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Paris police chief outlines security measures for Olympics 06/21/2024 12:43pm • PARIS (AP) ��� With the Paris Olympics a month away, city police chief Laurent Nunez addressed security concerns on Friday. Nunez said police forces remain on high alert. The Olympics start on July 24, and two days later is the opening ceremony. ���We are concerned about the threat of terrorism, es Bodies of Air Force colonel and Utah man are recovered after their plane crashed in an Alaska lake 06/21/2024 12:09pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ��� The bodies of two men, including a U.S. Air Force colonel who served as director of operations for the Alaskan Command, have been recovered after their small plane plunged into an Alaska lake. The plane was found Thursday about 193 feet (59 meters) deep in Crescent Lake, o Lluvias dejan al menos 30 muertos y miles de damnificados en Centroam��rica 06/21/2024 11:36am • (CNN Espa��ol) --�� Un sistema de baja presi��n que ha golpeado con fuerza a Centroam��rica desde hace una semana provoca fuertes lluvias principalmente en pa��ses como El Salvador, Guatemala y Honduras. Al menos 30 personas murieron, seg��n informaron este viernes las autoridades.En El Salvador, ha It's the longest bridge ever built in Peru, and so far, it goes nowhere 06/21/2024 10:15am • SUCUSARI, Peru (AP) ��� It is the longest bridge ever built in Peru, a massive structure of cement and iron spanning the Nanay River as it connects to untouched areas of the Peruvian Amazon So far, it goes nowhere. The bridge is part of a federal highway project to connect Iquitos, in Peru's north Don���t blink! Summer Olympics��� fastest sport, kitesurfing, will debut at Paris Games 06/21/2024 10:04am • The fastest sport at the Paris Games has such wild speeds that the athletes say the waves and the wind become muted. Welcome to the Olympic debut of kitesurfing. ���What���s cool is it���s so silent, flying across not hitting the water,��� Daniela Moroz said. Moroz has won six consecutive world cham Historic flooding in southern China kills 47, with more floods feared in coming days 06/21/2024 07:26am • BEIJING (AP) ��� At least 47 people have died as downpours in southern China���s Guangdong province caused historic flooding and slides, state media reported Friday, while authorities warned of more extreme weather ahead in other parts of the country. State broadcaster CCTV said Friday afternoon tha Vietnam says it's ready to hold talks with Philippines on overlapping continental shelf claims 06/21/2024 06:14am • HANOI, Vietnam (AP) ��� Vietnam is ready to hold talks with the Philippines to settle their overlapping claims to the undersea continental shelf in the South China Sea, official Vietnamese media said Friday, in a diplomatic approach that contrasts with China���s increasingly assertive actions to for Trump dice que quiere que los extranjeros que se grad��en en universidades de EE.UU. reciban 'autom��ticamente' la "green card" 06/21/2024 04:10am • (CNN) -- El expresidente Donald Trump propuso conceder "autom��ticamente" la tarjeta de residencia a los extranjeros que se grad��en en una universidad estadounidense, unos comentarios que rompen con sus esfuerzos por frenar la inmigraci��n tanto legal como ilegal durante su mandato y que contrastan How did North Korean soldiers wander across the world's most heavily guarded border? 06/21/2024 03:31am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� Don���t believe the name: The Demilitarized Zone between the two rival Koreas might be the most heavily armed place on earth. Two million mines, barbed wire fences, tank traps and tens of thousands of troops from both countries patrol a divided swath of land 248 kilometer Beneath offshore wind turbines, researchers grow seafood and seaweed 06/21/2024 02:32am • KRIEGERS FLAK OFFSHORE WIND FARM, Denmark (AP) ��� In a small boat bobbing in the waves between towering offshore wind turbines, researchers in Europe���s Baltic Sea reach into the frigid water and remove long lines stretched between the pylons onto which mussels and seaweed are growing. It���s part A ship found far off Israel's coast could shed light on the navigation skills of ancient mariners 06/21/2024 12:58am • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ��� A company drilling for natural gas off the coast of northern Israel discovered a 3,300-year-old ship and its cargo, one of the oldest known examples of a ship sailing far from land, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Thursday. The discovery of the late Bronze Age ship so 2 crop dusting airplanes collided in southern Idaho, killing 1 pilot and severely injuring the other 06/20/2024 11:30pm • ARCO, Idaho (AP) ��� Two crop dusting airplanes collided near an airport in southern Idaho on Thursday and crashed to the ground, killing one of the pilots and leaving the other with life-threatening injuries, officials said. The crash was reported at about 12:30 p.m. in an area covered by sage and Rain helps 1,000 firefighters slow big New Mexico blazes as Biden approves disaster relief 06/20/2024 11:09pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) ��� More than 1,000 firefighters in New Mexico took advantage of a break in the weather on Thursday to get the upper hand ��� for now ��� on a pair of wildfires that have killed two people, destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands to flee. President Joe Biden issued a dis Donovan homers, Cardinals beat Giants 6-5 in game at Rickwood Field honoring Mays and Negro Leagues 06/20/2024 11:06pm • BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) ��� Brendan Donovan hit a two-run homer and a double and the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the San Francisco Giants 6-5 in the Negro Leagues tribute game at Rickwood Field on Thursday night. The 114-year-old Rickwood Field is the oldest professional ballpark in the U.S. and for After decades of advocacy, Fairfax Co. community gets school bus service 06/20/2024 10:40pm • For decades, students who lived in the Mount Vernon Square community have had to cross busy residential streets and walk along an unpaved and unmaintained path to get to the nearby Hollin Meadows Elementary School. Some of the trek for the Fairfax County, Virginia, students included a wooded area