CNN By Eric Bradner, Kristen Holmes and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s schedule in the closing weeks of the 2024 election is dotted with detours into overwhelmingly Democratic states. From California’s Coachella Valley on Saturday to New York’s Madison Square Garden later this month, the former president is veering away from the monthslong
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The icy extremes of Earth have long beckoned explorers with the promise of discovering uncharted territory. The challenges of reaching such unforgiving destinations stirred excitement in the 19th and early 20th centuries, with expeditions venturing to Antarctica and the Arctic. Some achieved pioneering success, while others resulted in tragic
Continue Reading CNN By Kit Maher and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said the way he phrased his criticism of “childless cat ladies” — comments that took on new life when Donald Trump tapped the Ohio senator as his running mate — was “dumb.” “I certainly wish that I had said
Continue Reading By Kit Maher and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said the way he phrased his criticism of “childless cat ladies” — comments that took on new life when Donald Trump tapped the Ohio senator as his running mate — was “dumb.” “I certainly wish that I had said it
Continue Reading Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Palestinians in northern Gaza described heavy Israeli bombardment Saturday in the hours after airstrikes killed at least 22 people, as Israel warned people there and in southern Lebanon to get out of the way of offensives against the Hamas and Hezbollah militant groups. In Lebanon, the U.N. peacekeeping force said
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Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Miles de floridanos están reconstruyendo sus comunidades después de que el huracán Milton tocara tierra como una tormenta mortal de categoría 3 esta semana y atravesara el estado, trayendo una marejada destructiva a partes de la costa occidental de Florida y tornados mortales al este, causando la muerte de al menos
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s leader says he plans to temporarily suspend the right to asylum as part of a new migration policy. Prime Minister Donald Tusk pointed to its alleged abuse by eastern neighbor Belarus and Russia. Tusk said Saturday that “the state must regain 100% of the control over who enters and leaves
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — An explosion at a gas station in Russia’s southern region of Chechnya has killed at least four people. Russia’s Emergencies Ministry says the explosion of a gas tank triggered a fire at the service station in the regional capital, Grozny. Two children were among the dead and the fire on Saturday was
Continue Reading OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Authorities say a woman was fatally shot by Oklahoma City police after firing a gun and threatening officers with it. Police Capt. Valerie Littlejohn says the woman was a suspect in an earlier shooting and crashed her vehicle at a northwest Oklahoma City intersection Thursday night. Littlejohn says seven officers went
Continue Reading Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian military recruitment officers have raided restaurants, bars and a concert hall in Kyiv, checking military registration documents and detaining men who are not in compliance. Local media reported Saturday that officers intercepted men leaving a concert by Ukrainian rock band Okean Elzy and some were forcibly detained. It
Continue Reading By CNN staff (CNN) — The White House on Saturday released a letter from Vice President Kamala Harris’ doctor, US Army physician Joshua R. Simmons, stating that Harris is in “excellent health” and that she “possesses the physical and mental resiliency required to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency.” The detailed letter marks an
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — French anti-terror prosecutors say an Afghan national is being investigated on terrorism charges over a suspected attack plot. The 22-year-old suspect was among three people who authorities revealed earlier this week were detained in the Toulouse region. The two other people were released from custody. Authorities said an investigation opened Sept. 27
Continue Reading By Amanda Musa, Josh Campbell, Brian Todd and Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of Floridians are rebuilding their communities after Hurricane Milton made landfall as a deadly Category 3 storm this week and cut through the state, bringing destructive storm surge to parts of Florida’s western shore and deadly tornadoes to the east while
Continue Reading OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Police in Oklahoma say a shooting at a party held at an event center left one person dead and wounded 12. Capt. Valerie Littlejohn of the Oklahoma City Police Department says a disturbance led to multiple shots being fired inside and outside the private venue in Oklahoma City around 12:30 a.m.
