Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — El Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos tuvo conversaciones preliminares sobre un acuerdo de culpabilidad con los abogados de Julian Assange en un momento determinado del caso que enfrenta por su presunto manejo indebido de material clasificado, aunque un acuerdo no es inminente ni está asegurado, según una persona con información
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Chicago police officer that alleged sexual assault by former police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, who was out drinking with her the night he was found asleep behind the wheel of his SUV. U.S. District Judge Elaine Bucklo on Wednesday granted summary judgment sought
Continue ReadingCNN By Abeer Salman, Khader Al Za’anoun, Ibrahim Dahman, Sana Noor Haq, Kareem Khadder, Lauren Izso and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Israeli forces detained Palestinian journalists and health workers, blindfolded them and stripped them down to their underwear in Al-Shifa Hospital, in northern Gaza, according to eyewitness accounts shared with CNN. Palestinian reporters and
Continue ReadingWELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand has entered its second recession in 18 months after the latest round of GDP figures confirmed its economy contracted in the last quarter of 2023. The country’s economy shrank by 0.1% in the quarter to December, and 0.7% in per capita terms, the New Zealand’s official statistics agency,
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera was forced to stage a semi-staged performance of Puccini’s “Turandot” on Wednesday night after a stage elevator jammed. Met general manager Peter Gelb made an announcement from the stage before the show. “I’m sorry to say that this is not going to be a normal night at the
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — “Selling Sunset” star Christine Quinn’s husband Christian Richard Dumontet was arrested on Wednesday for the second time this week, following his first arrest on Tuesday after a domestic dispute that involved Quinn and their young child. Dumontet was arrested on Tuesday for assault with a deadly weapon, according to
Continue ReadingBy TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California voters have approved a measure that Gov. Gavin Newson says he needs to tackle the state’s homelessness crisis. Proposition 1 authorizes the state to borrow $6.4 billion to build housing and treatment beds. It also restricts how counties use money from a 2004 tax on
Continue ReadingCNN By Eric Levenson and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — A man filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging he was paralyzed and needed his legs amputated after police officers in St. Petersburg, Florida, put him in restraints, placed him in the back of a police van without a seatbelt and then drove in a reckless manner.
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Chevron has agreed to pay more than $13 million in fines for dozens of past oil spills in California. The California-based energy giant agreed to pay the California Department of Conservation a $5.6 million fine associated with a 2019 oil spill in Kern County. The company also agreed
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MORO, Ore. (KTVZ) – A 23-year-old Prineville man was killed late Monday night when his car crossed into the oncoming lane of US Highway 97 in Sherman County and struck a semi-truck, sparking a fire that engulfed both vehicles, Oregon State Police said Wednesday. Troopers responded around 11:45 p.m. to the head-on crash near milepost
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Negotiations to secure an immediate ceasefire in the war in Gaza tied to the release of hostages held by Hamas are “getting closer” to a deal, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday. “I think the gaps are narrowing, and I think an agreement is very much possible,” Blinken said in an
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — La defensa de Genaro García Luna presentó este martes una nueva moción para insistir que se anule el juicio que condenó al exsecretario de Seguridad Pública de México en Estados Unidos, según los documentos judiciales a los que tuvo acceso CNN. En su solicitud al juez federal Brian Cogan, los
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Otro grupo de estadounidenses fue evacuado el miércoles de Haití en un vuelo organizado por Estados Unidos en helicóptero, el más reciente de lo que el Departamento de Estado espera que sean “múltiples traslados” para sacar sanos y salvos a ciudadanos estadounidenses mientras la nación caribeña se hunde en el caos
Continue ReadingLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The brother of the Little Rock airport executive shot by federal agents serving a search warrant says he fears his brother may not survive. Bryan Malinowski was injured in a shootout Tuesday with agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives at his west Little Rock home. His
Continue Readingmondemanola (CNN Español) –– Un poco de contexto para empezar. Mirtha “La Chiqui” Legrand es una prócer de la televisión argentina. Si no es la figura más importante, pocos le compiten. Su programa, “Almorzando con Mirtha Legrand”, acompañó durante décadas los mediodías de las familias argentinas. En su mesa se sentaron presidentes, actores, actrices, diputados,
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Holmes, Fredreka Schouten, Alayna Treene and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s campaign and joint fundraising committee together brought in $20.3 million in February and entered this month with a combined $41.9 million cash on hand, according to a Trump campaign official. But the amounts trail far behind the $53
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Baimadajie Angwang thought he would be reinstated to his dream job as a New York City police officer after federal prosecutors dropped criminal charges alleging he spied for China. Instead, he is fighting the police commissioner’s decision to fire him. In a decision made public recently, Commissioner Edward Caban ordered
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The nearly year-long conflict between Sudan’s military and paramilitary forces has put the African nation on course to become the world’s worst hunger crisis with malnutrition soaring and already claiming children’s lives, the U.N. humanitarian office is warning. Edem Wosornu, the director of humanitarian operations,
Continue ReadingBy Mira Cheng, CNN (CNN) — A new study projects that global fertility rates, which have been declining in all countries since 1950, will continue to plummet through the end of the century, resulting in a profound demographic shift. The fertility rate is the average number of children born to a woman in her lifetime.
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Casi la mitad de los adultos estadounidenses padecen hipertensión, según los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés). La hipertensión, también llamada presión arterial alta, es uno de los principales factores que contribuyen a las cardiopatías y los accidentes cerebrovasculares, que
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