By NEAL RILEY Click here for updates on this story BOSTON, Massachusetts (WBZ) — The winner of a $25 million scratch ticket prize in the Massachusetts Lottery isn’t done trying her luck. “Billion Dollar Extravaganza” jackpot player Desiree Fortini-Craft returned last week to the West Roxbury store where she bought her winning ticket, and added
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN en Español) — Juanita Castro, hermana de Fidel y Raúl Castro, murió este lunes en Miami, informó la periodista María Antonieta Collins, portavoz de la familia, a través de su cuenta de Instagram. “Esta es la noticia que nunca quise dar, pero que, como su portavoz en las últimas tres décadas de su
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, Melanie Zanona and Haley Talbot, CNN The House passed a Republican-led resolution on Tuesday condemning antisemitism in the United States and globally. A number of Democrats, however, expressed concern that the language of the GOP resolution is overly broad and would effectively define any criticism of the Israeli government or its policies as antisemitism.
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Michals, Kent Saunders Click here for updates on this story DETROIT (WXYZ) — Just a neighbor. That’s all Donald Wilson was to Colin McConnell when McConnell noticed the dad of three seemed tired and beaten down this fall. The two both live in a Detroit duplex. McConnell asked Wilson, “How’s it going?” “He
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate in a single stroke Tuesday approved about 425 military promotions after Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama ended a monthslong blockade of nominations over his opposition to a Pentagon abortion policy. Tuberville had been under pressure from members of both sides of the political aisle to
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has signed a bill that spends half-a-billion in taxpayer dollars to help the Milwaukee Brewers cover stadium repairs over the next three decades. The governor signed the bill Tuesday at American Family Field. The team says the 22-year-old baseball stadium’s glass outfield doors,
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — It has been two weeks since David Schultz’s semi-truck was found on a rural highway in northwest Iowa, its trailer still filled with baby pigs he was transporting. Searchers have scoured 100,000 acres near the highway in the days since the 53-year-old man disappeared without
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson tells fellow Republicans that sweeping changes to U.S. border policy will be their “hill to die on” in negotiations over President Joe Biden’s nearly $106 billion package for the wars in Ukraine and Israel and other security needs. Johnson delivered
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson París (CNN) — Con magníficas entradas art nouveau, túneles laberínticos y trenes que circulan a toda velocidad por debajo, y a veces por encima, de algunas de las calles más famosas del mundo, es una red de transporte que ha inspirado películas, novelas y poesía. Tiene estaciones que llevan el nombre de un
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — An aide says that Poland’s former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, 80-year-old Lech Walesa has been hospitalized with a bad case of COVID-19. A post on Walesa’s Facebook Tuesday shows him on hospital bed with an oxygen mask on. The aide said he’s seriously ill, but under good care in
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Fox, CNN Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama on Tuesday released the bulk of his holds for Senate votes to confirm military promotions, allowing for the quick confirmation of hundreds of nominees. The Senate confirmed hundreds of top military nominations by voice vote on Tuesday evening, hours after Tuberville announced his decision. He
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Tucker Carlson’s top producer, who left Fox News along with the far-right host to work on his X show, is accused of sexually assaulting a former colleague in an alleged incident that occurred more than a decade ago. Andrew Delancey, a former Fox News employee, filed a lawsuit against Justin Wells, the former executive producer of “Tucker Carlson
Continue ReadingCNN By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Big investors, celebrity chefs and chains rushed to open ghost kitchens during the pandemic, and they were expected to make up more than 20% of the restaurant industry by 2025. But ghost kitchens are now crashing. Last week, Kitchen United, which raised $175 million in funding
Continue ReadingBy Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Aviation Administration announced a special committee Tuesday that could suggest changes to pilot mental health rules. The announcement comes one day before the first National Transportation Safety Board summit on the stigma – where pilots with easily treatable mental health issues go without any help at all
Continue ReadingBy Kristin Wilson and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Washington (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris made history Tuesday by casting her 32nd tie-breaking vote, setting a new record for number of votes cast by a vice president. “Today is historic. Vice President Harris has just cast her 32nd tie-breaking vote, the most tie-breakers ever. I join all of
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris broke a nearly 200-year-old record for casting the most tiebreaking votes in the Senate when she voted Tuesday to advance the confirmation of a new federal judge in Washington, D.C. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, called
Continue ReadingBy GISELA SALOMON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A former confidential informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has pleaded guilty to conspiring to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, whose killing in 2021 caused unprecedented turmoil in the Caribbean nation. Joseph Vincent pleaded guilty Tuesday. He is the fourth of 11 defendants in Miami to
Continue ReadingMILAN (AP) — Milan prosecutors have identified six suspects who allegedly aided the escape from Italian custody of a Russian national a day after a court ruled in favor of extraditing him to the United States to face sanctions-busting charges. The son of the governor of Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia was arrested as he
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has imposed sanctions on a Belgian involved in procuring electronics for the Russian military, his companies and a group of Belarusian firms and people tied to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Treasury on Tuesday announced the sanctions. Belgium-based Hans De Geetere faces the sanctions, two
Continue ReadingCNNEE (CNN Español) — Al menos 12 personas murieron y otras 23 resultaron heridas después de que un autobús de transporte interurbano se accidentara en La Cañada, una comunidad a unos 36 kilómetros al este de Tegucigalpa, informó Oscar Triminio, portavoz del Cuerpo de Bomberos de Honduras, a CNN. La presidenta de Honduras, Xiomara Castro,
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