By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The second round of ticket sales for next year’s Paris Olympics has started. Only the lucky winners of a lottery will be able to buy about 1.5 million seats for the most prestigious competitions and the opening and closing ceremonies. The Paris Games run from July 26-Aug.
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Privacy and security experts widely panned a new feature that Twitter unveiled Wednesday that encrypts some direct messages between users, raising questions about the future of user safety on the platform. Twitter’s early efforts at securing direct messages with encryption appear to be riddled with caveats, flaws and risks that may
Continue ReadingCNN By Brian Fung, CNN Privacy and security experts widely panned a new feature that Twitter unveiled Wednesday that encrypts some direct messages between users, raising questions about the future of user safety on the platform. Twitter’s early efforts at securing direct messages with encryption appear to be riddled with caveats, flaws and risks that
Continue ReadingBy ZINNIA MALDONADO Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — New York City is making a major change in the way it helps asylum seekers. Wednesday night, Mayor Eric Adams signed an emergency executive order suspending the city’s right-to-shelter rules that immediately find private rooms for asylum seekers. A spokesperson released
Continue ReadingBy CBS NEW YORK TEAM Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — We have a commuter alert for Long Island Rail Road customers this morning. A non-passenger train partially derailed at 53rd and Warden Avenue. Service is suspended into Long Island City, Queens and limited to 120th Avenue. Crews are on
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a former aide of then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Joseph Percoco, who argued that a federal anti-bribery statute should not have been used to convict him. The court’s opinion continues a recent trend of narrowing the government’s ability to prosecute
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Gay and bisexual men in monogamous relationships can donate blood in the U.S. without abstaining from sex, under a federal policy finalized Thursday by health regulators. The Food and Drug Administration guidelines ease decades-old restrictions designed to protect the blood supply from HIV. The agency announced
Continue ReadingBy Tina Burnside, CNN Two parents who were found guilty in connection with the sprawling college admissions cheating scheme known as “Operation Varsity Blues” had their convictions vacated by an appeals court judge on Wednesday. John Wilson and Gamal Abdelaziz were found guilty in 2021 on several counts, including conspiracy to commit mail and wire
Continue ReadingCNN By Joe Sutton, CNN The prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of the late American teen Natalee Holloway will be extradited to the US to face extortion and fraud charges, said officials in Peru, where Joran van der Sloot has been serving time for murder. Peru “decided to agree to the request for temporary
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Jacklyn Zeman, who starred on the soap opera “General Hospital” for more than four decades portraying Bobbie Spencer, has died, the show’s executive producer, Frank Valentini, announced on Wednesday. She was 70. “Jackie will be greatly missed, but her positive spirit will always live on with our cast and crew.
Continue ReadingBy Julia Vargas Jones and Marcos Moreno, CNN US Rep. George Santos has signed a deal with Brazilian authorities to avoid prosecution in lieu of a confession, reimbursement for the victim and a fine to the state stemming from a 2008 fraud case, his attorney said. “From now on, he is not answering to any
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue and Tierney Sneed, CNN The Supreme Court upheld a California law that bars the sale of pork produced in other states unless the sow was housed in conditions that allowed her to move freely. The law was the brainchild of animal rights activists in the state, who worked for its passage
Continue ReadingBy ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Patrick Mahomes and the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs will kick off the season against the upstart Detroit Lions in a matchup of high-powered offenses and they’ll host Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles in a Super Bowl rematch on “Monday Night Football” in Week 11. Aaron
Continue ReadingNEW CASTLE, Pa. (AP) — Officials say nine railcars from a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in Pennsylvania, with no hazardous chemicals on board and no reported injuries. The rail company said in a statement that the derailment happened late Wednesday outside of New Castle. It says crews responded immediately and are actively working at
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — A U.N. agency is warning that critical food aid in Afghanistan is being handicapped by a lack of funding, as the country faces a widespread humanitarian crisis. Melanie Galvin, chief of nutrition at the United Nations Children’s Fund, said Thursday that 875,000 children in Afghanistan will suffer from life-threatening acute malnutrition this
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN There’s a new kid on the block. “Sesame Street” recently introduced TJ, its first Filipino muppet, on a segment with Kal Penn. TJ and his friend Ji-Young, a Korean American muppet who debuted in 2021, talk to the actor about the word of the day: confidence. Confidence, Penn explained, is “when
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A California peace activist who has worked to remove land mines from war-torn regions and replace them with grape vines, fruit trees and vegetables has been named the 2023 World Food Prize laureate. The foundation awarded its annual prize Thursday at a ceremony in Washington
Continue ReadingCNN By Jack Forrest, CNN Former President Donald Trump would not say Wednesday night who he thinks should prevail in Russia’s war against Ukraine, instead telling New Hampshire GOP primary voters that he wants “everybody to stop dying.” “I want everybody to stop dying. They’re dying. Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying,”
Continue ReadingBy JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday backed a California animal cruelty law that requires more space for breeding pigs, a ruling the pork industry says will lead to higher costs nationwide for pork chops and bacon. “While the Constitution addresses many weighty issues, the type of pork chops
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO and TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Thirteen people dead in two mass shootings. Eight immigrants killed when an SUV slams into a crowded bus stop. The likely approval of legislation that would let the Republican governor overturn elections in the most populous county, a Democratic stronghold. All in the
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