The $300 billion hostage: Europe’s high-stakes gamble with Russia’s frozen fortune
BRUSSELS (CN) — Europe is sitting on 210 billion euros ($230 billion) in frozen Russian assets — more than two-thirds of the $300 billion frozen globally — and can’t figure out what to do with it. As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year and U.S. support...
Dead or alive?
Is the president an android? I’m not the sort of person who buys into conspiracy theories, but how else do you explain the plan announced recently by the U.S. Treasury Department to put Donald Trump’s mug and fist pump on a new dollar coin? The law — which I admit...
A long-lost ancient Roman artifact reappears in a New Orleans backyard
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the phrase “spirits of the dead.” “The fact that it was in...
Pro-Palestinian protesters march to stadium before Norway’s 5-0 World Cup qualifying win over Israel
OSLO, Norway (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters lit flares and waved flags as they marched to the stadium ahead of Norway’s 5-0 World Cup qualifying win over Israel on Saturday. Public broadcaster NRK said around 1,000 protesters arrived at the Ullevaal Stadion...
16 people died in a blast at a Tennessee explosives factory early Friday, the sheriff says
McEWEN, Tenn. (AP) — A blast in rural Tennessee that leveled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around killed 16 people and left no survivors, authorities said. The explosion left a smoldering wreck of twisted and charred metal and burned-out vehicles at the...
Heavy rain in Mexico sets off floods and landslides, killing at least 41
POZA RICA, Mexico (AP) — Some people in the low-lying working-class neighborhoods of Poza Rica heard the wall of water before they saw it. The loudest sound was from the cars crashing together as they were swept along by the water that had escaped from the banks of...
Biden is receiving radiation and hormone therapy to treat his prostate cancer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Joe Biden is receiving radiation and hormone therapy as part of a new phase of treating the aggressive form of prostate cancer he was diagnosed with after leaving office, a spokesperson said Saturday. “As part of...
Ivory Coast arrests 237 protesters amid rising tensions before presidential election
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — At least 237 people were arrested Saturday in Ivory Coast during a protest against what activists called the country’s authoritarian drift, according to a statement by the Minister of the Interior and Security on national television....
Power restored to 800,000 in Kyiv after major Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid
Power was restored to over 800,000 residents in Kyiv on Saturday, a day after Russia launched major attacks on the Ukrainian power grid that caused blackouts across much of the country, and European leaders agreed to proceed toward using hundreds of...