By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A suspected drone strike launched by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces hit a prison in the southern region of Kordofan on Saturday and killed at least 20 inmates, authorities said. Fifty other detainees were wounded in the attack on the main prison in Obeid, the capital city
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A constant influx of crime drama and trials often floods the national conversation. Some cases grip the public’s attention and leave a lasting mark on society. And we are in for a particularly busy summer of headline-grabbing trials. And it’s not even Memorial Day yet. Karen Read is being
Continue ReadingPor Juliana Liu y Catherine Nicholls, CNN Las conversaciones comerciales entre Estados Unidos y China comenzaron este sábado en Ginebra, Suiza, según informaron medios estatales chinos, una señal incipiente de una distensión en la guerra comercial desatada por los aranceles masivos del presidente Donald Trump. El viceprimer ministro He Lifeng liderará las conversaciones por parte
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By Juliana Liu, Catherine Nicholls and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Saturday there was “great progress made” on trade talks between the United States and China, amid a possible thaw in the trade war sparked by his massive tariffs. “A very good meeting today with China, in Switzerland. Many things discussed,
Continue Reading By SAMYA KULLAB and JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed restarting direct talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on May 15, “without preconditions,” an offer that came in response to Ukraine and its allies urging Moscow to commit to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire or face additional sanctions. Putin referenced the unsuccessful 2022 peace
Continue Reading Associated Press Nebraska Daybook for Saturday, May. 10. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Omaha bureau is reachable at 402-391-0031. Send daybook items to Nebraska@applanner.com. To see
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Continue ReadingPor Andrew Carey, Svitlana Vlasova y Catherine Nicholls, CNN Los líderes de Alemania, Francia, Reino Unido y Polonia llegaron a Kyiv para reunirse con el presidente de Ucrania, Volodymyr Zelensky, símbolo de la unidad europea, para presionar públicamente al presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin. Friedrich Merz, el nuevo canciller de Alemania; el presidente de Francia,
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Continue ReadingPor Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Este viernes por la mañana, funcionarios portuarios de la costa oeste de Estados Unidos informaron a CNN sobre una situación alarmante: ni un solo buque de carga había salido de China con mercancías para los dos principales puertos de la costa oeste en las últimas 12 horas. Esto no ha sucedido
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By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Two months ago, following high-level talks between Ukrainian and American delegations in the Saudi city of Jeddah, the United States proposed an unconditional 30-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly announced on that same day that Ukraine was ready to accept the
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By Andrew Carey and Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — The leaders of Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Poland have told Russian leader Vladimir Putin to agree to a 30-day ceasefire starting on Monday or face possible “massive” sanctions, according to French President Emmanuel Macron, on a highly symbolic visit to Kyiv.
Continue ReadingBy Pete Muntean, Alexandra Skores, and Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — A communications system reliant on floppy disks and copper wires. Radars operated with a remote line described as “a long extension cord.” Multiple air traffic controllers on trauma leave to recover from the stress of technical failures that caused them to lose contact with
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By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN New York (CNN) — In June 2023, Jon Halper started selling THC beverages at Top Ten Liquors, his chain of Minnesota stores. The drinks, which contain the main intoxicating chemical compound found in cannabis, were a massive hit. “Immediately, the sales took off,” said Halper. “We’ve never seen anything explosive like
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By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — India’s missile and bomb strikes on targets in Pakistan and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir have spiked tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors, with Pakistan’s leader calling the attacks an act of war. Claims about the initial attack and the aftermath have differed widely, with neither India nor Pakistan releasing
Continue ReadingPor Kaitlan Collins, Samantha Waldenberg y Tierney Sneed, CNN El presidente Donald Trump participó personalmente en conversaciones dentro de la administración sobre la posible suspensión del habeas corpus, un procedimiento legal que permite a las personas impugnar su detención en los tribunales, según informaron a CNN dos personas familiarizadas con el tema. Uno de los
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By Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN (CNN) — On Friday morning, West Coast port officials told CNN about a startling sight: Not a single cargo vessel had left China with goods for the two major West Coast ports in the past 12 hours. That hasn’t happened since the pandemic. Six days ago, 41 vessels were scheduled to
Continue Reading NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING_Donovan, St. Louis, .327; Alonso, New York, .324; Machado, San Diego, .319; T.Turner, Philadelphia, .318; Tatis, San Diego, .317; T.Hernández, Los Angeles, .315; W.Smith, Los Angeles, .310; Ohtani, Los Angeles, .304; Turang, Milwaukee, .302; Perdomo, Arizona, .299. RUNS_Ohtani, Los Angeles, 43; Tucker, Chicago, 31; Carroll, Arizona, 30; Soto, New York, 30; Turang, Milwaukee,
Continue Reading NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING_Donovan, St. Louis, .327; Alonso, New York, .324; Machado, San Diego, .319; T.Turner, Philadelphia, .318; Tatis, San Diego, .317; T.Hernández, Los Angeles, .315; W.Smith, Los Angeles, .310; Ohtani, Los Angeles, .304; Turang, Milwaukee, .302; Perdomo, Arizona, .299. RUNS_Ohtani, Los Angeles, 43; Tucker, Chicago, 31; Carroll, Arizona, 30; Soto, New York, 30; Turang, Milwaukee,
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Continue ReadingPor Katie Bo Lillis y Natasha Bertrand, CNN Los funcionarios de la administración Trump están sopesando un cambio que trasladaría la responsabilidad de los intereses de seguridad de EE.UU. en Groenlandia al comando militar que supervisa la defensa del territorio nacional de Estados Unidos, subrayando el enfoque del presidente en el territorio estratégicamente importante que
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By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Trump administration must halt much of its dramatic downsizing of the federal workforce, a California judge ordered Friday. Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco issued the emergency order in a lawsuit filed last week by labor unions and cities, one of multiple legal challenges to
Continue Reading By JAKE OFFENHARTZ, CLAUDIA LAUER and BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press Newark Mayor Ras Baraka on Saturday denied trespassing at a new federal immigration detention center during a confrontation that led to his arrest while the Democrat was at the facility with three members of Congress. Baraka, who has been protesting the center’s opening this week,
Continue Reading By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Talks planned this weekend between U.S. and Chinese officials in Switzerland are a culmination of more than three months of dizzying rounds of retaliatory tariffs between the two countries that have crippled each other’s exporters and dragged on their economies. Washington and Beijing are entering talks
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN, DIDI TANG and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.S. treasury secretary and America’s top trade negotiator will meet with high-ranking Chinese officials in Switzerland this weekend to de-escalate a dispute that threatens to cut off trade between the world’s two biggest economies and to damage global commerce. Treasury Secretary
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN, DIDI TANG and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — President Donald Trump said “great progress” was being made in ongoing U.S.-China talks over tariffs menacing the global economy, and even suggested a “total reset” was on the table as tariff negotiations are set to continue Sunday in Switzerland. No major breakthrough
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Growing up in Atlanta in the 1940s and 1950s, Susan Levine’s visits to New York City relatives included being the star of an impromptu novelty show: Her cousin invited over friends and charged 25 cents a pop for them to listen to Levine’s Southern accent. Even though they too grew
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By JACK BROOK and DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press/Report for America NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the archives and discovered the pope had deep roots in the Big Easy. All four of Pope Leo XIV’s maternal great-grandparents were “free
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