Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge says former President Donald Trump’s lawyers can’t present legal arguments to a jury assessing damages at a defamation trial this month on a jury’s conclusion that he didn’t rape a columnist in the mid-1990s. Federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan issued the order Saturday in advance of a
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An apparent Israeli airstrike has killed two Palestinian journalists in southern Gaza. One was the son of veteran Al Jazeera correspondent Wael Dahdouh, who lost his wife, two other children and a grandson — and was nearly killed himself — earlier in
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has named several of his party’s candidates for March’s nationwide election. The ruling party will try to recover cities lost to the opposition’s Republican People’s Party, or CHP, five years ago — including the country’s largest city, Istanbul, and the capital, Ankara. Erdogan said parliamentarian and former
Continue ReadingBy THALIA BEATY and GLENN GAMBOA Associated Press No matter who takes home the College Football Playoff championship Monday night in Houston, a rare nonprofit from the murky, still-developing world of Name, Image, Likeness programs is set to come out on top. Numerous NIL organizations, which help college athletes get compensated, have sprung up since
Continue ReadingBy Patrick Sung, CNN (CNN) — Traveling often marks the beginning of much rest and relaxation, but for one soccer club from the small island nation of Martinique, that was perhaps not the case in its recent trip to northern France. Golden Lion FC was drubbed by Ligue 1 club Lille 12-0 in its French
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Election integrity activists want a federal judge to order Georgia to stop using its current election system, saying it’s vulnerable to attack and has operational issues that could cost voters their right to cast a vote and have it accurately counted. During a trial set to start
Continue ReadingBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Hollywood is ready to party as the Golden Globes return for its annual boozy celebration of film and television’s biggest names. The show begins at 8 p.m. Eastern and will air live on both coasts on CBS, which is available with an antenna or through cable and satellite providers. It’s
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN) — El expresidente de Estados Unidos Donald Trump sugirió el sábado que la Guerra Civil podría haberse evitado mediante una “negociación”, argumentando que la lucha para poner fin a la esclavitud en el país era en última instancia innecesaria y que Abraham Lincoln debió haber hecho más para evitar el derramamiento de
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Mena, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Wall Street is clearly antsy for the Federal Reserve to begin cutting interest rates. Some think that could happen as soon as March. But Fed officials aren’t as optimistic, penciling in only three rate cuts this year, which is about half what the market is currently pricing.
Continue ReadingBy Allison Chinchar, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 70 million people across the Gulf Coast and Southeast are at risk for severe weather, including tornadoes, damaging wind and flooding rain on Monday and Tuesday, according to the Storm Prediction Center. Days after the season’s first big winter storm, another storm is on the move and is
Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Improve your life in 2024 by following our Life, But Better advice for sleep, food, fitness, stress reduction and more. Start with our science-backed guidance on fitness. It’s the season for resolutions. Many people are looking to make positive changes in their lifestyles. Which are the ones that will make
Continue ReadingBy Homero De la Fuente and Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The Houston Texans clinched their first playoff spot since 2019 following a 23-19 victory over the Indianapolis Colts on Saturday, marking a dramatic turnaround from last season when they finished 3-13. Reaching the playoffs is a remarkable achievement for head coach DeMeco Ryans and
Continue ReadingBy Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green has been reinstated after serving a 12-game suspension, the National Basketball Association announced on Saturday. Green was ejected from a 119-116 defeat to the Phoenix Suns on December 12 after spinning around and striking center Jusuf Nurkić in the face with
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Here’s what to know about the night South African Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp more than a decade ago in a Valentine’s Day killing that jolted the world and shattered the image of a sports superstar. Pistorius, a world-famous double-amputee
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Washington plays Michigan in the College Football Playoff championship game on Monday, with the Huskies looking for their first national title since 1991 and the Wolverines going for their first since 1997. Both teams are in their first CFP title game. It will be only the third time that a pair
Continue ReadingBy Christina Zdanowicz, CNN (CNN) — All the moments Vallie Collins hadn’t yet lived flashed before her eyes as she texted her husband her flight was going down. Her youngest son’s first homerun. Planning her kids’ birthday parties. Beaming as mother of the bride. “I’m not a perfect mother, but I’m their mother,” the mom
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — En un fresco día de diciembre, estudiantes de secundaria de Fuzhou, en el sureste de China, se reunieron en un parque rural para estudiar el pensamiento del líder chino Xi Jinping. Desplegaron una pancarta roja en la que declaraban que su excursión era un “aula andante de política e ideología”,
Continue ReadingBy MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police on Sunday opened fire at a pair of suspected attackers who rammed their car into a West Bank checkpoint, fatally shooting a young Palestinian girl in an adjacent vehicle, according to police and medical officials. The two suspects were also shot, while a young police
Continue ReadingBy VOLODYMYR YURCHUK and ELISE MORTON Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Officials say the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson has been subjected to numerous shelling attacks from Russian-occupied parts of the Kherson region, across the Dnieper River. The head of the Kherson city administration said Sunday that two people died in the shelling attacks
Continue ReadingVATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has baptized 16 babies in the Sistine Chapel. The ceremony, under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, has become an annual tradition near the end of the Christmas holiday period at the Vatican. In Sunday’s ceremony, the pope baptized 16 babies, including a boy and girl who are twins. Francis
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