Alexandra Ferguson Abu Dhabi y El Cairo (CNN) — El brutal asesinato de una joven a plena luz del día en una calle de Egipto ha conmocionado al mundo árabe, poniendo de relieve la crisis de violencia de género en el país. Naira Ashraf, de 21 años, fue apuñalada mortalmente el lunes por un hombre
Continue ReadingBy ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer U.S. national soccer team star Megan Rapinoe expressed her anger Friday over the Supreme Court’s decision to strip the nation’s constitutional protections for abortion, decrying an erosion of rights that women have had for a generation. “I think the cruelty is the point because this is not pro
Continue ReadingBy ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer U.S. national soccer team star Megan Rapinoe expressed her anger Friday over the Supreme Court’s decision to strip the nation’s constitutional protections for abortion, decrying an erosion of rights that women have had for a generation. “I think the cruelty is the point because this is not pro
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Toronto Blue Jays hitting coach Guillermo Martínez was suspended for five games and fined by Major League Baseball for a confrontation with umpire Doug Eddings. Martínez was discplined by MLB senior vice president Michael Hill for making contact with Eddings and what MLB termed unsportmanlike conduct during the lineup cards exchange
Continue ReadingBy DAVID FISCHER Associated Press The FBI raided a Florida art museum on Friday and seized more than two dozen paintings attributed to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat following questions about their authenticity. Orlando Museum of Art spokeswoman Emilia Bourmas-Fry says they were complying with a warrant from the FBI for access to the ‘Heroes and Monsters’
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — A woman mountain climber in Mexico is dead and a climbing companion was injured when they scaled the highly active, off-limits peak of the Popocatepetl volcano. Mexico’s volunteer Mountain Rescue and Assistance Brigade confirmed that the climbers fell into a gully about 1,000 feet (300 meters) from the volcano’s crater, suggesting
Continue ReadingCNN, WJLA By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer The five-justice Supreme Court bloc that overturned a half century of women’s abortion rights on Friday had coalesced less than two years. But they had found their moment and they seized it. This is America’s new Supreme Court, moving swiftly, rejecting the incrementalism
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes (CNN Español) — Roy Leonardo Barreras, médico y sociólogo con una larga trayectoria en el Congreso de Colombia por el Valle del Cauca, sería el nuevo presidente del Senado. Un recorrido en el Congreso En el año 2006 Roy Barreras resultó elegido para la Cámara de Representantes por el departamento del oeste colombiano
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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Two women, from Bend and Northern California, were killed and three people were injured in a head-on collision of a pickup and SUV early Friday morning on U.S. Highway 97 north of Klamath Falls, Oregon State Police reported.
Continue ReadingBATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has tested positive for COVID-19. A news release from the governor’s office disclosed the positive test Friday. Edwards says he does not currently have any symptoms and will follow recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and will isolate for five days. His
Continue ReadingBy Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business The criminal fraud trial of Elizabeth Holmes’ ex-boyfriend and former second-in-command at Theranos is heading to the jury, roughly three months after it kicked off in the same San Jose, California, courthouse where she was found guilty on four charges of defrauding investors. In closing arguments, which began Tuesday
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. Army private from Kentucky has pleaded guilty to charges that he plotted to kill members of his unit in an organized attack. Ethan Phelan Melzer entered the plea Friday in Manhattan federal court. The 24-year-old Louisville, Kentucky, man is scheduled to be sentenced Jan.
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The New York Racing Association has increased purses by $1.6 million for the upcoming summer meet at Saratoga Race Course. The NYRA announced the increases on Friday for the meet that runs from July 14-Sept. 5. Thoroughbred horses are currently racing at Belmont Park. The increases will range from $3,000 per
Continue ReadingBy Audrina Bigos Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Some businesses are about more than making money — they’re about giving back to the communities. That’s the case with the first-ever Black-owned slice bread company that was started by a group of friends from right here in Chicago. The greatest thing
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — Former Brazil and Sao Paulo midfielder Richarlyson says he is bisexual. He is the first player from a Brazilian top-flight team to say he’s bisexual. The 39-year-old Richarlyson played two matches for Brazil in 2008. He was part of Sao Paulo’s squad that won the
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN NASA’s first spacecraft designed to study a metallic asteroid won’t be launching this year as planned, according to an announcement made by the agency on Friday. The Psyche mission’s 2022 launch window, which opened on August 1 and closes on October 11, will come to an end before the spacecraft’s flight
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Department of Homeland Security intelligence branch is warning law enforcement, first responders and private sector partners nationwide Friday of potential domestic violence extremist activity in response to the Supreme Court’s decision on abortion, according to a memo obtained by CNN. The memo from the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis
Continue ReadingCNN By Gabriel Kinder, CNN In 1991, when actor Mila Kunis moved to the United States, her family left their home in what was then the Soviet Union. She was seven and a half; she spoke Russian and says she thought of herself as Russian. “If I said the word Ukraine, no one would know
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Sen. Susan Collins is being criticized for the Supreme Court ruling allowing states to ban abortion because the moderate Republican voted to confirm two of the justices who were in the majority opinion. Critics attacked the Maine senator on social media, and some
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Wells Fargo, Carnival rise; CalAmp, Lending Tree fall
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