By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump is set to make his return to Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, visiting the New York City landmark arena for an Ultimate Fighting Championship event. Trump’s trip to his hometown, and the arena where he held a controversial rally less than two weeks before Election
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — Culminó la jornada 12 de las eliminatorias sudamericanas al Mundial de Estados Unidos, Canadá y México 2026. En el disputado cuadro de la Conmebol, que tendrá seis cupos directos a la Copa del Mundo y uno para jugar repechaje, Argentina ha sabido mantenerse líder. La zona de clasificación directa está
Continue ReadingOSLO, Norway (AP) — Olav Thon, a billionaire entrepreneur recognizable for his bright red cap who went from selling leather and fox hides in his youth to build one of Norway’s biggest real estate empires, has died, his company said Saturday. He was 101. “It is with great sadness that we have today received the
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — It’s called sticker shock. And if you haven’t been to a dealer’s showroom since before the pandemic, you might want to prepare yourself. Americans paid a whopping $47,612 on average for a new car in October, according to data from Edmunds. That’s a jump of almost $10,000
Continue ReadingBy Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — He’s the mythical Celtic warlord who held out against the Anglo Saxon invasion of what would come to be called England. His right-hand man was a wizard, he was handed his famous sword by a deity, and he was a romantic — and chivalrous — hero. Oh, and he
Continue ReadingAssociated Press In the new horror movie, “Heretic,” Hugh Grant plays a diabolical religious skeptic who traps two scared missionaries in his house and tries to violently shake their faith. What starts more as a religious studies lecture slowly morphs into a gory escape room for the two door-knocking members of The Church of Jesus
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TOTOWA, N.J. (AP) — Patrons at Murph’s Tavern are toasting not just Donald Trump’s return to the presidency but the fact that he carried their northern New Jersey county, a longtime Democratic stronghold in the shadow of New York City. To Maria Russo, the woman pouring the drinks, the reasons behind Trump’s win
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s choice of Matt Gaetz to be attorney general has many Justice Department employees reeling, worried not only about their own jobs but the future of the agency that the Trump loyalist has railed against. The president-elect’s pick of the Florida Republican sent a shock throughout the Cabinet department,
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — El ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Irán negó que se llevara a cabo una reunión entre el embajador iraní ante las Naciones Unidas y Elon Musk, la persona más rica del mundo y aliado cercano del presidente electo de EE.UU. Donald Trump, informó este sábado la prensa estatal iraní. The New
Continue ReadingBy Mostafa Salem, Eyad Kourdi, Charbel Mallo, Niamh Kennedy and Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Abu Dhabi (CNN) — Israeli troops are understood to have made their deepest incursion into southern Lebanese territory since the recent offensive began on October 1, as the militant group Hezbollah considered its response to a fresh ceasefire proposal. On Friday night,
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — ¿Quién fue la primera persona a la que se le ocurrió hacer un ‘concurso de belleza’? Algunos afirman que el origen de estos cuestionables certámenes puede rastrearse a la mitología griega y una de sus grandes diosas: Afrodita. Detrás de uno de los concursos actuales más populares, Miss Universo,
Continue ReadingTBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Opposition protesters in Georgia’s breakaway province of Abkhazia have refused to cede control of key government buildings seized during rallies on Friday during which at least 14 people were injured in clashes with police. President Aslan Bzhania said Saturday that he will step down on the condition that protesters vacate the
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — In mid-September, as tech billionaire Elon Musk intensified his efforts to elect Donald Trump as president, a wave of letters arrived at the Department of Transportation, asking the agency to turn over any emails and text messages that federal workers sent about the world’s wealthiest man and his sprawling
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli ground forces reached their deepest point in Lebanon since they invaded six weeks ago before pulling back Saturday after battles with Hezbollah militants, Lebanese state media reported. The clashes and further Israeli bombardment came as Lebanese and Hezbollah officials study a draft proposal presented by the U.S. on ending
Continue ReadingBy Maria Kostenko and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday said Russia’s war in Ukraine will end “faster” when Donald Trump takes over as US president. Speaking in a radio interview with Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne, Zelensky admitted to a difficult situation on the battlefield, where Russia has been pressing
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — Los planes de la próxima administración de Trump para implementar medidas estrictas en la frontera, derogar las políticas de la era Biden y comenzar con la detención y deportación a gran escala de migrantes están en marcha y comenzando a aclararse, según cuatro fuentes familiarizadas con los planes. El presidente electo
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The head of Georgia’s Central Electoral Commission has been doused with black paint at a meeting to confirm the results of the country’s divisive Oct. 26 parliamentary elections. Protesters gathered outside commission’s building in Tbilisi, where officials announced that the ruling Georgian Dream party had won 53.93% of the
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and Kayla Tausche, CNN Lima, Peru (CNN) — President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, closed the book on their diplomatic relationship Saturday, meeting for a final time amid uncertainty over what the next Donald Trump presidency might portend for their two countries’ ties. As they opened the talks on
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Mexico’s national soccer team manager Javier Aguirre was left with a bloodied head after he was struck by a can thrown from the stand following his team’s 2-0 defeat to Honduras on Friday. Footage posted on social media showed Aguirre walking across the pitch in San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — Irene Silverman was suspicious of the lanky young man renting an apartment in her limestone townhome in New York City. The 6-foot-1 tenant with dark hair and green eyes barely spoke. Every time he went through the foyer and up the marble stairs, he shielded his face from the
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