Germán Padinger (CNN Español) — Han pasado más 120 días desde el inicio de la invasión rusa de Ucrania, y la guerra aún continúa en una de las regiones más ricas del mundo y entre dos de los principales productores y exportadores de cereales. Rusia, es, además, uno de los principales exportadores de petróleo y
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Zach LaVine is staying in Chicago. Same goes for Jusuf Nurkic in Portland. Day 2 of NBA free agency on Friday brought another max deal — this time, going to LaVine, who secured the richest contract in Bulls history when he agreed to a $215 million, five-year contract. LaVine
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Zach LaVine is staying in Chicago. Same goes for Jusuf Nurkic in Portland. Day 2 of NBA free agency on Friday brought another max deal — this time, going to LaVine, who secured the richest contract in Bulls history when he agreed to a $215 million, five-year contract. LaVine
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press American midfielder Ian Harkes agreed to a one-year contract to remain with Scotland’s Dundee United. The 27-year-old, a son of former U.S. captain John Harkes, was selected the team’s player of the year for 2021-22, when he had three goals in 28 Scottish Premier League matches in his fourth season with
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Effective Friday, Oregon’s Office of Emergency Management is officially operating as the Oregon Department of Emergency Management. A result of House Bill (HB) 2927, passed in 2021, this transition establishes OEM as a stand-alone cabinet-level department, reporting directly to the governor. The agency previously served as a division of the Oregon Military
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — Un poderoso general cubano que había estado casado con una de las hijas del expresidente Raúl Castro murió este viernes de insuficiencia cardíaca, informaron medios estatales cubanos. El general Luis López Calleja supervisó una compañía militar cubana en expansión que dirigía gran parte de la industria turística de la isla. Tenía
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden will award the Medal of Freedom — the nation’s highest civilian honor — to 17 recipients next week, with his first slate of honorees since taking office featuring Olympians, an Academy Award winner, the first American to receive the Covid-19 vaccine outside of trials, lawmakers on both sides
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African former track star Oscar Pistorius has met with the father of Reeva Steenkamp, the woman he shot to death in 2013, as part of his parole process, the Steenkamp’s family lawyer told The Associated Press on Friday. Lawyer Tania Koen said in
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African former track star Oscar Pistorius has met with the father of Reeva Steenkamp, the woman he shot to death in 2013, as part of his parole process, the Steenkamp’s family lawyer told The Associated Press on Friday. Lawyer Tania Koen said in
Continue ReadingPRAGUE (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm has pledged to draft an emergency plan aimed at helping member countries do without Russian energy in the wake of the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the initiative would build on EU moves to ditch Russian coal, oil and natural
Continue ReadingBy Livia Borghese, Jula Buckley and Maureen O’Hare, CNN The countdown has begun. From January 16, 2023, visitors to Venice — that jewel in Italy’s tourism crown — will have to pay for the privilege. It’s set to become the first city in the world to require an entrance fee. The launch date was announced
Continue ReadingBy Sonia Moghe and Alaa Elassar, CNN R. Kelly has been placed on suicide watch at the federal detention facility in New York where he is being held after he was sentenced this week to 30 years in prison on racketeering and sex trafficking charges, his lawyer said Friday. But the disgraced R&B singer is
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez and Chris Boyette, CNN The families of the 19 children and two teachers gunned down at a school in Uvalde, Texas, have had enough. More than a month after the massacre at Robb Elementary School, their anger and frustration at the lack of answers about the apparently bungled law enforcement response boiled
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — More video in Brazilian media shows retired Formula One champion Nelson Piquet using homophobic language and more racial slurs about Lewis Hamilton. The website Grande Prêmio published video late Thursday of Piquet speaking in Portuguese that was apparently filmed last year. The 69-year-old Brazilian uses
Continue ReadingBy Kilee Thomas Click here for updates on this story PONCA CITY, Oklahoma (KOCO) — The battle to take a 92-year-old woman’s house went to court Thursday. The Ponca City school board is suing the woman, saying the district needs her property to build a new athletic facility. Many people thought the controversial hearing would
Continue ReadingBy Sasha Lenninger Click here for updates on this story ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (KOAT) — Since he was a boy, Abraham Luna always wanted to become a police officer. “I respect what they do and the job, the challenges they face every day, what they do for the community. It’s what really drives me and
Continue ReadingBy Kris Ketz Click here for updates on this story SAINT JOSEPH, Missouri (KMBC) — It’s been a family secret for decades, but now the secret is out. Seventy-five-year-old Fern Franco was one of nine people who died 20 years ago at a Chillicothe, Missouri, hospital. Former respiratory therapist Jennifer Hall was charged last month
Continue ReadingBy Sula Kim Click here for updates on this story NEW ORLEANS (WDSU) — Authorities arrested a man accused of stealing a vehicle with a baby inside from the parking lot of a Chalmette business Wednesday. Johnathon Perkins, 21, of the 4900 block of Lafaye Street in New Orleans, was booked with theft of motor
Continue ReadingLISBON, Portugal (AP) — A United Nations conference has warned that measures needed to protect the world’s oceans are lagging and has urged countries to accelerate their implementation. Senior officials, scientists and activists from more than 120 countries attended a five-day U.N. Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. A declaration published on the final day Friday
Continue ReadingBy WESH Staff Click here for updates on this story SEMINOLE COUNTY, Florida (WESH) — A Florida judge has been disciplined after a video showed him cursing out a defendant. A document from the Chair of the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission shows that Seminole County Judge Wayne Culver is to be suspended without pay for
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