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Month: August 2024

Chase Budinger was a pro basketball player and NBA journeyman. Now he’s at the Olympics playing a different sport entirely

By George Ramsay, CNN Paris (CNN) — Chase Budinger is used to playing in packed stadiums, but never like this. The former basketball player, who spent seven years in the NBA with four different teams, now finds himself in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, competing at the Olympics in a different sport entirely. Budinger

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El Gobierno de Estados Unidos demanda a TikTok por supuesta violación de la ley de privacidad infantil

Alexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN) — TikTok no ha impedido que los niños se unan a la aplicación y ha recopilado ilegalmente sus datos personales, según alegó el Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos en una demanda presentada el viernes. La demanda acusa a TikTok y a su empresa matriz, ByteDance, de violar la Ley de

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A North Carolina Republican who mocked women for abortions runs ad with his wife’s own story

Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A new commercial by Mark Robinson, North Carolina Republican’s nominee for governor, is seeking to counter ads by Democratic rival Josh Stein criticizing his abortion views. The Robinson commercial describes his wife’s previously revealed abortion decades ago and leaves the impression that he’s now comfortable with the state’s current

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¿Quién es la jueza que verificará los resultados de las elecciones en Venezuela?

Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) —  La abogada Caryslia Beatriz Rodríguez encabeza el máximo tribunal de Venezuela. Es la presidenta del Tribunal Supremo de Justicia (TSJ) desde enero de 2024 y dirige la Sala Electoral del Tribunal. Ante esa Sala el presidente Nicolás Maduro presentó el miércoles un recurso contencioso electoral para que haga un peritaje

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Jury reaches split verdict in baby abandonment case involving Dennis Eckersley’s daughter

Associated Press A jury has reached a split verdict in the case of a mother charged with abandoning her newborn in subfreezing temperatures after giving birth in New Hampshire woods. Jurors on Friday found 27-year-old Alexandra Eckersley guilty of reckless conduct, endangering the welfare of a child and falsifying physical evidence, but not guilty of

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Iga Swiatek earns women’s singles bronze medal

Poland’s Iga Swiatek admitted she cried for six hours after losing in the semifinals of the Olympics but she returned to court on Friday to console herself by winning the bronze medal. The 23-year-old took out her frustration on Slovakia’s Anna Karolina Schmiedlova, winning, 6-2, 6-1, at Roland-Garros to become the first Polish player to get an Olympic medal in tennis.

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Trump election subversion case returned to trial judge following Supreme Court opinion

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The criminal case charging former President Donald Trump with plotting to overturn the 2020 presidential election has been returned to the trial in Washington after a Supreme Court opinion last month that narrowed the scope of the prosecution. The case was formally sent back Friday to U.S. District Judge Tanya

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Florida attorney pleads guilty to trying to detonate explosives near Chinese embassy in Washington

Associated Press A Florida attorney has pleaded guilty to using a rifle to try to detonate explosives outside the Chinese embassy last year in Washington, D.C. Christopher Rodriguez also pleaded guilty on Friday to bombing a sculpture of communist leaders Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong in a courtyard outside a building in San Antonio, Texas,

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