading By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Two U.S. science agencies say 2021 was the sixth hottest year on record globally, part of a long-term warming trend. NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Thursday released measurements showing how hot last year was. It wasn’t record hot, but the year’s 58.5 degree average is not
Continue Reading By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Two brand-new COVID-19 pills that were supposed to be an important weapon against the pandemic in the U.S. are in short supply and have played little role in the fight against the omicron wave of infections. The problem is that production is not yet at full
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By Katie Hunt, CNN A breeding colony of 60 million fish has been discovered in Antarctica’s ice-covered Weddell Sea — a unique and previously unknown ecosystem that covers an area the size of Malta. The fascinating find shows how little is known about the ocean depths. The vast colony, believed to be the world’s largest,
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By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Two brand-new COVID-19 pills that were supposed to be an important weapon against the pandemic in the U.S. are in short supply and have played little role in the fight against the omicron wave of infections. The problem is that production is not yet at full
Continue Reading By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Two brand-new COVID-19 pills that were supposed to be an important weapon against the pandemic in the U.S. are in short supply and have played little role in the fight against the omicron wave of infections. The problem is that production is not yet at full
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers may have found a moon that’s completely different from anything in our solar system. It’s only the second space object discovered that may be an exomoon, or a moon outside of our solar system. The giant moon was found orbiting a Jupiter-size planet called Kepler 1708b, located 5,500 light-years from
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore and Allison Morrow, CNN Business Inflation isn’t just an economic headache — it’s become a political blame game that will almost certainly define this year’s midterm election campaigns. But the cause of inflation doesn’t lie with any single government action or lack of action. And fixing it — that is, bringing current
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN The spread of the highly transmissible Omicron coronavirus variant is forcing some US schools to halt in-person learning because of high case rates and teacher absences. The vast majority of schools are operating as normal. But at least 2,141 schools were not offering in-person learning as of Thursday,
Continue Reading More children are being hospitalized with Covid-19 now than at any point during the pandemic. If your child has a sore throat or the sniffles, it may be hard to know when it’s OK to send them to school. In today’s Health Minute, a pediatrician tells us which symptoms signal a sick day.
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s domestic intelligence service has warned lawmakers that a London-based lawyer has tried to “covertly interfere in U.K. politics” on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party. House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle on Thursday sent legislators an alert from the MI5 spy agency alleging
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — Los respiradores N95, el estándar de oro de las mascarillas de filtración, vuelven a ser el centro de atención de la pandemia debido a la variante ómicron de covid-19, altamente contagiosa. A diferencia de lo que ocurría al principio de la pandemia, las mascarillas N95 están ahora ampliamente disponibles, pero el principal
Continue Reading BY JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the prestigious Peace Prize, has issued a very rare admonition to the 2019 winner, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, over the war and humanitarian crisis in his country’s Tigray region. Abiy partly won the prize for making peace with
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By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer WENGEN, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss skier Carlo Janka was once crowned the world’s best all-around men’s alpine racer. Janka has announced the end of his injury-hit racing career at his home country’s most storied venue. His career peaked in 2010 as the overall World Cup champion ahead of greats
Continue Reading By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An investigation has found that Utah police made “several unintentional mistakes” when they stopped Gabby Petito and her boyfriend before she was killed in what became a high-profile missing person case. The independent report released Wednesday examines a stop by police in the tourist town
Continue Reading TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Kamila Valieva bettered her own world-best score in the women’s short program to take the lead at the European figure skating championships. Valieva landed four triple jumps and scored 90.45 points to lead by 14. The 15-year-old Russian is widely considered to be a favorite for the Olympic title next month.
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