By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Summer broke global heat records for the second straight year, scientists have confirmed — putting 2024 firmly on track to be the hottest year in recorded history. The period between June and August — summer in the Northern Hemisphere — was the world’s hottest such period since records began
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN Español) –– Ismael “el Mayo” Zambada, uno de los líderes del cártel de Sinaloa, aceptó ser trasladado de Texas a Nueva York para seguir el proceso penal en su contra, según documentos judiciales revisados este jueves por CNN. La respuesta de la defensa de Zambada a la solicitud del Gobierno ante la
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A former Taiwanese presidential candidate who was once mayor of the capital Taipei has been returned to custody amid a sprawling corruption scandal. Ko Wen-je was returned to detention Thursday after a legal panel overruled an earlier order allowing him to return home. Ko’s case involves favors and payments
Continue ReadingCNN By Rachel Clarke and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Fontana, California (CNN) — Tom Perez called the local police non-emergency line to report his elderly father missing. Thirty-six hours later, Perez was on a psychiatric hold in a hospital, having been pressured into confessing he killed his dad and trying to take his own life. His
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has visited Seoul and reaffirmed sympathy for the suffering of Koreans during Japan’s colonial rule, as he and his South Korean counterpart Friday underscored the need to maintain warming ties between the Asian neighbors. Kishida and conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol
Continue ReadingAP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jessica Pegula could do no right at the outset of her first Grand Slam semifinal. Her opponent at the U.S. Open on Thursday night, Karolina Muchova, could do no wrong. “I came out flat, but she was playing unbelievable. She made me look like a beginner,” Pegula said.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A man has been charged with murder in the shooting of a Texas deputy constable at an intersection in Houston. The Harris County District Attorney’s Office says Athir Murady was charged Thursday in the killing of Maher Husseini, and is being held at the jail in neighboring Galveston County. Court
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — La Fiscalía General de Colombia indicó este jueves en un comunicado que iniciará una investigación formal para “establecer la verdad y la eventual identificación e individualización de responsables en la probable adquisición y uso ilegales de software espía “Pegasus”, por parte de la Dirección de Inteligencia Policial de la Policía
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court has ended a defamation lawsuit brought by casino mogul Steve Wynn against The Associated Press in 2018. The state’s highest court on Thursday unanimously dismissed Wynn’s claim that he was defamed by an AP story about accounts to Las Vegas police from two women who
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Video game performers have reached a turning point in their strike against developers with 80 individual video games signing agreements with the performers’ union and accepting artificial intelligence provisions they have been seeking. Members of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists began striking in July
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN Español) –– Esta semana se conoció que dos trabajadores forestales murieron por impacto de flecha en un enfrentamiento con indígenas del pueblo mashco piro, en la Amazonía peruana. El Gobierno de Perú señaló en un comunicado del Ministerio de Cultura que investigaba el “grave incidente”. Según la Federación Nativa del Río Madre
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The Center Foundation serves 5,000 student-athletes at over 1,400 sporting events each year. They supply trainers to eight Central Oregon schools: Summit, Bend, Mountain View, Caldera, Crook County, Madras, La Pine and Sisters. Katie Nizinski is an athletic trainer at Mtn. View, and she couldn’t be happier supporting Cougar athletes through her knowledge of sports
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas (AP) — Court documents show that Mexican drug cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada has agreed to be transferred from El Paso, Texas, to New York, to face charges there. His attorneys filed their defendant’s approval on Thursday. Zambada faces charges in multiple locales. He was initially opposed to the transfer, and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Hunter Biden’s sudden guilty plea to tax charges was preceded by vigorous objections by prosecutors when his lawyer said he was willing to give up a trial and enter what’s known as an Alford plea. So what is it? It’s named for a 1970 U.S. Supreme Court case involving a man named Henry
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana legislators interrogated New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams about his office’s use of post-conviction relief to reduce or void criminal sentences at a Senate hearing Thursday in the capitol. Conservative lawmakers, Republican Attorney General Liz Murrill and former prosecutors raised questions about cases where people
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Taylor Swift spent her Thursday night at Arrowhead Stadium watching her boyfriend and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce play, play, play. And win. Wearing a denim corset, matching denim shorts and red knee-high boots, Swift strolled into the stadium over a hour before the game began, according
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN) — El CEO de Telegram, Pavel Durov, regresó a la plataforma de mensajería este jueves, diciendo en una extensa publicación que estaba sorprendido de haber sido arrestado e interrogado por las autoridades francesas hace menos de dos semanas en una investigación que ha desatado el debate sobre la libertad de expresión
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance says he laments that school shootings are a “fact of life” and the U.S. needs to harden security to prevent more carnage like the shooting this week that left four dead in Georgia. The Ohio senator said at a rally Thursday in Phoenix that
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Pope Francis wrapped up his visit to Indonesia on Friday after celebrating Mass before an overflow crowd of 100,000, a final celebration before heading to Papua New Guinea for the second leg of his 11-day journey through Southeast Asia and Oceania. The 87-year-old pope had no official events Friday
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom and Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — Atlanta-based rapper Rich Homie Quan, known for his 2013 hit “Type of Way,” has died, according to a statement from the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office. He was 33. Quan, whose full name is Dequantes Devontay Lamar, died on Thursday at Grady Memorial Hospital, according to
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