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TOKYO, June 8 (Reuters) – The Japanese city of Utsunomiya has suspended all 94 of the primary and middle schools that it operates on Monday after its first-ever bear sighting, a municipal official said. The city of half-a-million residents about 100 km (60 miles) north of Tokyo said the bear was first seen in a …
Trump says he told Israel not to retaliate for Iranian strike – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump told several outlets Sunday he is asking Israel not to retaliate after Iran’s strikes, hopeful that he can somehow preserve this very fragile ceasefire. Olivia Rinaldi reports.
Twelve people were injured, two of them critically, in what police are calling a “gunfight” that broke out at the Old West End Festival in Toledo, Ohio, on Saturday. Jonah Kaplan reports.
Hospitality workers at Los Angeles’ Sofi Stadium voted Friday to authorize a strike, demanding better pay, job protections from AI and assurances that immigration enforcement won’t happen there. The move comes just days from the first matches of the FIFA World Cup.
June 8 (Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 8.2 struck Mindanao in the Philippines on Monday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), GFZ said. GFZ earlier pegged the earthquake at 7.3. The U.S. Tsunami Warning System issued a tsunami threat to the …
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nelly Korda won the 81st U.S. Women’s Open on Sunday for her second consecutive major victory, holding off Charley Hull and Gaby Lopez by one shot when her final 2 1/2-foot par putt curled perilously around the cup and dropped in. Korda’s first U.S. Open win is the fourth major victory …
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Middle East is suddenly bracing for war again. Iran fired missiles at Israel late Sunday in the first such bombardment in the two months since a ceasefire. What happened? The truce in the Iran war that was reached in April has not spread to Lebanon, where Israel has been battling Iranian-backed …
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook the Mindanao region in the southern Philippines early Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. No information on damage was immediately available. The epicenter was 24.7 kilometers (15.3 miles) west-southwest of Burias, Philippines, and had a depth of 35 kilometers (22 miles). It struck at 7:37 …
NEW YORK (AP) — Five people were injured in a series of stabbings at New York’s Penn Station on Sunday evening and a suspect is in custody, authorities said. Paramedics responding around 7 p.m. found one victim with a serious injury, two with moderate injuries, and the rest with minor injuries, the city’s fire department …
For the first time since the ceasefire went into effect in April, Iran launched missiles toward Israel Sunday, largely contained to the north of the country. The Iranian retaliation came after Israeli forces bombed suspected Hezbollah strongholds in southern Beirut. Charlie D’Agata reports.