Continue Reading AP Medical Writer When a woman has a mammogram, the most important finding is whether there’s any sign of breast cancer. The second most important finding is whether her breasts are dense. Since early September, a new U.S. rule requires mammography centers to inform women about their breast density — information that isn’t entirely new
Continue Reading CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris is in “excellent health,” her doctor, US Army physician Joshua R. Simmons, said in a letter summarizing her medical history that was released by the White House on Saturday. Harris has seasonal allergies and hives and is nearsighted, Simmons’ letter said. Her immunizations and
Continue Reading AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface. It won’t search
Continue Reading PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani official says tribal clashes in the northwest have killed at least 11 people and injured eight, including women and children. Tensions rose in Kurram district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, after two people were critically injured Saturday in a shooting incident between rival tribes. It wasn’t clear what caused the shooting.
Continue Reading Associated Press NELSONVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Voters in a ring of congressional districts encircling New York City where Republican candidates often do well but Donald Trump struggled in 2020 could decide which party controls the U.S. House for the next two years. Eleven districts within a 90-mile drive of Manhattan are expected to be among
Continue Reading Associated Press Back in 2016, the artificial intelligence maker OpenAI had just incorporated as a nonprofit and applied to the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status. The application shows the vast distance OpenAI and the technology that it researches and develops has traveled in under a decade. At the time, OpenAI told the IRS it
Continue Reading Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Las fuerzas de Israel están llevando a cabo una operación a gran escala en el norte de Gaza, emitiendo órdenes de evacuación y bloqueando el suministro de alimentos. La intensificación de la acción militar ocurre apenas semanas después de que se informara que el primer ministro, Benjamin Netanyahu, estaba considerando un
Continue Reading AP Political Writers COACHELLA, Calif. (AP) — With the presidency on the line in battlegrounds like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, Donald Trump spent Saturday night in solidly liberal California, seeking to link Vice President Kamala Harris to what he described as the failures of her home state. Trump is almost certain to lose California, and that
Continue Reading Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The artificial intelligence maker OpenAI may face a costly and inconvenient reckoning with its nonprofit origins even as its valuation recently exploded to $157 billion. Nonprofit tax experts have been closely watching OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, since last November when its board ousted and rehired CEO Sam Altman.
Continue Reading By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — At the heart of the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, carved into pink sandstone cliffs, lies an elaborate monument known as the Khaznah, or the Treasury. And buried beneath that edifice, archaeologists recently discovered, is a tomb with at least 12 human skeletons and artifacts that are estimated to
Continue Reading BEIRUT (AP) — A series of U.S. airstrikes have targeted several camps run by the Islamic State group in Syria. The U.S. military said the operation will disrupt the extremists from conducting attacks in the region and beyond. The U.S. Central Command said the airstrikes were conducted Friday without specifying in which parts of Syria.
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN Español) — En octubre muchos países celebran una festividad similar, aunque no se pongan de acuerdo con el nombre. En Estados Unidos se celebra el segundo lunes de octubre, y se conoce como el Día de Cristóbal Colón. En Latinoamérica se celebra el 12 del mes y se llama el Día de la Raza,
Continue Reading CNN By Natasha Bertrand, Kylie Atwood, Jennifer Hansler and Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s government is extremely nervous and has been engaging in urgent diplomatic efforts with countries in the Middle East to gauge whether they can reduce the scale of Israel’s response to its missile attack earlier this month and – if that fails – help protect Tehran, sources familiar with the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — High pressure over the Borderland will keep conditions dry and fair, but temperatures will remain unseasonably warm, nearing or breaking record highs through the weekend. Next week, the high pressure system is expected to weaken, allowing for a gradual cool down. Temperatures will drop by one or two degrees each
Continue Reading Excerpts of a memoir written by late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have revealed he believed he would die in prison. The New Yorker magazine published the excerpts Friday in anticipation of the release of “Patriot” on Oct. 22. Navalny was President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest and most prominent foe and relentlessly campaigned against official corruption
Continue Reading By Curt Devine, Devan Cole and Janat Batra, CNN (CNN) — Powerful hurricanes that wreaked havoc on wide swaths of the southeast have election officials facing the dim reality that some ballots may be lost in the mail. While in many cases there are remedies to solve the problem, it’s part of the complicated preparations for the
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