By SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Seven years ago, Moisés Kaufman was approached to direct the Broadway musical “Paradise Square” and, after reading it, he immediately said yes. “I did this show because it spoke to me,” the Venezuelan theater director and playwright says. Now “Paradise Square” — about unity and racism
Continue ReadingFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — American Airlines is joining rivals in predicting a boom in revenue this summer, as people crowd on planes after two years of pandemic. American said Friday that second-quarter revenue will rise 11% to 13% above the same quarter in 2019. That’s even rosier than American’s previous forecast. Delta, Southwest, JetBlue
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Parents of victims and survivors of the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde will appear before a House committee next week as Congress debates gun measures. The panel for Wednesday’s hearing will include the mother of a 20-year-old man shot in a racist mass shooting last
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Business) — LeBron James es multimillonario, lo que marca la primera vez que un jugador activo de la NBA logra ese hito, según un cálculo. Forbes dijo que la estrella de Los Angeles Lakers ha “maximizado su negocio”, generando más de US$ 1.200 millones en ganancias antes de impuestos. Su salario de
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) –– Las autoridades de Colombia arrestaron al presunto autor material y a otros cuatro supuestos involucrados en el asesinato del fiscal paraguayo Marcelo Pecci. Matan en Colombia a Marcelo Pecci, fiscal especializado contra el narcotráfico de Paraguay El presidente Iván Duque informó este viernes, desde Estados Unidos, que los detenidos serán puestos
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL BALSAMO, ERIC TUCKER and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has declined to charge former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and another aide to former President Donald Trump, Dan Scavino, for contempt of Congress for their defiance of subpoenas in the Jan. 6 congressional investigation. That’s according
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military-installed government says it will go ahead with the executions of a former lawmaker from ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party and a veteran pro-democracy activist convicted of violating the country’s Counter-Terrorism Law. Local media say two other men convicted of killing a woman they
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Capitol Police officer was indicted on federal civil rights charges after authorities say he was involved in an unauthorized high-speed chase, crashed into a motorcycle and then tried to cover it up. Prosecutors said Friday that Officer Thomas Smith was supposed to be checking on
Continue ReadingBy Rick Sallinger Click here for updates on this story DENVER (KCNC) — The union representing Starbucks employees says the parent company is trying to overturn one of the four elections in favor of unionization in the Denver area. It was back in March when workers at a Starbucks on East Colfax at Milwaukee Street
Continue ReadingBy Evan Perez, Paula Reid, Tierney Sneed, Zachary Cohen and Holmes Lybrand, CNN A federal grand jury has indicted former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro for contempt of Congress after he refused to cooperate in the House January 6 committee’s investigation. During a court appearance in Washington, DC, on Friday, Navarro said that he
Continue ReadingBy SCHUYLER DIXON AP Pro Football Writer FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Dallas Cowboys defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence is looking to boost his sacks total after watching Micah Parsons lead the club in that category last year. Lawrence says he let “a rookie show me up last year.” Parsons appreciates that Lawrence feels challenged but concedes
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Seven-time Pro Bowl center Alex Mack is retiring after 13 years in the NFL, leaving a major hole in the middle of the offensive line for the San Francisco 49ers. The 36-year-old Mack announced his retirement in a move the Niners had been
Continue ReadingTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian media say security forces have arrested a young man following an assault on a top provincial cleric in the central city of Isfahan. The semiofficial Fars news agency says the unidentified man accosted prayer leader Yousef Tababaeinejad as he was talking with some worshipers after Friday prayers and attempted to
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The plot turns are coming quickly in the battle to buy Spirit Airlines. On Friday, an investor-advisory firm recommended the Frontier Airlines bid to buy Spirit after Frontier added a $250 million breakup fee. Spirit would get that fee if antitrust regulators block the deal. JetBlue Airways was already including a
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) — Al menos tres personas murieron y otras 16 resultaron gravemente heridas cuando un tren se descarriló en el sur de Alemania este viernes, dijo a CNN un funcionario del distrito de Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Equipos de emergencia y de rescate llegan al lugar donde un tren se descarriló en Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Alemania, el viernes 3
Continue ReadingBy Matt Woods Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Missouri (KMOV) — Charges allege a teacher in St. Louis County had sexual contact with a student under 17 years old. Grant Gaumer, 37, is charged with two counts of statutory sodomy and one count of sexual contact with a student. He
Continue ReadingBy Megan Hickney Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Wayne Washington has been living in limbo. He got out of prison in 2007. A few years later, his murder conviction was overturned–a conviction he’d been fighting for more than two decades. His slate was finally wiped clean. Or so he thought.
Continue ReadingBy Colby Hentges, CNN Adorable animals, heroic rescues, and a brazen vandal. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Sloth saved with super speed After a baby sloth fell from a tall tree, staff members at the Jaguar Rescue Center in Costa Rica worked to make sure it was healthy before reuniting it with
Continue ReadingCNN By Colby Hentges, CNN Adorable animals, heroic rescues, and a brazen vandal. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Sloth saved with super speed After a baby sloth fell from a tall tree, staff members at the Jaguar Rescue Center in Costa Rica worked to make sure it was healthy before reuniting it
Continue ReadingCNN, KDTV-DT By Colby Hentges, CNN Adorable animals, heroic rescues, and a brazen vandal. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Sloth saved with super speed After a baby sloth fell from a tall tree, staff members at the Jaguar Rescue Center in Costa Rica worked to make sure it was healthy before reuniting
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