By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers crossed the rivals’ tense border on Tuesday, South Korean officials said, the first known border intrusion by North Korea in nearly a year. Violent confrontations and bloodshed have occasionally happened at the Koreas’ heavily fortified
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump and China sparred over tariff hikes and other retaliatory moves on Tuesday, as governments elsewhere were brainstorming strategies to cope with the trade war between the global economic giants. China said it will “fight to the end” and take countermeasures against the
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By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Republican governors and lawmakers in more than a dozen states are tapping into Elon Musk’s brand, borrowing from his Department of Government Efficiency’s approach — and in many cases, its name — to draw attention to their own bids to slash spending. The state efforts have been slower to
Continue ReadingPor Brad Lendon, CNN El mayor constructor naval militar de Estados Unidos ha firmado un acuerdo con una empresa surcoreana que, según expertos, podría representar un gran paso para ayudar a la Armada estadounidense a construir nuevos buques de guerra y así mantener el ritmo de su rival China en cuanto a tamaño de flota.
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By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China on Tuesday slammed US Vice President JD Vance for referring to the Chinese people as “peasants” in an interview that has drawn widespread ire and ridicule on China’s internet – and comparisons with Vance’s own self-proclaimed “hillbilly” background. Speaking to Fox News last Thursday, Vance defended
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By George Ramsay and Martin Goillandeau, CNN (CNN) — Meredith Gaudreau, the widow of late NHL star Johnny Gaudreau, has announced the birth of her third child, seven months after the death of her husband. “Another baby boy. Carter Michael Gaudreau – same middle name as his daddy,” Gaudreau wrote in an Instagram post, adding:
Continue ReadingAnálisis por Stephen Collinson, CNN El presidente Donald Trump no parece que vaya a ceder. El caos y el miedo desatados por su guerra comercial del “Día de la Liberación” solo lo han reafirmado en su convicción de toda la vida de que la mayor economía del mundo es víctima de rivales tramposos empeñados en
Continue Reading TODAY’S SPORTS SCHEDULE ___ INTERLEAGUE Final Chicago Cubs 10 Texas 6 Final Arizona 4 Baltimore 3 Final Athletics 10 San Diego 4 ___ AMERICAN LEAGUE Final Detroit 5 N.Y. Yankees 0 Final Cleveland 1 Chicago White Sox 0 Final Toronto 6 Boston 1 Final L.A. Angels 4 Tampa Bay 3 Final Kansas City 2 Minnesota
Continue Reading Associated Press Nebraska Daybook for Tuesday, Apr. 08. 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 Reading Associated Press Kansas Daybook for Tuesday, Apr. 08. 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 Kansas City bureau is reachable at 816-421-4844. Send daybook items to Kansas@applanner.com. To
Continue ReadingBy Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — As the Trump administration continues to expand its deportation actions, startling scenes have emerged in recent weeks of masked federal agents in plain clothes detaining international students on campus or near their homes, raising serious questions about those tactics and their authority to wear face coverings. There is no
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By The Associated Press Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight and into Tuesday killed at least 25 people, including eight children and five women, according to Palestinian medics. Gaza’s Health Ministry says the bodies of 58 people killed by Israeli strikes have been brought to hospitals over the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, Israel’s Supreme
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By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Thailand’s arrest of a prominent American academic on charges of insulting the monarchy has “alarmed” the United States, the State Department said, in a rare case of a foreign national allegedly falling foul of the kingdom’s strict lese majeste law. Paul Chambers, a lecturer at Naresuan University in central
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily paused a lower court-ordered deadline to return to the US a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, granting the Trump administration additional time to review the case. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a sheet metal worker and father of three, was deported last
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By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its founding more than a millennium ago. Greece has rapidly secularized alongside the rest of Europe, and other Aegean
Continue ReadingPor Kyle Feldscher y Kevin Dotson, CNN Los Florida Gators ganaron el campeonato nacional de baloncesto masculino de la NCAA este lunes, derrotando a los Houston Cougars en un emocionante encuentro que se definió hasta la última jugada. Los Gators lideraron durante 64 segundos y llegaron a perder por hasta 12 puntos con 16:24 por
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MOSCOW (AP) — NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and two Russian crewmates arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday on board a Russian spacecraft. A Soyuz booster rocket lifted off as scheduled from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan to put the Soyuz MS-27 carrying the trio in orbit. They docked at the station
Continue ReadingAnálisis por Simone McCarthy, CNN Mientras muchos países se apresuran a alcanzar acuerdos arancelarios con Trump, China le planta cara, con la esperanza de convertir la crisis en una oportunidad. A las 48 horas del impactante anuncio de Trump sobre la imposición de aranceles a países de todo el mundo, la segunda economía más grande
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PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s comptroller authority said Monday an audit found irregularities in the renewal of a 25-year port concession in the interoceanic canal and it would request an investigation into the authorization of the contract to a Hong Kong company. Comptroller-General Anel Flores said the audit found some payment defaults, accounting miscalculations and
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CNN By Kyle Feldscher and Kevin Dotson, CNN (CNN) — The Florida Gators won the NCAA men’s basketball championship on Monday, defeating the Houston Cougars in a heart-stopping contest that went all the way down to the final play. The Gators led for a grand total of 64 seconds in the game and trailed by
Continue Reading By BRUCE SCHREINER, KRISTIN M. HALL and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — After days of deluges overfilled rivers to near-record levels across Kentucky, residents were anxious Tuesday to return to their flooded homes and assess what’s salvageable, even as stubbornly high waters kept some of them waiting even longer. Susan Williams returned
Continue Reading By BRUCE SCHREINER, KRISTIN M. HALL and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — After days of deluges overfilled rivers to near-record levels across Kentucky, residents were anxious Tuesday to return to their flooded homes and assess what’s salvageable, even as stubbornly high waters kept some of them waiting even longer. Susan Williams returned
Continue Reading By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will hold a snap presidential election June 3 to choose Yoon Suk Yeol’s successor after the conservative was ousted over his imposition of martial law late last year. The announcement from acting President Han Duck-soo came four days after the Constitutional Court unanimously
Continue Reading By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BEELITZ, Germany (AP) — Asparagus season has arrived in Germany, signaling the unofficial beginning of springtime. There is no other vegetable that Germans obsess about as much as white asparagus. They can discuss for hours whether it should be eaten with melted butter or Hollandaise sauce, served with smoked ham
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By MORIAH BALINGIT AP Education Writer PHOENIX (AP) — For parents who need to work but can’t afford the steep cost of child care, federally funded scholarships can be a lifeline. Delivered through state child care assistance programs, the scholarships can mean the difference between a parent working full time — or not at all.
Continue Reading By MORIAH BALINGIT AP Education Writer PHOENIX (AP) — For parents who need to work but can’t afford the steep cost of child care, federally funded scholarships can be a lifeline. Delivered through state child care assistance programs, the scholarships can mean the difference between a parent working full time — or not at all.
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No wonder Trash, trash, trash. Isn’t there a city code with putting your trash in trash cans with lids instead of on the ground? It’s not supposed to be out, and that’s all you see is bags on the ground instead of in trash cans. Animals have torn the bags open and trash is everywhere.
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