By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a group of bankers, financial institutions and others accused of laundering money from cyber crime schemes — money the Treasury Department says helps pay for North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Over the past three years, North Korean malware and
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie’s new book, his 23rd, is also a resetting of his career. “The Eleventh Hour,” which includes two short stories and three novellas, is his first work of fiction since he was brutally stabbed on a New York lecture stage in 2022. His recovery
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By Melanie Radzicki McManus (CNN) — People in the United States are obsessed with dieting and body size. That may be due to the fact that 40.3% of adults have obesity today, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The weight loss industry likely contributes to these twin obsessions, as the global
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By Kylie Atwood, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — More than two weeks after President Donald Trump said he would halt “all payments” to Colombia, there has not been any interruption to the assistance, even after the administration sanctioned the country’s President Gustavo Petro accusing him of playing a “role in the global illicit drug trade.”
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By JULIE CARR SMYTH and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press Bomb threats to New Jersey polling stations, a voter roll mishap in Pennsylvania potentially affecting thousands of voters and warnings by President Donald Trump against California’s mail balloting system marked the final day of voting in an off-year election with several nationally prominent races. Voting otherwise
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By The Associated Press President Donald Trump’s administration said Monday that it will partially fund SNAP for November, after two judges issued rulings requiring the government to keep the nation’s largest food aid program running. The government says an emergency fund it will use has $4.65 billion — enough to cover about half the normal
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — David Beckham has been knighted by King Charles III, in what the retired British soccer star described as his “proudest moment.” The former England soccer captain accepted the knighthood for his services to sport and charity on Tuesday at a ceremony at Windsor Castle, where Japanese-British author and screenwriter
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi won praise in her country’s parliament on Tuesday for a diplomatic debut that included hosting U.S. President Donald Trump — but was scolded by the opposition leader for what he said was going too far in flattering Trump. Takaichi held a summit
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By SETH BORENSTEIN and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press BELEM, Brazil (AP) — For 30 years, world leaders and diplomats have gathered at United Nations negotiating sessions to try to curb climate change, but Earth’s temperature continues to rise and extreme weather worsens. So this month, they’re hoping for fewer promises and more action. Past pledges
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By SETH BORENSTEIN and MELINA WALLING Associated Press All nations of the world had homework this year: submit new-and-improved plans to fight climate change. But the plans they handed in “have barely moved the needle” on reducing Earth’s future warming, a new United Nations report finds. And a good chunk of that progress is counteracted
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By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Adam Sandler will be the next recipient of AARP’s Movies for Grownups career achievement award, the group said Tuesday. And maybe this time, the actor will wait for his signal. When Sandler won the group’s best actor prize in 2020 for“Uncut Gems,” he rushed to the stage
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — When it came time to receive his knighthood, soccer great David Beckham knew what to do. He bent his knee like, well, Beckham. King Charles III tapped his shoulders with the blade of a sword and “Becks” was transformed to Sir David Beckham. “This is without doubt
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By LORNE COOK and ALEXANDRA BRZOZOWSKI Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Tuesday praised Ukraine’s progress on reform to join the bloc despite concerns over its efforts to tackle corruption, and issued tough warnings to candidates Serbia and Georgia about democratic backsliding. In a series of enlargement reports, the bloc’s executive branch,
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By Catherine Nicholls, CNN London (CNN) — A gruesome train stabbing that left nine people with life-threatening injuries over the weekend has put the spotlight back on the United Kingdom’s widespread knife-crime problem. A 32-year-old British man has been charged with 10 counts of attempted murder in connection with the attack, which took place on
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By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — There’s nothing quite like a festive market to bring out the Christmas spirit in people. While these events can be traced back to Vienna — the Austrian city’s first recorded December market was in 1298 — the tradition has spread across the world over the centuries. From Germany and
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By ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Survivors of a powerful earthquake in northern Afghanistan that killed more than 25 people and injured nearly 1,000 were digging through the rubble of their homes Tuesday, trying to salvage what belongings they could after spending the night outside in the bitter cold. Rain was
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Denny’s, the struggling, 72-year-old diner chain, is selling itself to a group of investors who are taking the business private. The company announced Monday that it’s sold itself to TriArtisan Capital Advisors, a private equity firm that also owns P.F. Chang’s, and Yadav Enterprises, a major Denny’s
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By Stephen Collinson, Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Dick Cheney, America’s most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the “war on terror,” who helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 84. “His beloved wife of 61 years,
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By John Towfighi, CNN New York (CNN) — One year after President Donald Trump’s reelection, the US stock market continues to notch record highs. The S&P 500 has gained 19.6% over the past 12 months, boosted by strong corporate earnings and investors’ enthusiasm about artificial intelligence. Stocks have been remarkably adaptable, defying concerns about a
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By SAM McNEIL Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is attempting to forge new climate goals on Tuesday before the U.N. climate talks in Brazil. Ministers from across the 27-nation bloc met in Brussels to try to get at least 15 to align their nationally determined emissions targets to have a stronger negotiating
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By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — China has called for the US to avoid crossing four sensitive “red lines” in order to keep the two countries’ relations on track following a high-stakes meeting between leaders Xi Jinping and Donald Trump last week. Taiwan, democracy and human rights, political path and system, and right to
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — There are three things Amaarae can’t tour without — and no, it isn’t coke, ketamine and molly, despite what her song “Starkilla” suggests. Think more along the lines of a sauna, daily stretch routine and a bathroom floor so clean she could eat off of it. “Because I’m a
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration does not intend to send a high-level delegation to the COP30 climate summit — or possibly any delegation at all. But that doesn’t mean the country’s influence won’t be felt at the talks. As nations prepare to gather in Belém, Brazil, for the negotiations, which begin
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By Don Riddell, CNN (CNN) — When Ali Truwit crossed the finish line at the Copenhagen Marathon in 2023, she couldn’t have imagined how hard it would be to run the 26.2-mile distance again. Just 10 days later, she was bitten by a shark while snorkeling in Turks and Caicos and, although she was lucky
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By Sarah Ferris, Ted Barrett, Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — With Congress now tied for its longest-ever shutdown, a small group of fed-up lawmakers in Washington are furiously trying to end the standoff as soon as this week. Those members insist there’s real momentum this time. Yet it’s not yet clear whether this potential off-ramp
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth praised South Korea’s plans to raise its military spending, saying Tuesday that the Asian ally will take a larger role in defending itself from North Korean aggressions as the allies must brace for “regional contingencies.” Modernizing the
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By BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fashion powerhouse couple A$AP Rocky and Rihanna have another fashion icon award to take home after Rocky was awarded the Council of Fashion Designers of America prize on Monday. The fashion darlings posed on the CFDA carpet together dressed in designer looks from Chanel and Alaia
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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Nations secretary-general warned Tuesday that the war in Sudan is “spiraling out of control” after a paramilitary force seized the besieged and famine-stricken Darfur city of el-Fasher. Speaking in Qatar, Antonio Guterres called for an immediate ceasefire in the two-year conflict that’s
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By EVELYNE MUSAMBI and RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities in Tanzania faced mounting concern Tuesday over killings during crackdowns on protests surrounding last week’s election, with the largest opposition party alleging that security forces were secretly dumping bodies of hundreds killed in the violence. Demonstrations spread across the East African country
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Mona Ziade, who covered major events out of the Middle East during the 1980s and ’90s for The Associated Press, including the taking of Western hostages during Lebanon’s civil war and Arab-Israeli peace talks, died Tuesday. She was 65. Ziade died at her home in Beirut from
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