PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — An armored vehicle carrying Kenyan police rumbles through Haiti’s capital with a shattered window that a high-caliber bullet failed to penetrate, a permanent sign of the violence confronting the United Nations-backed force almost daily in Port-au-Prince. Kenyan police were deployed to Haiti earlier this year to help quell gang violence. On
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday offered a public show of support for Pete Hegseth, his embattled choice to lead the Defense Department, whose confirmation by the Senate is in doubt as he faces questions over allegations of excessive drinking, sexual assault and his views on women in combat. Hegseth, a
Continue ReadingPor Aaron Pellish, CNN El presidente electo de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, anunció a sus candidatos para dirigir la Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza (CBP) y el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE), dos organismos clave en la política de inmigración, a medida que completa el equipo que se encargará de llevar
Continue ReadingBy Joe Roetz, Jessica Vallejo, Kevin Boulandier, Julian Quintana Click here for updates on this story SWEETWATER, Florida (WSVN) — Video posted to social media captured a rough takedown of a woman after, police said, she refused to leave a Sweetwater mobile home park management office following a dispute with employees. Speaking with 7News in
Continue ReadingBy Kathleen Ditton, Jordan Kissane, Chantal Cook, Joe Roetz Click here for updates on this story MIAMI (WSVN) — A Broward County woman was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison on Tuesday for her role in orchestrating a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of approximately $190.7 million. Johanna Michely Garcia, 41, the former CEO
Continue ReadingBy Lei U’i Kaholokula Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — Businesses like architecture firm HHF Planners have stepped in making it their mission to give rather than receive by adopting families through Helping Hands Hawaii. Bright lights, Christmas songs and crowds at stores searching for the perfect gift. While that’s pretty
Continue ReadingPor Lianne Kolirin, CNN El letrista y cantante principal de Village People ha criticado la “falsa suposición” de que el mayor éxito de la banda, “Y.M.C.A.”, es un “himno gay”. “Esta suposición también se basa en el hecho de que la Y.M.C.A. aparentemente se estaba utilizando como una especie de lugar de encuentro gay y
Continue ReadingAssociated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, says she was shocked at this week’s martial law announcement in her home country. Han was awarded by the Nobel committee “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Elon Musk was the sole funder of a super PAC that focused on advertising likening Donald Trump’s stance on abortion to that of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Campaign finance records show a group titled RBG PAC, formed in mid-October, received a single contribution of $20.5 million from an entity entitled
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A Boston city councilor has been arrested on federal fraud charges, accused of funneling part of an inflated bonus payment to a staffer to whom she was related into her own pockets during an exchange at a City Hall bathroom. U.S. Attorney Joshua Levy says 45-year-old Tania Fernandes Anderson was arrested outside her
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — An alternative healer who advocated “slapping therapy” to treat a range of maladies was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for the death of a 71-year-old diabetic woman who stopped taking insulin during one of his workshops. Hongchi Xiao, 61, was convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence for failing
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer Stellantis is recalling more than 300,000 Ram Heavy Duty pickup trucks because a faulty part could cause certain braking and tracking systems to fail. The Netherlands-based automaker said the hydraulic control unit on the trucks is prone to failure, which can cause the anti-lock brake, electronic stability control and traction control systems
Continue ReadingBy Alex Rodway, CNN (CNN) — On one of his first trips to study wolves in Ethiopia in the late 1980s, biologist Claudio Sillero observed a highly unusual behavior: these local predators were deliberately licking the vibrant flowers of the red hot poker plant that grows in the country’s highlands. Relatively few mammals have been
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — The sale of the Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper and a bastion of liberal values in Britain’s media landscape, has been approved, despite two days of strike action from journalists this week. The Scott Trust, the owner of the Guardian Media Group, which includes the Observer and its sister
Continue ReadingBy Monica Sarbu and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Romania’s constitutional court has annulled the first round of the country’s 2024 presidential election process, which was narrowly won by far-right ultranationalist candidate Calin Georgescu amid allegations of Russian interference. The historic decision means a second-round runoff that was scheduled for Sunday, when Georgescu would have
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Syrian refugees across Turkey have jubilantly welcomed the downfall of Bashar Assad’s government with many embracing the chance to return to their homeland. Many say it’s time to go home after years of living in Turkey, which hosts some 3 million Syrians. Turkey, which shares a 566-mile-long frontier with
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Ferris, Annie Grayer and Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced on Friday that she is jumping into the race to be the top Democrat on the influential House Oversight Committee. The New York Democrat wrote in a letter to colleagues, “I write to you today to seek your support to
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Taylor Swift was still a new-to-the-scene country artist when she performed at Cowboys, a small bar in the Colorado Springs area, in 2007. At the end of the show, she took two purple beaded bracelets off of her wrist and handed them to a woman who’d been at the
Continue ReadingCNN By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Taylor Swift was still a new-to-the-scene country artist when she performed at Cowboys, a small bar in the Colorado Springs area, in 2007. At the end of the show, she took two purple beaded bracelets off of her wrist and handed them to a woman who’d been at
Continue ReadingPor CNN en Español La Unión Europea y el Mercosur cerraron un acuerdo de libre comercio durante la cumbre celebrada en Montevideo, que concluyó este viernes. “Es una victoria para Europa”, señaló la presidenta de la Comisión Europea, Ursula von der Leyen, en la rueda de prensa posterior a la reunión. Por su lado, el
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