By Isa Kaufman-Geballe, CNN A Texas woman pleaded guilty to a felony charge and is facing up to four years in prison for stealing her cousin’s $1 million New York state lottery jackpot, officials said. Iris Amador Argueta, 34, pleaded guilty Friday to one count of second-degree grand larceny after allegedly stealing a $1 million
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — Authorities and news reports say a peaceful protest against the planned construction of a police department training center in an Atlanta suburb has turned violent on its fringes. Groups have smashed windows and caused other damage in the city’s downtown. Police say they made several arrests and quickly restored order to an
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Spike, una mezcla de chihuahua de 23 años de Ohio, fue nombrado el perro vivo más viejo del mundo por Guinness World Records (GWR). Nacido en noviembre de 1999, Spike obtuvo el derecho de fanfarronear el 7 de diciembre de 2022, con un certificado que demostraba que tenía “al menos 23
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Los investigadores del FBI encontraron el viernes material clasificado adicional después de realizar una búsqueda en la casa del presidente Joe Biden en Wilmington, Delaware, dijo el abogado personal del presidente en un comunicado. Bob Bauer aseguró que durante la búsqueda, que duró casi 12 horas el viernes, “el DOJ
Continue ReadingBy Gloria Pazmino and Emma Tucker, CNN New York City is set to open a relief center in a terminal for cruise ships, which will provide temporary respite to the continued influx of asylum-seekers entering the city, officials said. The new site will be located at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, one of three terminals for
Continue ReadingBy ARSENE KABORE Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s junta government is ending military ties with France and giving several hundred French troops a month to leave the West Africa country. The move announced late Saturday comes five months after France withdrew more than 2,400 soldiers from neighboring Mali following a falling
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER, MICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI searched President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, on Friday and located additional documents with classified markings and also took possession of some of his handwritten notes, the president’s lawyer said Saturday. The president voluntarily allowed the FBI into his
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein and Jeremy Herb, CNN FBI investigators on Friday found additional classified material while conducting a search of President Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, home. Bob Bauer, the president’s personal attorney, said in a statement that during the search, which took place over nearly 13 hours Friday, “DOJ took possession of materials it deemed
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Su boda debe haber sido como de otro planeta. Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, quien se convirtió en la segunda persona en pisar la luna en 1969 después de su compañero de tripulación Neil Armstrong, se casó con su “amor de toda la vida” en su cumpleaños 93, este viernes. El exastronauta anunció
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The moody, noirish film adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s debut novel “Eileen” debuted Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival. In it, New Zealand actor Thomasin McKenzie plays Eileen and Anne Hathaway takes on the role of the glamorous Rebecca, with whom Eileen develops an intense
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is temporarily turning a cruise ship terminal into a shelter and services hub for asylum-seekers, Mayor Eric Adams said Saturday, announcing the latest in a series of facilities the city has set up — and sometimes shut down — as it strains to
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL POLITI Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru indefinitely shut the famed ancient ruins of Machu Picchu on Saturday in the latest sign that anti-government protests that began last month are increasingly engulfing the South American country. The Culture Ministry said it had closed the country’s most famous tourist attraction as well as
Continue ReadingCNN, WESH By Hannah Sarisohn and Alaa Elassar, CNN A 76-year-old woman is in custody after fatally shooting her terminally ill husband in the head in what police say was an intended murder-suicide at a hospital in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Saturday. The terminally ill man, 77, was hospitalized at the Advent Health Hospital and
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN Just this week, Alphabet, Google’s parent company, Microsoft and Vox Media announced layoffs that will affect more than 22,000 workers. Their moves follow job cuts earlier this month at Amazon, Goldman Sachs and Salesforce. More companies are expected to do the same as firms that aggressively hired over the last two
Continue ReadingBy JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Five years after it made a splashy public debut, the #MeToo-era organization Time’s Up is ceasing operations — at least in its current form. A year after pledging a “major reset” following a damaging internal report sparked by the scandal involving its leaders’ dealings with
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Marlee Matlin, Jeremy O. Harris and Eliza Hittman exited the premiere of a film playing in competition at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday night after the closed captioning device failed to work. Matlin, who is deaf, is serving on the jury alongside Harris
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace plans a weekend of community events and voluntarism to mark the coronation of King Charles III, looking to highlight the monarchy’s links to the nation when Britain crowns a new sovereign for the first time in 70 years. The plans were revealed Saturday when the
Continue ReadingBy Max Foster and Issy Ronald, CNN Buckingham Palace on Saturday revealed details of King Charles III’s coronation that will see three days of celebrations across the country in which the public will be invited to participate. The coronation will take place on Saturday May 6, a “Coronation Big Lunch” and “Coronation Concert” the following
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Four show dogs are missing after their owners’ van was stolen Saturday morning from a hotel parking lot in Portland, police said. Someone jumped in and took the van while it was briefly left running, taking off with four terriers in crates inside — three Scottish terriers and one cairn terrier,
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The fire emoji was a common sight in tweets about the new corporate thriller “Fair Play,” which debuted Friday at the Sundance Film Festival. The movie follows two ambitious analysts at a cutthroat hedge fund, played by “Bridgerton’s” Phoebe Dynevor and “Solo’s” Alden Ehrenreich,
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