Affirmative action under threat as high court hears UNC case
By MARK SHERMAN and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Once a bastion of segregation, the University of North Carolina now…
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Haitian politician shot dead, as violent gangs and political turmoil push country to the ‘edge of collapse’
By Rob Picheta, CNN A Haitian politician has been shot dead outside his home, authorities have said, as international concerns intensify over the…
Continue ReadingWhat causes armies to lose the will to fight? Here’s what history tells us — and what Putin may soon find out
By John Blake, CNN It was one of the strangest episodes in military history, an event so unusual that it was first treated as a myth. At 8:30 pm on…
Continue ReadingHow elections work
By Zachary B. Wolf and Ethan Cohen Whether you’re the most hardened of political junkies or you only tune in every other November to…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: Drag queens and how they got pulled into politics
By JEFF McMILLAN Associated Press Lately, drag has been dragged through the mud. The art form has been cast in a false light in recent months by…
Continue Reading Swiss claim record for world’s longest passenger train
GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss railway company claimed the record for the world’s longest passenger train Saturday with a trip on one of the most…
Continue Reading Russia suspends Ukraine grain deal over ship attack claim
By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia announced Saturday that it will immediately suspend its implementation of a…
Continue Reading Pakistan: Oldest prisoner freed from Guantanamo, back home
By ZARAR KHAN Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s foreign ministry says that a 75-year-old from Pakistan who was the oldest prisoner…
Continue ReadingHouse majority leader reflects on 20 years since first federal voting systems legislation enactment and how the fight over voting system legitimacy has shifted
By Annie Grayer, CNN The first piece of modern federal legislation to address the infrastructure of voting systems across the country, known as Help…
Continue Reading Royal Navy investigating claims women harassed on submarines
LONDON (AP) — The head of Britain’s Royal Navy said he is “deeply disturbed” by allegations that female submariners were bullied and sexually…
Continue Reading Hong Kong customs seize record meth haul worth $140 million
By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong customs seized 1.8 metric tons (2 tons) of liquid methamphetamine in the city’s…
Continue Reading Anne Frank’s friend Hannah Pick-Goslar dies at age 93
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Hannah Pick-Goslar, one of Jewish diarist Anne Frank’s best friends, has died at…
Continue Reading8-year-old boy becomes youngest person to climb California’s El Capitan
By Andy Rose and Aya Elamroussi, CNN An 8-year-old boy became the youngest person to finish climbing El Capitan in California’s Yosemite…
Continue Reading8-year-old boy becomes youngest person to climb California’s El Capitan
By Andy Rose and Aya Elamroussi, CNN An 8-year-old boy became the youngest person to finish climbing El Capitan in California’s Yosemite…
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Hyland hits 7 3-pointers, Nuggets top Jazz 117-101
By MIKE CRANSTON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Bones Hyland hit seven 3-pointers and scored 26 points, DeAndre Jordan hit the second 3 of his…
Continue Reading Iran’s Guard warns protesters as more unrest roils country
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard issued a new warning on Saturday to antigovernment protesters,…
Continue Reading“¿Retiro? No estamos en ese punto todavía”, dice Zlatan Ibrahimović
Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Cumplió 41 años a principios de este mes y, debido a una grave lesión en la rodilla, no jugará hasta el próximo…
Continue ReadingWomen powered a blue wave in 2018. Now the tables appear to have turned
By Maeve Reston, CNN Republicans are bullish that this could the year of the “security mom” — the moment when women who abandoned…
Continue ReadingMás de 800 migrantes murieron en la frontera sur de EE.UU. en el último año fiscal, un nuevo récord
Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Más de 830 migrantes murieron en la frontera sur de Estados Unidos en el año fiscal 2022, lo que representa un…
Continue ReadingLas “variantes scrabble” causan la mayoría de las nuevas infecciones por covid-19 en EE.UU.
Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La subvariante ómicron BA.5 ya no es la causa dominante de las infecciones por covid-19 en Estados Unidos, según…
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