Nicaraguan government bans Jesuit order, confiscates all property | AP News

Nicaraguan government bans Jesuit order, confiscates all property | AP News

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s government on Wednesday declared the Jesuit religious order illegal and ordered the confiscation of all its property.The move comes one week after the government of President Daniel Ortega confiscated the Jesuit-run University of Central America in Nicaragua, arguing it was a “center of terrorism.” The confiscation order published Wednesday claimed

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Nvidia’s rising star gets even brighter with another stellar quarter propelled by sales of AI chips | AP News

Nvidia’s rising star gets even brighter with another stellar quarter propelled by sales of AI chips | AP News

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Computer chip maker Nvidia has rocketed into the constellation of Big Tech’s brightest stars while riding the artificial intelligence craze that’s fueling red-hot demand for its technology.The latest evidence of Nvidia’s ascendance emerged with Wednesday’s release of the company’s quarterly earnings report. The results covering the May-July period exceeded Nvidia’s projections

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Gunfire in Pittsburgh neighborhood prompts evacuations, standoff; person later pronounced dead | AP News

Gunfire in Pittsburgh neighborhood prompts evacuations, standoff; person later pronounced dead | AP News

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A person facing eviction opened fire from inside a Pittsburgh home Wednesday and was later pronounced dead after a siege that lasted much of the day, authorities said. Pittsburgh Public Safety said city emergency medical service responders pronounced the person dead shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday after the hourslong siege that forced

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From Europe to Canada to Hawaii, photos capture destructive power of wildfires | AP News

From Europe to Canada to Hawaii, photos capture destructive power of wildfires | AP News

The destructive power of wildfire has been a defining feature of a summer of climate extremes. Dozens of people on multiple continents have died. Blazes have reduced homes and businesses to rubble. Thick smoke has darkened skies and carried fine-particle pollution thousands of miles from its source.It’s a ghastly pattern that climate scientists around the

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Zeleno levi front: Bivšoj vicepremijerki Crne Gore zabranjen ulazak u Srbiju, jačanje represije

Zeleno levi front: Bivšoj vicepremijerki Crne Gore zabranjen ulazak u Srbiju, jačanje represije

U saopštenju piše da joj je rečeno da je razlog te zabrane “zaštita bezbednosti Republike Srbije i njenih građana”, preneo je pokret Ne davimo Beograd, koji postaje stranka Zeleno levi front.Dodaje se da je Marović i ranije, zbog izrečenih stavova, u tabloidima u Srbiji “najbrutalnije napadana”, te današnju zabranu nazvao “skandaloznim medjunaronim incidentom Vučićevog jednoumlja”.”Nakon

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Giuliani turns himself in on Georgia 2020 election charges after bond is set at $150,000 | AP News

Giuliani turns himself in on Georgia 2020 election charges after bond is set at $150,000 | AP News

ATLANTA (AP) — Rudy Giuliani turned himself in at a jail in Atlanta on Wednesday on charges related to efforts to overturn then-President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.The former New York mayor was indicted last week along with Trump and 17 others. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said they

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