By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Tens of thousands of people, many of them Chinese, have been caught up in cyber scams based in Southeast Asia. Local and Chinese authorities have netted thousands of people in a crackdown on such schemes, but experts say they are failing to root out the local elites
Continue ReadingAgustina Mac Mullen (CNN Español) — Es la más conocida y probablemente una de las mejores imitadoras de Cristina Fernández de Kirchner en Argentina. Y desde hace unos meses es la novia de uno de sus mayores rivales políticos: Javier Milei, próximo presidente del país, quien se hizo conocido por denostar a los que él
Continue ReadingBetiana Fernández Martino (CNN Español) — La candidata a presidenta de Juntos por el Cambio, Patricia Bullrich, habló tras darse a conocer los primeros resultados de las elecciones en Argentina que la dejaron en un tercer lugar y fuera del balotaje con tan solo el 23,84% de los votos. Hasta el momento, la Cámara Nacional
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — New York City has unveiled a sculpture of alligators lurking in the sewers — a playful homage to one of the city’s long-standing myths. However, the uncomfortable truth is that alligators do occasionally turn up in the Big Apple, like the one rescued from Brooklyn’s Prospect Park earlier
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The Deschutes County Fairgrounds was bustling with excitement Sunday for the Central Oregon Flea Market. People woke up bright and early to add some pieces to their collection or get a deal at the gathering.
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Sunday was the last day for art lovers to head down to Bend’s High Desert Museum for this year’s Twenty-Dollar Art Show. This was the third year Bright Place Gallery has put on displays at the museum. But the Twenty-Dollar Art Show has been going on for 10 years. If you took a piece of art off the
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Fukuoka, Japan’s sixth largest city by population, has more open-air food stalls than the rest of the country combined. These stalls are called yatais, and they’re an indelible part of what makes Fukuoka’s food scene so special. Think of them as a sort of foodie Cinderella. Yatais are assigned
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Fans decked in red streamed into the Lahainaluna High School football stadium, snacking on nachos and venison chili, bopping to the high school band’s rendition of “Sweet Caroline,” and exchanging long hugs with neighbors and classmates. It was homecoming, and for many of the fans,
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN Español) — Después de la polémica generada por el dopaje positivo del jugador de la selección de fútbol argentina, Alejandro ‘El Papu’ Gómez, el futbolista se pronunció a través de un comunicado en Instagram en donde intentó aclarar la situación. Según indicó el Monza, el club italiano en el que actualmente juega, en
Continue ReadingBy Abel Alvarado, Stefano Pozzebon, Esteban Campanela, Karol Suarez and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — The battle to decide who will run crisis-wracked Argentina is heading to a run off vote next month between left wing candidate Sergio Massa and far right libertarian Javier Milei, according to data released by Argentina’s National Electoral Chamber after
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — A Chicago-area woman who was stabbed multiple times in an alleged anti-Muslim attack that left her 6-year-old son dead last week has been released from the hospital, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Chicago office. Hanaan Shahin, 32, lived with her son, Wadea Al Fayoume, in a rented
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A prosecutor says a former Missouri police chief who resigned amid accusations he assaulted a father who tried to drown a young daughter in 2018 has now been sentenced to prison for attacking his ex-wife in a separate domestic dispute. The Kansas City Star reports former Greenwood chief Greg Hallgrimson
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — An ambitious 2021 agreement by more than 140 countries and territories to weed out tax havens and force multinational corporations to pay a minimum tax has been weakened by loopholes and will raise only a fraction of the revenue that was envisioned, a tax watchdog backed
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Hope you are having a beautiful Sunday! The air quality in the region has improved from yesterday. All cities have moved from the Moderate level to Hood. Temperatures tonight will drop into the upper 30s under some partly cloudy skies. We could be seeing some isolated showers during the afternoon. Tomorrow, we’ll see some sunny
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — Mar-a-Lago member and Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt said then-President Donald Trump told him about his private calls with the leaders of Ukraine and Iraq, according to reports published Sunday about private recordings of Pratt, a key prosecution witness in Trump’s classified documents case. The reports from The New
Continue ReadingBy ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s military spokesperson says the Iraqi military and Kurdish Peshmerga forces have briefly clashed in a dispute over the control of a strategic military post, killing three. The dispute Sunday was over who controls three vacated posts previously in the hands of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants.
Continue ReadingBy Eva Rothenberg, CNN (CNN) — A college admissions program popular among the country’s most selective universities may actually be skewed against lower-income applicants, college consultants and experts say. Early decision is an option that allows students to single out their top-choice school and apply to it months before regular applications are due. The choice
Continue ReadingSAN ANTONIO (AP) — Authorities say a man accused of fatally shooting a 15-year-old last year was beaten by members of the teen’s family during a courtroom melee in San Antonio, Texas. Eighteen-year-old Victor Rivas is charged with murder in the May 2022 death of Ethan Soto. Rivas was in a Bexar County courtroom on
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A premature baby squirms inside a glass incubator in the neonatal ward of al-Aqsa Hospital in the central Gaza Strip. He cries out as intravenous lines are connected to his tiny body. A ventilator helps him breathe as
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — In a surprise to absolutely nobody, Taylor Swift was back in Kansas City on Sunday to support Travis Kelce at his football game. Wearing a red Kansas City Chiefs t-shirt and a black cheerleader-inspired miniskirt, Swift appeared on CBS’s broadcast at Arrowhead Stadium watching the team play the Los
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