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Britain's top players at Wimbledon stick to tennis on UK election day 07/04/2024 06:30am • LONDON (AP) — Some of Britain's top tennis players are avoiding election talk like double-faults at Wimbledon. Polls opened Thursday morning in the U.K.'s first national election in almost five years, but Britain's rising stars are sticking to the tennis at the All England Club. Jack Draper says h Stock market today: Japan's Nikkei 225 hits new record close, as other world markets advance 07/04/2024 06:28am • BANGKOK (AP) — Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 surged Thursday to a record close of 40,913.65, while most other major world markets also advanced. Investors worldwide are keen to see the Federal Reserve cut rates that it has been keeping at two-decade highs to slow growth and tame inflation, and h Los votantes de Reino Unido acuden a las urnas para una elección trascendental 07/04/2024 03:32am • Londres (CNN) -- Los votantes británicos acudirán a las urnas este jueves para una elección general crucial que se considera un referéndum sobre 14 años de gobierno conservador.La votación anticipada, convocada por el primer ministro Rishi Sunak, se está celebrando meses antes de lo necesari Stock market today: Asian shares are mostly higher after Wall Street hits more records 07/04/2024 12:31am • BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Thursday after Wall Street’s record-breaking rally powered on. Shares fell in Chinese markets but rose in the rest of the region. U.S. futures were nearly unchanged and oil prices fell. On Wednesday, U.S. stocks kept rising in a holiday-short Haiti's prime minister says Kenyan police are crucial to controlling gangs, early days are positive 07/04/2024 12:07am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that recently deployed Kenyan police will be crucial to helping control the country’s gangs and moving toward democratic elections — and he called feedback from their initial days in the capi Biden vows to keep running as signs point to rapidly eroding support for him on Capitol Hill 07/03/2024 11:24pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A defiant President Joe Biden vowed Wednesday to keep running for reelection, rejecting growing pressure from Democrats to withdraw after a disastrous debate performance raised questions about his readiness to keep campaigning, much less win in November. But increasingly omino Leaders of Russia and China meet at a Central Asian summit in a show of deepening cooperation 07/03/2024 10:56pm • Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping met Wednesday for the second time in as many months as they visited Kazakhstan for a session of an international group founded to counter Western alliances. Putin and Xi last got together in May when the Kremlin leader visited Beijing Beryl impactaría como huracán categoría 2 cerca de Cancún, prevén autoridades de México 07/03/2024 10:26pm • (CNN Español) -- El sistema tropical Beryl impactaría la noche de este jueves o madrugada del viernes la costa de Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, cerca de Cancún, en la zona turística de la Riviera Maya, como un huracán de categoría 2 y causaría en la Península de Yucatán inundaciones y r� Biden at 81: Often sharp and focused but sometimes confused and forgetful 07/03/2024 10:25pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's conduct behind closed doors, in the Oval Office, on Air Force One and in meetings around the world is described in the same dual way by those who regularly see him in action. He is often sharp and focused. But he also has moments, particularly later in the 'Seven Samurai' at 70: Kurosawa's epic still moves like nothing else 07/03/2024 09:24pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. But despite its age, the vitality and fleet-footed movement of Kurosawa’s epic is still breathtaking. To watch it again is to be swept along, all over again, by its flowing action and breadth of Migrants pause in the Amazon because getting to the US is harder. Most have no idea what lies ahead 07/03/2024 09:00pm • ASSIS BRASIL, Brazil (AP) — Dozens of migrants sleep in a mosquito-infested six-bedroom wooden shelter in the Brazilian Amazon, their dreams of a better life in the U.S. on hold because of President Joe Biden’shalt on asylum. Johany “Flaca” Rodríguez, 48, was ready to leave behind the stru As temperatures soar, judge tells Louisiana to help protect prisoners working in fields 07/03/2024 08:44pm • Amid blistering summer temperatures, a federal judge ordered Louisiana to take steps to protect the health and safety of incarcerated workers toiling in the fields of a former slave plantation, saying they face “substantial risk of injury or death.” The state immediately appealed the decision. U Fight over retail theft is testing California Democrats' drive to avoid mass incarceration policies 07/03/2024 07:44pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state leaders reversed course on a plan to place a crime-focused initiative on the November ballot a day after announcing it. In a statement released Tuesday night, Newsom said there’s not enough time for state leaders to work out final 2 injured, 1 missing after explosion at Arkansas defense weapons plant 07/03/2024 07:40pm • CAMDEN, Ark. (AP) — An explosion at a defense weapons plant in Arkansas injured at least two people Wednesday and left another missing, the facility's operators said. The explosion happened at the General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems' plant in Camden, about 86 miles (138 kilometers) sout Biden bestows Medal of Honor on Union soldiers who helped hijack train in Confederate territory 07/03/2024 07:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry to two Union soldiers who stole a locomotive deep in Confederate territory during the Civil War and drove it north for 87 miles (140 kilometers) as they destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph l